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The Left-media have ramped up their mewling about global warming of late, all apparently prompted by the fact that candidates looking like winners are largely and openly skeptical of the agenda.
Today’s entrant is the New York Times’ editorial page. The oddest part about this is that nothing ever proposed would, according to anyone, detectably impact the climate. Even John Kerry introduced his global warming cap-and-trade bill by saying “this is not an environment bill” and, indeed, the global warming industry has re-branded their schemes as “jobs bills”. Yeah, that’s it. Jobs. Some, like Ross Douthat in the NYT commented upon here last week, take it a step further and acknowledge that ok the policies are sketchy but it’s mean that the GOP won’t at least affirm my embraced beliefs.
While we know that politics is for many the vehicle to gain that long-sought affirmation, and I would guess for many of the same reasons so is journalism, the constituent parts and indeed this whole movement appears to be cracking up. As Marc Morano noted on Climate Depot, a Environmental Defense Fund activist is the latest to intimate the time has come for methods somewhat less consistent with the social compact than their long-running fear campaign merely aimed generally at the public.
Complaining is fine. It lets them be them. But they won’t be content to leave it there. The hysteria will soon ramp up again. And when these activists snap — as many more of them doubtless will, Discovery Channel-terrorist style — it is the very same Left-media whose alarmism will leave them just as responsible as the politicians and eco-preachers screeching catastrophism.
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Texas Mom2010| 10.18.10 @ 8:22AM
The plan seems to be simply wealth redistribution called cap and trade. Even the proponents say this will not reduce greenhouse emissions so basically this is a tax grab.
What I truly find morally repugnant about environmentalists is that while we have starving malnourished children around the world, environmentalism forces us to burn food in the form of corn based ethanol.
I would be more likely to believe their cries of we must DO something to save the planet if we were able to build nuclear power plants in this country. If necessary it would not be cost prohibitive to ship nuclear waste off to Pluto. Nuke power would still be cheaper than wind or solar and my view driving through west Texas would not be marred by the forest of enormous noisy windmill farms!
Robert Singleton| 10.19.10 @ 10:42AM
Another view from Texas: I recently returned from Corpus Christi, and I did not at all mind the wind turbines rising from the cotton fields. Not noisy, and not as ugly as the South Texas Nuclear Project. And, for your kids' sake, I hope that if there is an accident, it's at a wind farm, and not at STNP.
Michael Bowler| 10.18.10 @ 8:42AM
The emotional vestiges of the AGW theory crowd will be with us for some time yet to come. Kooks and simpletons that didn't get the memo about climategate and the hoax enviro industry will still protest and scream. Those that thought this movement would create jobs in a new energy industry will have to come to terms with the fact that most of it is not yet cost effective. The hoaxers that brought this on should be executed for treason.
wootqueen| 10.18.10 @ 1:50PM
AMEN TO THAT!!
Neo| 10.19.10 @ 8:09AM
This whole AGW "thing" was the "perfect storm" ... almost.
The "Greens" had the "Save the World" cause. The politicians had a new revenue source and ultimately the control of the entire energy sector of the economy. With a big treaty, the 1st World would get the industrial pecking order locked into place by paying the 3rd World not to develop, but making it look as though they were bleeding hearts for the 3rd World. The UN would have a new source to fund their corruption, a global tax (or at least the appearance of one). The scientists just had to play along and they would be funded .. and they did.
Given that nobody can really prove that there is or isn't "Global Warming (or Cooling)" on any given day, week or month since the fluctuations are so tiny, they would be no method to determine if mitigation efforts were actually working. Who could prove it wasn't needed any more ? A warm day would be "Global Warming" .. a cool day would be mitigation efforts are working (or "Global Warming"). Once this thing got real legs, there would be no stopping it.
Robert Singleton| 10.19.10 @ 10:48AM
If I could change one thing about online discourse, it would be to eradicate the use of quotation marks to express disapproval. I can almost understand the use of punctuation around the term Greens: Neo is afraid that people will not understand that he is being sarcastic if he doesn't telegraph his punches. But putting quotation marks around the word thing? This is just "bad writing."
Robert Singleton| 10.19.10 @ 11:04AM
Just from a rhetorical view, is using words like kooks and simpletons the best way to persuade anyone? And I don't won't to hear the response that the left does it to, with copious annotations to prove your point. We have to step away from the hype and overstatement that pass for political discussion these days.
c. j. acworth| 10.18.10 @ 8:46AM
What the wind/solar enthusiasts will eventually discover is that you have to build nukes or some other type of real generator to back up the wind/solar when the wind/sun ain't working. In short, wind/solar will NEVER pay for itself because for every megawatt of wind/solar you also have to build a megawatt of REAL generator as backup. Kind of like towing a second car behind your primary vehicle for when you run out of gas. Which, by the way, is pretty much what hybrid cars do. They need a REAL engine for when the batteries run dry. So why not just build REAL generators and REAL cars in the first place and save a lot of wasted effort?
Robert Singleton| 10.19.10 @ 10:54AM
Another mark of a bad writer: the obsessive need to overuse ALL CAPS. We get it. You really mean the words NEVER and REAL, REAL and REAL. Trust your readers to be smart enough to figure out what you REALLY care about.
Metro Gnome| 10.18.10 @ 9:02AM
c. j. acworth| 10.18.10 @ 8:46AM
What? Sacrifice all those jobs that flow from wasted effort and destroyed wealth? Are you kidding?
c. j. acworth| 10.18.10 @ 11:57AM
Yeah, Gnome, I guess you're right.
John Patterson| 10.18.10 @ 9:46AM
In the 70's a lot of Germans had bumper stickers that said "Atomkraft? Nein Danke." Now they have grown up and got themselves into power. But wait! There is no power. Maybe they're buying kWs from the French?
Eric Cartman with Matumba| 10.18.10 @ 10:49AM
Good morning, America! This is Eric Cartman reporting from Gimme Gimme Iwannayourdough, Africa, a small tribal nation next to Burkina Faso. I'm here with President, Prime Minister, Chief, medicine man, husband to half the country's women, father of 876 children, grandfather to 423 and owner of Mutumba's Used Tires, Mutumba Obama. Say hello to America, President Obama.
MO: Ommp click pop pop, unk unk pa oom ma mow wow pa pa oom ma mow mow!
Translator: Good morning Eric, I hope you are feeling generous and understanding.
EC: Uh, okay. I'm not feeling either. I'm feeling hot, actually. It's damn hot here at 7:00 AM. And the bugs, snakes and cats the size of horses were trying to eat me last night while a rhino ran over my tent and the fire I started to keep the damn bugs away and the assistant you sent me stole all my luggage. Somebody just tried to sell me back my tee-shirts. Your country is poor, disease ridden, bug infested, hot, filled with Muslim terrorists, and has nothing of interest whatsoever that I can see. It's poorly run, has no schools and is hopeless by any measure. The only thing you have is a strong teachers union. It's like Detroit with dinosaurs and no water.
MO: Click, pop pop pop, unga unga, whoop.
Translator: Kitty?! You found kitty? I thought the Muslim terrorists took kitty and killed him! Thank you, Eric. Thank you. God bless you for finding kitty. Kitty inherited $17 million USD when my cousin, Sultan bin Upyours, CFO of the National Bank of Burkina Faso, was murdered by the Taliban and now we need to get Kitty and the money out of the country. They will not let me have Kitty's money because I am not listed as one of his guardians. But you, Eric, could be listed as a third party guardian who will have special powers to withdraw the funds. My 10th cousin, your president Barack Hussain Obama, will guarantee safe passage to America and a Medal of Freedom for you for helping in this humanitarian cause. Bless you, Mr. Cartman. All I need is your address, employer's name, bank's name and routing number and a voided check to make sure the funds get to your account safely. Do not worry. This information will remain secure in our Presidential Lock Box.
EC: He said all that? Look, I'm not a Democrat so that crap won't work on me. You can't tell me a bullshit sob story and have me hand over all my money. I'm here to interview you for what appears to be your swindling Medicare when you lived in Chicago and ran a fake nursing home named "This is a Fake Nursing Home Meadow Estates" and the U.S. Government was so stupid and afraid of being called racist it paid you anyway. And it didn't hurt having Michele Obama on your board of directors. God it's hot. Do you have any water?
MO: Picka picka , oom ca da da click zooba cla whoop whoop.
Translator: It is hot because of Global Warming! You are our savior, Eric! Once our nation was a paradise! Chickens flew across the great plains. Fish jumped for the streams into our women's baskets. Trees grew heavy with fruit and cool water ran from the mountains washing over the cliffs and bringing freshness and health to all. But American companies made SUVs and plowed our mountains flat for coal to burn for American homes and business. Then McDonalds chopped own all the trees to raise cattle for American Happy Meals and Tyson Chicken stole all our chickens. But we were not made happy and all our chickens are gone. This increased the level of CO2 and now our country is sinking into the ocean. You, Eric, can bring this story to Americans so your president, my 10th cousin, Barack Hussain Obama, will guarantee safe passage of hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to our small country so we may buy some chickens to feed our starving children with. Bless you, Eric. You will receive the Medal of Freedom for helping in this humanitarian cause. All I need is your address, employer's name, bank's name and routing number and a voided check to make sure the funds get to your account safely. Do not worry. This information will remain secure in our Presidential Lock Box.
EC: Yeah, um . . . Well, first, your country is landlocked and isn't sinking anywhere. You have no mountains and you live in a desert. And it sucks because it's been mismanaged and is run like a socialist hell hole that it is. JUST like Detroit . . . only with dinosaurs no water. Now can I have a damn drink of water?
MO: Click zoop, paka paka, click oom.
Translator: Of course. That will be $17million USD, your address, employer's name, bank's name and routing number and a voided check to make sure the funds get to your account safely. Do not worry. This information will remain secure in our Presidential Lock Box.
EC: Damn Socialists.
Pete| 10.18.10 @ 11:11AM
Fantastic stuff.
Robert Singleton| 10.19.10 @ 10:58AM
Okay, Spectator readers, this one is up to you. You can denouce the racism in this post, or you can wear it.
Ned the Red| 10.18.10 @ 10:51AM
The science of global warming: Too big to fail.
Volfe| 10.18.10 @ 12:50PM
" But they won't be content to leave it there. The hysteria will soon ramp up again. And when these activists snap -- as many more of them doubtless will, Discovery Channel-terrorist style -- it is the very same Left-media whose alarmism will leave them just as responsible as the politicians and eco-preachers screeching catastrophism."
" their long-running fear campaign merely aimed generally at the public."
Isn't that kind of a double standard. I mean there's more Fear Monger brought out by the right about how if we don't get rid of anybody who doesn't agree with us it will most certainly cause our demise.
GET REAL.
Isn't this just a bunch of Wealthy White Right wingers tring to tell you what to believe?
Pete| 10.18.10 @ 12:56PM
No.
wootqueen| 10.18.10 @ 1:54PM
The fact that you have to ask is answer enough. Do your homework, Volfe.
Ned the Red| 10.18.10 @ 3:00PM
I think they're just crying, Volfe.
Neo| 10.18.10 @ 10:53PM
AGW is just being scared of the future ? You can’t think clearly when you are scared.
Irony alert.
Frankly, this all reads like a bad script from the movie “Animal House” …
Otter: Bluto’s right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.
This is all that “activist cr@p” where we have to do something. Why not just do a show .. like the “Little Rascals” .. it’s got to be a hell of a lot cheaper, and about as effective.