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Why “Green” Energy?
If you wanted to bring western civilization down, give it a good beating for all its so-called malfeasance, what better way than to make it near impossible to sustain the things that made being a western civilization all it was cracked up to be?
Consider that which makes us or any of our allies any sort of global power? Wealth and energy. Commerce, industrialization, transportation, and militarization to protect it or project it.
We can mince the finer points about what makes all this possible but they all share one thing in common. Cheap, abundant energy.
So if you had a mind to take the average Western Civilization down a notch or two, or even all of them, to make an example of a country like, say America, the fastest way to do that would be to cry wolf about something that would be difficult to dispute and easy to frighten people with; something that would make cheap abundant energy so threatening that no one would pay much attention to the real threats that not having it might present; you’d put forward a theory of global catastrophe that demanded we redirect massive amounts of wealth into expensive forms of energy incapable of sustaining the level of commerce, industrialization, transportation, or defense that we’ve come to enjoy.
You’d invent Global Warming and then blame the people who make the cheap abundant energy for causing it.
What does 70 below zero look like?
You haven’t read this story in every mainstream media outlet, every day, on every front page this last week.
It’s those damned Russians: They’re at at it again!
What’s the problem, you ask? Well, like I say, it’s the Russians! They’re…
The World is NOT Getting Warmer…Mr. President!
Nothing speaks to the cloistered nature of what passes for left wing intelligence like Global Warming. It is the perfect litmus test. All you need do is ask and if the respondent sounds like this, you can rest assured that most everything else they know come from the same poisoned well.
What we do know is the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even 10 years ago.
This is President Obama, the smartest man in any room, repeating what he thinks he knows to be true. Unfortunately for the President and those similarly afflicted, not only has the earth not warmed faster than predicted even 10 years ago, it has not warmed at all.
Global Warming Still a Hoax
How much warmer has the world become since a) 1880 and b) the beginning of 1997?
The answer to a) 0.75C
The answer to b) zero.
How much has wacky left wing energy policy based on this ridiculous idea cost us? Enough to buy the world a coke and keep it company several hundred times over. Include the global costs of compliance, regulation, loss of productivity and global GDP, dollars diverted to bankrupt green-energy projects, and energy inflation, and the whole-scale abandonment of cheap reliable energy has probably cost the world trillions.
But hey, we wasted that money and accumulated all the debt to help developing nations and our children…to..uh…remain developing nations and to inherit Anthropogenic Massive Debt. Which is why recent temperature data was released quietly with little to no media fanfare–they needed a few extra days to work on their narrative.
Seeing The Global Warming Forest For the Trees
I like to pick on Senator Jeanne Shaheen because she is a left-wing hack, particularly when it comes to Global War-ming. Today’s installment takes us back to her 2008 Senate race during which she claimed, and I quote…(long since scrubbed from her Senate campaign site…)
REVERSE GLOBAL WARMING
Reversing global warming is an economic, environmental and health imperative for New Hampshire. If we don’t act to reverse global warming, New Hampshire’s snow season is projected to shrink by almost 50 percent by mid-century, severely impacting our skiing and snowmobile industries. Increasing temperatures also will negatively impact fall foliage tourism, the hunting and fishing industries, and maple sugar production
Since Greene Shaheen spoke these prognostications, we have had years with record snowfalls, years with record maple syrup production, and as this year comes to a close–one that has already been called one of the hottest years in US history–the NH Tourism industry has some frightening news for us.
If Sea Ice Grew and No One Was There to ‘Report’ It, Did It Really Happen?
Forbes has a story about the Antarctic. It’s that other frozen wasteland, the one you never hear much about. You don’t hear anything about it because for the past 33 years the amount of sea-ice in the antarctic has apparently been growing, and as of this week–due to record cold temperatures in the region–has reached its highest reading ever.
That means there is more sea-ice in the antarctic than at any time since we started recording it.
The real story, of course, is the fact that when Forbes searched Google News for any sign of the story it was nowhere to be found.
A historical record. More Antarctic sea ice than ever seen in recorded history. And the Chicken-Little Media isn’t reporting it…
Where’d All The CO2 Go?
This is curious. Just when the Global Warming Monkeys we’re complaining about how its totally hot, like…as if we were experiencing, like, Global warming, Ok? OMG! So why is it so damn hot if US CO2 emissions from energy are nearing their lowest since 1991…without cap and trade? Could it just be the weather? … Read more
Global Tax To Save The Earth (again.)
The latest annual moon-bat confab of global warming wackos is taking place in Rio where the idea of a global tax to funnel money directly to the corrupt and incompetent UN (and presumably the UN MDG agenda) has reared it’s ugly little head again. In fact, one of the items on the negotiating table here … Read more
Trayvon, Hurricanes, And Faux Pow Wow Chow
If you’ve recovered from the underwhelming Facebook IPO, perhaps you are ready for this?
Trayvon was beating George Zimmerma badly before the man finally shot him in self-defense. There is no doubt about that.
So here’s an observation for the anti-second amendment clowns who are always insisting that lawfully armed citizens run away from any conflict (the same folks who hung Zimmerman out to dry on day one). It’s not so easy to run away when your attacker is straddling you and pounding the crap out of you.
Next Up, the Global Warming denier deniers took another kick to the green chestnuts this week. Looks like more frequent and severe hurricanes were not in store for US coastlines due to the all-powerful invisible sky god known as Global warming; and we may have Al Gore to thank for that. (I guess it’s not just snow he can summon with his very presence.)
It Isn’t Getting Easier Being Green
I can’t recall how many leaders in the Republican’s War on Women have called on their misogynist foot soldiers to burn down Sandra Fluke’s house (or any of her defenders) for demanding we pay for her contraception; probably because there is no war from the Right, but even if there were, no one on the … Read more
RGGI…still a Scam (Audio)
In my quest to mix it up , how about Blogs on Tape? Here’s the audio version of “RGGI…still a Scam,” my GrokTALK! special presentation about the ongoing effort to end the scourge of the Regional Greenhouse Gas initiative. (or something…)
If you’d prefer the print version the full transcript is on the jump.
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“Warmist Losers”! For them, “the war is over.” See below….
I love this guy. From The Telegraph in Great Britain, James Delingpole heads up his column, “Ha ha Warmist losers. For you the war is over.” But better yet is the picture that accompanies the column (see below); the caption below the picture explains that it shows “Warmists, reacting with horror at their defeat.” Heh! Read … Read more
Warming Causes Cooling Causes Warming Prevents Ice age…or Something.
Not long from now, I suspect that Global Warming science will take its rightful place beside astrology as just another curious aspect of human consciousness.
Defying Global Warming Since 1980
For the Environmental extremist on your Christmas Holiday Winter Solstice Gift list we have an ideal Florida property, one that has been defying the scourge of our dependence on fossil fuels for over thirty years. It’s called The East Sister Rock Island Retreat Off the Florida Keys, and if you are felling lucky, and you’ve … Read more
[Updated] AP Proves CO2 based Global Warming Is A Hoax
AP has a story out today, which the green Yahoo’s at Yahoo! have put up front for all to see. The front page lede is ‘Record Rise in Global Warming.‘ But when you follow the link the article itself is titled:"Biggest jump ever seen in Global Warming Gases." Talk about deception. But then, the entire thing, like global warming, turns out to be misleading.
The article goes on at length about emerging Asian economies and the massive influx of CO2 into the atmosphere, but the only mention of actual warming is theoretical.
The article itself is so slanted it is past amusing and damn near criminal.
The problem, or course, is that CO2 emissions have been on an upward climb for decades while global temperature have failed to follow. They continue to go up and down without any measurable or predictable connection whatsoever. But that is just another inconvenient truth. So does AP dare to mention that? Of course not. They can barely contain themselves while pointing out that the UN’s IPCC has come under criticism but that most of its conclusions are considered main stream if not a bit too conservative."
Bwahahahahahahaha!
So much for the IPCC passing Green advocacy puff pieces off as science, leaving out contrary evidence, and overall being written by and for politicians with an specific green agenda. Then there is all that hiding the decline business that they are still trying to hide.
The story does get one thing right. Global emissions are still rising. The fact that temperatures have not been in any measurable way affected is only more proof that the "we are killing the planet" meme is just another truck load of nonsense. If we are killing it it is by keeping the third world in the third world where the socialist elites think they belong instead of letting them develop into efficient modern states. You need cheap power to do that. There is nothing cheap about the lefts energy alternatives.
[Update] Hot Air is reporting on the AP report as well, reminding us that despite the CO2 emissions warning and the failure of every man-made program to reduce them, the temperature has not risen for 11 years.
More on the jump.
Solyndra Pay To Play Hanging On Obama Like A Dead Weight
Obama’s Solyndra problem in under three minutes
RGG-Die!
I’ve had a thing or two to say about RGGI. Just drop my name and ‘RGGI’ into a search engine and start counting. If you start reading you will notice a trend. RGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas initiative, is a broad based tax or fee on all energy and all persons who use it. This tax could increase without anyone every holding a vote, or having a hearing. It was passed by the Democrat majority legislature with that in mind, during New Hampshire’s political experimentation years (democrats were left in charge of everything), and signed by then-and-God-only-knows-why-he-is-still-Governor John Lynch.
(I never call RGGI Reggie, by the way. This makes me think of Reggie Mantle from The Archie’s, which makes me think of Veronica Lodge, who was kind of hot in a post-pre-pubescent animated sort of a way, which might explain my fondness for dark haired women, but probably not. Maybe Isis from the Shazam Isis power hour, or how about Wonder Woman? Did I mention that I don’t call it Reggie?)
RGGI’s proponents claimed it would be good for the environment, which was only true if the "environment" was one littered with taxpayer financed slush funds whose purposes were as ephemeral as the lefts idea of rights or justice. And Carbon trading to reduce emissions was already a well known lie that ten years of cap and trade in Europe had already proved demonstrably false. If we just assume the folks who claim to be the smartest people in every room had to know this–being so damn smart–then this was obviously meant to be yet another large slush fund to be raided by current and future Democrat majorities, all but for two fortuitous events that got in the way of pay day.
First, the left’s nationwide social engineering experiment with housing rights collapsed the economy before the program got up to steam, making the RGGI carbon credits worth progressively less until they are now almost completely worthless. Second, we voted the left-wingers out of office for a ruinous spending agenda and their chronic inability to balance the books despite scores of new taxes and fees, and laying siege to every pile of money within view, public or private.
We wont even get into the left wing law firms that lined up to manage the grants and the distribution of funds for approved projects, or the list of Democrat friendly recipients.
It’s Not Easy Being Green…
In a profanity strewn diatribe before the Aspen Institute, Gore said mean things about scientists who must be on the payroll of some arch-nemesis bent on brainwashing everyone into letting the evil genius destroy the planet. This, as opposed to all the “scientists” (economists, journalists, confidence men) who have been hiding the decline or crowding out dissent to keep the billions in taxpayer dollars rolling in to keep them “on message.”