Salazar to Climate Skeptics: “You’re Wrong”
and the U.S. will Cap Emissions
Updated by Staff
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has a message for climate skeptics — you’re wrong.
“Some people don’t even accept that climate change is real,” the former Democratic senator from Colorado said in Copenhagen, where nearly 200 countries are meeting to negotiate a new treaty to combat global warming.
“I believe they are wrong. Their fear in my view is misplaced.”
The Secretary says he’s confident the U.S. Congress will pass a new law capping greenhouse gases as it seeks to compete in the global market for low-emission technologies, he said at the Copenhagen meeting.
“We will pass a comprehensive energy and climate-change legislation in the United States of America,” he said. “We will build a clean-energy future for our country.”
Salazar emphasized how important it is for the United States to remain competitive in the race to dominate the rapidly growing market for low-carbon technologies.
“The U.S. can’t afford to fall behind in the energy technology that will shape” the future.
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Tags: clean energy • CO2 emissions reduction • Copenhagen Climate Meeting • global warming • Ken Salazar • low carbon economy
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Comment by cogeo on 12 December 2009:
This article is the outline for why us skeptics are skeptical. First, the billowing smokestacks to the right; everything you see here is non-polluting…it’s water vapor! But water vapor is one of the most effective green house gases, yet the EPA does not consider water vapor a pollutant, but sees CO2 as a danger to life even though it exists in the atmosphere at less than 1% by volume. And then there is Salazar; as far as I can tell, he’s not a scientist, unless you consider a political scientist to be part of real science. Last look at a college catalog I had didn’t include a lot of real science to become a political science major. Yet now Salazar says that we skeptics and scientists are wrong! And because he and others of his party say we are wrong, then we must live with the coming tsunami of unfounded emissions controls this and other nations intend to smother us with. Who, I must ask, will be wrong when these changes bankrupt our economy and reduce us to an impotent economic power? Can no one in this world see the folly of their actions? Can anyone not at least see why the issue should be further researched and studied before the politicians get a foothold on our standard of living?