Political Activism, More on Global Warming

Dear Readers,

I think I’m becoming politically active! I sent this message to my two Arizona Senators, Senators McCain and Kyl:

Dear Senator,

I am a resident of Arizona and I am very concerned about the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, which you will be voting on soon. I fear that the passage of this bill will result in more wasteful government spending, higher energy prices, and the relocation of American manufacturing to foreign countries. I fear that although the bill would create more “green” jobs and more government jobs, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 would lead to the elimination of more jobs than it would create. With higher taxes on manufacturing companies and higher unemployment, it will only cause the current economic recession to drag on longer. Also, the very science of global warming is being disputed, so I think that taking such drastic measures as spending hundreds of billions of tax-payer money is inappropriate. Please vote no on this climate change bill and do all you can to stop this bill from becoming law. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Telemoonfa

And then I found out that Ann Kirkpatrick, the representative for District 1 of Arizona, a Democrat, voted no on the bill. Woo-hoo! Great job, Ann! I thought she might vote yes because she’s a Democrat and because she represents the most liberal part of the state, but to my happy surprise she voted no. Bless her heart.

So I wrote her this thank-you note:

Representative Kirkpatrick,

Thank you for voting no on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. I think you made the right choice. Unfortunately, a lot of your fellow Representatives did not. Hopefully that bill can be stopped in the Senate. Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Telemoonfa

(I voted against Kirkpatrick last November, by the way. I voted for her Republican opponent, Sydney Hay. Sydney Hay wears cowboy hats all the time and I heard her speak at a rodeo :) )

I spent a lot of time watching House Minority Leader John Boehner debating against the climate change bill on You-Tube. Boehner is a brilliant man. I don’t know how that bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. I wonder if the Representatives who voted yes on it were accepting bribes.

One of my problems with the bill was its length. The bill was 1500 pages long, nobody read it all, and 300 pages were added at 3 a.m. the day it was voted on.

It gives Congress the power to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to fight global warming, even though human caused global warming isn’t real. It will jack up the price of energy, and so it will especially hurt the class of people liberal politicians are often so concerned about, “the working poor”. It will move a lot of manufacturing jobs overseas, because factories won’t want to spend a lot of their money on carbon credits.

blah blah blah the bill was so dumb blah blah blah

I think if the bill passes in the Senate, then Congress is going to borrow the billions and billions of dollars needed to enforce the new regulations. The government doesn’t actually have the money up front, so they’re going to have to pay interest, so after all is said and done, it will probably cost over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money.

Now, I do care about the environment. I really do. I’m all for research and development in alternative energy. (I don’t understand why we don’t use more nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is clean energy.) But, from what I understand, wind and solar power are just not as cost-effective as coal and nuclear power.

And global warming isn’t real!!!

I wonder how long it will take before people realize that human caused global warming isn’t really happening. A decade? Two decades? More and more CO2 is being emitted every year, partly because China and India are becoming more and more industrialized, and yet the average temperature of the Earth is not increasing, like Al Gore said it would. The evidence is slowly mounting against global warming. And I wonder how long it will take before most people realize that either a lot of well-intentioned scientists were wrong, or that the whole global warming thing was a huge moneymaking scam.

Have you noticed that they’ve stopped calling it “global warming” and started calling it “climate change”?

Hmmm… Why did they do that?

Is it because the Earth isn’t actually warming? Does Al Gore and Co. want us to forget that the Earth is supposed to be getting warmer as more CO2 is put into the atmosphere? Do they want us to think that SUV-driving humans are hurting the planet in some way, whether it causes the Earth to get hotter or cooler or whatever?

Perhaps in a decade or so, Al Gore will say, “OK, so we were wrong about one tiny little thing- carbon emissions actually causes the Earth’s temperature to decrease, really really slowly, but CO2 is still really bad for the planet, and we need to tax oil and gas companies in order for Mother Earth to be happy. Don't you care about polar bears?”

And what’s up with the hole in the ozone layer?

Is that still a crisis? Remember that? I remember when I was in middle school, everybody was freaked out about the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica. Girls were supposed to stop using hairspray and switch to mousse. (Probably the most environmentally-friendly option was for girls to get dreadlocks. Everyone knows that dreadlocks are best for the environment.)

The media said that CFCs made the hole in the ozone layer bigger, and that was really bad for some reason. I don’t remember why.

Oh, I think they (environmentalists, quiffert politicians, liberals, scientists accepting bribes, etc.) said that eventually the ozone hole would get bigger and bigger until it swallowed the whole Earth and then the Sun’s rays would fry us all to death.

Uh-oh! What will happen when the hole in the ozone layer and global warming happen at the same time? We’re all doomed!

In other news, tomorrow, I’m going to a Tea Party! I missed the last one on April 15th, because I was in my communist literature class at the time.

Woo-hoo!

Conservatives of Flagstaff, Unite!

Sincerely,
Telemoonfa