Sam Outcalt: Climate change and the Tooth Fairy
Within Boulder County there is a strong and widespread belief that the current extreme weather events are produced by anthropogenic global warming. Without considering the scientific merits of this theory or religion a simple consideration of the implications of its validity might be instructive.
If true, the vast expenditure of global, national, state, county and municipal funds to attenuate its effects have failed.
If false, the current climate shift is the result of natural processes over which mankind has no control.
These options suggest that the current efforts to regulate the global climate are either ineffective or misdirected.
I doubt that this short note will diminish the strongly held belief within the county that these efforts are effective. Redirection of some funds spent in Boulder County on the study and regulation of the Earth’s climate might be better spent on an Annual Tooth Fairy Festival, as the Tooth Fairy is a much cheaper abstraction based on similar logic.
The remainder of the funding should be terminated to aid in balancing the city, county, state and federal budgets.
SAM OUTCALT
Longmont
Lets not be too harsh on the citizens of Boulder. Having been there I thought it was a nice place with nice people. They suffer the same affliction as the rest of the western world: their political masters have been taken in by the green machine who have convined them that they can wield the power of superheroes and control the climate.
“Doug Proctor says:
“Working towards stopping CAGW is like working towards stopping poverty: for those who make the effort, the total erasure of the problem is not as important as knowing one has made a bad situation at least a little better. The story of thowing a starfish washed up on the beach after a storm comes to mind: although it makes no difference to the thousands of starfish on the beach about to die, it makes a big difference to the one you throw back in.
At least that is how efforts towards ending CAGW can be viewed.”
No, not similar at all. In the first you are doing something because you believe it makes your world a better place, a good and noble action. In the second you want to force me to do something because you think it will make your world a better place. A very big difference indeed. The very difference between liberty and slavery.
Al Gore lost the election and initiated, and profits enormously from a terrorist campaign to ‘go ahead and install my policies in spite of the election or a whole bunch of you and, people around the world could die, and it is going to be your fault.’
He uncovered those hillbillies’ scams, and improved on them, in order to vastly magnify his Occidental Oil fortune.
Do you know how big Occidental Oil is? It’s about the third largest oil/energy company on the planet.
Do you know why you don’t hear about it?
Because about 40% of Occidental Oil – the Oil Company from whence his late dad’s fortune which came to him –
is
in
Alternate
Energy.
NoW do you see why Al Gore can strike out at other oil companies and coal?
His fortune depends on world economies steering from the other two
to his: Alternate Energy.
He did and is running a criminal international money scamming enterprise protecting the people that do it from
Law
Enforcement.
That is how ThaT shakes out.
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IAmDigitap says:
August 7, 2012 at 10:50 pm
“NoW do you see why Al Gore can strike out at other oil companies and coal?
His fortune depends on world economies steering from the other two
to his: Alternate Energy.”
AFAIK, Al Gore doesn’t own OXY shares anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occidental_Petroleum#Gore_family
” and Gore owned shares in the company. Former Vice President Albert Gore, Jr. received much criticism from environmentalists, when the shares passed to the estate after the death of Albert Gore Sr., and Albert Gore Jr. was a son and the executor of the estate.[77][78] Albert Gore Jr. did not exercise control over the shares, which were eventually sold when the estate closed.[79][80]”
Is there evidence to the contrary?
I have lived near Boulder for nearly 20 years. The Daily Camera used to incite so much ranting in my house that we cut back to 4 days a week (I still had to have something to start the grill). Anyway, Boulder and the Daily Camera should be held up as examples of the experimental nature of our Republic. If you want to get an idea of the silly stuff, do an e-dive on prarie dogs at the Daily Camera site. Somebody already mentioned the power plant tempest. It’s worth a look too.
Somewhere out in the future, but not now, I think the pixy dust theory of utopian paradise will loose its wheels and hopefully we can recover from the wreck. Until that time, everyone please study Boulder. Look at the politics, the ideas, the people, and most of all the results. This too could be your world. All you have to do is believe. You want to laugh at the crazy ideas but it is all too serious and has the potential to completely obliterate personal freedom; and all in the name of a better world.
Time for a name change.
BoulderHypoxia, Colorado.In Boulder, they have something called SmartRegs, which allowed the Green apparatchiks to have a look at the utility bills in my apartment building. Last summer, they came around to retro-fit new double-pane windows to all the apartments, which was a double-pain for the residents. The asbestos released in the reconstruction project on this c1970-era building was not of the toxic variety, or so we were told.
The new windows did cut down on exterior noise – weed-whackers and power blowers mostly – but I didn’t notice any change in my utility bills on the south side of the building, probably because no attention was paid, nor action directed at the front doors in the apartments, which were uninsulated, non-weather stripped, and clearly, the number one source of heat-loss in the units. Direct measurement of temperatures on the floor inside the (closed) front door showed they dropped to near freezing on sub-zero mornings.
Not so very smart, imo.
Boulder is planning on shutting down the nearby Valmont power-plant.To make up for the eventual energy shortfall, Kansas is building a big coal-fired plant in the western part of the state where Colorado will be able to purchase extra juice from the Sunflower plant, but at least the hypocrites will have realized their NIMBY objective, and can now turn their attention to the nefarious, diabolical plastic bags, which they feel are ruining the planet. See the Daily Camera for many letters on this topic.
I love Boulder, but no longer live there. I’ve come to the conclusion that it is a fool’s paradise.
When I first saw David Archibald’s video where he stated that most of the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect occurs when the first 20 PPM of CO2 is added to the atmosphere, I thought that claim was totally bogus–it could not be true. But after checking this out, I found that this was an obvious consequence of the narrow band nature of the CO2 absorption spectrum and the fact that, even at 20 PPM, CO2 would be absorbing all radiation leaving the surface of the Earth over most of its preferred absorption bands. Adding more CO2 just lowers the altitude where total absorption occurs and ever so slightly widens the affected band. At current concentration levels, it appears that the raw effect of increasing CO2 in the atmosphere is a one degree C surface temperature increase for each full doubling of the CO2 concentration.
I can only assume that the current widespread hysteria about CO2 is a result of a prejudicial, runaway “Don Quixote” effect among media and workers in the Climate Science field that is do to a concern about human degradation of the environment and a well-meaning, driving desire to find a way to address this problem in their professional work. In this case, however, they appear to be tilting *for* windmills rather than at them.