Moreon Global Warming

Because I believe incessant chatter about "reducing CO2" to fight "global warming" has infected politics, I want to keep a repository of reasons to question the conventional wisdom.

1. The talk of global warming taxes scares energy dependent businesses away from in America. Due to the heighten talk about global warming taxation, businesses already have to consider that there will steep tax on energy in the next decade. This potential tax will weigh against any decision to invest in America and will accelerate the loss of existing manufacturing jobs to the third world because we are now even more uncompetitive.



2. Why do the advocates of anthropogenic global warming allow China and India to continue developing? If taxes reduce the demand for energy (and hence CO2 emissions) in the US and Europe, while China and India continue their growth, the aggregate CO2 emission will not diminish. If global warming was really so devastating, proponents of CO2 control would be saying the China and India must stop their advancement.



3. CO2 is the natural result of combustion. In its purest and simplest form: natural gas + oxygen = water + carbon dioxide. The only way to reduce CO2 is to reduce the use of energy via combustion. The only way to reduce energy usage is to tax it very heavily.



4. Taxing energy is a regressive tax that will ultimately hurt the poor the most. If the cost to get to work and to heat your house is increased, while your pay remains the same...well, you can see what happens.



5. What caused the global warming after the ice ages and why is that different from today?