Climate Summit Blizzard.

They are experiencing heavy snow and ice in Copenhagen, just in time for the hand-wringing Climate Cult’s arrival.

I love it when nature says “Neener Neener Neener.”

I don’t know about you, but my skepticism of the global warming “science” has really been bolstered by the fact they were cooking the numbers.

They keep talking about the “fact” that there is consensus, and the “need” for consensus. Isn’t consensus, BY DEFINITION, the opposite of science?

Whatever.

If you want to understand global warming, follow the money trail.

My logic was that just 30 years ago, scientists were SURE that the Earth was about to freeze into a solid chunk of ice, and they were actively attempting to MELT the polar ice caps.

Global Warming Scientists Cooking the Books

As it turns out, some prominent scientists who advocate global warming have been busted basically cooking all the numbers, trying to stifle any opposing thought, and just all around politicizing global warming. Like I’m surprised.

CRU, University of Pennsylvania, and several other prominent global warming “scientific” research centers are implicated in the scandal.

Now, in much of the mainstream media, you won’t find much on this topic. You’ll have to type in “Climategate” into Google and you’ll discover that most of the articles have been published in the UK. Hmmm. Very interesting.

ANYHOW, the long and the short is, the “scientists” were fudging the numbers, actively trying to prevent anti-global warming scientists from being published in scientific journals, CHEERING the death of one of the prominent anti-global warming scientists, and talking about “just how in the heck are we going to keep people from finding out that global warming stopped several years ago.”

Not making this up.

If you still think global warming is bringing on the destruction of planet Earth, you should consider looking up gullible in the dictionary. I hear that Webster decided to remove it.

If we’re causing global warming, it’s going to happen. If it’s an inevitable climate cycle, it’s going to happen. If it’s being caused by Al Gore’s jet, it’s going to happen. We (the human race) do not have the will nor the desire to make it stop (assuming we’re causing it). Even if America goes back to riding horses and using candles for light, CO2 is going to continue to rise because other less concerned countries will build more (and dirtier) coal plants than we ever could have dreamed. China, India, Russia – these people don’t care about global warming. They are on the cusp of industrial revolution. America got to have theirs, so who are we to judge them for theirs?

This article is not intended to advocate any particular school of thought on what is causing global warming. The fact is, the temperature change is observable science. The polar ice caps appear to be melting. These are things we can see.

Now, back in the 1970s, scientists were warning of an impending ice age because the ice caps were growing too fast. They were proposing all sorts of measures to try and melt them back down to size. You may not remember that, but it’s true. In just 30 years (during which we drastically reduced carbon emissions) scientists have gone from worrying about an ice age to worrying about global flooding from melting ice caps. Clearly the fundamental underlying science is weak.

Now I’ll get to my actual point.

Forty years ago we put a man on the moon using nothing but tin foil and slide rules. We have nuclear powered submarines that can go underwater for 6 months without resurfacing for any reason, and that can precision nuke 150 cities at once. We have satellites orbiting the Earth that can beam a signal to a watch-sized GPS on your wrist that can tell you exactly where you are.

You can’t tell me that we can’t overcome the consequences of global warming with technology and innovation.

The ice caps melt. So what. We know how to build levies, locks, and pumping stations. Just look at New Orleans.

We know how to build air conditioning and heating units.

We know how to build suits that allow a person to stand in a burning building without getting singed. We know how to build suits that allow a man to walk around in space. There is not outside environment that we couldn’t adapt to work in. If it’s suddenly 150 degrees 24/7, we’ll need good air conditioning, but then, we can also use all that heat to create thermal energy.

If it’s suddenly -50 degrees 24/7, we’ll need good heaters. But we already have people that live at the poles where it’s routinely that cold.

If the coasts are suddenly completely swamped, I guess I’ll have some nice beachfront property in Kansas.

Global warming may result in a need for new technology, mass migration, or other difficult things, but I do not believe that we will allow it to kill us.

On the other hand, for the past 5 years, the global temperature trend has been going down… not up.

Stop wringing your hands. It will be alright.

Read this article. I’ll wait. Power Industry is Screwed, USA Today

Obama wants to price coal power plants out of existence. He talked about it throughout his campaign, conveniently calling it “cap and trade” rather than “first screw industry and as a result screw regular folks.” Cap and trade basically makes it so expensive to operate a coal power plant that businesses would be fools to actually build one.

If you’re an environmentalist nutjob, you’re probably cheering right now, except if you’re not a hypocritical environmentalist, you wouldn’t be using that evil box that runs on electricity, would you? So I assume that you either agree with me or you’re a hypocrite. Ahh, I love it when it’s so simple to lump people into categories.

Anyhow, the disturbing thing is that this has already played out on a smaller scale in California. California decided to regulate the bejeezus out of the power companies. They made it nearly impossible to get the necessary clearance to even BUILD a power plant, and then they implemented price controls. Geez. Who know THAT would be a bad idea?

To make a long story short, the power companies, being intelligent market-driven capitalists, went to other states and built plants there instead. They figured that maybe the best use of investor’s money would be to invest in projects that might actually break even or make a profit. Go figure.

And what happened in California? They are significantly short on power. They have rotating brownouts on a very regular basis, and it’s just become part of the expected way of life there.

Obama’s plan is to make the entire country into brownout central. We have all these projects now canceled, but demand expected to increase drastically.

I’m sure you’re thinking “Yeah Pete, but Obama’s going to put in green power and then this will be moot.” Ummm. Ok, I’ve written about that before, so you can go back and read. But basically it’s this: Environmentalists don’t want us to have nuclear, coal, hydro, or in some cases, even wind. All of those things are “bad for the environment.” That leaves solar. The only problem with solar is we don’t know how to harness enough power to come close to satisfying our current needs, and of course the fact that the sun doesn’t shine 24/7. Duh.

Batteries are also bad for the environment, so we can’t store the power. So basically, we’re screwed.

Thanks Obama, for tanking yet another industry that’s going to affect all of us. The savior comes through again.

Because if you’re a good Democrat, you must recycle. It’s written in the bylaws. Al Gore says you must. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

There’s just one problem. It’s pointless.

Recycling your plastic bottles, while it may make you feel better about yourself, will do nothing for the environment. Here’s why. The chemicals that go into plastic already existed before they were plastic. Nothing is created or destroyed, it just changes forms.

So we combine chemicals into a form that the sun can’t break down. So what?!

Eventually, maybe we’ll run out of the stuff that goes into plastic. Well, then I guess we’ll improvise, eh? That will mean it’s time to find something else to carry our water in.

But Pete, the landfills – there’s just no more room for them!

PUH-LEEZ!

Have you morons been to the Midwest? The Southwest?

There are about 3,500 landfills in the U.S. But just imagine if we turned North Dakota into a landfill. We could go on happily for the next 5,000 years using it as a landfill. And the second plus is that we won’t have to displace anyone.

If you think putting your 10 bottles a week into a separate container is going to make a difference… by all means, go for it. I for one have more faith in the ecosystem and our ingenuity than that.

Just what DO you propose that we do?

Nuclear energy emits nothing into the atmosphere but water vapor. But you say it’s both dangerous and that there’s no solution to storing nuclear waste. Granted, most nuclear plants say they can store all of the nuclear waste they’ve ever produced in one 55 gallon drum. But apparently that’s still too much.

Coal plants burn an abundant natural resource that is found right here in the United States, but yes, when you burn stuff, it creates smoke. Apparently smoke is bad? We’ll ignore the fact that nature in fact emits more carbon than everything man made – in fact, nature emits 96% of all carbon each year… not people.

Wind energy is fantastic, except that the wind doesn’t blow all the time, and you couldn’t put up enough turbines to run even a small city. It’s just not practical. Oh yeah, and they kill birds and mess up the view from the Kennedy mansion.

Solar energy is often cited by environmentalists as the way to go, however there are a few small problems. First, the sun doesn’t shine all the time. We don’t currently have a method of storing solar energy that is efficient enough to work, and if we DID manage to make a battery that could do it, it would probably be a much bigger environmental disaster than coal smoke. Batteries are basically toxic waste when you’re done with them (I’m talking to you, Prius owners), and we know you people don’t want that. And let’s not forget that both solar panels and batteries require power to be made in the first place… where do we get that energy?

We could dam up every river in the country, but it wouldn’t be enough power. And you environmentalists would say that dams are bad for the environment, too, because they flood areas that are natural habitats for… I don’t know… a dung beetle.

Just what do you suggest that we do? Should we all move out of cities and live on subsistence farms, burning candles for light (or does that emit too much carbon, too?)? Livestock emits methane, another greenhouse gas, so I guess we all need to be vegetarians, too?

The fact of the matter is, there’s no silver bullet. 99% of people who call themselves environmentalists drive a car, live in a house that… well, uses electricity, purchases manufactured products, shops at the grocery store, and wears clothes that were machine made.

I submit that if you do all of those things but pass judgment on companies that produce energy, you should first remove the beam in your own eye. You are not willing to lower your lifestyle (except maybe using those retarded fluorescent bulbs that are half as bright as a normal one), but you somehow expect us as a country to stop producing energy.

So just what do you propose? Because frankly, I think you’re all full of crap.

I’m not sorry that I have a truck, and I even understand the economic realities driving up the price; the weak dollar (thanks to the fact we keep lowering the fed funds rate and creating inflation), increased demand (thanks to stupid China and India finally joining the rest of us in the 21st century), and of course, our domestic supply being in a choke hold (thanks to our chuckleheaded government).

You see, the fact is, although it may be selfish and may tick off the rest of the world, we really could have $1.25 gas if our government stopped being chuckleheaded. It’s all very simple, we just have to accept a few incidental casualties.

Let me explain. The first thing we have to do is hike up the interest rates. I mean, really hike’em up, like we had to do after Jimmy Carter ran is into a massive recession. This will slow down inflation which will make the dollar stronger against the Euro, which has been killing us. The bad news with raising rates, we’ll end up putting a lot of people out of work. However, that’s what they get for being either low skilled or being the least valuable person where they work. We want our cheap gas, dangit.

The next thing we have to do is stop worrying about messing up Ted Kennedy’s view (putting windmills out in the ocean) and killing off a bunch of stupid elk. It means we have to drill ANWR, drill in our costal waters, build new nuclear power plants, stop penalizing expansion of oil refineries so we can actually PROCESS the oil we dig up, and stop fricking taxing the bejeezus out of consumers at the gas pump.

In order to pay for permanently suspending the federal and state gas taxes, we will have to come home from Iraq. We can’t afford a moronic war at the same time we try to repair our Interstates without a gas tax.

So, you ask, what’s preventing all of this from happening? First and foremost, it’s the retarded Democrat party, who have embraced the eco-jihadists as if they have some moral imperative to “save the Earth,” as if the Earth has ANY hope of surviving if we leave things up to the Democrats. We’re talking about the same people who came up with our welfare system.

The drilling practices we’ve developed in the U.S. are so advanced, so clean, when they leave a drill site, you can barely tell they were there. Refineries aren’t allowed to emit smoke unless it’s been scrubbed to the point it’s just whispy white smoke. Drilling ANWR and our coastal waters, as well as mining more coal in our own backyard – we’d have enough energy to last us centuries.

The Democrats don’t want us building nuclear power plants, because they’re “too dangerous.” Never mind that the wussbag French are almost 90% nuclear and haven’t ever had an incident. The Democrats don’t want us drilling for domestic oil, which forces us to buy from the OPEC cartel and dozens of despotic nations that hate our guts. The Democrats don’t want us mining our own coal or building coal power plants, because… well… burning coal is bad (even though our new clean burning plants are not damaging to the environment). The Democrats plan is to sue OPEC. Yeah, you heard me right. They’re going to attempt to sue an international cartel. How do they plan to do that? Do you think “OPEC” is going to show up for the trial? Won’t that make OPEC mad at us and make them hike up our prices even higher?

At the same time, the Democrats are also trying to suck up to their poor constituents, telling them that if they’re elected, they’re going to lower gas prices. How, pray tell, are they going to do that, since it’s their own idiotic policies that are responsible for the gas prices? The eco-jihadists need to be shipped off to an island where they can live in palm leaf wigwams and eat plants. The rest of us like air conditioning, having food, and being able to communicate with the rest of the world.

As long as we let ourselves be held hostage by the eco-jihadists and their best buds, the Democrats, we are doomed. I hope you like living in a tent and growing your own food.

But he didn’t, and that’s just tough noogies for them.

We hear so much about global warming these days. It’s fricking retarded, and that’s not being fair to retarded people.

Here. Read this:

“According to the free-market environment organization PERC (Political Economy Research Center) in Bozeman, Mont., a majority of climate scientists have never endorsed the notion that human activity is causing global warming or that warming is a crisis that requires immediate urgent action, such as that demanded by the Kyoto Protocol.” (( Newsmax ))

How about this:

“In May of 1996, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change {IPCC}, presented a draft of its report in December 1995, and it was approved by the delegations. However, when the printed report appeared in May 1996, substantial changes and deletions had been made to the body of the report to make it conform to the Policymakers Summery. Among them, two key paragraphs written by the scientists, and agreed to, were deleted.

They said:

1. None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed climate changes to increases in greenhouse gases.

2. No study to date had positively attributed all or part of the climate change to …man-made causes.” (( Hypography ))

And of course there’s this:

“The alarmists incessantly chant the mantra, “an overwhelming consensus of scientists” agree human activity is causing significant global warming. But just who are these scientists? They never tell us.

This is probably because thousands of scientists worldwide–an overwhelming consensus, it could easily be argued–reject alarmist global warming theory. More than 17,000 of them, including dozens of Nobel laureates, have signed a petition saying no convincing scientific evidence supports the theory of catastrophic global warming. You can read the petition for yourself at http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p357.htm.” (( Heartland.org ))

And I could go on for days and probably weeks quoting eleventy jillion credible scientists that reject the notion that human activity is in any way causing global warming. The fact is, there are literally tens of thousands of credible scientists who believe that global warming is a result of climate fluctuations that have been going on for millenia.

So, why is this “carbon footprint” crap all we ever hear about? Why are the Al Gore’s, the Hollywood elite, and university professors all hopping on this idiotic bandwagon?

And of course, the answer is very simple. It’s politics. Republicans believe in a free market, holding free enterprise above many other things, like environment. Democrats want to crush the Republicans, and they’ve realized that they get creamed every time they use social issues as their platform, they get creamed when they use economics as their platform… so they’ve picked something that “sounds” like a good cause, and then they started a media blitz, signing up Hollywood bafoons to get the public into a frenzy.

Ironically, the lefties that hate big business and fossil fuels also hate nuclear power plants. It seems they’d rather live in shacks with no lights or plumbing. Oh wait… ironically, the lefties that believe this are mostly East Coast rich snobs living in big houses driving big SUVs flying around the country shooting tons of carbon into the atmosphere.

Still, I’m not going to judge them for being hypocrites. After all, even with all of their conspicuous consumption, the human race still only accounts for 4% of the carbon emissions each year… if you include breathing!

Global warming isn’t a scientific issue, it’s not a social issue, it’s pure politics. If you’re gullible (which most lefties are), you probably think that the ice caps are gonna melt and ruin your summer barbeque in about 5 years.

If you believe it, I suggest you stop driving, stop living in an air conditioned house with lighting, stop using manufactured products (including natural foods packaged in plastic), and stop using your computer, which is both manufactured AND requires electricity. In fact, if you’re reading my post, and you’re concerned about global warming… maybe you’d better shut down… your carbon footprint is getting bigger by the second!

Assuming that the United States is responsible for 25% of that, then if the United States stopped manufacturing everything, and all stopped breathing tomorrow, the Earth would have about 1% less carbon dioxide emitted each year.

Did you know that only about 10% of the polar ice caps are melting, and the other 90% are actually getting bigger? You don’t hear that on the news, and you certainly don’t hear that from Al Gore, the biggest propagandist since Hitler.

I’m quite sure I’ve said on here before that if we mess up the Earth, the Earth will kill us… I have a lot more faith in our ecosystem than to think we could actually kill it. But the fact of the matter is, all this retarded talk about being “carbon neutral” and saving the Earth are must moronic. Today on talk radio, a stat was introduced that the Kyoto Accord, supposedly a huge international initiative to save the environment… well, it barely makes a dent in our 4%.

We in the United States who have trouble believing that a smokestack on a power plant is going to destroy the Earth are looked upon with disdain by the “enlightened” Europeans. However, the scientific community is sharply divided on whether global warming is even actually happening. A bunch of scientists say it is, and a bunch of scientists say it’s just a weather cycle (notably, the head of meteorology at MIT), and the Earth has been having cycles for thousands of years.

I’m not saying we should pollute and be retards without any thought of future generations. I’m a an advocate for promoting alternative fuels… but 99% of my desire to have a hydrogen car is the desire to be Middle East Neutral… not to be carbon neutral.

Al Gore says we should all be carbon neutral. So if we drive a pickup truck, we should plant trees and change our lightbulbs to make up the difference. Al Gore has a 20 bedroom mansion with an indoor heated pool. Al Gore flies to every event in a private jet. Al Gore, when asked how he could talk about being carbon neutral said, “Well, I changed all my light bulbs.”

To think we can destroy or save the environment with our relatively puny influence is one of the most arrogant things I can even fathom. Al Gore preaching about being carbon neutral when he’s consuming 100 times the fossil energy of the average American, that’s just plain hypocrisy.

Perhaps people will take note of his hypocrisy and he’ll end up ruining the efforts of ecojihadists everywhere. How inconvenient.

Pete