Video: Important Questions Being Asked About Global Warming

Via Chicks on the Right.



It's a little over 9 minutes long but it goes by fast.

The video does beg the question: Just how far do environmentalists want to roll back technology?

And don't say 'Green' because the cost and availability is still prohibitive. Not to mention unreliable. But what standards to they want the US to go back to?

Didn't think candles would be used a replacements for light bulbs.

Global Warming Is Preventing Us From Having More Global Warming

Screencap of the week.

Five years ago, Al Gore warned us that humanity was ten years away from putting the earth into an "irreversible slide into destruction".

The polar ice caps were supposed to he melting away, massive hurricanes devastating coastal areas and dogs & cats living together. If not the end times it was the beginning of the end of times. If Al Gore was to be believed.

Obviously, with global warming causing all this cold weather, it's getting in the way of the real global warming that would be causing the ice caps to melt.

It's not quite a yellow smiley face that shows 15 minutes to midnight but it is Al Gore's very own Doomsday Clock slowly ticking away.

Flashback To 2000: Children Will Not Know Snowfall In 2010

With a track record like this, how can they not be trustworthy today?

Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries...According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia ,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

That was then, this is now:

The Groundhog Blizzard continues to unleash its fury across Chicago and other cities across the Great Lakes, but an end to the fierce and historical snowstorm is finally in sight.
The Groundhog Blizzard now ranks fifth among the greatest snowstorms in Chicago's history, exactly what AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski predicted on Tuesday.
A total of 17.1 inches of snow has buried Chicago's O'Hare International Airport (the city's official weather observation site) through 6 a.m. EST.

And that was Chicago, this is the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has ordered utilities to begin rotating outages to compensate for a generation shortage due high usage in extreme weather.

Rotating outages are controlled, temporary interruptions of service designed to ease the load on the electric grid.
[. . .]
The outages last anywhere from 10-45 minutes and the locations and durations are determined by the local utilities.

Yet, the ManBearPig doubles down on his investment:

“In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.”[bold mine]

Global Warming, is there anything it can't do?

"Global Swings" Hitting The Eastern Seaboard

Did Climate Change not catch on so environmentalist are switching to a new, even more ambiguous term like Global Swing?

So terms like Climate Change, Global Warming and winter have gone by the wayside now.

Notice that Michio Kaku said that scientists didn't know what was causing the extreme weather patterns. But it didn't stop him from dropping in 'human activity' as a quantifier as to what may be causing it.

Like the Blogfather says, "I'll believe it's a crisis when the people who keep telling me it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis."

I'm Convinced

How exactly does this persuade anyone?

School Teacher after giving her spiel to the students on trying to reduce their carbon output and a couple of students didn't raise their hand to agree: "It's okay, you can have a difference of opinion. No pressure."

Apathetic Students shrugs shoulders.

School Teacher presses button that blows up Apathetic Students.

Shocked Student: "But you told them no pressure!"

School Teacher: "I did, yes."

Shocked Student: "And you blew them up anyway? Without warning!"

School Teacher: "This is groupthink. There is no place here in groupthink for another opinion, much less apathy."

Different Shocked Student: "But we could have reasoned with them. Talked to them and argued our point!"

School Teacher, running her finger along the side of the button box: "Are you disagreeing with me?"

Both students shake their head.

School Teacher: "Then consider this your warning. Next time you'll be the ones being mopped into a bucket for a funeral."

WARNING: The video shows adults blowing up children but it's okay. The little brats didn't want to reduce their carbon output so it was reduced for them.



Iowahawk and The Aged P have more.

Picture the same scenario with a different subject. Like abortion.

The teacher is asking if any students might abort their baby if they get pregnant and one or two students raise their hands.

*BOOM*

They are vaporized.

Something like that would be disastrous for the Pro-Life crowd. With the mainstream Pro-Lifers disowning the makers of the video and the Pro-Death crowd rushing to use the same video as a wide brush to paint the Pro-Lifers as crazed Taliban suicide bombers.

Not the most effective reasoning behind a rational argument.

But with the 10:10 group, they are people who love despotic regimes, hate dissent and control over the population gives them wet dreams so what else would you expect?

Updated: Added an explanation about the Abortion part. My wife thought it needed to be expanded upon. And dropped "gallon" out of the bucket description. They are British and don't use gallons but liters. That little detail occurred to me late last night.

Al Gore Increases His Carbon Footprint

Not sure if he sold his mansion in Tennessee yet but the Manbearpig has bought another mansion in California.

Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal.

The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

How many homes does the modern day prophet of Gaia need?

Gore is obviously not worried about the sea levels rising as he would like you to think he is.

RELATED, SORT OF:

Isn't this a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario?

As much of the world marked Earth Day this past week, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that air pollution has declined dramatically over the past 20 years. It sounds like good news, but science writer Eli Kintisch argues that there's a surprising downside: Cleaner air might actually intensify global warming.

"If we continue to cut back on smoke pouring forth from industrial smokestacks, the increase in global warming could be profound," Kintisch writes in an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times.

Kintisch isn't talking about greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide; he's talking about another kind of pollutant we put in the sky — "like aerosols from a spray can," he tells NPR's Guy Raz. "It turns out that those particles have a profound effect on maintaining the planet's temperature."

So do I or don't I burn that tire in my backyard?

Boom!

Taste my nightstick.


From Conservatives 4 Palin.

Copenhagen Climate Summit: 1,200 Limos, 140 Private Planes And Caviar Wedges

I really can't add anything to the headline except for this:

I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.

Headline shamelessly stole from the Telegraph.

Damn, my throw away quote from Instapundit was linked by The Daily Gator.

Given The Choice Between Saving The Earth And Bacon

I choose bacon.

By wanting everyone to go vegetarian, Lord Stern of Brentford is trying to impose his will from the top levels of government down.

Remember, bacon is a line in the sand. Be it nanny statists or watermelons (Green on the outside, Red on the inside), it's them telling you how to live your life.

One more thought: He's concerned about methane gas (farts) from cows and pigs. It's obvious that he hasn't spent anytime in an enclosed area with someone on a bean and cabbage diet.

UPDATED: Linked by The Daily Gator.

Will Al Gore Debate This Guy?

UPDATE: Linked by No Sheeples Here in her round up.

Rhetorical question. Of course not. That would mean that ManBearPig would have to put his meal ticket on the line.

It's easy to scare people into the global warming hoax then avoid scrutiny by saying that the 'science is settled'.

Clocking in at a little over an hour and a half, make sure you schedule a block of time to watch it all. It's worth every minute.


If you can't watch video in it's entirety, at least watch the wrap up over at Below The Beltway where I found the above clip.

Global Warming Take Down

Keep in mind that polar bears have no issue with swimming very long distances.



H/T, Smitty over at RMS.

Cap and Trade

I could be wrong but I don't think that people in mainstream of America really understand the proposed Cap and Trade program and how it will affect everyone. First, let me just state that I am not an authority on Cap and Trade but I do want to attempt to share some of the basics about the program as I understand them. You can be sure that I am not going to get all mixed up with every little detail – in part because the objective of this article is to keep it as simple as possible – and because I simply don't have the back ground to.

The first part of the program is "Cap" – meaning that the new law would put a cap on the amount of carbon that a producer could emit into the atmosphere. Carbon emission producers are factories, energy plants, paper mills and many others. Many carbon emission producers currently emit more carbon than what the new cap would allow. Which brings us to the second part of the program – "Trade". With the new cap in place those companies who produce above the cap limit would not be allowed to continue to operate unless they either reduced their carbon emissions or found a partner to "trade" cap space with.

Essentially, the trade would involve one company purchasing the ability to produce carbon emission above and beyond their allowable cap for a price. Companies who don't produce as many carbon emissions as others would be in a position to sell their carbon cap space to other companies who are overproducing or above the carbon emissions cap.

Over the long run this would encourage industries to find ways to continue to make their products with less carbon emissions. In fact… The forces of the Cap and Trade system acting on the market would produce a few outcomes. First – carbon emissions would be lowered, which is theoretically a good thing. Second – there would be advances in technology brought about by industries trying to find new ways to make their products without producing as much carbon. And third – the products that these industries and companies produce would be more expensive due to absorbing the operating expenses of the Cap and Trade system.

How much more expensive? I don't know but… I do know that when my wife and I are happy that our electricity bill came back down to $640 this month as compared to $770 last month – we do not want to see anything put in motion right now that would force prices, especially energy prices to go any higher than they already are - period!

Here is an idea Mr. President – how about we get through this economic crisis first – then we can save the world with your cap and trade plan.

Global Warming Skeptic Speaks Out

From one of the last guys to walk on the moon.

"I don’t think the human effect is significant compared to the natural effect," said [Harrison] Schmitt, who is among 70 skeptics scheduled to speak next month at the International Conference on Climate Change in New York.
. . .
Schmitt resigned after the group blamed global warming on human activity. In his resignation letter, the 74-year-old geologist argued that the "global warming scare is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making."

The Crisis in Kentucky.

Michelle Malkin has this:

What stands [out] to me [is that] there [are] no news anchors from any of the Big 3 or any cable news channel including Fox News; No Sheperd Smith or Greta or any satellite trucks to document the devastation or two hour gas lines or the mad rush for generators at Home Depot.

Unfortunately they also won’t document that no one is crying for the federal government or FEMA as everyone is just taking care of business without them thank you very much…

Global Warming hits Las Vegas.

And by Global Warming I mean Global Cooling. Maybe winter.

The rarities continued Wednesday night with the Clark County School District's announcement that students are getting a snow day today. It's the first snow day for Clark County students since 1979, when a storm dropped 9.9 inches of snow in January that year.

Thanks to Hot Air.