Is It Hot in Here?

The Oregon petition continues to grow:

Washington, DC (June 2, 2008) - As the Senate prepares for floor debate on global warming legislation, the list of scientist signatories to the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine's petition against global warming alarmism is growing by about 35 signatures every day, announced OISM's Art Robinson.

On May 19, 2008, OISM announced that over 31,000 scientists, including more than 9,000 with PhDs, signed a petition that states, "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing, or will cause in the future, catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate..."

Meanwhile:

.......the Lieberman/Warner climate security act "A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes" would result, according to a study by the Heritage Foundation, in:

Cumulative gross domestic product (GDP) losses of at least $1.7 trillion and could reach $4.8 trillion by 2030 (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars). Single-year GDP losses hit at least $155 billion and realistically could exceed $500 billion (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars). Annual job losses exceeding 500,000 before 2030 and approaching 1,000,000. The annual cost of emission permits to energy users to be at least $100 billion by 2020 and could exceed $300 billion by 2030 (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars). The average household paying $467 more each year for its natural gas and electricity (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars). That means that the average household will spend an additional $8,870 to purchase household energy over the period 2012 through 2030. All in the name of fighting a non-existent threat

The fact that we've been cooling since 1998, while CO2 has been increasing, makes me optimistic that maybe Mother Nature can stop the Warmaniacs. When I look at our most probable candidates for the next president though.... We may need another ice age to convince these fools that they're trying to run the world based on an internet hoax.