By George Will
In a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83 percent of whom now call global warming a "serious problem.'' Indoctrination is supposed to be a predicate for action commensurate with professions of seriousness.
For example, Democrats could demand that the president send the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate so they can embrace it. In 1997, the Senate voted 95-0 in opposition to any agreement which would, like the protocol, require significant reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions in America and some other developed nations but would involve no "specific scheduled commitments'' for 129 "developing'' countries, including the second, fourth, 10th, 11th, 13th and 15th largest economies (China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico and Indonesia). Forty-two of the senators serving in 1997 are gone. Let's find out if the new senators disagree with the 1997 vote.
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3 comments:
Well global warming is set to burn our asses in 2040, but Osama Bin Laden is set to restore the Caliphate by 2020 a la the Ottoman empire. We got more pressing concerns than a 1.5 degree rise in temps my people. But maybe that's just me.
Great, now I have even more reason to feel guilty about eating and thus being a chubby hubby. My ass is cheaper but a lot more deadly than a BMW too...
Mookie try the Bill Shatner girdle corset thingy. My ass used to be deadly, I mean cause traffic accidents and all, butt, not any more...
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