Showing posts with label Climate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Climate. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

"Obama May Block Sun's Rays to End Global Warming"


No, this isn't a hungover April Fool's joke. The Obama administration means business on climate change, even if its plans will destroy businesses large and small. Fox News reports that "Obama May Block Sun's Rays to End Global Warming".

To be fair, the headline is misleading. They really mean Obama's ego will be used to block the sun's rays.

Eh, sorry, couldn't resist.

The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.

(Is it so dire that we can call it "global warming" again -- or is it "climate change"?)

John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed.

One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.

(This has all the makings of a bad James Bond movie... only Barack Obama is playing Ernst Stavro Blofeld.)

"It's got to be looked at," he said. "We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table."

Holdren outlined several "tipping points" involving global warming that could be fast approaching.

Once such milestones are reached, such as complete loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic, it increases chances of "really intolerable consequences," he said.

Twice in a half-hour interview, Holdren compared global warming to being "in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog."

(Or being trapped in car with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd during a cross-country trip.)

At first, Holdren characterized the potential need to technologically tinker with the climate as just his personal view. However, he went on to say he has raised it in administration discussions.

...But Holdren noted that shooting particles into the air — making an artificial volcano as one Nobel laureate has suggested — could have grave side effects and would not completely solve all the problems from soaring greenhouse gas emissions.

...Another geoengineering option he mentioned was the use of so-called artificial trees to suck carbon dioxide — the chief human-caused greenhouse gas — out of the air and store it.

(Artificial volcanoes and millions of artificial trees sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere... gee, I can't think of anything that could go wrong with that.)

At first that seemed prohibitively expensive, but a re-examination of the approach shows it might be less costly, he said.

Yeah, like printing trillions of dollars up.


I wonder what temperature on Earth would make this crew of scammers and idiots happy? Is there a right temperature for the planet?

Just wondering.

Update: TheBad:

So, what brilliant scheme are we pitching today, Brain?

Other than the same thing we do every day (taking over the world), here is what I propose, Pinky: to combat the human-created pollutants in the atmosphere that have been changing our climate, we intend to pump human-created pollutants into the atmosphere in order to change our climate.


Hat tip: Sean.


Sunday, March 29, 2009

The Climate Change Grift Illustrated in One Simple Chart


Global citizen Barack Obama recently promised the world a bold new strategy for dealing with global warming. The plan can be summarized with one simple phrase: Wreck the Economy at the Worst Possible Time. Heritage's financial analysis shows:

...cumulative GDP losses for 2010 to 2029 approach $7 trillion. Single-year losses exceed $600 billion in 2029, more than $5,000 per house¬hold. Job losses are expected to exceed 800,000 in some years, and exceed at least 500,000 from 2015 through 2026.

Well, that should help pay off the country-killing deficit caused by the Obama Depression Budget.


The climate change scam was birthed by the United Nations. A bunch of bureaucrats, losers and scam-artists formed businesses designed to profit from the very recommendation they made: to start forcing countries to cap-and-trade carbon emissions using "credits" or "offsets".

The grift was originally called "The Kyoto Protocol". But the scam has since undergone a name change reminiscent of the re-branding global warming has undergone -- to "Climate Change" (which should fool the media because of phenomena known as "seasons"). It's now known as "The Bali Action Plan" and you can read it online.

It is called AD HOC WORKING GROUP ON LONG-TERM COOPERATIVE ACTION UNDER THE CONVENTION (Part 1 and Part 2, both in PDF format), dated 18 March 2009. It demands the following (emphases mine):

(a) An assessed contribution from developed country Parties as a percentage of gross national product or gross domestic product; (Taxes)

(b) An assessed contribution from all Parties, except LDCs, based on a predefined set of criteria, including GHG emissions, respective capacity and population; (More taxes)

(c) Auctioning of assigned amounts or emission allowances at the international and/or domestic level; (More taxes)

(d) A uniform global levy on CO2 emissions, with exemption for LDCs; (More taxes)

(e) Levies on emissions from international aviation and maritime transport; (More taxes)

(f) A tax on air travel; (More taxes)

(g) A share of proceeds from market-based mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol. (More taxes)

(h) A global levy on international monetary transactions. (More taxes)

Gee, I detect a pattern.

Investors Business Daily
calls the EPA's finding -- that carbon dioxide is toxic, and therefore should be regulated -- "The Anti-Stimulus."

Carbon dioxide, which comprises an infinitesimally tiny fraction of Earth's greenhouse gases, is no more dangerous than oxygen or water.

Regulation of carbon dioxide is a scam designed to accomplish two things: (a) increase the power of the state over the individual and (b) impoverish our society.

But it's not about economics with Enviro-Statists like Obama. It's about ideology.

Welcome to intellectual -- and actual -- bankruptcy.



Saturday, March 28, 2009

What's the carbon footprint of the "Door to Hell"?


This lovely piece of real estate in Uzbekistan is fondly referred to as "The Door to Hell." In passable English, the description of the video reads:

This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals "The Door to Hell". It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas...

Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it's burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.

Tell you what. I'll pay for my carbon "footprint" when Uzbekistan coughs up its tab for 35 years of carbon dioxide emissions from this monstrous burning cavern.

If you need further proof that all of this global warming crap is a scam, look no further.


Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Genocide in Green


The new leadership of the EPA proposed yesterday that the White House declare carbon dioxide a health danger. Carbon dioxide, which plants absorb and animals exhale, would be ruled a pollutant.

It is a lie and fraud. You can't live without carbon dioxide and you can't live without water. Never mind that almost all greenhouse gas is water vapor.

But since the Statists can't measure water vapor and condensation, they attempt to wrestle control of carbon dioxide instead, by claiming it's toxic. But the point is, they want to control you.

William Kovacs, vice president of environmental technology and regulatory affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says such an effort would be "devastating to the economy... once the finding is made, no matter how limited, some environmental groups will sue to make sure it is applied to all aspects of the Clean Air Act."

The economy is on life support, so what does the Enviro-Statist do? He grabs more power. Because they don't care about the economy, they care about power! They're not about preserving or improving our society, they're bent on destroying it.

What does the hard left, environmentalist believe? I want you to know that they are responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of children all over Africa and Southeast Asia. Because they successfully banned DDT.

DDT saved hundreds of millions of lives. DDT was used in the United States to destroy malaria.

National Park Service ecologist David Graber, writing in The Los Angeles Times in 1989, well articulated the perversity of the extreme environmental movement.

He wrote, "we contaminated the planet with atmospheric hydrocarbons and metals beginning in the Industrial Revolution."

"The atomic age wrote another indelible signature in radio-isotopes on every bit of the Earth's surface... DDT and its kin appear even in Antarctic ice. I, for one, cannot wish upon my children or the rest of Earth... a human-managed planet, be it monstrous or, however unlikely, benign."

"I am not interested in the utility of a particular species or free-flowing river ecosystem to mankind..."

"...They have intrinsic value, more value to me than another human body or a billion of them."

"Human happiness and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet," wrote Graber. "I know social scientists remind me that people are part of human nature, but it isn't true. Somewhere about a billion years ago... we quit the contract and became a cancer."

"We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth..."

"...Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along
."

The extreme environmentalist prays for the death of all of humanity.

A few years ago, Tina Rosenberg of The New York Times wrote, "Today, westerners with no memory of malaria often assume it has always been only a tropical disease. But malaria was once found as far north as Boston and Montreal. Oliver Cromwell died of malaria, and Shakespeare alludes to it (as ''ague'') in eight plays..."

"...Malaria no longer afflicts the United States, Canada and Northern Europe in part because of changes in living habits -- the shift to cities, better sanitation, window screens. But another major reason was DDT, sprayed from airplanes over American cities and towns while children played outside."

In 1970, the National Academy of Sciences wrote in a report that ''to only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT'' and it credited the insecticide with preventing as many as 500,000,000 human deaths.

But all of that changed in 1962, when Rachel Carson -- a rabid opponent of pesticides -- succeeded in spreading widespread hysteria about DDT's effects on wildlife and especially children. In her book Silent Spring, Carson decried the use of DDT.

She claimed DDT resulted in birth defects and mental retardation... and, yet, not one case has ever been proven. Not one.

Thus, it is a sickening irony that Carson's focus on children helped kill the use of DDT, when malaria causes the deaths of millions of children in the developing world. You see, the developing world is the target of the Enviro-Statist. For it is there that the Statist can more easily shape policy and control lives.

And the mainstream media gobbled up Carson's lies. The Environmental Defense Fund and the Sierra Club brought litigation to pressure the government to ban DDT.

An administrative law judge heard the case for months -- and ruled against the extremists. He said that DDT was not a carcinogenic hazard to man; that it was not a mutagenic hazard to man. He said the use of DDT does not have deleterious effects on freshwater fish, organisms, wild birds, or othe wildlife, let alone human beings.

But the judge's ruling was rejected by the EPA administrator in 1972, William Ruckleshaus. He attended no hearings and reportedly never read the relevant documents. Evidence was later discovered that Ruckleshaus had a fatal conflict-of-interest: he served as a fundraiser for the Environmental Defense Fund, the very group spearheading the anti-DDT campaign.

Finally, in 2006, after tens of millions of children had died, the World Health Organization changed its position on DDT.

The Enviro-Statists are responsible for the needless deaths of tens of millions of children from malaria, typhus and other diseases that could and were wiped out in other locations -- safely! -- by DDT.

In World War II, U.S. troops used to lather up with DDT. Years ago, Dr. J. Gordon Edwards wrote: "[In 1944,] I was ordered to dust every soldier in our company with [DDT]. For two weeks I dusted the insecticide on soldiers and civilians, breathing the fog of white dust for several hours each day. The body lice were killed, and the DDT persisted long enough to kill young lice when they emerged from the eggs... Fortunately, no human beings have ever been harmed by DDT."

The Sierra Club and the rest of the Enviro-Statists have never apologized for the tens of millions of needless deaths caused by their genocidal policies. Because, like Graber, the extremists seek the eradication of the human cancer.

Because that is the religion of environmentalism: and global warming is no different.

The Enviro-Statist seeks to destroy our economy and our way of life.

These are people that do not care about the misery they spread. They are doing this to control mankind and make humans poorer... because they believe you and I are cancers.

If there is global warming, humans have absolutely no control over it. The sun is a massive fireball, constantly changing its output of energy, warming and cooling the Earth as it waxes and wanes. And yet our bureaucracy marches on, no matter how cold the winters, no matter how clear the evidence.

But the EPA just issued a finding to the President that states that carbon dioxide -- which can't be any more of a pollutant than oxygen or water -- is toxic! And so the Enviro-Statist continues to grab our industry by the throat to crush the economy and impoverish mankind.

They were wrong about DDT... and they're just as wrong about global warming. Or whatever the hell it is they call it these days.

Call your representatives and tell them you oppose repression in green.


Based upon Mark Levin, 3/25/2009:

"The Enviro-Statist poses as a defender of clean air, clear water, penguins, seals, polar bears, glaciers, the poor, the Third World, and humanity itself... But he is already responsible for the death and impoverishment of tens of millions of human beings in the undeveloped world." -- Dr. Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyranny.



Monday, March 23, 2009

A cataclysmic series of events, which have been linked directly to global warming


All over the world, a bizarre series of events occurred last week.

In Atlanta, a cat shivered during a strange snow storm.

A doghouse flooded in Missouri.

A long crack suddenly appeared in a glacier.

Elvis' grave was covered with a thin coat of ice.

In New York, a taxi driver fried an egg on his car.

A BMW's radiator overheated on a highway in Iowa.

In Beijing, China, the worst pollution on the planet killed a few more people.

In Hollywood, a constipated Michael Moore passed gas during an interview.

Kids were swinging in a park on a beautiful clear day in Baghdad.

On a quiet creek in West Virginia, an entire family of beavers mysteriously disappeared.

What's it all mean?

Al Gore is bloviating somewhere about a multi-billion dollar UN scam that used to be called "global warming", but has since been renamed "climate change" after a series of embarrassing deep freezes.

Power Line's John Hinderaker writes, "...the public is beginning to catch on to the cosmic scam that Al Gore, James Hansen and others--mostly not scientists--have been perpetrating. Meanwhile, the Obama administration, seemingly determined to inflict the maximum possible damage on the economy in the shortest time, is trying to ram a cap-and-trade carbon tax through Congress before opposition can be mobilized. It's easier to do that, of course, when you know that Congressmen won't read the statute before they vote on it. So our only hope is an informed citizenry."

Be warned. The scammers are coming for more of your money.


Sunday, March 01, 2009

Gore Effect strikes again! Giant DC snowstorm, bizarre cold temps to greet 'largest public protest of global warming ever in U.S.'


Update: The forecast has grown worse: DC under Winter Storm Warning: DC faces up to 1 foot of snow, bitter cold, blowing and drifting snow

The 'Gore Effect' strikes again: this time Mother Nature will sabotage NASA's token crackpot James Hansen.

Hansen, of course, is the same Climatard (I hear that's the term they prefer) who calls for "civil disobedience" to protest the use of coal.

Never mind that more than half of America's electricity is produced by coal. Never mind the numbing March temperatures. Never mind the unseasonable snow.

We've got faux science to promote!

NASA's chief climate scientist is in hot water with colleagues and at least one lawmaker after calling on citizens to engage in civil disobedience at what is being billed as the largest public protest of global warming ever in the United States.

In a video on capitolclimateaction.org, Dr. James Hansen is seen urging Americans to "take a stand on global warming" during the March 2 protest at the Capitol Power Plant in Southeast Washington, D.C. "We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet," says Hansen, who has likened coal-fired power plants to "factories of death" and claims he was muzzled by the Bush administration when he warned of drastic climate changes...

But critics say Hansen's latest call to action blurs the line between astronomer and activist and may violate the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from participating in partisan political activity. "Oh my goodness," one of Hansen's former supervisors, Dr. John Theon, told FOXNews.com when informed of the video. "I'm not surprised ... The fact that Jim Hansen has gone off the deep end here is sad because he's a good fellow." "Why he has not been fired I do not understand," Theon said.

Marc writes that "The Gore Effect" has a long and storied history.

What follows is a sampling of how Mother Nature enjoys ridiculing promoters of the global warming scam.

The Gore Effect: Politico, November 2008

First October snow since 1922 blankets London as global warming bill debated: Register, October 2008

Global Warming Vote on Snowy Day in Washington - Senate committee debates expensive climate change bill as snow blankets D.C.: Business and Media, December 2007

HOUSE HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER SNOW/ICE STORM: Drudge Report, February 2007

NOT AGAIN! DC 'Snow Advisory' Issued on Day of Congressional Global Warming Hearing: Times, March 2007

Gore decries 'global warming' in bitterly cold NYC: WND, December 2006

Gore delivers environmental message at Harvard ...with near 125-year record breaking low temps: MOTLS, October 2008

Global warming activists urged to focus on Earth Day rallies and ignore snow as it 'piles up outside our windows': Alarmism, April 17, 2007

No Joke! Cyclists 'braved freezing cold temps' to promote global warming awareness in New York: WKTV, October 22, 2008

Global warming protest in Maryland frosted with snow: Baltimore Sun, January 2008

Global warming rally in the snow: Alarmism, April 2007

Snow won't dampen global-warming rallies: Live Daily, April 2007

Brrrr - Obama to global warming demonstrators: 'This is probably not the weather to hold up those signs...it's a little chilly today', Space Daily, October 28, 2008

Global Warming Awareness Walk Braves Snow Storm: Nashua Telegraph, March 2007

The Gore Effect, Cont. - Gore speaks in Italy during 'rare' cold and snow: Planet Gore

Climate protest canceled 'due to rain and cold': Telegraph (Australia), Nov. 23, 2008

Gee, I wonder what temperature was the "correct" one on Earth before Al Gore and the UN figured out how to profit from the Warming Grift?

Update: Global Warming and Climate Change in Perspective: Truths and Myths About Carbon Dioxide, Scientific Consensus, and Climate Models: Statement to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee by William Happer, Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University, made on February 25, 2009.


Sunday, February 22, 2009

Don't Breathe: a Commercial


Plants emit oxygen...

Which man needs to breathe...

Man exhales carbon dioxide.

Which plants need to breathe.

So why do Democrats say carbon dioxide...

...is a poison? How can what we exhale be a poison?

It's all about taxes.
Democrats want more tax money.
They'll call it a "carbon tax",
"carbon trading" or "cap-and-trade."

All of it is a scam,
because carbon dioxide isn't a poison.
Call Congress right now...

Tell them carbon dioxide isn't a poison.

OPPOSE CARBON TAX SCHEMES.