House climate bill was flooded with last-minute changes

Reporting from Washington -- Less than 24 hours before the House approved its landmark energy and climate bill last month, Rep.

[LessHypeMoreFact]

Not surprising. Its the way the U.S. system (doesn't) work. Any imporatant bill gets hung up with 'riders' for unrelated issues and 'pork' for state politicians.

[YouHelpFixIt]

I think there is probably a reasonable compromise that both sides could agree on. CO2 emmision restrictions could be based on the last five years average global temperature changes and re-evaluated annualy.

In other words, if there is no significant measured global warming for the last five years then there would be no restrictions. Small but measurable warming above long term averages would mean some degree of co2 restrictions. Large degree of warming would mean tighter restrictions.

The details might get tricky as you would have to pick an official data set and still need to set up a way to administer emmissions restrictions.

The point of this is that you would not have to base your policy on opinion, speculation, and projections. You could base it on actual measured evidence instead.

[Brian_G]

Hard to fit all that pork in 1,428 pages?

Check it out: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd...