Dear Sir,

When I first read your letter a great nausea came over me. I could not believe that a US Senator could be that ignorant. After thinking it over I have decided that you choose to believe what you think most profitable to you and I understand that no amount of fact will deter you from your path. After all, your opinion is in direct conflict with that of George Bush (a badge of honor in your sick community) and in line with the thinking of great minds like Nancy Pelosi and Barrack Obama.

I am sure that if I pointed out that only .0383 % of the atmosphere of the earth is CO2 you would still be convinced that you must pass higher taxes on carbon emissions. Can you understand that we are talking about 383 part of one million parts is CO2? Do you think that if your supper tonight was .0383 % rat poison you would suffer any ill effects? I am not sure but I think you would be fine. Trees love CO2. Why don't you?

I am sure that when a NASA "scientist" said that it was the warmest year since the late 1800’s and suggested that was due to man made carbon pollution it would not occur to you to ask who was driving a Hummer in 1890. It would not enter your mind that he had just uttered a really stupid argument to prove "global warming". What a shame you can’t tax stupidity!

I am sure you have no desire to hear what hundreds of scientist that study the weather have to say. Many who were listed in the political study you speak of have denounced the garbage you hold dear. I am sure that you would tell me that these countries involved in the study have only the good of the US and the welfare of the people on Earth in mind. None of these are money grubbers!

I know it would not matter to your course of action to be told that Marjorie Rawlings bought a 78 acre grove at Cross Creek where she lived while writing the Yearling. A few miles up the road is the Island Grove packing house where fruit was shipped to the north. There were very few Hummers and little coal was burned. Everyone got along pretty well. Perhaps the mules they worked were a source of greenhouse gasses. It was very warm in central Florida. It was warm enough to have a thriving citrus industry near Gainesville.

I am sure that it would do no good to remind you that the citrus industry was told that they must move south of Interstate 4 after the freeze of the 1980’s. It was too cold for citrus to grow on the rolling hills near Groveland any more. That climate prediction was nonsense as most are. I wonder where the people who had grove owners bedding up muck in south Florida to grow orange trees are today. Ahh! They are now retired on very nice government pensions! Anyone holding their hand up to claim credit?

I often laugh about predictions of sea levels rising that was touted just after I bought my home in 1958. It seemed that the bay would be half way up my field near Dover. I looked at the county elevation maps. I decided that was great. I could build a dock and rent boats. Folks could fish on the Brandon inlet of Tampa Bay! Sand Pond and Valrico Lake were bound to produce great catches of grouper. I could cast net mullet off my dock. Alas! It is still twenty miles to the nearest boat ramp! I have forgotten who the people were that made such a prediction. They need to be remembered! I am making it my mission that you are remembered. I know you will be proud to be remembered for your cutting edge beliefs.

It must take a lot of ego to think it your mission to change the climate of the earth. Did it ever occur to you that the people in Alaska might do much better if it was warmer? My guava trees froze last winter. I like guavas and would like it to be warmer. Since we had an ice age global warming seems to me to be a good thing. I always wanted to be able to catch mullet out my back door. I hope the bay rises until I have water front property. I seems like a good idea for the government to leave the climate alone since they do absolutely nothing else well. Nothing!

I don’t suppose you would see anything wrong with your being very concerned about the climate future generations will be left with while being perfectly willing to put your grandchildren and great grandchildren in debt for trillions of dollars. I tend to think a warmer climate might be better for them as they sure won’t have money for coats or fuel for heat.

And so I have wasted my time. You are hell bent on a huge tax disguised as a great and helpful "program" needed by the people. I will be asking people to put copies of your letter on their web sites. I want you remembered for your ignorance.

Things often work out for the best. The truth is a very stubborn thing! I can see that the American people might come to see what a bunch of human garbage you and your "democratic" friends are and the country may be rid of you all for some time to come. I see the day when you, Bo, and the other trash will bring laughter when mentioned. The weather and the socialist economy will, after all, be what it will be! It will show what you are. Complete buffoons!

With no respect,
Bob Harrell



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