Underneath its latest front-page global warming story, the News & Observer prints the following:
This is the last in a periodic series of stories about global warming.
Man, wouldn’t that be nice? Why do I not believe it?
As for the story itself, Wade Rawlins tells us:
With no firm federal goals for cutting greenhouse gases, state and local governments are like schoolchildren collecting pennies during World War II. Although one local government’s efforts to save electricity won’t make a dent in global warming, the collective savings of many might help win a war.
Perhaps he should have re-read Roy Cordato’s December 2006 report on the state’s efforts to fight global warming:
Despite the evidence, some members of the N.C. Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change continue to advocate CO2 reduction strategies, Cordato said. ?They?re pushing for forced reductions in full knowledge that they will not benefit a single citizen of North Carolina ? either those who are now living or those yet to be born,? he said. ?This is equivalent to the drunk looking for his lost keys under the nearest streetlight, not because that?s where he lost them but because that?s where the light is.?
Cordato also takes aim at the science that underlies the commission?s work. ?There is a consensus on global warming, but it is not the consensus that environmental alarmists suggest,? he said. ?The true undisputed consensus is that no public policy now considered to restrict CO2 emissions ? at any level of government, including the state of North Carolina ? would have a measurable impact on the climate. No policy would lead to short-term benefits. None would have an impact in the next century.?
Here’s hoping the N&O sticks to its promise to give us no more global warming stories. (I’m not holding my breath.)
