Tom Friedman: Climate Bill Is The First Step Towards Change

nytimes.com:

Rejecting this bill would have been read in the world as America voting against the reality and urgency of climate change and would have undermined clean energy initiatives everywhere.

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[RomeoMD25]

The theory of man made global warming is now nothing more than propoganda, an agenda
being supported by political groups. Science does not conclude that humans are the cause of a slight rise in the earth's temperature
over the past 30 years. There is no consensus from the scientific community that man is the
cause of global warming.do­ubt or go against the global warming theory is unthinkable.
Now many of you may consider yourselves liberal, maybe not on all issues but at least on environmental ones.
So as liberals, you are supposed to be open minded.
Man-made carbon dioxide is only 0.117 percent of total carbon dioxide in the air and contributes only 0.0047 percent carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
The average person has been misled and is confused about what the current Global Warming debate is about, greenhouse gases. None of which has anything to do
with air pollution. People are confusing Smog, Carbon Monoxide (CO) and the pollutants in
car exhaust with the life supporting, essential trace gas in our atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide (CO2).
Carbon and CO2 (carbon dioxide) are fundamental for all life on Earth. CO2 is a colorless, odorless, non-toxic gas.

[mioffe]

"Rejecting this bill would have been read in the world as America voting against the reality and urgency of climate change and would have undermined clean energy initiatives everywhere­."
Tom Friedman is a smart man and good writers.
He has enough knowledge to understand that in the world media ideas that GHG are main player in Nature are WRONG.
PROPERTIES OF WATER ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROPERTIES OF ALL GHG, INCLUDING CO2 AND ACTUALLY COOL THE AIR.
Rejecting this simple fact brings Tom Friedman the same as many others celebrities as Democrats, as Republican to wrong conclussion. He is responsible for disinformation about GW, it reason and how to fight them if it is true.

[RomeoMD25]

The Catlin Arctic Ice Survey:
is giving up on its journey to the North Pole to measure arctic ice thickness. Championed by Prince Charles and funded by an insurance company that wants to sell insurance against climate change, the Catlin team travelled 434 km in 73 days, with 490 km remaining to the pole. Unfortunately, severe cold (to minus 40 Celsius) took out "both a radar device meant to measure the ice thickness and a satellite communications unit to relay the data.". Meanwhile, an airplane equipped with modern technology flew over them and discovered arctic ice was "thicker" than expected.

[BannedNBoston]

Yes the Dems that said the bill was bad voted for it anyway.

[sc300nc]

I love it the way the Dems condemn this bill as doing nothing, but then want it passed. So a bad bill, more bad government, is better than no bill? Give me a break.