Cartoon on Global Warming

Saw this on townhall and could not stop laughing.

If you want to read a good presentation on “real” global warming science. Read this Power Point.

Government Energy Policy – Dems & Bush

This should be the expected result of poor centralized planing of the US energy Policy. The democratically controlled congress in 2007 passed its energy bill which Bush signed over the objections of conservatives as a show of bi-partisanship due and all the liberals hate Bush since he would not cooperate. The last 2 years he rubber stamped almost everything that the Dems (Reid, Pelosi) wanted and we are starting to live the consequences of these decisions.

Paper companies get unexpected tax-credit windfall

A law to make the earth a little greener is giving paper mills an unintended multibillion-dollar tax windfall with the help of a little diesel fuel.
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The alternative fuel credits were projected to cost the federal government $61 million a year in lost taxes…….
A preliminary estimate being circulated among lawmakers by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation now puts the price tag at $3.3 billion.
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This is the result of the government controlling businesses with Tax laws. The businesses are doing exactly what they are supposed to do. Maximize profit for shareholders.

Another reason for a flat consumption tax and eliminate the income and corporate taxes, in the end consumers pay all taxes anyways so why not make it a direct payment and eliminate the trillions of dollars spent on US tax law compliance.

1st 100 Days & the future failure of America

I thought after the 1st 50 days that things could only get better, lots of new people making new people mistakes, these people really have pride in America just not reacting to well to the new power and environment.

It has just gotten worse except for the distraction game, the Obama administration has gotten very, very good at distraction while the real agenda of the government take over of a majority of American business marches forward.

Some of the highlights/lowlights
1) The American Apology tour through Europe. I thought only look at how important I am, self-indulgent Hollywood types (Penn, Glover, Bellafonte) and ex-presidents (Carter) went around the world saying America is evil. Now the sitting president is apologizing to the world because American Capitalism over the last century and a half has brought an improved standard of living to a large segment of the world population.

2) Cut 100 million dollars from federal budget, same as a family making $45000 a year taking a $1.22 annual pay cut. I wonder what will be cut in the family budget to make up for the income loss, need to drink water instead of the bottle of soda at today’s lunch. savings achieved, no more cutting needed.

3) Media lapdog to the president – ignores hundreds of thousands of protesters who think that government is overstepping its bounds and government intervention into private society needs to be curtailed.

4) Continue to ignore friends and prop up enemies. (Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea) And listen to them speak while they rant about how evil America is.

5) Politicize the security of America by releasing CIA memos

All of these are a distraction as they push through a universal health insurance and energy cap and trade plan.

Universal health care will result in limiting access, it is the only way to decrease costs is to limit access. See Charles Krauthammer collumn. The government has convinced a majority of the people that the America Health Care industry is broken and can only be “fixed” by the federal government.

The federal government is going to do the same thing with the energy industry under Cap & Trade. Cap & Trade will result in significant 300 to 400% increases in energy prices which will raise the prices for each American household about $3900 dollars more a year. This will result in American’s becoming enraged against energy companies and utilities giving the government the support to price cap and nationalize the energy industry. This will result in less energy for everyone to use.

It is called hidden taxes on business which gives those in power the ability to create a crisis and then solve the crisis by taking more power.

America is on a road to rapid failure and lower standards of living for the good of everyone.

POWER CORRUPTS, ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPT ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

Another entertaining column by Mark Steyn.

April 22nd – Lenin’s birthday – is also Earth Day, a day to ponder what we hard-hearted right-wingers regard as the ultimate Milf. It was, oddly enough, thinking about eco-alarmism that got me started on the road to America Alone. This National Post column is from 2002:

In 1968, in his best-selling book The Population Bomb, scientist Paul Ehrlich declared: “In the 1970s the world will undergo famines – hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.”

In 1972, in their influential landmark study The Limits to Growth, the Club of Rome announced that the world would run out of gold by 1981, of mercury by 1985, tin by 1987, zinc by 1990, petroleum by 1992, and copper, lead, and gas by 1993.

In 1977, Jimmy Carter, President of the United States incredible as it may seem, confidently predicted that “we could use up all of the proven reserves of oil in the entire world by the end of the next decade.”

Now, in 2002, with enough oil for a century and a half, the planet awash in cut-price minerals, and less global famine, starvation and malnutrition than ever before, the end of the world has had to be rescheduled. The latest estimated time of arrival for the apocalypse is 2032. Last week, the United Nations Global Environmental Outlook predicted “the destruction of 70% of the natural world in 30 years, mass extinction of species, and the collapse of human society in many countries … More than half the world will be afflicted by water shortages, with 95% of people in the Middle East with severe problems … 25% of all species of mammals and 10% of birds will be extinct …” Etc., etc., for 450 pages. But let’s cut to the chase: As The Guardian’s headline writer put it, “Unless We Change Our Ways, The World Faces Disaster.”

Ah, yes. The end of the world’s nighness is endlessly deferred but the blame rests where it always has. With us – with what the UN calls “the current ‘markets first’ approach.” Klaus Toepfer, the UN Environment Program executive director, believes that “under the ‘markets first’ scenario the environment and humans did not fare well.”
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I’d like to be an “environmentalist,” really I would. I spend quite a bit of my time in the environment and I’m rather fond of it. But these days “environmentalism” is mostly unrelated to the environment: It’s a cult, and, like most cults, heavy on ostentatious displays of self-denial, perfectly encapsulated by the time-consuming rituals of “recycling,” an activity of no discernible benefit other than as a communal profession of faith.
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The higher a countries GDP, the healthier the population and the longer people live. This is a fact which can’t be denied by any open minded un-biased reasonable person. There deniers that free-markets improve peoples lives are dooming the Human race to a much worse way of life than necessary. It is a shame that some people only feel good when destroying others.

I have a previous entry about this Global Warming – Science Consensus Fraud?

It is an easy comparison, from Wikipedia
World GDP

Life expectancy

Why is UN now blaming livestock for global warming?

I ask the question because most humans and governments are all about self-preservation.

Since Al Gore has successfully vilified (under fake science and poor methodology) the use of anything carbon to create energy. The member states of the UN which is run by the Arab league. The largest section of the Arab league are the oil producing countries of the world.

The leaders of the oil producing countries of the world need to change the discussion so that they can have their own self-preservation. How have they done this, blame the US livestock industry that feeds to world as a bigger problem than their industry.

Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns

On a connected topic the people who prevented Kyoto from being approved in the US should be congratulated. The main argument against the US approving the Kyoto protocol was the lack of emerging countries from begin included, only industrialized country were effected.

Now this article is in the USA Today.

Climate warming gases rising faster than expected

Carbon emissions have been growing at 3.5% per year since 2000, up sharply from the 0.9% per year in the 1990s, Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Everyone will jump on the blame America bandwagon but the truth is that America’s CO2 emission have increased by 0.3% a year between 2000 and 2007 (latest data). This is a rate that is 90% less than the rest of the world. Glad to see America is actually walking the walk not just talking the talk, it is a shame that the increased US regulation is destroying the American entrepreneurs but that is a different topic.

Do not believe it? Here are the facts from the Energy Information Administration.

As a result the world’s lemmings continue along on their merry way of blaming America for all the worlds problems.

The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam

The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam

A nice read, since it is against everything the Goracle tells us it must be all hogwash. It is settled science, some guys wanted funding 50 years ago so they made something up to study, got a government grant. This created something that allow the socialists (one world government) to take over and destroy the free society of America by taking our freedom to produce goods in a cost effective way away from us. All of the goods producing has been moved to communist and totalitarian states over the last 30 years.

The picture is becoming clearer, I just hope it is not to late to save capitalism, freedom and liberty which has improved so many peoples lives around the world.

Man Made Global Warming=decided science? Why Fund Research

I have always posed this questions to those who believe human made global warming exists and is the highest priority for America to conquer.

If it is decided science, why is further money needed to study man made global warming instead of spending 100% of available resources on solutions?

Until this questions is answered and all money is diverted to a solution call me a doubter of man made global warming.

I have never gotten a good answer, I get lots of mumbling, never thought of that, or other gibberish. This observation and the amount of money begin spent on global warming studies leads me to think it is all a big money grab. It might be that there is no man made solution. Since there is not a problem.

The reason I bring this up, is that in the 825 billion dollar (1.3 trillion after 10 years of interest on the loans for the funding is added) I have heard there is about 6 to 8 billion dollars to further study of man made climate change since global warming is no longer politically correct.

I did a quick search of HR1 on the PDF posted at the House web site and I have found the following just by searching on Climate.

Page 52:

9 PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION
10 For an additional amount for ‘‘Procurement, Acquisi
11 tion and Construction’’, $600,000,000, for accelerating
12 satellite development and acquisition, acquiring climate
13 sensors and climate modeling capacity, and establishing
14 climate data records: Provided further, That not less than
15 $140,000,000 shall be available for climate data modeling.

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For an additional amount for ‘‘Science’’,
21 $400,000,000, of which not less than $250,000,000 shall
22 be solely for accelerating the development of the tier 1 set
23 of Earth science climate research missions recommended
24 by the National Academies Decadal Survey.

This is at least $390,000,000 for study that I can find. There is lots more about funding building improvements to allow for the study of science as well.

Obama and the EPA

Obama’s Order Is Likely to Tighten Auto Standards

President Obama will direct federal regulators on Monday to move swiftly on an application by California and 13 other states to set strict automobile emission and fuel efficiency standards, two administration officials said Sunday.
The directive makes good on an Obama campaign pledge and signifies a sharp reversal of Bush administration policy. Granting California and the other states the right to regulate tailpipe emissions would be one of the most emphatic actions Mr. Obama could take to quickly put his stamp on environmental policy.
Mr. Obama’s presidential memorandum will order the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider the Bush administration’s past rejection of the California application. While it stops short of flatly ordering the Bush decision reversed, the agency’s regulators are now widely expected to do so after completing a formal review process.
Once they act, automobile manufacturers will quickly have to retool to begin producing and selling cars and trucks that get higher mileage than the national standard, and on a faster phase-in schedule. The auto companies have lobbied hard against the regulations and challenged them in court.
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As a limited federal government conservative this part of the article which says that states can set their own rules for emissions is fine with me.

If I was running a business and a state made rules like this and I could not make enough profit by selling in that state, stop selling in that state. I know this is a big contradiction to the concept of expanding your marketplace but from what I have see sometimes the best deal you make is to walk away from the deal.

If I was in the automobile business I would say, here is my product, if you want to regulate my product out of business, fine. Since I can’t sell all of my businesses will be closed in your jurisdiction.

I can’t run my business at a loss and I do not want a government subside so your regulation is causing all these jobs to be moved to another state. A smaller profitable business is better than a large unprofitable business.

If companies would do this, then either the government would change or everyone ends up unemployed. This type of excess government regulation is the hidden tax and a big reason why so many companies are leaving America to places with much laxer regulation.

It is an easy concept, businesses will follow the path of least resistance.

Smoke Cigarettes for Children’s health care – HR 2

We are paying for SCHIP with a cigarette tax increase. SCHIP will now cover families that have income up to 300% of the poverty level.

More about HR2 SCHIP increase here

The poverty level in 2007 for family of 4 with an income of $20,650. A family with income of $61,950 will have child health insurance. The 2006 median income in the US according to US census is $43000 to $52000 depending on region of the country. That means that more than 50% of the US population will have their children’s health insurance and health care paid for by the US taxpayer.

To pay for this plan the tax on a pack of cigarette is being raised 61 cents a pack.

Based on the Heritage foundations evaluation of the plan in 2007 that Bush vetoed 22 million more adults need to take up smoking to pay for this plan.

I now understand the socialist democrats plans, this plan will help fix social security.

Keep children healthy through SCHIP.
Get more adults to smoke cigarettes to pay for child health care.
As soon as the child is to old for SCHIP put a cigarette in their hand.
Adults die earlier due to smoking related illnesses.
Since adults are dying sooner there is less people collecting social social security.
Social security is now financially solvent for a few more years.
As a side benefit since the population is going down there are less people to use energy so America can become energy independent.
Since America is energy independent, Americas will stop contributing to man made global warming.
Less people means that fewer jobs are needed so unemployment will go down.

So remember, if you are to old for SCHIP do your patriotic duty and go smoke a pack of cigarettes, the results will make America better.

Global Warming Cartoons

From Townhall.com