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I caught an ad on the radio supporting Democrat Congressman Gary Peters  (who voted for the flop ‘Stimulus Bill’) trying to make the case that the ‘climate change’ bill, or as it more accurately known as  the largest tax increase in American history,  is going to create green jobs, save the planet and all these other wonderful things. At the end, the ad stated how Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow should vote in favor of the bill in the Senate .

I couldn’t find the exact radio ad, but here is a similar ad:

The biggest claim the radio ad  made was the climate change bill will create 53,000 jobs.

Why would anyone expect this boondoggle legislation to create any jobs, when the results from the actual job creating bill (the aforementioned ‘Stimulus Bill’)  has not .

If you want real world results from a similar project look at Spain’s all out push for green energy and the 2.2 net jobs lost per every government subsidized green job created.  Based on the actual results from Spain’s green energy push, Michigan can expect to lose 116,600 jobs in aggregate due to this new legislation supported by Congressman Gary Peters.

It’s funny how Democrats have changed the focus of the Cap & Trade climate change bill and portray it as some form of jobs bill. Because when you look at actual, measured temperatures, there is no global warming occurring.

If our concern is the polar bears in the arctic, there has been no global warming or climate change Arctic. To back up the claim, the following are observations from the Centre for Ocean and Ice – Danish Meteorological Institute:

The daily mean temperature of the Arctic area north of the 80th northern parallel is estimated from the average of the 00z and 12z analysis for all model grid points inside that area. The ERA40 reanalysis data set from ECMWF, has been applied to calculate daily mean temperatures for the period from 1958 to 2002, from 2002 to 2006 data from the global NWP model T511 is used and from 2006 to present the T799 model data are used.

The ERA40 reanalysis data, has been applied to calculation of daily climate values that are plotted along with the daily analysis values in all plots. The data used to determine climate values is the full ERA40 data set, from 1958 to 2002.

Arctic temperatures, as measured by the DMI, demonstrate that temperature observations have remained stable over the last 50 years.

The following charts show temperatures  in degrees kelvin with the blue horizontal line marking 32 deg /F (273.5 deg / K). The red curve represents the observed mean temperature on the given day of the year. The green curve is the average mean temperature derived from observation for the last 50 years.

Temperature through June 2009

Temperatures from 2008

Temperatures from 1988

Temperatures from 1958

Temperature’s in Gary Peters district are stable as are the temperatures in the Arctic. Furthermore, Cap and Trade is a proven job’s killer. So, why are Democrats like Gary Peters adamant about shredding our economy with this blatant nonsense about global warming?

Temperature have been stable over the last 40 years in Pontiac, why should they pay $350 / month in additional energy costs due to ‘global warming’?

475 Days until November 2nd, 2010