Posted on 07/25/2013 7:17:57 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Zeitgiest is shifting. The unthinkable is now thought, and in public.
From: The Times July 23, 2013 12:00AM, Reprinted in The Australian
Soon will come the time when everyone says “I always knew it was wrong”.
Tim Montgomerie notes the great backdown of Kevin Rudd on the carbon tax and lays out the global carnage in the climate meme:
Throughout the world green politicians are presiding over similar climbdowns. From Washington to London, shale gas rather than any renewable technology is seen as the future. Even nations such as Germany and Spain, which led the march to green energy, are slashing unaffordable subsidies to the renewables industry. British Conservative Nigel Lawson has claimed that the average share price of companies in the renewable sector has fallen by 80 per cent over five years. “One renewable company after another is going bankrupt,” he declared. The heavy cost of green energy policies might have been justifiable if they had delivered results, but they haven’t. Since the Kyoto treaty on climate change, global emissions have continued to rise. Since 1990 they have increased by about 50 per cent. China’s increase in emissions has been 25 times greater than the reduction by the EU’s core nations. In so far as Europe has actually met its environmental obligations, it has only done so by exporting industrial capacity (and jobs). Once the environmental impact of imported goods has been added to its carbon footprint, Europe has clearly failed to keep its environmental promises.
One commentator, Bjorn Lomborg, spelt out the futility of Europe’s unilateral environmentalism. Germany’s efforts to combat climate change might, he calculated, just possibly delay a rise in global temperatures by 37 hours, but that delay will have cost German taxpayers and consumers more than $US100 billion in the form of renewable subsidies and higher electricity costs. That’s about $US3bn an hour.
Green enthusiasts are kidding themselves if they blame the global economic slump for the failure of climate change policies. Their policies were always an attempt to defy economic gravity.
Montgomerie’s description of Rudd is very short:
… in the past 10 days one of the greenest of green politicians has to all intents, constructions and purposes given up. Last week, Australia’s green movement suffered a defeat at least as big as those of the country’s cricket and rugby teams. Rudd announced he would ditch the carbon tax that had threatened to consign his Labor Party to one of the worst defeats in its history…
Some will argue that Rudd has shifted to a trading scheme which is what he always wanted, and he’s only brought it forward by a year. But everyone knows that the reason for the shift was not because it would be “better for the climate” to reduce the carbon-price by 70%. Even Rudd himself admits the shift was to reduce the cost of living pressures.
Priority number one is not the environment. (But don’t expect Rudd to say that).
They didn’t just fund fake research. They literally cost this country a fortune in regulations based on that hoax and brainwashed an entire generation of Americans with bullcrap.
When the school districts and states and the US Dept of Lies take it out of the curriculum
1. destroy capitalism
2. grow government power
3. enslave us ( take away our rights and freedom)
many more reasons but these are the main ones , in one word :socialism/democrats . it's the same thing democrats=socialism
Its actually going to get a lot colder in the next few years.
Google solar cycle 24 and solar cycle 25. we are in 24 now and it is a small one( we should start seeing the effects in a few years, extremely cold and long winters). already this spring was the coldest in memory.
The governmentS spent 30 years funding fake research for a Hoax called global warming. If this doesn’t show people that government is the threat and that government/socialism can never work then I don’t know what will.
I’ve had a lot of debates with democrats. and they all believe in global warming. I tell them it’s a hoax and they look at me like I have 2 heads. they really believe the evil news media. I tell them I’ll see you in 2 years when the world will start getting colder (solar cycle 24 ) . will these democrats realize that the gov and media has been lying to them for 30 years and then realize what else they’ve been lied to about?
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Yes and the media went along with the Hoax too. for 30 years gov and the media have screeched “global warming”.
I can’t wait to see democrats with egg on their face as the world starts to cool in the next few years.
Its actually going to get a lot colder in the next few years.
Google solar cycle 24 and solar cycle 25. we are in 24 now and it is a small one( we should start seeing the effects in a few years, extremely cold and long winters). already this spring was the coldest in memory.
In the last couple of years the GW nonsense has been changed to “Climate Change” which means they can point at ANYTHING in nature and blame human activity.
You are so right that green laws and taxes are causing more greenhouse gases as manufacturing is ever more being forced to relocate to third world countries.
I had one tell me to invest in sunscreen because “I saw this movie.”
I told her that a fur coat would be a better investment. She just stared. And, BTW, *recycled* fur coats are very trendy among the hipousie.
I’ve known these folks for 40 years and more. They are simply hypocrites in absolutely every facet of their lives. I would not be surprised to discover they are all prepped to the max and just not telling anyone, including their own children.
Yes, I’ve noticed that, too. They spout “global warming” until the “warming” part doesn’t fit - then it’s changed to “climate change”. As if the climate doesn’t change naturally and has since time began...
There’s islands in the Pacific that are a few inches above sea level - they were the first that were suppose to ‘go under’ with global warming. They’re still there - still dry - and the left’s quit talking about them...
Seems what happens is one liberal tells a lie then the others add to it and new quotes are manufactured.
I wonder how he is feeling about now or is he in denial.
“We have a friend who fell for this globull warming BS. He changed his roofing business into a solar panel business.
I wonder how he is feeling about now or is he in denial.”
One of our younger relatives and his wife sold out to the green cause for the real green cause $’.
His wife’s relatives have had nothing to do with them or their children. Her relatives called it an attack on America and an act of treason.
He has had similar responses from his siblings, aunts and uncles. He and I used to be in fairly common communication. Now, it is basically a holiday update and happy birthday.
We have heard that his otherwise very intelligent wife has become a strident green liberal and blames we the dumb for their problems.
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