Sometimes, things happen, horrible things, but as much as we want to believe otherwise, they happen without a reason other than they do. Yes Earthquakes are a devestating thing to humans, but tectonic plates are not self aware. They don’t move because we did something wrong. They don’t move because there is a little extra carbon in the atmosphere or because someone made a profit off of selling a product. The world spins round and round and sometimes there are Earthquares and floods. Some years are warmer than others, some years have more snow in them than those previous.
The planet is fine. Earthquakes will sometimes happen more frequently than others and while it s a terrible thing for those living near those moving plates, we much accept that life is not perfect and often not fantastical. We all need to calm down and accept that we are currently powerless to cause or stop Earthquakes and snowstorms or a few warm years.
With the “science” behind Global Warming disappearing before our eyes faster than the warmth itself, I keep focusing on what could have been with the loss of time and money invested in this made up problem. Just imagine if “scientists” had instead developed robot butlers. If they had, I would have awoken to the smell of sizzling bacon and freshley brewed coffee. Instead I woke up cold because it is freezing outside.
In truth I believe the money and time would have been best spent by the people to whom both belong, the American citizen. Our government had no right to embark upon the crazy quest to “save the planet” robbing us blind in the process. This is what differentiates a conservative from a liberal, robot butlers aside, while I think about how the individual could have spent their money better, liberals are busy plotting the next scheme to steal more.
For an example of this difference look at the Iraq War debate. Never did I hear someone on the left complain that the money spent in Iraq would have been better in the pocket of taxpayers. Rather they complained the money could have gone to domestic programs or the war machine better utilized in more deserving places like Darfur. “How can we spend so much money in Iraq when it could go to {public schools, the environment, health care} and really do some good.” The fact that funding War is in the Constitution but universal health care and other massive programs are not, never phased them.
This is, in fact, the root of our global warming mess. The issue has little to do with true love of nature, everything to do with redistributing wealth. Progressives have wisely reframed their argument to one of “clean air and water” countering that anyone against their spending is for pollution.
No one is against clean drinking water. Having clean water run from the tap doesn’t cost hundreds of billions to trillions more in spending. Neither does clearing up some smog. These goals don’t require thousands of pages of new laws or giving up power to global government. They just require slight changes, most of which local communities can get their people to support.
In the beginning there were undoubtedly a few people on the warming bandwagon who truly cared about conservation of nature and a clean environment. Those now in power have a much different agenda. Every proposal for the environment contains an action that takes money from one group and passes it to another. The enforcer of these transactions are of course the bodies and the leaders proposing the exchange.
The argument is classic socialism and progressivism. The assertion is that global warming is produced by large nations with wealth. Their actions have a reaction that effects smaller nations without weath. The solution? Take wealth from large nation, give to poor nation and everything will work itself out because poor nations have better natures than wealthy ones.
What does this actually do to solve the asserted problem? Absolutely nothing and since there really is no problem when the weather evens out, as it is doing now, they can claim success. Best of all these individuals and groups have found ways to transfer a bit of that wealth to themselves. How nice for them!
“The single solution to (these problems) is a green economy that is inclusive, that’s strong enough to lift millions of people out of poverty.” – Van Jones Obamas former Green Jobs Czar
The wealth of democratic nations comes from the labor of the people. Progressives are not taking money from some shadowy group of evil people known only as “the rich” they are taking our money. We the workers and taxpayers fund the United States and it is our money they seek to redistribute. Do you consider yourself evil? Do you not deserve the money you earn? Are poorer nations more deserving of your own money than you?
Warming has become a global money laundering scheme. Our money is taken and funneled into nations that have less money with the notion that it will aid the collective. Remove for now the reality that many of these nations are run by corrupt dictators and gangsters. Even if the money went to other individuals, no government has the right to engage in the wealth redistribution from one to another. The government cannot take your house and give it to a “more deserving family” any more than they should be allowed to take your income with a similar intent.
In historic times this type of action was taken by nations through invasion and War. Progressives using Global Warming have actually convinced leaders like President Obama that the looting of the United States is necessary for our survival. Think about that for a moment. Our leaders want our nation’s wealth to be given to others, many of which are hostile to us. Rather than come to our shores with guns drawn, the rest of the world has found a way to convince our nation to just give them our treasure and we are convinced we should feel good about it. Is that not absurd?
As the Global Warming nightmare ends, progressives will not stop seeking ways to perform their wealth redistribution. Right now they are experimenting domestically with “public health epidemics” like H1N1 and childhood obesity to divert money to communities they say are most effected and so most deserving. They seek behavior modification through government and with every taxpayer dollar spent another level of control appears.
There will be a new global epidemic too. When the last ounce of credibility is lost for Global Warming, they will find some nightmare scenario polluting our planet that must be addressed.
We must be vigilant in attacking these schemes from the start, a difficult task because so many of them are cloaked by issues nearly everyone can agree upon. Everyone wants healthy children just as they want clean drinking water. We must question why federal taxpayer funding should be used to secure the things we want and why so much of it, when personal responsibility and a few dollars spent by local government is the better option.
We must also patronize only those charities and organizations that do not take federal government welfare. This was made more difficult with President Bush’s Faith Based Initiatives, a ploy that put many honest organizations on the government payroll. Still there is a great deal being done without federal help. We must solve our issues on our own in order to disprove the notion that the ever expanding federal government is needed.
We must present solutions community solutions to community problems.
Conservatives must do better at explaining and embracing state and local rights. If New York wishes to bankrupt itself with welfare programs, that is our right. The line in the sand is expanding these programs to the federal government. In 2008 Mitt Romney, for example, proposed taking his Massachusetts health care system to the federal government. His plan is now basically Democrat health care reform. We should not race to simply scale state or local projects to the federal level believing that what works for a local community will now work across the nation and then the globe.
We must, in the most simple terms, return to the Constitution and the founding documents of our nation. We must recognize the role of government and ward off those who propose grand schemes to usurp individual liberty and steal wealth. Global Warming is falling apart faster than the Obama presidency. In its place, Democrats will attempt to build something new. Conservatives must work tirelessly to fight this replacement while rebuilding our government to be at one with the Constitution.
I still think all of the money spent could have procured the people some pretty cool robot butlers. Still, I would rather make my own bacon and hold onto my own money rather than embrace the socialist nightmare being created through plots like Global Warming.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA’s National Weather Service and National Ocean Service.
“Whether we like it or not, climate change represents a real threat,” Locke said Monday at a news conference.
Lubchenco added, “Climate change is real, it’s happening now.” She said climate information is vital to the wind power industry, coastal community planning, fishermen and fishery managers, farmers and public health officials.
Why not an agency devoted to the growing gremlin problem or a Lewis & Clark expedition for fairy dust? Please.
Over the last few years the stories of Global Warming related events being cancelled or at the very least influenced by snow storms have mounted. Copenhagen was hit by a blizzard during the latest rounds of crazy world leader negotiations and Obama headed back to Washington anticipating another blizzard, this one heading up the East coast of the United States.
If you had any remaining doubt that “climate scientists” and Global Warming advocates were not off their rockers, the fact that they hold talks on warming during the winter months should take that away. For a movement that is less science and more marketing campaign, you think they would understand the power of an image.
Hold your talks in the Middle East, Africa or at the very least the other half of the globe that is NOT in winter at this moment. Dolts! Think tropics, think sand, think lush forests, think melting, not cooling. Their lack of basic intellect makes me certain the non-dunces will win out in the end.
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Speaking of cold, I have to admit that every year I age, the winter months affect me more. I was always the brooding type who liked the harsh winter offered in Western, New York. Buffalo bred; I almost laughed at my Rochester surroundings where we receive about the same amount in a season, just not in massive three foot piles dropped in hours. Instead we get it here slowly, over the course of the long cold winter.
I can barely stand the cold temperatures anymore, leaving me longing for a change in scenery. While I doubt it will ever happen, my family and in many ways my heart live here in the colder, suburban half of New York, I could do without the cold and all that comes with it.
For my money, I could use more global warming. If the shores of Lake Ontario could morph into the coasts of Miami someday, that would be a remarkable feat! Break out the hairspray and the Styrofoam, it is cold outside and I want my warming!
Global Warming is more marketing campaign than science. There are spokespeople, Al Gore, Leo DiCaprio, Sheryl Crow, and there are products and services, books, light bulbs, T-Shirts, and movies. Just as there are industries buit around making accessories for iPods, there are millions of people who profit from the “green” campaign by branding their wares with the messages of the mindless.
Copenhagen seems to be equivalent to a major “Stevenote,” the always anticipated addresses by CEO of Apple Inc., Steve Jobs, who mesmerizes audiences with new products they simply have to have when the presentation is done. The media eats it up.
We found out yesterday that melting ice caps is the new product rollout for 2010. Even though the science of the message was instantly discredited, the media already invested an enormous amount of time to spreading the word. Just like a Stevenote, the press buzzed even after a few skeptical eyes pointed out the product wasn’t that great.
Speaking of that, product placement is key to global warming. Al Gore had an entire week of appearences and the message of going “green” sprawled across every single show on NBC. An Inconvenient Truth and a sewer full of other propaganda has made its way into schools across America. Children sing oaths and take pledges to be greenies. Who needs jingles when you can just indoctrinate the youth?
Now that we have the 2010 rollout, we can expect to hear more about melting ice. Yes, this years line is a little recycled, these are greenies, what do you expect? We’ve been down the ice cap melting road before. The ice seemed to be going away a few years ago, it returned. It seems to have a habit of thinning during warmer months and coming back during colder ones, if you can imagine such a concept. Still, it makes for great headlines and sells more product if the story has horrific consequences and puts humanity on the brink of destruction.
Our only hope is that the left can only sell so many lemons before their followers realize they are only buying rocks painted yellow. The greenie’s failed predictions and empty scare tactics will eventually stop influencing, well, the influencers. A marketing campaign can ship a lot of product and fool many. Eventually though, if the product sucks, the people realize what they were sold and get angry. The only question is, how much will it cost before the people demand a refund?
The public is quickly turning against the global warming nonsense. When the planet hasn’t warmed in eleven years, it is difficult to keep selling the concept that there is a warming trend. Average Americans probably haven’t heard much about Climategate and incriminating e-mails, but they have heard enough from Al Gore. In a time when we are all fighting for work, we cannot afford to be sold on more expensive lightbulbs, higher gas prices, and caulk. Suddenly, the threat of economic collapse seems to be sobering the average American who is realizing something isn’t right with the world sold to us by progressivism.
There is one simple message Republicans can hit over and over again to win. Climate “control” means death to the economy and the pocketbooks of average Americans. They have a choice between spending their money to save the Caribou or buying cheaper gasoline. Yeah, they will pick gasoline!
The planet is fine, there is no global warming, and the Climategate scandal has proven that even the most ardent salesmen are skeptical. We shouldn’t tread lightly here, fearful of offending mother Earth. Mother Earth has long endured War, dinosaurs and pummeling from massive objects from outer space. It can handle a little extra carbon. The American people, however, cannot withstand a furthering of our recession and the destruction of our standard of living. Our future will be bleak only if we give in to the greenies, not if we reject them.
Climate change is marketing, nothing more. Mother Earth is fine, even if some of the people living on her are a little looney.
In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”
However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.
“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”
India on Sunday night rebuffed an appeal by Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, to embrace a low-carbon future in which the two countries would work together to devise new ways of consuming and producing energy.
Mrs Clinton, on a five-day visit to the country, said that low-carbon emissions would not jeopardise India’s high economic growth rates and its goal of lifting millions of people out of poverty. She offered a technological partnership to secure the fast growing nation’s energy supplies and help boost the livelihoods of its farmers.
“There is simply no case for the pressure that we, who have been among the lowest emissions per capita, face to actually reduce emissions,” Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister told Mrs Clinton. “And as if this pressure was not enough, we also face the threat of carbon tariffs on our exports to countries such as yours.”
In December I asked “What Good is an Electric Car” noting the energy that goes into producing the power for electric cars is anything but “green.” Now some scientists are telling people to think twice about things like public transportation and the hidden pollution that is produced to power them. In short, an SUV might just be a better choice than rail.
But.. but… but… solar and wind, solar and wind… aren’t here and won’t be here for a VERY long time people. Get with it.
Sometimes, things happen, horrible things, but as much as we want to believe otherwise, they happen without a reason other than they do. Yes Earthquakes are a devestating thing to humans, but tectonic plates are not self aware. They don’t move because we did something wrong. They don’t move because there is a little extra carbon in the atmosphere or because someone made a profit off of selling a product. The world spins round and round and sometimes there are Earthquares and floods. Some years are warmer than others, some years have more snow in them than those previous.
