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SleeplessinSoCal

(9,107 posts)
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 05:50 PM Jun 2013

Please Share conservative allies here. Like David Frum and his carbon tax plan

&quot CNN) -- Global emissions of carbon dioxide hit a record high in 2011, scientists from the Global Carbon Project reported last week.

Another record is expected in 2012.
David Frum

The earth continues to warm, and to warm fast, with serious consequences for human life and welfare. 2012 saw the worst drought in the United States in half a century. Russia suffered its second bad drought in three years. Climatic shocks to these two countries are raising food prices worldwide, posing an especially acute threat to the world's poorest. Major storm events strike harder and more often, because warming oceans create conditions for fiercer hurricanes . . . ."

Frum's article: http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/03/opinion/frum-tax-energy

The G.W. Bush speechwriter Frum is blasted by "IER"

"Frum’s article is littered with so many dead ends that I can’t catalogue them all. Instead, I will select just a few of the biggest doozies and offer commentary . . . "

effort to debunk it here: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/12/12/david-frum-ignores-economics-in-support-of-carbon-tax/

And those behind IER Enron and the Cato Institute:

"The Institute's CEO, Robert L. Bradley, Jr., was formerly a director of policy analysis at Enron, where he wrote speeches for Kenneth Lay. He has written seven books, including Capitalism at Work and Edison to Enron, and he maintains the website Political Capitalism. He is also an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. . . "

I'm trying to find a way to get in the head of my rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Climate Fool. I found a useful site for debating deniers:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/

but I want to hammer my idiot congressman with his own people. If anybody hears of others, please post. Thanks!

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