climate

Yesterday The President brought climate change back into the news and it reminds us of the convoluted way in which we deal with the issue. I offer two examples that both indicate the same absurdity. To fully understand the dilemma we must agree that the problem is worldwide, that is, we have only one planet. First the government has decided not to build a pipeline that would bring Canadian oil to the US and instead it will be sent to China. Second we are switching our coal fired power plants over to natural gas and shipping the coal to China. Understand that here in the US we make extensive use of technology to reduce the contaminants in our power plants, something that is not done in China. By sending this coal and oil to China instead of using it here we are increasing the emissions of unwanted chemicals into the atmosphere.