Reasons for a climate bill

In recent years the issue of climate change has been slowly rising in national politics not just among tree hugging marijuana smoking hippies but the average American citizen as well. In the last 56 days the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has convinced many to rethink offshore oil drilling. However when a “scandal” of some scientist “falsifying data” (I will explain why that is ok later) many people around the world thought climate change was fake.

First of all climate change is real. Factories and most power plants emit CO2 a gas that allows radiation or heat to come in but traps radiation going back to space. There are many gasses like this, such as O3 or ozone, CH4 or methane. (These are the major ones) Some climate change deniers point out that the Antarctic ice sheet is actually growing by some estimates. This is because the layer of ozone has a hole around most if not all of Antarctica. Some point out fluctuations or periods of global climate going down. If the deniers would notice that this happens after a major volcanic eruption like Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. Eruptions release sulfur dioxide which burns of ozone and reflects radiation. Years of volcanic eruption aftermath are outliers; therefore taking them out is okay. Deniers denied, and conclusive data means that global climate change is real.

Climate change being real it would seem necessary to mitigate greenhouse gasses: except ozone or we would get cancer. However the votes are not available as the republicans have said that a cap and trade bill would be a job killer. In actuality cap and trade would create jobs in the short and long term. So why the opposition plain and somewhat simple, Big Coal and Big Oil.
Big Oil is at the forefront of the debate because of the oil spill, but Big Coal just 2 months ago was looked at when a coal mine exploded killing 25 workers. The mine explosion happened under the watch of Massy energy which at the mine had over 90violations. The oil spill happened because of British Petroleum.

I am sorry for libertarians but if you do not agree with me debate me. The government is the answer, not the free market. The free market will use dirty fuels such as coal, oil, and shocking natural gas. All these fuels are killing 25% percent of species, and possibly including most humans. If the corporations had their way all clean energy would be dead. This is because you can’t monopolize the wind, you can’t monopolize the sun, you can’t monopolize the ocean. You can monopolize a coal mine, you can monopolize an oil field, you can monopolize a gas well, you can monopolize a refinery, you can monopolize a power plant.

The free market needs government so it will do what is right and needed. We the people in order to secure our future shall create clean energy jobs. The government is the answer and not always the problem. We as a people of this earth must commit to relying just on what the earth gives us. If we want our costly lifestyle we must either pay the true cost or change.
Climate change is a real problem and must be met by solutions big and small. These

solutions involve doing only what you can. Some people can grow food to make a difference in shipping costs, some people can change to energy efficient appliances, windows ect, Select few people who are CEO’s can change the company to be more “earth friendly”. As a nation we can make sure our politicians do what is right.

Call your Senators and make a difference.