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New EPA boss promises dictatorial action on global warming
While speaking at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Gina McCarthy, the new head of the EPA, said Wednesday the administration is finished waiting on Congress and is set to take unilateral action on measures aimed at global warming, the Washington Times reported.
In June, Obama gave “what I really think is a most remarkable speech by a president of the United States,” she said.
“Essentially, he said that it is time to act,” she said. “And he said he wasn’t going to wait for Congress, but that he had administrative authorities and that it was time to start utilizing those more effectively and in a more concerted way.”
McCarthy insisted the administration could reduce so-called greenhouse gas emissions without harming economic growth, and could do it without any congressional approval.
http://www.examiner.com/article/new-epa-boss-promises-dictatorial-action-on-global-warming
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Controlled Tornadoes Create Renewable Energy
Waste heat from power plants could be twisted into a nonpolluting source of energy.
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/september/08-tornado-tech
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Replication may be possible some day in the distant future. Of course if Cook acted like a scientist rather than a propagandist with Nazi fantasies, Tol could have all the data and do it now.
As predicted, John Cook releases a bit more data, but not all data, making sure that data quality and results cannot be checked.
— Richard Tol (@RichardTol) August 16, 2013
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The chill goes deep:
Atlanta breaks a century-old temperature record – CBS Atlanta 46 http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/23151205/atlanta-breaks-a-century-old-temperature-record
Record low set in Wilmington | StarNewsOnline.com
Thursday’s 71-degree high temperature was the area’s lowest for an Aug. 15 and the seventh-coldest in August since records began to be kept in 1874, according to the National Weather Service.
Chilly temperatures set new record lows | Ohio – wkyc.com
The temperature at Mansfield’s Lahm Airport fell to 46 degrees at 7:00 a.m. and tied a record low set in 1979.
Snow already falling in China – in August!
“Rare summer snowfall in Xinjiang,” reads the headline.
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Windows XP, the next climate forcing?
Stacey writes in tips and notes:
Next Year Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP. Many companies will need to purchase new computers to run Windows 8. This will result in millions of perfectly working older machines being trashed.
Part of Microsoft’s statement on Climate Change follows, the irony is obvious:-
Climate change is a serious challenge that requires a comprehensive and global response from all sectors of society. To address it, Microsoft is committed to measuring, transparently reporting, and reducing the carbon footprint of our own operations. We are also pursuing opportunities with our partners to increase the energy efficiency of computing.
While energy efficiency is important, long-term solutions to climate change will require dramatic innovations to transition the world to a sustainable low-carbon economy while expanding substantially the number of people who have access to electricity. Software will play a key role in enabling this transformation. Microsoft is working to apply information technology innovation to help people and businesses around the world address climate change. We are also supporting research efforts on this topic being conducted by leading environmental groups, scientists, and governments around the world.
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Mike Jowsey says in Tips and Notes
Quote of The Week contender:
In its article, Spiegel calls the growing disagreement between model results and measured observations “the wound of climate science“.
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Gee, apparently farming practices, demand, availability, and selective breeding to make better crops had nothing to do with our crops of today, it was all the unseen guiding hand of climate change wot did it:
Ancient climate change picked the crops we eat today – environment – 15 August 2013 – New Scientist
Thank climate change for our daily bread. High levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere after the last ice age drove us to cultivate wheat.
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All the plants grew larger under high levels of CO2, but the relatives of wheat and barley grew twice as large and produced double the seeds. This suggests the species are especially sensitive to high levels of CO2, Frenck says, making them the best choice for cultivation after the last ice age.
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Busted! Green Hypocrisy Marks a New Low | Power Line
The four-minute video below shows brave anti-coal folks protesting . . . with gourmet food on a luxury yacht.
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Letter to the Editor – Watts Up With That? 16th August 2013
Green Energy is Part of the Past, not Fuel for the Future
The growing failure of green energy in Europe should warn Australia to abandon its bi-partisan policies dictating targets, mandates and subsidies for “green” energy.
I grew up at the end of the last green energy era – solar energy powered our growing crops and dried the washing, but it was weak in winter and ceased under clouds and at night; wind energy pumped water, but only when the wind blew; draft horses powered farm machinery, but they had to be fed whether they were working or not; wood gave us home heating and cooking, but it consumed energy to collect and chop it up; kids walked to school or rode bikes or ponies and ladies took the horse and sulky.
Our only help from carbon energy was kerosene for the kitchen lamp and coke used in smelters and forges to produce our metal tools and machinery.
We also practiced “sustainability” – we purchased little, and most of the farm produce was consumed on the farm by family, farm labourers and draft horses.
We were rescued from this life of hard labour by carbon energy – a kerosene-powered tractor, a petrol-powered truck, and coal-powered electricity for lighting, heating, cooking, refrigeration, milking machines and pumps. The horses and farm labour were no longer needed and, at last, the farms produced a decent surplus of food for the growing cities.
Wind, solar, wood and muscle power are tools of the past and they work no better now than they did then. Forcing people to use these ancient technologies will just return us to laborious poverty on the farms and hunger in the cities.
Green energy should not be forced on consumers – those who want it should pay for it.
Green energy will eventually be abandoned, but the cost rises for each day’s delay
Viv Forbes, Rosewood Qld Australia
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Being over 60 and observing many administrations I have to say these people are quite frightening. The rule of law seems to have gone out the window.
EW3, your right. This is the most lawless administration ever. My advice – anyone negatively affected by illegal EPA mandates should consider an act of civil disobedience by not obeying any proclamation by Gina McCarthy.
Congress and the Supreme Court are putting on a remarkable display of rank yellow cowardice in response to der Fuehrer’s seizures of legislative authority and his general disregard of the Constitution.
Nobody elected him to make the law – that isn’t the executive’s job. And nobody elected Gina McCarthy for anything.
I would hope that since anything der Fuehrer and Schutzstaffelgruppenfuehrer McCarthy attempt on climate is without constitutional basis, and therefore cannot have the force of law, the states will simply ignore it, and use their own police powers to punish as criminal violators of civil rights any EPA or other federal agents that attempt to enforce their decrees.
Daily Kos advocates a dictatorship – let’s throw them in jail first, to set an example.
[snip OTT – mod]
How many lawsuits against the Obama administration’s breaking of the rule of law are already ongoing or pending? Anyone knows?
The willingness to even discuss the possibility of a “benevolent dictatorship” and ignore the whole American process sent a chill up my back. That and the sheer hyprocracy of the greenies is frightening. Unfortunately something like this doesn’t just affect the U.S. but has ramifications far outside their borders. OMG!!!
@DirkH
Ah, but remember the recent Supreme Court ruling: citizens have no standing to sue the government over policy.
Since the court has obviously been compromised (I’m looking at you Justice Roberts), and no citizen has standing to sue, can we honestly expect the 22nd amendment to protect us?
Personally, I’d stock up on element 82, or a shovel to dig your grave.
Commissar Gina…carving out your little dynasty, are you? EW3, I concur. Extremely frightening…and I’m a Canadian! I feel for the citizenry of Our southern neighbor…they are being blindsided. Dulled by the droning opiate.
Outrageous Ampersand says:
August 16, 2013 at 9:38 am
“@DirkH
Ah, but remember the recent Supreme Court ruling: citizens have no standing to sue the government over policy. ”
Then who has?
And I thought Lisa Jackson was one of the worst EPA administrators….
The contrast between the German debate and Gina McCarthy’s claims says it all. There’s a good reason she doesn’t want to discuss climate. She knows she will look foolish.
This could be a huge republican talking point. If they could force a media discussion on the failure of models and the better scientific explanation for temperature changes over the last 100 years (ENSO), they could destroy the credibility of the administration.
Sorry, I have to cry foul on one of those tips. Nobody is going to replace their working Windows XP machine with a Windows 8 one. Have you used Windows 8? Despite what Microsoft wants you to think, the vast majority hate it. Anybody who still has a Windows XP machine will hold on to it until the bitter end. And the companies still using Windows XP computers are still using it because the programs they have will not work on newer versions of Windows, they won’t be upgrading either. And when they do upgrade, it will be to Windows 7.
@Colin;
If we go, the world goes with us. When the Pax Americana ends, every regional and ethnic conflict that’s been frozen for decades will flare up. Plus the entire global financial system will collapse. And a massive chunk of food supplies will be compromised. One hungry desperate person is a tragedy; 5 billion of them is Judgement Day.
These fools are playing with forces they can’t hope to control. Once you uncork the genie bottle, you can’t make him go back in.
@ur momisugly DrikH
Precisely.
McCarthy insisted the administration could reduce so-called greenhouse gas emissions without harming economic growth, (…)
0 * [1 >= x > 0] = 0
They’re right, no harm at all, the (pre-adjustment) growth rate will stay exactly the same!
I dumped Windoze (XPpro) for Fedora linux distribution. The learning curve is steep – for a 65 y.o. thirty year snoozer that started with Win 1.0 in the middle-Eighties. ANYTHING other than M$!
About political philosophy, Karl Popper wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies during WWII, published in 1945 in two volumes that were impossible, has been published in April 2013 in a single volume edition. It followed his Logic of Scientific Discovery that established falsification as the standard of demarcation.
Green energy is the only way forward, it conserves the earths resources, cuts don on pollution and if its in the past why has Spain implemented the very firs Solar energy plant? Congress are frighteningly naive when they see capital disappearing. You would think it was their own money the way the lie, cheat and distract people to keep it 🙁
@ur momisugly 1 Faith Morgan;
I’ll leave it to smarter people to use mathematics to show why you are incorrect.
But answer me this question: since the Sun itself is a non-renewable resource, what do you propose we do?
Does the Obama Administration have a set of magic wands? The speeches and unilateral EPA policies to ‘fight’ world climate change would be comical if the US was not facing economic ruin due to the Obama administration policies. The advantage of a democracy is the opposition has an opportunity to ask questions to force an estimate of costs and benefits. A democracy requires an active media to keep the public informed and to get the public engaged. There does not seem to be any upside for the US or for the world to spend money on green scams. The fact that trillions of dollars has been spent on green scams indicates there are deeper problems.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a2PHwqAs7BS0
March 27 (Bloomberg) — Subsidizing renewable energy in the U.S. may destroy two jobs for every one created if Spain’s experience with windmills and solar farms is any guide.
For every new position that depends on energy price supports, at least 2.2 jobs in other industries will disappear, according to a study from King Juan Carlos University in Madrid.
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21582018-sustainable-energy-meets-unsustainable-costs-cost-del-sol
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10115983/David-Cameron-hints-at-further-cuts-to-green-energy-subsidies.html
The Prime Minister said he would “think very carefully” about green subsidies for energy sources such as wind farms and solar panels, as they “end up on consumer bills”. .. ….He admitted that fuel bills are being driven up by green subsidies, even though the Department of Energy and Climate Change largely blames the rising cost of gas for soaring energy costs.
The Coalition’s official policy is to subsidise wind farms, solar panels and other renewable energy to help Britain meet its targets on reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The UK has signed up to green targets to tackle climate change.
http://notrickszone.com/2013/05/02/germanys-20-million-solar-jobs-die-welt-finally-realizes-expensive-green-energy-subsidies-useless/
“The German solar industry is dissolving faster than you can even see. One third of all companies disappeared from the market within one year. Solar power subsidies of more than 100 billion euros [$130 billion] over 20 years have led to only a mere flash in the pan. According to the official numbers, today there are barely 6000 employees in the German solar cell and module production.”
P.S.
The developing world have asked for $200 billion per year to be paid from the developed world to help them deal with ‘climate’ change and the developing world is demanding the developed world to reduce their CO2 emissions by 60% before the developing world will commit to reducing their CO2 emissions. A magic wand factory would be required to reduce the developed world CO2 emissions by 60%. Regardless, world CO2 emissions will not go down, the developing countries are developing and burning coal.
Chinese CO2 emissions are 30% greater than the US and growing at 7% per year.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/nov/22/china-defends-carbon-emissions-growth
China defends carbon emissions growth
China says its emissions will keep rising until its per capita GDP is around five times its current rate, further dampening hopes that the world’s largest polluter will agree in principle to ambitious binding emission reduction targets at this month’s Doha Climate Change Summit
Release the hounds!
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/317291-another-twist-in-epa-email-debate
She is trying to act before the truth is obvious to all, even the ignorant idiots that unquestionably believe in this nonsense.
I’m with Alex Wade on that one. I maintain an XP system just for my professional work – all the software tools I need to do my job work on it.
Imagine the outrage of hippies everywhere if a conservative president tried this same tactic to suppress voting rights and ESPECIALLY the right to representation. He is becoming more and more like King George and his administration. Way back then it wasn’t the taxes that we rebelled against. It was that they were imposed without vote or elected representation. Obama is taking us back in history, not forward.
It would be ironic that this “back from the past” slippery slope he intends on leading us down ends in God forbid, civil war, or worse revolutionary war. Let us hope that we can manage a sea-change with our vote and not our swords.
We need to get back to two non-negotiables: the individual rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness guaranteed by our constitution, and regulation/tax/fee by referendum majority vote.
@Pamela Gray;
Back in the 18th century, a bunch of guys revolted against the most powerful nation in the world for much more minor offences than we endure today.
Either they were crazy, or people today are made from less stern stuff.
Who are we saving them (the resources) for? Are we in the western world to be turned back into 3rd world villages run by dictators and gangs sort of like, well, some villages in Africa?
On a separate note, what kind of car do you drive? Anything made in the last five or ten years? Do you KNOW what kind of technology went into that vehicle? Was that technology developed in 3rd world villages in Africa?
BTW, I think your posts here are just a ‘front’ for your “ up and coming book “The living Nightmare” ” but I could be wrong …
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1faithMorgan: because it was subsidized, as in someone is getting a high government provided return on their money that is beyond the actual value of the product. Does that hurt anyone you ask? Yes. It creates a government-supported bubble that will bite your kids in the ass when they are old enough to pay taxes imposed to clean up the mess left behind when the bubble bursts. End of reasons why.