{"id":1381,"date":"2009-04-09T13:47:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/carbon-conceit\/"},"modified":"2009-04-10T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T16:23:00","slug":"carbon-conceit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/carbon-conceit\/","title":{"rendered":"carbon conceit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Few challenges facing America \u2014 and the world \u2014 are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.&#8221;\u00a0 President Obama<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the justification for the imposition of a carbon cap-and-trade system that will cost $2 trillion.\u00a0 But Obama does not understand science.\u00a0 &#8220;Settled science&#8221; is an oxymoron, and anyone who characterizes science as &#8220;settled&#8221; or &#8220;indisputable&#8221; is ignorant not only of science, but also history and philosophy&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; President Obama, a lawyer and politician, would now have us believe that the process of history has stopped.\u00a0 For the first time, scientific knowledge is not provisional and subject to revision, but final and settled&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Knowledge begins with skepticism and ends with conceit.&#8221;\u00a0 Prof. David Deming<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The presumption of sufficient knowledge for central planning is not new.\u00a0 It&#8217;s what Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek termed the &#8220;fatal conceit.&#8221;\u00a0 There is no historical evidence that any government has ever planned a major economic intervention that worked as planned, even with mid-course corrections.&#8221;\u00a0 William O&#8217;Keefe<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/acesa_summary.pdf\" title=\"Discussion Draft Summary - THE AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY AND SECURITY ACT OF 2009\">Discussion Draft Summary &#8211; THE AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY AND SECURITY ACT OF 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/acesa_discussiondraft.pdf\" title=\"DISCUSSION DRAFT - American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009\">DISCUSSION DRAFT &#8211; American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Few challenges facing America \u2014 and the world \u2014 are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.&#8221;\u00a0 President Obama &#8220;This is the justification for the imposition of a carbon cap-and-trade system that will cost $2 trillion.\u00a0 But Obama does not understand science.\u00a0 &#8220;Settled science&#8221; is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-global-warming","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}