We can fix global warming for $45 Trillion,

[balken]

I'll bet Ross Jardine could trade our way to $45 trillion. We just need to get him about $10 billion of seed money...

[ffelknirznarf]

I think it is much more likely that the oil/coal interests are trying to protect their cash cow.

Think of the # of jobs that the outcry over this thing creates. Could it be that these folks have found themselves a cash cow?

[balken]

I think it is much more likely that the oil/coal interests are trying to protect their cash cow.

If this "cash cow" is worth $45 million, problem solved. If there is any cash left over, free Jagermeister shots for everyone.

[Seth]

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Kyle again." <3 ya anyway bud.

[jeff0514]

Yep this is such a hoax. Let's start drilling in Alaska and off-shore and bring this gas price down a little. Other more sustainable forms of energy aren't going to develop overnight.

[Phaedrus]

But the environmental wackos will not less us build nuclear anymore, or coal, or gas, or really anything.

I think that this could be the "window of opportunity" in which private industries and government could effectively "break the back" of obstructionist groups.

Make "global warming" a national/international crisis, which will allow governments and private industry to become immune from NIMBY and whacko group lawsuits and local laws.

End the ability of individual states (cough, California, cough) to have separate EPA standards and fuel formulation standards, or the ability to block new construction of nuke facilities.

Short term, you'd have to increase emissions to reduce them, long term.

While I don't believe the global warming "hype", I believe that this issue could be successfully exploited to get what I'd like to see happen, vis-a-vis the whacko groups.

[Cyclonepride]

I believe $45 trillion is probably conservative, and guess who gets to pay for all that? And guess who gets to benefit? This is a wealth redistribution plan on a global scale. Thanks, but no thanks, UN.

I am all for alternative energy solutions as a matter of self sufficiency and national defense. Let's do that, and other countries can take care of themselves for once.

[tee1up]

If any of you are old enough to remember, during the 1970's the battle cry of the media and the left was "the coming Ice Age". There were dire predictions of major cities like New York being buried by glaciers, farmland becoming unusable, massive starvation. Now it is "global warming". The fact is that the global climate is always changing, therefore it is always either getting warmer or cooler. Once global warming is proved to be nothing more than a natural cycle, the left will latch on to "global climate change". That way whatever happens they can say we caused it.

This is nothing more than a way for governments to gain more control over our lives, and to redistribute wealth to where they want it. They will enact policies like "cap and trade", forcing businesses to purchase carbon credits. Taxes on businesses will go up. Who will pay for this? Will businesses be able to bear these costs? Of course not. All the costs will be passed down to the consumer, AS THEY ALWAYS ARE.

In the meantime, guys like Al Gore and George Soros will make billions. This is style over substance on a grand scale. As long as we feel good about our efforts, the actual results don't matter. The same people proposing that the citizens now make "sacrifices" so we can "invest" in our future are the same people who got us in this situation in the first place. Al Gore had tremendous influence as a politician for years, as a Senator then Vice-President. Why didn't he do anything then? Is he telling us that in the thousands of years that man has been on this earth, the problem just came up when George Bush became President?

[Wesley]

The mention of George Soros makes my blood boil. He came back to hedgefunds and made three billion more in three months. He sure is not Robin Hood - he steals from everyone. He is the master press manipulator.

[Phaedrus]

The problem, in the end, is that governments will eventually get their hands on this money, and it will be wasted. Plus, environmental damage will increase, due to the natural tendency of governments to do that very thing.

[scubapohl1]

Come on everyone....Al Gore said its already too late to fix global warming.
And we all know that Al would never spread bad data!

[Seth]

So I woke up this morning, checked the St. Louis Post Dispatch website, and saw this: STLtoday - AmerenUE ponders state law as it looks to add a nuke plant

Who knows, maybe the tide is turning faster than I thought. They have a little "reader" poll as to whether MO should build a plant or not. As of right now, it's 91% in favor.

[ajk4st8]

JTS upgrades first

then "fix global warming".

[Phaedrus]

JTS upgrades first

then "fix global warming".

HAHAHAHA!!!!

Do you think they'd take a two-party, post-dated counter check???

[matmann22]

Any chance that $45 trillion figure is the 'list price' ?

Given that there are about 6.6 billion people on this planet, this works out to about $6,800 per person !

I doubt most of the world can handle that bill showing up in the mailbox.