Friday, August 14, 2009

Flying Congresswoman Feels Global Warming

http://community.detnews.com/apps/blogs/henrypayneblog/index.php?blogid=2041

 > Detroit, Mich. - Michigan just experienced its coldest July on > record; global temperatures haven't risen in more than a decade; > Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise > (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying > up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change > doesn't even make a list of Michigan voters' top-ten concerns.
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> Yet in an interview with the Detroit News Monday, Senator Debbie > Stabenow (D., Mich.) - recently appointed to the Senate Energy > Committee - made clear that fighting the climate crisis is her top > priority.
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> "Climate change is very real," she confessed as she embraced cap and > trade's massive tax increase on Michigan industry - at the same time > claiming, against all the evidence, that it would not lead to an > increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. "Global warming > creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more > volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes."
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> And there are sea monsters in Lake Michigan. I can feel them when > I'm boating.

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