The extremely garbled, delusional description of GHG climate disaster and it's solution on a Letterman appearance by Tom Friedman.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/3/1/111846/5751
Funny huh
"interesting how Friedman completely screwed up the description of the science"
Yep, what a surprise. From the same MOT (moron of truth, TOM spelled backwards) who still supports the Iraq war.
And says (I summarize to avoid listening to the MOT again), we need to replace that dirty fuel with clean fuel. That means ethanol, admit it Friedman fans. He has been pushing ethanol for years.
Then he says, if it's a hoax (GHG climate disaster) it's the greatest hoax ever (since the hoax that you helped perpetrate that got us into Iraq?). It'll revive the economy, so lets do the energy revolution anyway.
The fair and balanced approach to the climate "debate". The MOT simply condcedes the entire debate to the deniers.
Well TOM there is a difference. If all we need is an economic boom and no GHG reduction, then fuel farming fits the bill.
Then Friedman describes upper clouds as reflectors, that melt, then the lower clouds as a blanket? But MOT, how does the CO2 "melt" clouds. Has anyone ever heard this nonsense anywhere?
Friedman ought to retire from public life, recluse himself from mass media delusion. It's dissappointing to see those who spend so much time on these issues actually praising him.
How in the world can the general public become aware of these issues if you can't even understand them?
Oh yeah
I forgot the brilliant "father greed" line.
Yep, MOT let the hedge funds get in there and trade carbon, that greed will fix things right up, just like it fixed world credit markets.
Did you know that Bernanke now announces he is lowering the fed rate before the fed meets to do that? This has traditionally been one of the most closely held secrets on Wall Street.
To break this rule and lower wily nilly, as has happened recently, completely undermines the credibility of the fed. It destroys the inflation fighting and emergency global economic insurance functions of the central bank. The two main aspects that insure the pursuit of financial happiness, security and prosperity, for we the people.
Greenspan must be living in a sensory deprivation chamber not to scream about this on every news outlet. That is the state of your bushwacked "free" markets that are going to use "father greed" to fix the climate.
Pathetic, really pathetic.
Congress ought to have thrown Bernanke the hell out of that job when he first met with hedge fund managers so they could explain the credit crisis to him. The crisis they created, and he trusts them to explain it to him?
