Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
I don’t usually wander too far off of the climate reservation, but this excellent cartoon by Michael Ramirez deserves wider publication, as it addresses a critical problem. It shows the US Budget for 2011, along with the cuts proposed by the Democrats (liberal) and the Republicans (GOP, conservative).
The US Government is about to shut down because the two sides can’t agree on a budget.
Can the rest of us agree that despite all the posturing, neither side is actually serious about the problem?
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PS – Anyone who thinks that CO2 is more important to the US than the above pie chart is fooling themselves badly …