Snapped Shot - Environmentalism

We're All Gonna Die!!!

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:17:52 -0500

Last year, 2007, some really smart galacticly inspired British "scientist" said that if we kept breathing out CO2, we would kill half of all species on Earth. And, they predicted that it would not take much of an increase at that. We were on the precipice of DOOM! DOOM I tell ya!

When CO2 levels rise and the planet heats up, species die out; when CO2 levels fall and the planet cools down, life flourishes once more. That's how nature's worked for the last half-billion years, say British scientists -- and to make it worse, predicted future temperatures are comparable to those associated with global mass extinctions.

"The first clear evidence that global climate may explain substantial variation in the fossil record in a simple and consistent manner," said University of York ecologist Peter Mayhew, a co-author of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B study. "If our results hold for current warming - the magnitude of which is comparable with the long-term fluctuations in Earth climate - they suggest that extinctions will increase.”

Even us publicly schooled drop-outs know that when the world gets covered in ice hundreds of feet thick during world-wide ice ages, species flourish. Cause, what species doesn't like living off of nothing but cold and ice.

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Al Gore: Man of the People.

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:10:25 -0500

Al Gore. Just one of the little people.

Al Gore. A simple, common man who just can't catch a break. He even has to mend his own suits.

... while riding in his 100 foot yacht.

Poor, poor man. But, hey, at least he vacations locally !

Greenest. Convention. Evar!

nospam@example.com (Brian C. Ledbetter) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:18:50 -0500

The DNC Convention in Denver this year was hailed as being the "Greenest" convention in history, regardless of the fact that attendees arrived in gas guzzling SUVs and private jets.

Of course, one way in which Democrats continue to claim to be "green" whilst polluting the environment like we evil Republicans is to purchase "carbon credits," the universal pennance of Enviro-sin.

So, when it was announced that the DNC convention would be referring people to a carbon-offset reseller, one would've thought that the über–chic crowds who Vote Green! would be quick to take advantage. And, after all was said and done, it seems that they have, as this reseller has raised a grand total of:

$18.34

... from the entire convention!

Way to go, greenies. You've reduced an entire 0.9 ton of carbon from the atmosphere!

You know, if even your average rank-and-file Democrat can see through the bull that is carbon offsetting, shouldn't the rest of the world see it?

I know I do—which is why I always recommend that you buy carbon debits instead.

Thanks to IV,D for the story!

Coming Soon: Green Juries!

nospam@example.com (Brian C. Ledbetter) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:58:13 -0500

Why do I always get a sickening feeling in my stomach when I see new trends pop up in Old England?

The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.

Jurors accepted defence arguments that the six had a "lawful excuse" to damage property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater damage caused by climate change. The defence of "lawful excuse" under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows damage to be caused to property to prevent even greater damage - such as breaking down the door of a burning house to tackle a fire.

I don't personally see what the problem is here. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and round up all of my bank robber friends and get them to agree to sit on a jury if, by some odd coincidence, I get held up for, I dunno, robbing a bank or something.

(h/t CRC via FR)

Crud! It figures that the Jawas found this story first. Curse those dastardly production build schedules!

Here They Come To Save The Day!!! (you gotta sing it)

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:07:53 -0500

Never content to take away your freedoms regarding the way you drive or the cars you buy, the nimroots that believe man is the fault of ever single event on Earth, have decided there is an even more insidious, disastrous, inhuman, unconstitutional, US separationsistic device that needs to be dealt with. And NOW!!

This device is something that some people use on a weekly basis. Some people even make a living using these devices. This is a device that has made our lives much more easier and safer. It has even led to increased property values. And, I will accede that this device is also the bane of people who enjoy their sleep.

Can you guess what it is before you click below the fold???
No? Ok. Go ahead and click away.
(Oh yeah, and I know you can guess who wrote the story)

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Katrina On My Mind

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:07:09 -0500

For some reason, whenever I hear news or weather broadcasts of the now Hurricane Gustav (Russian hurricane?), my mind keeps being told that this is either just like Katrina or will be another Katrina attack on New Orleans.

I am beginning to suspect that it is the media reports themselves. (Ed: can you guess from who?)

Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday and moved through the Cayman Islands, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina.

It has also been 13 years after Hurricane Luis. And three years after Hurricane Maria, Nate, Ophelia, Philippe, Stan and Rita. Or, it has been 49 years since Hurricane Cindy.

Why focus this storm story, WHICH IS NOT EVEN WITHIN THE GULF COAST YET, upon the memory of Hurricane Katrina?

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Scenes From The Mount of Ascension

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:26:27 -0500

Recall, how the Dems\Libs\Commies\Socialists\Marxists demanded that this year's "Democrat" convention was going to be carbon neutral?

Well, not so much!

It would seem that good intentions of being green are always just that for the party of symbolism and talk.

And then from LGF, comes this filed report from Zombie on his trip to Invesco Field the Mount of Ascension. You know you really have to be "true believer" in order to stand in a line that goes on for miles just for a chance to find a seat in the nose-bleed section.

This was also known as the day Liberty was skewered.

And, may I just say this. THE messiah made fun of McCain being in Congress for 26 years. But, wasn't Biden there longer than that?!?!?

"Green" Turning Brown?

nospam@example.com (Brian C. Ledbetter) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:06:00 -0500

Image "enhanced" just to anger the poo-flinging crowd from yesterday.

Seriously, this trendy fad—which, I might add, isn't backed by an ounce of credible science—can't come to an end soon enough:

"It's not just the economic downturn that has harmed the green order. People have become wary of environmental causes that can turn out to do more harm than good. They don't want wind turbines marching across Britain's moors when nuclear power stations can do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They worry that washing and bleaching all those non-disposable nappies may be damaging the ozone layer, that the massive incentives for biofuels have distorted the world food market, and that green taxes are actually stealth taxes."

"Green" living is so utterly impractical that even Mr. Inconvenient Truth himself can't seem to hack it.

Isn't any wonder that everyone else is starting to notice?

Incidentally, the rabid left crucified Jimmy Swaggart for such hypocrisy, and we on the right made no excuses on his behalf at the time. You've just got to love how "different" things are now that our roles are reversed.

U.N. Jack-Slapped by Mother Nature!

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:01:25 -0500

Time to cork some mountains to save the planet.

On May 2, Chile's Chaiten Volcano released a gigantic cloud of emissions composed of ash, steam, smoke, and various oddball gases whose estimated amount equals to one trillion cow farts, a UN-sponsored climate change study revealed. "In just one day, this volcano set the Kyoto Protocol back 15 years, obliterating the otherwise outstanding success of our multi-billion dollar efforts to curb the release of cow farts into the atmosphere," complained Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Cow Farts (IPCF) Rajendra K. Pachauri at an emergency conference at Grand Plaza Hotel in New York yesterday. "Therefore, we demand that this eruption be considered unscientific and thus disqualified from inclusion into climate change models. Need I mention that it wasn't sanctioned by the the United Nations?"

Good to know that man is responsible for this as well. By the way, yesterday's record high temperature for Oklahoma was 120 degrees. Can you guess what year?

(H/T: People's Cube)

What's in your Water?

nospam@example.com (Brian C. Ledbetter) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:12:26 -0500

Howdy, fellow Malkin fans! Don't forget to sign up for updates if you want to get more hilarity like this on a regular basis!

I'm guessing that whatever it is, it's a conspiracy, maaaaan!

Ah, the science behind "Global Warming." Powered by moonbeams, unicorns, and now? Rainbows.

Prodominatly, even!

(h/t Rooster)

Climate Fauxtography!

nospam@example.com (Brian C. Ledbetter) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:51:28 -0500

Wow, who would've guessed that fearmongering global warming advocates would have to stoop to using Photoshopped flood images in order to provide "evidence" to support their cause?

Convincing proof.

As Anthony Watts points out, this photo is available for licensing from iStockPhoto (and for the record, I did pay for the photo you see above), complete with the following disclaimer:

Photo of house under several feet of graphically-rendered flood waters.

Why bother investigating things "scientifically," when you can just whip the public into a fear-induced green frenzy?

I'll echo what Mr. Watts said (emphasis and links mine):

But the real question is, with so many different photos of real flooded houses available, why did they choose one that was not real? Surely they know such a report will be highly scrutinized?

...if principal National Climatic Data Center authors Dr.’s Thomas Karl and Peterson can’t even bother to check if the photos they use are real or not, or even spot such obvious fakes, it makes one wonder just how much fact checking went into the other parts of the report.

Pelosi Suffers Effects From Removal Of Tin Foil Hat

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:33:33 -0500

Noel Sheppard over at NewsBusters has a transcript up of Nancy Pelosi on George Steppinalloverus', err, mean Stephanopoulos, show "This Week" this past Sunday.

Reading the transcript, it becomes very apparent that Rep Pelosi has truly lost all connection to reality. Even despite asking the "Why won't you allow an up or down vote?" question numerous times, she continued to spew her illogical mislogic. Let me show you a few items:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST: You've been getting a lot of heat for not allowing a straight up or down vote expanding drilling off the coasts of the United States. Why won't you permit a straight up or down vote?

NANCY PELOSI, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: What we have presented are options that will really make a difference at the pump. Free our oil, Mr. President. We're sitting on 700 million barrels of oil. That would have an immediate effect in ten days.

Now, what she is referring to is the oil that is stored in the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This is oil that is stored for NATIONAL EMERGENCIES like times of war or oil embargos. To allow her to drain the oil out of the National Reserve in order to just have her show that she cares for the little people now would be tantamount to treason. Allowing her to drain away our nation's backup oil supply DURING A WAR on terror would be similar in my opinion to giving away state's secrets to our enemies.

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Let this be a lesson to ya

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:01:36 -0500

A while back I presented information that I found over various places regarding the blue-green algae problem that China has been experiencing over the last few years around Beijing region. While no one has really put much interest in the stories before, now that China is trying to show itself as environmentally conscious during the Olympics, only heightens the international awareness of what is really going on over there.

Now, perusing Fox News website, I found another article from (no name) that highlights the results China has attained after closing down nearly the whole of Beijing's regional economy.

The Chinese capital was shrouded in a thick, gray haze of pollution Sunday, just 12 days before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. One expert warned that drastic measures enacted to cut vehicle and factory emissions in the city were no guarantee skies would be clear during competitions. The pollution (image) was among the worst seen in Beijing in the past month...

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Property Rights, California-Style

nospam@example.com (Brian C. Ledbetter) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:47:25 -0500

The state of fruits and nuts has finally codified the obvious into law:

More than six months after two Santa Clara residents were convicted under a state nuisance law for letting their redwoods cast shade on a neighbor’s solar panels, the governor signed into law a bill that gives trees the right to grow as they please — as long as they predate any solar panels they might be shading.

Gee, who would've thought that young redwood trees would eventually grow up to be really, really tall?

Idiocy, thy name is Sacramento.

(h/t Prairie Pundit, who has some awesome commentary on this brilliance, too.)

An Amazing Simple Plan

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:31:58 -0500

Hi Mighty Imperialousness has come up with an amazing simple plan to combat communism. No, I mean child obesity. No... lemme re-read that.... Ok, his All Mightiness has a plan to reduce oil prices. And I love it.

How can anyone disagree with this?

T-Shirts are coming. Order yours soon.

"Global Warming" Puts Damper On Hiking Season

nospam@example.com (Brian C. Ledbetter) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:10:48 -0500

And by "global warming," you just know I mean something slightly different.

Winky wink wink.

The Push For Biofuels May Be Ending

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:22:32 -0500

You have to know, that when a MSM like CBS begins to see the light, that maybe, just maybe, there is a chance.

CBS has a blurb about a newly released report on biofuels. And, the picture is not as rosy as they tried to make us believe. Though, we as smart thinking people, and people who can reason and comprehend, knew this answer a decade or so ago when they started pushing the idea.

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Use corn and other crops, instead of oil, to make fuel. It's renewable and causes less climate change because a lot of the carbon produced in burning it is reabsorbed as the new crop grows.

Governments and industry loved the idea so much that the European Union decided fully 10 percent of fuel should be made this way in the future, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips.

More after the fold...
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Clean Air Leads To Smog

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:52:29 -0500

Stop Global Warming, Stop Clean Air!

Yep, scientists have proved it. Scientists have come up with studies to show that clean air leads to smog.

Yep, just like they proved the world is round too.

But then we all know that global warming is caused by COW BURPS!

Why Gas Is So Expensive, Reason #64,309

nospam@example.com (Brian C. Ledbetter) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:24:47 -0500

We're barred from anything that looks like the "harassment" of "wildlife":

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Two environmental groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn new federal regulations that grants permission to oil companies working in the Chukchi Sea to disturb the polar bears and walrus that live there.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, challenges regulations issued last month by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that allow "incidental takes" of the animals, meaning permission to disturb or accidentally harass them as long as such actions do not result in physical injury or death.

Tuesday's lawsuit, filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Environment, is the latest volley in legal challenges over protections for polar bears and other animals from expanded oil development in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off Alaska.

Tell you what:
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Reliance On Wind Power Is Full Of Hot Air

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:13:18 -0500

The UK has recently enacted a resolution to create a 25+ gigawatt wind farm by 2020. They then asked for research to show how great this will be. Why? Because they want the UK residents and the EU to pay for it. Building a 25+ gigawatt wind farm is not cheap. And imagine the cost of building these wind farms all over Britain's landscape. Where are they going to build them if not in someone's back yard?

However, research is coming in that will wholly embarrasses the UK greenies and elitists. They had Jim Oswald, a turbines expert who was actually funded by the Renewable Energy Foundation (hint: not big oil) conduct a study on the variability of the winds over UK. Using government data, this is what his analysis found:

Analysis from 1996 to 2005 shows similar results: large, rapid, and frequent changes of power output being common occurrences ... any national power system has to manage under the worst case conditions likely to occur ... These are not extreme cases, whose frequency is so low as to render the events negligible. Rather, these are representative ...

Thus, variability rules the norm in UK. He even mentions that there are many times when the winds are so calm as to even create negative power flows. Some turbine-loving greenies tout pumped fluid storage as a way to bridge the gap. He slams those ideas as overly costly and burdensome. According to the site's environmental reporter:

In his view, all this means that - certainly in a 2020 timeframe - the only feasible backup for the planned 25-gig wind base will be good old gas turbines. These would have to be built even if pumped storage existed, to deal with long-duration calms; and the expense of a triplefold wind, gas and pumped storage solution would be ridiculous. At present, gas turbine installations provide much of the grid's ability to deal with demand changes through the day.

The trouble is, according to Oswald, that human demand variance is predictable and smooth compared to wind output variance. Coping with the sudden ups and downs of wind is going to mean a lot more gas turbines - ones which will be thrashed especially hard as wind output surges up and down, and which will be fired up for less of the time.

Thus, he explains that due to the variability in wind and power requirements, gas turbine electrical generators will need to be built to smooth out that variability. As gas generators are used these days for peak power usage, when a nation begins to rely more on wind as their source of power, the variability will increase. More generators will be needed to compensate for that increased variability.

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When Environmentalism Is Bad For Environmentalists

nospam@example.com (captainfish) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:24:57 -0500

Here is a screen capture of the Drudge Report on Saturday night July 5, 2008. I don't know, I had always given the Drudge Report the benefit of the doubt when it comes to media bias. But this headline makes me wonder who he left in charge of the webpage updating tonight.

Aren't the Californians all about green living and environmentalism for the sake of environmentalism despite the cost? If so, then wouldn't the burning of the California lands be a good thing? Those areas and areas like Yellowstone National Park can ONLY endure and replenish because of fire. Fire does not ravage, scorch or destroy these areas. The fire actually repairs, restores and reseeds the land. The greens know this and actually demand that fires be allowed to burn themselves out.

So, has Drudge fallen for the Media bias here or is he representing the feeling the California greenies are expressing now that their own lands and homes are burning?