Josh from Cartoons by Josh writes:
Following on from an earlier cartoon “What the Greens got wrong”
this is about the plans for the next thing on the green agenda – not
sure what it will be but no doubt we shale see soon enough.
Ok, I know, a terrible joke.
Was that tongue in cheek, or did you not know they’re going after (i.e. trying to shut down) exploitation of shale oil deposits?
At first glance I thought these miserable greens looked a little too happy.
Then I realised they’re smoking. (nudge nudge wink wink say no more)
I think I read recently about a movement being organized to stop or impede shale gas development on some ecological grounds.
No it is not a terrible joke, the administration and the greenies are already trying to kill shale, natural gas, and every sensible form of energy so that they can control the economy and push their dirty, expensive “green energy”.
Josh as usual captures the depressing predictability of the enviro-extremists and their gullible supporters with gentle humor.
I shale not be commenting on this article.
“What shale we get wrong next?”
How about, “The earth’s rotation could/might/may/possibly make children dizzy by the year 3457 so as a precaution, the governments of the world should commit $9,004,879,786,000,227,636,104,549,101,076.37 to stopping this catastrophe NOW!”
They have already got it wrong if they think shale gas is a problem.
Even through the practice of fracing has just been in the public eye the last few years, industry has been doing it without incident for half a century or more. The original fracs were done by dropping a stick of dynamite down the well bore. If industry was still doing that, there would be a legitimate complaint. But it is very high tech now.
Anyone who knows anything about fracing will tell you that the concept of groundwater contamination by fracing is simply absurd. Fracs are designed to stay in zone. If a frac goes more than 100 ft out of zone, that would be considered a failure. but to contaminate an aquifer, it would need to go many thousands of feet out of zone. It just doesnt happen. Wellbores are cased with engineered steel & cemented into the ground to prevent communication between aquifers & hydrocarbon bearing zones. There are generally thousands of feet of impermeable beds between target zones & groundwater aquifers. Again, it justy doesn’t happen & that is both by design & by nature.
Besides, to be a true green, you have to believe in AGW & natural gas is a way less carbon intensive fuel than coal, so how can you be against that ??? :))
Let the pun begin!
All this gassing cracks me up.
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That “eureka!” light bulb over the head of the guy at the right it’s not green!
Yes.
The way it is being extracted now (see the movie “Gasland”, it is a real eye-opener) it is as bad as the BP gulf spill or worse.
Safety regulations need to be enforced, the end result is good for everyone.
Any activist group that pursues positions on the workings of the universe requiring the removal of nuanced reality in favor of primitive sound-bite-ready points of view will ultimately be smacking themselves in the face with pie. Yet another reason why democracy must have an educated voting population.
They don’t have to be right they just have to have a willing media and a willing legislature and courts, entertainment industry and manufacturers to fall in line with their story to succeed. And they have had that for quite some time even after proven wrong and wrong again. The most despicable of their tactics is for our primary educational institutional to promote the green claims to children. The use of children is degenerate and an abuse of taxpayer classroom time and a stab in the back of parents.
Good drawing and all too true.
Is that an incandescent over his head? Should that not be a over expensive, mercury stuffed fluorescent? Fine him. And Josh too for drawing it.
Mike from Canmore says:…………
I know it’s all tongue in cheek but
Compact fluorescent bulbs also have another heath risk:
Ultraviolet light – I can see one of these bulbs through my arc welding helmet at night-
#10 lens for you gearheads
flash burn is no joke and causes permanent retinal damage
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First, ban the light bulb. Next, ban the cartoon of the lightbulb.
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just reminds me of the Three Stooges
Hansen. Mann and Jones LOL
Unfortunately all too fracking true.
I’ve been drilling shale gas wells for years. Pad drilling minimizes the ecological footprint compared to coal for example, well sites get put back to original when abandoned, and the fracs are essentially benign as they are trapped (in low permeability shales by definition) and generally consist of chemicals that are naturally occurring anyways!! But I still like nuclear best.
Here in Socialist Summit County Colorado my daughter told me a student was punished for doubting global warming. Greenies are liars. Greenie Socialists make handy “useful idiots” for globalist “change agents”. They have taken the public school system through federalization. Government lies being force-fed to my children … and I for one am Mad As Hell : Not Going To Take It Anymore ! { MaH:NGtTIA! }
Sadly last fall CSI Las Vegas had an episode where evil oil companies using fracking contaminated Las Vegas suburban water causing horrific diseases and deaths while an intrepid investigative reporter was thwarted in her efforts to expose this criminal enterprise. So Hollywood.
Love the cartoon, Josh. “Smash violence, kill the warmongers, be here Saturday man, we’re having a peace riot!”
HAGWEE
Speaking of Friday Funnies, the Met Office forecast of a cold start to winter in the UK is in at Bishop Hill. Remember the BBC’s completely impartial Harrabin reporting that the Met Office had warned the Government about the cold start to winder?
Turns out they forecast a roughly equal chance of an average, mild or cold start to winter. Hardly a portent of what turned out to be just about the coldest ever recorded December ever in the whole of recorded weather history ever in the UK. Ever.
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/1/21/a-copy-of-that-cold-winter-forecast.html
Big eco, the new corporate big boys have a product to sell just like coke and HP, the product is fear and big eco exists to exploit it with all the modern advertising know how available to other big corporations.
Take a look at a big mac ad picture, it looks nothing like the actual product you actually get yet it wouldnt help to sell it if a real picture of a flat soggy mess was portrayed to the would be customer, yuuk. Truthful representation does not sell burgers and it does not sell ecogreenery so the airbrush is used and the outlandish claims and exaggerations are self sustaining and needed in ever greater amounts to sell sell sell to an ever more sceptical public.
Big eco realises that it needs to scare and instil fear and uncertainty, it matters not if the claims are lies because every scare sees income rise and then falls away so more scares are needed and they are tailored to suit a fast food fast media world. All the ad worlds tricks are used mind bombs and hooks and trails and leaders etc to sell their product Big eco exploits the emotional state of its victims more expertly that any fast food chain or anti virus company. Big eco spends big money on pimping their wares and its very profitable for them but in the end they have become just like the big industrial corporations that they were set up to fight, the bottom line is King now. Fear sells, twisting the emotional arm is profitable, exploiting peoples wish for a better world via fear has been very profitable for big eco and they have a huge advantage over their corporate friends in industry because the rules governing their activities were crafted to allow this corruption of their original mission.