Congress should follow its own suggestions

Is global warming real or not? Nobel Prize winner Al Gore would have you believe it is. But then he has made more than $100 million dollars off of his movie and investments in the green movement. But apparently the data that was used to shove this idea down our throats is terribly distorted.

John Christy, the former lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says the data he and others published cannot be relied on. Apparently the weather stations used to collect the data were in the wrong place. Some were next to air conditioners, which pump out all the heat from inside a building, and one in particular was next to a waste incinerator. In addition, others were moved at times and others generally in areas of urbanization. You know what kind of hot air is generated by cities, especially Washington, D.C.

These reports were the basis of legislation that our Congress passed or attempted to pass. The big one, that would cost us all big bucks, is/was the Cap and Trade bill. Then we get into the trading of carbon credits where someone, definitely not me, is making big profits. I think Al Gore was buying credits so he could spew out tons of emissions in his private jet and huge home.

Now I’m all for preserving our planet. Our carbon footprint is that of a small Asian woman, tiny.

My wife and I are about as green as you can be living on poverty wages. We are off grid using solar and wind, we recycle as much as is feasible and car pool. We grow lots of trees so any pollution we do create is offset by our own “carbon credits.”

Yet with all this it really makes no difference when those that tend to preach do not follow the same rules. “Do as I say not as I do” is the term that comes to mind. What a crock. Lied to again by the Republicrats.

When the apocalyptic asteroid hits one can only hope it is in D.C when Congress is in session.

KIRK DeHAAN

Elmira