Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle announced recently that he would be willing to accept a scaled down version of his Global Warming Bill, AB 649/SB 450, as long as it contained the 25-percent by 2025 enhanced renewable portfolio standard.
No surprise here. As I stated last week, the Global Warming Bill is still alive. I expect any scaled down versions, compromises or individual bills to contain the most expensive and economically damaging provisions of the original package.
I would not be surprised if there is an attempt to pass some version of the global warming bill in April. I will watch closely and keep you informed of any developments.
Meanwhile, the man-made global warming crowd gets more ridiculous. Thomas Friedman, respected opinion writer for The New York Times, stated in a recent column that top climate-science experts should stop using the term “global warming,” and instead use “global weirding.”
First we had “global warming,” then “climate change,” and now “global weirding?” The change in terminology is another attempt to explain the fact that the climate seems to be cooling, when proponents desperately want it to get warmer. Is it any wonder public opinion is turning more skeptical of the constant rhetoric and expensive policy initiatives?
Friedman’s column also tries to make it impossible to disprove global warming using commonsense logic. He states, “The hots are expected to get hotter, the wets wetter, the dries drier and the most violent storms more numerous.” So, are we to believe that both precipitation and lack of precipitation, warmer weather and now colder weather all prove that man-made global warming exists?
The British press continues to report on the Climategate scandal. The Sunday Mail Online reported that Phil Jones, the former director of the esteemed Climate Research Unit, now admits there has been no statistically significant warming in the last 15 years.
Another British publication, The Times Online, quoted a former lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as stating: “The temperature records cannot be relied upon as indicators of global change.” This statement was in response to some of his newer research, that shows that changes in land use around weather stations has not been properly taken into account.
Each individual Climategate revelation does not disprove global warming. Taken together, however, the revelations certainly paint a picture of data manipulation for political purposes. With the “science” falling apart, is it so surprising that Gov. Doyle and legislative Democrats are marketing their global warming bill as “The Clean Energy Jobs Act?”
Rep. Jim Ott (R-Mequon) represents Wisconsin’s 23rd Assembly District.
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So Thomas Friedman is wrong (not only wrong, but part of some evil political plot) and you are right? Guess the "Obama isn't an American citizen" thing ran out of gas, huh?
Unfortunate as this may sound, the refinement of the language is necessary because of the distortions put out their by the climate change deniers. Take the numbskullery around the recent snow falls out east. Jim Ott, if he was more than a TV weather presenter, would have known that these snowfalls do not disprove climate change, but prove it in that all this precipitation was do to the precipitation trapped by warm air.
On the other hand, you did not hear much from the flat earthers about the overly warm Olympics.
This whole problem is a matter of doing something when it is relatively cheap and leisurely, or have the walls collapse in and do it in a costly panic.
Talk about commonsense. If we could least do something to wean ourselves off of foreign oil, we would be less vulnerable to dictatorships in parts of the world that give us trouble, not to mention being able to scale down our bloated defense budget.
By the way, Mr. Friedman has been using the term "global weirding" for over two years that I know of. And it wasn't at all used to "explain the fact that proponents desperately want (the climate) to get warmer." It was used to give us a better understanding of the changes going on. Rep. Ott is attempting to construct a conspiracy theory and having planted such a seed ("death panels!" "socialist agenda!"), use it for his own political purposes. This is demeaning. He is most welcome to debate the state of the client or the state of the economy. He can and should state a case about what he proposes that will do the most for jobs in Wisconsin, especially as we look to regional development in 2000's. But don't take old news and try to make it sound like new developments. It sounds like one of those 10:00 pm news promos they do to boost ratings. Oh,
sorry.
Mr. Ott: Please continue the good fight against a fraudulent scientific theory that will kill jobs, the economy and the well being of every Wisconsin resident.
Jim, let the global warming hoax believers call it weirding. Along with being hoaxers, they are also WEIRDOS.
These true believers of stupidity do not realize the damage they have done to legitimate scientists and to climatology in general. They shot themselves in both feet using a machine gun.