Oh, and it is not insane to foist the Kyoto Protocols on mankind before their effects had been properly assessed?
Lets face it: scientists are much better at building crazy contraptions to blow up the world than figuring out ways to save it. Just let them do what we already know they’re good at.
Billy Joel once had a song, called "We didn't start the fire"
According to them, we did.
Good God. Isn’t converting coal to fuel an over 60 year old technology.
biofuel is better than buying oil from ragheads.
BTW, why does the
US have to feed everybody?
Why do mammals have fur? Every bit of energy you use becomes WASTE HEAT. If you INSULATED your own house like mammals are naturally insulated, you wouldn’t NEED biofuels, just FOOD to eat. A rough calc : with a two foot thick layer of urethane foam insulation all around a 1500 sf house(R 168), a couch potato cranking out 1250 BTUH would keep the interior at 72 deg F with outside temp at 32 deg F. You are all looking thru the telescope at new energy sources, look instead at CONSERVATION; why ever do you need to heat the cold, dark night sky by pouring your own heat-money thru your own house windows/poorly insulated walls?
Eventually all these things have to stop at the ballot box. We didn't get lower taxes until we wanted them enough to elect enough people, and one in particular, who would lower them. Right now, at least half of the voters want more taxes and more regulation which is how there are two hard leftists and the RAT side of the equation. Sadly, a majority of the other half of the electorate also wants more taxes and more regulation except that they want 1/3-1/2 as much as the RAT side which is how there is a enthusiastic global warming regulator and reluctant tax cutter on the Stupid Party side of the equation.
The insanity seems like it has a while to go yet.
Why not let the market decide?
Oh, and it is not insane to foist the Kyoto Protocols on mankind before their effects had been properly assessed?
Didn't stop the US from requiring it.
Biofuels could work, but using agricultural land to do it is stupid. We have deserts and oceans to grow bacteria, seaweed, or other fast-growing non-consumables that could be made into biofuel rather than corn.
Of course, the real reason for using corn is because of agricultural lobbying of congress. The real innovation here is that the agricultural industry found a way to latch on to the global warming hysteria. That is the only type of innovation that the government promotes today.
spacedaily.com
‘Chaos’ as snowstorm sweeps Finland
Transport links by air, land and sea were seriously disrupted Wednesday as a snowstorm battered the country, leaving one person dead in a road accident.
The fatality occurred when a car collided with a bus near Turku, in the south west, officials said.
Flight delays and cancellations were reported at Helsinki’s Vantaa airport, while ferries between Helsinki and the Estonian capital Tallin stopped running due to high winds at sea.
“It’s chaos in the capital,” said Helsinki police spokesman Jussi Pohjonen.
Finland’s meteorological service advised motorists to be careful as it forecast up to 30 centimetres (12 inches) of snow to fall across the southern third of the country overnight into Thursday.
Finland had been enjoying one of its mildest winters on record, with temperatures between four and six degrees Celsius (39 to 42 degrees degrees Fahrenheit) above average.