Too funny! Even Joe Romm's bosses don't think climate is an issue worth mentioning for 2013

I have some CO2 trapped in a bottle which I’m about to pull the cork on. Happy New year all.

Re: In related news, Bill McKibben has apparently gone insane with this latest statement:
“Mr. Bryce is entirely correct that it will be hard to move away from fossil fuels, an enormous engineering challenge. But the Germans are demonstrating it can be done, ….”
Entirely predictable and mendacious reporting. The Germans have belatedly realised that ‘Renewable’ energy production is intermittent and therefore unreliable. They, unlike the UK, are building 23 new coal-fired power stations to ensure that the lights don’t go out but more importantly to ensure that their industry remains competitive.
http://www.cfact.org/2012/08/28/media-ignore-german-coal-plants-tout-propaganda-film-fuel/
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coal_power_plant_proposals_in_Germany
The real inconvenient truth!
A very Happy New Year to one and all

Nothing but bad news for Joe and the Warmistas, so it’s a Happy New Year for everyone else.

McKibben
‘they spend hundreds of millions of dollars daily looking for more. If their business plan is carried out, the planet tanks.’
If they where actually doing that they make no money and it all they supposed to care about .
‘Mr. Bryce is entirely correct that it will be hard to move away from fossil fuels, an enormous engineering challenge. But the Germans are demonstrating it can be done,’
By building more COAL fired power plants because they shut down nuclear and renewable has failed to work.
Its pure good old fashion gibberish from McKibben and still no idea what the ‘mathematical logic’ the madness to supposed to based on actual is .

McKibben says about the transition away from fossil fuels:
“Mr. Bryce is entirely correct that it will be hard to move away from fossil fuels, an enormous engineering challenge. But the Germans are demonstrating it can be done,”
This is a fallacy. Ignoring exploding electricity costs here in Germany, it has to be pointed out that electricity is only one seventh of our primary energy consumption. Furthermore, a lot of the renewable energy (maybe half of it) is old large hydro with no prospects of increasing very much in the future.
Most fossil fuels are used for heating and transportation. Wind and solar do little in that market.
After all the number crunching, you find out that new renewable – the subsidized ones – wind, solar, biomass, micro scale hydro (fish shredders in rivers) – contribute 1.5 % to our primary energy consumption.
The Germans are therefore demonstrating it can’t be done would therefore be a more accurate statement.

Henry says:
December 31, 2012 at 7:17 pm
I read Climate Progress daily and I’m sure Joe is rip-$hit about this snub. It seemed as if he was really pushing hard all through the national elections with more than the usual amount of articles daily, so maybe they decided that it just isn’t working, who knows….
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My take is the big money is moving to the next big bubble that has been prepped. The final law was put in place December 2010 and goes into effect this year. Organized screaming got a minor reprieve. Rosa Delauro’s toxic law was watered down and the killer clause removed

“in any action to enforce the requirements of the food safety law, the connection with interstate commerce required for jurisdiction SHALL BE PRESUMED TO EXIST.”

The inclusion of The Commerce Clause allows the US government to interfere within a state.

Trojan Horse Law: The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 by Hans Bader, Counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington.
…Ignorance about the law’s broad reach (and how it will be construed by the courts) has thwarted opposition to the bill, which will likely pass Congress. For example, a newspaper claims the bill “doesn’t regulate home gardens.” The newspaper probably assumed that was true because the bill, like most federal laws, only purports to reach activities that affect “interstate commerce.” ….
But lawyers familiar with our capricious legal system know better. The Supreme Court ruled in Wickard v. Filburn (1942) that even home gardens (in that case, a farmer’s growing wheat for his own consumption) are subject to federal laws that regulate interstate commerce. Economists and scholars have criticized this decision, but it continues to be cited and followed in Supreme Court rulings, such as those applying federal anti-drug laws to consumption of even home-grown medical marijuana. Indeed, many court decisions allow Congress to define as “interstate commerce” even non-commercial conduct that doesn’t cross state lines — something directly at odds with Rep. DeLauro’s claims.

The after the fact addition of the Commerce Clause to the Animal Welfare Act is what caught the Dollarite’s by surprise and resulted in the USDA threatening up to $3.9 million in fines for selling bunnies within state.
The warning signs are already out.
Being Like Soros in Buying Farmland Reaps Annual Gains of 16%
[US] Farmland reaps high investment returns
Credit Suisse: The Hunt for Land Has Already Started
The more ominous are these:
USDA Launches Database for Public to Sign-up and Show their People’s Gardens on Interactive Map; Promotes Access to Healthy Food, Sustainable Practices.
Utah Garden Challenge Actually Government Registration In Disguise
With a ‘fiscal cliff’ facing the White House why is one of his cabinet czars wasting money on registering home gardens?
The push for a complete USDA file on EVERY person growing food or owning horses and livestock started in 2007, three years and one administration before the Food Safety Modernization Act and a just before the push for ‘Animal Traceability’ examples link and link. I talked to one of the USDA drones and she and the other office workers were completely bewildered by the hostility of the people they talked to in Ag census follow-up calls.
The Ag census form is several pages long, very intrusive, very complete and at the time the information was available to anyone who asked for it. Sort of like the census done in Germany in the thirties. samford.edu: …Role of IBM and Ford Compared
The take home from this is the Commerce Clause can be used as an excuse by the US government to control any and all aspects of an American’s life even though it has absolutely nothing to do with selling a product over state lines.

Lets us toast CO2 the giver of green life to this planet.

Nother Happy New Year from Texas. Rained like H*ll last night just in time to ring in the New Year. Anthony…good onyer.

I know I state the obvious when I say that Romm and probably McKibben are true believers. They make the best tools. They are also the first to be dumped when the jig is up. When dumped if they have an “ah ha” moment they could be dangerous and not to the skeptics.