The Global Warming Swindle and Ridiculous Taxes on Cows

As a business owner, I got very angry when I saw this video about the EPA wanting to impose a CO2 tax on dairy farmers because cows and hogs output a lot of gas. For more information, read the article here.

In a time when our economy is going to shit, the EPA wants the U.S. to become even less competitive economically compared to Asian rivals.

I've blogged before about the hassles of and taxes on trying to run a business in Canada. I'm thankful for our standard of living and all of the opportunities that our system provides. I'm just tired of things like this environmental movement retarding our economic growth.

Contrary to popular belief, science is highly affected by political motivations. The nuclear winter theory back in the 50's where all life would be wiped out by lack of sunlight in the event of a nuclear war was a great example. Nuclear war bad - even if we win. Lets see, if I was a geography scientist I would think: "Hmm, what can I study that will get me more government funding and attention in the press? I know, I'll jump on the global warming bandwagon!" If you think that the results of those studies won't be influenced by the people that funded them, pull your head out of your ass.

There are plenty of reasons why we should be kind to the environment, but greenhouse gas induced global warming is far too simple a theory that does not take into account the complexity of earths interaction with sunlight. Plus, although North Americans produce more CO2 per person than most of the planet, Canada and the US only make up 5% of the earths population.

So I've got an idea. Instead of focusing solely on reducing our individual carbon footprints, how about we work a little harder on convincing our neighbors that have terrible environmental records to shape up their habits slightly as they grow. This is help we didn't have as we developed as nations.

A great example would be Beijing, widely regarded as the worst in the world, or Linfen, China.
World Bank estimates that 16 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are found in China’s industrial areas.

Maybe it would be cheaper economically and better for the environment overall if we guided these developing nations that have much larger populations than us and are very energy hungry.

Hey, wait a second, we're already doing that aren't we? By funding programs that are developing things like fusion power, more efficient nuclear power, hybrid cars, electric cars, even the biofuel fiasco and more. By developing cleaner technologies to the point where the world is better off overall converting over from things like coal power plants we are doing more about cleaning things up than anyone else.

So instead of taxing us more and screwing our economy up further, (and making us more reliant on food imports that don't have the same health standards etc.) we should be providing more incentive to learn and grow.

All of you politicians that are using "climate change" as political fodder, you also need to pull your heads out of your asses and start helping our countries instead of wasting your time.