Post by Ryan Maue
Friday evening news dump — in this case, the United States State Department drops a big one and essentially green-lights a “controversial” pipeline project. The Keystone XL project Final Environmental Impact Statement is not a “decision” on the final construction of the project, but a key hurdle in the process.
“The $13 billion Keystone XL Pipeline cleared a key bureaucratic hurdle on Friday even as environmental groups vowed to continue fighting the project.” Most of the news is covered everywhere on the web, i.e. MarketWatch
With that state of emergency declared with Hurricane Irene, the organized criminal disobedience syndicate has decided to put their “sit-ins” on hold, and return for an even bigger response next week, or something.
I thought the Obama administration was going to follow science when making its decisions, something the previous administration did not do as we have been told by the liberal media for several years now. In their August 3 Letter from Scientific Experts to President Obama, the “Who’s Who” of the left-wing climate science establishment argues:
“The tar sands are a huge pool of carbon, but one that does not make sense to exploit. It takes a lot of energy to extract and refine this resource into useable fuel, and the mining is environmentally destructive. Adding this on top of conventional fossil fuels will leave our children and grandchildren a climate system with consequences that are out of their control. It makes no sense to build a pipeline system that would practically guarantee extensive exploitation of this resource.”
The Green movement is apoplectic, including the journalists that peddle their wares. That’s where I want to focus a later post, on how journalists are “reporting” the news.
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@J.H.
and
“frack, baby, frack”
I worked surficial geology at the oilsands in the mid 90’s. We could tell how close the oil was to surface by the size of the pine trees that grew there. Once the taproot of the tree hit the oil, the tree died. A skeletal forest of 5 foot trees meant good oil was close to surface. The water table in the area was brown, not safe to drink, and stunk like diesel. We couldn’t discharge it to the river because it was deemed hazardous waste the moment we touched it. The oilsands mining IS cleaning up a huge oil spill, it’s just one that we didn’t cause, so some of the greenies don’t want us to touch it.
Any high school kid looking for a good science project and who has access to clear pressure vessels might consider this one: sealed, clear plastic tanks at 1 atm pressure that are mostly a) nitrogen, b) CO2, and c) another gaseous atom, I’d suggest oxygen or helium, and d) regular air. Each tank needs a thermometer (of the same type as the other tanks) suspended in the body of the tank the same way. Make sure you get help to safely work around the gasses, safely filling the tanks in an open, well ventilated area. Take baseline temperatures before coming outside, or before dawn. Set up all tanks outside and take temperatures on a regular basis (either every hour, or every 1/2 hour, or constantly if you have thermometers compatible with a datalogger) from all 3. If current popular thought on CO2 is correct, the sunlight should make that tank much, much hotter than the other gasses. I know what results I’d expect, but the budding scientist should make their own predictions and then test them. Remember to keep everything equal between the cases, all sealed, all the same container type, all the same thermometer type.
@ur momisugly Denier
It’s “frac”, NO “k”…………so FRAC, baby, FRAC.
“It does not escape our attention that storms of this size and character will be the new normal on a warmer planet.”
So, they’re saying in the future, hurricanes will tend to fall apart easily, and be normal – sized. Horrors! It really is worse than we thought.
Their most idiotic, most nonsensical statement of all (and there’s lots to choose from) seems to be: “It makes no sense to build a pipeline system that would practically guarantee extensive exploitation of this resource.” The logic (if you can call it that) on that one is so convoluted, it boggles the mind. See, if you build an oil pipeline, then you might – horror-of-horrors actually wind up using the stuff. Which is “exploitation” of a resource. Or something.
How many of these protesters live on subsistence farms, living on only what they produce (only using horses, mules or oxen of course to till the land)? How many are subsistence hunter/gatherers, living off the land, migrating with the changing of the seasons? My guess is none. These hypocrites are the biggest fools on God’s green earth and they are trying to destroy our country. As for me, my wants are simple. I like the lights to go on when I turn on the switch, the oven to heat up when I turn it on and I like gasoline available when I need to fill up my truck. And I want the costs to be as low as we can reasonably expect.
I’d be willing to entertain the arguments of these “environmental” protesters if they set up their pup tents, wielded their signs, and scream their slogans in the capitals of countries that commit human rights atrocities against their own people while selling their oil to the Americans.
Steve Oregon says:
August 26, 2011 at 8:02 pm
“This is getting hideous.”
Yup. Pagan belief systems like yours inevitably lead to hideous outcomes. High energy costs. Unemployment. Poverty. Disease, Hunger, and Starvation. Truly hideous, to any self aware and civilized person.
The solution is low cost, readily available energy. We have more than 200 years worth within the contiguous United States, at 2011 consumption rates. That is ‘proven’ reserves’, not pie in the sky, puke green energy ‘projections’. We can get this economy moving again and stop the hideous impacts of high energy costs, wealth destroying subsidies on inefficient high cost ‘green’ energy, and over regulation based on the false AGW meme… or we can continue down the hideous path you advocate.
Your inability to accept responsibility for the pain, suffering, and death that you and the AGW advocates are forcing on the populations of the world, in the completely wrong headed pursuit of controlling CO2 plant food, is heartless, cruel, and immoral. Truly ‘hideous’!
Philip Bradley says:
August 26, 2011 at 11:25 pm
“Peak oil always was a crock,… There are vast deposits of coal, shale oil, oil sands and heavy oil.
Enough for many hundreds of years.”
Spot on, how very true. And lets not forget natural gas.
How much of this green apoplexy is funded by OPEC related interests?
bernardo hit it right on the button.
C