The crap passing in Washington for climate change reminds a couple of EPA attorneys of the 1986 Challenger disaster (ignoring the warnings). Others have compared it with complicity in a holocaust. When I hear Democrats tout it, I think of how a majority of Senate Democrats in 2002 voted for Bush's Iraq War. The DKGreenroots Adopt a Senator (AAS, pronounced something like ass or arse) campaign to pass a climate change bill mentions its shortcomings next to never times, reminiscent of the British Prime Minister in 1938 who, after having met with Hitler, claimed to have secured peace for our time.
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A piece in the Washington Post titled Cap-and-Trade Mirage by a couple of EPA attorneys talking for themselves distinguish a bad cap-and-trade for greenhouse gases (offsets with no cheap carbon sequestration solution available) from a better cap-and-trade for acid rain (no offsets and cheap solutions), destroy the concept of offsets in the bill (a bailout for coal, bonanza for Wall Street), and propose an alternative solution (carbon fees) to stimulate a clean energy revolution.
To sum up the piece in the Post
The House and Senate climate bills are not a first step in the right direction.
The video by the Post piece's authors:
As for the shortcomings of the acid rain program used to support the current greenwash out of Washington, I'll add that the acid rain cap-and-trade caused a relative increase in GHG from coal plants by forcing greater use of less energy intensive coal (the cheap solution), and tho a treehuggers' delight in that its goal was to protect affected trees and rivers was met, millions of American people still breathe air that fails to meet minimum Federal standards for public health caused by the same sources of pollution. GreenWash is now creating the same type of half-hearted compromises with dirty power as the consensus of science warns nature does not bargain.
Hopefully, you can still kid about a 2009 climate change bill becoming a law, as explained by Friends of the Earth:
Or by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show in October:
And back in July:
Hope that makes you happy, if even for a fleeting moment!