Posted on 10/29/2014 10:46:56 AM PDT by rktman
In her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, environmentalist Naomi Klein advocates a ban on fossil fuels and a statist utopia where government “creates” a record number of jobs through “investment” in wind and solar energy. (Full disclosure: I have not read Klein’s book, nor do I intend to read it. However, I did read fawning reviews by Mark Bittman in New York Times and Drew Nelles in the Globe and Mail—more than enough time spent contemplating Klein and her reviewers’ dishonest claims.)
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Yes, the government can create many jobs by “investing” in “sustainable” energy by enacting slave labor laws and forcing peole to work in government sustainable energy plants and by draining the rest of the population of resources to support them. By forcing much of the rest of the population out of the work force entirely by closing down their non green compliant employers the unemployment rate can be lowered and happy days are here again.
“Naomi Klein advocates a ban on fossil fuels...”
What if methane (natural gas) is naturally generated beneath the Earth’s crust? Other planets/moons are supposed to be methane-rich with no signs of fossils.
Trees are not fossils, right? We can burn as much wood as we want?
And, I’m still waitin’ for someone to tell me just how many damn dinosaurs there were. Musta been a whole mess of them since we’ve been pulling so called fossil fuels from the ground for “several years” now and new deposits are being found frequently. And just how did they get to be under the sea bed anyway? Kinda far fetched to think there were that many scattered around the globe. Natural process? May be on to something there. LOL!
On what date does Naomi Klein plan to give up her electricity, her car, her computer.....? Not one of these people has lead by example.
FUNK!!!
Global warming is shaky science fueled by ideological dogma. And the dogma infests and corrupts any rational dialog about serious environmental issues like industrial waste and clean water issues. The so-called environmental movement’s hysteria discredits thoughtful consideration of problems that are real.
From John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel:
John Coleman Letter To UCLA
Posted on October 19, 2014 by stevengoddard
Dear UCLA Hammer Forum officials,
There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason to fear any in the future. Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant “greenhouse” gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed. There has been no warming over 18 years. William Happer, Ph.D., Princeton University, Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willie Soon, Ph.D., Harvard Smithsonian Observatory, John Christy, Ph.D., University of Alabama and 9,000 other Ph.D. scientists all agree with my opening two sentences. Yet at your October 23 Hammer Forum on Climate Change you have scheduled as your only speakers two people who continue to present the failed science as though it is the final and complete story on global warming/climate change. This is major mistake.
I urge you to re-examine your plan. It is important to have those who attend know that there is no climate crisis. The ocean is not rising significantly. The polar ice is increasing, not melting away. Polar Bears are increasing in number. Heat waves have actually diminished, not increased. There is not an uptick in the number or strength of storms (in fact storms are diminishing). I have studied this topic seriously for years. It has become a political and environment agenda item, but the science is not valid.
I am the founder of The Weather Channel and a winner of the American Meteorological Society honor as Broadcast Meteorologist of the Year. I am not a wacko flat Earther. Nor am I a “paid shill” (as has been claimed) of the Koch Brothers. I am a serious Professional. I am strongly urging you to reconsider your plan.
I can be reached at 858-243-1707 and will be pleased the discuss this matter with you and answer questions. I will be happy to provide links to all of the points I have made in this email. As a quick scientific reference you may wish to look at the website of the Non-governmental Panel on Climate Change. http://climatechangereconsidered.org/
My best regards,
John Coleman
A copy of this email has been supplied to The LA Times, KCBS/KTLA and NBC4 Los Angeles
Naomi is a fool’s idiot
bump
The idea that oil is dead dinosaurs is ridiculous
I imagine the left isn’t too happy with her, either.
She’s not supposed to outright SAY that the global warming movement is an anti-capitalist movement.
These are the real culprits.
The author is just their vehicle of choice.
And everything that made it possible for this idiot to write this so-called book was funded, founded and formed from fossil fuels.
My nephew is reading this book and is all starry eyed about it. I don’t know enough about economics to have a decent conversation about why the opposite of capitalism is not what he wants, especially as relates to globull warming, which he’s completely bought into. He’s a very bright man, but moved to Boston in his early 20s and just got dang corrupted up there.
Sadly, once they’ve gone over to the dark side it’s nearly impossible to bring them back. We know a lady that is totally immersed in the anti-GMO/erf justice/bernie sanders/capitalist are bad train of thought. And yet, she is an “entrepreneur” and still doesn’t get it. Weird.
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