ILLINOIS IS BAD...BAD...BAD!

I received a copy of correspondence yesterday from the Illinois Climate Action Network (Illinois CAN). It was basically proposing that we all in Illinois jump on the Global Warming Bandwagon by supporting S.B. 2220 / H.B. 5254: A Plan to Reduce Global Warming Pollution.

We in Illinois are according to Illinois CAN are the 7th largest contributor of global warming pollution in the country and together with seven other Midwestern state co-conspirators we account for more than 23% of the nation's, and 5% of the world's greenhouse gas pollution. No mention is made of China, India, Pakistan, Mexico or Europe and South America...as though we are the only bad boys in town. I'd like to know their numbers.

Not one word of the science from reputable sources to back any of these figures much less the questionable fact that we are undergoing global warming that is different from other periods of such warming trends that have occurred in cyclical fashion over hundreds of thousands of years on this earth of ours.

The policies they propose would change the way we fundamentally live and would have dramatic economic and social implications and if only the U.S. was involved would have no affect on the final outcome if you believed in the global warming hypothesis to begin with.

I think before we jump on any bandwagon the science has to be almost absolute and the financial interests of the propagandists and true believers of global warming have to be scrutinized to the utmost. Just because you get a Nobel Prize doesn't necessarily mean you have a lot of common sense and no personal financial agenda.

PS: I wonder if they will be able to read the numbers on the competitors at the Olympics in China much less see the Sun.