Tuesday, April 17, 2007
George Will on "Fuzzy Climate Math"
If there was a genuine debate taking place on "Global Warming," "Global Cooling," or "Climate Change" (or whatever the latest convenient label is), information like the following would be more widely reported and considered...but that's certainly not the case:
"...Speaking of Hummers, perhaps it is environmentally responsible to buy one and squash a Prius with it. The Prius hybrid is, of course, fuel-efficient. There are, however, environmental costs to mining and smelting (in Canada) 1,000 tons a year of zinc for the battery-powered second motor, and the shipping of the zinc 10,000 miles -- trailing a cloud of carbon dioxide -- to Wales for refining and then to China for turning it into the component that is then sent to a battery factory in Japan..."
George Will may perhaps be the classic conservative columnist but he raises some important points and they're not the points being made in Newsweek cover stories, classroom lessons, or bogus award-winning documentaries.
