One of the Most Important Campaign Issues

John Fund has an extremely important piece out there today about the Chilling Effect all of the candidates will have on the ginormous changes they will impose, along with an eager Congress, in an effort to counter act the trumped up hoax known as man-caused global warming, now called "climate change" since the warming aspect has been proven to be inconclusive.

John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton all promise bold action on climate change . All have endorsed a form of cap-and-trade system that would severely limit future carbon emissions. The Democratic Congress is champing at the bit to act. So too is the Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of companies led by General Electric and Duke Energy.

You'd think this would be a rich time for debate on the issue of climate change. But it's precisely as sweeping change on climate policy is becoming likely that many people have decided the time for debate is over. One writer puts climate change skeptics "in a similar moral category to Holocaust denial," another envisions "war crimes trials" for the deniers. And during the tour for his film "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore himself belittled "global warming deniers" as unworthy of any attention.

Take the reaction to Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg's latest book, "Cool It," which calls for a reasoned debate on global warming. Mr. Lomborg himself leans left, and he opens his book by declaring his belief that "humanity has caused a substantial rise in atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels over the past centuries, thereby contributing to global warming." But he has infuriated environmentalists by saying it is necessary to debate "whether hysterical and head-long spending on extravagant CO2-cutting programs at an unprecedented price is the only possible response." To do so, he says, it will be necessary to cool the doomsday rhetoric, allowing a measured discussion about the best ways forward. "Being smart about our future is the reason we have done so well in the past. We should not abandon our smarts now."

Mr. Lomborg's solution is to avoid discredited cap-and-trade programs, in which developing nations limit economic growth while they fruitlessly try to convince booming economies such as India and China to do the same. His alternative: "Let's focus on research and development. Let's focus on noncarbon-emitting technologies like solar, wind, carbon capture, energy efficiency and also, let's realize the solution may come from nuclear fission and fusion." He laments that the climate change issue has been demagogued by ideological groups on both sides, "and the ones who are making panicky or catastrophic claims simply have better press." At the end of the day, he ruefully acknowledges that potential progress and the sorts of solutions he advocates "are just boring things."

There's more to the article and this topic needs a great deal of public discussion. All of the candidates need to be publicly discussing their take on this costly, volatile and unproven theory. If voters don't demand debate on this vast and unfathomably expensive false fix for the hoax of man-caused climate change, then life as we now know it will be changed forever; and in the not too distant future. That's not an understatement!

This ranks right up there with our national defense and border security as one of the most important things to come if the public doesn't fight the current trend of succumbing to this populist hoax.

Why, you ask? Because those who espouse this bogus agenda are making it next to impossible for us to produce more energy. We cannot progress without more energy. Period!

Conservation is all well and good, but it does not produce more energy for growth and sustenance. We simply need to produce more energy and the powers that be are not allowing it!