"The average residential CMP Delivery amount includes about $15 per month in non-CMP costs to support Maine public policy initiatives including net energy billing subsidies, low-income assistance and energy efficiency."
That message came with my electric bill. How much is too much to reduce greenhouse gases from the atmosphere? As I listen to people telling of the dangers of carbon dioxide, and how this substance must be eradicated from electricity production, transportation, agriculture and home heating, I conjure up a scene of a recession of civilization culminating in the return of cave dwelling.
Can we agree on some facts?
1. Carbon dioxide is a natural occurring gas. 2. Carbon dioxide is integral to vegetation growth. 3. Volcanoes and wildfires produce amounts of carbon dioxide that exponentially surpasses all fossil fuel chemical reactions. 4. Volcanoes and wildfires are naturally occurring events. 5. Climate is defined by trends in temperature. 6. The climate changes in a somewhat cyclic way, sometimes warming, sometimes cooling 7. The planet could very well be experiencing a warming period, or a warming period within a cooling period. 8. Depending how the length of time a warming/cooling period is defined, an abrupt length of time within a defined period could be contrary to the period's assigned designation. 9. These periods are beyond human control. 10. These periods develop due to many variables. 11. Humans have yet to discover all variables pertaining to climate or how each variable interacts with each other. 12. The present concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is accepted as approximately 450 parts per million. 13. The optimum concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for vegetation growth is around 1000 ppm. 14. Most terrestrial life would cease at carbon dioxide levels below 150 ppm. 15. Could be that carbon dioxide concentrations increase with warming cycles. 16. Could be that carbon dioxide concentrations decrease with cooling cycles. 17. We know not enough to claim continued use of fossil fuels to enhance the living experience will kill us all. 18. Trying to control the climate through public policy that will cost trillions and reduce human living conditions needs to be carefully examined.
Government's Cheap Shot at Carbon Dioxide
by Dan McKay
Sep 4
"The average residential CMP Delivery amount includes about $15 per month in non-CMP
costs to support Maine public policy initiatives including net energy billing subsidies, low-income assistance and energy efficiency."
That message came with my electric bill. How much is too much to reduce greenhouse gases
from the atmosphere? As I listen to people telling of the dangers of carbon dioxide, and
how this substance must be eradicated from electricity production, transportation,
agriculture and home heating, I conjure up a scene of a recession of civilization culminating
in the return of cave dwelling.
Can we agree on some facts?
1. Carbon dioxide is a natural occurring gas.
2. Carbon dioxide is integral to vegetation growth.
3. Volcanoes and wildfires produce amounts of carbon dioxide that exponentially surpasses
all fossil fuel chemical reactions.
4. Volcanoes and wildfires are naturally occurring events.
5. Climate is defined by trends in temperature.
6. The climate changes in a somewhat cyclic way, sometimes warming, sometimes cooling
7. The planet could very well be experiencing a warming period, or a warming period within
a cooling period.
8. Depending how the length of time a warming/cooling period is defined, an abrupt length
of time within a defined period could be contrary to the period's assigned designation.
9. These periods are beyond human control.
10. These periods develop due to many variables.
11. Humans have yet to discover all variables pertaining to climate or how each variable
interacts with each other.
12. The present concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is accepted as
approximately 450 parts per million.
13. The optimum concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for vegetation growth
is around 1000 ppm.
14. Most terrestrial life would cease at carbon dioxide levels below 150 ppm.
15. Could be that carbon dioxide concentrations increase with warming cycles.
16. Could be that carbon dioxide concentrations decrease with cooling cycles.
17. We know not enough to claim continued use of fossil fuels to enhance the living
experience will kill us all.
18. Trying to control the climate through public policy that will cost trillions and reduce
human living conditions needs to be carefully examined.