"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" Quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt the 32nd President of the United Sates.

Our nation and our world has succumb to fear. Fear in something that you cannot see, smell, touch or hear. Thousands of scientists and academics, have come forth with a theory that our world is being destroyed by humanity and we are making it real in our collective minds. "Global Warming" is getting larger and larger and I don't mean the amount of green house gases. It is growing in fear.

This fear is causing our government and others to place very large and heavy taxes and burdens on the public. The politicians, the men and women that we voted for to protect us, are soon to be making these taxes and burdens real by enacting laws to regulate green house gases. The laws will turn a theory into a financial reality for us all.

THEORY
Noun: An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture.

FACT
Noun: Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed.

"Global Warming" has not been proven to be a fact. A fact would be that the earth has gone through many temperature highs and lows in the years that we have measured temperature. Another fact is that there are many, many other variables, not even related to green house gases, that can cause the earth's temperature to rise.

A report was released on May 27th 2008 that theorizes what disastrous changes are coming to the US's "Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity" because of "Global Warming". The report was written by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program(CCSP) and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research(GCRP). The report states "There is robust scientific consensus that human-induced climate change is occurring.". This report never mentions the other "robust" scientific consensus that has stood up to say the exact opposite. Not only is this still a theory but the US government will have spent $3.5 billion to have this report drawn up since 2006 not including prior years and beyond.

In early June of 2008 the US Senate will start debating a new bill. S. 2191: America's Climate Security Act. This bill will make carbon dioxide a traded commodity between the US government and large companies that produce the gas. The government will be selling "allowances" to the company and if the company uses to many over the course of the year they can either buy more or trade with another company. The companies will have to offset these taxes by raising their prices with consumers. This means you and me.

Does this make any sense to you? Me either.

The bill also requires that the gas be transferred from the companies, transported through pipes to "geological carbon dioxide sequestration facilities" and injected into the ground for proper disposal. The money from selling the allowances is supposed to pay for all of this new infrastructure and facilities. Meanwhile above ground all of the "living plants" that breath carbon dioxide will be patiently waiting for their turn to take care of the carbon dioxide as nature intended.

I am not sure how the scientists missed this one completely. Did you know that almost all animals breath in oxygen to live and almost all plants breath in carbon dioxide. Or how about the FACT that we exhale this nasty green house gas all day ourselves and those crazy plants exhale that wonderful oxygen.

I recommend everyone do some research, either at the library or using the internet, and talk to your friends and family about what is happening. I believe that if we as normal people, working hard everyday just striving for the pursuit of happiness, can end this fear. We need to stop our governments runaway train of regulation and taxation on a problem that does not exist.

Call or write your local, state, and federal representative today and force them to be what they should be, a voice for the people, and not simply a mob following blindly into fear ridden hysteria.

Reference links:

Climate Change Science Program and The Subcommittee on Global Change Research Budget
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/... />
The effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity in the United States
Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library... />
S. 2191: America's Climate Security Act
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.... />
Contact your Senator
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Contact your Representative
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