Washington Post columnist George Will has a chillingly practical take on global warming... and on the crazy attempts to slow it down. Here's a quote from his recent column:
"Barack Obama, understanding the histrionics required in climate-change debates, promises that U.S. emissions in 2050 will be 83 percent below 2005 levels. If so, 2050 emissions will equal those in 1910, when there were 92 million Americans. But there will be 420 million Americans in 2050, so Obama's promise means that per capita emissions then will be about what they were in 1875. That. Will. Not. Happen."
For those of you who're paying attention, the Ford Model T was only invented in 1908. So for those targets to be met, we'd have to all emit less carbon than our great-great-grandparents, who didn't drive cars.