In January 2010 I wrote in these pages that we were exporting our emissions to China and that China was beginning to chafe over this fact. Of course the United States was not a signer of the Kyoto protocol in 1990 whereby countries that did sign agreed to limit their emissions of green house gases. Our reasons for not signing? Our administration was concerned that the signing and adherence to a specific emissions goal would stifle business and industry and cause the loss of millions of jobs. Another reason was of course that we were the biggest polluter on the planet. And we lost the jobs anyway.

Controlling the weather has really never worked. Cloud seeding has never produced any significant rainfall. On the other hand, catastrophic events, such as volcanic eruptions, have certainly affected world climate. The eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991 created a haze that reduced global average temperatures by 0.5C. The eruption of Mt Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 resulted in turning 1816 into the year without a summer. Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, a Swedish think tank, believes that we can affect the warming of the world climate….

Columnist Kathleen Parker wrote in her column in the Washington Post, Tuesday August 4, that the Waxman-Markey energy bill now before Congress, would make us less secure if passed. She claims we only have two choices:  we can either be green or we can be less dependent on foreign oil. Her reasoning is a bit convoluted. She is assuming that we continue business as usual. To her alternative energy is a non-starter. Any attempts by the government to cap CO2 emissions will cause a stampede to OPEC for our oil supplies. We will certainly continue to need oil for some time as we transition to a fossil fuel free economy. Most of our oil comes from Canada and Mexico, but there is some new developments that could alter that...