Making Madoff look like a piker
By Special K
Disassociated Press
July 6, 2009

Reference: Q and A on the Climate Bill
By David A. Fahrenthold and Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 5, 2009; 7:21 PM
“The climate bill approved by the House last month started out as an idea -- fight global warming -- and wound up looking like an unabridged dictionary. It runs to more than 1,400 pages, swollen with loopholes and giveaways meant to win over un-green industries and wary legislators . . ..
"Q. Would this bill stop climate change?
A. No. Even if it works exactly as planned -- delivering a 17 percent reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared with 2005 levels -- it might not slow down the rate of climate change by very much . . ..” (emphasis added).

If it were to alter climate change patterns at all,
That would be cause for surprise and astonishment
Since it isn't at all clear that what mankind does
Affects global climate patterns to any extent.

Messrs. Fahrenthold and Mufson of the Post, for example,
And Columnist-Economics Professor Paul Krugman of Princeton U,
May think they are being “factual” about what causes climate change (and how much)
But in actuality they haven’t a clue.

The foregoing applies equally well
To Representative Waxman (CA)
And--co-author with him of the “cap and trade” monstrosity--
Representative Markey who hails from MA.

Also to Al Gore, probably the best known agitator
For the notion of man-made climate change
And advocacy of the carbon-credit concept--
To reap profit from which, he had the good sense to arrange.

As well, of course, to Governor Corzine (NJ)
Who on 07-07-07 (almost exactly two years ago to the day)
Signed with great ceremony legislation designed to control climate
Effective, or so he implied, without further delay.

That newspaper reporters, perhaps inadvertently, convey the notion
(With “questions and answers”, by logical inference about matters of fact)
That mankind has the power to control “acts of nature”
Tends to suggest possession of information knowledge exact

Re: precisely what causes cyclical changes in world climate
(Of which there would seem to be some naturalistic evidence,
Such as the progressive desiccation of the Sahara, for example,
And the progression and retraction of ice over some continents).

To report as if factual that which is only speculative,
Is something that can aptly be called “disinforming”;
Something more nearly the rule than the exception since Al Gore scored big
By scaring h _ _ _ out of folks about global warming.*
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*Orson Welles scared the nation back in 1938 (Unintentionally? Quien sabe?)
With a Radio Theater, "War of the Worlds", episode
Suggesting that something strange had landed near Grover's Mill, NJ;
That would cause the whole world to explode.
7/6/2009 7:51:18 PM