Posted by
L.P. Garnell on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:41:04 AM
Sunday, on Blitzer's show, Al Gore was on talking about global warming and the government’s role to remedy it. You would probably have a better chance of convincing a fence post rather than Al Gore that if global warming is indeed true mankind may not be its cause, so, I'll focus on his idea of a political solution.
A political solution to global warming- If you say that out loud you'll get a better feel for of the absurdity of such a notion; nonetheless, Al Gore beliefs in it. He said, in what I assume was a reference to the great Kyoto protocol, that the united state’s great capacity for leadership is the most important asset in saving the world from global warming which in his mind will cause us all to boil to death in nocuous greenhouse gas.
. He believes that if the United States gets on board the Kyoto agreement and thus hobbles itself by choking its economy with emission restrictions then other polluters of the planet like India and China will go a head and shoot themselves in the foot by doing the same.
China and India are competitors of the United States in the global economy and would use whatever advantage they had. They would never make good on any agreement to cut emissions. Instead, they would engage in incessant finger pointing, blaming us for the failure of the agreement when we failed to meet emission restrictions. We would, of course, fail to meet the restrictions because they are so unrealistic and would cost the U.S economy hundreds of billions of dollars just for an attempt; which, fortunately, is precisely why we have not agreed to them.