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James Hansen's Former Boss Speaks Out

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, January 30, 2009 7:13:06 PM
   Over at SmallDeadAnaimals, we get some pretty harsh statements about climate alarmist James Hansen former boss, Dr. John S. Theon.
 
One thing bothered me in the link though. Dr. Theon states that “Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress,”
 
Why didn't he muzzle him then? Was he his boss or not?
 
   Anyway, interesting article and one more person to add to the growing list of those who think man-made global warming is still nothing more than theory.
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There Is No Escape From The Heat

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, January 30, 2009 7:00:52 PM
   Okay, so, even if by some miracle we managed to get our supposed CO2 problem under control,  we all switched to hybrid vehicles, and found a cure for cow flatulence, global warming will still be a problem; by the other global warming.
 
Over the next 250 years, calculates Eric J. Chaisson in a recent paper, the earth's population will start generating so much of its own heat - chiefly wasted from energy use - that it will warm the earth even without a rise in greenhouse gases. The only way to avoid it, he says, is to rethink how we generate energy.
 
   Mark my words...the left is preping us for the idea of population control. It sounds silly, but read any enviromental site and population is always part of the arguement.
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Studying Global Warming... First Class

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, January 30, 2009 6:33:24 PM
 
Scientists have taken the first crack at solving a fundamental climate mystery, criss-crossing the globe in a souped-up corporate jet to determine where and when greenhouse gases enter and leave the atmosphere.

Using a high performance jet, scientists will take a series of "slices" of the atmosphere over the next few years from pole to pole and from the surface to the atmosphere's upper reaches.

They are expected to return from their first mission this week—a series of 11 flights from Colorado to the Arctic Circle to Tahiti, Antarctica, Easter Island and Costa Rica. Scientists running the instruments say they have seen several "wonderful jewels" in the raw data that challenge current thinking and assumptions.
 
   This is the part of the article I found, let's say, comical:
 
"If we expect to make treaties," said Steven Wofsy, a Harvard University professor of atmospheric and environmental science and another principal investigator, "those treaties have to be based on sound science. This slice of the atmosphere is going to help us understand that."
 
   When has "sound science" stopped the powers-that-be at the U.N. and the EU from making treaties? They don't need no stinking sound science.
 
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More California Rules Driving Business Out

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, January 30, 2009 1:34:38 PM
   Saving the planet, especially in this economy, is becoming a business closing ordeal.
California, being so environmentally conscience, to it's own fault, has decided that all fuel stations now have to have a new style of fuel dispensor that keeps fuel vapors from escaping into the air.
 
These new cleaner gas stations aren't cheap, and "dozens, and potentially hundreds" of gas stations in California might close down instead to upgrade. In other words, in this case, going green means going out of business. According to the Pasadena Star-News, the South Coast Air Quality Management District has heard from 76 refueling sites (of about 4,500 total in its area) that will shut down because of the high costs of the EVRP. CARB responds by saying that gas prices will go up by about 0.68 cents a gallon to cover the cost of upgrading.
 
   What's a few more cents a gallon for fuel for a state that already has the highest prices in the country?
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Is Barack A Thermostat Hypocrite?

Posted by Average Voter on Friday, January 30, 2009 1:13:58 PM
   Sure looks that way. Of course he is Barck Obama, the leader of the free world, so he is excused.
 

The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.

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"He's from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Mr. Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."
 
 
Well...proof enough?
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Clever Ad Campaigns

Posted by Average Voter on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:12:57 PM
   Pretty funny article from Jack Shafer at Slate.com. He tries to cut threw the B.S. concerning all the new ad campaigns from various companies trying to promote ways to save energy or for you to be better person.
 
 When I go shopping for moral instruction, I don't drive the family van to corporate America's front door. Their job is to make good stuff for me to buy at a good price, not lecture me on the virtuous life. Yet that's the tack a slew of companies have been taking with ad campaigns that march up to my front door like an army of
 
Traditionally, big companies did good things like planted trees or reduced waste or rescued orphans and bragged about it in hopes that you'd buy their product. Nowadays, they want you to right the world's perceived wrongs so they can take the credit for it.
 
   
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Butterflies Are Important

Posted by Average Voter on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:02:32 PM
   At least in Europe where a group of  scientist across Europe have made a book on it, The Climate Risk Atlas of European Butterflies.
 
   The worst-case scenario scientists examined sees the average European temperature rise by 4.1°C by 2080. In that case over 95 per cent of the present land occupied by 70 different butterflies would become too warm for continued survival. The best case-scenario sees a 2.4°C temperature rise. Even this would mean that 50 per cent of the land occupied by 147 different butterflies would become too warm for them to continue to exist there. Many butterflies will largely disappear from where they are regularly seen now. The Small Tortoiseshell will become absent from a huge swathe of middle and southern Europe and will become restricted to northern Europe. Under the worst-case scenario, rare species like the Spanish Festoon Zerynthia rumina would experience a 97% loss from Spain and Southern France, and the Apollo Parnassius apollo would suffer a 76% loss from mountainous areas.
 
   I bet I could retire on 15% of the funds these scientists recieved to do this study and create this "altlas".
 
 
Fire Moth by SraReynolds.
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Toilet Poetry Can Save The Planet

Posted by Average Voter on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:41:38 PM
 
   Poetry in the loo can cut down on paper use too, says a Japanese group campaigning to save toilet paper as part of the country's battle against global warming.

Simply pasting a "toilet poem" at the eye level of a person seated in the cubicle can help cut toilet paper use by up to 20 per cent, a study by the research centre Japan Toilet Labo showed.

"That paper will meet you only for a moment," reads one poem.

"Fold the paper over and over and over again," says another.
 
   Whatever...

Or just: "Love the toilet".

Now the group is looking to have its posters displayed in 1,000 public toilets.

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Al Gore Is Going To The Capitol

Posted by Average Voter on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:46:43 AM
   Al Gore will be speaking at the capitol on Wednesday to help get Obama's stimulus plan passed and to once again urge the inconvient truth of global warming to a stary-eyed democrat majority. Shouldn't have any problem getting a few cheers, and congradulatory nods after his talk.
 
"The road to Copenhagen is now very clear. It starts with the passage of President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill in its entirety. And then, secondly, we need to put a price on carbon by passing cap and trade legislation," Gore said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press. "In other words, this crisis is an opportunity."

Gore’s appearance is another sign that the Democratic-controlled Congress plans to act quickly on climate change. It comes days after Obama signed orders that will boost the fuel efficiency of the nation’s cars and trucks and could allow states to limit emissions of greenhouse gases from exhaust pipes.

   It doesn't sound like he even needs to come being democrat majority rules in the house and senate anyway.
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NOAA: Global Warming Largely Irreversible

Posted by Average Voter on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:25:25 AM
   Guess that about says it all?! Maybe I will buy that Hummer, probably not a good idea though, being the Hummer brand may soon vanish along with all the sea ice.
 
2008 Hummer H2 Front View
 
 
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Succesfull Launch Of The Greenhouse Gas Satellite

Posted by Average Voter on Monday, January 26, 2009 7:20:08 PM
   The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and ESCAP, the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (the UN can't even get an acronym correct), launched a satellite that will send down information every three days on the state of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
 
Using a high precision sensor, “IBUKI” can measure from outer space the concentration of greenhouse gases throughout almost the entire surface of the earth, including large regions where data was never collected before. The obtained data will be used to determine the emission, transportation and absorption of these gases with a view to eventually contributing to controlling global warming.
 
Covering every region in the world, the satellite will play a fundamental role in monitoring an increase or decrease of greenhouse gases. After the operations start, the data will be obtained every three days from the observation points and distributed to scientists free of charge.
 
Whether it is measuring every greenhouse gas or just a select few, the statement does not stay, but I am sure lots of misleading data will be used from this satellite to bolster their arguements for global warming. Actually it could be a good thing, but since the UN is involved, it will be used for exploiting their goals.
 
GOSAT: Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite “IBUKI”
 
 
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Obama's Moving Fast On The Environment

Posted by Average Voter on Monday, January 26, 2009 7:07:33 PM
   Today was a big day for the enviro-nutters. President Obama layed the smack down on climate change with several anouncements today.
   The first one was to allow individual states to come up with their own idea of emission regulations. And in the same press conference he stated that the Transportation Department had until March to come up with new fuel effeciency standards.
 

"Year after year, decade after decade, we have chosen delay over decisive action," Obama said in remarks in the East Room of the White House. "We must have the courage and commitment to change."

Analysts said the move showed Obama intends to use his executive powers to force Congress to address climate change this year. Because the EPA waiver review could take months, lawmakers, including those sympathetic to U.S. automakers, might opt to take the lead and spell out their expectations of regulators.

"We would suggest this would quickly motivate lawmakers to amend existing law rather than run the risk that bureaucrats could impose economic constraints on their constituents through . . . strict standards," Kevin Book, senior energy analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., said in a research bulletin.

Tim Telleen-Lawton, global warming advocate at the group Environment America, said the announcement is a harbinger of other stringent climate-change policies. "This announcement shows that Obama's serious about stopping global warming," he said.
 
   Clearly, he is serious about using his power.

   Then his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton named a "special envoy" in Todd Stern, a former Clinton administration White House official, to lead the international charge on global warming.
 
"With the appointment today of a special envoy we are sending an unequivocal message that the United States will be energetic, focused, strategic and serious about addressing global climate change and the corollary issue of clean energy," Clinton said at a State Department ceremony.
 
   So, what will tommorow bring? What issue will he throw-down on tommorow? Stay tuned.
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Is A Google Search Bad For The Environment Or Not?

Posted by Average Voter on Monday, January 26, 2009 10:48:48 AM
   I didn't blog in this when I saw the orginial article, because I thought it was stupid. Now the Numbers Guy over at the WSJ puts his two cents worth in.
 
First, the relatively new science of measuring carbon emissions is neither standardized nor finalized. Then there’s the opportunity “cost,” in emissions, of seeking information some other way. For searches that aren’t borne of idle curiosity, the alternative may be a series of phone calls or an in-person hunt. “If you have something that can transfer electrons quickly and efficiently, that’s more efficient than trying to move around atoms, like yourself to a shopping mall,” Erik Teetzel, one of the engineers who work on data-center efficiency for Google, told me. And it’s unclear whether to measure just emissions by Google’s servers, or also those generated at all stages in between them and the end user.
 
   As you can read here, this whole debate is ridiculous.
 
   Why do the greenies feel the need to calculate the environmental impact of every single thing we as humans do? Are they trying to guilt everybody into being more like them, or are they trying to make headlines with their agenda so they can "change the world"?
 
 The fact is, most things exert energy at some point and emissions are sometimes the result of that energy release.
 
Let's give it a rest already.
 
   
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Just What The Auto Makers Need

Posted by Average Voter on Monday, January 26, 2009 10:30:00 AM
   Auto makers are having a hard enough time staying a float, and now President Obama is going to make it more difficult by letting states make up their own emission regulations. If this is done, the auto manufactures will have to build cars that meet two standards, the federal standard and then these 13 other states standards. Of course the other problem could be that those 13 other states can't agree on the smae standards and could come up with 13 different standards, albiet highly unlikely.

The Bush administration denied the waiver in late 2007, saying that recently enacted federal mileage rules made the action unnecessary and that allowing California and the 13 other states the right to set their own pollution rules would result in an unenforceable patchwork of environmental law.

The auto companies had advocated a denial, saying a waiver would require them to produce two sets of vehicles, one to meet the strict California standard and another that could be sold in the remaining states.
 
   You have to admit, President Obama is wasting no time changing things.
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Firearms Case In DC Full Of Lessons

Posted by Average Voter on Sunday, January 25, 2009 3:03:57 PM
   Here is the reason why having a gun on you in DC has always been a bad idea, even when you are just passing through.Cpl. Melroy H. Cort, 24, and his wife, Samantha were traveling through DC heading to Walter Reed Medical Center.

The couple's car got a flat tire, forcing them to pull over at a car repair shop in the 5000 block of Georgia Avenue NW. While there, Cort said, he reached into the glove compartment, removed a 9mm pistol and put it in his jacket pocket.

A witness who noticed Cort handling the gun called police, who arrested and handcuffed Cort while he was sitting in his wheelchair. He was charged with three counts of carrying a pistol without a license, possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of ammunition. He spent the night in the D.C. jail before returning to Walter Reed.
 
   Just the kind of thing that they warn you of while traveling through places not friendly of the right to bear arms. The story regarding his case is really quite interesting.
 
   This opinion piece from the Washigton Post explains something that admitedly was missed in the original article.
 
The real story -- and what the article completely missed -- is that Cpl. Melroy H. Cort apparently admitted in court that he was guilty of carrying an unlicensed gun in the District but the jury nevertheless acquitted him. The jurors engaged in what is commonly known as "jury nullification" -- acquitting a defendant despite a clear violation of the law.
 
   But what both pieces missed is the fact that DC guns laws are overbearing and unnecessary. But expecting liberal DC to understand that is wxpecting too much.
 
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