If you spent a week here, you might have noticed that the climate cult is more interested in economics than climate. Socialist economics, to be precise. Nowhere is this more evident than at Climate Strike.
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DISQUS Doodlings – Enviro can’t even define the words he uses
He says the next fifty years will see the enshrinement of sustainable food production practices into law. Opting for climate-friendly foods will go from being optional to mandatory, as “a greater awareness of how our eating habits impact the planet will, eventually, influence policy.” It’s like when Bush 2 was President and the Iraq War … Read more
Wait, wait….the Left is complaining about….what?
SHOT: California Has the Nation’s Highest Gas Prices – Democrat Governor Has No Idea Why? CHASER: Isn’t This What The Left Have Wanted? Hi, Dr. Chu and Senator/Secretary Salazar! Let’s start with his Secretary of Energy, Dr Steven Chu. From our friends at the National Taxpayers Union: Somehow we have to figure out how to boost … Read more
DISQUS Doodlings: So, the City of Toledo has declared that Lake Erie has “rights”?
I first saw this over at, naturally, Treehugger where all kinds of “just shake your head at it” stuff comes up. I predict this is going to be an awful thing and the only thing that will have “Rights” in the end will be the Lawyer Class (reformatted, emphasis mine): A triumphant win for Toledo residents … Read more
Blogline of the Day:
If This Bill Passes, Possessing Pot in Texas Will Be Treated Less Harshly Than Distributing Straws in San Francisco. And this is what passes for public morality these days. Seriously, straws are that evil? (H/T: Instapundit)
Quick Thought: Treehugger is at it again
Lloyd Alter, head honcho over at said site, is a New Urbanism – hates suburbia, seemingly hates rural areas, loves the city and wants us all to live there “sustainably” and in a “walkable serenity”. No cars, only public transit; enforce “neighborliness” in which a “community” will flourish (if you’re an introvert, yer outta luck) and lots of conversations bloom! Small fridges and small kitchens (and small apartments in high density area – think “rack’em and stack’em”) mean you WILL spend your time shopping pretty much every day – you WILL love your fresh food from the neighborhood grocery (think small – and expensive). Yep, lots of the Progressive tell of “you don’t need that” with this one.
His latest rant is the width of sidewalks in his hometown of Toronto, Canada – they are small and the butt of his rant is are telephone / electrical poles built into the sidewalks – they disturb his sense of “wa” and promotes an inability to walk two by two. Go read it if you want but what caught my eye was this description of Toronto’s government structure that’s supposed to keep this from happening:
“inter-divisional and inter-agency Walking Strategy Team chaired by the Director of the Public Realm Section [must] ensure city-wide coordination of Strategy projects.”
Well…
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 – A Time to Drill
It is clear that if energy is needed, and it is found, it can be drilled for and drilled quickly. It is also clear that Obama’s Administration does not believe it is needed nor wanted, so they slow walk it (if moving forward on one’s knees is construed as reasonable progress). (H/T: RedState)
Enviroreligion: 12 dead humans. So? Big deal.
Left-wing statists hate religion. Their disdain shines through at anyone or anything that hints of a transcendental nature. Except for nature itself, that is. Now that…well there’s something worth protecting! Even if it means people die. That’s just too bad. So this is what…
Data Point – Worldwide Temperature rise from 1997 – 2012
From the Telegraph, reporting on the Met Office / Hadley Center (one of the leading “climate change” official entities: That would be 0.08 degrees Centigrade, or 0.144 degrees F. Dunno about you folks, but I certainly do not have a thermometer that is reliably accurate to measure that small of a difference! And what are … Read more
Data Point – 2001-2012 Oil Production – US vs Saudi Arabia
Betcha this just frosts the environmentalists, eh? (H/T: AEIdeas)
Watt The CFL Is Going On Here?
While the total ban on incandescents was averted, the old reliable ‘heat-ball’ is still nearing extinction in the US. When we rang in this new year, January 1st, 2013 began, the ban on the 75 Watt incandescent bulb.
This will drive the Greenies at TreeHugger nuts!
Over at Breitbart is a post with this headline: “Coal Use Set To Surpass Oil In A Decade: IEA“. I used to go over and post comments over at TreeHugger, as regular readers of the ‘Grok know, and bring the Lefty Enviro-wacko stream of consciousness back here just so that you see what the mindset is (which is, pretty much, you all HAVE to get with our program to save GAIA from our destructive ways). Smaller is better, and that less is best. Pretty much, everyone needs to be shoved into tiny apartments into urban areas because, after all, we have to be conscious firstly and always with the energy we are using and the carbon footprint we are using to stomp on future generations lives. And of course, “white European Developed Nation Guilt” plays a large role in their sackcloth living mantra. Betcha there’s much wailing and rending of said sackcloth at this:
Coal is set to surpass oil as the world’s top fuel within a decade, driven by growth in emerging market giants China and India, with even Europe finding it hard to cut use despite pollution concerns, according to a report published Tuesday.
Data Point – And we need a carbon tax to lower our “carbon usage” – why?
3. The chart above shows the Department of Energy’s estimates of CO2 emissions per capita from 1973 to 2040. Total energy-related carbon emissions are expected to fall to a 20-year low this year, and on a per-capita basis will be the lowest since at least 1973 when the Department of Energy’s data begins. From the … Read more
Hypocrisy: Thy name be Al Gore (yet another Progressive)!
Since the Kyoto Climate Change treaty was rejected by the US Senate (and this uber-Progressive getting “the boot from the Oval Office” (losing his election)), we’ve had to put up with his (environmental) screeds in the national papers (and TV) about how Republicans (and Conservatives and Climate Deniers) that if we all didn’t don his brand of hairshirt, drive electric Tonka trucks, use only 1 lightbulb, and the like, that the “planet’s fever” would destroy the planet. Deniers: hate the poor, hate seniors, hate the disadvantaged, hate Bambi, and want the Greedy Capitalists to rule the world. Profit is a dirty!
…Al Gore also talks to investors. Since 2007, the former Vice President in Bill Clinton’s administration has been preaching the benefits of putting your money where his mouth is: Alternative energy.
But if Al Gore has any message for investors today, it might very well be this: “Stay the hell away from alternative energy!”
Not that he would say so. At least out loud.
Climate policy is still firmly on the political agenda and corporate climate-related activity is increasingly strategic. Innovation is driving costs down and improving the business case for low carbon and high efficiency solutions.
Oh…wait! That’s what he says…..but what is his Venture Capital fund, Generation Investment, actually doing?
In America today, we are living in a time of tribulation. WHAT DO YOU DO…
…when you are faced with the poisonous policies and politics of Obama, the Democrats, and their henchmen in government, in the media, and elsewhere? http://youtu.be/S6h9IJ15rdQ
Creeping Enviro-Tyranny…this time in Utah
If you read part-1 of “Following the Trail from Sustainability to Tyranny“, you would have seen a list of “What If?” questions. The third question reads: “What If you could not grow a vegetable garden without a permit?“. Some people might say these are pie-in-the-sky questions, or conspiracy notions, simply because they are not necessarily happening today. Well, you’ve been warned!
Where environmentalists explicitly wish no access AT ALL to anyone – and are willing to kill people to enforce it.
I’m not sure if the proper metaphor is “enough rope to hang themselves with” or “let them babble long enough to find out what they really believe. Once again, from that crazy hothouse of Environmentalism meets Totalitarian Murder, TreeHugger. This post’s author is absolutely aghast that our civilization has found just SCADS of high amounts of usable energy and that we’d actually use it:
Consider this: If we’re going to keep temperature rise below 2°C (a figure it increasingly appears is still too high to avoid some serious climate impacts, but it is internationally agreed to), then we have about 565 gigatons more CO2 we can send into the atmosphere over the next four decades or so.
Then consider: The amount of carbon contained in the proven coal, oil and gas reserves of national oil companies and private corporations is about five times higher than this, 2795 gigatons.
In other words, we simply cannot allow that fuel to be extracted and used, if we’re going to preserve the climate in anything like a state we’ve grown accustomed over the recorded history of human civilization.
Notice the hubis that he REALLY thinks that:
- Humans can actually stabilize global temperature.
- Sufficiently number of like minded folks are willing to live stone age lifestyles to make that a reality
- What’s this WE bit on the pronouncement, kimosabe?? I see no crown tipped on your forehead
But that wasn’t even the worst. This guy just just wants us to live poorly; this next guy wants something FAR worse!
Is this a “Er, does the weatherman evah look out his windows before saying that the weather actually is” moment?
Oh dear, what are the gloom and doomers gonna do now? Empirical data is just such a pain….it’s just not melting! According to a statement from the American Geophysical Union, announcing the new research: It turns out that past studies, which were based on computer models without any direct data for comparison or guidance, overestimate … Read more
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.