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Gorebal Whining Even Bigger Winner
Global warming’s biggest winners
The greatest scandal connected to global warming is not exaggeration, fraud or destruction of data to conceal the weakness of the argument. It is those who are personally profiting from promoting this fantasy at the expense of the rest of us.
The fraud is pretty big stuff, and should be addressed, HONESTLY! In my personal opinion, those who are getting rich off this farce are WORSE than any pimp that ever hit the streets with a ’stable’ of what amounts to sex slaves.
Al Gore is the most visible beneficiary. The world’s greatest climate-change fear-monger has amassed millions in book sales and speaking fees. His science-fiction movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” won an Academy Award for best documentary and 21 other film awards. He was co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his “efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”
And, there he is….the BIGGEST pimp in the whole “global warming” scam! If the man had ANY honor….any integrity whatsoever, he’d not only return the Oscar (along with any other movie *choke* “award” he was given), and the Nobel Peace Price. He should be bowing and scraping in apology to the public, in general, and to those he duped out of money, specifically.
Meanwhile, Mr. Gore was laying his own foundations. As he was whipping up hysteria over climate change, he cannily invested in “green” firms that stood to profit in the hundreds of millions of dollars (if not more) from increased government regulations and sweetheart deals from connected politicians and bureaucrats. The multimillionaire climate dilettante was given a free pass by reporters, who refused to ask him hard questions about the degree to which he was profiting from the panic he was causing.
PIMP!
With the global-warming story line unraveling, the New York Times allowed Mr. Gore to run what amounted to an unpaid advertisement for his brand of climate-change hysteria. This screed, published Saturday, reiterated his claim that the world faces an “unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.” That’s pretty good rhetoric for the person with the largest carbon footprint in the world.
BIG PIMP and little pimp.
Mr. Gore is not the only one profiting from climate fraud. Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace prize with Mr. Gore, is also the director general of the Energy and Resources Institute. The New Delhi-based research group has received substantial financial grants to examine the issue of the world’s vanishing glaciers, a purported crisis that was highlighted in the 2007 IPCC climate-change report. The glaciology unit is headed by Syed Hasnain, who in 1999 claimed that Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035, which became a noted scare quote in the IPCC report.
PIMP, and PIMP, Jr.
I’d like to present an award to ol’ Al of my own.
Letter From Marsha
If you are in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, you may have received one too.
Friends,
Today the EPA announced that they would postpone the implementation of their proposed carbon regulations until next year. As you know, I believe those regulations would have a devastating effect on the economy-especially in the 7th District of Tennessee.
I believe that their decision is directly related to growing bi-partisan opposition to the idea that the EPA could regulate carbon emissions without the authorization of Congress. That is why I introduced H.R. 391 to stop them, and why so many of my colleagues from both parties have joined me in the fight.
America needs new, clean, domestic sources of energy. Allowing unelected bureaucrats to punitively cap carbon emissions from cars, farms, and factories won’t get us there anymore than taxing Americans out of house and home will.
It is important to note that the EPA has only given us a temporary reprieve. Unless we continue the push to pass H.R. 391, they can resurrect these regulations at any time. That’s why we’ll continue to fight.
My best,
Marsha
Not only should the EPA postpone, the EPA should be shut down. Completely. They are taking liberties that don’t belong to them.
The bill mentioned here, H.R. 391, has been floating around in committee for way too long. It’s co-sponsored by 152 representatives, all Republicans, of course.
A BILL
To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse gases are not subject to the Act, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATION UNDER CLEAN AIR ACT.
Section 302(g) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7602(g)) is amended by adding the following at the end thereof: ‘The term ‘air pollutant’ shall not include carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride.’.
SEC. 2. CLIMATE CHANGE NOT REGULATED BY CLEAN AIR ACT.
Nothing in the Clean Air Act shall be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming.
This seems pretty cut and dry to me.
1. No one should be able to regulate your ability to exhale.
2. Hello??? Water evaporates. Learned that in elementary school.
3. Do they have enough butt plugs for cows? Didn’t think so. Ever heard of mud volcanoes?
4. I wonder how many people will stop going to the dentist? Bad teeth can cause other health issues. Ooops! Must have Obamacare. 
5. If your frying pan catches on fire, I would think it would be a good idea to be able to put the fire out.
6. Eye surgery? MRI? Ultra-sound? Yep! Come in real handy.
And….
7. I’ve always thought it was a real good idea to insulate anything high voltage, don’t you?
BO, Going On Tour…..Again
Obama to announce Georgia nuke loan guarantees today
President Barack Obama today will announce the loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors in Georgia, the first new nuclear power plant to break ground in the United States for nearly three decades.
An administration official said late Monday that the loan guarantees will apply to work at the Southern Co. plant in Burke, where Georgia Power is planning the new reactors at its Plant Vogtle facility.Southern Co. estimates the project will create 3,000 onsite construction jobs and about 850 permanent positions.
That’s nice. I’m glad there will be some work for the folks down there in Georgia. But I have a question: Since when does the POTUS, any POTUS, have the right to guarantee loans?
The Obama administration is pushing for utilities to build more nuclear power plants as part of a nationwide effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The president mentioned nuclear power and clean coal, along with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, in his State of the Union address.
Since it seems that debunking the flawed science isn’t having an effect on Obama’s policies, I’ll just add that a good deal of those “green” energy sources appear to be a major flop. Make you wonder if this is the future for Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
To fund the project, they will pay 9 percent more on their electric bills. That increase will be phased in over seven years, starting in 2011. It will last the life of the plant, but is expected to gradually decline over that time, the company said.
My question here is, if Obama is guaranteeing these loans (his own money?), loans I’m guessing are for the purpose of building these plants, why are the rates for consumers going up? 9% is a pretty good chunk of change if you are just scraping by. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for nuclear power plants. I do have a major problem when the federal government gets involved. Yes, safety is an issue, but we’ve got these regulating bodies telling companies, you can’t do this, you can’t do that, ya can’t built here cuz there is an annoying mosquito that lives in the area, or something to that affect. Give me a break!
For its part, Georgia Power suffered from huge cost overruns when it built the first two nuclear plants at Vogtle in the late 1980s. The original estimate was $975 million for four reactors. The final price tag was $9 billion for two reactors.
How much ya wanna bet the major cost overruns were, in part, due to oppressive regulations? Were unions involved? Just wondering.
Seriously, if we are to ever become energy independent, see our economy bounce back, and have some chance at a future, the federal government needs to get the hell out of the way. Private industry ALWAYS works better than the government, at EVERYTHING! Get rid of the unions, start producing real products, and watch the jobs come back!
Facts Can Be Scary
Is the Great ‘Global Warming’ Snowjob Finally Coming to an End?
As the east coast recovers from Snowpocalypse, some global warming alarmists have said that we shouldn’t read too much into the blizzards. We can’t draw broad conclusions about climate change based on particular storms or regional weather trends. You know what? They’re right.
Now there is irony in the fact that the blizzards hit just as the President announced the formation of the Climate Service, charged with managing and coordinating the effects of “climate change.” But that’s all it is: irony. Snowpocalypse neither proves nor disproves the theory that human activities are disastrously effecting earth’s climate, but it did provide an opportunity for several conservative commentators, like Limbaugh and Hannity, to crack wise at the expense of the alarmists.
Chris Matthews wagged his finger at such jocularity, piously declaring that “…the average global temperature last year was the second highest on record…” and that “…cold weather in one area over several days doesn’t change the reality of what’s happening to this planet…” You know what? He’s right too. Well, Chris was right as far as he goes.
Unfortunately, Matthews stopped short of explaining the whole story, which this scientist finds rather disappointing coming from a fellow who, like me, boasts a Jesuit university as an alma mater. Perhaps Chris missed those critical thinking lessons that the Jesuits try to impart on eager young students.
Read the entire piece here.
As I’ve stated MANY times, the government has no interest in the climate, health care, or any number of other issues they are trying to ram down our throats. It’s all about control. Control of the world’s finances, control of their “subjects’, control of our children so they can turn them into good little socialists robots. Unfortunately, due to the lack of voters ability to pay attention and parenting skills on the part of many of our fellows citizens, they are succeeding.
I would suggest to Tingles that he get his head out of Obama’s ass, and start doing his own research. It’s really not that difficult. For the time being, you can find just about everything on the internet, and that includes THOUSANDS of dissenters to the ‘warming’ scam. I’m not talking about people like me, who know algore is full of male bovine excrement. I’m talking about actual SCIENTISTS, who have made it their life’s work to find truth.
Wisdom From The Sultan
The Temperature at Which Global Warming Freezes
A snippet:
Prior to this season’s unfortunate weather, Global Warming advocates had staked their bets on a mild winter in order to show people the pernicious effects of people driving to work and using extra shopping bags. Which was a decent enough angle, considering that we had been experiencing milder winters over the last few years. But the problem with betting that the weather will help prove your point, is that the weather may have other plans. And now digging out of a snowstorm and their own lies, Global Warming advocates are arguing that colder winters and snowstorms are actually another effect of global warming. Which may now need to be renamed, Global Temperatures We Don’t Like.
Had environmentalists hedged their bets by calling Global Warming something vaguely neutral like Global Temperature Imbalance, they would have had a much easier time covering their asses. Because temperature imbalances are a more subjective thing and the graphs are easier to fake. But Global Temperature Imbalance is much less entertainingly alarmist than Global Warming, and the environmentalists knew that they needed a name with some heft to frighten the public. Armageddon. Apocalypse. We think of destruction as a fiery event. And Global Warming was an environmentalist apocalypse, supposedly backed by science. No wonder it got as much traction as it did.
But it isn’t just the weather that’s turning on Global Warming, from Anglia to the IPCC, the scientific case for Global Warming is being undermined by revelations of fraud and malfeasance. And the political case for Cap and Trade is being undermined by the refusal of politicians and nations to cut their own throats so that Al Gore and George Soros can make a few billion selling “Right to Emit Carbon” certificates to every factory on the planet.
Read the whole post here. It’s well worth your time.
It’s About Control, Not Climate
Global Warming – Is There Anything It Can’t Do?
The Foundry
Tomorrow, NBC (which is owned by General Electric) will begin broadcasting the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver, Canada. Only two events are scheduled for the opening day (alpine skiing and ski jumping), but even those events will be difficult to pull off. Why? There is no snow in Vancouver. And International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge knows exactly what is to blame: global warming. Rogge tells AFP: “Global warming of course is a worry, it is a worry for the entire world.”
Considering that NBC/GE has already received billions in TARP bailout cash from the Obama administration and is actively lobbying for a global warming energy tax bill so that it can receive billions more in government green-energy subsidies on top of the millions it already receives, we are sure to hear lots from NBC announcers about how the lack of snow in Vancouver is just another reason Washington needs to act now to stop global warming.
Birds of a Feather?
Osama and Obama on global warming
Discredited climate theories make strange bedfellows
In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama said there was “overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.” In his most recent message to the world, Osama bin Laden said that climate change “is not an intellectual luxury but an actual fact.” It’s nice to see these two leaders can agree on something.
The hitch is that the man-caused catastrophic global warming theory is dead, and it needs to be buried. Evidence had been mounting for years that there were problems with the global warming model; most telling was that the globe refused to warm up. Carbon emissions continued apace, but the world began cooling. This is why true believers abandoned the “global warming” brand name and tried to shift the debate to the more ambiguous label “climate change,” which is something the rest of us like to refer to as “weather.”
I, and a great many others, have been trying to bring those algore acolytes back to reality. It just hasn’t been working. I guess they, including Obama and Osama, just hate humans, and the U.S. so much, they would rather see it destroyed, than admit someone has been spoon feeding the masses large doses of ka-ka!
You see, the planet cools, you get winter. The planet warms up, you have summer. The tectonic plates shift, there are earthquakes. The planet will do what it’s been doing for millions of years, and there’s not one single thing we can do about it. Arrogance is a dangerous and ugly thing, and the arrogance of the “global warming/climate change” brigade is one of the more dangerous to the planet, and mankind itself.
For the President of the United States and the world’s most wanted, and evil, terrorist to agree on the subject is quite telling. Neither have a clue how the planet actually works. That was something I learned in elementary school. Shame neither of them did.
Better to Step BACK!
Step by Step
Incremental improvements are better than comprehensive reforms.
By Lamar Alexander
What are Republicans for?
Tough question. I can tell you what conservatives are for, well, at least THIS conservative. But Republicans. Most of ‘em don’t even have a clue themselves, so that would be almost impossible to answer.
For the Democratic senators who kept asking this question during the health-care debate, the only answer was for Mitch McConnell to roll a wheelbarrow onto the Senate floor with an alternative 2,700-page, comprehensive Republican health-care bill. Or a 1,200-page Republican climate-change bill. Or a 900-page Republican immigration bill. But people expecting that kind of an answer will be waiting a long time.
No bill, from any side, ever needs to weigh a ton. The weight of worry and disillusionment put upon us by these absurd bills need to see the shredder….and quick!
On health care, clean energy, debt reduction, and immigration, Republicans have been offering an alternative to thousand-page bills: going step-by-step in the right direction to solve problems in a way that re-earns the trust of the American people.
Step by step? There are problems that Congress has created, and yet they believe they can solve them? Give me a break!
The Democrats’ comprehensive immigration, climate-change, and health-care bills have been well-intended, but the first two collapsed under their own weight, and health care, if it doesn’t do the same, will be a historic mistake for the country and a political kamikaze mission for Democrats.
What has united most Republicans against these three bills has been not only ideology, but also that they were comprehensive. As George Will might write: The. Congress. Does. Not. Do. Comprehensive. Well.
A truer statement has never been uttered. I rarely agree with Senator Alexander. From what I’ve garnered, I actually disagree with him about 64% of the time. I don’t see him as a conservative in any shape or form. RINO would be more descriptive. My advice to the good Senator from Tennessee would be to work hard to get the government out of the way of We, The People. We are quite capable of saving ourselves, and do not need government intervention. Thank you ever so much.
Al Gore’s Natural Duct Tape
Britain facing one of the coldest winters in 100 years, experts predict
Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned.
In case you are wondering, that’s about 3 degrees Fahrenheit. In other words….THAT’S BLOODY COLD!
They predicted no let up in the freezing snap until at least mid-January, with snow, ice and severe frosts dominating.
And the likelihood is that the second half of the month will be even colder.
Weather patterns were more like those in the late 1970s, experts said, while Met Office figures released on Monday are expected to show that the country is experiencing the coldest winter for up to 25 years.
Has The Boracle been spending time in Britain recently? Seems he’s got a knack for freezing the cajones off a variety of citizenry with his presence.
Now, granted, we don’t live in Great Britain. As a matter of fact, we’re not even close (about 4300 miles). Tennessee is on this side of the planet, don’cha know, but if you take a gander at this little screen shot I grabbed this evening from Weather Underground, you’ll see that our neck of the woods is a mite nippy as well.
If you will notice, the NORMAL low is 29. That would be at the coldest part of the night. Ok, yesterday’s low was 22. Nothing all that unusual when the temp gets a little below the norms. What is really starting to annoy the bejabbers outta me is the predicted lows for Monday, when we get home: 10! If I wanted to live where the lows were 10 degrees all the time, I would have stayed in Wisconsin fer the love of pete! Or was that the highs? Hmmm…. And snow???? They are predicting SNOW??? I’m gonna die! sigh….
Report: Hot Air Of Global Alarmists?
In case you missed it last Saturday night:
Freezing Out The Alarmists
Obama’s cold day in Denmark
Washington Times
Copenhagen was a cold town last week for the global-warming crowd. The expected reorganization of the world economy to fit the green template vanished amid blizzard conditions in a country that has had just seven white Christmases in the past century. God certainly has a sense of humor.
President Obama showed up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference having been assured he would be able to make history, only to find that the proceedings were a flop. The promised treaty – billed with the characteristic understatement of the alarmist community as “the single most important piece of paper in the world today” – was an anticlimax. Earlier drafts conjured images of world government, command economies and a future free of the evils of greenhouse gasses. It promised a green utopia.
Need An Eight Minute Nap?
BTW, climate change is NOT a phenomena! It happens. It’s been happening for eons. It also happens four times a year. They are called seasons.
Now That’s Funny Right There…..
I don’t care who ya are!
Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming
World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.
“Temperatures will stay low at least the next three days,” Henning Gisseloe, an official at Denmark’s Meteorological Institute, said today by telephone, forecasting more snow in coming days. “There’s a good chance of a white Christmas.”
Now Snap Out Of It!
Stop bowing to the religion of ‘Green‘! Use what little common sense you have left! Man does NOT control the climate! Never has! Never will!
CLIMATE CHANGE IS NATURAL: 100 REASONS WHY
1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity.
2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history.
3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.
4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.
5) Throughout the Earth’s history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher – more than ten times as high.
6) Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time.
7) The 0.7C increase in the average global temperature over the last hundred years is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate trends.
8 ) The IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers not the 4,000 usually cited.
9) Leaked e-mails from British climate scientists – in a scandal known as “Climate-gate” – suggest that that has been manipulated to exaggerate global warming
10) A large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred years.
Weasels At Work
Live at Copenhagen: Great news – Copenhagen is a disaster
“Collapsing in chaos” is a phrase the media is using to describe the Copenhagen climate conference, and that certainly is the feeling among many here at the Bella Center. Little has gone right, and indeed many registered participants were never even let in. The Danish minister in charge has resigned. Now, those of us who managed to make it in may get turned away for the crucial last two days Thursday and Friday. There are even rumors that President Obama may stay away.
