Posted on 09/21/2014 5:47:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The sky is always falling. If the new ice age doesn’t do us in, the ozone hole will. The instant DDT is banned, aerosols must follow. Global warming is replaced by climate change is replaced by “global weirding.”
And what is the solution to these often-contradictory scenarios? We anachronists who retain a bias toward the hard sciences would employ very different measures to prevent a freezing ocean and a boiling one. To an engineer, soldier or plumber, this is obvious.
But how do leaders of the environmental left address these opposing doomsdays? By raising taxes, increasing government, impeding capitalism and reducing national sovereignty. Coincidentally, the same policies they would promote if their supposed environmental catastrophe was utter fiction. It is little wonder that voters are suspicious.
When natural gas production was a too-expensive alternative to oil, the environmental lobby promoted it as a surefire way to reduce carbon emissions. Close the coal- and oil-fired plants; convert cars to run on CNG. Yes, it will devastate industries, cost jobs and burn billions of dollars, but think of the children!
Since even malevolent industrialists love their kids, energy barons took the greens’ advice and found cheaper, more efficient ways to extract and transport natural gas. What a victory for the movement! But instead of celebrating, envirolobbyists rent their garments over their once-miraculous fuel. The instant green energy translated into Big Oil profits, progressives placed the CNG and fracking on their naughty list.
When carbon emissions were labeled agents of the apocalypse, engineers noted that the only atmospheric emission from nuclear plants is water vapor. If greenhouse gases were as dangerous as claimed, Gaia’s savior, at least for a time, was the humble atom.
Again the environmentalists turned on a dime, alleging that CO2 is bad, but tiny amounts of nuclear waste buried under mountain ranges was, well, icky. Sure, there are now vastly safer waste-reducing solutions, but did you hard-science-types forget the cool bumper stickers on our VW microbus? The China Syndrome won Oscars, you know.
Every time a real-world solution is provided to a promised calamity, leftist leaders move the goalposts. To be sure, many well-meaning parishioners have bought the con and piously observe the demanding rituals of earth worship. But the high priests still jet around the globe, chasing checks from energy tycoons to build monstrous mansions along doomed coastlines.
That’s because the Left doesn’t really believe in climate change. Their true religion is raising taxes, increasing government, impeding capitalism and reducing national sovereignty. Climate change is just a temporary excuse to achieve those ends.
which would cost much less than their 'solutions'.
According to Agenda 21, that is not an undesirable outcome. Assuming that half is all humans. the elites want a bigger playground without us undesirables.
I don’t think the left really believes understands 90% of the crap they spew.
They cluelessly believe.
It has been obvious for years that the Leftists do not really believe in Climate Change or Global Warning, whatever they want to call it. All you have to do is observe how they live their lives, high on the hog. A true believer would not be using carbon in the mass doses that an Al Gore does. Private jets, giant multiple houses, fleets of SUV’s., etc. If I saw the Tom Friedman’s and Al Gore’s downsizing their lifestyles, I would start to think, maybe their is something to to their worries. I all I see is these guys getting rich off of their “predictions” and enjoying to the fullest their windfalls.
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.”
—David Horowitz, quoting unnamed SDS leader.
Aha! You disagree without refuting the Science! Ergo you are a Climate Change Denialist!
Don't bother arguing with big government enthusiasts. I've sadly come to the conclusion they are either zealous fanatics who don't bother concerning themselves with anything which might be contrary to their agenda, or are just plain conniving hypocrites who want to use government to pick someone's pocket. The apathetic and feebleminded do not fall into either category and persuading them of anything, even if successful, is pointless because it won't matter at all. All that matters is whoever has the attention of the masses right now to get some Change done.
As we sadly approach the gradual decay of our society into a pure democracy it's plain we are on the cow path to serfdom...
Then you need to consider that there are 2 sources of CO2: mobile sources such as tailpipes and stationary sources such as power plants. These 2 sources are being regulated in different ways.
Then you need to recognize that the stationary sources are being regulated based on being either a new source or an existing source.
Once you have it broken out into the various components, then you can analyze it qualitatively and quantitatively
We are on the verge of very stunning news in the area of LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions), a technology that is as important an improvement as the invention of the steam locomotive. Energy will be released in the form of heat and plans are being made to use these devices to power now-mothballed coal fired power plants.
I am expecting that after a little delay to rethink things, a lot of people who currently demand “climate justice” will eventually object to LENR, thus showing they were motivated far more to protest human progress and the subsequent prosperity it provides than they were really concerned about the climate.
If anyone tells you that the solutions to all the world’s problems are more government and higher taxes, walk away.
This crap is why I no longer care to have a television (I haven't for 6 years).
Even if I don't watch the biased news programs, I would catch the promos for the news broadcast (with the same pull quotes) umpteen times during broadcasts for entertainment programs (which often have purchased media messaging from liberal groups embedded in the scripts).
Feh.
According to the commies at the Weather Channel; it is now ‘Climate Week’...no shortage of uneducated useful idiots in this country nowadays...
Cordially,
But all the communist, "progressive" and democrat politicians do.
Hasn't anyone else noticed?
Which baffles me.
According to the Federal Rules of Evidence, every statement on which the illegal laws and regulations have been based, the last six years, do NOT meet even the minimal requirements for a legal justification for them, based on the science. As far as I know, the science was not even deemed relevant.
CO2 a pollutant?
WTF?...
Could it be that no one thought to challenge them?
Imhofe?
Anybody?
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