US Gov't Climate Con-Job

[WhiskeyGirl]

Suppose a company doctored data, misrepresented study findings, replaced observations with computer simulations, and hired PR flacks to promote its new “wonder drug.” News stories, congressional hearings and subpoenas would be in overdrive. Fines and jail sentences would follow. And rightly so.

The White House has made global warming the centerpiece of its revenue-raising and energy policies. A House of Representatives 1,201-page bill would tax, regulate and penalize all US hydrocarbon energy use, to “save the planet from climate disaster.” The Senate promises an August vote.

But average global temperatures peaked in 1998 and since have fallen slightly, even as carbon dioxide levels continue to climb. Thousands of scientists say CO2 has little effect on planetary temperatures, and there is no climate crisis. Few developed countries are ready to commit economic suicide, by agreeing to reduce their CO2 emissions by a fraction of what the House bill demands for the United States.

More jobs exported.  Higher cost for companies that remain and try to compete in the GLOBAL marketplace.  No jobs for you America.

Americans are beginning to realize the legislation would cost millions of jobs and trillions of dollars for a hypothetical 0.1 degree F reduction in global temperatures. Most put global warming dead last in a Pew Research list of 20 concerns.

Actually, it’s the most flagrant attempted con-job and propaganda campaign in US history.

If it helps Congress enact cap-and-tax legislation, it will give activists, courts and bureaucrats control over virtually every aspect of our lives. It will enable them to confiscate hard-earned dollars, convert them to payoffs for activists and companies that get on the climate-crisis bandwagon, consign uncooperative companies and scientists to the ash heap of history, and conceal the exorbitant costs of restrictive energy policies – on families, industries, jobs and transportation – until long after the bill becomes law.

The bogus “report” conflates and confuses human activities and emissions with the powerful natural forces that have caused major and minor climate changes and weather anomalies since the dawn of time – from the Carboniferous Period to the Age of Dinosaurs, from the Big Ice Ages and interglacial periods to the Little Ice Age, Roman and Medieval Warm Periods, Dust Bowl and countless others. It relies on conjecture, conformist thinking and conspicuous elimination of contrary, skeptical, realist scientists and studies that do not support climate cataclysm conjecture and ideology.

“I didn’t notice a single recognized hurricane expert in the list of authors,” says NOAA Hurricane Research Division scientist Stanley Goldenberg. The report relies heavily on surface temperature data from monitoring stations located next to parking lots and air conditioning exhaust ports – falsely skewing temperature records upward – other experts noted. It is lead-heavy on assumptions, assertions and speculation – hydrogen-light on evidence.

If the congressional, administration and activist conspirators behind this massive deceit were in the private sector – peddling bogus drugs, rather than bogus science – they’d quickly become convicts. Instead of jail time, though, they’ll probably get bonus checks.

http://www.fcpp.org/main/publication_detail.php?PubID=2842

I would speculate that instead of becoming convicts, they'd make large campaign contributions.

[WhiskeyGirl]

Worse, even the 942-page Waxman-Markey climate bill’s absurd target – a 17% reduction in US carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 and 83% by 2050 – would have no detectable benefits, even if CO2 does cause climate change. Research climatologist Paul “Chip” Knappenberger calculates that even these draconian measures would result in global temperatures rising a mere 0.1 degrees F less by 2050 than doing nothing, mostly because Chinese and Indian emissions would quickly dwarf America’s job-killing reductions.

Meanwhile, China and South Africa want developed nations to slash carbon emissions 40% by 2020 – and give poor countries $200 billion annually, to help them cope with global warming’s imagined disasters. Bolivia wants $700 billion a year. Our children will get the bill for that, too.

None of this apparently matters to congressional leaders, Climate Action Partnership members or other professional alarmists and rent seekers. If anything, it has spurred them into even hastier action, to transform America’s energy and economic system, regardless of the consequences. Waxman-Markey was approved by the E&C Committee May 21 on a mostly party-line vote.

Above all, they want to replace vile hydrocarbons with wind power. That would require $$$ billions in taxpayer subsidies; hundreds of thousands of turbines, across millions of acres of scenic land, habitats and sea lanes; thousands of miles of new transmission lines and towers; and billions of tons of concrete, steel, copper and fiberglass – plus raw materials and natural gas for backup generators.

Spain’s experience should be cautionary, but probably won’t be. According to a study by Dr. Gabriel Calzada, Spanish taxpayers spent $754,000 for each new job in the wind turbine industry (mostly installing towering turbines) – and destroyed 2.2 regular jobs for each “green” job, primarily because pricey “renewable” electricity forced companies to lay off workers, to stay in business.

A recent Lauer Johnson Research poll found 78% of respondents saying even a $600 per year increase in utility bills would be a “hardship.” They should be so lucky.

http://www.fcpp.org/main/publication_detail.php?PubID=2794

China is rolling in the dough.  Why aren't they giving away billions to poor countries?  The U.S. is broke, busted, bankrupt, and Barack keeps spending and borrowing.

Are green jobs at almost $1 million dollars a piece sustainable?  2.2 regular jobs lost?  A net loss of 1.2 or more jobs for Obama's vision?

I believe there are better ways to power America.  The Obama solution seems to be a path leading to the road of destruction of the nation.

Who's going to pay all the welfare and unemployment benefits?  Poor people do not have money for imports.  Poor people in the U.S. now face massive inflation.  How long before a loaf of bread or a gallon of gas costs $100 dollars?

jmho

[WhiskeyGirl]

Another view on rising energy taxes and the decline of the suburbs -

The US economy is crumbling because the way we conduct the activities of daily life is insane relative to our circumstances. We’ve spent sixty years ramping up a suburban living arrangement that has suddenly entered a state of failure, and all its accessories and furnishings are failing in concert. The far-flung McHouse tracts are becoming both useless and worthless in the face of gasoline prices that will never be cheap again. The strip malls and office “parks” are following the residential real estate off a cliff. The retail tenants of all those places are hemorrhaging customers who have maxed out every last credit card. The lack of business is now leading to substantial layoffs. The airline industry is dying and will probably cease to exist in its familiar form in 24 months. The trucking industry is dying, threatening the entire just-in-time distribution system of things that even people with little money to spend still need, like food. (http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/)

All this because U.S. gas prices may soon reach $5/gallon. Mr. Kunstler does not seem to realize that we New Zealanders, like many other people round the world, have been living with $5/gallon gas for years and have even survived $10/gallon gas for close on two years. Yet, Kunstler and many like-minded catastrophists state with total confidence that once gas hits $10/gallon, all Americans will simply stop driving – and start rebuilding their cities.

Fortunately, the simple sums suggest otherwise. Look up the population of your nearest city. Look up the housing replacement rate and figure out how long it will take to transform present-day Seattle or Auckland into a remake of 19th century London. Then think about the cost of all the new buildings and infrastructure and the lost asset value of all those abandoned suburbs.

Many of us believe that long before anyone has to consider such a drastic reshaping of our built environment, new technologies and some minor behavioural shifts will make such disruption unnecessary.

http://www.fcpp.org/main/publication_detail.php?PubID=2290

[WhiskeyGirl]

Cap and Trade Equals Fraud and Tax

While we have all heard much about the tax implications of H.R. 2454 and that every American family could see a $3,000 a year increase in their energy costs, H.R. 2454 does much more than that. H.R. 2454 is a fascistic fait accompli, giving the government expansive powers to regulate, subsidize, and tax more sectors of the economy. The bill authorizes more federal government control over the electrical grid, state and local building codes, lighting and appliances, industry, the financial markets, and, perhaps most ominously of all, the health care system. In addition, it includes wealth redistribution measures and would allow increases in foreign aid.

True environmentalists — those of us who are concerned about things such as clean air and water — should oppose schemes like H.R. 2454. H.R. 2454 is not designed to clean up the environment. It is designed to generate more revenue for the government and to give the government more power over the economy, our lives, and our freedom. And it does so at the expense of the environment.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/cap-and-trade-equals-fraud-and-tax.html

A stealth health care system bill?  It sounds like the 'green building' codes are a gift to the construction industry and unions.

If the economy slows down, little new building, just ramp up the required green changes and set off a flurry of reconstruction.  People who invested in maintaining their home over a lifetime will find it worthless.  Worthless when children go to sell of their parents estate.

Will foreign governments / political bodies like the UN soon control of development?  Land use?  Future?

Will insurance claims be submitted for these environmental losses? 

No good seems to come when politicians take your money.  Social Security is a disaster.  Medicare/Medicaid are disasters.  The financial industry is a disaster.  All thanks to lawmakers, the Treasury, and Federal Reserve.

Audit the Federal Reserve. 

jmho

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