The Great Global Warming Swindle Full Movie
This program touches on all of the fatal flaws of the AGW movement. It is an antidote to mass hysteria.
Steyn addressed climate change conference
Fast forward to Steyn’s keynote speech. It’s amazing.
carts before horses
In his book The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science, Tim Ball, Phd, reported that on July 5th, 2005, Phil Jones, Directer of the CRU [Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia], wrote in an email to a colleague;
“If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political it is being selfish.”
Therefore, climate change is an unproven hypothesis – an experiment waiting for corroborating data. Mr. Jones is too generous in calling this science. This is a belief system.
Let your mind imagine an estimate of the opportunity costs incurred the world over from all of the unproven hypotheticals that have been translated into public policy without any corroborating evidence. Imagine what could have been done with all those resources, all those man-hours, and all that energy, had the work been available to accomplish necessary objectives, rather than hyped-up political fantasies. Imagine all of the real problem solutions foregone while men chased rainbows.
A man can only do so much in a lifetime. We should cull out the unproven hypotheticals from our public policies, no matter how sexy they sound. Translation – government has no business getting involved with 90% of what it attempts to do.
smoking guns and global warming scams
“Michael Mann got rid of the MWP [Medieval Warm Period] with his production of the hockey stick[.]” Tim Ball PhD, The Deliberate Corruption Of Climate Science, 2014, p. 72.
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http://therightclimatestuff.com/
ACLU Key Issues
From the ACLU 50-State Survey for January of 2012:
- Access to abortion and birth control. [Must keep killing babies.]
- Equal treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered. [Must treat those who display sexual preference the same as those who do not.]
- Protection against racial profiling and discrimination by law enforcement. [Must not profile those most likely to commit terrorism.]
- Equal access for eligible residents to vote. [As opposed to citizens.]
- Non-preferential treatment of any one religion by the government. [Except Islam.]
- Preventing the teaching of creationism and intelligent design from interfering with the teaching of evolution in public school science classes. [When government sanctions a theory it must be protected. See global warming.]
Let’s see: infant death and dismemberment, sexual obsession, terrorism, illegal aliens, Sharia, spurious government science. That’s an impressive series of harmful policies to rack up by one organization in one fund-raising mailer. How did I get on this nutjob mailing list? Yeah I’m going to send them a check, where’s my pen?
Thank you American law schools.
planning hubris
Problems with the 07-2011 Draft Oil & Gas Regs proposed for Elbert County Zoning
Page 5: “…unless approval has been granted pursuant to these regulations from the Director of Community & Development Services (C&DS) or the Board of County Commissioners (Board).”
Are we setting up an unelected czar of oil and gas zoning enforcement, unaccountable to the voters?
Page 6: “the County Attorney or where the Board deems it appropriate, the District Attorney……may [act]”
Here again, should enforcement of zoning be allowed without the approval of an elected official?
Page 21: “Safety practices in accordance with state and federal law, including the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970….”
Elbert County should not be in the business of enforcing federal OSHA law.
Page 23: “The oil and gas facility shall not cause significant degradation of wildlife, including any federal, state or Colorado Natural Heritage Program-identified species of concern, or to their habitat. At a minimum, the operation shall comply with the CDOW’s recommended…..”
The CDOW, Colorado and the federal government can enforce their own wildlife regulations. Elbert County does not need to duplicate those efforts.
Page 23: “When planning facilities, the Applicant shall consult and reference the current wildlife concurrence data, including the CDOW’s Natural Diversity Information Source database…”
Bio-diversity is buzzword science with no greater purpose than stopping development. It has no place in industry zoning regulations.
Page 25: “install wildlife crossovers and escape ramps where the trench crosses well-defined game trails”
Presumably this would be for the really smart or well trained wild game, who know how to use such devices.
Page 26: “The applicant shall identify the proposed source of fresh or potable water required for the oil and gas facility and dust control, along with a letter from the Colorado Division of Water Resources or a copy of the Water Court decree indicating that the water supply source is acceptable for the use at the oil and gas facility.”
Here again, water regulation falls outside of Elbert County’s jurisdiction. It’s a matter for the State Engineer.
Page 37: “the right of the county to determine land uses”
Isn’t it the people’s right to determine land use within allowed limits? I thought government in America was based on limitations, not rights.
Page 39: “No oil and gas facilities shall cause a reduction in solar radiation…”
Isn’t it a reach to blame the existence or absence of solar radiation on an oil well?
Page 39: “Greenhouse Gas Reduction”
Zoning regulations should not incorporate the spurious science of global warming language.
Page 40: “The county finds that the standard industry practice of injecting highly toxic substances under high pressure into the earth for the purpose of fracturing geologic formations poses an unacceptable risk of polluting these invaluable ground water resources.”
This statement ascribes a harmful intent to the oil and gas industry as a “standard practice.” The statement is prejudicial, unfounded, and not conducive to sound science or good industry relations.
If the Community and Development Services department needs a toxic blend to regulate, look to the toxic combination of subjects below under which this post is filed.
New planning game!
The Cellulosic Ethanol Debacle
“DECEMBER 14, 2011
Congress mandated purchase of 250 million gallons in 2011. Actual production: 6.6 million.
‘We’ll fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass. Our goal is to make this new kind of ethanol practical and competitive within six years.”
—George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union address [Read more…]
Cedar Point Windmills at sunrise
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change back
don’t tax me O
From the Competitive Enterprise Institute
From the Wall Street Journal
Bound to Burn
“If we’re truly worried about carbon, we must instead approach it as if the emissions originated in an annual eruption of Mount Krakatoa. Don’t try to persuade the volcano to sign a treaty promising to stop. Focus instead on what might be done to protect and promote the planet’s carbon sinks—the systems that suck carbon back out of the air and bury it.”
color me skeptical
“There is no such dichotomy as Reds AND Greens, but Green Reds, and vice versa. It was a deep concern for the livable planet being saved that pointed me originally towards socialism and revolution. That will not change, and Marx only made me a more confirmed green.”
carbon conceit
“Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.” President Obama
“This is the justification for the imposition of a carbon cap-and-trade system that will cost $2 trillion. But Obama does not understand science. “Settled science” is an oxymoron, and anyone who characterizes science as “settled” or “indisputable” is ignorant not only of science, but also history and philosophy……… President Obama, a lawyer and politician, would now have us believe that the process of history has stopped. For the first time, scientific knowledge is not provisional and subject to revision, but final and settled……… Knowledge begins with skepticism and ends with conceit.” Prof. David Deming
“The presumption of sufficient knowledge for central planning is not new. It’s what Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek termed the “fatal conceit.” There is no historical evidence that any government has ever planned a major economic intervention that worked as planned, even with mid-course corrections.” William O’Keefe
Discussion Draft Summary – THE AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY AND SECURITY ACT OF 2009
DISCUSSION DRAFT – American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
Václav Klaus
Porkulus Rex
Read it and weep.
change that defies belief
Surreal Spending
The House is poised to take a final vote on the compromise $800-billion spending bill on, appropriately, Friday the 13th, with the Senate likely to follow soon after.
In my 36 years in Washington, I have never seen such a surreal environment, with hundreds of billions of dollars in borrowed taxpayer money being spent without committee hearings or even meaningful public debate over the thousands of new and expanded programs the bill funds. [Read more…]
Obama goes to the bully pulpit
Barack Obama Washington Post Editorial
re: “…the same old partisan gridlock that stands in the way of action…”
It’s not enough that the Democrats have control of the House, control of the Senate, control of the Presidency, and a liberal majority on the Supreme Court?
When did a limp-wristed majority afraid to act on its’ own beliefs become “partisan gridlock?” You can’t blame Republicans for the Democrats’ lack of courage to support their own convictions.
And elevating Republicans’ reasonable disagreement with socialist programs to the virtual level of a thought crime is frankly Orwellian. If socialist programs had ever accomplished what they set out to do, anywhere, anytime in history that they have been tried, Republicans would probably sign on. But we’ve been down this road of failed big government responses to economic crisis, and many people who lived through the Great Depression are still alive to attest to those socialist failures. The way to stimulate our economy is to get government off our backs and allow people to keep the fruits of their labors.
The stimulus plan the President brought out of the House is built on False Dilemmas, ineffective solutions, poor returns on the dollar, and arbitrary market dislocations. It benefits one class – the government bureaucrat class. Everyone else loses.
Great. The American people get the government they deserve. And the government they got is Democrats who don’t need Republicans to pass their stimulus plan. What they need is to grow a pair, men and women alike, and pass their plans in the light of day as THEIR plans, and be judged by THEIR plans’ results as Democrats. And if they can’t muster the testosterone to be held accountable for their own plans, they have no one to blame but themselves.
And Republicans need to grow some pairs too. Conservative philosophy is worth standing on. They must hold the line and not agree to another dollar of spending or taxation. It would be a big mistake for them to try to blend in with Democrats at this juncture. Look what happened the last time a Republican tried to pass himself off as a Democrat – the McCain campaign lost definitively. Tax and spend is a guaranteed loser for a Republican.
Democrats don’t need bi-partisan support to enact their plans, and each time they ask for it, Republicans should lock their mouths shut and throw away the key. The change Republicans need in Washington is to quit the spending spree that went on under President Bush, learn when to keep their mouths shut, and start acting conservatively.
Also See: Alyssa Lappen on Stimulus Plan
Also See: The Fierce Urgency of Pork