I thought this presentation would both enlighten and horrify your readers Anthony. http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/Breakthrough_Climate%20Solutions%20for%20a%20stronger%20America.pdf
Pretty sick that this is the sort of push that is coming from supposedly uniting Mind, Body, Spirit, and Environment within a single holistic ed push as the new norm. No one will know much that is accurate but they will believe and feel a great deal and not know the difference.
jim2
August 3, 2013 8:07 am
“When the payroll report was released last month, the world finally noticed what we had been saying for nearly three years: that the US was slowly being converted to a part-time worker society. This slow conversion accelerated drastically in the last few months, and especially in June, when part time jobs exploded higher by 360K while full time jobs dropped by 240K. In July we are sad to report that America’s conversation to a part-time worker society is not “tapering”: according to the Household Survey, of the 266K jobs created (note this number differs from the establishment survey), only 35% of jobs, or 92K, were full time. The rest were… not.” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-02/obamacare-full-frontal-953000-jobs-created-2013-77-or-731000-are-part-time
jim2
August 3, 2013 8:10 am
“On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the economy gained just 162k jobs in July, well below expectations of 185-200k. More worrying, though, isn’t just the quantity of jobs created, but the quality of the jobs. About a quarter of the jobs created, 38.5k, were in restaurants and bars. Another 46.5k jobs were in retail. This continuing trend to part-time employment is likely due to the coming implementation of ObamaCare.” http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/02/quantity-of-jobs-up-quality-down
Looks like Obamacare is playing a big part in transforming jobs into part time positions. Part time workers not covered by Obamacare, apparently. “Gee,” say the Obamacare architects. “We never thought that would happen.” That being probably one of the very minor negatives they didn’t think about.
Bill H
August 3, 2013 8:16 am
A Republican Case for Climate Action
By WILLIAM D. RUCKELSHAUS, LEE M. THOMAS, WILLIAM K. REILLY and CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN
Published: August 1, 2013
EACH of us took turns over the past 43 years running the Environmental Protection Agency. We served Republican presidents, but we have a message that transcends political affiliation: the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change, at home and internationally.
There is no longer any credible scientific debate about the basic facts: our world continues to warm, with the last decade the hottest in modern records, and the deep ocean warming faster than the earth’s atmosphere. Sea level is rising. Arctic Sea ice is melting years faster than projected.
The costs of inaction are undeniable. The lines of scientific evidence grow only stronger and more numerous. And the window of time remaining to act is growing smaller: delay could mean that warming becomes “locked in.”
A market-based approach, like a carbon tax, would be the best path to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, … http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/opinion/a-republican-case-for-climate-action.html
arthur4563
August 3, 2013 8:17 am
Obamacare strikes again. Ain’t many part timers out there buying houses and new cars
arthur4563
August 3, 2013 8:21 am
One gripe: why did the idiots who invented non-partisan agencies like the EPA, IRS,and all the others, place them under the care and control of a very political Execuive Branch? The Federal Reserve is one of the few, if not the only, such organization. I don’t believe a thing the Labor Dept or Treasury Dept says.
arthur4563
August 3, 2013 8:42 am
Two technological development stories that I have been following for some time now
are nuclear power and electric cars, both of which I’m in favor of, but not because of
carbon emissions. In a nutshell, electric cars will take over the moment a good, long lasting cheap,
fast recharging battery comes along. Henry Ford believed the same thing and even enlisted his best friend Thomas Edison, who tried but failed, ending up with the comment that “I now know just about every way there is to not build a better battery.”
As for nuclear power, one would think the environmentalists would demand more. But in one of the most bizarre twists of logic, these bizarrely illogical folks have decided that clean energy doesn’t matter, and that the plants will irradiate the population in some unspecifiable accident..
Worse yet, these bizarroes, who once upon a time rhapsodized about the beauty of unspoiled nature, now don’t mind filling the horizon and mountain tops with 400 foot tall steel wind turbines and covering a good portion of the ground with solar panels.
arthur4563 says:
August 3, 2013 at 8:21 am
One gripe: why did the idiots who invented non-partisan agencies like the EPA, IRS,and all the others, place them under the care and control of a very political Execuive Branch? The Federal Reserve is one of the few, if not the only, such organization. I don’t believe a thing the Labor Dept or Treasury Dept says.
==================================================================
In the US, Congress makes the laws and the Executive Branch carries them out. The problem is that the laws that formed the EPA and others gave them the authority to make regulations. Regulations have the effect of law but no one voted on them.
PS The “Federal” Reserve is NOT a part of the Federal government. They represent the banks to which the US owes its debt. Ask yourself, what kind of collateral does a nation put up to obtain a loan?
arthur4563 says:
August 3, 2013 at 8:42 am
“In a nutshell, electric cars will take over the moment a good, long lasting cheap,
fast recharging battery comes along. ”
Yeah, as soon as we found the holy grail of battery development it should be a piece of cake, agreed.
David Ball
August 3, 2013 9:03 am
arthur4563 says:
August 3, 2013 at 8:42 am
The safe disposal of spent batteries and also the spent Nuclear fuel are the biggest hurdles.
There is plenty of energy in our solar system. How do we get it safely and without destroying our atmosphere? http://hackedgadgets.com/2009/11/08/university-of-saskatchewans-space-design-team-space-elevator/
“So it’s time to abandon the religion of environmentalism, and return to the science of environmentalism, and base our public policy decisions firmly on that.” – Michael Crichton
When I see the word “Obamacare”, I thank my lucky stars I live in Canada.
DirkH
August 3, 2013 9:16 am
Robin says:
August 3, 2013 at 8:07 am
“I thought this presentation would both enlighten and horrify your readers Anthony. http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/Breakthrough_Climate%20Solutions%20for%20a%20stronger%20America.pdf
Pretty sick that this is the sort of push that is coming from supposedly uniting Mind, Body, Spirit, and Environment within a single holistic ed push as the new norm. No one will know much that is accurate but they will believe and feel a great deal and not know the difference.”
It would be interesting to know whether these idiots are funded by Big Oil themselves (Big Oil has always supported CO2AGW research and siphoned off CCS and solar subsidies where available – CO2AGW is the weapon of Big Oil against Big Coal, obviolusly). http://www.breakthroughstrategiesandsolutions.com/Services.html
“Betsy Taylor provides a variety of services and frequently teams up with other consultants and experts to get the job done.”
A one woman beltway lobbyist show.
It looks like she’s a vampire.
Village Idiot
August 3, 2013 9:19 am
Quote of the week:
It turns out that the amount of money the world has come up with to fund the headquarters of the body producing the last word on what Barack Obama recently called “the global threat of our time” [the IPCC} is $9.3m this year, about the same as Cumbria spent fixing potholes last year. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/4084c8ee-fa36-11e2-98e0-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2aurr4Bmc
arthur4563
August 3, 2013 9:21 am
Gunga Din
Well, the Federal Reserve is under some control by the Executive branch, since its chairman is
nominated by same …
While I don’t claim to be a Constitutional scholar, the Constitution, which defines the roles of the three branches, can be altered in any way shape or form, even to the extent of being
amended out of existence. An amendment might be required, perhaps, but I would guess that
one can probably place agencies outside of exclusive Executive or exclusive Legislative Branch control, one way or the other.
Paul Schnurr
August 3, 2013 9:35 am
“Climate Depot North Pole Sees Unprecedented July Cold – Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record — ‘Normally the high Arctic has about 90 days above freezing. This year there was less than half that’”
Next will follow a story about the unprecedented rise in temperature of the Arctic Ocean depths.
john
August 3, 2013 9:37 am
House slam door on carbon tax.
The House approved an amendment to legislation Friday that would prevent the White House from imposing a carbon tax without congressional approval.
The lower chamber agreed to Rep. Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) amendment by a 237-176 vote, with 12 Democrats crossing the aisle to support it.
The amendment was added to an underlying bill that would require Congress to OK regulations that carry a $100 million economic impact or greater. That bill is dead in its tracks in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and THE WHITE HOUSE HAS THREATENED TO VETO IT. (Emphasis mine),
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/315221-house-votes-to-slam-door-on-carbon-tax#ixzz2avKxehDO
Remember the WUWT “Hansen’s Death Trains – now with extra scary ‘coal fallout’” blog http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/17/hansens-death-trains-now-with-extra-scary-coal-fallout/ from July 2012, which featured some enviro-activists’ video of a spectacularly dusty coal train?
You may now ignore the problem with other coal trains showing no such dust, but they are still extremely evil. According to last night’s PBS NewsHour “Pacific Northwest Weighs Environmental Risks of Cashing in on Coal Export Market” http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/july-dec13/coal_08-02.html
” …. It’s important to realize that the particles from the coal trains are microscopic, ultra-fine particles that you can’t see. But they’re the ones that do the real damage because they make it to the deepest parts of the airways. So you may not be seeing it, but you’re breathing it, and it’s affecting you. …”
Richard M
August 3, 2013 9:55 am
In case anyone is interested the new UAH numbers are out for July. A drop to +.17.
Richard M
August 3, 2013 9:57 am
Assuming RSS is close to the UAH numbers, as it usually is, this would extend the flat temperature trend to 16 years and 8 months.
David Ball
August 3, 2013 10:10 am
Spending the money to go to mars is very short-sighted.
neillusion
August 3, 2013 10:24 am
It is obvious that the truth gets bent/distorted/twisted/misunderstood, often, in supporting ideas, claims and comments, none more obvious or often than AGW. On WUWT I have come across some wonderful phrases, like ‘intellectual dishonesty’, ‘false flag’. We know what they mean. Sometimes its deliberate, sometimes ignorant, sometimes self serving. What if someone, perhaps somemany, perhaps here on WUWT, could identify or has identified the various ways of misrepresenting a fact or many facts and coin(ed) a phrase about them. I’m sure there’s a top ten to identify and find phrases for, with good, real examples to support. I suppose it might even be possible to make up new words for each example.
This would enable short analysis, conclusion and execution of what someone was up to with a comment.
Anyone?
Chad Wozniak
August 3, 2013 10:28 am
@John –
Incredible, not not incredible, that der Fuehrer thinks he can impose taxes without approval from Congress. George III all over again., but even more so. George III’s offenses pale by comparison with this dictator’s actions. @Bill H –
Ruckelshaus, Whitman, Lee, Kelly are traitors. Not Republicans – they’re Kleptocrat Party moles.
I thought this presentation would both enlighten and horrify your readers Anthony.
http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/Breakthrough_Climate%20Solutions%20for%20a%20stronger%20America.pdf
Pretty sick that this is the sort of push that is coming from supposedly uniting Mind, Body, Spirit, and Environment within a single holistic ed push as the new norm. No one will know much that is accurate but they will believe and feel a great deal and not know the difference.
“When the payroll report was released last month, the world finally noticed what we had been saying for nearly three years: that the US was slowly being converted to a part-time worker society. This slow conversion accelerated drastically in the last few months, and especially in June, when part time jobs exploded higher by 360K while full time jobs dropped by 240K. In July we are sad to report that America’s conversation to a part-time worker society is not “tapering”: according to the Household Survey, of the 266K jobs created (note this number differs from the establishment survey), only 35% of jobs, or 92K, were full time. The rest were… not.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-02/obamacare-full-frontal-953000-jobs-created-2013-77-or-731000-are-part-time
“On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the economy gained just 162k jobs in July, well below expectations of 185-200k. More worrying, though, isn’t just the quantity of jobs created, but the quality of the jobs. About a quarter of the jobs created, 38.5k, were in restaurants and bars. Another 46.5k jobs were in retail. This continuing trend to part-time employment is likely due to the coming implementation of ObamaCare.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/02/quantity-of-jobs-up-quality-down
Looks like Obamacare is playing a big part in transforming jobs into part time positions. Part time workers not covered by Obamacare, apparently. “Gee,” say the Obamacare architects. “We never thought that would happen.” That being probably one of the very minor negatives they didn’t think about.
A Republican Case for Climate Action
By WILLIAM D. RUCKELSHAUS, LEE M. THOMAS, WILLIAM K. REILLY and CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN
Published: August 1, 2013
EACH of us took turns over the past 43 years running the Environmental Protection Agency. We served Republican presidents, but we have a message that transcends political affiliation: the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change, at home and internationally.
There is no longer any credible scientific debate about the basic facts: our world continues to warm, with the last decade the hottest in modern records, and the deep ocean warming faster than the earth’s atmosphere. Sea level is rising. Arctic Sea ice is melting years faster than projected.
The costs of inaction are undeniable. The lines of scientific evidence grow only stronger and more numerous. And the window of time remaining to act is growing smaller: delay could mean that warming becomes “locked in.”
A market-based approach, like a carbon tax, would be the best path to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, …
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/opinion/a-republican-case-for-climate-action.html
Obamacare strikes again. Ain’t many part timers out there buying houses and new cars
One gripe: why did the idiots who invented non-partisan agencies like the EPA, IRS,and all the others, place them under the care and control of a very political Execuive Branch? The Federal Reserve is one of the few, if not the only, such organization. I don’t believe a thing the Labor Dept or Treasury Dept says.
Two technological development stories that I have been following for some time now
are nuclear power and electric cars, both of which I’m in favor of, but not because of
carbon emissions. In a nutshell, electric cars will take over the moment a good, long lasting cheap,
fast recharging battery comes along. Henry Ford believed the same thing and even enlisted his best friend Thomas Edison, who tried but failed, ending up with the comment that “I now know just about every way there is to not build a better battery.”
As for nuclear power, one would think the environmentalists would demand more. But in one of the most bizarre twists of logic, these bizarrely illogical folks have decided that clean energy doesn’t matter, and that the plants will irradiate the population in some unspecifiable accident..
Worse yet, these bizarroes, who once upon a time rhapsodized about the beauty of unspoiled nature, now don’t mind filling the horizon and mountain tops with 400 foot tall steel wind turbines and covering a good portion of the ground with solar panels.
==================================================================
In the US, Congress makes the laws and the Executive Branch carries them out. The problem is that the laws that formed the EPA and others gave them the authority to make regulations. Regulations have the effect of law but no one voted on them.
PS The “Federal” Reserve is NOT a part of the Federal government. They represent the banks to which the US owes its debt. Ask yourself, what kind of collateral does a nation put up to obtain a loan?
This new analysis looks at long term CET trends. Using 50-year averages, temperatures were rising faster in the early 20thC than the recent decades.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/long-term-central-england-temperature-trends/#more-3971
Climate Depot North Pole Sees Unprecedented July Cold – Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record — ‘Normally the high Arctic has about 90 days above freezing. This year there was less than half that’
http://iceagenow.info/2013/08/unprecedented-july-cold-arctic-sees-shortest-summer-record/
arthur4563 says:
August 3, 2013 at 8:42 am
“In a nutshell, electric cars will take over the moment a good, long lasting cheap,
fast recharging battery comes along. ”
Yeah, as soon as we found the holy grail of battery development it should be a piece of cake, agreed.
arthur4563 says:
August 3, 2013 at 8:42 am
The safe disposal of spent batteries and also the spent Nuclear fuel are the biggest hurdles.
There is plenty of energy in our solar system. How do we get it safely and without destroying our atmosphere?
http://hackedgadgets.com/2009/11/08/university-of-saskatchewans-space-design-team-space-elevator/
“So it’s time to abandon the religion of environmentalism, and return to the science of environmentalism, and base our public policy decisions firmly on that.” – Michael Crichton
When I see the word “Obamacare”, I thank my lucky stars I live in Canada.
Robin says:
August 3, 2013 at 8:07 am
“I thought this presentation would both enlighten and horrify your readers Anthony.
http://www.climateaccess.org/sites/default/files/Breakthrough_Climate%20Solutions%20for%20a%20stronger%20America.pdf
Pretty sick that this is the sort of push that is coming from supposedly uniting Mind, Body, Spirit, and Environment within a single holistic ed push as the new norm. No one will know much that is accurate but they will believe and feel a great deal and not know the difference.”
It would be interesting to know whether these idiots are funded by Big Oil themselves (Big Oil has always supported CO2AGW research and siphoned off CCS and solar subsidies where available – CO2AGW is the weapon of Big Oil against Big Coal, obviolusly).
http://www.breakthroughstrategiesandsolutions.com/Services.html
“Betsy Taylor provides a variety of services and frequently teams up with other consultants and experts to get the job done.”
A one woman beltway lobbyist show.
It looks like she’s a vampire.
Quote of the week:
It turns out that the amount of money the world has come up with to fund the headquarters of the body producing the last word on what Barack Obama recently called “the global threat of our time” [the IPCC} is $9.3m this year, about the same as Cumbria spent fixing potholes last year.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/4084c8ee-fa36-11e2-98e0-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2aurr4Bmc
Gunga Din
Well, the Federal Reserve is under some control by the Executive branch, since its chairman is
nominated by same …
While I don’t claim to be a Constitutional scholar, the Constitution, which defines the roles of the three branches, can be altered in any way shape or form, even to the extent of being
amended out of existence. An amendment might be required, perhaps, but I would guess that
one can probably place agencies outside of exclusive Executive or exclusive Legislative Branch control, one way or the other.
“Climate Depot North Pole Sees Unprecedented July Cold – Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record — ‘Normally the high Arctic has about 90 days above freezing. This year there was less than half that’”
Next will follow a story about the unprecedented rise in temperature of the Arctic Ocean depths.
House slam door on carbon tax.
The House approved an amendment to legislation Friday that would prevent the White House from imposing a carbon tax without congressional approval.
The lower chamber agreed to Rep. Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) amendment by a 237-176 vote, with 12 Democrats crossing the aisle to support it.
The amendment was added to an underlying bill that would require Congress to OK regulations that carry a $100 million economic impact or greater. That bill is dead in its tracks in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and THE WHITE HOUSE HAS THREATENED TO VETO IT. (Emphasis mine),
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/315221-house-votes-to-slam-door-on-carbon-tax#ixzz2avKxehDO
Remember the WUWT “Hansen’s Death Trains – now with extra scary ‘coal fallout’” blog http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/17/hansens-death-trains-now-with-extra-scary-coal-fallout/ from July 2012, which featured some enviro-activists’ video of a spectacularly dusty coal train?
You may now ignore the problem with other coal trains showing no such dust, but they are still extremely evil. According to last night’s PBS NewsHour “Pacific Northwest Weighs Environmental Risks of Cashing in on Coal Export Market” http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/july-dec13/coal_08-02.html
” …. It’s important to realize that the particles from the coal trains are microscopic, ultra-fine particles that you can’t see. But they’re the ones that do the real damage because they make it to the deepest parts of the airways. So you may not be seeing it, but you’re breathing it, and it’s affecting you. …”
In case anyone is interested the new UAH numbers are out for July. A drop to +.17.
Assuming RSS is close to the UAH numbers, as it usually is, this would extend the flat temperature trend to 16 years and 8 months.
Spending the money to go to mars is very short-sighted.
It is obvious that the truth gets bent/distorted/twisted/misunderstood, often, in supporting ideas, claims and comments, none more obvious or often than AGW. On WUWT I have come across some wonderful phrases, like ‘intellectual dishonesty’, ‘false flag’. We know what they mean. Sometimes its deliberate, sometimes ignorant, sometimes self serving. What if someone, perhaps somemany, perhaps here on WUWT, could identify or has identified the various ways of misrepresenting a fact or many facts and coin(ed) a phrase about them. I’m sure there’s a top ten to identify and find phrases for, with good, real examples to support. I suppose it might even be possible to make up new words for each example.
This would enable short analysis, conclusion and execution of what someone was up to with a comment.
Anyone?
@John –
Incredible, not not incredible, that der Fuehrer thinks he can impose taxes without approval from Congress. George III all over again., but even more so. George III’s offenses pale by comparison with this dictator’s actions.
@Bill H –
Ruckelshaus, Whitman, Lee, Kelly are traitors. Not Republicans – they’re Kleptocrat Party moles.