Global Warming Hype, Part 2

I've come to believe (very strongly) that what might ultimately destroy the world is not supposed global warming, but the consequences of policies created in order to fight supposed global warming. If you get the impression that I don't believe in global warming, you are correct. It basically doesn't exist, at least not in the Al Gore sense of global warming. Fortunately more and more scientists are stepping up to make this argument. And they are using science as their weapon, rather than fear and emotion. What we are in store for if the global warming zealots (yes, it is a religion) get their way is unbelievably heavy regulation and taxation on energy that will certainly stifle our economy, if not destroy it. People like Al Gore will get rich at our expense. Huge amounts of money will go toward alternative fuels that are unproven and/or inadequate to provide for our energy needs. Can we become more energy efficient? Sure. Should we? Sure. I mean, why not? I'm all for conserving resources, living simple, and being good stewards. I like for things to be clean. But where the zealots are wanting to take this country (and the world) is getting a bit scary. Their data is largely wrong. Their interpretation of the data is largely wrong. And yet their interpretations are preached about and blindly accepted in schools, in the media, and in Washington. Can you handle a counter argument? Here is a piece about William Harper, Physics professor at Princeton. Below is one of his statements to the U.S. Senate on February 25, 2009:

"The climate is warming and CO2 is increasing. Doesn't this prove that CO2 is causing global warming through the greenhouse effect? No, the current warming period began about 1800 at the end of the little ice age, long before there was an appreciable increase of CO2. There have been similar and even larger warmings several times in the 10,000 years since the end of the last ice age. These earlier warmings clearly had nothing to do with the combustion of fossil fuels. The current warming also seems to be due mostly to natural causes, not to increasing levels of carbon dioxide. Over the past ten years there has been no global warming, and in fact a slight cooling. This is not at all what was predicted by the IPCC models."

I Don't Get It

Let me see if I have this straight: for the past several months, politicians have been railing against corporations and banks for spending millions of dollars that these institutions don't seem to have, but these same politicians don't seem to be bothered when they themselves are spending billions of dollars that our country does not have. These clowns are steering our country over a cliff. President Obama clearly sees the federal government as the only entity with the ability and the integrity to spend our money, decide what and where children should learn, and dictate how and where we get our health care. He is, in a not so subtle manner, leading us down a path where we depend exclusively on the government for our needs. I am not trying to be an alarmist here. How else can you seriously access what has been going on over the past month? And it is not just Obama, although he shares the most blame. It's all of them . . Democrats, even the Republicans have little ground to hide. George Bush should have set the precedent for the opposition: no bailouts . . period. Let the market work itself out. Provide incentives through tax breaks and less regulation (or at least sensible regulation). Conservatives have an opportunity to stand in stark contrast to all of this nonsense, as long as they don't cave in. The question is whether it will be too little too late.

I Love Irony

Today, members of Congress are outraged at how Wells Fargo, a recipient of TARP bailout money, was planning on spending money on an employee appreciation trip to Las Vegas. Barney Frank spoke out on the inappropriate spending by Wells Fargo. This of course is just days after the House Of Representatives, including Barney Frank, voted in favor of the largest spending bill in history ($800 billion). Americans are outraged at how easily Congress is willing to spend money, all in the name of stimulus, yet very little of this bill has anything to do with stimulating the economy. Members of both parties, mostly Democrats in this case, were throwing into this bill all kinds of fluff that could not be passed in previous attempts. Their arguments that these millions here and there were minor in the scope of the billions involved in the overall bill has fallen on deft ears in the public. The public understands, hopefully, what is going on here . . and they don't appreciate what these guys are trying to do. I love the irony of seeing these guys complaining about what a bank is doing, and here they are doing the exact same thing. The problem is that they don't get it. Kind of scary.