March 2009 Archives

By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats today are unveiling their climate change legislation, a bill that would seek to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020 and by 85 percent by 2050.

The bill would also establish a cap-and-trade system to push utilities and industry polluters to meet those goals, according to a document obtained by the Globe.

The bill, which is being introduced by Representatives Henry Waxman of California, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, chairman of the Energy and Environment subcommittee, would also create a renewable energy standard that requires wind, solar, and other renewable sources to meet 25 percent of US energy needs by 2025. And it would create an energy efficiency resource standard that requires utilities to achieve a savings of 15 percent of electricity and 10 percent of natural gas by 2020.

By Alan Caruba, Canada Free Press

Dr. S. Fred Singer, 'the CO2 wars', Greens and the Obama administration war on U.S. Economy

My friend, the internationally famed climatologist, Dr. S. Fred Singer, calls them "the CO2 wars." It is the last ditch attempt by the Greens, under the aegis of the Obama administration, to declare carbon dioxide a pollutant and thus open the door to its regulation.

Singer says such regulation "would be the equivalent of an atomic bomb directed at the U.S. economy--all without any scientific justification."

I am increasingly of the opinion that the main goal of the Obama administration through CO2 regulation, exploding deficits, punishing taxation, and any other means at their disposal is the destruction of the economy and the complete control of impoverished Americans.

By Elmer Beauregard

Had a great time during "Earth Hour" last night, until I stubbed my toe on the coffee table, here is a photo of my experience.

By Elmer Beauregard

The Stupid Thing About Earth Hour

The WWF which usually advertises on this blog, and no it has nothing to do with wrestling, is doing another earth hour thing where your supposed to turn off your lights and don't drive for an hour. This is happening tomorrow March 28 at 8PM.

The stupid thing is, you're supposed to take pictures of it, video tape it and blog on it. If you are using a Quad-Core Mac Pro with a 30" monitor (like I am) and uploading a Hi-Def half hour video to youTube, which will take all night, believe me you aren't saving any energy. I can fry an egg on this thing!

Do Greeny Weenies think their computers run on Happy Butterfly Pee?

Instead, I suggest you leave all your lights on and go drive around the bock for an hour. I do like the video taping and photo idea though, so send me your energy consumption photos and videos and I will post them on this blog entry. None of this will have any impact on the weather (let alone the climate) but at least we're not hypocrites.

You can also double your efforts by donating to our Carbon Debit Program.

By Noel Sheppard, Fox Forums

For years, climate realists around the world have been warning the international community that the entire man-made global warming myth and resulting hysteria is all a scheme to redistribute wealth under the pretense of saving the planet.

In a document obtained by FOX News, the United Nations has made it official.

As FOX News executive editor George Russell reported Friday:

A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes -- all under the supervision of the world body.

Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations "information note" on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009. [...]

The 16-page note, obtained by FOX News, will be distributed to participants at a mammoth negotiating session that starts on March 29 in Bonn, Germany, the first of three sessions intended to hammer out the actual commitments involved in the new deal.

I am posting all these articles just to show the world that it is not Global Warming that is creating these floods. Granted the recent cold weather has helped in that there is less melting which would add to the rising waters, but a larger problem is all of the ice dams. The big reason I think there is flooding in the first place is because it was a very cold winter and we didn't have a January thaw, so the snow just built up over the winter, so when it did finally thaw it was much larger than normal.

Larry Kusch, Winnipeg Free Press

Manitoba flood officials are dealing with "an almost unprecedented" series of circumstances as they confront ice jams, the snow falls and a huge volume of water heads towards Manitoba from the U.S., flood forecaster Alf Warkentin said this afternoon.

But he said it's too early to say if the snow that fell in the past couple of days has worsened the flood situation in the Red River Valley.

"It's quite a weather mess, quite a hydrologic mess we're in," Warkentin told reporters at the legislature.

He said while the cold weather has exacerbated flood problems by freezing culverts and making river ice jams more difficult to clear, it could also be "an ally" over the next several days, slowing the melt and the tide of water heading towards the city.

Makes you want to be Pro Global Warming, Doesn't It?

The river is now flowing rapidly, but officials aren't ready to say the flood risk is over. People living upstream should be warned there could be more danger of flooding as the ice works its way north.

Manitoba Water Stewardship spokesman Steve Topping said it is "very likely" the ice will reform and jam again, probably somewhere north of the Lockport dam. He said survey crews are being sent out to determine where that might occur.

Don't let them tell you its Global Warming that is causing these floods.

By Janell Cole, N.D. Capitol Bureau, The Jamestown Sun

Large sheets of ice jam the swollen Missouri River north of Bismarck on Wednesday. Extensive flooding in low lying areas is forcing residents in communities close to the river to evacuate.

BISMARCK -- Moments after ice was blown up on the Missouri River Wednesday, Gov. John Hoeven reported by phone that he could see trees and ice moving out of the flooded Fox Island housing development in south Bismarck, giving city and state officials hope that the river is moving and the ice jam threatening much of the city will abate.

"We're cautiously optimistic," said Mayor John Warford.

Ruling Might Trigger Emissions Regulations

By Ian Talley , Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency has sent the White House a proposed finding that carbon dioxide is a danger to public health, a step that could trigger a clampdown on so-called greenhouse-gas emissions across a wide swath of the economy.

If approved by the White House Office of Management and Budget, the endangerment finding could clear the way for the EPA to use the Clean Air Act to control emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases believed to contribute to climate change. In effect, the government would treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant. The EPA submitted the proposed rule to the White House on Friday, according to federal records published Monday.

Such a finding would ratchet up pressure on Congress to enact a system that caps greenhouse gases -- which trap the sun's heat in the earth's atmosphere--and creates a market for businesses to buy and sell the right to emit them, as President Barack Obama has proposed.

WorldNetDaily

Temperatures dropping, fewer hurricanes, arctic ice growing, polar bear population up

WASHINGTON
- This may come as bad news for Al Gore.

The modest global warming trend has stopped - maybe even reversed itself.

And it's not just the record low temperatures experienced in much of the world this winter.

For at least the last five years, global temperatures have been falling, according to tracking performed by Roy Spencer, the climatologist formerly of NASA.

"Global warming" was going to bring more and more horrific hurricanes, climate change scientists and the politicians who subscribed to their theories said. But since 2005, only one major hurricane has struck North America.

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A new study by Florida State University researcher Ryan Maue shows worldwide cyclone activity - typhoons, as well as hurricanes - has reached at least a 30-year low.

Tom LoBianco, Washington Times

President Obama's climate plan could cost industry close to $2 trillion, nearly three times the White House's initial estimate of the so-called "cap-and-trade" legislation, according to Senate staffers who were briefed by the White House.

What $2 Trillion Looks Like

I have always been a big fan of the "New" Math, being a visual person it was very easy for me to understand the concept of 10s and 100s portrayed by bundles of sticks and I think the new math would help when it comes to the AIG Bonus situation.

When The American People Get Angry They Get Things Done. When it was discovered that Governor Blagojevich was even thinking about selling Obama's Senate seat, there was instantaneous nationwide outrage and "Boom" he was gone. And now with the millions of dollars of bonuses going to AIG execs, again the American people got instantly angered and "Boom" things are happening to change that.

The American people are justified in their anger, but I think they are misdirecting their anger to  comparatively small targets, and when they see what the bonuses actually look like, maybe they will get angry at things that actually matter.

By Aaron Wiener, Washington Independent

Record-High Numbers Now Doubt Climate Change Will Occur

By Marc Sheppard, American Thinker

"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth." -- from the Oregon Petition, signed by over 31,000 scientists

United by that conviction, over 800 scientists, economists, and policy makers arrived in New York City last Sunday to attend the Heartland Institute's 2^nd Annual International Conference on Climate Change.  They came to talk a wide range of subjects, from climatology to energy policy, from computer climate models to cap-and-trade, from greenhouse gas (GHG) effects to solar irradiation.  But most of all they came to help spread the word that the answer to the question posed by this year's theme -- Global warming: Was it ever really a crisis? -- is a resounding NO.

by Lydia Saad, Gallup.com

PRINCETON, NJ -- Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.

As recently as 2006, significantly more Americans thought the news underestimated the seriousness of global warming than said it exaggerated it, 38% vs. 30%. Now, according to Gallup's 2009 Environment survey, more Americans say the problem is exaggerated rather than underestimated, 41% vs. 28%.

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Inspired by our parody of Van Morrison's song "Tupelo Honey". Its kind of a copy of a copy so Van shouldn't have a problem with this one.

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