U.S. climate change legislation will multiply energy costs and totally destroy the U.S. economy. Using the global warming/climate change scam, Obama and his accomplices plan to impose Cap and Trade, which will increase taxes; increase the cost of energy; force many companies to close; and multiply unemployment, poverty and despair, while increasing the power and wealth of Obama and his accomplices. Dr. S. Fred Singer, an internationally famed climatologist, says Cap and Trade “would be the equivalent of an atomic bomb directed at the U.S. economy—all without any scientific justification.”

Thanks for joining us again with your rhetoric Antonio Sosa. The report disagrees with every one of your claims.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change for a discussion of scientific opinion on climate change rather than someone who is likely paid by conventional oil interests to post comments on blogs

No thanks to Antonio Sosa, whose posted comments place him/her outside the pale of rational discourse and, if not fabricated for some sinister purpose, are testimony to a mind in a state of complete collapse and disarray. Such comments also testify to the extent of desperation by vested interests (primarily the U.S. conglomerate of Big Coal, Big Oil, The Big Three Automakers, God’s Own Party, and Dirty Manufacturing) to impede and/or block needed climate-change legislation by any underhanded means whatever, such as waging campaigns of disinformation about global warming, sowing seeds of doubt in the public’s mind, spreading confusion and fear about possible economic repercussions of regulation of greenhouse gases, and obfuscating the issues. As such, they are approximately the equivalent of squid ink—designed to hide the truth rather than reveal it.

To set the record straight for the benefit of visitors to Mongabay.com’s website, let’s be clear about who Dr. S. Fred Singer really is. He is not an “internationally famed climatologist.” Almost the entire world scientific community of experts in the field of climatology holds him in utter contempt. He is an inveterate climate-change denier, a contrarian’s Contrarian, someone who vies with the likes of MIT’s inglorious and increasingly pathetic (if not downright preposterous) Richard S. Lindzen for the title of Grand Dunce of Global Warming. His scientific papers on the subject are largely worthless. He apparently completely fails to understand the critical role played by CO2 and other trace gases that trap heat in regulating the earth’s climate. As a propagandist for the fossil-fuel industry, he is doubtless in some sense in the employ of said vested interests, especially Big Coal, and has probably received quite a few fat cheques from them, though that’s his own business. Either he believes his own folly or he has his own conscience to answer to for the foolishness he has preached about global warming being a non-event. Otherwise, increasingly ignored and isolated from the mainstream, he is today largely preaching to his own choir of True Believers who lack any grain of scientific sense or capacity to think clearly—such as people like Antonio Sosa.

Thanks to Tamara.

David Ferrell

Global Warming legislation just came out of committee. World oil production is now in permanent decline. What oil is left will provide us the only bridge to what comes next. I am asking myself, "Why is the Democratic Party making this a TOLL bridge with the passage of this new legislation?"

Cap and trade will kill any hopes of our economy coming out of this recession. Look around you and count how many things in your current range of vision are made out of plastic - just looking around my desk - laptop, computer screen, keyboard, mouse, mouse pad, chair, phone, calculator, stapler, pens, markers, tacks, pencil holder, sharpener, whiteboard, notebooks, files... Plastic requires natural gas. We have an abundance of natural gas in the domestic U.S. and yet the gov't wants to make it too expensive for natural gas companies to operate. What then? Thousands more Americans will be out of work and manufacturing companies will continue to struggle. U.S. companies will not be able to compete internationally. Just to name a couple of key problems. I'm all for renewable energy but it is not going to take the place of fossil fuels. A healthy economy will consist of both. People need to think about this and also think about who the cap and trade program will benefit - the brokers who will manage the program. They will make loads of money while putting people out of work. Brilliant.

Despite HLB's fear-mongering, this study shows that cap and trade will not kill the economy. If anything, natural gas will get a boost under pending climate change legislation.