RR16/global warming

From the page: "General Gordon of Khartoum Killed by Climate Change and other news

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From the page: "As "cap and trade" legislation (H.R. 2454) moves through Congress, policy analysts are sounding the alarm about the impact such legislation would have on the already troubled U.S. economy. Marlo Lewis, a global warming and energy policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, believes the bill is just one of many legislative and regulatory attempts by left-wing politicos to seize the U.S. and world financial system. "

From the page: "I am a scientist who has studied the theory of human caused global warming for over 20 years, and it is both saddening and offensive to me as a scientist to see the Times continuously regurgitating the fear-mongering, anecdotal clap trap it is being fed by know-nothing environmentalists and global warming propagandists in the Gore-IPCC-Hansen camp. As an example, consider the latest article in today's Times by Cornelia Dean and her regurgitation from NOAA's Climate Change Center:"

From the page: "About 20 years ago Enron was owner and operator of an interstate network of natural gas pipelines, and had transformed itself into a billion-dollar-a-day commodity trader, buying and selling contracts and their derivatives to deliver natural gas, electricity, internet bandwidth, whatever. The 1990 Clean Air Act amendments authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to put a cap on how much pollutant the operator of a fossil-fueled plant was allowed to emit. In the early 1990s Enron had helped establish the market for, and became the major trader in, EPAâ€s $20 billion-per-year sulphur dioxide cap-and-trade program, the forerunner of todayâ€s proposed carbon credit trade. This commodity exchange of emission allowances caused Enronâ€s stock to rapidly rise. "

From the page: "Imagine 1 kilometre of atmosphere that we want to rid of human carbon pollution. Weâ€ll have a walk along it.

The first 770 metres are Nitrogen.

The next 210 metres are Oxygen.

Thatâ€s 980 metres of the 1 kilometre. 20 metres to go.

The next 10 metres are water vapour. 10 metres left.

9 metres are argon. Just 1 more metre.

A few gases make up the first bit of that last metre.

The last 38 centimetres of the kilometre â€" thatâ€s carbon dioxide.

A bit over one foot.

97% of that is produced by Mother Nature. Itâ€s natural.

Out of our journey of one kilometre, there are just 12 millimetres left. About half an inch. Just over a centimetre.

Thatâ€s the amount of carbon dioxide that global human activity puts into the atmosphere.

And of those 12 millimetres Australia puts in .18 of a millimetre.

Less than the thickness of a hair. Out of a kilometre."

Great analogy.

From the page: "The notion of man's use of CO2 as a possible driver of climate has been the subject of several recent Letters to the Editor in the Sun-News. Over geologic time. there has been 15 to 25 times more CO2 than current concentrations; the claim that this time we will reach a tipping point is alarmist, ludicrous, and totally without foundation.

CO2 is a colorless, odorless gas, and essential to life; to regard it as a pollutant is just wrong.

Let us deal with facts - not activism, alarmism, or hyperbole. "

From the page: ""I've driven by Al's palatial digs in suburban Nashville and it is quite large. He got clowned recently for the size of his power bills and now is mad at the rest of us. He stands to make a mint over the Cap & Trade legislation if passed and signed into law," said one participant.

"We know your Scam Mr. Gore and the Globalists. Make CO2 a pollutant and then turn it into GOLD by trading it on the BOGUS open market for $$$. We know what you and your ilk are up to and we the people will defeat you. Follow the money!" said another.

"Global warming is NOT a problem. Al Gore is a nut. The earth has actually maintained average temperatures since 2001. It amazes me that the EU has drunk the cool aid and is jumping off the cliff with AL like lemmings. I hope the USA does not follow suit," said a third. "


The Agenda revealed.

From the page: "How do you make money? You could build a factory that makes chairs or open a store that sells chairs. But of course if you're in the government, you make money by finding new sources of tax revenue, which helps justify giving yourself a salary hike. But what if you're not officially in the government? That's what pork is for, and while environmentalists don't seem to like cows very much, they do love their pork.

"Green" is more like pink thanks to the kind of pork embedded in Obama's stimulus package. The billions ladled out for everything from green jobs to making buildings green to green energy helped shove whopping fistfuls of money into the pockets of environmental consulting groups and companies."