Obama Makes a Rare Strong Stand on Global Warming, Without Result

When speaking of healthcare, the environment, the economy, or our rights enumerated under the Bill of Rights, the unspoken agenda of the Left, and the Obama administration in particular, is really to expand governments role in the economy. It does not matter if you call it Socialism, Communism, Fascism or any other ‘ism, because they dare not speak it’s name anyway. Popular causes for economic benefits from government are not ends in themselves but means to an end. Healthcare, the environment, the economy, and our rights just create the opportunity for the Left-wing political demagoguery designed to get you to trade your rights for false promises. The people who actually provide you with these things you want, cannot and will not work for nothing. We must pay them for what we want from them. The government cannot force them to give you more of want you want. It can only stop them from being able to provide you with it.

History provides some tragic examples of peoples’ pursuit of their Utopian dream, which is really just a fantasy world where you would get everything you want through little or no personal effort. For example, in pursuit of other utopian dreams, communists of the 1930s decided collectivization of farms would better serve their interests. Whereas Hugo Chavez seized the petroleum industry and its oil fields, Obama seized banks and automobile companies, Stalin and Mao seized farmland. Lacking experience in farming 7 to 10 million Ukrainians starved to death and then later 20 to 43 million Chinese starved to death:

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm

http://www.ukrainegenocide.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

http://www.religioustolerance.org/genocide4.htm

Pol Pot imitated them both:

http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/AboutGen89BlueScarvesandYellowStars.pdf

You would think people would become disillusioned with their pursuit of Utopia, yet the illusion lives on. If you think it can’t happen here, then it might. If you thought forced internment couldn’t happen here, you would be wrong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9066

Barry of CA 12:39PM July 13, 2009

Deforestation is driven by our ever increasing meat consumption. A study, produced jointly by environmental groups and the soy industry, showed that only 12 of 630 sample areas deforested since July 2006 -- or 0.88 percent of 157,896 hectares (390,000 acres) -- were planted with soy.

By comparison, nearly 200 were converted into pasture land for cattle. The rest of the deforested areas had not yet been put to use. What isnt even mentioned is that those 12 sample areas would have fed the at least same amount of people as the 200 samples full of cattle, due to the vast energy inefficiency involved in producing food from the second rung of the food chain.

"If the world population triples in the next 100 years, and meat consumption continues, instead of 3.7 billion acres of cropland and 7.5 billion acres of grazing land, we would require 11.1 billion acres of cropland and 22.5 billion acres of grazing land.

Even if we resort to extreme methods of population control: abortion, infanticide, genocide, etc...modest increases in the world population would make it impossible to maintain current levels of meat consumption. On a vegetarian diet, however, the world could easily support a population several times its present size. The world's cattle alone consume enough to feed over 8.7 billion humans. - Vasumurti

Gillian Mcilroy of NM 4:46PM July 10, 2009

Even ten years ago, if I had suggested that the majority party’s proposed bill would be withheld from the minority party two hours from the vote — and then one copy was grudgingly provided, to be shared by all 435 Representatives , you would have looked at me like I was a crazy person…….

Well that’s exactly what happened two weeks ago Friday when Congress voted on and passed the infamous HR 2454 Cap and Trade/Carbon Emissions Bill. Final vote: 219 Yea, 212 Nay. A little after 3 am on that very same day a 300 page amendment was added to the original 900+ pages. This is the longest suicide note in history and will further hasten our downward economic spiral. The Senate looks to debate it this Fall where it will likely get nowhere. Friday’s vote may have been a gift to the POTUS for the upcoming UN meeting knowing there’s little chance of it getting thru the Senate. Before Friday’s vote I made my feelings known to our Democratic Congressman. I see he voted No but I’ve no idea what his real motivation was. Some that voted Yes received calls 20:1 urging a No vote and they still voted Yes.

This is about more than just higher electricity rates. It’s a massive redistribution of wealth, further limits our freedoms all under the guise of reducing an essential trace greenhouse gas, and does next to nil for energy independence. This Manmade Global Warming/Climate Change House Of Cards is tumbling down. Every week more and more new contrary evidence is seeing the light of day. The Mainstream Media won’t report it, but this vital information is getting out to those that want honest debate on this important issue.

Looking past the Senate this Fall we have the December Copenhagen UN meeting on a new Global Warming Treaty. Remember the Kyoto Treaty? Well you ain’t seen nothing yet. I shudder to think what the U.S. delegation would love to commit us to for years or decades forward. Lastly there’s the EPA waiting in the wings to regulate all things CO2. Recently a leaked string of internal EPA e-mails detailed suppression of evidence that undermines the CO2 argument. Many derided the career EPA employee as not being a climatologist. Well Mr. Carlin has a physics degree. Al Gore is no climatologist or scientist but he’s allowed to testify before Congress on this issue. Madness!

Remember Friday’s vote, because if this horror show is implemented on the American public it will blow up in our face as it has in every country this has been tried. At what cost in dollars and individual freedoms? Mark your calendar in RED, because that is the path we are heading toward. Contact your Senators and ask them if they’re prepared to defend a Yes vote for this misguided Bill. Let them know a NO Vote will ensure your support next election cycle.

metnav 12:20AM July 10, 2009

In 1988 James Hansen testified before congress to scare us about global warming. See his failed predictions on page 7 of this PDF from NASA’s website as published back then:

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_etal.pdf

All satellite data, including this from the University of Alabama at Huntsville proves that he was wrong. The predicted warming never occurred:

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/HANSEN_AND_CONGRESS.jpg

2008 was 0.3 degrees colder than 1988, not 0.7 degrees warmer, as Hanson predicted. Had he predicted what actually happened, no one would have seen the need to waste hundreds of billions of dollars. Now the politicians are threatening to burden the economy with their Cap-and-Trade scheme, which amounts to a massive tax increase on all conventional energy usage, to be paid for by you every time you buy something manufactured or transported using energy, which includes nearly everything buy, and your utility bill. It’s ironic how they claim to be protecting the children from doomsday, when they are really impoverishing your children’s future with this additional burden. Here is more background on this deliberate hoax from 1988:

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/hansens_anniversary_testimony/

We are being forced to pay for less reliable, uneconomical sources of energy while being told they are viable alternatives, which is not true. All of the so-called ‘alternative’ sources of energy, including wind and solar, equal less than one percent of mankind’s needs, and do not ever produce enough electricity to pay for themselves, without subsidies. Meanwhile, our far more economical access to hydrocarbon energy and nuclear energy is being throttled for no good reason.

Real scientists (not patronage-money grant seekers) never accepted this theory:

31,478 scientists signed a petition opposing the man-made global warming theory. Their reasoning is outlined in a peer reviewed journal article detailing the evidence that disproved the theory. Please follow this link:

http://www.petitionproject.org/

"The reason why Dr Mörner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on "going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world".

When running the International Commission on Sea Level Change, he launched a special project on the Maldives, whose leaders have for 20 years been calling for vast sums of international aid to stave off disaster. Six times he and his expert team visited the islands, to confirm that the sea has not risen for half a century. Before announcing his findings, he offered to show the inhabitants a film explaining why they had nothing to worry about. The government refused to let it be shown."

http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=3116

Context:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheBigLieMan-madeGlobalWarming

Barry of CA 8:54PM July 09, 2009