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Re: [INFO] Carbon emissions bill
I used to work at Sandia National Labs. The consensus at the labs, the HUGE majority, are CERTAIN that global warming is manmade and that global temps are going up as much as or more than 4 degrees and if it continues, it can lead to extinction of life.
You who are conservatives are welcome to think what you want, but the massive and overwhelming consensus in the scientific community is that we have entered into a crises, perhaps the worst crises to humanity ever.
I used to be a conservative that laughed at it my own self. Then I went to work at the labs and my political convictions were shaken at the core. Yes, now I am liberal, but only on principles.
So go ahead, deny it is happening, it's only your children and grand children's lives, right?
Why shouldn't Connecticut move unilaterally? Most of Europe already has done so, Japan has done so, California is doing so... It's a question of acting responsibly.
Besides, going "green" doesn't have to be costly in the long term. We need laws helping induce people to install solar panels, if every home had solar generation we could easily reduce carbon emissions so much it might help.
I am almost 50. Weather disasters are on the rise, I can see it, even if the rest of you don't. You up there in CT are lucky, I live in the Tornado belt. Every major storm that comes through leaves me in fear for my life now. A tornado touched down only a few miles from me here just a few days ago. We are seeing more tornadoes and fiercer ones at that. We will also continue to see a greater frequency of mega disaster hurricanes. As the ocean heats up, these hurricanes will get more and more fierce. Eventually we may need a category 6 for hurricanes. Such hurricanes would wipe out all life in its path.
I don't know how many of you who are denying this issue have lived through tornadoes and hurricanes, but I have lived through both, near misses within visible distance tornadoes and I've lived through the eye of a hurricane. Unless you experience such a thing, you can't comprehend it.
We have just had the two hottest, most dry summers on record here in TN these last two years. It has been sheer hell living in the heat (as with most poor folks here, we do not have aircon, someone tried to help us with that issue, but the machine they gave us does not work).
I've slept in 130 degree heat, and let me tell you, it is inhuman (back when living in the desert with no cooling whatsoever). Generally, I would go through about 3 or 4 gallons of water a day just for perspiration. What is going to happen to the poor folks who still live where I did that also have no AC when temps go up higher? 130 will kill you, I thanked God when I got out of there!!!
I am sorry, I know I am NOT popular with my stance on this issue, but I know in my heart it IS the right stance. We are in serious danger. Just saying things haven't happened before doesn't make it not happen now. As for the ozone layer, it has been damaged and at times a huge gaping hole HAS existed over a large part of the planet.
If I am confronted with the requirement of making a choice on this issue between you you lay folks say or what the scientists at The Labs say where I used to work, guess who I am going to listen to? They have the real world knowledge and skills, and most of them are very conservative in personality, not the kind of people to yell "Alarm ALARM!", but they ARE yelling it now!
One only needs to read our more popular scientific journals, such as Scientific American, to learn the truth.
I agree that devastating the residents of the state or chasing away industry isn't too grand an idea, but that is where being smart and doing smart things with smart solutions comes in to play.
In Germany they enacted laws which made it much easier for people to go solar and wind, and it has proven wildly successful, I understand up to a third of energy production in Germany is or is about to be green, though my memory might be off a little on that one. There are farmers, land owners, and highway stretches filled with solar arrays and people are now making money, having paid off their solar arrays already, rather than costing them! It took will power and determination and vision, but in Germany it IS working.
Surely we are as good as the German people, no?
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You are welcome to move to Connecticut and enjoy our crusade against CO2. My opinion is that higher taxes and fuel bills look better when viewed from Tennessee.
