``For the Children``

Our old friend David Hogberg has an excellent piece at the American Spectator on the tactics of the Global Warming grifters and their refusal to accept reality:

Of course, the debate is far from over. Just recently, over sixty scientists urged the Canadian government to review the science of climate change as it relates to Canada's position on the Kyoto protocol. The letter stated:


-Observational evidence does not support today's computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the future. Yet this is precisely what the United Nations did in creating and promoting Kyoto and still does in the alarmist forecasts on which Canada's climate policies are based. Even if the climate models were realistic, the environmental impact of Canada delaying implementation of Kyoto or other greenhouse-gas reduction schemes, pending completion of consultations, would be insignificant. Directing your government to convene balanced, open hearings as soon as possible would be a most prudent and responsible course of action.-

While Environmental Defense may succeed in stifling debate on the science of global warming, it is going to have a much harder time doing so on global warming policy. One policy Environmental Defense promotes is a "cap-and trade" system in which the total amount of greenhouse gases that companies can emit is restricted by the federal government. Companies that do a better job of limiting their greenhouse gas emissions under the cap can earn credits that they can trade with companies that do not do as well as limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Defense points to the successful cap-and-trade system employed to limit sulfur dioxide, the main cause of acid rain. However, technologies like smokestack scrubbers and low-sulfur coal were already in development when the sulfur dioxide system was established. As of yet, there are no such technologies available for a greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide.