Posted on 09/21/2014 5:47:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The sky is always falling. If the new ice age doesn’t do us in, the ozone hole will. The instant DDT is banned, aerosols must follow. Global warming is replaced by climate change is replaced by “global weirding.”
And what is the solution to these often-contradictory scenarios? We anachronists who retain a bias toward the hard sciences would employ very different measures to prevent a freezing ocean and a boiling one. To an engineer, soldier or plumber, this is obvious.
But how do leaders of the environmental left address these opposing doomsdays? By raising taxes, increasing government, impeding capitalism and reducing national sovereignty. Coincidentally, the same policies they would promote if their supposed environmental catastrophe was utter fiction. It is little wonder that voters are suspicious.
When natural gas production was a too-expensive alternative to oil, the environmental lobby promoted it as a surefire way to reduce carbon emissions. Close the coal- and oil-fired plants; convert cars to run on CNG. Yes, it will devastate industries, cost jobs and burn billions of dollars, but think of the children!
Since even malevolent industrialists love their kids, energy barons took the greens’ advice and found cheaper, more efficient ways to extract and transport natural gas. What a victory for the movement! But instead of celebrating, envirolobbyists rent their garments over their once-miraculous fuel. The instant green energy translated into Big Oil profits, progressives placed the CNG and fracking on their naughty list.
When carbon emissions were labeled agents of the apocalypse, engineers noted that the only atmospheric emission from nuclear plants is water vapor. If greenhouse gases were as dangerous as claimed, Gaia’s savior, at least for a time, was the humble atom.
Again the environmentalists turned on a dime, alleging that CO2 is bad, but tiny amounts of nuclear waste buried under mountain ranges was, well, icky. Sure, there are now vastly safer waste-reducing solutions, but did you hard-science-types forget the cool bumper stickers on our VW microbus? The China Syndrome won Oscars, you know.
Every time a real-world solution is provided to a promised calamity, leftist leaders move the goalposts. To be sure, many well-meaning parishioners have bought the con and piously observe the demanding rituals of earth worship. But the high priests still jet around the globe, chasing checks from energy tycoons to build monstrous mansions along doomed coastlines.
That’s because the Left doesn’t really believe in climate change. Their true religion is raising taxes, increasing government, impeding capitalism and reducing national sovereignty. Climate change is just a temporary excuse to achieve those ends.
Change is for chumps. Eternal taxation for Democrat coffers brings in lots of green.
Saw an excerpt on the news about Climate Day .... first thing that entered my mind was “lemmings”.
It would be an excellent test and wake up call for these crazies to turn off all the coal, gas and nuclear plants for 72 hours and let them power their lives with solar and wind ....
Freon, the most inert substance in existence after the noble gases, is still classified as a hazardous substance.
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Bigfoot deniers should be locked up!
Its really the same message the left has on climate change.
Of course not. All they want is more regulations, more taxes, and more money they can divert into their pockets. Larger corporations want to make it impossible for smaller corporations to grow and compete with them.
Modern day “liberals” don’t believe in climate change or any of that BS. What they believe in is power and control. Fascism is an old idea, just wearing new clothes spun by the MSM.
It’s also far heavier than air. So why does it alone rise instead of all the other heavier than airelements? One would thing the planet would be bare...
Perhaps science should study it’s mystical anti gravity properties for a space drive system.
Close. Their ultimate goal is central economic planning (i.e. communism) and it always has been. Note how for over a hundred years the socialists smugly assured us that their policies would end poverty. Yet after the Berlin wall came down and it could no longer be seriously disputed that socialist policies actually cause poverty, everyone on the left suddenly became an environmentalist and in doing so have made poverty their goal.
Al Gore was the Vice President of the United States for eight years. What did he do in that time? Nothing.
You aren’t supposed to notice those trifling details. They lead to doubt comrade. Get your mind right...
But, SCOTUS did rule that CO2 was a pollutant and told EPA to regulate it using the Clean Air Act.
Of course they don’t believe it.
If it were as bad as they say then it is too late for remedial action and they’d be better off figuring out a way to manage the problem.
If they believed climate change was going to cause sea level to rise 5 feet in the next 20 years as they claim they’d be advocating to hire every available Mexican to build a sea-wall from Port Isabel to the Saint Lawrence Seaway and another one down the West coast. Since they are not doing that they don’t believe the threat is that serious.
Climate change is very real. For example, the average climate of the northern hemisphere is so cold as to cause the ground to be buried under a thousand feet of ice. The cycle of glacier on/glacier off takes place every several hundred thousand years and can be clearly seen in many ways. Even as the science is settled that glaciation has taken place, the causes are still undergoing vigorous debate.
With respect to the idea that humans are causing harmful changes to the climate at this very moment, I am waiting for some peer-reviewed papers that propose what the optimum climate is for our biosphere. The first question that would naturally flow would be where is our current climate and trend in relation to this finding.
Strangely, nobody seems interested in this vital comparison. Not so strangely, the solutions that are frequently demanded in the most urgent voice, all converge on a socialist worldview: statism, bigger government, higher taxes, less personal liberty. That bigger picture tells me all that I need to know about “climate science”.
I don’t think the left really believes 90% of the crap they spew.
He gave us the illegal internet phone tax.
If they cut carbon (CO2) in half, it could end life as we know it on this planet.
If CO2 were cut in half, life as we know it on this planet would cease to exist
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