Hysteria? What hysteria?

Dear caught in headlights Noel Sheppard:

Those losing sleep over the exportation of manufacturing jobs, as well as the already unfair economic and trade advantages these two growing behemoths enjoy, should be totally insomniac over the thought of China and India expanding their electricity production unfettered by carbon emissions concerns while America's output declines due to global warming fears. [...]

Barring this, it seems a metaphysical certitude that electricity production in America is destined to not keep up with the needs and demands of the population. As a result, costs will rise, as will inflation and unemployment, and America, which used to be the largest economic power on the planet, might see its financial might crash like a Silicon Valley power grid on a 100 degree-day in August.

With that dreary image in our heads, folks on both sides of this debate need to recognize that the current media hysteria concerning global warming has reached a similar outlandish excess as the No Nukes movement before it, and that this decision in Kansas is "The China Syndrome" and Three Mile Island all over again.

Are we going to learn from recent history of just 28 years ago, and not establish energy policy out of fear of the unknown? Or, are we going to once again let an hysterical media scare us into decisions that could doom our country economically just a few years before baby boomers begin retiring?

The world will come to an end and we're all gonna DIE now that Kansas won't build those two coal-fired power plants! And it's all because of climate hysteria.