These are troubled times for the eco-political crowd. Today's Seattle Post intelligencer tells us that former Clinton Secretary of the Interior Bruce "Fidel" Babbitt is pushing his new book: "Cities in the Wilderness." His take on recent reviews of failing environmental laws is that all is not lost. Yes, the Endangered Species Act will be modified (watered down, no pun intended) and the National Environmental Protection Act will also be changed to be more human/animal/vegetable neutral. But don't fret, eco-terrorists, Babbitt sees lots of silver on those storm clouds.
He says that a few hundred mayors are pushing for global warming legislation. Babbitt feels that this is proof that the "people" favor more, not fewer restrictions on land use and transportation choices. For others, a few hundred miserably failing mayors really bring nothing to the debate. These are the guys who sit while schools fail more than half their students. These are the guys that can't fill potholes, much less understand climate science.
Speaking of climate science, today's N Y Times writes in an editorial that more pressure is on the horizon to force President Bush to control and limit carbon dioxide. The NY Times editorial goes as far as to cite a recent multi-day article that tells us we have "already lost the North Pole." What will Santa do? He'll have to move to Tahiti, where rumors of icebergs and forming glaciers are spreading. Or was it flooding? I can't remember which "Best Available Science" story is now mainstream "settled science."
Worse is that the same "scientists" say that Greenland's multi-mile deep ice cap is soon to be lost too. I've read a few of these "studies" which say that melting near shore is increasing. They feel that's the case due to measured glacial water off flow at one site in Easter Greenland. Yet those pesky satellites tell us otherwise. They say that the cap is actually growing faster than melting. In fact, today's cap is the deepest every measured. We can all debate why more water is flowing off Greenland at one location, but connecting that single dot to global warming is not very scientific.
Yet, Greenland and the Arctic are two of the handfull of "proven scientific bricks" in the global warming foundation. Settled science follows the media repeating feelings and opinions until the people believe it to be the truth. I think it's a propaganda principle to repeat a half or totally untruth several times until those listening begin to accept it as fact. Global warming, global warming, global warming! Why don't I get it?
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Monday, November 07, 2005
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
What Ever Happened to Blaming Canada?
It wasn't too long ago that we could look at our nation's faults only to blame Canada for these issues and challenges. In fact, South Park characters' film earned profits by telling us to: "Blame Canada." So why can't we blame climate change on Canada?
Today's Washington Post features an article about insurance companies climbing into bed with global warming adherents by blaming it for their recent loses. There's a drought in Nebraska. Blame global warming. A thunderstorm moves across Oklahoma. Global warming for sure. The river floods in Mississippi. Global warming without fail. Hurricanes? Global warming from here to there. Wow! I ran out of gas. Must have been global warming. Late for a date? Global warming. Credit card company called due to a late payment. Global warming, thank you.
Truth seems to be insurers have been planning to off-load high risk insured in high risk coastal and earthquake areas on the feds for some time. Problem is that construction is exploding on the Southeastern coast just because land is cheap while insurance and implied government make-whole guarantees are plentiful. Today's storms are not any more plentiful nor are they stronger according to the National Hurricane Center. Storms just impact much more poplulated areas that cost more and more to rebuild.
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Today's Washington Post features an article about insurance companies climbing into bed with global warming adherents by blaming it for their recent loses. There's a drought in Nebraska. Blame global warming. A thunderstorm moves across Oklahoma. Global warming for sure. The river floods in Mississippi. Global warming without fail. Hurricanes? Global warming from here to there. Wow! I ran out of gas. Must have been global warming. Late for a date? Global warming. Credit card company called due to a late payment. Global warming, thank you.
Truth seems to be insurers have been planning to off-load high risk insured in high risk coastal and earthquake areas on the feds for some time. Problem is that construction is exploding on the Southeastern coast just because land is cheap while insurance and implied government make-whole guarantees are plentiful. Today's storms are not any more plentiful nor are they stronger according to the National Hurricane Center. Storms just impact much more poplulated areas that cost more and more to rebuild.
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Monday, September 12, 2005
Endangered Species Act
The heat is turned up on a proposed review of the efficacy of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Republicans are saying that the evidence is in that the ESA achieves very little in its task to save endangered species. In fact, research tells us that few if any species are being helped by the act. Yet Democrats are pulling out the heavy artillery to stop any its bitsy look-see at their act. Truth is that the ESA is a major construct of the "Blind Faith Secular" government religion.
This religious movement feels that all of their laws and feelings are infallible. That only non-believers ignorant of their religion would question what the faithful know. This position is breathtaking because the vast majority of the Blind Faith religion are paid by tax dollars. There are researchers and scientists. Teachers and professors. The elected and bureaucrats. All preaching and all unconstitutionally using our tax dollars to worship.
How is this expressed? Conservatives are for the first time asking questions about conclusions made by certain global warming and environmental experts. Yet these experts are running for the exits. They claim they are being persecuted. They are hiding behind their political handlers. Liberals say that all conclusions are vetted by scientists. And all research is peer approved. In English, they say that each member of their religion reviews other members of their religion. And after decades of review after review. Their conclusions are right.
This process mirrors the liberal political processes. A number of liberals get together to debate policy. They select one to be the conservative. Then they beat up on him until he says that he has changed his mind. Then they tell us that this policy was fully and fairly debated in a bipartisan spirit. I remember a John Kerry friend telling the media that "John always reviews every issue from 25 viewpoints." My response is why does he always arrive at the same political place? That's not coincidence, it's ignorance and bigotry.
The ESA is one of the Blind Faith religion's commandments. So expect a fight unlike any other when conservatives demand that the act be reviewed for results. There are none because the act was never intended to save species. It was written to restrict property ownership, to slow economic development, to end the use of cars, to slow population growth, and to redistribute wealth. It works quite well in this arena. And that's what the conservatives seek to end.
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This religious movement feels that all of their laws and feelings are infallible. That only non-believers ignorant of their religion would question what the faithful know. This position is breathtaking because the vast majority of the Blind Faith religion are paid by tax dollars. There are researchers and scientists. Teachers and professors. The elected and bureaucrats. All preaching and all unconstitutionally using our tax dollars to worship.
How is this expressed? Conservatives are for the first time asking questions about conclusions made by certain global warming and environmental experts. Yet these experts are running for the exits. They claim they are being persecuted. They are hiding behind their political handlers. Liberals say that all conclusions are vetted by scientists. And all research is peer approved. In English, they say that each member of their religion reviews other members of their religion. And after decades of review after review. Their conclusions are right.
This process mirrors the liberal political processes. A number of liberals get together to debate policy. They select one to be the conservative. Then they beat up on him until he says that he has changed his mind. Then they tell us that this policy was fully and fairly debated in a bipartisan spirit. I remember a John Kerry friend telling the media that "John always reviews every issue from 25 viewpoints." My response is why does he always arrive at the same political place? That's not coincidence, it's ignorance and bigotry.
The ESA is one of the Blind Faith religion's commandments. So expect a fight unlike any other when conservatives demand that the act be reviewed for results. There are none because the act was never intended to save species. It was written to restrict property ownership, to slow economic development, to end the use of cars, to slow population growth, and to redistribute wealth. It works quite well in this arena. And that's what the conservatives seek to end.
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Thursday, September 08, 2005
Louisiana #1 for Federal ACE Aid in 2004
The Army Corps of Engineers has released their budget to show that Louisiana received more federal aid than any other state over the past 5 years and much more than under the Clinton Administration. This announcement seems to undercut Democrat accusations that the Bush administration caused the levee failures by cutting Corps funding. Not True!
In fact, Louisiana receives much more than California with five times the ocean front, five times the ports, and seven times the population. A closer review of the budget by the Washington Post highlights breathtaking abuse of our federal dollars. One project to the tune of almost $800 million is rebuilding virtually unused locks on one of the canals. A $20 million repair to the old locks was turned down by Democrats. So Senator Landreaux then sneaked the $800 million into a Iraq funding bill.
The Washington Post says that the vast majority of the Corps' funding is not used for flood control but rather unrelated pork projects for Louisiana Democrats. Yet it is they and their brethren that are shrill in their personal attacks on the president and every person he's ever met in his lifetime. Even then, the Corps says that the levees that failed were recently overhauled and were the best and strongest money could buy. That fact seems to get lost in minority congresswoman Pelosi's and minority Senator Reid's rants and character assassinations.
These revelations further underscore that some in government care little about facts. These are the same "truthtellers" that are demanding we stop our economic expansion for global warming action. Now how can any reasonable person believe these misguided and often truth challenged people? We can't. Recent efforts to identify the "experts" that found global warming and those who tested their conclusions, are coming up short of answers. For some of us that's not surprising. Climate change is real, but global warming is a political and eco-religious movement.
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In fact, Louisiana receives much more than California with five times the ocean front, five times the ports, and seven times the population. A closer review of the budget by the Washington Post highlights breathtaking abuse of our federal dollars. One project to the tune of almost $800 million is rebuilding virtually unused locks on one of the canals. A $20 million repair to the old locks was turned down by Democrats. So Senator Landreaux then sneaked the $800 million into a Iraq funding bill.
The Washington Post says that the vast majority of the Corps' funding is not used for flood control but rather unrelated pork projects for Louisiana Democrats. Yet it is they and their brethren that are shrill in their personal attacks on the president and every person he's ever met in his lifetime. Even then, the Corps says that the levees that failed were recently overhauled and were the best and strongest money could buy. That fact seems to get lost in minority congresswoman Pelosi's and minority Senator Reid's rants and character assassinations.
These revelations further underscore that some in government care little about facts. These are the same "truthtellers" that are demanding we stop our economic expansion for global warming action. Now how can any reasonable person believe these misguided and often truth challenged people? We can't. Recent efforts to identify the "experts" that found global warming and those who tested their conclusions, are coming up short of answers. For some of us that's not surprising. Climate change is real, but global warming is a political and eco-religious movement.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Robert F Kennedy Jr. To Earth's Rescue!
I'm sleeping better tonight because I know that R F Kennedy Jr. is out in his Lear Jet telling all that President Bush caused Hurricane Katrina. In an article posted on Yahoo! News from Huffingtonpost.com, Kennedy tells us that President
Bush caused Katrina by ignoring the Kyoto Protocols, like Clinton did, and by refusing to redefine earth's carbon building blocks as pollution. Now that's a mouthful.
Here's a guy who uses dozens of extra large SUVs and flys in Jets while he joins with his uncle, Teddy the brain and brawn, when they chat with eco-abuser John Kerry. As a side bar, years ago Ted Kennedy was photographed taking a professional girl out on his boat. A few miles off shore they shed their swim suits to engage in horizontal communication. When the Senate saw the pictures in one of the national tattlers, a noted Democrat was heard to say that: "Kennedy's position on off-shore drilling seems to have changed."
Bobby Jr goes on to quote the change in administration policy: A moment of truth is arriving, Barbour wrote,in the form of a decision whether this Administration's policy will be to regulate and/or tax CO2 as a pollutant. The question is whether environmental policy still prevails over energy policy with Bush-Cheney, as it did with Clinton-Gore. He derided the idea of regulating CO2 as eco-extremism, and chided them for allowing environmental concerns to trump good energy policy, which the country has lacked for eight years.
That's good energy policy and science over "Blind Faith Secular Socialism" that attacks anyone who questions their beliefs. Whatever happened to separation of church and state? And we are paying some of the church members disguised as researchers and bureaucrats. I love this planet. I marched on the first Earth Day. My favorite art is circa 1950 pictures of Yosemity National Park. I contributed time to the Sierra Club before it became an eco-religious cult. So don't tell me about ecology and caring.
But I also believe in America and its freedoms. Freedoms of choice that the Secularists try to deny us. Choice of self defense, choice of transportation, choice of education, choice of housing, choice of property ownership, choice of work and business and the right to speak without the political correctness police arresting us. Blind Faith Secularlists know it all and Bobby Jr. is a know it all for sure.
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Bush caused Katrina by ignoring the Kyoto Protocols, like Clinton did, and by refusing to redefine earth's carbon building blocks as pollution. Now that's a mouthful.
Here's a guy who uses dozens of extra large SUVs and flys in Jets while he joins with his uncle, Teddy the brain and brawn, when they chat with eco-abuser John Kerry. As a side bar, years ago Ted Kennedy was photographed taking a professional girl out on his boat. A few miles off shore they shed their swim suits to engage in horizontal communication. When the Senate saw the pictures in one of the national tattlers, a noted Democrat was heard to say that: "Kennedy's position on off-shore drilling seems to have changed."
Bobby Jr goes on to quote the change in administration policy: A moment of truth is arriving, Barbour wrote,in the form of a decision whether this Administration's policy will be to regulate and/or tax CO2 as a pollutant. The question is whether environmental policy still prevails over energy policy with Bush-Cheney, as it did with Clinton-Gore. He derided the idea of regulating CO2 as eco-extremism, and chided them for allowing environmental concerns to trump good energy policy, which the country has lacked for eight years.
That's good energy policy and science over "Blind Faith Secular Socialism" that attacks anyone who questions their beliefs. Whatever happened to separation of church and state? And we are paying some of the church members disguised as researchers and bureaucrats. I love this planet. I marched on the first Earth Day. My favorite art is circa 1950 pictures of Yosemity National Park. I contributed time to the Sierra Club before it became an eco-religious cult. So don't tell me about ecology and caring.
But I also believe in America and its freedoms. Freedoms of choice that the Secularists try to deny us. Choice of self defense, choice of transportation, choice of education, choice of housing, choice of property ownership, choice of work and business and the right to speak without the political correctness police arresting us. Blind Faith Secularlists know it all and Bobby Jr. is a know it all for sure.
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Scientist: "knowledge as distinguished from ignorance."
Scientists are revered by left of center thinkers for their ability to separate themselves from feelings and biases while they seek the truth. Scientists don't believe in anything. Not Santa or the Easter Bunny. Not the tooth Ferry or God. They are the pillars of truth and tested opinion, they stand alone among us mere mortals who need to grasp at straws to make sense of things.
So why are scientists running for the exits now that many are starting to ask questions about their methodology, or how they connect sometimes invisible dots. Global warming is said to be absolute due to peer review and multiple testing. Say what? Show us the money and the results. Where's the beef? Why hide behind political hacks that attack the questioners? Why not allow real questions so that global warming can be tested scientifically?
So today comes another blow to the body science. The NY times writes that the UN is now publishing the results of 100 of the most heralded radiation scientists that went to Chernobyl to study the aftermath of that most extreme nuclear accident. And guess what? The real science is light years from the not-so-scientific-science offered at the time of the event and in the years thereafter.
The experts were so far off reality that their opinions are totally irrelevant in today's terms. They said tens of thousands would die from radiation sickness. Today only 400 deaths can be directly attributed to the event while another 4,000 are possible. We were told that radiation would linger for several hundred years. It is gone after 20 years. Not that 20 years are irrelevant, but the experts were so far off that they must review every thought, every theory, every statement because they are based on a 'flat earth" concept.
How can these guys be so wrong? Especially since radiation is easy to study after two bombs were dropped on Japan and tests were plentiful in the 20th century. Point is that even with this elementary science, the experts are out to lunch. Now let's talk climate. Not a single conclusion can go unchallenged and untested by outside experts. We might demand that every scientist learn how to define his designation.
So why are scientists running for the exits now that many are starting to ask questions about their methodology, or how they connect sometimes invisible dots. Global warming is said to be absolute due to peer review and multiple testing. Say what? Show us the money and the results. Where's the beef? Why hide behind political hacks that attack the questioners? Why not allow real questions so that global warming can be tested scientifically?
So today comes another blow to the body science. The NY times writes that the UN is now publishing the results of 100 of the most heralded radiation scientists that went to Chernobyl to study the aftermath of that most extreme nuclear accident. And guess what? The real science is light years from the not-so-scientific-science offered at the time of the event and in the years thereafter.
The experts were so far off reality that their opinions are totally irrelevant in today's terms. They said tens of thousands would die from radiation sickness. Today only 400 deaths can be directly attributed to the event while another 4,000 are possible. We were told that radiation would linger for several hundred years. It is gone after 20 years. Not that 20 years are irrelevant, but the experts were so far off that they must review every thought, every theory, every statement because they are based on a 'flat earth" concept.
How can these guys be so wrong? Especially since radiation is easy to study after two bombs were dropped on Japan and tests were plentiful in the 20th century. Point is that even with this elementary science, the experts are out to lunch. Now let's talk climate. Not a single conclusion can go unchallenged and untested by outside experts. We might demand that every scientist learn how to define his designation.
Species Management
Congress reconvenes to begin some of the heaviest legislative lifting of this generation. Entitlement programs must be reeled in and controlled, once and for all time. Defined retirement for government workers must be ended because these programs pay out more than was earned by the beneficiary. Tort reform needs to be broadened so that we can end the lottery of riches for some at the expense of others. Recently a jury awarded $250 million punitive damages for a case where the man died of other causes. They said that it was fair and just, though.
And it's now or never to rework the Endangered species Act. This act is among a few that are used as hammers to force extreme landuse and zoning restrictions and finally to end private property rights in America. Eco and Enviro extremists feel this act is the foundation for attacking man's footprint on earth. And it is written so loosely that sympathetic judges can take it and run.
We see how this act can be abused in the greater Seattle region. Step one started with federal suits that claimed that individual species of salmon were dying out. Salmon is now the world's number one food fish in terms of tons harvested annually. So the trick to get protection was to distinguish the species by each stream they inhabit. As a sidebar, recently a group started getting Killer Whales or Orca listed because a single pod speaks differently than another. So it's not just where salmon live, but also what dialect whales speak.
Don't get me wrong. I love animals and would do anything reasonable to help those in need. But enviro and eco extremists are fascists that demand that animals act and speak and play and live and die as they see fit. A good example was Keiko, the whale made famous by the film "Save Willey." Well when ole Keiko failed to stay in Iceland where the extremists said he must, they called for him to be euthanized. And a few weeks later he lay dead in a fjord in Sweden. They said he died of an infection. Oh Ya! Wasn't that convenient. We have moved individual oracs throughout the sound at the cost of millions because they whale didn't conform to Orca experts' behavior and family relationship rules.
We all know about the snail darter, the marlet, the infamous spotted owl and more. In Seattle we kill indigenous sea lions to save wild salmon. We kill Canada geese by the thousands to keep lawns clean. We kill crows and other birds because they are a nuisance. And recently we began to kill owls that are competing for spotted owl territory. Now that's respect for wildlife. Whatever happened to evolution and species selection? Not for those who use the hammer of the Endangered Species Act.
It's time to end this madness.
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And it's now or never to rework the Endangered species Act. This act is among a few that are used as hammers to force extreme landuse and zoning restrictions and finally to end private property rights in America. Eco and Enviro extremists feel this act is the foundation for attacking man's footprint on earth. And it is written so loosely that sympathetic judges can take it and run.
We see how this act can be abused in the greater Seattle region. Step one started with federal suits that claimed that individual species of salmon were dying out. Salmon is now the world's number one food fish in terms of tons harvested annually. So the trick to get protection was to distinguish the species by each stream they inhabit. As a sidebar, recently a group started getting Killer Whales or Orca listed because a single pod speaks differently than another. So it's not just where salmon live, but also what dialect whales speak.
Don't get me wrong. I love animals and would do anything reasonable to help those in need. But enviro and eco extremists are fascists that demand that animals act and speak and play and live and die as they see fit. A good example was Keiko, the whale made famous by the film "Save Willey." Well when ole Keiko failed to stay in Iceland where the extremists said he must, they called for him to be euthanized. And a few weeks later he lay dead in a fjord in Sweden. They said he died of an infection. Oh Ya! Wasn't that convenient. We have moved individual oracs throughout the sound at the cost of millions because they whale didn't conform to Orca experts' behavior and family relationship rules.
We all know about the snail darter, the marlet, the infamous spotted owl and more. In Seattle we kill indigenous sea lions to save wild salmon. We kill Canada geese by the thousands to keep lawns clean. We kill crows and other birds because they are a nuisance. And recently we began to kill owls that are competing for spotted owl territory. Now that's respect for wildlife. Whatever happened to evolution and species selection? Not for those who use the hammer of the Endangered Species Act.
It's time to end this madness.
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Thursday, September 01, 2005
Katarina was caused by Global Warming. NOT!
It's now 72 hours AK, that's "After Katarina." And we are hearing the dishonest and disingenuous propaganda from the envirowarriors. They tell us that hurricanes are increasing in intensity due to Global Warming. And that President Bush is the cause of all Global Warming. Why? Because he didn't propose and sign the Kyoto Protocol. Of course they forget that Bill Clinton didn't propose it either. He just let it languish hoping that a fool like Al Gore might be elected president. At least this administration said what Clinton was afraid to say: Kyoto is a fraud!
Back to Katarina. She was a bute. Yet hurricane experts tell us that the mid-Atlantic Ocean is in the high point of hundreds of years oscillation. That means that hurricanes are more plentiful and sometimes more aggressive. These oscillations move across the globe. A decade ago I was in Tokyo when they suffered their most furious recorded typhoon. We were in a cab and within 30 minutes the water was up to the window of the cab. The wind exceeded 150 miles an hour that afternoon. The subways were flooded and all traffic stopped. As a side bar, I taught a bartender at the Tokyo Hilton to pour perfect manhattans. He was very happy to do so. Bob Lee, one of the world's foremost life insurance executives, sat with me while we drank three doubles. Problem was that they cost $170 each. What do you think about a $1,500 six drink tab?
Back to Katarina. Experts tell us that typhoons and hurricanes around the globe are on the down side of the oscillation. They are down and we are up. Global Warming we ask? Not a factor they say. Anyone who says that Global Warming had even an iota to do with this hurricane is a member of the "Blind Faith Secular Socialist" religion. They care little about science or about reality. They just believe that mankind's influence on the planet must be controlled and diminished.
One more thing about Katarina. Look at the uneducated and government dependent masses in New Orleans, that have no idea what to do to save their families or themselves. This is the result of 70 years of liberal secular socialism. We have allowed ignorant politicians to take tens of TRILLIONS of our tax dollars for their programs and projects that have increased poverty and dependence. Look at the human resources that are lost for all time. These are smart people who have been herded and abused until they have no hope. If ever there is a time to see what secular socialism has achieved, look at New Orleans today, Thursday, September 1, 2005.
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Back to Katarina. She was a bute. Yet hurricane experts tell us that the mid-Atlantic Ocean is in the high point of hundreds of years oscillation. That means that hurricanes are more plentiful and sometimes more aggressive. These oscillations move across the globe. A decade ago I was in Tokyo when they suffered their most furious recorded typhoon. We were in a cab and within 30 minutes the water was up to the window of the cab. The wind exceeded 150 miles an hour that afternoon. The subways were flooded and all traffic stopped. As a side bar, I taught a bartender at the Tokyo Hilton to pour perfect manhattans. He was very happy to do so. Bob Lee, one of the world's foremost life insurance executives, sat with me while we drank three doubles. Problem was that they cost $170 each. What do you think about a $1,500 six drink tab?
Back to Katarina. Experts tell us that typhoons and hurricanes around the globe are on the down side of the oscillation. They are down and we are up. Global Warming we ask? Not a factor they say. Anyone who says that Global Warming had even an iota to do with this hurricane is a member of the "Blind Faith Secular Socialist" religion. They care little about science or about reality. They just believe that mankind's influence on the planet must be controlled and diminished.
One more thing about Katarina. Look at the uneducated and government dependent masses in New Orleans, that have no idea what to do to save their families or themselves. This is the result of 70 years of liberal secular socialism. We have allowed ignorant politicians to take tens of TRILLIONS of our tax dollars for their programs and projects that have increased poverty and dependence. Look at the human resources that are lost for all time. These are smart people who have been herded and abused until they have no hope. If ever there is a time to see what secular socialism has achieved, look at New Orleans today, Thursday, September 1, 2005.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Bush Fights Back
Bush Administration sets EPA regs and CAFE mileage standards for SUVs and light trucks as states continue to meddle in national environmental and manufacturing standards. It seems that the Left Coast and the Northeast are attempting to set new standards for carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Not so fast, say the national regulators. It's their mission to regulate nationally without state by state interference. But left of center thinkers in California, Oregon, and Washington, feel they have too much time on their hands so that they can now take over most of the fed's regulatory authority.
What's going on here? The Blind Faith Secular Socialist movement is like water in a shallow riverbed. Plug it here and it squirts out there. And it's still all about the holy grail called "Global Warming." If PETA were not a dues paying member of this church, we might see an animal sacrifice revival to appease the Evo and Eco gods. This is the "government ought-to-do-something crowd. They got older but never grew up. Some say these activists are educated beyond their intellectual capacity. They just might be right.
Problem is that science has no place among these blind faithers. They know there is global warming and they must do something to stop it. Yet they are also the liberal do-as-I-sayers while they are limo-liberals that need SUVs and jets and twenty houses to live their lives. Thank the real God that the people stand between these activists and our pocketbooks.
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What's going on here? The Blind Faith Secular Socialist movement is like water in a shallow riverbed. Plug it here and it squirts out there. And it's still all about the holy grail called "Global Warming." If PETA were not a dues paying member of this church, we might see an animal sacrifice revival to appease the Evo and Eco gods. This is the "government ought-to-do-something crowd. They got older but never grew up. Some say these activists are educated beyond their intellectual capacity. They just might be right.
Problem is that science has no place among these blind faithers. They know there is global warming and they must do something to stop it. Yet they are also the liberal do-as-I-sayers while they are limo-liberals that need SUVs and jets and twenty houses to live their lives. Thank the real God that the people stand between these activists and our pocketbooks.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Eastern States want to lead!
Word is that Northeastern states are moving ahead on controlling and reducing "greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming." So it's said in today's NY Times article/semi-science propaganda. Greenhouse gases are actually a singular hate for carbon dioxide (CO2), which is the building block of organic life from plants to humans. Controlling the emissions of CO2 is the back door envirowar against America's consumer society and fast growing economy.
The process of controlling CO2 is a microcosm of how left of center thinking elitists believe they can regain control over this nation. And it has all the fingerprints of the usual suspects all over it. First and foremost, a slower growing economy also slows the creation and growth of wealth. We must remember that wealth is the root of all evil on the world. Or so it's said.
Second, by creating a market for trading CO2 it becomes a taxable commodity that can be used to redistribute existing wealth from those who earn it to those who don't. This critical process is necessary because once the economy slows, the masses get restless unless they are promised redistribution of other's money.
Third is an artificially structured CO2 system requires a huge bureaucracy to manage and control. This creates jobs for adherents to the notion that CO2 is actually a pollutant. As this crowd grows and as their livelihood is connected to CO2 as pollution, a critical mass of followers will stand in the way of any politician that tries to bring real science into the conversation about climate change.
And fourth and most importantly is that an international CO2 redistribution and trading system controlled by the Kyoto/UN crowd will begin the process of funding the UN and other NGOs for all eternity. Once we create this monster and it is self sustaining, we can only end it by burning the UN village to the ground. These are still the early days before the real envirowars begin to torch the world as we know it. Yet it's almost like watching a slow-motion accident from start to finish with few resources available to avoid it.
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The process of controlling CO2 is a microcosm of how left of center thinking elitists believe they can regain control over this nation. And it has all the fingerprints of the usual suspects all over it. First and foremost, a slower growing economy also slows the creation and growth of wealth. We must remember that wealth is the root of all evil on the world. Or so it's said.
Second, by creating a market for trading CO2 it becomes a taxable commodity that can be used to redistribute existing wealth from those who earn it to those who don't. This critical process is necessary because once the economy slows, the masses get restless unless they are promised redistribution of other's money.
Third is an artificially structured CO2 system requires a huge bureaucracy to manage and control. This creates jobs for adherents to the notion that CO2 is actually a pollutant. As this crowd grows and as their livelihood is connected to CO2 as pollution, a critical mass of followers will stand in the way of any politician that tries to bring real science into the conversation about climate change.
And fourth and most importantly is that an international CO2 redistribution and trading system controlled by the Kyoto/UN crowd will begin the process of funding the UN and other NGOs for all eternity. Once we create this monster and it is self sustaining, we can only end it by burning the UN village to the ground. These are still the early days before the real envirowars begin to torch the world as we know it. Yet it's almost like watching a slow-motion accident from start to finish with few resources available to avoid it.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Where's the Beef?
It's interesting that we are being drowned by the deafening sound of silence on global climate change. It seems that a push back here and a push back there is driving the alarmists under ground. It's been weeks since a new re-re-research finding proves that the earth is near death. Is this really the start of moderation in science?
Don't bet the farm on it. We know that the Bush administration has signed with China, Japan, and several other Asian giants to research industrial and consumer eco-influence and to devise commonsensical solutions to real environmental challenges. This pact is the polar opposite of the world's "Blind Faith Secular Socialism" based asset redistribution envirowar model called the Kyoto Accord. It's also the first step toward UN taxation policy to fund an eternal bureaucracy from Hell. If you think that your local, state, and even federal government are out of control, imagine adding a super-bureaucracy on top of them that has no accountability and endless supplies of dollars, mostly from you and me.
The truth is that humans have spoiled their environment by viewing it as an endless supply of self cleaning streams that carry away pollution. Yes, we needed to cut corners to establish a vibrant fabric of complex interactions between living and working. And yes, we can stop polluting if we would only follow reasonable concepts and strategies.
Problem still is that the environment is held hostage by extremists and extortionists that make Fascists and Communists look like kindergarteners. It seems that this movement will not allow any environmental activity without their approval which costs millions of our dollars per major road development or housing development or even commercial development.
But let's get back to the sound of silence! Why have the voices of global warming been silenced for a while? Maybe it's because Congressional Committees are now asking questions about scientist's research since it is TAXPAYER funded. But they say no. It's none of our business. Really? Today we ask where's the BEEF? What do have to prove extreme statements about global warming and climate change? Show us the proof before we show you the money.
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Don't bet the farm on it. We know that the Bush administration has signed with China, Japan, and several other Asian giants to research industrial and consumer eco-influence and to devise commonsensical solutions to real environmental challenges. This pact is the polar opposite of the world's "Blind Faith Secular Socialism" based asset redistribution envirowar model called the Kyoto Accord. It's also the first step toward UN taxation policy to fund an eternal bureaucracy from Hell. If you think that your local, state, and even federal government are out of control, imagine adding a super-bureaucracy on top of them that has no accountability and endless supplies of dollars, mostly from you and me.
The truth is that humans have spoiled their environment by viewing it as an endless supply of self cleaning streams that carry away pollution. Yes, we needed to cut corners to establish a vibrant fabric of complex interactions between living and working. And yes, we can stop polluting if we would only follow reasonable concepts and strategies.
Problem still is that the environment is held hostage by extremists and extortionists that make Fascists and Communists look like kindergarteners. It seems that this movement will not allow any environmental activity without their approval which costs millions of our dollars per major road development or housing development or even commercial development.
But let's get back to the sound of silence! Why have the voices of global warming been silenced for a while? Maybe it's because Congressional Committees are now asking questions about scientist's research since it is TAXPAYER funded. But they say no. It's none of our business. Really? Today we ask where's the BEEF? What do have to prove extreme statements about global warming and climate change? Show us the proof before we show you the money.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
The War is on!
No one person can be credited with exposing Blind Faith Secular Socialism more than G W Bush, the president of the United States. He has exposed that there are some in our country and Europe who are trying to weaken this nation so that they can lead us toward globalization beyond our wildest dreams.
The anti God, hostile to Christianity crowd, are now reaching for the stars. It's clear that they are demanding that we adhere to their far left ideals fostered by a coalition of big abortion and slow growth activists. They support the notion that God is dead. Why? So that they can harvest the unborne's organs or limbs to allow atheists to live longer. So that they can make animals as important as humans. So that they can slow our economy so that people do not consume and do not build wealth. Sounds like Cuba to me.
Atheists need to live longer because they have no hope for an after-life. So they must extend their limited life by killing others to steal their limbs and organs. These morally bankrupt elitists feel that it's possible to harvest human organs and limbs as long as they get support from the parents of those unborn children.
Now that's moral, isn't it? No it's not!!!! What we are seeing is an enviro-platform of extreme left wingers that use the environment and atheism to use us to lengthen their lives. These pseudo-scientists are left wing religious extremists that subvert science to spin their political extremisms. Blind Faith Secular Socialism, rather than Secular Fascism is the most extreme religion in the history of mankind.
Time is running short for these 19th century abusers.
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The anti God, hostile to Christianity crowd, are now reaching for the stars. It's clear that they are demanding that we adhere to their far left ideals fostered by a coalition of big abortion and slow growth activists. They support the notion that God is dead. Why? So that they can harvest the unborne's organs or limbs to allow atheists to live longer. So that they can make animals as important as humans. So that they can slow our economy so that people do not consume and do not build wealth. Sounds like Cuba to me.
Atheists need to live longer because they have no hope for an after-life. So they must extend their limited life by killing others to steal their limbs and organs. These morally bankrupt elitists feel that it's possible to harvest human organs and limbs as long as they get support from the parents of those unborn children.
Now that's moral, isn't it? No it's not!!!! What we are seeing is an enviro-platform of extreme left wingers that use the environment and atheism to use us to lengthen their lives. These pseudo-scientists are left wing religious extremists that subvert science to spin their political extremisms. Blind Faith Secular Socialism, rather than Secular Fascism is the most extreme religion in the history of mankind.
Time is running short for these 19th century abusers.
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Saturday, August 06, 2005
First the Snail Darter and then the Spotted Owl and
then the salmon and so on. But now it's the polar bear. And that's because the panda bear didn't capture the faithfull's imagination. After all, John Tierney, columnist for the NY Times says: "The panda may be cuddlier, but it's really more of a poster animal for gluttony and sloth." He goes on to say that the panda eats 12 hours a day and sleeps the other 12. "Today they need to be artificially inseminated because they seem too lazy to exert their energy to mate. "
So the new selection for the Blind Faith Secular Socialist's (BFSS) poster animal is the polar bear. This animal is in the Arctic where BFSS activists say the first measurable global warming affects are developing. With so much global warming consequence, why is this small number of bears now the cause for spending trillions to save mankind? It's more because the redirection from other animals to the polar bear makes it a better media event.
We all want to help animals in their struggle with nature's hurdles and the cruel food chain. The salmon and the spotted owl's numbers seem pretty reasonable so the polar bear must be the cause today. Yet again, as with salmon and spotted owls, the real science says that polar bears have doubled in numbers over the past decade alone. They eat more and better and their range is expanding, from research by Canada's most renowned universities.
The globe is warming because it's moving away from the last mini-iceage and the last major iceage. So we will warm until the climate turns and it becomes cooler. Are we warming faster due to man's footprint? No-one knows. However many pseudo-scientists believe that mankind is accelerating the increase in temperature and therefore shortening the time when we turn to cooling. Is that bad? We don't know. But any change in climate seems to exercise scientists because they appear to try to stop the climate at a single point. They might be called the Amish of climate. They ask that if it was OK yesterday, why isn't it OK today?
Climate must change. But can we manage that change by reversing nature's natural activities? And if man's footprint on nature is less than 1%, or even sometimes less than 1/100th of one percent, are we causing climate change? Reason says not! But real scientists might answer that question for us. So we must find or train these scientists who are not politically or personally invested in the current big global warming managerie.
So what do we know? We know that climate change is a constant among many variables of science. Yet we know that many if not most among top climate scientists must adhere to the company line that we are fast drifting into a climate upheaval or they will soon be disconnected from their federal grants and public support. There is little doubt that thought cleansing has taken its toll on diverse opinions.
Today there are few who will risk getting disconnected from peer respect and funding by questioning the Blind Faith Secular Socialist eco-positions. Now, what do you think we should do?
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So the new selection for the Blind Faith Secular Socialist's (BFSS) poster animal is the polar bear. This animal is in the Arctic where BFSS activists say the first measurable global warming affects are developing. With so much global warming consequence, why is this small number of bears now the cause for spending trillions to save mankind? It's more because the redirection from other animals to the polar bear makes it a better media event.
We all want to help animals in their struggle with nature's hurdles and the cruel food chain. The salmon and the spotted owl's numbers seem pretty reasonable so the polar bear must be the cause today. Yet again, as with salmon and spotted owls, the real science says that polar bears have doubled in numbers over the past decade alone. They eat more and better and their range is expanding, from research by Canada's most renowned universities.
The globe is warming because it's moving away from the last mini-iceage and the last major iceage. So we will warm until the climate turns and it becomes cooler. Are we warming faster due to man's footprint? No-one knows. However many pseudo-scientists believe that mankind is accelerating the increase in temperature and therefore shortening the time when we turn to cooling. Is that bad? We don't know. But any change in climate seems to exercise scientists because they appear to try to stop the climate at a single point. They might be called the Amish of climate. They ask that if it was OK yesterday, why isn't it OK today?
Climate must change. But can we manage that change by reversing nature's natural activities? And if man's footprint on nature is less than 1%, or even sometimes less than 1/100th of one percent, are we causing climate change? Reason says not! But real scientists might answer that question for us. So we must find or train these scientists who are not politically or personally invested in the current big global warming managerie.
So what do we know? We know that climate change is a constant among many variables of science. Yet we know that many if not most among top climate scientists must adhere to the company line that we are fast drifting into a climate upheaval or they will soon be disconnected from their federal grants and public support. There is little doubt that thought cleansing has taken its toll on diverse opinions.
Today there are few who will risk getting disconnected from peer respect and funding by questioning the Blind Faith Secular Socialist eco-positions. Now, what do you think we should do?
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
The NY Times Blinked.
Mark this day, July 26th, 2005, on your calendar. A New York Times published editorial comment reverses over a decade of lock-step doom and gloom eco-alarm. No, they haven't given up on their push for global warming inspired economic slow growth, but they have finally admitted that there is no science that proves mankind is causing gentle climate warming.
For me it's heartwarming to read this reversal from those who have trumpeted that all the planet's scientists agree we are killing Mother Earth. I've said that we don't know one way or the other. In fact, they say that: It may not be possible to say that this heat wave or the drought that is afflicting Europe has been caused by global warming, especially when some of the records that fell recently were set many years ago. But it is also impossible to say that these temperature extremes are not part of the cumulative human impact on the climate.
This admission isn't much when past abuses of pseudo-science and of political science are compared and contrasted. Yet the Times' editorial board does for once accept the fact that real scientists don't have a clue what human "green house" emissions do to our atmosphere, if anything. Now isn't that a breath of fresh air?
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For me it's heartwarming to read this reversal from those who have trumpeted that all the planet's scientists agree we are killing Mother Earth. I've said that we don't know one way or the other. In fact, they say that: It may not be possible to say that this heat wave or the drought that is afflicting Europe has been caused by global warming, especially when some of the records that fell recently were set many years ago. But it is also impossible to say that these temperature extremes are not part of the cumulative human impact on the climate.
This admission isn't much when past abuses of pseudo-science and of political science are compared and contrasted. Yet the Times' editorial board does for once accept the fact that real scientists don't have a clue what human "green house" emissions do to our atmosphere, if anything. Now isn't that a breath of fresh air?
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Saturday, July 23, 2005
Let's See the Science!
After almost 15 years of unchallenged ranting, global warming's most celebrated gurus are now asked to present the scientific evidence. And they are screaming like stuck swine. How can Representative Joe Barton, (R) of Texas, be so disrespectful and insulting by questioning these "Popes" of the secular socialist religious revolution? They feel that Barton is obviously driven by oil interests by demanding to see how your and my tax dollars are spent by these heralded forward knowers.
I thought it is the province of science to doubt and to question and to re-re-re-research anew. For global warming, it's faith that is the coin of the realm. If we don't believe, it's off to the gullag of eco-Fascism. So who are these guys?
Michael Mann, of Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches in the Department of Meteorology and is Director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). He's known for selective interpretations of data by weighting and adjusting it to fit his preselected conclusions.
Michael Bradley is Director of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences. His interests are in climate variability and why climate changes, over a wide range of timescales. He did his graduate work at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder. He also studies long past climates to predict today's climate by using computer models.
Malcolm Hughes, is a tree ring counter at the University of Arizona. He quickly answered Rep. Barton's letter requesting certain background data and certain qualifications for his participation in global warming conclusions. His letter reads almost like "I wasn't there" and "I was asleep" and "aliens made me do it." It appears that Mann, Bradley, and Hughes put their names on lots of "science" while they don't want to be held accountable for their conclusions.
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I thought it is the province of science to doubt and to question and to re-re-re-research anew. For global warming, it's faith that is the coin of the realm. If we don't believe, it's off to the gullag of eco-Fascism. So who are these guys?
Michael Mann, of Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches in the Department of Meteorology and is Director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). He's known for selective interpretations of data by weighting and adjusting it to fit his preselected conclusions.
Michael Bradley is Director of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences. His interests are in climate variability and why climate changes, over a wide range of timescales. He did his graduate work at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder. He also studies long past climates to predict today's climate by using computer models.
Malcolm Hughes, is a tree ring counter at the University of Arizona. He quickly answered Rep. Barton's letter requesting certain background data and certain qualifications for his participation in global warming conclusions. His letter reads almost like "I wasn't there" and "I was asleep" and "aliens made me do it." It appears that Mann, Bradley, and Hughes put their names on lots of "science" while they don't want to be held accountable for their conclusions.
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Thursday, July 07, 2005
G-8 Global Warming Politics
President Bush arrives at the G-8 meetings in Scotland standing alone among the world's leaders by not joining hands with them on global warming politics. The NY Times, the rag of record for global warming zealots today says that: "Mr. Bush's approach to the environment is one of several topics on which he is at odds with other governments as well as public opinion in much of the world." Of course public opinion is the critical element in that sentence because public opinion is shaped by government propaganda.
It's often breathtaking to follow global warming mission creep from a few isolated facts that are matched with personal feelings and then multiplied by enviro-zealots and political extremists to equate that mankind is just plain bad. That assertion may just be true, but how does that equate to global destruction? It doesn't!
Real scientists still feel that a mini if not maxi ice age is fast developing on the next century's horizon. So higher Co2 in the atmosphere may just allow the oceans to keep it's food chain healthy during the cooling period. That food chain translates into a healthy planet of plants and animals even during centuries of much colder weather.
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It's often breathtaking to follow global warming mission creep from a few isolated facts that are matched with personal feelings and then multiplied by enviro-zealots and political extremists to equate that mankind is just plain bad. That assertion may just be true, but how does that equate to global destruction? It doesn't!
Real scientists still feel that a mini if not maxi ice age is fast developing on the next century's horizon. So higher Co2 in the atmosphere may just allow the oceans to keep it's food chain healthy during the cooling period. That food chain translates into a healthy planet of plants and animals even during centuries of much colder weather.
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Energy is Everywhere!
What is it about energy that enviro-politicals find so disgusting? Our healthy planet uses and converts energy everywhere. And mankind functions on the same principles. We create many of our consumer products and our housing and clothing out of organic energy. We eat energy in the form of proteins that animals and plants provide for us. This all seems reasonable and natural.
But then why don't we manage our energy so that it provides the greatest possible productivity for our social fabric? Some say it's because the enviro-political climate is really global warming. There is evidence that the past regulatory and taxing environment is so toxic that it kills much of the possible productivity of natural resources.
One excellent example is "solid waste management," sometimes called urban gold. Few processes are as taxed and regulated as solid waste collection and disposal. There is a major governmental bureaucratic industry built on solid waste activity. We control and tax its collection, its movement, its short-term storage, its recycling, its long-distance transport and its landfilling. I've read that more bureaucrats regulate and tax solid waste than private sector workers collect, transport, and dispose of it. While curb cost can be $500 per ton, actual transport and disposal might only be $100 of it, or often less than 20%.
Government often takes where it can, so this example wouldn't really be important if it didn't disrupt the use and conversion of billions of tons of often pure energy. The United States is THE consumer society. We consume to create by-far the world's highest living standard for even our poor. In fact, consumption by all lowers the costs for big screen TVs and for stereos, and for very low cost cars with 100,000 mile warranties, and for medical procedures, and for almost anything and everything. We consume over 75% of the world's disposable income providing the underpinnings for the world's economy. It won't be long before we create one half of the world's economic activity. Consumption also provides huge opportunities for changing or converting organics back into energy to power our consumption and to power our travel and to light our lights.
Today we in the United States dump and waste trillions of possible kilowatts or hundreds of billions gallons of bio-fuels or alcohols. This takes place because enviro-extremists control the solid waste management processes. As they controlled federal energy policy before the G W Bush administration. Their mantra was conservation rather than more productive use of energy. That is why we have almost $3 per gallon gasoline and up to and over 50 cent per kilowatt electricity. The regulations and taxes for solid waste management are driven by groups that hate human kind's footprint on earth. They also demand their form of recycling. Which they feel is pure by requiring that wood is used for wood and plastic is kept as plastic and paper must remain paper. No matter how unproductive and often corrupt that strategy.
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But then why don't we manage our energy so that it provides the greatest possible productivity for our social fabric? Some say it's because the enviro-political climate is really global warming. There is evidence that the past regulatory and taxing environment is so toxic that it kills much of the possible productivity of natural resources.
One excellent example is "solid waste management," sometimes called urban gold. Few processes are as taxed and regulated as solid waste collection and disposal. There is a major governmental bureaucratic industry built on solid waste activity. We control and tax its collection, its movement, its short-term storage, its recycling, its long-distance transport and its landfilling. I've read that more bureaucrats regulate and tax solid waste than private sector workers collect, transport, and dispose of it. While curb cost can be $500 per ton, actual transport and disposal might only be $100 of it, or often less than 20%.
Government often takes where it can, so this example wouldn't really be important if it didn't disrupt the use and conversion of billions of tons of often pure energy. The United States is THE consumer society. We consume to create by-far the world's highest living standard for even our poor. In fact, consumption by all lowers the costs for big screen TVs and for stereos, and for very low cost cars with 100,000 mile warranties, and for medical procedures, and for almost anything and everything. We consume over 75% of the world's disposable income providing the underpinnings for the world's economy. It won't be long before we create one half of the world's economic activity. Consumption also provides huge opportunities for changing or converting organics back into energy to power our consumption and to power our travel and to light our lights.
Today we in the United States dump and waste trillions of possible kilowatts or hundreds of billions gallons of bio-fuels or alcohols. This takes place because enviro-extremists control the solid waste management processes. As they controlled federal energy policy before the G W Bush administration. Their mantra was conservation rather than more productive use of energy. That is why we have almost $3 per gallon gasoline and up to and over 50 cent per kilowatt electricity. The regulations and taxes for solid waste management are driven by groups that hate human kind's footprint on earth. They also demand their form of recycling. Which they feel is pure by requiring that wood is used for wood and plastic is kept as plastic and paper must remain paper. No matter how unproductive and often corrupt that strategy.
If we could only free solid waste from bureaucratic enslavement and abusive taxing and corrupt contracting with select solid waste processors and haulers. That seems almost impossible today. However, another decade of conservative government will allow honest and productive processes to trickle down to all energy conversion opportunities. Bio-fuels can create ten times the electricity today generated by wind and the sun combined. Free our solid waste so it can free range to a cycle of energy efficiency.
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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Democratic Energy Bill Advances
After decades of a one way anti-energy commitment, the House and Senate will soon reconcile an energy policy that looks forward to new and clean energy, while it recognizes the need to dramatically expand fossil fuel exploration, production, and refining within our borders. It's breathtaking what can be achieved when all the people's voices are heard.
America's energy policy has been pointing in the wrong direction for over three decades. Why? Because extremist enviros have been shaping and designing laws and regulations. This misguided and abusive activity has brought us $3 per gallon gasoline and over 50 cent per kilowatt electricity. Today, for the first time in decades, a democratic process that includes all the "stakeholders" has developed a balanced and reasonable bi-partisan legislative product.
The lesson here is that when the elected and bureaucrats become disconnected from the people, mischief results. This is also easy to see in education; medical care; roads and transportation; manufacturing; and other industries and institutions. Institutional and regulatory failures reflect the disconnect from the will of the people. Democracy, with a small d, works better than any elitist inspired arrogance driven process. Why won't some ever understand that?
America's energy policy has been pointing in the wrong direction for over three decades. Why? Because extremist enviros have been shaping and designing laws and regulations. This misguided and abusive activity has brought us $3 per gallon gasoline and over 50 cent per kilowatt electricity. Today, for the first time in decades, a democratic process that includes all the "stakeholders" has developed a balanced and reasonable bi-partisan legislative product.
The lesson here is that when the elected and bureaucrats become disconnected from the people, mischief results. This is also easy to see in education; medical care; roads and transportation; manufacturing; and other industries and institutions. Institutional and regulatory failures reflect the disconnect from the will of the people. Democracy, with a small d, works better than any elitist inspired arrogance driven process. Why won't some ever understand that?
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Sea Levels are Rising?
I just listened to a recent NPR report on the melting of glaciers, especially those in Greenland. The program's science expert was Ira Flatow, who hosts Science Friday on NPR. Mr. Flatow talked at length about the fact that Greenland's glaciers are melting at breathtaking speeds. And he says that: "the world's sea-levels will increase by 20 feet when the ice has melted. He further claimed that other UN based climate predictions assure us that the sea level will increase by 20 feet or more.
Even the US EPA states that sea-levels have increased by as much as 12 inches in the past century. And predicts further increases of as much as 2 feet in this century. The basis for all this speculation is that enviros believe that Arctic Ice and Antarctic Ice are the world's "air conditioners." So as the ice melts, the speed of global warming will inevitably increase dramatically. Gee, this sounds suspiciously like the not-to-popular film: 'Day after Tomorrow."
Yet, as with all global warming and climate change predictions, the actual measurable activities do not support the hot air. In fact, the British Antarctic Survey, one of the most credible Antarctic Stations, estimates otherwise. Their 2004 statement on ice change activities for the Antarctic seems much less sure of its results. Here's the direct quote:
"Ironically there is an opposing effect (to rising sea levels) that scientists are more confident in predicting. If the southern hemisphere climate warms, warmer air will transport more moisture to Antarctica. This will give more precipitation, and the ice sheet will respond by becoming thicker (which it is today). So over the next century changes in Antarctica may actually oppose sea level rise, although it is not known if they (thickening ice changes) will be sufficient to completely counteract the thermal expansion of the oceans and the melting of glaciers outside the Antarctic region."
NPR's Flatow says: "20 feet or more" and the EPA says: "two feet or more" in sea level rise. Yet more respected and real scientific researchers say otherwise. The facts are that the sea level has rising globally by about 1mm or a little more over the past century. Some say the cause was natural thermal expansion, not an increase of water volume. So how on earth can the EPA say that US coastal sea-levels have risen by more than a foot? Because they measure erosion, not the water level. Erosion is the result of storms and man-made coastal development changes, like sea walls and other flow disrupters. But politically, 1mm sea-level rise will not support the enviro-extremist's need to paint a planet plunging into environmental hell.
Even the US EPA states that sea-levels have increased by as much as 12 inches in the past century. And predicts further increases of as much as 2 feet in this century. The basis for all this speculation is that enviros believe that Arctic Ice and Antarctic Ice are the world's "air conditioners." So as the ice melts, the speed of global warming will inevitably increase dramatically. Gee, this sounds suspiciously like the not-to-popular film: 'Day after Tomorrow."
Yet, as with all global warming and climate change predictions, the actual measurable activities do not support the hot air. In fact, the British Antarctic Survey, one of the most credible Antarctic Stations, estimates otherwise. Their 2004 statement on ice change activities for the Antarctic seems much less sure of its results. Here's the direct quote:
"Ironically there is an opposing effect (to rising sea levels) that scientists are more confident in predicting. If the southern hemisphere climate warms, warmer air will transport more moisture to Antarctica. This will give more precipitation, and the ice sheet will respond by becoming thicker (which it is today). So over the next century changes in Antarctica may actually oppose sea level rise, although it is not known if they (thickening ice changes) will be sufficient to completely counteract the thermal expansion of the oceans and the melting of glaciers outside the Antarctic region."
NPR's Flatow says: "20 feet or more" and the EPA says: "two feet or more" in sea level rise. Yet more respected and real scientific researchers say otherwise. The facts are that the sea level has rising globally by about 1mm or a little more over the past century. Some say the cause was natural thermal expansion, not an increase of water volume. So how on earth can the EPA say that US coastal sea-levels have risen by more than a foot? Because they measure erosion, not the water level. Erosion is the result of storms and man-made coastal development changes, like sea walls and other flow disrupters. But politically, 1mm sea-level rise will not support the enviro-extremist's need to paint a planet plunging into environmental hell.
Monday, June 27, 2005
Global Warming from Political Hot Air
Business Week's June 27th issue has a commentary by John Carey headlined: Global Warming: Suddenly the Climate in Washington is Changing. A follow up headline says that "Bush (is) increasingly isolated." It's true that the Senate has come a long way or has drifted far out to see since the 1997 95-0 condemnation of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gases.
Global Warming is not science, it's a political movement. Therefore new scientific research has no affect on the religious left's conclusions. Recently 35 mayors of the nation's largest cities unanimously petitioned the Whitehouse for so-called greenhouse gas emission controls. Then Democrats announced in the Senate that they seek a climate change amendment to be attached to the energy bill. On June 14th, the Administration "fired a shot across the senate's bow, warning to veto any climate change amendments.
So what has changed in the political landscape inside the Beltway? As all religious movements, this one's adherents are out recruiting daily. The fervor and intensity is breathtaking. And for some, whether there is global warming or not is irrelevant. They believe that slower economic growth and less energy use is just plain good sense.
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Global Warming is not science, it's a political movement. Therefore new scientific research has no affect on the religious left's conclusions. Recently 35 mayors of the nation's largest cities unanimously petitioned the Whitehouse for so-called greenhouse gas emission controls. Then Democrats announced in the Senate that they seek a climate change amendment to be attached to the energy bill. On June 14th, the Administration "fired a shot across the senate's bow, warning to veto any climate change amendments.
So what has changed in the political landscape inside the Beltway? As all religious movements, this one's adherents are out recruiting daily. The fervor and intensity is breathtaking. And for some, whether there is global warming or not is irrelevant. They believe that slower economic growth and less energy use is just plain good sense.
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