Posted on 03/14/2011 10:09:52 AM PDT by Signalman
Have you noticed that you rarely hear “global warming” mentioned on radio or television and the term rarely occurs any more in the print media?
One reason is that it has been replaced with “climate change” and the other reason is that the only people talking about climate change seem to be leaders of governments like the United States or Australia.
To borrow a line from Shakespeare, I come to bury global warming, not to praise it.
An early and unrelenting skeptic from the days it first debuted in the late 1980s, I rather instinctively knew that the only warming occurring was the same natural warming that always follows a cooling cycle; in this case the warming that began in 1850 after the Little Ice Age that began around 1300.
It never made sense to me that “industry” should be blamed for pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when the amount of CO2 was a minuscule 0.038 percent with far greater amounts of hydrogen and oxygen that protect the Earth from becoming the galactic equivalent of a toasted marshmallow.
Then, too, like oxygen, all life on Planet Earth is dependent on CO2, a gas that the Environmental Protection Agency is actually calling a “pollutant.” That is so absurd that I was confident people would laugh the whole “theory” out the door when it was first proposed. But that was over two decades ago.
The end didn’t begin until November 2009 and the release of thousands of “Climategate” emails between the meteorologists supplying the bogus data that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) used to generate the greatest hoax of the modern era.
Not since the discovery of the “Piltdown Man” had so many scientists allowed themselves to be taken in by a complete fabrication; one based entirely on falsified computer model data. Worse still, many climbed on board the global warming bandwagon to reap some of the billions in grant money involved.
The fact that “global warming” was generated by the United Nations should have been the red flag that something was not just wrong about it, but that it hid an agenda aimed at Western industrialized nations.
I think global warming gained credibility as much from the support of the leaders of Western nations as from the great difficulty skeptical scientists encountered in gaining any traction against it. To this day President Obama still prattles on about the need for solar and wind power to replace fossil fuels in order to avoid “climate change” from their use.
The current Prime Minister of Australia is busy trying to impose a carbon tax on that nation. The British have dug themselves a deep hole by embracing windmills instead of coal mines. Billions have been wasted by Spain and Germany on alternative energy sources.
The anti-energy agenda will have devastating affects on life in the West. Electricity consumers in the United Kingdom were recently told by the CEO of the country’s grid operation that, by 2020, they will have to get used to having no electricity for periods during the day and night. This will put the U.K. on par with North Korea. And the U.S. is not far behind if it does not quickly reverse current energy policies.
In the U.S., the leading voice for “global warming” became the former Vice President Al Gore who, following his defeat for the presidency, set about becoming a multimillionaire with all manner of “global warming” projects and enterprises. He would eventually win an Oscar for his documentary and a Nobel Peace Prize that was shared by the IPCC. Today, however, Al Gore is a joke.
The legacy of “global warming” has been the decades-long attack on U.S. energy sources until today our vast resources of coal and oil remain in the ground instead of being available as the price of oil increases due to troubles in the Middle East and the cost of electricity increases due to laws mandating that utilities must buy from wind and solar electricity producers who would be out of business by next week without those government mandates.
The public acceptance of the “global warming” hoax has waned even as the mainstream media has tried to hide the truth. The rise of the Internet has seen to that and other more pressing, real challenges are shoveling dirt onto its grave. 9/11 refocused public attention on a real threat. The 2008 financial crisis still holds the nation in its grip.
And a President whose first two years have generated massive resistance now only occasionally references “climate change.”
The global warming corpse is not quite dead, but dead enough for now. The question is what new fraud will the United Nations and environmental organizations perpetrate? The “acidification” of the world’s oceans? “Species extinction” or “Invasive species”? Be assured, the UN mafia is at work on something.
Now, in the wake of Japan, I see little possibility that the US will build a couple dozen nuclear power plants in the near future.
So, the choices are very stark:
1) Live in caves
2) Burn a whole lot of coal and other fossil fuels
I know which way the Left wants us to go, but I don't see it happening. No one is buying the crap they want to sell.
Not too smart to build GE reactors on an Eathquake fault with no good safety system.
“Global Wraming” was simply the means by which socialists attempted to push their ideology on the world.
If we simply let it pass, they will find another method.
They must all be prosecuted to the full extent. A bloody nose is the only thing that will stop the fearmongering.
When was the last time you heard of the Ozone Hole?
And how many regulations affecting everything from Halon production (the most effective fire suppressor) to CFCs and air conditioner chemicals are still on the books and in our lives raising the costs of living for us all?
We can’t let the lib extreme enviornuts get away with this increased cost of libbing again.
Last week our Receptionist sent an e-mail to everyone that the Kona Blend Coffee was being discontinued due to Climate Change. Knowing that coffee is not indigenous to Hawaii I immediately called BS. As it turns out, a beetle, that is also not indigenous to Hawaii found its way to the Kona region and destroyed the berries. The Hawaiian Department of Agriculture is not calling it industrial sabotage yet. But the Climate Change charge was based on Hawaii not getting enough “SNOW”!
Then, too, like oxygen, all life on Planet Earth is dependent on CO2, a gas that the Environmental Protection Agency is actually calling a “pollutant.”I'd like to see a Global Ad Campaign with the theme:
Check Yourself; You Are Carbon
Check The Trees; They Are Carbon
We were lied to for years by the warming fraudsters and their left-wing government allies. It cost us trillions while they dithered....it will take time to grow strong again and we need to never allow them to take control of the energy platform. Call them what they are LIARS, CHEATS and FRAUDS.
Those reactors are holding up rather well. After all, they survived an earthquake *seven times* more powerful than their design spec.
Just so, if the government wants to protect us from CO2, the sun, or from warm summers, we just have to say "No thanks". It's not government's job.
When government does more, it just increases the problems. It never helps.
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Can you back up that absurd assertion? This seems to indicate there are several very well designed safety systems. fukushima-simple-explanation
A good safety system works.
Wonderful logic. Here is more of this logic:
Not too smart to build bullet trains on an Eathquake fault with no good safety system
Not too smart to build bridges on an Eathquake fault with no good safety system
Not too smart to build convenience stores with tall shelves on an Eathquake fault with no good safety system
Not too smart to build overhead electric transmission lines on an Eathquake fault with no good safety system
Stop the fearmongering. It plays right into the hands of opportunistic leftists. The plants have, and will, contain the nuclear fuel after an 8.9 earthquake, AS THEY WERE DESIGNED TO DO.
What are you talking about. It is not smart to build nuke plants on quake faults. Never was never will be. Build them in safer places. Duhh!
If you don't believe me, do you remember any pre-1880's TV reports before of earthquakes anywhere in the world?
What can you tell me about their "no good safety system"?
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