Posted on 04/25/2008 6:03:46 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
The Global Warming Hoax-a-thon
By Bridget Geegan Blanton
Beware the pandering politician. Where there are votes to be won, the truth will be spun. Listening to politicians out on the stump, you’d think we were in midst of the apocalypse. Frankly, I’m weary of candidates avoiding a real discussion on tough issues. Why don’t they just spare us the insult of those televised debates? Where’s the actual debate? It’s predictable and boring as the main stream media poses questions that are simply spring boards for carefully crafted commentary.
Talk about compelling television, how about a real debate on our energy policy without the usual fear mongering? On this issue, more than 19,000 scientists and meteorological experts with valid, data-based, opposing viewpoints have been shunned, threatened into silence and vilified by the powerful, well-funded environmental activist lobby; yet these experts continue to speak out.
To suppress opposing voices on any issue is essentially fascist in nature, yet the restraint of free speech is a key component in the methodology utilized by radical Leftists to swiftly implement controversial public policy. Open debate prevents such tyranny, yet there never was a debate permitted by Al Gore and the climate alarmists on greenhouse gas and its supposed effect on climate change. Instead, a computerized model of potential global warming was accepted as gospel.
Now, with the emergence of new data that casts overwhelming doubt on computerized predictions, spineless politicians with their signatures on regulatory legislation, academics with grants, corporate sponsors and of course activists, are all circling the wagons.
There’s too much to lose, namely their credibility, to report honestly on the data collected by NASA’s Aqua Satellite that directly disputes computerized models of potential global warming. Actual evidence, not sterile data fed into computer models, was collected for years on temperature, cloud formation and water vapor and it has shown that temperatures are not climbing. The climate is actually compensating, not hurtling towards the precipice of disaster as environmental extremists will claim. Bottom line, the complex workings of our climate is far beyond the limited comprehension of climate alarmists and their precious global warming hoax-a-thon software.
This deadly combination of power-obsessed politicians and agenda-driven lobbyists has resulted in destructive legislation and totalitarian public policy that will force us to yield ever-increasing increments of our liberty.
For climate alarmists, the simple question, “what if you’re wrong” is completely off limits. Instead, they plow blindly ahead with economy crippling carbon tax legislation that will cost taxpayers $1.3 trillion. Of course, it’s no surprise that China and India will be totally exempt from carbon emissions regulation and taxation.
The despotic climate thugs also want to control our electricity usage from a central location. When the Totalitarians decide that you’ve used enough electricity at your home, they’ll shut off your power supply.
This raging delirium approach to public policy has already created profoundly negative fall-out; not only economically, but also upon the environment which these activists purport to protect. Wherever debate is forbidden tyranny rules, truth is shortchanged and innovation fades away.
While the rest of Western civilization eclipses the U.S. in the area of nuclear energy, the environmental extremists remain in a state of fluid hysteria over the so called ‘Three Mile Island” incident. All these years later and still they refuse to report the truth that it was a stuck valve that caused a shortage of cooling water at the core. In the end, there was no nuclear meltdown. The USSR-based Chernobyl incident was caused by a disastrous decision to cut costs and forego the installation of a simple concrete containment structure.
France, Russia and Japan have markedly advanced the once ‘American Technology’ of nuclear energy. In fact, France produces 80% of its electricity through nuclear technology and the entire inventory of its ‘nuclear waste’ is stored in a single room. Nuclear technology would reduce carbon emissions, as well as decrease our dependence on foreign oil, yet technologically ignorant, fear-based environmentalists refuse to pull their heads out of the sand and give this energy option even scant consideration.
Instead, their best idea is a ludicrous government mandate that will force Americans to use light bulbs containing mercury that if broken, will turn your living room into a mini bio-hazard.
On the heels of this insanity, is more evidence of Congress’ passive submission to the altar of environmental correctness. The Senate Finance committee has produced an agricultural tax package that provides millions in tax subsidies for ‘ethanol’ production. This ‘biofuel’ failed at reducing carbon emissions; nor does it poignantly reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Instead, ethanol production has resulted in driving up the price of corn, which has had negative, global repercussions.
Not only has ethanol production kicked off a world wide grain shortage, it has had the tragic consequence of dramatically increasing world hunger. This humanitarian crisis has necessitated a substantial increase in tax dollars spent to aid world hunger…this global crisis is brought to you by the rash actions of fear-mongering environmentalists and spineless politicians.
It’s an outright embarrassment that while Japan is the world leader in producing nuclear infrastructure, the crazies in Washington are forcing dangerous light bulbs on us and taxing the very air that we breathe. If it wasn’t so deplorably ignorant it might actually be humorous. Sadly it’s true and unless we exercise our civic responsibility and speak out against this madness, we’ll have nobody to blame but ourselves for becoming just another backward, third world nation.
Proof positive that "AlGore" is promoting an agenda. After all we are approaching April here in Minnesota for crying out loud.
The weather via nature isn't changeable via humans, for humans are a part of nature in God's creation not via a creation of politics.
BUMP!
You mean May?
...spineless politician
Yes, April is laying next to me and broke my train of thought while posting. /snicker
He’s not the only one lacking spine....
Sadly enough we are still bestowed with the ability to vote them out of office and don't promote our freedom to do so.
No doubt about it, global warming is a hoax.
I’m convinced Algore is ginning up investments in his
“carbon credit” notion, and laughing all the way to the bank. That explains his involvement.
But seeing Pat Robertson on this bandwagon is strange.
Maybe something else is going on.
Does anyone recall “The Global Warming Swindle?”It’s probably still on YouTube. They allege that Maggie Thatcher promoted it in order to beat the coal miner’s union strikes.
Wonder if Washington is milking this naiveté for some other purpose.
Just trying to read between the lines.
Mostly spot on, but CFLs are anything but ‘dangerous lightbulbs.’ They contain 1/150th +- of the amount of mercury that was in ONE thermometer. The newer ones glow brighter now than conventional, and they do save you a bundle on your electric bill and lasts far longer. I was a huge doubter until last summer when I tried a few and have since changed out my entire house nearly (I’ve only had 1 bulb burn out in 10 months) and my electric bill is down nearly 17% YOY.
First, I agree with most of what you said. And I think most of the doomsday claims are waaaaaay overblown, including the dangers of CFL bulbs. But..
When you look at items, chemicals,minerals that have been banned over much, much lower concentrations you’ve got to wonder why are CFL bulbs OK. Agenda driven?
This is from http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/coalvswind/c02c.html
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(mercury)......just 1/70th of a teaspoon deposited on a 25-acre lake can make the fish unsafe to eat.
Maybe so, but the fear of mercury lightbulbs is more valid than the fear of Global Warming.
No aguement there.
I’m sure its agenda driven. I personally made the switch though to save around $350-400 annually on my electric bill and not to have to change light bulbs so frequently. Keep in mind, burning the coal for electricity creates/uses more mercury than is in the lightbulb so the net effect of using the CFLs for half the country is still a big reduction in mercury in the environment.
Well I’m likely mercury poisoned.
Back when I went to the dentist for the first time, circa 1955, the dentist took a penny, cleaned it w/ his drill/ brush attachment and covered it w/ mercury. Then handed it to me. All shiny silver. ( turned black in a few days)
I kept it in my pocket for several days. A swollen red rash appeared on my leg where my pocket was. Used some ointment for the rash.
No telling how much mercury I absorbed. And guess what.
I’m still kicking.
The dangers of mercury poisoning are overblown IMHO.
BTW, we didn’t sue either.
I’ve changed over to CFL bulbs in many sockets but the fixtures in both my bathrooms require 6 bulbs each. And at $10/ for a globe style CFL. well...
No way I could ever make up the cost of the bulbs.
Same w/ ceiling fan fixtures.
I got mine at Costco—I believe they cost me around $4.50 each for my larger bathroom CFLs. I got the regular ones for about $1.25 each. Between not having to replace the bulb I’d probably break even. It cost me around $60 to replace all of mine, which I got back in around 2 months in energy savings.
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