Posted on 12/14/2015 8:46:56 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
The only good news is that it will never be ratified
One of the ways you can tell the media’s bias is from the descriptive words they use about something that happens. When a development is “landmark†or “historic,†that means they’re in love with it. When it’s “controversial†or “divisive†. . . yeah, you get the idea.
So it’s a measure of just how smitten with state power they’ve become that an international agreement designed to decimate the fossil fuels industry while putting crushing controls and regulations on all manufacturing - not to mention massive new taxes and fees - has got them throwing flowers and lecturing everyone about how they got the deal this time because “the world learned its lesson†from its previous failure to come up with a global warming deal.
I hope they enjoy riding around on solar passenger planes someday.. maybe hot air ballooons too..
I just invested in oil and gas stocks.
:-)
I am betting they fail.
The author says he does not think the Senate will ever ratify the treaty. I agree. Even if the Senate was controlled by solid dems, I really don’t think they’d ratify it. I really don’t think they are that mind boggling stupid.
They actually had to modify the text of the ‘agreement’ at the last moment to remove like one or two words. The reason was that those words would have imposed penalties on non-compliers, but that would have made the agreement a ‘treaty’, which the GOP Senate would never have ratified. Instead the removed the ‘penalties’ which allowed it to be certified without needing congress’ consent. If there is any silver-lining in this change, if the US doesn’t ‘comply’ with the agreement, we can tell them to go pound sand since there is no enforcement/penalty imposed.
Except meanwhile, money is getting doled out "save the world" from this phony cause.
Do not ever count on any colony of Democrats, in the aggregate, to not turn en masse to mind boggling stupid conclusions. Mind boggling stupidity is their default setting. Almost none of them are capable of even rudimentary critical thinking.
That said, there is no known possible scenario by with the so-called “fossil fuels” will not still be a very significant part of any energy production picture in the future. We can MAKE a substance similar to crude oil on an industrial basis, by a process called Thermal depolymerization, using hydrous pyrolysis for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often biomass and plastic) into light crude oil, WAY better than most of the stuff pumped up out of the ground. All we need to drive the process is heat.
Heat we can get cheaply and almost endlessly from the deployment of thorium-fueled molten-salt nuclear reactors. Once initiated, these reactors can run for YEARS on relatively little consumption of the original fuel, Thorium, and with an almost total absence of any long-lived radioactive atomic isotopes.
Over the long range, conversion of practically all our baseline energy power production to these thorium-fueled molten-salt power plants would do almost exactly what the “green revolution” enviroweenies claim they WANT to do, but because it would make the availability of cheap energy just TOO accessible to most of humanity (and therefore making life easier for the vast majority of mankind), it would only lead to still more “overpopulation”, and that, to them, is a very bad thing.
Mind boggling stupid is the greatest challenge that shall continue to face the human race far into the future.
Just for giggles, I randomly email news stations and ask what their carbon footprint is and what they plan to do about it.
Received one reply; ‘thanks for your interest’ form letter.
The “fossil” energy companies should get together and on the same day announce, “You are right. Today we have shutdown all of our operations world wide. Thank you.” and then leave.
Think of it as an Atlas Shrugged style strike.
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