I get letters, I’m not sure how I ended up on this list. Looks like Harry Reid and John Kerry have some competition for a “Climate bill”. It seems like the public can attend, see how to register below. A video follows.
Sen. Cantwell Left, Sen. Collins, Right
Please register for this event online at: http://www.aei.org/event/100268
Controlling Greenhouse Gases: The CLEAR Act Option
With Remarks by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Susan M. Collins (R-Maine)
Thursday, July 29, 2010, 2:00–3:30 p.m.
G11 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20002
Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Energy, and Senator Susan M. Collins (R-Maine) will explain their proposed approach to control greenhouse gases: the admirably concise, 39-page Carbon Limits and Energy for America’s Renewal (CLEAR) Act. This act follows the House’s passage of the 1,428-page* Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act and the introduction in the Senate of the 987-page* Kerry-Lieberman Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, both of which would strictly control greenhouse gas emissions via cap-and-trade. Alan D. Viard and Kenneth P. Green, resident scholars at AEI, will comment briefly after the senators’ remarks.
*as of July 19, 2010
Agenda:
1:45 p.m.
Registration
2:00
Introduction:
KENNETH P. GREEN, AEI
2:10
Address:
SENATOR MARIA CANTWELL (D-Wash.)
SENATOR SUSAN M. COLLINS (R-Maine)
2:40
Respondents:
ALAN D. VIARD, AEI
KENNETH P. GREEN, AEI
3:00
Question and Answer
3:30
Adjournment
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Here’s YouTube video from Cantwell’s website explaining her view of it:
Some links to documents:
Legislation
Documents
- How Does the CLEAR Act Work?
- Goals, Framework and Advantages of the CLEAR Act
- Extended Overview Memo
- Clear Act PowerPoint
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Detailed CLEAR Act Q&As
- CLEAR Act side by side with Waxman-Markey, H.R. 2454
Personalized Energy in Detail (also purifies waste waster).
Footnote to my posts:
The byproduct of hydrogen fuel cells, beyond all the energy they make, is CO2 and water. So add a greenhouse to Professor Nocera’s design (see Faces of the Recovery Act video) for the fuel cell exhaust and you can grow some veggies year round as well.
Starting to understand why we should not regulate CO2 with a carbon tax? Actually, make the technology available immediately with homeowner loans and I’d be happy to pay off mine with my monthly power bill ; )
There is no such thing as an atmospheric greenhouse effect. It is a physical impossibility. The earth is cooled through a process of conduction, convection, vaporization and condensation. The absorption and emission of longwave radiation by CO2 molecules merely slows the process of cooling. It doesn’t warm anything. It is background noise.
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So what is your Physical Explanation for why the planet is not at -30 deg C or whatever it is that the equilibrium Black body Temperature is calculated to be at the position of earth’s orbit around the sun.
If there isn’t any “greenhouse” effect; in the climate sense; not the agricultural sense; Other than it is impossible; then why is earth so hot ?
Gerhard Gerlich, Ralf D. Tscheuschner address all of the above-mentioned issues and more in their ground-breaking paper, “Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics.”
Here are a few of their salient conclusions:
It is not the “trapped” infrared radiation, which explains the warming phenomenon in a real greenhouse, but it is the suppression of air cooling.
There are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effect, which explains the relevant physical phenomena. The terms “greenhouse effect” and “greenhouse gases” are deliberate misnomers.
There are no calculations to determinate an average surface temperature of a planet
– with or without an atmosphere,
– with or without rotation,
– with or without infrared light absorbing gases.
The frequently mentioned difference of 33C for the fictitious greenhouse effect of the
atmosphere is therefore a meaningless number.
Re-emission is not reflection and can in no way heat up the ground-level air against the actual heat flow without mechanical work.
The temperature rises in the climate model computations are made plausible by a perpetuum mobile of the second kind. This is possible by setting the thermal conductivity in the atmospheric models to zero, an unphysical assumption. It would be no longer a perpetuum mobile of the second kind, if the “average” fictitious radiation balance, which has no physical justification anyway, was given up.
Read the full paper here:
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0707/0707.1161v4.pdf
kirkmyers says:
July 21, 2010 at 7:55 pm
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Actually kirkmyers,
If Congress read the following two they would understand.
I honestly hope Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Susan M. Collins (R-Maine) aids do.
NASA:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast20oct_1/
Wegman Report:
http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/108/home/07142006_Wegman_Report.pdf
John from CA: Why are you denying what you said? Here is a full paragraph from your post of July 21, 2010, at 2:35 P.M.:
“The scientific case for action to mitigate climate change grows stronger every day. In its 2007 Fourth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the most extensive analysis to date of climate change science, including historical data and projections of future changes. The IPCC’s analysis concluded with greater than 95 percent certainty that human consumption of fossil fuels and land use practices are contributing directly to observed changes in climate.”
If ever there was a clumsier propaganda statement about a non-existent climate change I don’t know about it.