This past weekend, my wife and I were visited by a friendly member of a national/state organization called Clean Water Action. The man who visited was looking to drum up support for the climate bill that is currently being debated in congressional committee. That bill is part of an international effort to limit carbon dioxide emissions that will reach a crescendo this month at international climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark.
And I think that the entire effort will be a disaster.
I don’t think this because I oppose the effort to limit carbon dioxide. I believe that global warming is a very real threat. I read on this issue widely and I am persuaded that global temperatures have increased significantly during the past few decades. And I think that there are enough pieces of anecdotal evidence of ice shelves melting and other assorted calamities to support the idea that global warming is a significant problem.