From the “that ain’t gonna fly” department:
by Fred Palmer – Washington Examiner
Al Gore wants to reverse modernity and save the world from itself through an elimination of its fossil-fuel-based energy system. During the final week of April, his newly created Energy Transitions Commission released a document setting forth a fool’s-errand pathway to “decarbonize” the world’s energy system.
If this sounds familiar, it is. Gore’s plan features a new, sophisticated, and expensive public-relations campaign, but it’s all based on his views on carbon dioxide first broached in his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, which he reissued in 2000 for his failed presidential campaign. The subsequent efforts made by Gore during the past 25 years have transformed little from their genesis, and he remains as tragically wrong today as he was when he first surfaced as an opponent of everything linked to carbon-dioxide.
If you scroll through the verbiage surrounding the document, you will find the core policy recommendation is a massive, punishing carbon tax. Gore would start the tax at $50 per ton, which would increase to $100 per ton over time, essentially destroying the market for continued robust development of the world’s fossil-fuel base. Our economic growth and personal well-being depends on robust fossil-fuel use, so Gore’s plan would destroy these as well.
But, don’t worry! The all-in estimated cost to re-engineer humanity is only a mere $15 trillion—enough money to give every man, woman, and child in the United States more than $46,000.
Al Gore has been demonizing fossil fuels and attempting to marginalize all those involved in the traditional energy sector since 1988, the year the climate-change movement was rolled out in Washington, D.C., which happened to correspond with a nationwide heatwave and with Yellowstone in flames. Ever since, Gore’s pathway to political power and personal riches has been a successful one, to be sure, but his multi-trillion-dollar effort today is his most sophisticated effort to date. Unfortunately for him, it will also fail, because what he’s selling in his “new” proposal is bad for the people being asked to embrace it.
Full story: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-fools-errand-al-gores-15-trillion-carbon-tax/article/2622479
Crispin – Yeah, the same Weaver. We may surpass Ontario in economy-crippling policies if they have their way. No pipelines, no natural resource development, no coal transport, big Carbon taxes, not even lng. Maybe they’ll really screw up and side with the NDP for a coalition, in which case there’s some potential for a recovery in 4 years….
Every new photo of Gore makes him more like Jaba.
Gore lost the big mike and has been chasing it
ever since . Apparently wealthy but I wonder who he owes .
He may yet pull of the $trillion dollar save the planet hoax
as Trump is getting weak in the knee’s from being daddy whipped .
Unbelievable how non elected , scientifically challenged individuals are even in the position to shake down tax payers for $Trillions . System gone nuts .
They don’t have to worry about nukes . The climate cartel will bring them down .
Flow Chart Of Reality
Government imposes carbon tax on fossil fuel companies ————-> Fossil fuel companies pay government ————> Government pays subsidies as rewards to consumers ————> Fossil fuel companies raise consumer rates to offset carbon tax, so they can keep doing business as usual —————-> Consumers pay more for fossil fuels that keep things going as usual, using government subsidies to pay the increased fossil-fuel rate ———–> Technological development remains on its course UNCHANGED ————> CO2 levels remain on course UNCHANGED
————> more time is wasted on paper work and accounting that could be put into useful work ————> Al Gore gets more famous or infamous, depending on how one might define “fame”.
Grateful consumers vote for the politician that taxes money from other people and gives it to them.
Not realizing that the money to pay those taxes ultimately comes from their own pockets.
This ominous threat follows relentless indoctrination of the false perception that CO2 has a significant effect on climate. CO2 has no significant effect on climate. Thermalization and Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of molecule energy explain why. At low altitudes EMR energy absorbed by CO2 is effectively shifted by the M-B distribution to the lower energy absorb/emit bands of water vapor molecules. The ‘notches’ in top-of-atmosphere EMR measurements above temperate zones demonstrate this.
The only thing countering the temperature decline that would otherwise be occurring is the increasing trend in water vapor. (‘Otherwise’ results from declining net effect of ocean cycles since 2005 and declining solar activity which has been declining since 2014 and dropped below ‘breakeven’ in early 2016.) Average global atmospheric water vapor has been measured and reported by NASA/RSS since 1988 and shows an uptrend of 1.5% per decade. WV has increased about 8% since the more rapid increase began in about 1960.
Links to source data and graphs showing this are at http://globalclimatedrivers2.blogspot.com
The warmer temperature is welcome but the added WV increases the risk of flooding. IMO all rainwater retaining systems (dams, dykes, etc.) should be upgraded from design for 100 yr floods to 10,000 yr floods.
Hey everyone, if you have some time, I’d love some critiques of this article.
CO2 Can’t Cause the Warming Alarmists Claim it Does
In conclusion, if you break the data down to isolate the impact of CO2 on atmospheric temperatures, there simply isn’t a strong case to be made that CO2 is the cause of the warming. Yes the oceans are warming, yes temperatures have been warming, but that doesn’t mean CO2 is the cause of that warming. If you isolate the impact of CO2 by removing the impact of the oceans, the urban heat island effect, and atmospheric water vapor, the result is that those areas show no warming what so ever. CO2 increased from 335 ppm to 405 ppm in Antarctica, and it had no impact at all, none, nada, zip.
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/co2-cant-cause-the-warming-alarmists-claim-it-does/
The warmth of water is determined by two factors. Energy in and energy out. If the atmosphere warms and the amount of sunshine stays constant, then the oceans will warm until they can re-establish the balance.
Sure, but you are dealing with 1) a 2000 to 1 ratio and 2) H2O saturates above the water, so CO2 is irrelevant over the oceans. If a greenhouse gas is causing the oceans to warm, it is H20, not CO2.
Only $46K?
Major Fail:
The real dramatic climate change happened 12.800 years ago,
https://youtu.be/OFmVXj_Huxk
Gore’s last swing for the fence . It’ s been a good ride for him .
Think of it , a guy with virtually no scientific training selling the earth has a fever and now a $!5 trillion dollar
trip to no where . Only in America .
It must have been a devastating blow to lose the Presidency . And to think Russia probably caused that too . Who knew Exxon ? Actually Russia has spoken a tad more honestly than most of the climate cartel .
The climate caper is over . Now scientists are free to do their thing. Dispute , discuss and restore trust
by employing the scientific method while being unafraid to express the current limits of climate science .
Love the Russia diversion story playing out . Can’t wait to see the list of citizens “wiretapped ” and how many climate scientists were targeted .