DALE: Sound policy needs sound science

DALE: Sound Policy Needs Sound Science 11/26/08 I would certainly agree that sound environmental-policy needs sound science. The articles that I read in the Washington Times regarding climate change all tell me that in recent years, the earth has been cooling slightly overall. If so, then "greenhouse gases" and "carbon footprints" are irrelevant, and the addition of ethanol to gasoline for motor fuel is a giant boondoggle. Unless Mr. Dale can refute the numbers showing that the earth is undergoing a cooling process, then sound science would dictate that the Congress employ sound policy and immediately refute its requirement that motor fuel contain ethanol as an additive.

It sounds like Dale has accepeted the premise that man made CO2 has caused global warming. I know this is what we have been hearing for years, but it is not proven and lately is fizzling out as a theory. Let us not forget that all of these "studies" are just employment for our excess scientists who otherwise would join the ranks of the unemployed.

"But Kyoto is not an insurance policy. Just the opposite, it is the single, greatest threat today to the global environment, because it makes carbon into currency. Carbon is the element upon which all living things are built. With carbon a kind of currency - which is what all carbon taxes and carbon trading and similar schemes do - all ecosystems suddenly have a commercial value that makes them subject to manipulation for gain." - The Deniers, Lawrence Solomon.