George Will on global warming

Saying terrorism is a danger is easy.

A danger to whom, though?

Is a farmer in Nebraska any more likely to be the victim of a terrorist attack today than he was 50 years ago?

And more important, how do you solve the problem?

You can't kill every terrorist. They are willing to kill themselves as long as you die, too. Those two facts make the problem inherently unsolvable.

So I say . . . let's let the global warming problem help us out.

Wean us off oil = less dependence on the Middle East = less interference in the Middle East = reduced terrorism threat = cleaner air = fewer CO2 emmissions = perhaps solving the global warming problem.

The benefits are a domino effect. With one caveat: It will cost money now instead of later.

 

My only response to that is . . .

. . . when 80-year-old grandmothers in wheelchairs are frisked at airports, we are NOT "weighing the cost of those very specific measures to a very definable benefit."

We are throwing darts blindfolded.

 

Well, the cleanest energy source by far is nuclear energy. But the lefties have completely shut that out as a possiblility. Nice job, lefties. Second-cleanest we have not that is actually in enough availability -- no, wind and solar don't produce enough energy as is -- is natural gas. But, again, lefties have made getting that more difficult and expensive than it needs to be because they've outlawed drilling for it in all kinds of places. So we have to import a lot of it, but first it must be converted to liquid to be shipped, then reconverted to gas. That means a lot of specialized ports that -- you guessed it -- the lefties have blocked. So it can only come in in a few ports instead of all over at east, south and west shores.

So how green is the left in all honesty, and how interested are they in stopping global warming? Not very. But they are interested in wrecking the American economy. Always have been.

 

Yep. American economy just sucked donkey balls from 1993-2000, didn't it?

 

To do list:
1) Go to gym
2) Pick up dry cleaning
3) Wreck American economy.

 

My to do list
1) Go to post office
2) Twiddle my fingers as I wait for a PDF proof
3) Plot the destruction of the American economy
4) Drive around aimlessly as I wonder what I should do for dinner
5) Download Porn Surf the interwebs
ADD: 6) Spend a solid hour debating myself on going to see Ghostrider

 

Actually, the cleanest sources of energy are wind and solar. And you're right, present solar panels aren't able to convert a big enough percentage of sunlight to electric. Researchers are making them more efficient each year, but we're years away from being able to use solar for all our electric needs.

Your rant about the "lefties wanting to destroy the American economy" is not provable and adds nothing to the civil discussion of global warming.

 

Indians, let's petition the White House to send JR to China to "tell those bastards off" about their Kyoto compliance and to set an example for the polar bear.

 

Breaking news!!!! BTE thinks we operated under the Kyoto treaty from 1993-2000!

 

Tell me, BTE, why are they frisking 80-year-old grandmothers in wheelchairs and letting Muslim men between the ages of 17 and 40 walk through? Because profiling has been banned due to political correctness. That's the left's fault, not the right's. And for pointing out this glaring truth, all you guys will now label me a racist.