In line with my earlier post about Dr. Alan Carlin’s comments on the EPA’s CO2 endangerment finding, I sent this note to our junior Senator, Michael Bennet.

Dear Senator Bennet,

I urge you to vote no on the disastrous cap-and-trade bill (aka “Waxman-Markey") when it gets to the Senate.

It’s one thing to believe in big government, but another thing entirely to support the biggest tax increase in history in a bill which will wreck our economy and get the federal government involved in regulating things as trivial as the lights people put over their art works.

Waxman-Markey is claimed to have been written because of “man-made global warming". However the supporters of Waxman-Markey don’t try to argue that this bill will actually have any measurable impact on global temperatures over any time frame! Furthermore, the bill includes a provision to slap trade tariffs on countries which don’t put similar nooses around the necks of their own economies. Since China and India have both said that they will have no part of this foolishness (but China is encouraging the US to act aggressively – so they can steal much more of our industrial base because our own government has made us non-competitive), this means that the left-wing of Congress will move to interfere in trade with China. This will not only be an economic disaster, but a political one as well…and I wouldn’t rule out its having subtle military impact, such as in China’s willingness to help rein in North Korea.

Regarding “global warming", I want to make sure you are aware of the details of comments made by a 38-year veteran of the EPA whose response to the proposed CO2 “endangerment finding” was suppressed by an EPA Administrator who said that his views were inconvenient in that they contradicted the EPA’s pre-determined outcome on the issue.

You can read Dr. Carlin’s comments on his own web site at: http://carlineconomics.googlepages.com/
The direct link to the comment PDF is: http://carlineconomics.googlepages.com/Endangermentcommentsv7b1.pdf

Dr. Carlin lays out the science behind his conclusion that CO2 has little or no responsibility for climate change while reinforcing several new studies which explain why the UN IPCC’s models are fatally flawed.

Over the next months, a lot of people will spend a lot of time educating the public about Waxman-Markey: a hoax based on a hoax. My view is that anyone who votes for it, unless they’re in the bluest of blue states along our coasts, will pay a serious price. Don’t forget, this bill is also a direct attack on states which get a lot of electricity from coal-fired plants – which means it’s a direct attack on Colorado.

If you have any care at all for the people you are supposed to be representing, I urge you to oppose Waxman-Markey. If you have no care for us, then vote no to protect your own likelihood of re-election in less than a year and a half.

Regards,

Ross Kaminsky