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Australia Trying To Keep Carbon

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 15, 2010 3:30:14 PM
   It is hard to believe that the Australian government is having trouble getting a carbon program together with the poll numbers they have on climate change.

On the weekend after the Rudd government reintroduced its plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by putting a market price on carbon, public support for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme dropped to a new low after the fiasco of the UN's Copenhagen climate conference in December and Coalition opposition to an ETS.

In September last year, support for the CPRS was at 67 per cent but last weekend dropped to 57 per cent and those against the CPRS rose from 22 per cent in September 2009 to 34 per cent.
 
   This is odd since 73% of the people polled, at the bottom of this article, say that climate change is real and 96% of those who believe say it is partly or entirely due to humans.Geez, with those kind of numbers they shouldn't have any problem passing climate legislation of any kind!
 
  
 
 
 
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Time Magazine To The Rescue

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 15, 2010 2:07:02 PM
   Just so you don't get confused about all the snow on the eastern sea board and global warming, Time Magazine releases an article on just why they are related. (Via StopGlobalWarming.Org)
 
 The 2009 U.S. Climate Impacts Report found that large-scale cold-weather storm systems have gradually tracked to the north in the U.S. over the past 50 years. While the frequency of storms in the middle latitudes has decreased as the climate has warmed, the intensity of those storms has increased. That's in part because of global warming - hotter air can hold more moisture, so when a storm gathers it can unleash massive amounts of snow. Colder air, by contrast, is drier; if we were in a truly vicious cold snap, like the one that occurred over much of the East Coast during parts of January, we would be unlikely to see heavy snowfall.
 
   See! There is no escape from global warming. Whatever weather pattern you are seeing, you guessed it, it has to do with man-made global warming. Apperantly,  the folks at Time Magazine didn't get the stolen emails - in their email?
 
But,  just like the good lefty magazine Time is, they did their part and stepped up to help salvage the flailing global warming debate. 
 
   For you viewing pleasure, I decided to post a few Time Magazine Covers highlighting global warming Enjoy!
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
 
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Building The Fence

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 15, 2010 1:11:27 PM
   Here is a story today in the LA Times about the border fence near San Diego and some opposition about its location. As usual, it's Bush's fault...
 
"I think it's a Bush-era boondoggle that will have almost no consequence in terms of stemming the flow of immigration," said Char Miller, director of the environmental analysis program at Pomona College. "It was a political decision that took in no account of the environment itself, and in the process damages what was once a pretty remarkable landscape."

The $57.7-million project is one segment in the massive expansion of border infrastructure approved by Congress during George W. Bush's presidency. Homeland Security has erected fencing in small towns, remote valleys and high-desert mesas from the Pacific Ocean to Texas.
 
Here is what I say: BUILD IT BABY!
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First Nuclear Plant in Three Decades

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 15, 2010 12:54:20 PM
    The Obama administration has approved the first loan gaurantees on two new nuclear power plants in nearly 30 years.
 
The two new Southern Co. reactors to be built in Burke, Ga., are part of a White House energy plan administration officials hope will draw Republican support. Obama's direct involvement in announcing the award underscores the political weight the White House is putting behind its effort to use nuclear power and alternative energy sources to lessen American dependence on foreign oil and reduce the use of other fossil fuels blamed for global warming.
 
Loan guarantees for other sites are expected to be announced in the coming months, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the decision had not yet been made public. The federal guarantees are seen as essential for construction of any new reactor because of the huge expense involved.
 
   As expected, many are not happy with this development, which includes me. I have posted on this before and once again I will state my position. Until we decided where we are going to put the radioactive waste, we should shelve plans to build more nuclear power plants. What is more ridiculous, Obama and Ried are the ones who pulled the plug on the Yucca Mountain nuclear storage site. So what sense does it make that they would now approve loans for new nuclear power plants? But I guess that will be somebody elses problem since it will be years down the road before these new plants are in operation.
 
   As the story says, it sounds more like a way to get some republicans on board with his energy plan.
 
   
 
 
   
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What Will They Do Now?

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 15, 2010 12:02:52 PM
   Over at Pajamas Media, they are wondering what will become of those that have been profiting off the global warming money train the last 20 years.

Now that Climategate ringleader Phil Jones has admitted that there has been no global warming (man-made or otherwise) since at least 1995, and that the world was warmer in medieval times than now, I only have one question. Where do the so-called global warming skeptics go to get their reputations back?

As head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia — their data underpins most of the claims of man-made global warming — Jones’ admission should be the final nail in the coffin of the anti-carbon dioxide crusade of Al Gore, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), most green activist groups, industry lobbying groups like the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), and President Obama.
 
   My questions is: How do we go about getting Al Gore and the IPCC's Nobel Peace Prizes revoked? I guess it can't be done. Too bad.
   
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