Political Quotes

“Madam President, I would like to address an issue that has been very carefully ignored by the EPA; that is, the--get this word-- ``benefit'' Americans can expect from the EPA's actions. As Senators, not many of us are scientists, but each of us is a policymaker. As policymakers, we are expected to fully analyze the costs and benefits of any proposal that comes before us. The endangerment the EPA points to is the warming we are supposedly causing. If warming is the endangerment, then the benefit is the amount of warming the regulations would avoid. Thanks to the IPCC, we have all the numbers and assumptions we need to be able to determine just how much warming we could avoid for the amount of carbon emissions the EPA can stop. Let's go on the assumption that the EPA will successfully reduce human CO<INF>2</INF> emissions in this country by 83 percent over the next century. According to the alarmist and some would say overblown assumptions at the U.N. IPCC, Americans can expect a cooling benefit of somewhere between 0.07 and 0.2 degrees Celsius after a full 100 years of effort. That is right, we are being asked to give up trillions of dollars in economic activity, send all manufacturing activity overseas, give up millions of jobs, and put basic human activities under the control of the EPA, all for a benefit that cannot be measured on a household thermometer after 100 years of sacrifice and pain.…”