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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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The new “WAVE” of McCarthyism…..
Outrageous Ampersand says:
August 16, 2013 at 10:07 am
IMO people today have been bought off by the DC regime’s making citizens into subjects dependent upon it for welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, SS & pensions for military & federal law enforcement personnel.
Rather than civil war or revolution, I’d like a return to federalism, in which states or groups of states could control all or most of their own destiny, without Washington dictating everything from light bulb to toilet bowl design, like the Politburo of the USSR.
“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.”
I have Windows 8 on my laptop, It sucks. Heard that the guy that developed it got fired:
http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2012/11/13/microsoft-s-man-in-charge-of-creating-windows-8-steven-sinofsky-was-fired-today-is-it-because-windows-8-sucks-so-bad.aspx
What gives?
The rule of law is doing very well, youngster. They’re fast tracking them hell-bent for election. It is the rule of order that is out the window. Some serious defunding is definitely in order.
Surely Obama [and his Administration] are worse than Carter or Nixon, maybe the worst ever…….
Viewed from the UK and very fond of the USA and my many friends who are having to suffer unnecessarily at present.
Thank goodness Al Gore never made it to the White House!
Welcome to the world of those un-anchored and un-rooted in the world of reality; detachment from the real world allows all sorts of fancy (Def: the mental faculty through which whims, visions, and fantasies are summoned up; imagination, especially of a whimsical or fantastic nature) are imagined without practical limit, penalty or cost on themselves or the others they will ultimately entangle and involve … when done so through the civil power “that is” (think: handcuffs, r ifle barrel of govt bureaus and their attached LE personnel) the end won’t be pretty (think Stalin, Mao and the paper-hanger of the 20th century).
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I also have Windows 8. HORRIBLE product!!! My new hp extended keyboard notebook has a large mouse pad. Great idea for a mouse pad on a computer used for data analysis and report writing, but bad if you have windows 8. Windows 8 is actually made for a touch screen. Which I do not have. But when I rest my wrists below the keyboard as I am typing they connect with the mouse pad and the Windows 8 “finger sweep” functions start playing with my imagination, making me think my software has a poltergeist.
I would have tarred and feathered him.
@1 Faith Morgan says:
August 16, 2013 at 9:47 am
“Green Energy” is what exactly? Solar Panels – any idea what is in them? To list a few – lead (which was taken out of gasoline many years ago), Arsenic (feed that to your cat and see how green it is), Thiourea (Do you even know what that is?) Phosphine Gas (used in WW ! – the soldiers didn’t think it was too green), Cadmium and many other “green” items. Seriously. “Green” energy. Spain is cutting back on the subsidies and they are verging on bankrupcy. No, don’t pull the “green” energy card. There ain’t no such thing.
@milodonharlani
Certainly, a return to the republic as it was orginally envisioned, or even with some modifications in the trappings but not spirit, is the best possible outcome.
Let me know when you figure out how to do it, because I’m plumb out of ideas. Regrettably I’m young enough that I’ll live to see the end of everything.
“McCarthy insisted the administration could reduce so-called greenhouse gas emissions without harming economic growth, and could do it without any congressional approval.”
With the passage of Obamacare and it’s grant of power to HHS, the administrative state is in place and no meaningful antidote exists to thwart that power. Thank you to all who trusted that a little more won’t do that much harm.
My suggestion is to read up on Article V of the U. S. Constitution. The Founding Fathers, knowing full well that there could come a day when a bloated federal government would not change their ways, provided the States with a method of amending the Constitution WITHOUT any action by Congress or the President. Two thirds of the State Legislatures can force Congress to call a Convention for proposing Amendments (not a constitutional convention) and those amendments shall become valid when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the States.
We don’t need no stinkin’ congressional or presidental approval.
alexwade says:
August 16, 2013 at 9:44 am
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Count me as an XP dead-ender. I only use XP because I have a couple of programs that run Windoz. The vast majority of what I need to use runs under Linux, and I can and will move XP to a separate net unconnected box to run these few programs and run some Ubuntu variant (I hate 12.04, but there are other options) to run net, office, CAD and most development apps.
A lot of good apps are php client/server apps and can run on anything, and live on my Linux server.
If I’m going to be stuck with an endless upgrade cycle, it’s going to be open source. Screw the Microsoft treadmill.
Obama-anything could not have come to pass without Senate and House of Rep approval in the text and/or funding and/or committee regulations. That means that conservatives voted for it as well. That means we all may need to get our big boy and/or girl pants on and vote libertarian. That means if you can’t pick yourself up by your own bootstraps, too bad sooo sad. That means if you consume a product that hurts you, oh well. That means there is good and bad to every kind of government design. But what we have right now on each side of the fence is mostly bad and very little good. Repeat at first sentence.
Tom in Florida has been listening to The Great One.
Friends:
I am surprised that so far in this thread nobody has commented on the item
This is an infant technology which needs to be proved technically and economically at demonstration scale. However, it would be a ‘game changer’ if successful because it would reduce the need for power stations by about a quarter and could be retro-fitted to existing power stations.
Richard
Tom in Florida, too bad Obama doesn’t have to jump through those same hoops. If he did, he would be reluctant to fight that battle.
The US Constitution has been run through a shredder.
It only truly exists as an historic relic in an hermetically sealed case in the Library of Congress.
Under Constitutional law, Amendments 9 and 10 would leave environmental matters to the states to determine , since they aren’t expressed powers granted to Congress in Articles 1 Section 8.
That makes perfect sense as each State has its own unique priorities in regards to environmental Standards. One size doesn’t fit all..
Some versions of windows 7 are reported to be capable of emulating windows XP and running software designed for XP. When I attempted to download the emulator, I was told that my version of windows 7 was not compatible. Has anyone else had that experience?
Outrageous Ampersand says:
August 16, 2013 at 10:28 am
I’m old, & I may well see the end, too.
I agree that stopping the rot of decadence within & invasion from without is a long shot. But if the disastrous trend is to be reversed, it will require not just a GOP Congress & White House, but control by principled public servants rather than mainstream, self-serving, go along to get along politicians like Boehner & McConnell. Maybe if things get bad enough rapidly enough, pushed along by Obamacare, then such a devout wish might be consummated.
Failing that, there are principled, rebellious governors who may initiate the counter-revolution by refusing to go along with the unconstitutional mandates of the Mandarins in DC. I’d like to see the loosest possible North American confederation, with most of US & Canadian territory united in one or two associations based upon American principles of self-reliance & personal responsibility (maybe social conservative in the South & libertarian in the West), but with perhaps half a dozen enclaves free to be as Old European-style socialistic as they want to be. Then we’ll see which traditions produce greater peace, prosperity & happiness.
@milodonharlani
I’ve long been in favor of a North American union, including Mexico, but drawn up more as a tarriff free, border free econonomic zone and not like the zombie that’s the EU. I’m not really sure the details of how to draw it up though.
I’m a registered Republican and vote as one, but am more libertarian in my outlook. I’d vote for a Democrat if any in my state were worth voting for.
I greatly fear there are only two ways to excise the cancer that is DC: revolution, or a titan of a leader who cares not for power and is willing to get things done. Some sort of reincarnation of Washington I guess.
1 Faith Morgan:
I am replying to your post at August 16, 2013 at 9:47 am
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/16/the-wuwt-hot-sheet-for-august-16th-2013/#comment-1392264
I write to inform you that you are very mistaken.
Firstly, I strongly commend you to read the post from Pamela Gray at August 16, 2013 at 10:12 am
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/16/the-wuwt-hot-sheet-for-august-16th-2013/#comment-1392294
Please consider what she says. Poverty is not a gift I want to give to our children and our children’s children.
Secondly, I think you will benefit from reading all the item – especially its Section 14 – which is at
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/reprint/courtney_2006_lecture.pdf
I hope this is helpful to you.
Richard
A people have the Government they deserve. “Suum cuique”.
richardscourtney says:
August 16, 2013 at 10:42 am
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A cursory look at the “tornado” machine shows this to be a typical highly capital-intensive green gizmo that isn’t likely to be economical just because of the capital involved. There are less capital intensive ways to recover waste heat.
I’m always happy to be wrong about these things, but I’m usually not. This looks like another too-clever idea that will never pencil out because of sky-high capital costs.
“1 Faith Morgan says August 16, 2013 at 9:47 am”
Do you actually live on so called green energy. No not the stuff they say you get for a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour on your electric bill. You have no idea if that really is coming from a renewable source. What I am asking is have you cut yourself off from the grid and actually live a “sustainable life?”
I actually do live off grid and it isn’t for the faint of heart. You must forgo things that are large energy hogs. You know things like air conditioners and fancy dish washers. So why don’t you get out of that fantasy world of yours and try to practice what you preach.
Outrageous Ampersand says:
August 16, 2013 at 10:52 am
Most four-star generals & admirals today are toadies, totally politicized sycophantic moral cowards, many of whom lack any combat experience despite having been in uniform during frequent wars & lesser military actions.
IMO however the greater threat to liberty is the metastasized growth & militarization of federal, state & even local law enforcement, combined with the unsupervised abuses of the national “security” surveillance state.
CACCA is part & parcel of the scam. At least the USA had enough more democracy left than the EU to resist carbon cap & tax schemes. But then the EPA just ran around Congress.