Posted on 08/13/2016 6:27:11 AM PDT by rktman
No one could watch the games without plastics for computers, cameras, monitors, cell phones, dish antennas, banners and other equipment that promote, record and transmit the events. Neither athletes nor fans could get to the games without airlines, vehicles and fossil fuels.
In short, virtually nothing we make, grow, eat, use or do is possible without fuels and materials that come out of holes in the ground somewhere on our planet. But radical greens want it all put off limits. They would rather see billions of acres of croplands, rainforests and wildlife habitats cleared and plowed – and trillions of gallons of water and fertilizer expended – to grow biofuel crops to replace fossil fuels. “Keep it in the ground,” they demand.
African, Asian and European countries cannot afford to stop using oil, natural gas or coal. Nor can the United States or any other modern or developing country.
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Just as strange, even ExxonMobil is playing the politically correct climate game. Its Olympics TV ad says the company is doing all it can to reduce “carbon pollution.” Surely Exxon knows it’s not carbon (soot); it’s carbon dioxide. And it’s not pollution; it’s enriching the atmosphere with plant-fertilizing CO2 that makes forests, grasslands and food crops grow faster and better. So why use Obama EPA terminology?
Maybe the company just wants to buy some feel-good PR and “peace in our time.” Maybe it and its corporate and political colleagues are forgetting 1960s radical activist Jerry Rubin’s honesty: “The more demands you satisfy, the more we’ve got.” And Winston Churchill’s blunt truth: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
The real goal of the Climate Fascists is to starve about 7 billion people so that they can inherit the subsequent Utopia. Unfortunately these genius dimwits fail to realize their Utopia would closer resemble the Stone Age than the Jetsons.
I saw the “commercial” , propaganda more like it, where an Exxon Phd is calling Carbon a pollutant. Ok I guess carbon particulates are a pollutant. They stay suspended in the air for short time then fall to the ground. The problem is the Phd then talks about scrubbing CO2 which is not a pollutant at all. This was pure propaganda that Phd should lose all his credentials. Carbon is not CO2.
Try to imagine anything that’s not made of or moved by fossil fuel. Only fools think we could live without it.
Onerous ‘green’ policies are outward expressions of inner possessiveness, jealousy, stinginess, and resentment toward all who dare partake of what rightfully belongs to ‘greens.”
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
“In short, virtually nothing we make, grow, eat, use or do is possible without fuels and materials that come out of holes in the ground somewhere on our planet. But radical greens want it all put off limits. They would rather see billions of acres of croplands, rainforests and wildlife habitats cleared and plowed – and trillions of gallons of water and fertilizer expended – to grow biofuel crops to replace fossil fuels. “Keep it in the ground,” they demand.”
What makes you think they’ll let you clear billions of acres of rain forests to grow biofuels? Once they ban oil, they’ll turn on bio-fuels. Then, they will turn on the next alternative. They want to cut energy use to pre-industrial age levels.
I would argue that the Ph.D. in question is not a life scientist at all, but probably a chemist or other non-life scientist.
I am a life sciences Ph.D. scientist. There is no way I would advocating trying to remove the molecule that is the building block of all life from the air. I have probably posted hundreds of times on the folly of trying to eliminate CO2 from the air.
These people, with their "carbon dioxide scrubbing" schemes are truly working to hasten the end of life on earth. I begin to suspect that the true (but unstated) end goal of radical leftist power brokers is to not only eliminate human life, but all life.
I still wonder how important internal heat is in stabilizing the Earth’s surface temperature. In any case factors well beyond our control are involved.
Not sure about all that but algore at least let us know that the center of the earth is millions of degrees. Or was it thousands of degrees. Either way, if it goes cold, well, ain’t nobody getting away.
I remember reading that the eggheads think that was what went South for Mars. Once the liquid core cooled it was over there. No more Van Allen Belt, no more atmosphere, no more surface water. Just a chain of dominoes.
Curious your take on the word"fossil fuels." What would you call it if given the opportunity?
I think I usually just use generic terms like oil, natural gas, or petroleum. I have read various hypotheses as to the origins of fossil fuels, but I am not familiar enough with that field of science to even make an educated guess on the topic.
Good enough. I’m not skilled in oil except those chem and engineering classes years ago. Using an odd misnomer that oil came from dead foliage and dinosaurs as fact( I was taught this in school)has to be put at rest. I call oil Dino-juice and the green folks have no idea I’m using sarcasm.
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