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Climate laws boost government’s power

May. 16, 2010 12:08 am

It is generally acknowledged that global warming is a natural cyclic phenomenon that has occurred for many millennia.

Michael Crichton's novel, “State of Fear,” has many good historical data graphs to show this.

However, man-made global warming is a cruel joke. That is not to say that man-made global pollution is not a problem.

Proposed climate-change legislation will do almost nothing for global warming (the earth has been cooling since 1998), but it will certainly give government more power over our lives.

This is, after all, what is really most important.

Jim Niday

Cedar Rapids

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