Armed with a graduate student’s thesis about changes Montgomery County can make, a task force appointed in January is expected to report back on its recommendations by the end of the year.

I for one sit comfortable knowing that elected officials are poised to spend millions of dollars they don’t have on boondoggles dreamed up by a single “graduate student.”  Folks, don’t complain that the government is turning into a three-ring circus when all you elect to office are a bunch of spendthrift clowns.

“The county can only do what the Legislature said it can do in writing. ... We just can’t willy-nilly do whatever we want,” Montgomery County Commissioners’ Chairman Tom Ellis said at Thursday’s meeting.

This legal concept is not unique to Pennsylvania.  A few years ago the Arlington County, Virginia Board of Supervisors voted to offer health insurance benefits for “domestic partners.”  The Attorney General in Richmond successfully blocked this effort by pointing out that the county governments are a creation of the state and that counties have no legal authority to perform acts that are not authorized by the state.

I just goes to show:
Politics is shaping this debate, not science. 

Science is not as united in anthropogenic (human cause) global warming as the popular hype and propaganda from people like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio would have us believe.

The scientists who disagree with ‘human cause’ are all well respected, and cover a wide range of scientific fields from climatology to geology to meteorology and physics, and include scientists such as Richard Lindzen, David Deming, S. Fred Singer, Bjorn Lomborg, Philip Stott, Reid Bryson, Henrik Svensmark, Khabibullo Ismailovich Abdusamatov, Claude Allègre and many more.