(05-23-2018, 06:23 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(05-23-2018, 12:05 PM)mikesez Wrote: Hurricanes and tornadoes have not decreased. There is not enough data on that question either way.

The warmer measured temperatures have correlated droughts. The drought in Syria, which was one of the causes of the Civil War there, was was longer and over a wider area than the drought documented in the Bible's story of Elijah. You may remember a lot of difficult conversations about terrorism and refugees happening both here and in Europe as a result of this war.  While it's not wrong to focus on the religious or cultural dimension, neither the war nor the refugee flow happen without the drought happening first. And all of the possible ways to handle that problem cost money and tax our national interest in the national interests of our allies.

The rising temperatures have increased the difficulty of growing certain tropical crops like coffee and chocolate.

There's been documented declines in the health of farm workers in warmer regions around the world because working in hot temperatures stresses out many organs. A couple Generations ago these farm workers lived longer and had fewer health problems. Nothing changed but the ambient temperature. For the crip can sometimes tolerate it, sugar for instance does not care about 90 and 100 degree temperatures, but the human body less so.

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It seems like everybody but me is making a logical connection between "the government wants to tax cow farts" and "this tax will convert us all to socialism and eliminate our freedom and create a One World Government."

Weather or Not cow farts are warming the planet, and whether or not our government should be worried about trying to prevent the warming of the planet, all have a tax on cow farts would ever do is marginally increase the cost of beef and milk.  This in turn would cause American consumers to demand a little less beef and a little more pork and chicken. Meanwhile our country's Sovereign government would continue holding free and fair elections and our courts would continue to strike down laws that conflict with our actual freedoms and constitution. The Constitution says that the Federal Government can tax us pretty much however they see fit.

Any new tax is a loss of freedom. It takes money from the working class and gives it to the ruling class.

Blaming the war in Syria on the weather is pure bullcrap from a desperate group using any catastrophe to further their agenda. It just shows again how pathetic the warmist argument is.

Almost all of the ONE DEGREE warming so far has been in the Arctic and Siberia. There is no unusual temperature stress on workers in warm regions, just the usual weather those regions have always experienced. Likewise, there are no temperature effects on tropical crops since the tropics haven't warmed.

Hurricanes and tornadoes have decreased. It's not statistically significant, but neither is much of the warming (good luck finding a warming graph with valid error bars). In any case the warming has not caused an increase in dangerous storms.

Like most of the Climate-related proposals, a tax on cattle would hit the working poor the hardest, not the "renewable energy" pushers or the Climate Scientists making over $100K per year.

There is no such freedom as "freedom from taxes." Low taxes are good, but, "no taxes" = "no government" = "no freedom."  
We are talking about an optimization relationship, not minimization. 
What if this new tax was introduced at the same time as a reduction in other taxes?
I agree also that taxes can be regressive and if we aren't careful, the working poor can get hit the hardest, but I doubt that your concern is offered sincerely here.  The Republican party, the party of denying climate change, is also the party of wanting taxes to be flatter regardless of how that might burden the working poor.

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