it is hard to believe all these wierd folks our running(ruining) our country when did normal folks earn the tag wierdo and wierdos earn the tag normal? they have already regulated california out of business now they have their sites on the whole USA how can we stop this from going any further? I dont see an end to it though one hates to think its hopeless it may very well be if these people cant learn from there mistakes
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 03:10 PM
Toomuchspin
Probably cost $30 grand to save $500 a year. Sort of like Harry Reid economics. What a bunch of idiotic fools. Keep reaching Dems. You're going to get skewered soon. This guy is just plain scary.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 03:05 PM
Toomuchspin
Probably cost $30 grand to save $500 a year. Sort of like Harry Reid economics. What a bunch of idiotic fools. Keep reaching Dems. You're going to get skewered soon. This guy is just plain scary.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 03:05 PM
votemout
state of Wa already has an energy code and indoor air code, energy forces sealing up houses tight, indoor forces adding holes to let in fresh air. you add in the calf codes and you can open a window for fresh air, how will our legislature ever handle all of this technical stuff
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 03:00 PM
MICHIGAN
I really like that Stew Varney(hope I spelled it right). He is so smart and I could listen to him all day. Saving $500, my @#$%. We know how government plays us.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:52 PM
Abisnana
They are invading almost every aspect of our lives. I pledge my life to seeing that they are all out of office in 2010.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:43 PM
Abisnana
They are invading almost every aspect of our lives. I pledge my life to seeing that they are all out of office in 2010.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:43 PM
Rick Perry
The problem I see is that isn't the only crazy item in the cap & trade bill. I have a petition online demanding that congress limit the size and content of the bills it votes on. Please sign it and let them know that we aren't going to take it anymore. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bill_size/index.html
Thank you
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:41 PM
tweeta
just checking something here. and by the by, Happy Birthday America and pray God You remain free forever.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:36 PM
tweeta
just checking something here. and by the by, Happy Birthday America and pray God You remain free forever.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:36 PM
Attila
Aren't these the same 60’s conspiracy theorist who warned America that Republicans were going to come into their houses and control how they lived? I guess this lends credibility to the adage, "watch what the Democrats accuse you of and that’s probably what they’re guilty of doing".
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:17 PM
PBALABAMA
When is the American public going to realize we have a bunch of people who never ran anything other than their mouths telling us how to live? There's an old saying. "Them that can, do. Them that can't teach". This bunch isn't qualified to do either.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:15 PM
PBALABAMA
Typical Liberal. He's stuck on the so-called $500.00 savings, but he doesn't say how many thousands one would have to spend in order to SAVE that $500.00.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:13 PM
RodT
How liberals lie. He claims a $500.00 per year savings in energy. What was that based on? I wonder if he knows that different areas of this county charge different rates for energy. For example last winter I paid $3.35 per gallon for Propane in Satsuma, FL and $2.65 per gallon in Wyoming. Now just where would the $500.00 per year be figured? And what if he/they are wrong? Will they rebate the cost of the inspection? I have not seen anywhere just what this inspection will cost. The average Fed. Worker makes $75,000, works about 32 hours a week. How many inspectors will there be in each state? How long will one have to wait to get an inspection? I figure the average Fed Inspector would probably do good to do 1 inspection a day, with all the paper work required or 4 a week, and since they only work a maximum of 11 months a year, that 44 inspections a year. With a $75,000.00 minimum cost per Inspector, that comes out to $1,705 per inspection. That means it would probably cost the home owner more in the line of $10,000.00 per inspection. The Feds do not work or do anything for normal cost. Then there will be the cost of transportation, supervision, kickbacks and scams. Now this is just the costs of the INSPECTION, I can’t even begin to estimate what the actual cost of using approved materials will be. If you have ever owned a private airplane, you will have some idea of the cost, when you have the Feds inspecting things., and you must use approved products.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 01:51 PM
annapolisgrad
test
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 01:40 PM
be
Old Nancy must have some interests in the companies that do this work. The dems have their fingers in a lot of companies and stand to make a lot of money on this, especially the whale Gore! Biggest carbon footprint living!!
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 01:08 PM
Kylee
I love Stewie <3 why cant they give him show? like say Shepard smiths
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:56 PM
tweeta
Hey Kylee, Shep Smith got where he is 'cause he's considered, by some, a "cutie" . His reporting "style" is a joke as he presents the news as 'tho He was responsible for it . You are right, Stewart Varneyshould have his own show and I think he will when he learns to book more interesting and and in the know folks as his guests.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:42 PM
PBALABAMA
When is the American public going to realize we have a bunch of people who never ran anything other than their mouths telling us how to live? There's an old saying. "Them that can, do. Them that can't teach". This bunch isn't qualified to do either.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:54 PM
PATRIOT UPRISING
Nancy thinks she died and went to Heaven. She has all the money she can spend, and some. A jet, trips to Europe, and third in line to be President. If the country ever needed a queen I bet she'd step up and offer her services. Too bad she isn't married to Henry the Eighth.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:50 PM
WeThePeople
If Ms Pelosi and others want us to stay out of others bedrooms, they should stay the heck out of our homes!
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:30 PM
ExcellenceInAmerica.com
I have one Senator (Bill Nelson) who replied to my letter with the same exact form letter he sent to a friend of mine who also wrote him - the ONLY difference was the name of who it was addressed and the date. Not only do they NOT read the Bills, they don't even read our letters!!!
Forget writing them, CALL THEM. Everyday. Make them explain their position.
Call them every single day.
And if so much as one Republican votes for this Bill... we need to "make them famous".
Jason Bradley http://www.ExcellenceInAmerica.com
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:24 PM
PATRIOT UPRISING
Snowe and Collins of Maine need to go. I was born and raised in Vermont, a conservative state at the time. Upper New England was a bastion of conservatism. People worked for a living. Not now, their all transplants from southern NE. We call them "flatlanders."
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:55 PM
PATRIOT UPRISING
Predicting hurricanes and climate change have nothing to do with one another KJK? They are both outdoors aren't they? They both involve water temperatures don't they? I heard it claimed hurricanes would intensify and so on. The argument you pose is as silly as the whole issue of Global Warming.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:15 PM
PATRIOT UPRISING
Once again, you cannot predict when, or if, a pattern will repeat. It could be 10,000, 100,000 or a million rolls. Since infinity goes on forever, there's no "predicting" when something will happen, if ever. If I take an infinite number of marbles, give half to you and keep half, how many do you have? Do we both have an infinite number? Is infinity odd or even? If I take every third marble, do you have more than I have? This is a study in the absurd. The UN is not qualified to make a judgment on climate, they can't even do an oil for food program, without thievery.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 01:45 PM
KJK
Did you think about my example? How I can't predict your next dice roll, but I can easily predict the average of your next 10,000 dice rolls? The next dice roll is random, but the average of the next 10,000 dice rolls isn't random at all. That's why I can predict one but not the other.
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It's exactly the same with weather. Weather is, for all practical purposes, random. That's what makes it hard to predict. Climate, however, is NOT random, because it's average weather. So, predicting weather and predicting climate are very different.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:47 PM
KJK
Your original thesis was they we can't predict where the hurricane will go next week, so how can we predict climate, right? What I'm saying is that this is not a valid comparison, and it's not. Predicting climate and predicting weather are two different things; the fact that we can't do one doesn't mean that we can't do the other. Did I say anywhere that current climate models are perfect? No. (But they are pretty good, and they're getting better all the time.)
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 02:19 PM
PATRIOT UPRISING
I know I made your argument, but you still miss the point. No model used by Global Warming supporters uses actual data, just projections based on hypothesis. What happens in a lab test may not necessarily take place in the actual environment. So too for these models. They cannot predict the future based on the information pumped into the computer. There are other forces at work that scientists DO NOT understand, thus cannot employ in creating these models. Unless you use loaded dice, which the administration EPA is doing, you cannot predict the climate or the actual impact of man on that environment. Analogies are not effective in making a scientific point.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 01:40 PM
KJK
"It's called gambling for a reason." Yes, and please forgive me for noting that you've made my point. The reason it's called gambling is that you can't predict your next roll (weather). The casinos can and do, however, successfully predict what will happen when all those rolls average out (climate). That's why they always win in the long run.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 01:17 PM
PATRIOT UPRISING
Rolling three "sevens" or twelve "elevens" in a row proves nothing. It might happen again in a hundred thousand rolls, it might not. You can't predict anything meaningful, for you don't know when the cycle, if there is one, will repeat itself. It's a meaningless, ill-founded statistical argument.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 01:01 PM
PATRIOT UPRISING
Global Warming enthusiasts say Climate effects weather patterns, however you can't predict a simple path of the latter. The models produced by the UN are not based on empirical data, therefore, they have no reason to be used as "the gospel". So you can roll the dice all you want, it proves nothing other than "chance". It's called gambling for a reason.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:57 PM
conservative from R.I.
Ms. Pelosi, I would like to wipe my butt with your "Energy Bill". Stay the hell out of our lives you witch.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:07 PM
MP
I like Stewart. If the standards are by state, I fill for the people that live in the very liberal states. Look at CA. That's what this new Cap and Trade would do to any state that adopts these principles. States will have to stand up against this out of control administration!
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Callie
Next thing you know the Democrats will be telling you how many squares of toilet paper you can use to wipe your b-tt. California has made a freaking mess of California and now we have Waxman, Boxer, Pelosi and god knows who else trying to wreck the rest of the country. California..do the Nation a big favor and go Republican next time before we just cut you off and make you your own independent banana republic.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:41 AM
PBALABAMA
Where have you been? They already HAVE said that. Remember Cheryl Crowe? How she said we should only use ONE piece of toilet paper?
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 03:44 PM
Dahun
This bill has nothing to do with cleaning the air or reducing carbon dioxide. The United Nations panel states that 3% of CO2 is man made and 97% is natural. The United States is responsible for 25% of this 3%. This is 0.75% of total CO2. The total amount of CO2 in the air is 385 parts per million (PPM) or .000385 part. The US contribution according to the UN is 2.89 PPM (.00000289 part of the atmosphere). That is 3 millionths of the atmosphere. The intention of this bill is to reduce the US contribution to CO2 by 15%. This is .433 PPM (.0000004 part of the atmosphere). 4/10 millionths of the atmosphere!
With all the exemptions and indulgences it is highly unlikely that any reduction will come close to the four ten millionths target. This bill cannot clean the air. This 4 ten millionths of the atmosphere is not measurable. There is no theory that explains how this can warm the earth. If this reduction could be accomplished and beyond reason none of the carbon dioxide was broken down by plant photosynthesis, which is impossible, it would take 2 1/2 years to reduce the CO2 in the air by one millionth. The only part of this bill that will happen for sure is we will be saddled with a 30% tax on all energy that will cripple the economy.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:38 AM
KJK
"The United Nations panel states that 3% of CO2 is man made and 97% is natural." Can you source this more specifically, please? It doesn't sound right. CO2 has increased by nearly 30% since 1850, and there's no known natural explanation for that. So it follows that the percentage should be closer to 25% than to 3%. Can you show me where your number comes from? Thanks.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 12:53 PM
KJK
"30% of 3% = .9%": There's no logic to saying that something isn't important just because there isn't much of it. The recommended maximum concentration of PCBs in food is 0.000002%. Nature had worked out a concentration of CO2 that was "just right" from a human point of view: it supported plant life and kept the planet warm enough. It's been pretty constant for millennia. Not any more..
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"CO2 production is a cycle and vital part of life": Straw man argument. No one disputes this.Too much CO2 doesn't help plant life because it can't use it all--there's already enough. The only significant effect is warming. (Also, note that in one sentence you say that CO2 isn't important because there's not much of it, and in the next sentence you say that it's vital. Which is it?)
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"the planet actually cooled": Methane, as you note, is an even more potent GHG than CO2 is. If it broke down into CO2 (I'm taking your word for that), I would fully expect the planet to cool, so I'm not sure what the point of this is.
Saturday, July 04, 2009 at 08:34 AM
GHW_NY
That would be 30% of 3% = .9%. Also, CO2 production is a cycle and vital part of life on this planet. No CO2, no photosynthesis. Prior to CO2 and O2 a large component of the atmosphere was methane (10x worse green house gas than CO2). As bacteria developed and broke down the methane into CO2, the planet actually cooled down.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:26 PM
American Girl
I am a American Girl SCARED!!! What I see coming from our government is very scary!!!! Stewart is so right!! I don`t want government thinking they need to stick their noses in our business! They get more than enough taxes out of us. They forget who they are working for?????
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Abisnana
This is a US citizen who came from England to show us how to save our country. He's a hero.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Roadhog
Typical insurgent policies.
DINGLE BERRIES!
After sitting down and grunting out legislation to curb superstitious fear of the future they never adequately wipe...
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:31 AM
keefir1
The gestapo coming into our homes to look for insulation while botox Pelosi is squandering fossil fuel every week flying from DC to SF.....on the taxpayers' dime!
What's wrong with this picture???
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:28 AM
mzlilydale
Pelsoi and Washington needs to clean up their own front porch and leave mine alone. Look at California and see the mess they are in and she want to make the rest of us change, to conform to their ways...how dare her. I will not be told, what I can and can not do to my own home, she can go fly a kite into neverland!
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:25 AM
phillyfanatic
Citizens must demand that the EPA nutters get out of the way to allow energy construction with coal, gas, oil and surely nuclear energy NOW. In Ca., the amount of water is being stopped by the Delta Smelt. I kid you not. In Ca., the Greens have stopped all offshore drilling though we have more oil than the Arabs. And so it goes. Now the Fed snoopers want to tell me how to light, heat , cool my home and what I can put in the ground or drive or cut down. Enough of this tyranny. And tyranny it is. This is not conservation as the lemming liberals are spouting, this is Federal Socialist tyrannical control of our individual lives. If one looks at what the Dems have done to Ca, you can see the future nationally for the USA. God help us.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Abisnana
Make their lives miserable. They're making our lives miserable. It's time to push back hard. Email and call your US Senators. Check with your state Senators to see if they've a State Sovereignty bill. There's something big coming from "We The People".
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Mohamad Ali
Nancy.................lets face it............your a dimwit.............what we realy need is legislation and code section for changing your light-bulb.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:06 AM
AlanB
Maybe it's because most of us aren't crazy about Pelosi either. But whether or not we like her has nothing to do with whether or not government storm troopers are going to inspect your house and demand that you fix it before you sell it. There's nothing in the bill that says anything like this.
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 11:06 AM
PBALABAMA
That's amazing. How do you know that? The bill is 1000 pages which was actually voted on before it was written and another 300- page amendment which came out in the early morning hours – and it was written before the bill was. So how is it you know so much about a bill even your Congress person has not read fully? The provision is indeed in the bill, you just hears Stuart read it to you. or perhaps you have your OWN copy?
Friday, July 03, 2009 at 03:37 PM
AlanB
I know it because I read Sec 202, which is what they were talking about and where all of the Stuart guy's quotes came from. It's only a few pages long. You could read it too.
ole dust
it is hard to believe all these wierd folks our running(ruining) our country when did normal folks earn the tag wierdo and wierdos earn the tag normal? they have already regulated california out of business now they have their sites on the whole USA how can we stop this from going any further? I dont see an end to it though one hates to think its hopeless it may very well be if these people cant learn from there mistakes
Toomuchspin
Probably cost $30 grand to save $500 a year. Sort of like Harry Reid economics. What a bunch of idiotic fools. Keep reaching Dems. You're going to get skewered soon. This guy is just plain scary.
Toomuchspin
Probably cost $30 grand to save $500 a year. Sort of like Harry Reid economics. What a bunch of idiotic fools. Keep reaching Dems. You're going to get skewered soon. This guy is just plain scary.
votemout
state of Wa already has an energy code and indoor air code, energy forces sealing up houses tight, indoor forces adding holes to let in fresh air. you add in the calf codes and you can open a window for fresh air, how will our legislature ever handle all of this technical stuff
MICHIGAN
I really like that Stew Varney(hope I spelled it right). He is so smart and I could listen to him all day. Saving $500, my @#$%. We know how government plays us.
Abisnana
They are invading almost every aspect of our lives. I pledge my life to seeing that they are all out of office in 2010.
Abisnana
They are invading almost every aspect of our lives. I pledge my life to seeing that they are all out of office in 2010.
Rick Perry
The problem I see is that isn't the only crazy item in the cap & trade bill. I have a petition online demanding that congress limit the size and content of the bills it votes on. Please sign it and let them know that we aren't going to take it anymore. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bill_size/index.html
Thank you
tweeta
just checking something here. and by the by, Happy Birthday America and pray God You remain free forever.
tweeta
just checking something here. and by the by, Happy Birthday America and pray God You remain free forever.
Attila
Aren't these the same 60’s conspiracy theorist who warned America that Republicans were going to come into their houses and control how they lived? I guess this lends credibility to the adage, "watch what the Democrats accuse you of and that’s probably what they’re guilty of doing".
PBALABAMA
When is the American public going to realize we have a bunch of people who never ran anything other than their mouths telling us how to live? There's an old saying. "Them that can, do. Them that can't teach". This bunch isn't qualified to do either.
PBALABAMA
Typical Liberal. He's stuck on the so-called $500.00 savings, but he doesn't say how many thousands one would have to spend in order to SAVE that $500.00.
RodT
How liberals lie. He claims a $500.00 per year savings in energy. What was that based on? I wonder if he knows that different areas of this county charge different rates for energy. For example last winter I paid $3.35 per gallon for Propane in Satsuma, FL and $2.65 per gallon in Wyoming. Now just where would the $500.00 per year be figured? And what if he/they are wrong? Will they rebate the cost of the inspection? I have not seen anywhere just what this inspection will cost. The average Fed. Worker makes $75,000, works about 32 hours a week. How many inspectors will there be in each state? How long will one have to wait to get an inspection? I figure the average Fed Inspector would probably do good to do 1 inspection a day, with all the paper work required or 4 a week, and since they only work a maximum of 11 months a year, that 44 inspections a year. With a $75,000.00 minimum cost per Inspector, that comes out to $1,705 per inspection. That means it would probably cost the home owner more in the line of $10,000.00 per inspection. The Feds do not work or do anything for normal cost. Then there will be the cost of transportation, supervision, kickbacks and scams. Now this is just the costs of the INSPECTION, I can’t even begin to estimate what the actual cost of using approved materials will be. If you have ever owned a private airplane, you will have some idea of the cost, when you have the Feds inspecting things., and you must use approved products.
annapolisgrad
test
be
Old Nancy must have some interests in the companies that do this work. The dems have their fingers in a lot of companies and stand to make a lot of money on this, especially the whale Gore! Biggest carbon footprint living!!
Kylee
I love Stewie <3 why cant they give him show? like say Shepard smiths
tweeta
Hey Kylee, Shep Smith got where he is 'cause he's considered, by some, a "cutie" . His reporting "style" is a joke as he presents the news as 'tho He was responsible for it . You are right, Stewart Varneyshould have his own show and I think he will when he learns to book more interesting and and in the know folks as his guests.
PBALABAMA
When is the American public going to realize we have a bunch of people who never ran anything other than their mouths telling us how to live? There's an old saying. "Them that can, do. Them that can't teach". This bunch isn't qualified to do either.
PATRIOT UPRISING
Nancy thinks she died and went to Heaven. She has all the money she can spend, and some. A jet, trips to Europe, and third in line to be President. If the country ever needed a queen I bet she'd step up and offer her services. Too bad she isn't married to Henry the Eighth.
WeThePeople
If Ms Pelosi and others want us to stay out of others bedrooms, they should stay the heck out of our homes!
ExcellenceInAmerica.com
I have one Senator (Bill Nelson) who replied to my letter with the same exact form letter he sent to a friend of mine who also wrote him - the ONLY difference was the name of who it was addressed and the date. Not only do they NOT read the Bills, they don't even read our letters!!!
Forget writing them, CALL THEM. Everyday. Make them explain their position.
Call them every single day.
And if so much as one Republican votes for this Bill... we need to "make them famous".
Jason Bradley
http://www.ExcellenceInAmerica.com
PATRIOT UPRISING
Snowe and Collins of Maine need to go. I was born and raised in Vermont, a conservative state at the time. Upper New England was a bastion of conservatism. People worked for a living. Not now, their all transplants from southern NE. We call them "flatlanders."
PATRIOT UPRISING
Predicting hurricanes and climate change have nothing to do with one another KJK? They are both outdoors aren't they? They both involve water temperatures don't they? I heard it claimed hurricanes would intensify and so on. The argument you pose is as silly as the whole issue of Global Warming.
PATRIOT UPRISING
Once again, you cannot predict when, or if, a pattern will repeat. It could be 10,000, 100,000 or a million rolls. Since infinity goes on forever, there's no "predicting" when something will happen, if ever. If I take an infinite number of marbles, give half to you and keep half, how many do you have? Do we both have an infinite number? Is infinity odd or even? If I take every third marble, do you have more than I have? This is a study in the absurd. The UN is not qualified to make a judgment on climate, they can't even do an oil for food program, without thievery.
KJK
Did you think about my example? How I can't predict your next dice roll, but I can easily predict the average of your next 10,000 dice rolls? The next dice roll is random, but the average of the next 10,000 dice rolls isn't random at all. That's why I can predict one but not the other.
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It's exactly the same with weather. Weather is, for all practical purposes, random. That's what makes it hard to predict. Climate, however, is NOT random, because it's average weather. So, predicting weather and predicting climate are very different.
KJK
Your original thesis was they we can't predict where the hurricane will go next week, so how can we predict climate, right? What I'm saying is that this is not a valid comparison, and it's not. Predicting climate and predicting weather are two different things; the fact that we can't do one doesn't mean that we can't do the other. Did I say anywhere that current climate models are perfect? No. (But they are pretty good, and they're getting better all the time.)
PATRIOT UPRISING
I know I made your argument, but you still miss the point. No model used by Global Warming supporters uses actual data, just projections based on hypothesis. What happens in a lab test may not necessarily take place in the actual environment. So too for these models. They cannot predict the future based on the information pumped into the computer. There are other forces at work that scientists DO NOT understand, thus cannot employ in creating these models. Unless you use loaded dice, which the administration EPA is doing, you cannot predict the climate or the actual impact of man on that environment. Analogies are not effective in making a scientific point.
KJK
"It's called gambling for a reason." Yes, and please forgive me for noting that you've made my point. The reason it's called gambling is that you can't predict your next roll (weather). The casinos can and do, however, successfully predict what will happen when all those rolls average out (climate). That's why they always win in the long run.
PATRIOT UPRISING
Rolling three "sevens" or twelve "elevens" in a row proves nothing. It might happen again in a hundred thousand rolls, it might not. You can't predict anything meaningful, for you don't know when the cycle, if there is one, will repeat itself. It's a meaningless, ill-founded statistical argument.
PATRIOT UPRISING
Global Warming enthusiasts say Climate effects weather patterns, however you can't predict a simple path of the latter. The models produced by the UN are not based on empirical data, therefore, they have no reason to be used as "the gospel". So you can roll the dice all you want, it proves nothing other than "chance". It's called gambling for a reason.
conservative from R.I.
Ms. Pelosi, I would like to wipe my butt with your "Energy Bill". Stay the hell out of our lives you witch.
MP
I like Stewart. If the standards are by state, I fill for the people that live in the very liberal states. Look at CA. That's what this new Cap and Trade would do to any state that adopts these principles. States will have to stand up against this out of control administration!
Callie
Next thing you know the Democrats will be telling you how many squares of toilet paper you can use to wipe your b-tt. California has made a freaking mess of California and now we have Waxman, Boxer, Pelosi and god knows who else trying to wreck the rest of the country. California..do the Nation a big favor and go Republican next time before we just cut you off and make you your own independent banana republic.
PBALABAMA
Where have you been? They already HAVE said that. Remember Cheryl Crowe? How she said we should only use ONE piece of toilet paper?
Dahun
This bill has nothing to do with cleaning the air or reducing carbon dioxide. The United Nations panel states that 3% of CO2 is man made and 97% is natural. The United States is responsible for 25% of this 3%. This is 0.75% of total CO2. The total amount of CO2 in the air is 385 parts per million (PPM) or .000385 part. The US contribution according to the UN is 2.89 PPM (.00000289 part of the atmosphere). That is 3 millionths of the atmosphere. The intention of this bill is to reduce the US contribution to CO2 by 15%. This is .433 PPM (.0000004 part of the atmosphere). 4/10 millionths of the atmosphere!
With all the exemptions and indulgences it is highly unlikely that any reduction will come close to the four ten millionths target. This bill cannot clean the air. This 4 ten millionths of the atmosphere is not measurable. There is no theory that explains how this can warm the earth. If this reduction could be accomplished and beyond reason none of the carbon dioxide was broken down by plant photosynthesis, which is impossible, it would take 2 1/2 years to reduce the CO2 in the air by one millionth. The only part of this bill that will happen for sure is we will be saddled with a 30% tax on all energy that will cripple the economy.
KJK
"The United Nations panel states that 3% of CO2 is man made and 97% is natural." Can you source this more specifically, please? It doesn't sound right. CO2 has increased by nearly 30% since 1850, and there's no known natural explanation for that. So it follows that the percentage should be closer to 25% than to 3%. Can you show me where your number comes from? Thanks.
KJK
"30% of 3% = .9%": There's no logic to saying that something isn't important just because there isn't much of it. The recommended maximum concentration of PCBs in food is 0.000002%. Nature had worked out a concentration of CO2 that was "just right" from a human point of view: it supported plant life and kept the planet warm enough. It's been pretty constant for millennia. Not any more..
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"CO2 production is a cycle and vital part of life": Straw man argument. No one disputes this.Too much CO2 doesn't help plant life because it can't use it all--there's already enough. The only significant effect is warming. (Also, note that in one sentence you say that CO2 isn't important because there's not much of it, and in the next sentence you say that it's vital. Which is it?)
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"the planet actually cooled": Methane, as you note, is an even more potent GHG than CO2 is. If it broke down into CO2 (I'm taking your word for that), I would fully expect the planet to cool, so I'm not sure what the point of this is.
GHW_NY
That would be 30% of 3% = .9%. Also, CO2 production is a cycle and vital part of life on this planet. No CO2, no photosynthesis. Prior to CO2 and O2 a large component of the atmosphere was methane (10x worse green house gas than CO2). As bacteria developed and broke down the methane into CO2, the planet actually cooled down.
American Girl
I am a American Girl SCARED!!! What I see coming from our government is very scary!!!! Stewart is so right!! I don`t want government thinking they need to stick their noses in our business! They get more than enough taxes out of us. They forget who they are working for?????
Abisnana
This is a US citizen who came from England to show us how to save our country. He's a hero.
Roadhog
Typical insurgent policies.
DINGLE BERRIES!
After sitting down and grunting out legislation to curb superstitious fear of the future they never adequately wipe...
keefir1
The gestapo coming into our homes to look for insulation while botox Pelosi is squandering fossil fuel every week flying from DC to SF.....on the taxpayers' dime!
What's wrong with this picture???
mzlilydale
Pelsoi and Washington needs to clean up their own front porch and leave mine alone. Look at California and see the mess they are in and she want to make the rest of us change, to conform to their ways...how dare her. I will not be told, what I can and can not do to my own home, she can go fly a kite into neverland!
phillyfanatic
Citizens must demand that the EPA nutters get out of the way to allow energy construction with coal, gas, oil and surely nuclear energy NOW. In Ca., the amount of water is being stopped by the Delta Smelt. I kid you not. In Ca., the Greens have stopped all offshore drilling though we have more oil than the Arabs. And so it goes. Now the Fed snoopers want to tell me how to light, heat , cool my home and what I can put in the ground or drive or cut down. Enough of this tyranny. And tyranny it is. This is not conservation as the lemming liberals are spouting, this is Federal Socialist tyrannical control of our individual lives. If one looks at what the Dems have done to Ca, you can see the future nationally for the USA. God help us.
Abisnana
Make their lives miserable. They're making our lives miserable. It's time to push back hard. Email and call your US Senators. Check with your state Senators to see if they've a State Sovereignty bill. There's something big coming from "We The People".
Mohamad Ali
Nancy.................lets face it............your a dimwit.............what we realy need is legislation and code section for changing your light-bulb.
AlanB
Maybe it's because most of us aren't crazy about Pelosi either. But whether or not we like her has nothing to do with whether or not government storm troopers are going to inspect your house and demand that you fix it before you sell it. There's nothing in the bill that says anything like this.
PBALABAMA
That's amazing. How do you know that? The bill is 1000 pages which was actually voted on before it was written and another 300- page amendment which came out in the early morning hours – and it was written before the bill was. So how is it you know so much about a bill even your Congress person has not read fully? The provision is indeed in the bill, you just hears Stuart read it to you. or perhaps you have your OWN copy?
AlanB
I know it because I read Sec 202, which is what they were talking about and where all of the Stuart guy's quotes came from. It's only a few pages long. You could read it too.