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However California will meet its goal in a most unusual way. Since the bean counters can't make a direct correlation of "Warming Units" to direct human activity they will fall back to the measure that the EcoNannies propose. Total carbon deployed. So a tax will be levied on businesses on the expected carbon deployed in their activities. Electric rates will go up as a consequence that will trickle thru the CA economy. Coupled with the already hostile environment, business will continue their flight from the state at an increasing pace. As a result as the businesses leave and take their employees with them, less and less carbon will be deployed into the CA air.

p>But then so will the jobs won't they? But I take this as a noble experiment on the effects of Kyoto Protocols on a modern industrial economy that should prove interesting. Once enabled this legislation will most likely see the State of California bailed out by the federal government in 10 years. br> -- John McGinnis br> Arlington, Texas /p> p> Mr. Tucker has been suckered on two accounts. 1) That the evidence for human-induced global warming is overwhelming and 2) that environmentalists care about the environment. Environmentalists care more about destroying capitalism than saving the planet because they're Marxists first and foremost. They'll never adopt nuclear energy, no matter how safe we make it, because that would allow capitalism to escape the stranglehold of government. br> -- Roger D. McKinney br> Broken Arrow, Oklahoma /p>

"I know this goes against conservative doctrine but we've reached the point where politics has to give way to science." confesses Mr. Tucker , "Science is about prediction. Environmentalists have been talking about global warming since 1988 --"

He is right, of course, both about nuclear power (will someone send Arnold to France to check out where all the Luxe comes from) and science having the right of way.

p>But since when have conservatives, as opposed to neocons, creationists, and the Discovery Institute, had a problem with science? Certainly not since 1988, for in 1987 The National Interest

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