Misguided Climate-C Hange

Open e-mail to Sen. Klobuchar:

Dear Sen. Klobuchar,
Chemical and Engineering News had an article entitled "Climate-Change Maneuvers" in their 11/9/09 issue. In that article, they quoted you as follows, "We want to make sure new wind-turbine plants are built in Minnesota, not in Denmark and that the next car battery plants are in Youngstown, Ohio not in Shanghai".

I agree completely with your statement, but may I respectfully suggest that Sen. Boxer apparently has you confused with respect to a Climate-Change bill. The Climate-Change bill that Sen. Boxer and others are promoting is fundamentally a control on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and an associated Cap and Trade program. It has nothing to do with wind turbines and car batteries.

Your interest would involve an Energy bill, not a Climate-Change bill. An attempt might be made to sandwich wind turbines and car batteries into a Climate-Change bill in an attempt to gain your support, but associated damage will be done by Cap and Trade. There is no plausible scientific data to indicate that the very low concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has any bearing on global warming and any attempts to control it would be silly.

Please keep your eye on promoting energy development and avoid side issues, which are usually introduced as financial scams.