With Patrick Fitzgerald, the man that indicted Dick Cheney’s chief of staff ‘Scooter Libby’, busy with other matters in Illinois, a Swiss newspaper yesterday carried this article that alleges additional misdeeds by our vice president.
Has Vice President Dick Cheney blocked the launch of a satellite that promises to lay to rest the debate about whether human beings are responsible for climate change?
According to Patrik Etschmayer of the Swiss newspaper Nachrichten, strong circumstantial evidence suggests that he has – and Etschmayer suggests a possible solution to the launch delay.
Describing the satellite, known as the Deep Space Climate Observatory, Etschmayer writes:
“A satellite that would remain stationary 930,000 miles away from earth at the Lagrange point known as L1, in between the earth and the sun, could measure the energy being radiated by the sun and the amount of solar radiation being reflected off of the earth. Data, according to climate-change deniers, which has been much too imprecise up to now. Apparently, it was Dick Cheney who tried to kill the instrument, which promises to bring such clarity to the climate controversy.”
“Perhaps a good idea would be to launch still-Vice-President Cheney out to the L1 point. If, in this remote location, he continues to raise his voice against the launch … one could easily ignore him. And in the meantime, one could finally collect some useful data. A better way of killing two birds with one stone could hardly be found!”
By Patrik Etschmayer
Translated By Patrik Etschmayer
December 8, 2008
Switzerland – Nachrichten – Original Article (German)
In the face of the economic pile up we’re all tangled up in, measures to address climate change are being scaled down everywhere. First, because investment in this area could harm the economy (an argument that makes precious little sense); then, because new laws and regulations might make consumers and companies anxious, thus stifling investment (yea, right) and finally, an argument brought forward mostly by the oil industry and Eastern Europe, with Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus its most vocal advocate; that global warming is not the result of anthropogenic [human-caused] CO2 but by natural phenomena like fluctuations in solar radiation.
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