American Environmental Coalition

Letter to Senators warning against huge climate stealth tax

Dear Senator:

We the undersigned write to urge you to reject legislation that imposes regulations on American energy usage through a so-called “cap-and-trade” provision in a vain attempt to change global average temperatures.

The underlying assumption of such legislation – that we are experiencing catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming – is highly questionable. It is important to note that temperature data show there has been no warming trend in more than a decade, and now even many climate change alarmists admit that there will be no additional warming in the coming decade, and that we may in fact see a cooling trend. We believe that a 20-year period with no warming -- despite record CO2 emissions – is a clear refutation of earlier alarmist predictions that should give policymakers pause. Many climate change alarmists dismiss this 20-year period of stable or cooling temperatures as being attributable to natural climate variability. If that is the case, why wouldn’t the warming trend that apparently stopped or reversed itself in the mid-1990s, also be attributable to natural climate variability? Are we seriously to believe that all cooling is natural, but all warming is man-made?

We Don't Need a Climate Tax on the Poor

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The Wall Street Journal

By Senator James Inhofe

June 3, 2008

With average gas prices across the country approaching $4 a gallon, it may be hard to believe, but the U.S. Senate is considering legislation this week that will further drive up the cost at the pump.

The Senate is debating a global warming bill that will create the largest expansion of the federal government since FDR's New Deal, complete with a brand new, unelected bureaucracy. The Lieberman-Warner bill (America's Climate Security Act) represents the largest tax increase in U.S. history and the biggest pork bill ever contemplated with trillions of dollars in giveaways. Well-heeled lobbyists are already plotting how to divide up the federal largesse. The handouts offered by the sponsors of this bill come straight from the pockets of families and workers in the form of lost jobs, higher gas, power and heating bills, and more expensive consumer goods.

Tell Your Senator to Reject Climate Change Bill that Hurts Families and the Poor

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ACTION ALERT

Please call your Senator and tell them to oppose the climate change bill that is coming up for debate this week. Alarmists are hoping to pass a big government stealth tax on every American that will hurt families and have a devastating impact on the poor and elderly.

If this bill becomes law, the average American family would see increased costs of $6,752 by 2030. This amounts to an annual stealth tax of almost $7,000. If a one-time check for $1,200 is economic stimulus, what is an annual stealth tax of almost $7,000? The answer is obvious.

If this bill becomes law, the United States would lose 1.8 million jobs in 2020 and 4 million jobs in 2030. Americans will pay up to 2.5 times more for natural gas and for gasoline by 2030. The price of electricity will more than double. Economic growth would slow. By 2030, gross domestic product (GDP) would be reduced by up to $669 billion.

The Climate Security Act?: Reject the ignorami

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If there indeed is a second Great Depression to come, this will be the government measure that guarantees it arrives with a devastating gut punch.

The U.S. Senate returns to session this week and will take up something deceptively labeled "America's Climate Security Act of 2008." It's a bill designed to combat man-made global warming.

But anybody with a brain should be able to understand that the only thing this bill would "secure" would be our national demise.

More than 31,000 scientists dispute UN's man-made global warming claims

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The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) announced that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming. It is evident that 31,072 Americans with university degrees in science – including 9,021 PhDs, are not "a few." Moreover, from the clear and strong petition statement that they have signed, it is evident that these 31,072 American scientists are not "skeptics."

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