Comments on: Libertarian to run carbon-neutral House campaign http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/11/libertarian-to-run-carbon-neutral-house-campaign/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:44:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: MPM http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/11/libertarian-to-run-carbon-neutral-house-campaign/#comment-686858 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:21:18 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/11/libertarian-to-run-carbon-neutral-house-campaign/#comment-686858 How does a statement like this, "We also believe that Americans are, in general, responsible individuals who will do the right thing when they can" anything but a small government statement? You're right, maybe global warming isn't that important, but anoxic events are. How does a statement like this, “We also believe that Americans are, in general, responsible individuals who will do the right thing when they can” anything but a small government statement? You’re right, maybe global warming isn’t that important, but anoxic events are.

]]> by: Teddy http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/11/libertarian-to-run-carbon-neutral-house-campaign/#comment-686831 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:59:38 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/11/libertarian-to-run-carbon-neutral-house-campaign/#comment-686831 Global warming the big lie. Global warming is only a reason for the left and the government to steal more money from Americans.It suprises me because I thought Tom was a small government person. Go figure. Global warming the big lie. Global warming is only a reason for the left and the government to steal more money from Americans.It suprises me because I thought Tom was a small government person. Go figure.

]]> by: MPM http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/11/libertarian-to-run-carbon-neutral-house-campaign/#comment-686738 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:24:13 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/11/libertarian-to-run-carbon-neutral-house-campaign/#comment-686738 The politically correct thing to say would be that we need government to award a prize for a better battery (oops McLame already did that) or subsidize inefficient forms of power. Knapp's corporate welfare line is a bunch of liberal bs though, the government gives ALL businesses tax credits for depreciation of value. I hope he'll talk about how the government hurts the quest for less carbon emmissions through a ridiculous ethanol policy that drives up fuel and food prices, when we could get the same amount from Brazil without grossly wasting energy on Haber-process produced fertilizers. Along that same thread government farm bills always endorse big-time chemical farming companies like ADM and Cargill, virtually leaving farmers no choice when alternative organic farming could capture perhaps 40% of atmospheric carbon produced by humans. Also quotas on foreign vehicles and safety regulations make it difficult for lighter foreign cars (like Smart or Tata Motors produce) from being sold here. Finally, government regulation makes it much more difficult to build new nuclear reactors. Right wing folks might always say global warming is a hoax, but even if much of it is, the fact that greater carbon emmissions acidify the oceans isn't really debated (except by maybe those who deny the validity of the geologic record because they say the earth can only be a few thousand years old...) At the current rate of emmissions we would reach carbon levels of 1000 ppm in about 400 years, maybe a bit less, and the geologic record shows us that causes an anoxic event. Even if that seems a long ways off, in the short term we could see plankton stocks die out, affecting the whole food chain and thus the entire fishing industry. The politically correct thing to say would be that we need government to award a prize for a better battery (oops McLame already did that) or subsidize inefficient forms of power. Knapp’s corporate welfare line is a bunch of liberal bs though, the government gives ALL businesses tax credits for depreciation of value. I hope he’ll talk about how the government hurts the quest for less carbon emmissions through a ridiculous ethanol policy that drives up fuel and food prices, when we could get the same amount from Brazil without grossly wasting energy on Haber-process produced fertilizers. Along that same thread government farm bills always endorse big-time chemical farming companies like ADM and Cargill, virtually leaving farmers no choice when alternative organic farming could capture perhaps 40% of atmospheric carbon produced by humans. Also quotas on foreign vehicles and safety regulations make it difficult for lighter foreign cars (like Smart or Tata Motors produce) from being sold here. Finally, government regulation makes it much more difficult to build new nuclear reactors.

Right wing folks might always say global warming is a hoax, but even if much of it is, the fact that greater carbon emmissions acidify the oceans isn’t really debated (except by maybe those who deny the validity of the geologic record because they say the earth can only be a few thousand years old…) At the current rate of emmissions we would reach carbon levels of 1000 ppm in about 400 years, maybe a bit less, and the geologic record shows us that causes an anoxic event. Even if that seems a long ways off, in the short term we could see plankton stocks die out, affecting the whole food chain and thus the entire fishing industry.

]]> by: Eric Dondero http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/11/libertarian-to-run-carbon-neutral-house-campaign/#comment-686630 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:19:15 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/11/libertarian-to-run-carbon-neutral-house-campaign/#comment-686630 I see Tom Knapp has now joined the Political Correctness Brigades of the Far Left. We will next see Knapp pledging his support to the Democrat/Pelosi bill to ban free speech rights through the Fairness Doctrine? After all, that's Leftwing Libertarianism for ya. I see Tom Knapp has now joined the Political Correctness Brigades of the Far Left. We will next see Knapp pledging his support to the Democrat/Pelosi bill to ban free speech rights through the Fairness Doctrine? After all, that’s Leftwing Libertarianism for ya.

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