It's Tea Time

Things have really started to pick up, what with scientists now admitting they dumped the raw data their original theory was based on, John Stewart knocking those involved, and one of the guilty stepping down "temporarily". Now even Pennsylvania State University is holding an inquiry on Mann, the godfather of global warming, and to top it off NASA is hiding information too.

This has not gone away, and where I think the real sparks will really start to fly is between December 7th and December 18th at Copenhagen. I just do not see India, China, and Brazil coming along on this one quietly, and let's face it: the US just doesn't have the juice anymore. Are we important on the world stage? Absolutely. Are we so important that these developing markets will significantly handicap themselves? Not likely.

More importantly however is why are we even still considering cap and trade? One way or the other, it will have a large impact on our economy. Whether or not it is an extremely negative (vs. moderately negative) one cannot be said for sure. One thing I do know that our economy is currently very fragile, and with a huge and expensive health care over haul in the works I do not think it is the time to levy large taxes on corporations . This is too much, too fast, and it is very risky at best.

Given the doubts that these emails bring forth, and that scientists have admitted to destroying the original raw data which could be used to double check their calculations, we should be very cautious about how we move forward. Focus on innovations that minimize pollution, and to clarify I mean actual pollution not carbon dioxide. Focus on alternative power methods like solar which are, for all intents and purposes, infinite. These are things which will bring us to a better tomorrow, cap and trade is nothing more than a governmental power grab.

While you ponder all that, feel free to take a look at this and watch nothing change over the past ten years:

NASA Sea Surface Temperature Maps