EU Limits CO2 Emissions - Is This a Joke?
Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 10:07 PM - Global Warming - Climate Change
The European Union promises to cut twenty percent in carbon dioxide emissions, but is this really going to help the Earth's Atmosphere or even appease the Global Warming Alarmists. A reduction of 20% is very little considering China increases every two years by the EUs proposed 20% reduction by 2020. Still, the EU is billing it as the "20-20-20" climate plan.
Worse, the unions and labor parties in Europe are even complaining about that. Meanwhile both China and India are refusing to participate in a cap-and-trade program, which the Obama Administration proclaims is the answer. If the US goes for the cap-and-trade, and China and India don't then the overall CO2 output will still go up Worldwide, but the United States' economy will suffer, along with her manufacturing base.
And energy costs in the US will go up, thus making companies less competitive. The EU sees this problem too, and thus, they have the "20-20-20" plan, which is to save us from Global Warming but in name only. - See EU Limits CO2 Emissions - Is This a Joke? for the complete article.
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Media Bias and Deception on Reporting the Weather
Friday, February 13, 2009, 11:28 AM - Global Warming - Climate Change
The local weatherman stood in front of the map of the mid Atlantic region. The temperature graphic showed a massive cold air mass to the north, and seasonal temperatures in the local area. He stepped back and pointed to the high pressure coming in from the west.
"This high pressure system, rotating clockwise, is dragging cold Canadian air our way, dropping our temperatures to well before normal!" The weatherman motioned the clockwise rotation. Then, with the length of his arm, swept through and motioned as if he was personally dragging cold air to our area.
"But you'll be waking up to a very mild start of the week come Monday!" Right then, a display of the upcoming week's weather came up. The weatherman forecasted above average temperatures.
What the weatherman left out spoke volumes.
This high pressure system tracked eastward. Once it moved east and out to sea, its clockwise rotation kicked warm air from the sub tropics into our area. The weatherman didn't project this system, or its affects, to explain the following week's above average temperatures.
In another reporting, the weather graphic showed a high pressure system to the east. Yet, the weatherman offered no explanation to the high pressure's clockwise rotation kicking subtropical air our way. We were going through another set of mild weather days.
The idea behind this was to bias the audience into thinking - See Media Bias and Deception on Reporting the Weather for the complete article.
Growing Arctic Ice Sheets Threaten Growing Polar Bear Population
Monday, February 9, 2009, 07:49 PM - Global Warming - Climate Change
A trawler sits parked near Sisimut, Greenland. A strange catch hangs on its jib. This isn't a new species of squid, or an unfortunate whale calf. Lifeless, and hanging from the trawler's jib, is a land and aquatic animal, completely gutted after being shot. Blood stained its white fur.
The trawler's owner didn't go out to hunt polar bears struggling to get from one ice block to another. He didn't even catch this bear as it swam a long distance to get to an ice cap that's disappearing at a high rate.
The polar bear's "crime?"
Villagers caught this polar bear rummaging through their garbage. They brought the guns out and ended this bear's food foraging. Never again will they fear this polar bear. But what was this bear doing in a town?
Normally, polar bears hunt seal or walrus resting on an ice sheet's edge. They even spend a lot of time waiting near breathing holes, or places seals would go to catch some air.
But since the ice has gotten thicker, these seals had to find other places to breath. The growing ice sheet even caught 200 narwhal whales by surprise. What was supposed to be a routine breathing stop turned into a fatal nightmare. Thickening ice cut their escape route to the sea; promising them a slow death. The Canadian government had no choice but to allow hunters to exceed their whale hunting limit.
Growing ice becomes everyone's enemies, man and animal alike. With the ice cutting their food source off, unlucky polar bears face starvation. Human villages offer them hope; garbage cans become instant all-you-can-eat buffets.
This fact is important, as many people are embracing the myth that the ice sheets are disappearing; threatening polar bear populations. Ironically - See Growing Arctic Ice Sheets Threaten Growing Polar Bear Population for the complete article.
Breathe Deeply - But Hold Your Nose
Friday, January 9, 2009, 10:02 PM - Global Warming - Climate Change
I have been hearing from Washington how wonderful the new cap and trade bill is and how it is going to solve the world greenhouse gas pollution problem.
Of course no one has yet established or proven that CO2 gases are pollution, but that's OK. There is a working device that removes CO2 from the atmosphere, but let's understand it really is not about pollution. There is plenty of money to be made trading excess carbon.
If your company is one that emits any carbon containing gas a regulator is going to "inspect" the company and he will permit the amount of gas the company is allowed to emit. Unless he is an expert in the industry how can an accurate estimate be made? I know having had to deal with regulators in my former business. He has a book which is at least several hundred pages written by another Washington expert regulator who has never seen what he is regulating.
The on-site expert sets a cap. It is the maximum amount of carbon gas the company is allowed to emit. He says, "Live with it or we will fine you".
Here is the usual Washington stupidity. - See Breathe Deeply - But Hold Your Nose for the complete article.
Bush Sets Goal of Halting Emissions Growth by 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 03:03 PM - Global Warming - Climate Change
President George W. Bush today set a goal for the U.S. to stop the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions by 2025, as he tries to head off more stringent measures from Congress and in international negotiations.
Emissions cuts and economic growth can be ``sensibly reconciled,'' Bush said in a speech from the White House Rose Garden. The U.S. and the rest of the world must move away from the ``flawed approach'' of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol in dealing with climate change, he said.
``It is now time for the U.S. to look beyond 2012 and take the next step,'' Bush said. The Kyoto accord expires that year and the U.S. and other nations are negotiating an approach for a successor agreement.
While the president's speech marks a shift in dealing with climate change by acknowledging the need to put curbs on heat- trapping gases, he isn't offering specific proposals for how to achieve the goals. Bush said any effort to cut emissions will depend on accelerating technological development.
With nine months left in office, Bush has little time to influence the debate as U.S. lawmakers and governments of other nations are moving on efforts to curtail greenhouse emissions.
After Bush
``President Bush's announcement will be soon forgotten,'' David Sandalow, an energy and global warming expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said in an e-mailed statement. ``The most important decisions in the international global-warming negotiations will be made once President Bush leaves office.''
The president said he won't embrace any plan that would raise taxes, create duplicate mandates, or impose trade barriers. He also opposes measures that would penalize the use of coal or nuclear power, or set standards that could hurt the economy. He said power plant emissions should be slowed so they peak over the next 10 to 15 years and decline thereafter. - See Bush Sets Goal of Halting Emissions Growth by 2025 for the full report.
Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat
Saturday, February 9, 2008, 02:07 PM - Global Warming - Climate Change
Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these “green” fuels are taken into account, two studies being published Thursday have concluded.
The benefits of biofuels have come under increasing attack in recent months, as scientists took a closer look at the global environmental cost of their production. These latest studies, published in the prestigious journal Science, are likely to add to the controversy.
These studies for the first time take a detailed, comprehensive look at the emissions effects of the huge amount of natural land that is being converted to cropland globally to support biofuels development.
The destruction of natural ecosystems — whether rain forest in the tropics or grasslands in South America — not only releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere when they are burned and plowed, but also deprives the planet of natural sponges to absorb carbon emissions. Cropland also absorbs far less carbon than the rain forests or even scrubland that it replaces. - See Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat for the full report.
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