See Jane’s Big Carbon Footprint - Before they boss us around, shouldn’t Obama’s science team act..?

National Review Online ^ | December 22, 2008 | David Freddoso

[neverdem]

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December 22, 2008, 7:00 a.m.

See Jane’s Big Carbon Footprint
Before they boss us around, shouldn’t Obama’s science team act like they believe in global warming?

By David Freddoso

What’s your carbon footprint? Next year, it will probably be much smaller than that of Jane Lubchenco. The renowned climate-change crusader and professor of marine biology is Obama’s choice for administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

National Review Online has obtained an e-mail from Lubchenco’s husband, Oregon State University professor Bruce Menge, suggesting that the couple will contribute mightily to global warming next year after she takes the job by making frequent cross-country plane trips.

In the e-mail, Menge is enthusiastic about the appointment, but he also mentions the “the hardships it will impose on us and our academic family.” Their solution? “The plan is for her to be in WDC and me to remain in Oregon at OSU, with frequent weekend trips back and forth,” Menge writes. For the record: A single roundtrip between Portland, Ore., and Washington, D.C., emits just under a ton of carbon, and a bit more than a ton if there is a layover in between. The roundtrip from the university to the airport is another 185 miles by car.

One could end there by acknowledging how understandable this is — after all, conservatives are not the only ones who place greater stock in familial bliss and human comfort than in fears of climate change and the alleged havoc it will wreak. Even a liberal marine biologist who has written extensively on the effect of global warming on marine life is not willing to let such truths inconvenience or harm her family.

But Menge also writes of the appointment that “this opportunity could have major positive impacts on fisheries management, marine reserves, and PISCO’s future among many other things.” PISCO is the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans, the very research program under which Menge and Lubchenco currently work as principal investigators at Oregon State University.

Most of PISCO’s funding is private, but some of it comes from NOAA, according to the project’s website, suggesting that Menge is correct. Even if it is all in the interest of science, it is a valid question whether it would be right for a NOAA administrator to use her government position to advance her husband’s academic research. It is a question Lubchenco may face before she takes that carbon-heavy flight to Washington for her confirmation hearing.

— David Freddoso is an NRO staff reporter.
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[freekitty]

These people are deaf, dumb, blind and stupid.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Before they boss us around, shouldn’t Obama’s science team act like they believe in global warming?

Heresy! How dare you question our betters? They know what is best for us proles. Off with your head!

[ModelBreaker]

This is very much a nobles vs peasants thing—right out of the middle ages. BO and his minions actually share a common attitude with Leona Helmsley—taxes and small carbon footprints are for the little people. Guns (armor and horses) and great big carbon footprints (castles and opulent lifestyle) are the divine right of the noble people. It is our duty to sacrifice and support that lifestyle. Noble people will whisk from spot to spot in SUV’s that hum with air conditioners protected by bodyguards carrying heat. Thee and me will ride buses and worry that we are defenseless against the next jacker. In our nobilities’ minds (and in the peasants’ minds), that’s the natural order of things. Indeed, the the 22 year old Bambis who lead the onslaught are the peasants who see nothing odd about Al Gore’s multiple mansions gobbling carbon by the ton.

Bottom line, the middle class has gotten too uppity and the natural order of things needs to be restored—today the restoration is based on the divine right of the Harvard educated.

Frankly, I think it’s time for another Andrew Jackson. The Washington establishment was horrified by him and his uncouth supporters. We need to takeover Washington, pee on the walls of the White House and Congress, and burn the CFR in full view of NYT reporters.

[Enchante]

We need an Andrew Jackson (or maybe a Sarah Palin!) to break all the teacups from Georgetown (DC) to Brattle Street (Cambridge MA), college towns all over the USA, and everywhere else that these supercilious snot-encrusted a-holes gather.

Enough of this b.s.!!!

[Uncle Miltie]

"PISCO is the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans"

That's not a Pisco. This is a Pisco:

[aruanan]

And with lemon juice and sugar it's great.

[steelyourfaith]

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[SunkenCiv]

The left -- They're not stupid, they're merely liars.

Jane Lubchenco... is Obama's choice for administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)... "The plan is for her to be in WDC and me to remain in Oregon at OSU, with frequent weekend trips back and forth," Menge writes. For the record: A single roundtrip between Portland, Ore., and Washington, D.C., emits just under a ton of carbon, and a bit more than a ton if there is a layover in between. The roundtrip from the university to the airport is another 185 miles by car.

Thanks neverdem.

[Cacique]

The new patrician class doesn’t believe they are subject to any of the rules and laws they set for the rest of us peasants.