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Environmentalism
Promises of Disappearing Ice from Biden’s Enviro-Ambassador: John “Live Shot” (Or Lurch) Kerry
Formerly known in the Boston I once inhabited as “Live Shot,” John Kerry regularly dragged himself in front of every local camera crew he could find.
Greenpeace Admits That Recycling Doesn’t Work and is Probably Worse for “The Environment™”
When lefty green meanies issue mea culpa’s, it makes for good blogging, but I always remain skeptical. Take Michael Moore, for example. Planet of the Humans made it clear that neither wind nor solar was viable or capable. A fool’s errand, yet the Left has tripled down on the agenda. So, what’s the point?
Zero Emissions: Pretend Locally, Emit Globally
The American Left’s zero emissions climate goals are not much different than shipping all your plastic garbage to Asia. We do it and pretend it’s recycling, then try to ban straws or bags here when they throw them in the ocean. It’s offshoring, and with Electric vehicles, we are just offshoring emissions, but it’s worse.
Group Wants Offshore Wind Investment Mandated by Executive Order
If a governor can issue an order to declare a business essential or unessential, why not energy? Why not this? “Petition Asks Sununu For Exec. Order Telling N.H. Utilities To Invest In Offshore Wind Energy.”
DISQUS Doodlings – They Have No Idea of the Consequences and Ramifications…Part 2
Yep, back to Treehugger and the end of shopping. Pretty much, places like Dollar General and the like would be toast – can’t buy cheap stuff (gosh, would that mean the end of Chinese manufacturing? Jus’ spitballing here)? Recap: reformatted, emphasis mine:
Data Point – Climate related Deaths decreasing
Wait, WAIT! Are we all supposed to be dying off FASTER???? Why aren’t the Democrats FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE???? They keep yammering that they have to change our entire way of life because CLIMATE CHANGE? Er, not so much, it seems… (H/T: Powerline)
ICYMI – Cambridge MA Put Big Yellow Climate Change Warning Stickers on All Their Gas Pumps
Twenty-Twenty wasn’t a bad year; people made it that way. People, letting people if you catch my drift. Mostly left-wingers regardless of the side from which they were winging it. And while most of the attention went to viruses from China (Flu and Election), there were other stories to tell.
Michael Moore’s New Documentary: Green Energy is a Scam and We’re All Fools (Video Added)
Last October, in this very space, we announced Michael Moore’s new moment in time. A documentary on how the green moment is not green. It’s dirty, dangerous, another corporate swindle, and we (The Left) all fell for it. It’s not only not green, but it’s also bad for the earth.
The Party of “blue collar workers” no more? Thanks, Democrats
I don’t think that Biden’s answer was all that well thought out – but very much in line with how Democrats feel about fossil fuel regardless of its importance to our economy now. After all, there is that old saying “you can’t make omelettes without breaking a few eggs”; Biden made it clear that even … Read more
NH Vape Sales up 76% Since Massachusetts Banned Vaping in the Bay State
Charlie Baker is a registered Republican in Massachusetts. Even real Republicans know what that means (Democrat) – and Democrats surround him. So the knee-jerk 4-month vaping ban in the Bay State was not surprising. Nor was the massive uptick in sales in New Hampshire.
Government Induced Drought
Policies started by Moonbeam Jerry Brown and enforced by environmental allies since the ’70s have born fruit, more foreign fruit, less California fruit, and general misery for the left coasters.
Data Point – 2001-2012 Oil Production – US vs Saudi Arabia
Betcha this just frosts the environmentalists, eh? (H/T: AEIdeas)
A Spec of Common Sense in McAllen Texas
McAllen Texas rests in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, right along the border with Mexico. And for now, at least, McAllen is not hopping on the plastic bag ban train to nowhere.
If you have not been following my recent (bizarre and persistent) interest in this annoy environmental stupidity, towns and cities all over the US are banning what are called “single use” plastic grocery bags (which my family re-uses for all kinds of things so single use is misleading). The Los Angels California bag ban was what caught my attention–and Lord knows if those moon-bats are on board with it something must be wrong; and there was, or actually is something very wrong. See “What could go wrong?“, ‘Reusable bags spread norovirus’, and “Reusable bags may be worse for the Environment.”
Unfortunately, most of the discussion about bag bans is one-sided. Or should I say left-sided.
Liberal Religion – valuing birds over babies
(H/T: Liberal Logic)
Data Point – Urban Sprawl?
So, we’re really running out of room? (H/T: Hot Air)
Internet Doodlings – Of COURSE, the environmentalists over at TreeHugger have only one answer – more spending?
Like I said here: I guess that’s why the words Democrat and Consistency should never be used in the same sentence (unless one is a stand-up comic) OK, I’ll conserve some words – just swap out Democrat with environmentalist. A two-fer! Real conservatism and recyling! The UN’s RIO+20 conference is going on in Rio all … Read more
NASA’s James Hansen – one of the grandfathers of Global Warming – was flat out wrong by 150%
I remember the first Earth Day and I think that that the environmental problems we had in the US at that time did have to be addressed. Rivers were polluted, we couldn’t see very far in our large cities and in industrial areas, and yes, the air was toxic. And a LOT of that has been cleaned up – and from a Conservative standpoint, that was a common good that Government played the right role.
There’s also a problem with the environmental problems we have today; they are still man-caused but of a far different nature. Instead of actually dealing with severe and and actual environmental problems, they are now from a political and ideological standpoints. When science ignore the science, that’s a problem that spans past the scientific realm and when it spills into the political realm (and where it rooted and grown like Jack’s infamous Beanstalk) it REALLY has acquired a financial component.
But in going forward, potentially spending Trillions a year to spread the wealth mitigate less than one or two degrees of warming, it might be useful to look to the past to see where we’re going in the future. As with NASA’s James Hansen’s predictions back in 1988 as to how things would look into the future.
As Watts Up With That? points out, the models that much of our current enviro-frenzy is built upon, that James Hansen pushed and pushed and pushed, have turned out to be flat wrong:
One of the most important publications on the “dangerous anthropogenic climate change” is that of James Hansen and colleagues from the year 1988, in the Journal of Geophysical Research published. The title of the work is (in German translation) “Global climate change, according to the prediction of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies.”
In this publication, Hansen and colleagues present the GISS Model II, with which they simulate climate change as a result of concentration changes of atmospheric trace gases and particulate matter (aerosols). The scientists here are three scenarios:
Piling on Jeanne Shaheen’s Greenie green suck
And as Steve points out here (and mine), being Green means having LOTS of green – and just watching it swirl down the toilet (data points via The Enterprise Blog):
- …candidate Obama promised to create 5 million green jobs, at the low, low cost of only $15 billion per year
- Obama spent $90 billion of his stimulus package on green energy projects, including weatherization of buildings and development of electric vehicles. Yet, by the end of last year, just 16,100 people landed new jobs in the so-called green industry, Labor Department statistics show, far short of the 200,000 jobs the White House projected it would help create each year.
- It is amazing to see just how badly the government can do at these things: 16,000 jobs out of 200,000 predicted is about 8%—a mere 92% underperformance rate.
Steve had this observation:
New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen cut her teeth in her first Senate race by raging about taxpayer hand outs to big oil
So, what does this do to her campaign strategy – Did Obama just skewer a rerun of her campaign issue against big oil again (NY Times):
Liberals: valuing trees over babies
Or so it seems… (H/T: Liberal Logic)