By now, most of you have heard about this global warming thing and how it is going to destroy the planet.  For over the last several years, it has begun to be clear that the data from models used to push this hysteria does not match what is actually happening. Recently, there were reports from the IPCC that the Himalayan Glaciers were melting and would be gone by 2035.

You have also read stories about how the people responsible for some of the leading reports have been manipulating data. 

Now there is a story that the head of the IPCC (inter-governmental panel on climate change) has been hiding the fact that their prediction that the Himalayan Glaciers will melt by 2035 was based on hearsay and not even manipulated data.  Apparently the IPCC chief new that the data was in error prior to the Copenhagen summit, but hid the fact to keep the embarrassing truth from coming out prior to the summit.

The Copenhagen summit was all about getting rich countries (read as America) to pass massive taxes to slow their economies and cut carbon emissions.  The truth about the data in the IPCC reports would be very damaging to the UN’s attempt to hobble the American economy in order to create a better more fair world.

In the recent SOTU address, the President again called for congress to pass massive new taxes to help stop global climate change.  It’s time for the American people to demand that our politicians stop spouting global warming and climate change propaganda as truth.

Our government moved another step closer today to instituting a new major energy tax that will ultimately be paid for by every consumers.  There is even a provision in the bill that gives money to low income households to help off-set the price increases in energy usage.

There are so many things wrong with this bill, it is hard to know where to start.  The most glaring issue is that our government is in a hurry to pass this bill.  Why?  More and more studies are being published that show that man made global warming is at best wrong and and worst a hoax.

The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. — 13 times the number who authored the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary for policymakers.

There is a great story in the WSJ by Kimberly A. Strassel detailing several of the facts that our government and our media refuse to tell us.  As more and more people become aware of the lies that have been told to the American people, congress is worried that there will be ramifications for supporting the bill if they don’t act now.

Through yesterday, the Waxman-Markey bill totaled a little over 1,000 pages.  Early this morning, Congressman Waxman introduced an additional 300 pages of legislation to the bill.  I am concerned that most congressmen won’t even bother to read the new provisions before voting to pass the bill.  There is a good post over at Hotair laying out further issues with the bill.

The cost of the bill is also up for debate.  At one point, the CBO reported that it would cost the average American over $6,000 per year in extra costs.  This made Nancy Pelosi very mad and shortly afterward, the CBO came out with a new estimate of only a few hundred dollars per year per household.  However, this is due to a provision in the bill that relaxed the standards and prices for the next 10 years.  After which, you can expect to pay an additional $6,000 in energy taxes.  All of this to combat man made climate change which as at least highly debatable.

For example, it is estimated that the price of gas would raise by approximately 77 cents a gallon as oil refineries pay for additional permits.

If you want to put a stop to this non-sense, I urge you to call your representative.  Michelle Malkin has a post that lets you know who you should call and how to get in touch with them.  If you are so sure that man is causing global warming that you are willing to pay $6,000 to fight it, then by all means, call your representative to support them.  However, if you are sick and tired of legislation being rammed down your throat, call you representative and let them know that you do not support the Waxman Markey bill.

A great post by Paul Driessen over at Townhall likens the global warming disinformation to a corporate scandal.  If a drug company doctored evidence and skewed the results of studies, people would go to jail.  Yet we constantly see the reports from scientists who ignore contrary data and discount or go around peer reviews.

Our friends in the media continue to push this agenda and our children are taught that they and their parents are responsible for global warming.

Thousands of scientists say CO2 has little effect on planetary temperatures, and there is no climate crisis. Few developed countries are ready to commit economic suicide by agreeing to reduce their CO2 emissions by even one-tenth of what Waxman-Markey demands for the United States.

President Obama and the democrat party run congress are in favor of cap and trade legislation that will result in a massive energy tax for the American people.  They present it as a tax on those companies that produce earth warming CO2 without telling the people that consumers will pay the taxes and not the evil polluting companies.

If you ask the average American they would tell you that the earth is getting hotter.  However, over the last decade global average temperatures have been declining.  In fact, we are currently below the average temperature for the past 4,500 years.  Most global warming alarmists point out that we are hotter than 300 years ago ignoring the fact that 300 years ago was the low point of the little ice age that saw the coolest temperatures in over a thousand years.

This is not to say that we shouldn’t find ways to reduce pollution and be kind to the planet.  When I am in the market for a car, I would love to find an SUV or large vehicle that gets more than 30 mpg.  One day, we will get off of fossil fuels, but it doesn’t need to happen next week.  

We do not need to wreak our economy by shackling the American people with a massive energy tax to fund one of the political elites pet projects.