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Even in the face of mass human extinction, these asshats like Oliver Tickell want to tax energy globally at 25% and give more tax money to the poor. How does that reconcile with the truth of things if we are at “the end of living and the beginning of survival”? In short, it doesn’t.

And one other thing. We will let Tickell be personally in charge of making Putin comply with his plan to save humanity. He can just run on over to Russia right now and tell him that he owes 25% of their energy production to some environmental world oligarchy. And while he’s there he can tell Putin to get the hell out of Georgia too.

If it comes down to survival of the fittest, pansies like Tickell and his enviro whacko buddies better forget about the poor and run find a good hidey hole — which I am sure is exactly what they would do — because there will be a changing of the guards in which I will have a prominent position, if not the supreme leader. The first order of business will to be to kill all the lawyers, then the environmentalists and their enablers.

For some reason, in the event of global catastrophe I don’t think we would see many episodes of liberals like Tickell actually helping the poor. They would run around screaming I told you so until some bad motherfucker chops their head off.

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Sir Richard Branson: ”It is quite clear from every astronaut that I’ve ever spoken to that seeing the planet from out there, surrounded by the incredibly thin protective layer of atmosphere, helps one to wake up to the fragility of the small portion of the planet’s mass that we inhabit, and to the importance of protecting the Earth.”

I call bullshit. To me, it would have just the opposite effect. I would marvel at the insignificance of our microscopic existence upon this big blue rock and wonder how people could be so arrogant to think we could destroy it when in fact if we marshaled every ounce of resources that could be mustered from every corner of the world we could maybe put a dent in it. We might destroy ourselves, but we can’t destroy the Earth if we tried because the Earth is not fragile. The Earth will destroy mankind long before we can destroy the Earth.

But just in case, if the Earth and it’s thin protective layer of atmosphere is so freakin fragile, we better not be firing rockets through it, should we?

The way the elite like Branson and the Hollywood crowd think, the Earth is so very fragile but it is okay to shoot exorbitantly rich people into orbit, destroying some small but significant portion of the fragile atmosphere just so they can appreciate how fragile it is.

More “Saving the Planet” BS from Nancy Pelosi: “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet.” I guess that is her excuse for doing absolute nothing else constructive since gaining power.

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Former Secretary General of UN Kofi Anan:

Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Tuesday called for ‘climate justice’, saying that it was polluters who should pay for the effects of climate change, and not the poorest and most vulnerable.

What an idiot like Kofi doesn’t understand is that the poorest countries are the worst polluters and that the poorest polluters are benefactors of the richest polluters. Americans cause more pollution because we make and export products that improve the daily lives of the poorest countries. Products like corn and the people willing to go over and pour it down their starving gullets.

The poorest countries must be held accountable for their fair share of pollution whether they produce it directly or indirectly through consumption. As a matter of fact, the poorest countries should have to pay extra if they are consuming donated products because there was no monetary offset on the rich producer’s side of the economic equation.

Why should a rich producer pay energy taxes on something that was given away to the poor polluters? In other words, who would willingly pay high taxes on a cost? The answer: many will not. Only the best of the best of the best philanthropist would do that. One who thinks taxes are good no matter what. How many of those are there out there I wonder.

Only someone who thinks the largess that flows from rich nations to poor nations is an unshirkable obligation instead of voluntary charity could think in such a way as Kofi and the rest of his one world ilk.

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John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel: “My mission, in what is left of a long and exciting lifetime, is to stamp out this Global Warming silliness and let all of us get on with enjoying our lives and loving our planet, Earth.”

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Why exactly will global warming cause all the coastal areas to flood? And other than having to relocate dense population centers why is a lot of extra water such a bad thing? It’s not like our dense population centers have been a raging success. They are in fact the source of many of the nation’s ills. Crime, pollution, poverty, urban sprawl… and global warming.

Besides, aren’t we in some kind of global water shortage crisis? Isn’t California shutting down for want of some more water? I can see how people who drink off the melting glaciers might be concerned about melting glaciers, but that is hardly a global problem, is it? Besides wouldn’t all the extra water from the glaciers have to be included in the weather systems, ultimately causing more rain around the world? Doesn’t redistribution of water make as much sense as redistribution of wealth?

You don’t hear a lot of talk about global warming being a good thing. Primarily I think this is because global warming, if it even continues over the long term, will cause many great changes and when there is great change the people who have are at risk to lose ground to the people who have not. People in charge do not like unmanaged change–that is, they do not like change where they are not still in control of everything after the change has occurred. Al Gore’s vile tobacco plantation could be reduced to a dust bowl, for example.

What if, after the initial global catastrophes, if any, global warming and melted icecaps were to provide an unmeasurable benefit to the the entire plant and animal kingdom of earth, enabling human civilization to endure and prosper for ten thousand years? Seems an unbiased scientist adhering to the scientific method would have to consider such a scenario.

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DRUDGE: JUPITER IN THE BALANCE: Recent ‘red spots’ likely due to climate change…

I can’t wait to see how humanity gets blamed for this one. Probably now we will go from Global Warming to Solar System Warming. We greedy car-driving, coal-burning, McDonalds eating Americns are not only destroying our own planet with selfish consumption; we are destroying the entire solar system.

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What is the Cannes Film Festival? In his article about the upcoming Cannes debut of Indiana Jones: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Timothy Gray describes the festival thus:

Aside from being a film festival and a global market, Cannes has become the world’s biggest press junket

Wow, that doesn’t sound very ecologically friendly to me.

Oh but don’t you all see? The Hollywood elite need these big expensive events. It’s part of doing business. Even though it appears as a big soirée, where thousands of A-listers arrive in private jets it’s actually an important part of their business and culture. It’s how they make their money without which they wont have the necessary resources to educate all us little people as to how we are destroying the environment and causing Global Warming by living our paltry little lives, with all our infernal car-driving.

So really, it’s people with too much money that are destroying the world, ins’t it. The personal destruction is commiserate with how much extra money a person has. A guy with a boat heats up the world more than a guy with a motorcycle and a guy with a jet, well, lets just say a guy with a jet has no peer except for maybe some factory owner in China.

For a fact Al Gore has aggressively advocated dramatic increases in the price of gas in order to keep people from driving so much. It’s the only way to save the planet.

What use is it to have way more money than you need if you don’t get a pass to rape and pillage Mother Earth.

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Do as I say, green goody 200 shoes… I’d like to line ‘em up and slap the shit out of each and every one of ‘em.

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What a spin job by Bloomberg’s Jim Efstathiou Jr. Talk about hedging your investment. The Global Warming adherents have no shame when it comes to protecting their turf.

Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.

Or, if Global Warming is indeed the dominant weather pattern threatening the planet, it could be said that Global Warming causes decades-long periods of Global Cooling.

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Google wants to know what you plan to do in honor Earth Day:

However you’re planning to honor Earth Day and combat climate change, we want to hear all about it – the more unique, the better.

Yes, we can tackle climate change – but only if we all pitch in. Here’s your chance to do your part – and inspire your fellow citizens to do theirs. Share your ideas, put yourself on our map and let your fellow users know what you’ve committed to do for Earth Day 2008, and for the rest of the year.

I submitted my ideas but somehow I don’t think my submission will get added to the map

Thanks for sharing your Earth Day ideas. Approved submissions will be viewable on the map within a few days, and the map will be updated regularly with a random sampling of messages. We’re always eager to hear about more Earth Day commitments, so don’t forget to spread the word!

My submission? Turn the A/C down to 68 and light a wood burning fire.

If you don’t think your Earth Day celebration ideas will be accepted by Google, feel free to leave your ideas here.

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There are so many things wrong with this story it’s not even funny. And, of course, it makes me very angry. Only a lying, arrogant sack of shit would proclaim himself a courageous leader while blaming the rejection of his attempt to implement state-sanctioned highway robbery as a simple matter of the poor common people’s obstinate resistance to change.

“It takes courage to ask people to change—even if it won’t really cost them much. It is sad but it is true. Political leaders today are afraid of their constituents,” he said in a speech at an environmental conference at Georgetown.

No, It takes courage to run as a Green candidate, you big loser, because no politician has ever been elected to save the planet. Next time, do us a favor and run as a Greenie. Besides, shouldn’t politicians be afraid of their constituents? If not afraid, then shouldn’t politicians at least be respectful of the needs of those they are elected to serve? Does Bloomberg really think his average constituent needs to shell out several hundred extra dollars a month because the city can’t manage their own traffic boondoggle? No politician is elected based on his or her promises to play wet nurse to Mother Earth. They seem to take on that job after they get into office since it presents a really effective way to swindle money from people.

Except for the mayor of New York and his enviro-whack cronies at the EPA, DoT, UN and other power-hungry, money-grubbing bureaucracies, no one cares that the mayor of New York isn’t doing enough to save the environment. For many people I’m sure there is a collective sigh of relief that Bloomberg wont be able to economically rape them because they have to drive into the city. I got news for Bloomberg, no one wants to drive in heavy traffic congestion and they for damn sure don’t want to pay the city $21 a day for the privilege of doing so.

As much as I’d like to hang this preposterous money-grubbing scheme on the despicable Mayor Bloomberg, it seems he has some allies in the Bush administration — if not Bush himself — who support this money grab.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters had said the administration hoped congestion pricing in New York could serve as a model for other cities nationwide. Charging drivers fees in congested city centers is a concept that has gained popularity around the world but has yet to be tried on a major scale in a large U.S. city.

By failing to pass congestion pricing before a midnight deadline on Monday, the state appeared to have forfeited an offer of $354 million in federal money to help kick-start the initiative.

So the citizens provide the start-up costs for their own further oppression? Isn’t that precious? The feds give NYC a third of a BILLION dollars of taxpayer money so they can build a clusterfuck bureaucracy to steal many more hundreds of millions from people required to commute to a job they probably really don’t even want.

I bet I can think of several different ways to alleviate traffic congestion that does not involve stealing money from middle-class commuters. I’ve written about some of these before and it’s very simple: Use telecom technology and common hub facilities to disperse the corporate workforces away from congested areas. Providing $354 Million dollars to those forward-looking entrepreneurs implementing the dispersal plan would be a good start.

But, you have to understand this will never, ever happen because it is simple, it requires no bloated bureaucracy to administer, it benefits the middle-class instead of taking their money from them, and it might actually work. Simple and effective solutions are not really desired by the politicians and no bureaucrat would ever disperse a taxpayer away from his or her tax base.

Big rotten chunks of the planet could be falling off into space and no politician would propose dispersing corporate workforces away from congested downtown areas.

I don’t care what anyone says, every single political issue no matter how it is wrapped up and sold to the gullible public is designed in an effort to take more money away from the middle class. If a problem happens to get solved, it is purely an accidental side-effect. As a matter of fact, I would be interested in knowing a single big problem since Smallpox was eradicated that was solved by any government program.

But wait, there’s more:

City officials estimated congestion pricing would reduce traffic by about 6 percent…

That’s it? Six percent? Bloomberg would rape and pillage a hundred million* people for a measly 6% reduction in traffic?

…and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue for transportation projects. Bloomberg shrugged off criticism that the fee was too high by comparing it to the price of a movie.

What an asshole. I’d like to see Bloomberg shrug off a brutal beating with a short length of rubber hose. Most people don’t go to the movies because it’s way too expensive for the value of the product. And most people certainly don’t want to have the price of a movie extorted from them every day they have go to work.

In lobbying for his plan, Bloomberg displayed a short fuse with anyone who didn’t support the idea, painting opponents as “stupid” people who didn’t care about the environment, progress and the health of asthma- afflicted children.

So if you don’t happily give to the government hundreds of dollars of money you don’t have so they can drop it down a black hole not only are you stupid but you don’t care about the environment, progress and the health of asthma- afflicted children.

I feel like I am constantly under attack by the government for my money. Our one lousy vote is insignificant in the face of the ubiquitous corruption in government. We can not vote ourselves out from under the oppression of outrageous taxation that even a two-worker family struggles to meet. So, what does that leave us with?

Until we can get the government back under the control of the common people, the American ideal of liberty and freedom is dead. If you don’t believe me, just try to not pay the congestion fee when it comes to a neighborhood near you.

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* I obviously pulled that number out of my ass, as there is no where near 100 million people in the State of New York let alone commuting to congested areas of Manhattan. I have no idea what I was thinking at the moment those brilliant words flowed from my pen, but 100 million is a big number and sure sounds good but it’s probably still a bit on the high side even after the new steal-money-from-those-suffering program spreads across the fruited plains from sea to shining sea, as the Bush administration supports. Unless you include those in Europe who have already been suckered into the program. That’ll probably get you to a hundred million.

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Arnold, you big green bastard, don’t ever again talk to me about the environment:

As the Los Angeles Times reported last week, the governor has been spending nearly every night in his Brentwood mansion, shuttling between Sacramento and Southern California in his private jet.

The governor uses his own money to pay for his Gulfstream flights, which price out at about $10,000 an hour, the Times reports.

And what about the cost to the environment?

Yeah, Arnold, what about the cost to the environment?

The governor’s staff says he purchases “carbon credits.”

Carbon Credits are just bullshit, right? No one actually sucks a corresponding amount of greenhouses gases out of the atmosphere on your behalf, do they?

Such credits are aimed at offsetting the greenhouse gases generated by his flights but do nothing about the particulates and smog-forming compounds they spew into the air.

But the carbon credits don’t really offset anything do they? Carbon Credits are just an idea. You send money to Comrade Al Gore labeled as a carbon credit and you get a pass on consuming 1 gajillion times the energy as the ordinary person.

So Arnold, how do you justify such an extreme, selfish consumption of energy that is destroying the world?

“The question is how can I be with my family, because that is extremely important, to be with my kids. They are all growing up. They are in their teens. They need their father around. … I felt it took a toll on my family not being at home every day. So what I am trying to do is find that balance between the family and running the state.”

Oh, well, so long as it’s for the children. As long as Arnold, or any rich person, has good reasons then I guess the planet doesn’t matter. Newsflash to Arnold: All the little people have the same kind of concerns with balancing family and work. How many non-rich people, aka the little people, do you think could come up with any satisfactory reason for destroying the world? If Arnold’s excuse is good enough for Arnold, it’s good enough for all the little people too. If Arnold can fly a private jet to and from work for his children then anyone with kids can drive a big honking, gas guzzling SUV.

Arnold is no different than all the other Hollywood elitists and their political hack friends. Saving the planet is about making all the little people sacrifice so the the rich and powerful can continue to enjoy their extravagant way of life.

Well, to heck with that. Everybody should light a wood fire every night whether they need it or not in protest of these stupid carbon credits. The little people should not be concerned whatsoever over their carbon footprint since it wont even register next to the footprint of nearly any movie star or politician chosen at random.

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Up until now I thought wind energy was spotty at best with too many drawbacks to be a significant player in the broad energy market. Evidently I have been laboring under some misconceptions because apparently many are already dependent on wind energy:

Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said a decline in wind energy production in west Texas occurred at the same time evening electric demand was building as colder temperatures moved into the state.

The grid operator went directly to the second stage of an emergency plan at 6:41 PM CST (0041 GMT), ERCOT said in a statement. (Link)

That seems significant to me.

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The rebuttals from the Global Warming nuts concerning current climate measurements should be quite entertaining.

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

Time’s running out on the Global Warming scam. At the very least it will be much more difficult over the next couple of years to advance the global warming “theory” as fact when billions of people are freezing the collective asses off.

Related:

Global Warming no doubt causes Global Cooling

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GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz rebutts criticism of his claim that “Global warming is a crock”

Lutz, GM’s outspoken product development chief, has been under fire from Internet bloggers since last month when he was quoted as making the remark to reporters in Texas. (Link)

Don’t let the very loud minority sway you Bob, there are plenty of us bloggers out here that agree with you whole-heartedly.

American auto makers have to pull a rabbit out of their collective hats if they are to survive in present form regardless of what the climate is doing. If people want cars that run on bat guano badly enough, I’d expect to see a bunch of Batmobiles on the street.

If the automakers had absolute, undeniable proof that electric cars would ultimately lead to the destruction of the environment they would hide the research and still develop electric cars balls to the wall because that’s what the eco-libs have all but required everyone to buy as soon as they become available to the masses.

Remember how pissed the liberals were when they found out about nicotine? Wait till hell freezes over and they found out it’s mostly because of their electric cars. Bwaaahahhahhahhahaha!

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Investor’s Business Daily has an account of the same Popular Mechanics story about a mini ice age that I linked the other day. Since the facts of each story are about the possibility of an impending ice age due to decreased solar activity, the difference between the two stories lies in the opinion as to whether the Sun has much influence over the planet’s climate. Popular Mechanics says not so much (follow the link to see their spin) but IBD say very much.

Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better “eyes” with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth’s climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined….

This solar hibernation [of the seventeenth century] corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.

IBD says the global cooling caused the mass deaths of 17th century and Popular Mechanics says the mass deaths caused the cooling.

Considering that it recently snowed in Baghdad I’d say the Al Gore and his fellow climate terrorists have about a year or two to close the deal on their Global Warming scam. No wonder they seem to be in such a frenzy.

I have no doubt that with the demise of the Global Warming scam, a Global Cooling scam will pop up in its stead… but at least it wont be the rat-bastard Al Gore in charge.

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Explaining the solar funk:

The last such solar funk corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. While there were competing causes for the climatic shift—including the Black Death’s depopulation of tree-cutting Europeans and, more substantially, increased volcanic activity spewing ash into the atmosphere—the sun’s lethargy likely had something to do with it.

The article just goes to show how thoroughly Politically Correct thought has been incorporated into any and every topic. Despite the fact that the article is about the possibility of a pending mini ice age, the author is obligated to suggest that part of the cause of the previous cooling was the death of much of the European population during the plague years of the seventeenth century, reminding everyone that humans are the primary cause of global warming. Alongside immensely more significant contributors such as increased volcanic activity and increased solar activity, the mention of man-made greenhouse gases is disingenuous. But not to the Jolly Green Tyrants.

And how absurd is this:

Just how much influence the sun has on global temperatures has been the subject of sometimes acrimonious debate. While an upswing in solar activity may cause a warming trend, it was discounted in the mid-1990s as the sole driver of current climate change. And for anyone hoping that a solar downswing might bail us out of our current dilemma: Solar influence on climate is slight compared to the impact of man-made greenhouse gases, a National Academy of Sciences report concluded in 1995. [Emphasis added]

How can anyone say such a thing with a straight face? A child or a full-grown imbecile can deduce that the Sun has everything to do with Climate. Even the parts the Sun has nothing do with are influenced by the Sun. For example, burning wood to stay warm is influenced by the Sun. The ability for a population to resist deadly diseases, like the plague, are influenced by the Sun as starving people are less able to fend off infection and crops don’t grow on frozen ground.

The Sun is 93,000,000 miles away and we can not even glimpse at it without being blinded. Maybe too many climate “scientists,” and I use thet word loosely, have been looking directly at the sun for too long.

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Another crisis loams. What say you, Sir:

“Globally, it’s clear we are eroding soils at a rate much faster than they can form,” said John Reganold, a soils scientist at Washington State University. “It’s hard to get people to pay much attention to this because, frankly, most of us take soil for granted.”

I know I do and I’ll not take it any other way.

And you, what say you, Sir:

“We’re losing more and more of it every day,” said David Montgomery, a geologist at the University of Washington. “The estimate is that we are now losing about 1 percent of our topsoil every year to erosion, most of this caused by agriculture.”

“Globally, it’s pretty clear we’re running out of dirt”

Wow. I did not know this. In one hundred years we shall be totally out of dirt if something isn’t done to counter this frightening trend. Of course these guys are so full of crap they can replace much of their “lost” dirt by lightening their load a bit.

Loam, also known as garden soil, or dirt, generally contains more nutrients than your more sandy soils and is used by farmers to plant their crops. So what is loam? Loam is soil composed of sand, silt, and clay in relatively even concentration (about 40-40-20% concentration respectively.)

Dirt moved is not dirt lost. A farmer may be losing 1% of his dirt every year but globally I have a hard time believing that there is a net loss of dirt, whether loamy or humus.

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First off, where did the whole “Green” marketing thing come from. The planet is blue, not green.

All we need to know about Kyoto:

In the seven years between the signing of Kyoto in 1997 and 2004, here’s what happened:
•Emissions worldwide increased 18.0 percent;
•Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1 percent;
•Emissions from nonsigners increased 10.0 percent; and
•Emissions from the United States increased 6.6 percent.

The above stats were pulled from Protein Wisdom but originated from a Mark Steyn piece in the OC Register entitled Children? Not if you love the planet regarding the anti-humanist elements of the environmental whacko movement led by AlGore. Bali represents the dawning of global tyranny settling over us all; a tyranny for which justification is based on a simple platitude: You do love the planet, don’t you?

Steyn:

By the way, if you’re looking for some last-minute stocking stuffers, Oxford University Press has published a book by professor David Benatar of the University of Cape Town called “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence.” The author “argues for the ‘anti-natal’ view – that it is always wrong to have children … . Anti-natalism also implies that it would be better if humanity became extinct.” As does Alan Weisman’s “The World Without Us” – which Publishers Weekly hails as “an enthralling tour of the world … anticipating, often poetically, what a planet without us would be like.” It’s a good thing it “anticipates” it poetically, because, once it happens, there will be no more poetry.

Well, let’s get this straight once and for all: I don’t love the planet. If not for me and mine, I could give a rat’s ass if the whole blue ball goes up in global warming induced smoke tomorrow. As far as I am concerned Earth serves absolutely no purpose other than providing food for us to eat and place to lay our heads when we sleep and whatever else we can pillage from her fertile fields.

They can have my carbon footprint when they pry it from my cold dead feet.

(Via Instapundit)

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You all do realize that in ten years, if the Green Tyrants have their way I’ll probably be imprisoned or killed for what I’ve written in this blog. But thats alright, I’ll be in good company.

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Like BaBa Boxer and the rest of them will always be in charge and the children will never grow up

“We are facing a crisis that will hit our children and our grandchildren the hardest if we do not act now. Not to act would be wrong, cowardly, and irresponsible,” said Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, chairwoman of the committee.

My kids are 12 and 8 and I believe they are both smarter and likely wiser than BaBa. Straight up, I’d rather wait and give the kids a shot at fixing the alleged looming global warming catastrophe than see any more work by the current set of fools running things.

For all we know we may just now be reaching optimal CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

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A Paradox: I can not afford a smaller carbon footprint without a bigger carbon footprint.

Since I have absolutely zero interest in reducing my carbon footprint, nor do I intend to put forth any effort towards reducing my carbon footprint, the big question for me is how are “they” going to force us to reduce our carbon footprint? Probably by chopping off our feet. I doubt we will like the Final Solution to the question of the Third Estate that will be discussed at the Global Warming eco-conference in Bali.

If this world can not survive the by-products of a few creature comforts, then what good is it? Isn’t saving people from poverty antithetical to reducing global warming? Sure, we can reduce the number of wood-burning stoves with Rene Nunez Suarez’s green stove but eventually all of the erstwhile poor will want a car and a house with conditioned air and cell phones and all the rest. No one — and I mean NO ONE — is going to go without A/C in South Texas unless under direct threat of extreme violence, and probably not even then.

I’ve always wondered why the excess CO2 doesn’t flow out the ozone hole, anyway?

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Across the world, Homeless are being asked to stay warm one less night a year by foregoing at least one barrel fire. And the Jews think they have it bad. No sacrifice is too small

The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.

Alas, there is controversy

“The environmentalists should think about how much pollution is caused by one solitary diesel truck on the road,” Ze’ev said. “They should be fighting the trucks instead of Judaism. This is so trivial, so anti-Jewish and so anti-religious that even the worst anti-Semites couldn’t think of it. Just like the Helenists, they are trying to extinguish the flames of the Jewish soul.”

Who’s breaking the news to the Islamists about their sacrifice for the earth?

Yea, yea it’s all funny now, but wait until the priests of Mother Earth are sending out the fire trucks to extinguish all the barrel fires. Maybe they can convince the homeless to huddle by the dumpsters and then all the dead bodies can be picked up with the normal garbage run.

Like Sgt Hulka said, I am not prepared to sacrifice a damn thing until I see one of Rene Nunez Suarez’s stoves in the hands of every poor family in the world that needs one.

UPDATE: Orin Kerr @ The Volokh Conspiracy: “On the other hand, maybe a miracle will happen and the atmosphere will not be damaged.”

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Another indicator the Global Warming “crisis” is a hoax:

In 2002, the Paris-based International Energy Agency, through its Climate Technology Initiative, awarded Nunez its Climate Technology Leadership Award for his invention. He received U.S. Patent No. 6,651,645 B1 the following year. But financial success has eluded him.

Green groups aren’t lining up like he thought they would to fund his technology. He has won occasional grants to manufacture a few stoves for poor families such as the Erazos. A contractor makes them for him for $325. His own company can’t do it because he no longer has a company or employees. Nunez is broke.

Just like all the rest of the world’s so-called problems, nobody really wants to fix Global Warming, they just want to be in charge of fixing it. If you are in charge of fixing something, getting paid nicely for fixing something, the last thing you would want is for that something to actually get fixed. Besides, there is nothing we can do about global warming so why waste any money.

Al Gore, Clooney, Sarandan and all the rest of the eco-clowns don’t really care. It is much more glamorous to fly around on private jets and travel in motorcades spewing CO2 from their wind holes than actually contributing to a solution.

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I’m sure there is no ulterior motive. Dr Neil Frank:

Some meteorologists, including former hurricane center director Neil Frank, say as many as six of this year’s 14 named tropical systems might have failed in earlier decades to earn “named storm” status.

“They seem to be naming storms a lot more than they used to,” said Frank, who directed the hurricane center from 1974 to 1987 and is now chief meteorologist for KHOU-TV. “This year, I would put at least four storms in a very questionable category, and maybe even six.”

I sense a scandal brewing which will probably will reach named storm status soon.

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