Posted by
J. A. Colon on Friday, May 30, 2008 1:31:54 AM
On regards to the Amendment of 110th Cong., 2d Session. S. 3036, it is my purpose to call your attention to the following:
- The amendment states that Congress found that unchecked global climate change poses a significant threat to the National Security, the economy, the residents of the US, the residents of the world, and the environment.
Answer: Common sense dictates that it is THE SUN the principal contributor to climate change in the planet. Unless we learn to regulate the Sun, any Cap and Trade System that Politicians may want to impose, will be not only ineffective to curtail the effects of the Sun, but will harm the economy of our Nation.
- “According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the at atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous in interference with the climate system will require a global effort to reduce worldwide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 85 percent below 2000 levels by 2050.”
Answer: According to www.Answers.com: “…livestock and paddy rice farming, land use and wetland changes, pipeline losses, and covered vented landfill emissions leading to higher methane atmospheric concentrations. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the livestock industry is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2 equivalent, a higher share than transportation.” (<http://www.answers.com/topic/greenhouse-gas?cat=technology#wp-_note-6> 29 May 2008)
This information was publicized, but not as much as it should have, that one of the main causes of greenhouse gases is farm animals. It would be ridiculous to implement a cap and trade system for farm animals flatulence and breathing. This information comes from the United Nations.
c. “…(11) it is possible and desirable—
to cap greenhouse gas emissions, from the sources that together account for the majority of those emissions in the United States, at or below the current level in 2012;…”
Answer: See above explanation. The United Nations disclosed that the majority of the greenhouse gasses come from animal flatulence and breathing. THINK ABOUT IT!
- “…(21) more than half the electricity generated in the United States is generated through the burning of coal; the reserve of coal in the United States is larger than the reserve of coal in any other country; while the reductions in emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury that will occur in the presence of a declining cap on the greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired electric power generating facilities are larger than those that would 23 occur in the absence of such a cap, new, stricter Federal limits on emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury may still be needed to protect public health; and many existing fossil fuel-fired electric power generating facilities in the United States were exempted by Congress from emission limitations applicable to new and modified facilities of that type based on an expectation by Congress that, over time,…”
Answer: If you are going to mess with Coal, PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE FIRST. Here is a suggestion: Establish several nuclear power plants in the United States, which would reduce the dependence on coal, and provide an alternative. After we are getting our electricity from Nuclear Power (just like France), then start caping Coal. Otherwise, the cost of electricity would be prohibitive.
d. “The purposes of this Act are—
to establish the core of a Federal program that will reduce United States greenhouse gas emissions substantially enough to avert the catastrophic
impacts of global climate change;…”
Answer: The main cause of climate change is the Sun, followed by farm animal’s discharges. This entire Bill and its amendment do not address either of these problems. There is NO GLOBAL AGREEMENT ON GLOBAL WARMING. There are hundreds of competent scientists that dispute Global warming. The evidence that they provide is substantial.
d. “…reducing the dependence of the United States on petroleum produced in other countries;…”
Answer: How about Hydrogen cars? How about drilling our own oil reserves? How about drilling off the shores of California and Florida like the Chinese are doing?
These are just a few concerns that come to mind after spending less than an hour studying the Bill; common sense questions about the premises and basis for this Bill.
I have to ask you to vote against this Bill and its amendments, since it will harm our economy, and will do nothing to change or affect our planet’s climate. Thinking otherwise, in my opinion, is being naïve.
Respectfully;
a Thinking American