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Is the Czech Republic. The Bohemians have long been a contrarian people, and since throwing off the Soviet yoke, they’ve managed to elect presidents name Vaclav who have stood tall for freedom. Here’s Klaus in his continuing attempt to call out environmentalism for its efforts to crush freedom.
Apollo posted this at 8:54 PM EDT on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 as Convenient Truth
From the WSJ:
In his climate speech on Monday, Mr. McCain exhibited (as the press usually does) a complete lack of consciousness of the fact that evidence of warming is not evidence of what causes warming. Yet policy must be a matter of costs and benefits, adjusted for the uncertainties involved. Which brings us to today’s irony: He who finds a six-figure earmark an affront to humanity is prepared to wave through a trillion-dollar climate bill without, as far as anyone can tell, a single systematic thought about costs and benefits.
I miss Fred.
Hubbard posted this at 12:26 PM EDT on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 as Audacity of Hype, Convenient Truth
To give a twist to one of Governor Schwarzenegger’s favorite lines, California has the ideas of Sparta and the power of Athens. The state and reality are not on speaking terms. To get an idea of what’s going on, this long but informative essay in City Journal gives the details:
In 2000 and 2001, numerous rolling blackouts and power outages caused billions of dollars in damages in the state. The degree to which rapacious power-company executives and traders were responsible for the shortages remains open to debate. But what isn’t in question is that California had insufficient power to meet demand and that officials had let the state’s infrastructure for moving electrons become frayed and overloaded. Having adequate power supplies would have shielded consumers from any private-sector perfidy.
Republican state senator Tom McClintock underscored the real problem, which went well beyond Rancho Seco, in a speech to a Silicon Valley group in 2001. “From 1979 to 1999, generating capacity of over 45,000 megawatts was proposed to the [California Energy] Commission,” he said. “Only 4,500 megawatts was approved. Nuclear power plants were forbidden, and Rancho Seco and San Onofre Unit One,” another nuclear reactor, “were shut down prematurely. . . . For 27 years, this state has actively discouraged the construction of new power plants, and the day finally arrived when we ran out of power.” Indeed, California’s capability to generate electricity actually decreased slightly from 1990 through 1999.
Not even California’s flat per-capita energy consumption could save it from blackouts, since its population had been soaring. During the 20-year period that Senator McClintock noted, the number of California residents jumped from about 23 million people to 33 million. Today, the figure is closer to 38 million, and it could top 45 million by 2020. The cumulative demand proved too much for the aging system.
During New York’s decline, Mario Cuomo sadly observed, “The future once happened here.” That can now be said of California.
Hubbard posted this at 9:15 AM EDT on Thursday, May 8th, 2008 as Convenient Truth
The basic equations underling Anthropomorphic Global Warming Theory are apparently completely outdated:
Miklós Zágoni isn’t just a physicist and environmental researcher. He is also a global warming activist and Hungary’s most outspoken supporter of the Kyoto Protocol. Or was.That was until he learned the details of a new theory of the greenhouse effect, one that not only gave far more accurate climate predictions here on Earth, but Mars too. The theory was developed by another Hungarian scientist, Ferenc Miskolczi, an atmospheric physicist with 30 years of experience and a former researcher with NASA’s Langley Research Center.
If the basic math used to compute future changes in temperature are wrong then AGWT needs to be completely rethought. It has been quite apparent for some time that a system as complex and chaotic as global climate defies complete understanding, but at the very least the climate hysterics should have their basic equations down.
The Washington Post, however, has not shown much interest in this latest development and instead publishes a front page article feeding the hysteria. Never mind that those computer models are most likely based on the same equations that were debunked in the previously linked article.
Its also interesting to note that the majority of climate hysterics focus on prevention instead of adaptation. The entire history of our planet is one of constant (in geological terms) climate change - adaptation has been the key to survival of all life on earth and I see no reason for humans to change this.
Jamie posted this at 2:02 PM EDT on Monday, March 10th, 2008 as Convenient Truth
My purchase of a hybrid last year may have disastrous consequences.
Apollo posted this at 3:04 PM EST on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 as Convenient Truth
The level of scientific illiteracy on the part those panicking over global warming seldom surprises me. But this, from the very intelligent Michael Bloomberg, blows me away: “global warming in the long term has the potential to kill everybody.”
How hot does he think it’s going to get? Aside from questions of whether anthropogenic global warming is a hoax, there’s absolutely no circumstances in which global warming kills “everybody.” Hell, I think the worse case scenarios I’ve seen leave the earth with a population not far below today’s, just living in different spots (sorry Holland). These global warming types don’t even understand their own stupid theory, or else they’re willing to discard it as needed to properly scare people. I’d believe either.
Apollo posted this at 10:24 AM EST on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 as Windbaggery, Convenient Truth