Global Warming

At one time I thought we all believed in saving the planet, but it was moe important to some than others.  I was apparently wrong.  When you go out to vote tomorrow remember our friends on the east coast, and all of the pople, animals, and places that will continue to suffer if we continue to not care about climate change.

Ron Johnson spends half of his time expounding on issues he is clueless about, and the other half denying he ever said what he did.  This time it's a twofer, with Johnson backing off his claims that sunspots are responsible for global warming, and his willingness to horse trade on tax deductions for home mortgages.  WXOW-TV reports:

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Ron Johnson distanced himself on Saturday from his earlier claims that sunspots were a likely cause of global warming.

In "Fact Check" press release posted on his Web site, Johnson's campaign suggested that his remarks had been taken out of context and did not reflect the "true intent" of his answer.

In a 27 News interview at his Oshkosh plastics factory, Johnson said the rise in Earth's temperature was more likely caused by solar activity than man-made carbon dioxide emissions, and that shifting climate patterns were part of an ongoing natural cycle.

"There's a reason Greenland was called Greenland," he said.

We live in Wisconsin,  I'm glad there's global warming.  We'd be standing on top of a 200-foot thick glacier ...  Senate candidate Ron Johnson on WTAQ Radio.

Now if we could only get rid of those glaciers at the North and South Poles.  Well, we're working on it.  Johnson says it's "absolutely not proven" that humans have caused the problem.

As most of you are well aware, last week was a snow week in Washington, DC, and the odds are pretty good that there‘s something like that going on for you as well.

Our good friends in the conservative community have seized upon the moment as proof that this whole “global warming” thing is just a big scam perpetrated by the likes of Al Gore and his Legion Of Weather Nazis; their mission being only to deprive the American people of their Constitutional right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of a Ford Super Duty F-450 King Ranch Edition with the Heavy Service Suspension Package, Snow Plow Prep Package, Transmission Power Take-Off Provision, dual alternators, and supplemental cab heater.

To drive the point home, last week Senator James Inhofe’s family went to the time and trouble to build a little igloo on the National Mall for our amusement.

But here’s a question: just what has the weather been like in other places—for example, in my part of the world...or in the Senator’s home State of Oklahoma? It’s a good question—and the Senator won’t like the answer.

Will people in the future call our time the age of stupid? Or will humanity find a solution to the world’s most urgent problem? You decide!

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Wisconsin hosted a Great Lakes governors' energy summit this week that produced lofty promises to coordinate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

A few hours later, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation released the schedule to spend a record-setting $1.9 billion to add another north-south traffic lane on I-94 between the Mitchell interchange near the airport for 35 miles south to the Illinois state line.

So we're inducing more driving at a time of record oil prices, knowing that driving releases greenhouse gases?

And we're spending this money on highway expansion based on gasoline costing $2.30 a gallon, when today's price is more than 25% higher and only going higher?

And the funding sources for this giant sop to road-builders aren't even nailed down, as Gretchen Schuldt points out on her blog?

These contradictions make a mockery of the Governors' energy summit and the state's commitment to sound fiscal and environmental stewardship.