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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
Delingpole on Ayn Rand and shale gas
1 Faith Morgan says:
August 16, 2013 at 9:47 am
Green energy is the only way forward,
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You are of course correct Faith. It is the only way forward to economic and political chaos, third world status and occupation by either the UN or China. I would suggest you hurry up and start your training in Mandarin now.
I am not going to repeat myself. So here is my comment about why Green energy doesn’t work and how the EU is finally waking up. Click HERE
And the results of “….Lower the CO2 emissions to 83% of the 2008 level over the next seven years….” Click HERE
It’s not like the US is (or was) a beacon of hope, a ‘fount of liberty’, or acted as the ‘arsenal for democracy’ for other countries being attacked by an aggressive ‘oppressor’ in the world … what was the pilot’s name who flew a Mig over to Japan with nothing left but vapors in the fuel tank on account of the fact their military was afraid of just such defections? Why was he ‘dying to get here’?
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?43294-Interview-with-Lieutenant-Viktor-Ivanovich-Belenko
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I did not realize ‘Faith’ is in the UK (You would think she might have notice all the people freezing to death by now.)
So Faith, for you I suggest learning Russian.
Meanwhile, back up at the ice pack …
Temperature continues to drop.
Looks like the vortex is fanning out. Looking at the 6 day, the Arctic Front will have its first major hemispheric break out of the season. There will literally be a single boundary ringing the globe up around 60 N. Meanwhile it appears the rainy season is already knocking on the door down here in the high 30s North, in NorCal.
Have a look at Charles Krauthammer, “Obama’s global-warming folly” – The Washington Post, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-obamas-global-warming-folly/2013/07/04/a51c4ed0-e3fc-11e2-a11e-c2ea876a8f30_story.html
Gail Combs says:
August 16, 2013 at 4:11 pm
“I did not realize ‘Faith’ is in the UK (You would think she might have notice all the people freezing to death by now.)
So Faith, for you I suggest learning Russian.”
That’s so 1970ies. We are busy reading the Quran here in Europe.
Txomin says:
August 16, 2013 at 3:37 pm
“@Outrageous Ampersand
Nonsense. “America” is not that important. Sure, upheavals of power murk the waters and create opportunity for disaster. But also for renewal and growth. In short, the world will go on.”
…but maybe as a shithole.
Anyone read Faith’s “poetry”? I did so you don’t have to.
Makes William McGonagall sound like Yeats.
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
’Twas about seven o’clock at night,
And the wind it blew with all its might,
And the rain came pouring down,
And the dark clouds seem’d to frown,
And the Demon of the air seem’d to say—
“I’ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.”
When the train left Edinburgh
The passengers’ hearts were light and felt no sorrow,
But Boreas blew a terrific gale,
Which made their hearts for to quail,
And many of the passengers with fear did say—
“I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay.”
But when the train came near to Wormit Bay,
Boreas he did loud and angry bray,
And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
So the train sped on with all its might,
And Bonnie Dundee soon hove in sight,
And the passengers’ hearts felt light,
Thinking they would enjoy themselves on the New Year,
With their friends at home they lov’d most dear,
And wish them all a happy New Year.
So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
Until it was about midway,
Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!
The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
Because ninety lives had been taken away,
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
As soon as the catastrophe came to be known
The alarm from mouth to mouth was blown,
And the cry rang out all o’er the town,
Good Heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down,
And a passenger train from Edinburgh,
Which fill’d all the people’ hearts with sorrow,
And made them for to turn pale,
Because none of the passengers were sav’d to tell the tale
How the disaster happen’d on the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.
It must have been an awful sight,
To witness in the dusky moonlight,
While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,
Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,
Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,
I must now conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.
@ur momisugly Chad Wozniak,
Most troops are southern boys. They grew up listening to the lessons of 1865. They won’t fire on civilians, regardless of how loud the brass screeches.
To everyone else: if America goes, everything else goes with us. Have you forgotten what happened in 476? Sure, hummanity will survive, it will just be set back 1,000 years.
America is the last remnant of the glory of Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. A poor shadow, to be sure. But the only ghost left of the mighty heritage of western civilization.
There are two old southern sayings that I think apply:
1. Outnumbered and outgunned is just the way we like it.
2. It’s too late to fix it, but too soon to start shooting.
Do as you will. Just remember the lessons of 1789 and 1865. The knowledge will serve you well.
_Jim says:
August 16, 2013 at 11:20 am
One wonders if you are familiar with the facts surrounding the passage of a particular piece of legislation titled the Affordable Care Act …
_Jim,
Thank You!
Those facts very much needed to be clearly stated yet again. I’m glad I read all of the comments, before I responded. You corrected the false statements with greater clarity than I would have.
MtK
Outrageous Ampersand says: @ur momisugly August 16, 2013 at 10:28 am
….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.
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At the rate they are going I am afraid I am too. I am beginning to think those in power are completely mad. (Or planing to join Maurice Strong in China)
I hate to preach, I really do. But right now I feel I must.
There is a very old story. It’s 10,000 years in the telling. It has many branches and many twists. It tells the tale of an animal that chose to stand on two legs and face the universe. This animal had no claws, no fangs, nothing but reason and naked courage.
When famine came, he grew special plants to sustain him. When the sky roared and the earth shook, he made the stones themselves shelter him. When mighty creatures chose to dine on him, he fought them off with fire.
As he progressed, he built roads to encircle the new of the earth, arts to bring the gods down to earth, and laws to ensure that all could walk unafraid.
And he failed. He failed.
The glorious story of Man faltered for many years, with only a single divine spark left alight, a single seed.
This seed found root on a new continent, and blossomed into the greatest force for good the world has ever known. A story 10,000 years long reached its climax under the dawn of a new world.
Now the world grows dim. The light is fading. The darkness closes in, last as it was first.
America is a feeble old man, but we are all that is left. If we go, the light leaves the world, maybe this time forever.
That is what we fight for. Not an economy or a country, but the course of seven billion souls.
milodonharlani says: @ur momisugly August 16, 2013 at 11:03 am
…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….
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That scares the ERRR … out of me. Poorly trained local law enforcement with military weapons.(Shudder) Does anyone else remember the Kent State Riots? My old boy friend was at ground zero.
@Andres Valencia –
Regrettably, Krauthammer still endorses limiting CO2 emissions, which, if he had stopped to think about it, is exactly what will drive the economic suicide he otherwise recognizes. You can’t oppose economic suicide without opposing its cause.. Too many Republicans, including others like Christine Todd Whitman and William Ruckelshaus, still buy into AGW. These people need to get the message THAT CO2 HAS NO DISCERNIBLE EFFECT ON CLIMATE, be right up front with it to the American people, and fight tooth and nail for real science.
On a related point – now we have new Interior Secretary saying there had better not be any “climate deniers” in the Department of the Interior. Hypocrite! She and her fellow gusanos are the deniers, of actual science.
dbstealey says: @ur momisugly August 16, 2013 at 11:52 am
….The Petraeus affair proved that: Gen. Petraeus was made an example for only one reason: to cow the generals and admirals…..
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I am sorry but you are incorrect. Gen. Petraeus COULD shed light on what happened to Seal Team 6 and COULD shed light on Benghazi. He did not. Gen. Petraeus said that he didn’t like the talking points: he thought they didn’t do enough to connect the attacks to demonstrations in Cairo that were triggered by an anti-Islam video. This has since proved to be a diversion.
So he carried water for the Admin. and has been rewarded.
Have to throw in my 2 Cents from Lincoln:
“…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Pete says: @ur momisugly August 16, 2013 at 12:39 pm
Relevant to the “We don’t need no stinkin’ Congress” idea and all it entails, Charles Krauthammer has an outstanding column in today’s Washington Post.
Check it out: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-can-obama-write-his-own-laws/2013/08/15/81920842-05df-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html
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Thanks Pete, Well over 3000 comments on that article in a day WOW! I do not think I have ever seen that many comments on one article before.
I certainly hope so, but he better move fast
chemman says:
August 16, 2013 at 10:59 am
“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.
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I also have lived off grid – for almost five years. The worst was having no fridge. The worst job was washing the laundry because I had to do that by hand.
You are spot on in your observations. I believe a lot of these let’s-go-live-in-the-wild types don’t think beyond frolicking amongst the trees and staring at the stars at night. They have no idea how hard life can be without power.
rw says:
August 16, 2013 at 1:37 pm
During his (almost obsessive) lying about Benghazi, I realized that Obama was beginning to go off the rails. This isn’t going to be pretty, but I don’t think these wine-and-cheese types are really cut out to be dictators. Instead, they expect that we’ll all submit and everything will be OK.
Plus, they’ve bet the farm on AGW of all things! So what happens when their fantasies fail to materialize?…..
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Urban Wars that will make the Rodney King riots look like a walk in the park.
Why do you think the local police and the Department of Homeland security are gearing up for war?
Obama has been repeatedly playing the race card, Zimmerman, the rodeo clown and every other chance he gets. Now picture what will happen when the electric grid goes completely unstable – permanently because we have shut down too many Coal plants. Now picture what happens when farmers like me take one look at the cost of implementing the Food Safety laws and say LET THEM EAT GRASS!
THEY thought the laws would mean farmers would sell out but I won’t I will be G… D… if I will let the Sons of Syphilitic Camels have my land. And I am not the only one. The average age for an American farmer is ~56. Many are Vietnam Vets. Most farm because they love it not because thats how they make money. So they grow corn for ethanol or plant trees to sell to the UK as fuel but they flip the finger at the ADMIN and the rest of America and they don’t grow food.
Sensing a non-sequitur here as well as significant potential after-the-fact ‘creative rationalization’ and event-to-person linking where there may be no solid justification for asserting such linking …
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“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.”
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Just how might one implement such a strategy, while leading from behind ?
Well Glory Be! I stand corrected! Indeed no Republican voted for Obamacare.