Global Warming Strikes in Colorado! August is usually the second hottest month in Colorado. That, is simple historical fact. Global warming clearly has Colorado in it’s deathly grip. I mean, after all, it is snowing in the high country, in August! It has to be global warming! Al Gore told us so after all!
I suppose we will just have to restrain ourselves, never apply logic or reason. It is, a matter of faith!
I found this piece, and love it!
By Henry Lamb
July 22, 2008
Al Gore has certainly secured his place in history. His Academy-Award-Pulitzer-Prize-winning prediction that climate change will raise sea levels by 20 feet will be studied by future history students, along with the predictions of Malthus and Paul Ehrlich.
With Gore-like zeal, in the 19th century, Malthus predicted that the world’s population would soon outstrip the world’s food supply. In the 20th century, Paul Ehrlich predicted that, “By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth’s population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.”
He also predicted that by 1980, life expectancy in the United States would drop to 42, and that the U.S. population would drop to 22.6 million by 1999.
The grand prize for idiotic predictions in the 21st century has already been claimed by Al Gore. His insistence that the earth will fry, that the seas will rise, and that life as we know it must undergo a “wrenching transformation” will be studied by his grandchildren with the same appreciation that his, and Ehrlich’s ridiculous predictions deserve.
Is it possible that Ehrlich and Gore really think their predictions are valid? Or, are they just following the instructions of Dr. Steven Schneider, who tells fellow scientists:
“We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” (Discover magazine, Oct. 1989)
Students of Malthus generally agree that he was sincere in his predictions, actively engaging his detractors in debate, and revising his conclusions accordingly. Malthus was sincerely wrong. The same cannot be said about Ehrlich, or Gore. Ehrlich jumped on the environmental band wagon early. His book “Population Bomb” was published in 1968, and was an instant best-seller. He rode the wave of book sales and popularity for a decade, making speeches and writing articles offering excuses for failed predictions and promising even worse consequences for what he called environmental abuse.
Al Gore saw an opportunity to re-claim the political spotlight when he chaired the June 28, 1988 Senate hearing that called Jim Hansen to testify that the current heat wave was caused by global warming. Gore, having been defeated in the 1988 presidential primary by Jesse Jackson in the South, and by Michael Dukakis in the North, turned his attention to the environment, and to global warming in particular.
It was Hansen’s testimony at Al Gore’s hearings that propelled the United Nations’ efforts to get into the global warming business. Before the end of 1988, the U.N. Environment Program, and the World Meteorological Organization established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to take charge of global research and action.
Gore’s selection as Vice President in 1992 provided the perfect stage for what was until then, his most influential performance. He publicly ridiculed then-President George H.W. Bush into attending the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro where the U.N. Convention on Climate Change was adopted.
Throughout the Clinton administration, Gore was “Mr. Environment.” He directed negotiations at virtually every U.N. Climate Change meeting during the 1990s working toward the Kyoto Protocol. When the negotiations stalled in Kyoto in 1997 because the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution directing the President to not accept the Protocol unless it applied to China and India and other developing nations, Gore flew in to save the day. Despite the Senate’s resolution, Al stood before thousands of U.N. delegates in Kyoto and announced that he had instructed the U.S. delegation to be “more flexible” in their negotiations. At the last moment, the Protocol was adopted, without participation by developing nations.
Al’s crushing defeat in 2000 left him rudderless for a few years, but he re-emerged with his “An Inconvenient Truth.” This spectacular movie won an Academy Award. Gore received the Pulitzer Prize. Once again, Prince Albert ascended to the global warming throne, despite the fact that the film’s assertions were not supported by science, according to more than 31,000 scientists.
Ignoring his critics, and refusing to confront and debate the scientists who clearly refute his hyperbolic hallucinations, Al is now seeking to reclaim the global spotlight. He denigrates those who reject his unfounded predictions, and calls instead for massive national commitment to abandon fossil fuel, and launch a “go-to-the-moon” type campaign to convert all electricity generation to wind, solar, other “alternative” sources in the next ten years.
Gore has been spouting his predictions of climate disaster for more than a decade, while in reality, the global climate has actually been cooling.
The media, and uninformed politicians, gobble up Gore’s gloomy forecasts, just as they embraced Paul Ehrlich’s forecasts of people dying in the streets. History has proven Malthus to be sincerely wrong. History has proven Paul Ehrlich to be ridiculously wrong. History is proving Al Gore to be wrong as well.
But Gore must continue to peddle his predictions. His financial future is tied to his salesmanship. The more he cries “the sky is falling,” when the science says it is not, the more Al looks like a midway barker making whatever claims he thinks will separate the public from its money.
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Henry Lamb is the Chairman of Sovereignty International , and founder of the Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO).
I have been listening to world disaster pundits since I was a child. It really is getting old in my not so humble opinion.
“The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population.”
—Reid Bryson, “Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man”, (1971)
Well, by gosh, someone listened! Or was it the smell of tar and the sight of all those feather beds being toted by people outside the local offices of the Senators? In any case this is all from Downsize DC.
Something incredible happened last night. The U.S. Senate actually read the so-called “Climate Security Act” and a substitute amendment — out loud, word for word.
500+ pages. 10 hours to read!
This legislation, which would impose a huge tax and regulatory system on all carbon emissions, is about 300 pages long. Congress constantly passes bills this large, or larger, without reading them. If it took 10 hours to read this one bill, just imagine what would happen if they had to read ALL their bills.
The pace of legislation, and the growth of government, would slow down. It might even be possible for a citizen group (like DownsizeDC.org), or a reporter, or a talk-show host, or even just an ordinary citizen, to keep up with all the things Congress is doing.
For the very few people who oppose DownsizeDC.org’s “Read the Bills Act” (in our experience, that’s not even one out of every ten people who hear about it) this would be a bad thing. These people think we need more government, even if it must come at the cost of passing legislation that the members of Congress haven’t read, let alone understood.
We think this is irresponsible. Remember, Congress may not have to read a bill, or really understand it. But YOU will have to bear the burden of obeying every word of it!
In the case of the “cap and trade” bill, U.S. companies will have to hire thousands of lawyers to do their own 100-hour (or more) readings of this legislation (because unlike Congress, they will actually have to understand how to obey it). Compliance will cost billions of dollars. That cost will be passed on to you, the consumer, as will the tax that companies must pay to buy their carbon emission permits.
But it doesn’t end there.
The way the government works today legislation is just the starting point for the creation of rules. Once something like the “cap and trade” bill is passed the federal bureaucracy then goes to work creating specific regulations to execute the legislation.
This means billions more will be spent on more lawyers to read, understand, and comply with these regulations. And you will pay for all of this too. Unelected bureaucrats shouldn’t be able to burden the public with more laws. That’s why we also need to pass the Write the Laws Act.
Some people say it’s unreasonable to expect Congress to read all of its legislation, but . . .
Could YOU get away with violating a law because you felt it was unreasonable for the government to expect you to read, understand, and comply with all their huge legislation and bureaucratic rules?
Of course not. If you must bear the burden (in time and higher prices and worry that you’re not running afoul of some crazy rule) THEN SO SHOULD THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS!
One Congressman has called the “Read the Bills Act” a gimmick. But the real gimmick was what happened in the Senate last night. The “cap and trade” bill was read out loud NOT so that the members of Congress could know what they were being asked to pass, but because the Republicans wanted to slow things down to make a point about how judicial nominations are being handled by the Democrats.
ALMOST NO SENATORS WERE IN THE ROOM TO HEAR THE BILL BEING READ!
For us, the “Read the Bills Act” is NOT a gimmick. It’s an essential requirement for responsible representative government. For us, the very most important feature of the “Read the Bills Act” is NOT . . .
* The 7-day waiting period before a vote can be held. Yes, it’s a great idea. It gives citizen-action groups time to organize opposition at the moment of highest public interest in a bill. But the “cap and trade” bill will be just as bad if they pass it 7 days from now.
* The requirement that members of Congress sign an affidavit, under penalty of perjury, that they have read a bill. That is also important, but secondary.
Both of these features are valuable and helpful. They make the bill complete. But they are not the true key to bringing about responsible government. Instead, the most important aspect of the “Read the Bills Act” is forcing the members of each chamber of Congress to SIT through and LISTEN to a full reading of each bill before a vote can be held.
This, and only this, can bring about real change in how our government operates, because this is the ONLY feature of the “Read the Bills Act” that compels the politicians to pay a PERSONAL PRICE for the burdens they seek to impose on the American people. This feature, and only this feature, will . . .
* Make sure that most members of Congress have an informed idea of what it is they are passing.
* Make Congress prioritize, instead of simply enacting every wild idea that strikes their collective fancy (and that’s what they do now because they don’t have to pause and read the bill out loud, word for word, on the floor, before voting).
* Make bills shorter, and more understandable, so that Congress can endure the fatigue of hearing them read.
The “Read the Bills Act,” as we have constructed it, would bring about real, meaningful reform. It would go a long way toward protecting us from 300-page monstrosities like the so-called “Climate Security Act.” But . . .
Until the “Read the Bills Act” passes the only protection we have is YOU, and the work you do through DownsizeDC.org. DC Downsizers have bombarded Congress with more than 5,000 messages opposing the “Climate Security Act.” But more is needed. If you haven’t yet sent a message on this issue, please do so now. You can do so here.
Or, if you have sent a message, please send another one in support of the “Read the Bills Act.” Use your personal comments to take note of the 10-hour reading that took place last night. Tell them you oppose the “Climate Security Act,” and support the “Read the Bills Act” as a way to protect the American people against irresponsible legislation. You can send that message here.
The “Climate Security Act” is up for a vote in the United States Senate today. My sources tell me that it is all but dead on arrival at the Senate floor, but not quite. This bill, epitomizes the sheer lunacy that has befallen so many in the world. My friend calls people that support things like this “watermelons.” As in green on the outside, and red on the inside. I will continue to refer to them as neo-communist. Unless I have one to many a pint of plain. 😀
The facts in this matter are clear enough for even those legally blind to see. This is what S. 2191 would actually do to you, me, and the generations that follow.
Just what would this abomination do?
Then those things would have the immediate effect of:
A historical review appears to be in order, as is so often the case when faux science raises it’s head in truly religious fervor. Indeed, I about had a hernia laughing when I found this, after all, I remember all to well the dribble that was spewing from the academic pulpits back then.
Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an and millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity? When Ehrlich predicted that would not exist in the year 2000, what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the U.S. Department of the Interior warned that we only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think that environmental alarmism is any more correct now that they have switched their tune to manmade global warming
Open Letter To Environmentalists « Bob’s Bites
Bob found another good story here. Click the link, and read all about it!
Nobody Listening To The Goracle « Bob’s Bites
All Gore is whining. Why? Maybe because real hard science has shown him and his cult of followers are just plain wrong. Al, the polar ice cap is expanding. There are more Polar Bears now that at any time in recorded history. The biggest “green house” gas, is water, and the cause of warming on the earth is the same as it always has been, the Sun.
This worldwide hysteria has led to an impending world food crisis via crop diversion to produce ethanol and a host of other problems that are just to numerous to list.
Oil is the very lifeblood of modern civilization that is a fact. All warfare involves economics at some level as well. So, social survival could rest with the supply of energy that is available. The impact on the environment needs to be taken into account during this process. Why bring abundant energy into existence if the place is no longer habitable after all?
Todays issue of The Patriot Post addresses these things, and I once again commend Mark Alexander for his excellent work. My only complaint? People always forget about all that sweet crude just off the coast of California…
By Mark Alexander
In February 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton decreed that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) could designate 8.6 million acres in Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico as critical habitat for the “endangered” Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis (no relation to Occidental Petroleum Co.), thus “protecting” this land from cattle grazing, logging and any other human enterprise that might give the little owl indigestion.
This is the same critter that shut down logging operations in the Pacific Northwest and is one of many wild species now being favored over the much-maligned domestic species, Homo sapiens.
The efficacy of using the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as a blunt instrument to pursue radical environmental ends began in 1973, the same year the act became law. No coincidence there.
The test case was a tiny fish called the Snail Darter, which was residing in the Little Tennessee River, which was in the process of being dammed up by the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Tellico project. Environmentalists, who objected to TVA’s project, decided to use the Darter to block the dam.
It almost worked, but the legal tactic was new and Tellico was already funded and under way. However, the Darter offensive did halt a larger TVA project a few years later, before it was determined that the Darter was getting along just fine in streams all over Tennessee.
It is no small irony that the first use of ESA was to block hydroelectric projects, a renewable-energy source and one of the energy objectives that both conservatives and liberals support.
There is a much more ominous ESA challenge on the table right now, but this political ruse will do a lot more to endanger our national security than protect any species.
The U.S. uses about 21 million barrels of oil daily—about three gallons per person—for transportation, manufacturing and energy production. We have to import 13 million barrels per day, 45 percent of that from Western nations (30 percent from Canada and Mexico), and the remaining 55 percent from Africa and the Middle East.
Political instability in Africa and the Middle East render them less than dependable providers of imported oil, which is to say that 28 percent of U.S. oil demand is less than dependable.
Oil is currently over $100 per barrel and given the giant sucking sound coming out of China and India, this time next year, $100 may seem like a bargain unless the surge in oil prices is matched with a surge in oil exploration and delivery.
Total annual consumption of oil in the U.S. is about 7.6 billion barrels. However, it is estimated that there is more than a trillion barrels of retrievable oil under the U.S., most of it in oil shale (Green River basin), and billions more in deep formations (Bakken Play) and under the Arctic’s Northern Slope.
When oil was at $35 per barrel, there was no incentive to retrieve these reserves. At $100 per barrel plus, however, there is plenty of incentive.
Enter ignoble laureate Albert Arnold Gore and his gullible warming Gorons. They are intent on stopping further domestic-oil exploration, claiming that human industrial activity is a major factor accelerating global warming.
The Gorons have already lobbied hard to prevent additional offshore exploration on our East and West Coasts and are adamantly opposed to renewable energy sources such as nuclear generators. Teddy Kennedy certainly doesn’t want his Cape Cod views obscured by unsightly wind generators.
Where do we go from here?
The most readily available proven U.S. oil reserves waiting to be tapped are under a vast wasteland on the northern slope of Alaska called the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR). I am one of few humans to have actually visited ANWR, and can tell you that the most prolific wildlife species in the region are mosquitoes the size of Turkey Vultures, but with more voracious appetites.
However, there’s an estimated 10 billion barrels of oil up there, and that is enough Black Gold to keep Teddy Kennedy and his constituents warm and cozy for a century.
Nonetheless the Gorons are going to block exploration and extraction of oil in ANWR. They are constructing that gauntlet right now using the ESA as its foundation. They claim there is another species up there that would become endangered if the climate continues to warm: that lovable lug, the polar bear.
The Center for Biological Diversity, Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace are suing the USFWS (of Spotted Owl fame) for delaying action to declare polar bears “threatened” and provide them protection. A 2007 U.S. Geological Survey report speculates that 60 percent of polar bears might perish by 2050 if global warming continues to melt Arctic sea ice.
If declared threatened, the polar bear would become the first species designated a potential victim of global warming.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (S-CA) claims the Bush administration is delaying the USFWS decision in an effort to complete exploration permits for Alaska’s Chukchi Sea: “The administration went ahead and accepted bids, even though oil and gas activities may disturb polar bears making a den… Time is running out for the polar bear, and time has run out for this decision.”
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) rejoined that this would set a precedent, and that the USFWS would henceforth have to establish that every human enterprise would not potentially disturb a threatened species: “Virtually every human activity that involved the release of carbon into the atmosphere would have to be regulated by the federal government.”
If that sounds familiar, it is because I have argued for years that the Gorons’ environmental agenda was really a short cut to centralized government control of the economy—what in common parlance is known as, “Socialism.”
Unfortunately, the ever-unapprised Sen. John Warner (R-VA), primary sponsor of climate-change legislation up for consideration in June, piped in, “I think we have an obligation toward this extraordinary animal. It’s America’s panda bear, and all Americans are in love with it.”
Well, I for one have never tasted polar bear, so it is presumptuous of Warner to claim that I have any special affinity for the beast.
Here one might ask, “If global warming is inevitable, and no amount of Kyotoization can mitigate the warming (because China and India won’t comply), then what is the logical conclusion? Aren’t polar bears in trouble regardless of Arctic oil exploration?”
Meanwhile, Red China, with help from the Castro boys, is exploring for oil just 45 miles off Florida’s coast. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the North Cuban Basin contains at least 4.6 billion barrels of oil. Oh well… maybe the ChiComs will give us a good price.
Some recent facts that have been discovered; There are more Polar Bears than at any time in recorded history; The polar Caps are not only not receding, but are expanding; Last year was so cool worldwide that it destroyed the one hundred year average temperature, negating any total warming that had occurred.
Doomsday, yet again, and with even more convincing “evidence!” We did it folks. Now the entire universe is coming to an end, and all because man caused it! (Sarcasim) 🙂
Read on…
Mankind ‘shortening the universe’s life’By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 21/11/2007 |
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Forget about the threat that mankind poses to the Earth: our activities may be shortening the life of the universe too. The startling claim is made by a pair of American cosmologists investigating the consequences for the cosmos of quantum theory, the most successful theory we have. Over the past few years, cosmologists have taken this powerful theory of what happens at the level of subatomic particles and tried to extend it to understand the universe, since it began in the subatomic realm during the Big Bang. |
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