May 2009 Archives

Russ Steele, NC Media Watch
Robert D. Brinsmead is a Horticulturist who has written an essay defending carbon and it's role in our lives on earth. We are a carbon based species. We consume carbon and we emit carbon.  Without sufficient carbon in our diets we will all die. Yet our government wants to ban carbon (CO2) as a pollutant dangerous to our health.

Brinsmead has written an extraordinary defense of carbon in his essay:  The Vindication of Carbon Means the Vindication of Human Freedom. This is a little long for guest post, but it deserve a thought full read. Download here.

By Bob Ferguson and Lord Christopher Monckton, SPPI

The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) in Washington reports that a leading expert on climate and former advisor to Margaret Thatcher as UK Prime Minister, has dismissed as false a recent claim by the Washington Post that "most scientists now say there is a consensus about climate change"; that warming is "unequivocal"; and that most of the warming of the past century was manmade.

Christopher Monckton, in a new paper for SPPI entitled Unequivocal 'Consensus' on 'Global Warming', says:

"There is ... no sound or scientific basis for the notion, peddled by the Washington Post, that there is a scientific 'consensus' to the effect that anthropogenic 'global warming' has occurred, is occurring, will occur, or, even if eventually it does occur, will be significant enough to be dangerous."

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Eric Bland, Discovery News

As new fuel efficiency standards for cars make news in the United States, scientists in Canada are already developing more fuel-efficient, and more polite, cattle.

The research promises to lower costs to farmers by reducing the amount of feed needed for raising cattle. It could also help the environment by reducing the number of methane released into the atmosphere, where it is a climate-warming greenhouse gas.

"Ruminants produce a lot of methane; three cows equal one [mid-sized] car" in terms of global warming potential, said John Basarab, an agricultural research scientist for the Alberta government.

"In Alberta alone there are more than six million cows, and in the U.S., there are over 100 million," he said. That's a lot of methane.

By Bjorn Lomborg, Wall Street Journal

Some businesses see nothing but profits in the green movement.

Some business leaders are cozying up with politicians and scientists to demand swift, drastic action on global warming. This is a new twist on a very old practice: companies using public policy to line their own pockets.

The tight relationship between the groups echoes the relationship among weapons makers, researchers and the U.S. military during the Cold War. President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned about the might of the "military-industrial complex," cautioning that "the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." He worried that "there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties."

This is certainly true of climate change. We are told that very expensive carbon regulations are the only way to respond to global warming, despite ample evidence that this approach does not pass a basic cost-benefit test. We must ask whether a "climate-industrial complex" is emerging, pressing taxpayers to fork over money to please those who stand to gain.

By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Democratic supporters of legislation to slash greenhouse gas emissions clashed with Republicans on Monday as the House Energy Committee opened debate on a sweeping energy bill that would cap emissions and mandate the use of renewable energy.

The 932-page bill has the backing of President Barack Obama, but is drawing the intense ire of Republicans and even some Democrats who worry the bill’s cap on emissions would punish industries and result in job losses.

Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who chairs the panel, said the bill is an entirely new energy policy for America.

“The legislation will create millions of new clean energy jobs, save consumers hundreds of billions of dollars in energy costs, enhance America’s energy independence and cut global warming pollution,” Waxman said in an opening statement Monday afternoon.

Committee members plan to reconvene Tuesday morning for a second day of debate on the bill.

Alaska's Hubbard Glacier is advancing at the rate of seven feet per day!

Against popular belief many glaciers are growing all over the world, six in the U.S. alone. Here is a partial list. Of course as they grow parts "calf" and fall into the ocean which makes for very exiting video.

By Terri Jackson, Belfast Telegraph

Global cooling has arrived. Global warming is dead.

There is now irrefutable scientific evidence that far from global warming the earth has now entered a period of global cooling which will last at least for the next two decades.

Evidence for this comes from the NASA Microwave Sounding Unit and the Hadley Climate Research Unit while evidence that CO2 levels are continuing to increase comes from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

Professor Don Easterbrook one of the principle speakers at the recent World Conference on climate change held in New York in March this year attended by 800 leading climatologists, has documented a consistent cycle of warm and cool periods each with a 27 year cycle. Indeed the warm period from 1976 to 1998 exactly fits the pattern of climate changes for the past several centuries long before there were any CO2 emissions. Greenland Ice core temperature measurements for the past 500 years show this 27 year cycle of alternating warm and cool periods. Recently the global temperature increased from 1918 to 1940, decreased from 1940 to 1976, increased again from 1976 to 1998 and has been decreasing ever since.

By Elmer Beauregard

One of the objectives of Minnesotans For Global Warming is to point out that CO2 is not a pollutant. In fact if there were no CO2 there would be no life, and that message is starting to get heard. But the useful idiots who still believe in Global warming are struggling to come to grips with this idea. So they're saying stuff like "if nature makes CO2 that's good, but if man makes CO2 that's bad".

Well, what about a Marathon where 20,000 humans are generating many tons of CO2 in one race, is that natural or man-made? I can hear the gears churning in their little brains.

Who are the Carbon Dioxide fear mongers?

By Phyllis Shlafly, WorldNetDaily

Barack Obama promised that he wouldn't raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. He neglected to mention that this tax exemption would go only to those who don't use electricity, gasoline, heating oil or natural gas.

The truth of the matter is that Obama will raise taxes on practically all middle-class Americans. But that's not all; in addition to new taxes on all those necessities (just think of all the appliances in your home that use electricity), he will drastically reduce our standard of living.

By Jared Flesher, New York Times

"It's not going to work," Mr. Nader said of an emissions cap-and-trade program now being considered in Congress.

Ralph Nader, the unflagging corporate gadfly, perennial presidential candidate, and long-time advocate for environmental and consumer protections, was a driving force behind the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as the passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.

Green Inc. caught up with Mr. Nader recently to ask him about some of the most pressing environmental questions of the day -- from carbon taxes and cap-and-trade programs to renewable energy and nuclear power -- as well as his impressions of the Obama administration's approach to these issues in its first 100 days.

Excerpts from that conversation follow:

By KEVIN DIAZ and BILL McAULIFFE, Star Tribune

Minnesota's members are getting put on the spot over energy legislation meant to slow global warming, and the debate splits on regional as well as party lines.

WASHINGTON -- It's showtime for global warming in Congress, and a number of Minnesota lawmakers are starting to feel the heat.

Congress is readying for what energy lobbyists call "the mother" of all climate debates, with a target of Memorial Day to pass major legislation in the House.

"We are at a crossroads," said Kevin Knobloch, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, one of the leading voices in the push to combat global warming by creating a "cap-and-trade" law that would slash emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

I don't remember Pawlenty switching parties

A regional, market-based pollution strategy for carbon dioxide mirrors an earlier effort to reduce acid rain.

By Bill McAuliffe and Paul Walsh, Star Tribune

Through a system of buying and selling rights to emit carbon dioxide, nine Midwestern states and the province of Manitoba will work together to reduce air pollution linked to global warming.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty was joined by eight other governors and the premier of Manitoba in an agreement Thursday on a regional, market-based strategy for controlling carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and other facilities.

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By Elmer Beauregard

Turns Out CO2 Is Earth Friendly After All

I was surfing the web and came upon this, a CO2 Generator at an "Earth Friendly" website. I do agree with them that CO2 is earth friendly and not a pollutant.

In the Description of the product it mentions:
"The burners used in Green Air CO2 Generators are specially designed to maximize the production of carbon dioxide and minimize heat as a by-product. This generator provides carbon dioxide far more economically than any other means of enrichment."

Cap'n Trade and Chicken little Invaded the Jason Lewis Tax Rally Last Saturday, at the Minnesota Capital. It was a lot of fun and we handed out 1,000 Newsletters.

Cap'n Trade And His Mates, Plan To Plunder YOU
The American Taxpayer.

by Elmer Beauregard

Cap & Trade is rearing its ugly head again, this time its being called The American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). President Obama revealed it on earth day April 22, 2009, and its got all of the usual suspects including Al Gore and Goldman Sachs, and they stand to make billions off this tax.

They are trying to push through a very serious, very burdensome carbon tax. Fashioned after the Enron model, a new derivatives bubble that could easily reach $700 billion per year! . Plus there is in fact no scientific consensus on the issue, no matter how hard Al Gore tries to tell us there is.

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