Interesting. Hmmmmmm.
Posted on 05/16/2020 8:38:22 AM PDT by rktman
Fifty years ago, I helped organize Earth Day #1 programs on my college campus, calling attention to serious pollution problems that afflicted much of the USA. Over the ensuing decades, laws, regulations, and changed attitudes, practices and technologies reduced most of that pollution, often dramatically.
I didn’t buy into the 1970 end-is-nigh, doom-and-gloom, billions-will-die hysteria that Ron Stein and Ron Bailey summarize, including the manmade global cooling crisis. I don’t buy it today, either – certainly not this year’s Earth Day focus on the alleged manmade global warming crisis, also blamed on emissions of carbon dioxide, the same gas that humans and animals exhale, and plants use to grow. We’re told the crisis is unprecedented, and poses existential threats to humanity and planet. What nonsense.
But what I find fascinating in all this is the steadfast, often nasty determination of scientists, politicians and interest groups promoting alarmist themes – and profiting immensely from them – to reject and deny any science, history and evidence that undermines their claim that nothing like this ever happened before.
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Interesting. Hmmmmmm.
The first rule of liberals is “We ruin everything we touch.”
The second rule of liberals is: “Our only standard is a double standard.”
The third rule of liberals is: “The only true science is our science.”
These rules have allowed them to maintain their unbroken record of being wrong in virtually everything they associate themselves with.
We’re in 3rd place? That will never do. Need to crank it up.
Excluding non-combustion energy (hydroelectric, etc)? All reduced to a single unit of measurement, for example BTU's? Is this correct?
Just trying to figure out what it's a chart "of".
In Search Of... The Coming Ice Age
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_861us8D9M
By Leonard Nimoy, Spock !!!
It was all the rage when I was a kid!
Sorry, my bad…annual CO2 emission from 2019.
And believe me the climagaggle would NOT like the opposite of what they’re currently whining about.
THANKS!
In August 1965 my family went to the Worlds Fair in New York City. A relative of my father — a teacher who lived in Manhattan — was taking her vacation elsewhere, and invited my parents to use her apartment as a pied-à-terre while we visited the fair (had she not done this, we could not have afforded the trip).
It was the first time I had ever set foot in Manhattan. I had recently turned ten, and had only seen Manhattan on TV. The visit was very intense for me, a sensory overload situation unlike anything I had ever experienced before.
One of the vivid memories I retain of that visit was what we saw the morning we set off for the Worlds Fair. We came out of the apartment building out onto the street and started walking east, toward the sunrise. It was probably 7:30 or 8:00 in the morning. It was going to be a sunny, hot day, and as we walked I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The sky, visible from the floor of a canyon of tall buildings, was pure yellow and virtually as bright as an arc light, from the horizon up. I could only see blue sky by looking straight up, and even that looked a hazy and washed-out shade of blue. The sky in front of me was too bright to look at for more than a second or two. I had never seen anything like that before in my life. I couldn't understand why the sky looked like that; it certainly didn't look yellow in the morning where we lived, more than 200 miles to the north-west of Manhattan.
Of course I have a good many memories of the fair, the IBM exhibit, the General Motors exhibit, the Pieta, the Unisphere, the New York State pavilion, still there and rusting away.
But the other big memory I wanted to relate is from the ride home. Instead of going north back the way we came on the Thruway, we went west, through the Holland Tunnel into New Jersey on Route 78. As we drove along the Pulaski Skyway toward Newark, we passed a large electric power plant. It had five smokestacks, and these were belching dark gray smoke into the air at a furious rate. I imagine the power grid was operating at full output because of all the air conditioning load due to the hot August weather. Actually, my memory is that there were two of these five-smokestack power plants visible as we drove west through the most densely-populated part of New Jersey, but I'm not completely sure of that; I am sure there was at least one.
The rate at which this thing was pumping out smoke into the atmosphere had to be seen to be believed. It was coming out of the stacks seemingly under pressure, billowing out laterally at the upward-facing mouth of each chimney stack. At the age of ten, I was already very interested in machines and technology of all types, and I found the sight of this fascinating and amazing, as you can probably tell by the vividness of my memory of it. The idea that I was watching the pollution of the air I was breathing didn't occur to me.
My point in telling this story is that the level of pollution that was tolerated by Americans before the awakening of environmental awareness in the late '60s and through the 1970s is almost impossible to imagine today. Now, all those plants in North Jersey are gone, I believe. Certainly the ones that burn coal or heavy fuel oil are gone, although I think there are some gas-turbine plants that burn natural gas still there. If there are any coal-burning plants still in the region, they have enormous filters on their exhaust streams, in buildings almost as large as the buildings that house the boilers and turbine halls.
I've been in Manhattan in recent years, and nothing like that yellow morning sky can still be seen today. Just a memory, that I feel lucky to have experienced.
***alleged man made global warming crisis, also blamed on emissions of carbon dioxide,***
POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)
“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”
Kind of beautiful in a sci-fi sort of way, but horrifying to know that we were soon going to be dropping down into there and having to breathe that air.
The number one rule of the left is “The end justifies the means”.
Great points
LOL! Did the same in the 60’s coming in from Albuquerque on I-40. Scary polluted.
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