Global Warming and the Cap and Trade Bill

Why Climate Change Isn't much of an Issue

Since Democrats was unable to pass an energy and climate bill, they would now have to wait until 2011 or longer. Charles Cook of the Cook Political Report saw the Republicans in the House getting forty seats when only thirty nine is needed to have the majority. Democratic Governor Joe Manchin is trying to avoid any association that reduces the cap and trade bill to greenhouse-gases.

“In a new survey released by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, 63 percent of Americans agree that global warming is happening. A plurality (50 percent) agrees that it's triggered by human activity, compared with 35 percent who say it's natural, and 7 percent who say it isn't happening at all.” How could some people say that global warming is not happening when the amount of ice in the polar ice caps decreases at a rate of nine percent per decade?

Switching to green energy sources and preventing deforestation are two ways to reduce global warming. However, over 50% of the people who responded said that increasing the fossil fuel tax would not help or they do not know if it would help. There are many ways that global warming can be reduced, the fact is that people do not want to change anything in their life to make that difference. With the cap and trade bill, a number of jobs will be lost. The unemployment rates are between 9 and 10 percent and economic growth is expected to be weaken for an amount of time. The only flaw that is mentioned about the cap and trade bill is that it decreases the number of jobs. Most people do not want this because of this reason only. They could at least try physically try it out and then measure the resulting factors.

Those who will be unemployed and might benefit from the shift don’t have much influence on the electorate because they are smaller. When an economy is either in a near-depression or underdeveloped, it’s harder to sell what are supposed to be “expensive environmental solutions whose benefits may not be seen for decades to individuals who are worried about their job today.” This can be an improvement to our global issue, but there are many who are not willing to take that chance. Job losses should not have been a factor in creating this bill. In fact, Obama created a bill just to provide more jobs to the people, but now is the government taking it back with a new bill?

Why Climate Change isn't much of an Issue