Like Capt. Renault in “Casablanca,” I am shocked, shocked to discover that access peddling is going on in the Obama White House. Perks for deep-pocketed donors? Presidential meetings for sale? The stale Chicago odor of pay-for-play wafting from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Knock me over with a feather.
Despite the president’s claimed distaste for the campaign finance practice known as “bundling” (rounding up aggregate contributions from friends, business associates and employees), the House of Obama has been a campaign finance bundlers’ paradise from Day One.
A new report by Matthew Mosk of The Washington Times just confirms the gob-smackingly obvious: It’s business as usual in the era of Hope and Change. O’s wealthiest Democratic donors have received lavish receptions, golf outings, bowling dates and movie nights with Obama.
And internal Democratic National Committee documents acquired by the Times reveal that “high-dollar fundraisers have been promised access to senior White House officials in exchange for pledges to donate $30,400 personally or to bundle $300,000 in contributions ahead of the 2010 midterm elections.” Yup, they’re just haggling over the price.
Many Obama bundlers have secured slots on federal advisory panels and commissions. Still more have benefited from the time-honored patronage tradition of rewarding political benefactors with ambassadorships. Clinton did it. Bush did it. And despite all his fantastical, Balloon Boy-level rhetoric of bringing a “new politics” to Washington, Obama’s done it, too.
His ambassador to London, Louis Susman, is a Chicago crony with no diplomatic experience who bundled between $200,000 and $500,000 for Team Obama and is known as “The Vacuum Cleaner” for his fundraising prowess. His ambassador to France, entertainment mogul Charlie Rivkin, headed up Obama’s California fundraising operations, raking in $500,000 for the campaign and another $300,000 for the inaugural. His ambassador to Spain, Boston moneyman Alan Solomont, also bundled the same amounts for the campaign and inaugural.
In June 2008, candidate Obama railed: “We need a president who will look out for the interests of hardworking families, not just their big campaign donors and corporate allies.” Immediately after the speech, he headed to a campaign fundraiser at the Manhattan headquarters of Credit Suisse, one of the major investment companies caught up in the subprime lending debacle. President Obama collected $3 million last week at another Manhattan fundraiser after carping about Wall Street’s “self-interestedness.” Audacity is his middle name.
When Obama inveighs against Wall Street greed and politicians beholden to Big Business, remember this: The Wall Street gamblers that Obama and his wife carped about on the campaign trail shoveled money to his campaign hand over fist. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, hedge funds and private equity firms donated $2,992,456 to the Obama campaign in the 2008 cycle. No fewer than 100 Obama bundlers are investment CEOs and brokers: Nearly two dozen work for financial giants such as Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs or Citigroup.
Obama happily accepted more than $200,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge-fund manager James Torrey, more than $100,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Tudor Jones and more than $50,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge-fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin, chief executive officer of Citadel Investment Group in Chicago.
Another notable: Chicago investment banker James Reynolds, who raised more than $200,000 for the Obama campaign while chief executive of Loop Capital Markets. The municipal bond specialist was a longtime friend of Obama’s—feting the rising star in his Hyde Park home and convincing friends and associates to open up their wallets more than a decade ago.
In 2003, USA Today reported, Reynolds was caught on FBI wiretaps arranging what prosecutors called a “sham” consulting contract with a gal pal of a Philadelphia mayoral adviser. After the conversations, Reynolds snagged $300,000 in no-bid city contracts for Loop Capital Markets. City officials went to jail over the scam. Reynolds skated. The Obama campaign’s only statement? “Jim Reynolds has admitted that he made mistakes, but he has not been charged with any wrongdoing.”
Fortunately for Obama bundlers who may find themselves in legal trouble in the future, Clinton-era donor-maintenance fixer Eric Holder (who oversaw the pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich) is guarding the henhouse at the Justice Department.
Every corner of the Obama administration is stuffed with crony moneybags. Take the first lady’s social secretary, Desiree Rogers. More than a party planner, she’s a fundraising machine in her own right. According to left-wing watchdog Public Citizen, Rogers bundled more than $200,000 for Obama and contributed $28,500 to Democratic committees. Rogers’ ex-husband, John W. Rogers Jr., chief executive of multibillion-dollar Ariel Capital Management, played basketball with Michelle O’s brother, Craig Robinson, at Princeton. Mr. Rogers also served as a campaign finance bundler for Team Obama—and hung with Obama in the White House on Super Bowl Sunday.
An indignant White House says this is about “friendship,” not influence peddling. But as Obama himself noted in 2007: “It is no coincidence that the best bundlers are often granted the greatest access, and access is power in Washington.”
Indeed, the Obama White House policy can be summed up in four words: No Bundler Left Behind.
Friday, October 30, 2009 By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
Homeland Security Department Secretary Janet Napolitano has said she will concentrate on 'criminal aliens' when enforcing federal immigration law. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
(CNSNews.com) – The Department of Homeland Security is gagging local law enforcement agencies around the country to protect the privacy of illegal aliens. Under "revised" 287(g) agreements between the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division and state and local law enforcement agencies, any information about local police efforts to enforce federal immigration law must be cleared through ICE before it can be released to the media or the public. DHS says it is doing this to protect the privacy of illegal aliens.
“The Privacy Act and the privacy policy provide protections for U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents and, in the case of the privacy policy, illegal aliens,” Kelly Nantel, press secretary for ICE, told CNSNews.com, referring to the Privacy Act of 1974.
Nantel said that although illegal aliens are not protected under the Privacy Act, it is the policy of the Department of Homeland Security to extend the privacy protection to individuals who are in the country illegally, a policy she said was put into place by former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, who served under President Bush.
“Any information regarding individuals encountered through the enforcement of federal law is ultimately protected,” Nantel said. “We need to be sure that prior to the release of information, an appropriate determination is made regarding those protections.”
The DHS's agreements with local law enforcement agencies--known as Memorandums of Agreement (MOA)--guide the 287(g) program, which was created in 2003 as an amendment to the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. The 287(g) program trains and certifies state and local law enforcement personnel to enforce federal immigration law. In July, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the existing agreements with local law enforcement agencies would be “standardized” and reviewed. In a speech in August, Napolitano said the MOAs had been “rewritten and reprioritized to focus on using them in jails and prisons.”
Illegal immigrants handcuffed together are moved into a separate area of Tent City in Phoenix, Ariz., on Feb. 4, 2009 by orders of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. They will be incarcerated there until their sentences are served and they are deported to their home countries (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
The Obama administration says the priority for local law enforcers should be illegal aliens arrested for or convicted of crimes -- not people arrested in task force sweeps simply for being in the U.S. illegally.As CNSNews.com reported earlier, the controvery over task force sweeps erupted earlier this year when ICE stripped the Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff's Department of its authority to conduct such sweeps. The man who heads that department, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, claims to have removed more than 30,000 illegal aliens from the streets in task force operations since he signed on to the 287(g) program in 2007. Complaints of racial profiling have prompted the Obama Justice Department to investigate Arpaio and his department.
The revised MOAs given to all of DHS's local law enforcement “partners” includes the following language governing the “release of information to the media and other third parties.”
“The [state or local agency] hereby agrees to coordinate with ICE prior to releasing any information relating to, or exchanged under, this MOA, including any SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) developed for the implementation of this MOA. Information obtained or developed as a result of this MOA is under the control of ICE and shall be subject to public disclosure only pursuant to the provisions of applicable federal laws, regulations, and executive orders. Insofar as any documents created by the [state or local agency] contain information developed or obtained as a result of this MOA, such documents shall not be considered public records.” Reporters or members of the public who want information arising from a local law enforcement agency's efforts to enforce immigration law will be forced to file a Freedom of Information Act request to gain access to information that is not classified and which the public is entitled to see. “The standardized 287(g) Memorandums of Agreement include provisions designed to protect information whose (sic) release would violate privacy laws or hamper the outcome of a law enforcement investigation,” Nantel said. “However, information defined as not public record can be released through a Freedom of Information Act request as long as the release does not violate other laws and DHS policies.”
DHS and ICE officials said enforcement of federal immigration law will concentrate on “criminal aliens” and not on individuals who are simply in the country illegally. Nantel said the treatment of illegal aliens without a criminal record will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
The MOA spells out that policy as follows:
“ICE will assume custody of an alien 1) who has been convicted of a State, local or Federal offense only after being informed by the alien’s custodian that such alien has concluded service of any sentence of incarceration; 2) who has prior criminal convictions and when immigration detention is required by statute; and 3) when the ICE Detention and Removal Field Office Director or his designee decides on a case-by-case basis to assume custody of an alien who does not meet the above criteria.”
CNSNews.com asked Nantel if the Obama administration, DHS, and ICE support the arrest and deportation of individuals who are in the country illegally, regardless of whether they have committed a crime. Nantel did not give a simple yes-or-no answer to this question, saying instead that the administration will remove illegal aliens according to "DHS priorities."
“ICE is first and foremost focused on identifying and removing dangerous criminal aliens who pose a threat to local communities," Nantel said. "ICE will arrest and process for removal any individuals who are found to be in this country illegally in a manner consistent with immigration law and DHS priorities.”
Friday, October 30, 2009 By Pete Winn, Senior Writer/Editor
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. pumps her fists after she announced a retooled health care overhaul bill, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
(CNSNews.com) – Nearly two-thirds of American women would rather have private health-care insurance than a government-run plan, according to a poll released Thursday by the Independent Women's Forum.
The same proportion, two-thirds, also said Congress should not rush to pass a health-care bill. By a margin of 64 percent to 27 percent, women agreed they “would rather have private health insurance than a government-run health insurance plan,” according to the poll.The random- digit-dial telephone survey, which was conducted by pollster Kellyanne Conway, surveyed 800 women from across the country from Oct. 19-25. "In this poll we treat women like grownups," said Conway, a Republican and president of the polling company. "We don't ask them just about babies and families, although we cover those issues. We ask them about real world economics, real tradeoffs and the real costs associated with our health-care system." The poll found that concern over the economy (39 percent) topped health care as women's main concern.But the poll found that at least two-thirds of women are happy with their own health insurance and health care.
-- 66 percent described the quality of their health insurance as “excellent” or “good.” 74 percent used the same terms to describe the quality of their health care.
-- 75 percent don’t want drastic changes made to theire own health care (40 percent said it should “be modified, but mostly left the same,” 35 percent said it should “be left as is” and 19 percent want it to “undergo dramatic overhaul.”) -- 59 percent don't want drastric changes to health care in America (35 percent said "undergo dramatic overhaul," 48 percent said "be modified, but mostly left the same" and 11 percent said "be left as is.")
“Less than 10 percent of women think that they are getting 'the short end of the stick' in terms of health-care,” Independent Women’s Forum Senior Policy Analyst Nicole Kurowzawa told CNSNews.com.
Moreover, women overwhelmingly said they didn not want their own health insurance to be switched to government-run insurance, Kurozawa said. -- 62 percent disagreed with the statement: “A government-run health care program is best for my family and me.”
-- 57 percent said they would not trade out their coverage for a government-run health care plan, and 56 percent disagreed with the statement: "Women like me would be best-served by a government-run health-care plan."
-- Approximately two-thirds (66 percent) of women said they think about health-care reform more for others who need it than for themselves; 10 percent said they consider it mostly in terms of their own needs.
“When women say they want expanded federal health-care, they mean that they want it to exclude themselves,” Kurowkawa. “They want it to reach out to the poor, to reach out to the elderly. ”
Women also see no need for speed in passing legislation, the poll found. In fact, when asked, the overwhelming majority (67 percent) of women agreed with the following statement: “I would prefer that United States Senators and Members of Congress not support poorly-crafted or rushed healthcare legislation. It is more important to get it done right than to get it done fast.”
“Less than 30 percent of the women surveyed said that ‘something is better than nothing,’” Kurowzawa said, adding that the finding doesn’t come as a surprise.
“The idea that we should slow down and read the bills makes total sense, but it’s good to see that most women across the country also think it makes good sense, as well,” she said.
The poll was released on the same day that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled a revamped version of the health-care reform bill in the House of Representatives.
“We have listened to the American people; we are putting forth a bill that reflects our best values and addresses our greatest challenges,” Pelosi said in a Thursday ceremony conducted on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
Interestingly, however, according to the IWF poll, 71 percent of women business owners (and 67 percent of women overall) said they would be “less likely” to vote for a candidate for Congress “knowing he or she favored moving people from their private healthcare plans to government-run health-care plans.”
Only 19 percent of respondents said they would be more likely to support such a candidate.
Moreover, 68 percent of women who described themselves as independents disagreed with the statement: “Overhauling the nation’s healthcare system is so important that it should be enacted even if it significantly increases the federal budget deficit” (compared to 33 percent of Democrats and 76 percent of Republicans).
The scientifically designed survey sampled women in every age group, and from every part of the country. Forty-three (43) percent described themselves as conservative, 22 percent as liberal, 40 percent were Democrats, 32 percent Republicans, 22 percent were Independents. Overall, 53 percent described themselves as “pro-life,” 40 percent as “pro-choice.” Fifty-eight percent said they voted for Obama, 40 percent for McCain. The poll's margin of error is plus-or-minus 3.5 percent.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) – In Ansonia, Conn., $2.3 million in federal stimulus funds is being used for insect research, specifically the “rearing [of] large numbers of anthropoids” which includes the “Asian long-horned beetle, the nun moth and the wooly adelgid,” the New Haven Advocate reported.
Duluth, Minn., rarely known for its high temperatures, received $6 million in economic stimulus funds for a snowmaking facility, even though it is the 15th snowiest city in America, according to City-Data.com.
As much as $30 million in federal funds will go to spring training facilities for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies, two Major League Baseball teams. The full cost of the training complex in Scottsdale, Ariz., is $100 million.
These were just three projects – ranked numbers five, six and 10 respectively – being funded by the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed into law by President Barack Obama in February. The goal of this economic stimulus bill was to revive the ailing economy.
But Senate Republicans Friday released a ranking of “10 Stimulus Projects to Remember.” It cites real projects funded by the stimulus while questioning (and poking fun) at their alleged effectiveness. The projects in the rankings are described with quotations from local newspapers.
In March, both President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Bidenpledged that the stimulus funding would be closely watched to ensure it is properly spent.
“And so I’ve said before – I know Joe emphasized this point to you earlier – if we see money being misspent, we’re going to put a stop to it, and we will call it out and we will publicize it,” Obama said.
The number one spot in the ranking was awarded to a $300,000 federal grant for the mapping of radioactive rabbit droppings in Washington State.
According to The New York Times, “A government contractor at Hanford, in south-central Washington State, just spent a week mapping radioactive rabbit feces with detectors mounted on a helicopter flying 50 feet over the desert scrub. … The helicopter flights, which covered 13.7 square miles and were paid for with $300,000 in federal stimulus money, took place in an area that had never been used by the bomb makers.”
The number two spot on the list goes for tax credits of between $4,200 and $5,000 for the purchase of golf carts.
In New York, 500,000 college freshmen at Syracuse University will divulge the details of their sex lives. This will cost taxpayers $219,000, and is specifically targeted at studying the sex habits of college females.
Another $1 million in federal funds will contribute to the $7-million renovation of the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, according to the report. Also, a three-year grant of $498,000 will go to Duke University to study social networking Web sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Animals also benefit from the stimulus money as $3.4 million has been allocated for “eco-passages” to help turtles cross the highway in Florida and $380,000 to spay and neuter pets in Wichita, Kan.
NEWS: CLIMATE DEBT INSANITY - WARNING! CAP and TRADE TAX to pay for "CLIMATE DEBT" will COST United States BILLIONS unless we stop it!!!
Short summary of "Climate Debt" or "Adaptation Debt" Poor countries least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions are the most vulnerable to global warming’s earliest effects. (ie when the earth's oceans rise etc..) And since wealthy countries generate (or have generated) alot of carbon dioxide and are the evil cause of most global warming - (now called climate change) - therefore these rich countries (read USA) will have to pay back these poor countries in cash. Actually, they want to take BILLIONS our of the US economy and funneled into the greedy hands the UN and the IPPC. Of course, this theory doesn't account for the fact that WATER VAPOR is the #1 greenhouse gas - NOT carbon dioxide and that climate change is a natural process that mankind has little or no control over - oh well - who cares about facts - they just need enough ignorant or gullible Americans to feel guilty enough so we will shell out hundreds of BILLIONS to these clowns. This is not a joke. It's you're money and freedom they're coming after. Where's our media on this story?? Wake up America! Do you want to see the American economy crippled by a "climate tax"?
"When the Heritage Foundation did its analysis of Waxman-Markey, it broadly compared the economy with and without the carbon tax. Under this more comprehensive scenario, it found Waxman-Markey would cost the economy $161 billion in 2020, which is $1,870 for a family of four. As the bill's restrictions kick in, that number rises to $6,800 for a family of four by 2035."
"To get support for his bill, Mr. Waxman was forced to water down the cap in early years to please rural Democrats, and then severely ratchet it up in later years to please liberal Democrats." So the first few years look like a small cost but the real "pain" only kicks in later - this is so they can "talk" about the relatively small initial tax per family - knowing full well that real pain is coming down the road! It looks like a bunch of fools and crooks we have in office and we're all to blame if we don't stop them! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124588837560750781.html
Call your polititicans and tell them to keep their hands off your money and to vote down this insane Cap and Trade bill - now called Waxman-Markey bill.
It's the Sun Stupid... The earth's oceans, waters, land, forests, and atmosphere are all important factors affecting our planet's climate - a climate which sustains and nourishes a rare world teeming with life. Our planet is home to an estimated 5 million to 100 million species today - not to mention millions of other species that have already become extinct. However, it is the SUN - not mankind - which wields the greatest influence over what heat our planet recieves and imparts to it's climate. Great global warming is a website attempting to present information and articles on the global warming controversy with a focus on facts from the majority of climate experts and scientists that are often ignored by the dominant media outlets today. We think most people will be surprised to learn that there are facts and science about global warming and climate change that are rarely heard about and need to be considered.
FACT: The #1 source of global warming is the SUN. Without the SUN the earth would be a frozen rock in space. The Sun is 1 million times the size of the earth and containing 99.8% of all the mass in our solar system. The heat and energy produced by the Sun is tremendous. 100,000,000,000 tons of dynamite would have to be detonated every second to match the energy produced by the sun. Combine the Sun's massive size with a core temperature of about 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit and you get something which has more than enough power to melt glaciers, warm oceans, heat the entire earth and our atmosphere AND it's been doing this for billions of years before mankind came on the scene. The Sun is also a wild and natural object with it's own cycles and flucturations which have always impacted the earth's climate. Thanks in large part to the Sun we have a wonderfully warm planet suitable for life - and not a frozen rock in space. Global warming is actually a great thing. FACT: The #1 greenhouse gas iswater vapor - NOT Carbon Dioxide. Over 95 percent of the Greenhouse Effect is the result of atmospheric water vapor in Earth's atmosphere. The #1 source of greenhouse gas comes from the oceans. FACT: Global Warming, Global Cooling and Global Climate Change have been happening for millions of years - long before any possible human influence -Climate Change is natural and nothing new. FACT: The Antarctica's ICE sheet is growing - not shrinking. FACT:Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a naturally occuring green house gas which is helps plants grow - it is good for forests and crops. C02 is absolutely necessary and beneficial for life. CO2 is NOT a pollutant. Trees breathe in carbon dioxide in order to grow...humans exhale Carbon Dioxide. Furthermore, there is no proof that CO2 is a measurable driver of global warming. . Unfortunately, the US and Canadian Government has included CO2 with a number of truly toxic and noxious substances listed by the Environmental Protection Act, only as their means to politically control it. Without CO2, vegetation dies, herbivores die, we all die. FACT:Planets in our solar system are continually undergoing significant climate changes - all without humans and their SUVs. The retreating of ice caps on Mars much like the Earth's Artic ice was news several years ago. Scientists from NASA say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period. More recently scientists have observed that Jupiter is undergoing a massive climate change as evidenced by increased turbulence of gigantic storms on Jupiter. Hint...climate change is natural. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65165 FACT: There is NO scientific consensus that human caused CO2 is the cause of global warming. The only real concensus is that politicians are attempting to tax US citizens billions of dollars so they can "save the world" while huge research dollars are directed to pro-climate change scientists that support their cause. FACT: The OCEAN naturally regulates and controls the amount of CO2. The ocean holds 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere. In fact, the Earth's carbon cycle is dominated by the ocean, which absorbs 50% of the CO2 released into the atmosphere by human activity. Carbon settling to the ocean bottom can eventually be stored for millions of years. FACT:Polar bear populations are 500% larger than they were 50 years ago. FACT:Human produced CO2 contributes just a tiny fraction of the natural emissions of Carbon dioxide. FACT:Methane gas is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide and could be a much more powerful "trigger" on climate change. A UN report concludes that animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of total greenhouse gas emissions, more than all transportation in the world combined. Some scientists have speculated that it was Methane gas which triggered climate changes which caused the dinosaurs to become extinct. Prediction - a meat tax is coming your way. FACT: Studies of Ice Core Samples show Carbon Dioxide TRAILING atmospheric temperatures - ie higher CO2 levels are likely the result (not the cause) of higher temperatures. FACT:Global temperatures have been falling - not rising - since 1998 - perhaps that's why the politicians are switching from "global warming" to "Climate Change"? FACT:atmospheric carbon dioxide has no significant influence on average global temperature. Examination of the temperature data of the last and prior glaciations from NOAA as determined from Vostok ice cores reveals that temperature trends reversed direction irrespective of carbon dioxide levels. FACT: atmospheric amounts of CO2 have risen and fallen far more dramatically in earlier centuries than they have in the last 100 years demonstrating (again) that it is a natural process. Medieval Earth where the temperatures were warmer than today and they did not correlate to CO2 levels. FACT:It is far better to live on a warm planet than a cool planet - (remember the ICE AGE - when hundreds of species died in the freezing cold.) Once upon a time the United States had Camels, Mammoths and Saber-toothed cats. There were also a wonderful variety of dinosaurs that are now long gone. FACT: The forces which drive the global climate and even local weather are complex and often unpredictable. Weather and Climate models (which are the basis of all this "climate change" controversy) are wildly inept and inaccurate. These computer models assume that CO2 is the primary climate driver, when in fact CO2 does not drive climate, and they do not take into account the Sun, which has the most significant effect on climate. Weather forecasts for just a small region of the globe (ie your state) are often wrong. Predicting the weather more than 15 days out is close to impossible. Since Climate Models (computer models of global climate projections) are a major basis of the current global warming scare it is ludicrous to presume that these same Climate Models can predict what the climate will be in 10, 20 or 50 years into the future. According the NOAA Climate Prediction center's own website: "All of the forecasts, however, have large uncertainties. In some cases uncertainties are gigantic, while in other cases they are only moderately large." Doesn't it make sense that if you can't predict the weather for Denver, Colorado 10 days from now - you certainly can't predict the global climate 50 or 100 years from now? FACT:Climate Change is about the MONEY and POWER. It's about taking your money in the form of various taxes and giving it to others. Chinese scientists have generously suggesting the United States give 1 percent of it's annual GDP (about $1.4 trillion) to other countries and scientific organizations to "save the world."
Costs of Climate Change and the Cap and Trade Bill S.2191
The "smart grid" an upgrade to the US electrical grid - (estimated cost $400 Billion - great if you're getting the money but not if you're paying the bill!)
Cap and Trade legislation will drastically raised the cost of energy to everyone in the US. Job losses in the US would be massive because 85% of all jobs are affected by energy and it's costs.
Cumulative gross domestic product (GDP) losses are at least $1.7 trillion and could reach $4.8 trillion by 2030 (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars).
Single-year GDP losses hit at least $155 billion and realistically could exceed $500 billion (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars).
Annual job losses exceed 500,000 before 2030 and could approach 1,000,000.
The annual cost of emission permits to energy users will be at least $100 billion by 2020 and could exceed $300 billion by 2030 (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars).
The average household will pay $467 more each year for its natural gas and electricity (in infla tion-adjusted 2006 dollars). That means that the average household will spend an additional $8,870 to purchase household energy over the period 2012 through 2030.
An that's just the tip of the iceberg. At the end of "saving the world" over climate change - we may very well ruin the United States economy and be too poor to pay for the roof over our heads.
SUN FACTS Without the heat from the sun - the earth would be a frozen rock in space. The sun is 750 times bigger than all of the planets in our solar system put together. The sun is so big that about 1,000,000 Earths could fit in the Sun. The sun's surface temperture is about 10,000 degrees farinheight. As every child understands, it is the heat from the sun that warms the earth. The sun is responsible for over 99% of all the global warming we have. The sun also has cycles - when it get hot - the earth gets hotter. The earth has warmed and cooled in cycles for millions of years.
Carbon dioxide is produced both naturally and by humans. (Humans create just a small fraction of the CO2 in the earth's atmosphere. There are much larger forces at work on this greenhouse gas!) > View a Chart on the Ocean and the Earth's Carbon Cycle from Dr. Robert Stewart Yes, the earth is marvelously made so that greenhouse gases trap the heat and create a planet that supports an abundance of life - unlike any other we have seen in the universe. So make no mistake...greenhouse gases are wonderful - as is global warming. Global warming is great! For it is far better to have a warmer planet than a frozen rock to live on.
CLIMATE CHANGE is a WELL KNOW FACT
Warren Buffett's Charlie Munger says CAP AND TRADE is "Monstrously Stupid"
Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK) Charlie Munger says in an interview with CNBC that it'd be "Monsterously Stupid... almost demented" to do cap and trade, because it'd be a "huge shock to the economy," and it "wouldn't do much," since China emits the vast majority of CO2.
Given the fact that over 95% of Carbon Dioxide is produced by nature - not man - the expected decreases in CO2 forced by CAP IN TRADE (tax penalties) on US small businesses and corporations would likely be undectectable on a global basis. The only certain effect would be a decrease of income for businesses - harming our economy and our standard of living.
Keep in mind that C02 is absolutely essential and beneficial for plants - food crops, forests, etc.) and plants are absolutely necessary for our survival.
Indeed, increased C02 is more likely a benefit plants and all life on the world.
1) In 1975 the scientific concensus was so concerned about falling global temperatures that Newsweek magazine warning of impending global cooling. More recently global temperatures have fallen over the last several years with many record temperatures recently recorded worldwide. Is it wise to spend billions of dollars on something that we may have no control over and will cause economic hardship on an already struggling US economy?
2) Over the last 20,000 years massive ice glaciers have come and gone, sea levels have risen and fallen hundreds of feet, global climate has fluctuated dramatically - all without any influence of humans. Climate change is in fact an unstoppable natural fact that has always been powered by the sun, oceans and other large natural forces. Isn't the attempt to control climate change by imposing taxes upon US businesses sheer folly?
3) Is the ultimate goal of the proposed legislation truly to turn back global warming? If so, what good would it do for the United States to adopt such a system if China and India — both major polluters — aren’t along for the ride?
4) Climate models which predict global warming are the scientific basis which supporters of Cap and Trade rely on to prove their case. It's a fact that basic weather forecasting for just one city is rarely accurate beyond 3 days, Hurricane forecasting has been remarkably inaccurate over the last several years. Why should we be confident that much more complex Modeling for earth’s climate beyond 6 months is dependable?
What happened to global warming? By Paul Hudson Climate correspondent, BBC News
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
...But one solar scientist Piers Corbyn from Weatheraction, a company specialising in long range weather forecasting, disagrees. He claims that solar charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted, so much so he says that they are almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures.
Colorado Ski Resorts open early - Loveland Ski Area is announcing its earliest opening day in 40 years. Loveland's opening-day run will have an 18-inch base of snow. While this is great for Colorado skiiers it begs the question...what happened to global warming? According to climate models and predictions of global warming these early snows and cold temperatures in Colorado defy what we've all been told...it should be getting warmer not colder! In 2007 Colorado Governor Bill Ritter and his team of envirnmental experts predicted "Warmer and shorter winters, thinner snowpack and earlier runoff...Less precipitation, with more falling as rain rather than snow " which would lead to the ruin and devistation of ski resorts like Aspen and Vail. Once again the global warming politicians and their alarmists were proven wrong. But facts don't matter to politicians - money and power does. This global warming nonsense is really all about money (taking yours in the form of taxes) and power.
Compact Florescent Light Bulbs - Dangerous and not as Cost Savings as Touted
CFL are the new light bulb the US government has mandated we switch to starting 2012. However, breaking a CFL can cause serious health risks. They contain mercury. This is especially hazardous for small children and pregnant women. If you drop and break a Compact Florescent Light Bulb (CFL) in your house you and your family will be subjected to a dangerous neurotoxin - mercury - which vaporizes immediately into the air. Mercury is extremely poisonous and dangerous. Another product that will be regulated into your life thanks to Big Government and the big business (Phillips - a German owned company) that created, build and lobbied hard for the elimination of the traditional incandecent bulb - all in the name of "global warming." CFL's create a serious nationwide disposal problem and are a source of health hazard. Some states are now requiring consumers to dispose of compact fluorescents as household hazardous waste. Other states are now prohibiting their disposal in regular trash.
FOLLOW THE MONEY - U.S. Funds Nearly $4 Billion in Climate-Change Research
Global warming is a good business to be in for government funding. More than 99.5 percent of American climate change funding comes from the government, which spends $4 billion per year on climate change research.
Researchers use this money to promote doom and gloom reports on what man is doing to his world.
The bigger and more catastrophic climate change cataclysm becomes, the more it is justifiable to take more money and exert more control – a cycle that feeds itself.
Top Austrailian scientist Ian Plimer debunks global warming. Plimer is currently Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide. He was previously a Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is also a prominent member of the Australian Skeptics. He was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2004. - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21542331-1702,00.html
Yes, there has been global warming over the last century - of about 1 degree. * But that is nothing to worry about. Look back over the centuries of temperature data and you'll find much more drastic temperature swings than we have today. Remember, the earth and the sun were here long before mankind - and so were plants and dinasours and thousands of other life forms. The planet and atmosphere that supported life for millions of years has undergone great fluctuations in temperatures. Scientists can look back for centuries thanks to studies of ice core samples and geology. And what do the scientsits see? They see cycles of global warming and global cooling - indeed, much greater than we have now - all naturally occuring. The popluar idea that humans are now the primary cause of global warming or global climate change is purely foolishness. Humans can't change the earth's temperature anymore than we can stop the sun from shining. Yet somehow we're supposed to trust climate models that predict doom and gloom (from global warming) for the next 50 or 100 years when these models can't reliably predict the weather out past a week or 10 days! The only thing these masterminds of global weather models can predict is that their paychecks have been growing ever since Al Gore started to scare the public with their boldly unreliable predictions. And when worldwide fear combines with money - big money - we stumble upon what is the real motivation for the global warming champions - greed. Global warming is the great land of opportunity for scientists worldwide. Climate change has become a worldwide movement - almost a religion. Billions of dollars being pumped into research with thousands of jobs depending upon proving that humans are the cause of global warming.
But while human energy consumption is often blamed for global warming - in fact, human produced CO2 amounts to less .003% (less than 1/3 of 1 percent) of CARBON DIOXIDE in our atmosphere - an insignificant amount. Yet, somehow were are told that human's are the cause of global warming and if we simply change our energy consumption (switch to CFL lightbulbs, drive smaller cars, build more solar panels, etc) the entire planet would be saved from global warming. However, one "burb" from the sun (in the form a sunspot - or cooling cycle) would dwarf anything the entire human race could do.
*It should be noted that the last 11-year sub spot cycle just ended in 2007, and we have been at a Solar Minimum, meaning that there has been very little sun spot activity and at times, none at all. Simultaneously, the earth's temperature has declined in the past 2 years at the same time that sunspot activity has declined to a level not seen since the early 1900's.
WATER VAPOR is the #1 GREENHOUSE GAS What is the #1 greenhouse gas?Water vapor.NOT Carbon Dioxide. CO2 is absolutely beneficial for life and good for the environment. Humans and animals breathe out CO2 - plants absorb and depend on CO2 to flourish and grow.
Water vapor and CO2 are both beneficial and essential for life on earth. Water vapor is most influential greenhouse gas on the planet. The fact is that water covers about 3/4 of the globe and as water evaporates it becomes part of the atmosphere. There is about 30 times as much water vapor in the air as carbon dioxide (CO2). The ocean is the biggest source of CO2 by far!
Water vapor in the atmosphere helps trap the suns heat which is reflected off the earth and helps keep the earth warm enough for life. Without water vapor we wouldn't have clouds or rain - and most plants and animals could not survive with out these things. About 80-90% of the Earth's natural greenhouse effect is due to water vapor. Water vapor also absorbs heat much more effectively than carbon dioxide. Water vapor absorbs three times as much radiation as CO2 - so it's a more powerful greenhouse gas too!
An amazing fact that we never hear about is that oceans regulate CO2. If humans output more CO2 the oceans will absorb it in a natural process which is continuous. The oceans (not people) are primarily what control the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. In fact, as the oceans heat up they release CO2. The reason why there has been an increase in carbon dioxide in the air over the past 150 years is because the oceans have been heating up, not because humans are producing more. And remember that the mass of water is much more powerful as a temperature conveyor than air.
NEWS: CLIMATE DEBT INSANITY - WARNING! CAP and TRADE TAX to pay for "CLIMATE DEBT" will COST United States BILLIONS unless we stop it!!!
Short summary of "Climate Debt" or "Adaptation Debt" Poor countries least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions are the most vulnerable to global warming’s earliest effects. (ie when the earth's oceans rise etc..) And since wealthy countries generate (or have generated) alot of carbon dioxide and are the evil cause of most global warming - (now called climate change) - therefore these rich countries (read USA) will have to pay back these poor countries in cash. Actually, they want to take BILLIONS our of the US economy and funneled into the greedy hands the UN and the IPPC. Of course, this theory doesn't account for the fact that WATER VAPOR is the #1 greenhouse gas - NOT carbon dioxide and that climate change is a natural process that mankind has little or no control over - oh well - who cares about facts - they just need enough ignorant or gullible Americans to feel guilty enough so we will shell out hundreds of BILLIONS to these clowns. This is not a joke. It's you're money and freedom they're coming after. Where's our media on this story?? Wake up America! Do you want to see the American economy crippled by a "climate tax"?
"When the Heritage Foundation did its analysis of Waxman-Markey, it broadly compared the economy with and without the carbon tax. Under this more comprehensive scenario, it found Waxman-Markey would cost the economy $161 billion in 2020, which is $1,870 for a family of four. As the bill's restrictions kick in, that number rises to $6,800 for a family of four by 2035."
"To get support for his bill, Mr. Waxman was forced to water down the cap in early years to please rural Democrats, and then severely ratchet it up in later years to please liberal Democrats." So the first few years look like a small cost but the real "pain" only kicks in later - this is so they can "talk" about the relatively small initial tax per family - knowing full well that real pain is coming down the road! It looks like a bunch of fools and crooks we have in office and we're all to blame if we don't stop them! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124588837560750781.html
Call your polititicans and tell them to keep their hands off your money and to vote down this insane Cap and Trade bill - now called Waxman-Markey bill.
It's the Sun Stupid... The earth's oceans, waters, land, forests, and atmosphere are all important factors affecting our planet's climate - a climate which sustains and nourishes a rare world teeming with life. Our planet is home to an estimated 5 million to 100 million species today - not to mention millions of other species that have already become extinct. However, it is the SUN - not mankind - which wields the greatest influence over what heat our planet recieves and imparts to it's climate. Great global warming is a website attempting to present information and articles on the global warming controversy with a focus on facts from the majority of climate experts and scientists that are often ignored by the dominant media outlets today. We think most people will be surprised to learn that there are facts and science about global warming and climate change that are rarely heard about and need to be considered.
FACT: The #1 source of global warming is the SUN. Without the SUN the earth would be a frozen rock in space. The Sun is 1 million times the size of the earth and containing 99.8% of all the mass in our solar system. The heat and energy produced by the Sun is tremendous. 100,000,000,000 tons of dynamite would have to be detonated every second to match the energy produced by the sun. Combine the Sun's massive size with a core temperature of about 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit and you get something which has more than enough power to melt glaciers, warm oceans, heat the entire earth and our atmosphere AND it's been doing this for billions of years before mankind came on the scene. The Sun is also a wild and natural object with it's own cycles and flucturations which have always impacted the earth's climate. Thanks in large part to the Sun we have a wonderfully warm planet suitable for life - and not a frozen rock in space. Global warming is actually a great thing. FACT: The #1 greenhouse gas iswater vapor - NOT Carbon Dioxide. Over 95 percent of the Greenhouse Effect is the result of atmospheric water vapor in Earth's atmosphere. The #1 source of greenhouse gas comes from the oceans. FACT: Global Warming, Global Cooling and Global Climate Change have been happening for millions of years - long before any possible human influence -Climate Change is natural and nothing new. FACT: The Antarctica's ICE sheet is growing - not shrinking. FACT:Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a naturally occuring green house gas which is helps plants grow - it is good for forests and crops. C02 is absolutely necessary and beneficial for life. CO2 is NOT a pollutant. Trees breathe in carbon dioxide in order to grow...humans exhale Carbon Dioxide. Furthermore, there is no proof that CO2 is a measurable driver of global warming. . Unfortunately, the US and Canadian Government has included CO2 with a number of truly toxic and noxious substances listed by the Environmental Protection Act, only as their means to politically control it. Without CO2, vegetation dies, herbivores die, we all die. FACT:Planets in our solar system are continually undergoing significant climate changes - all without humans and their SUVs. The retreating of ice caps on Mars much like the Earth's Artic ice was news several years ago. Scientists from NASA say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period. More recently scientists have observed that Jupiter is undergoing a massive climate change as evidenced by increased turbulence of gigantic storms on Jupiter. Hint...climate change is natural. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65165 FACT: There is NO scientific consensus that human caused CO2 is the cause of global warming. The only real concensus is that politicians are attempting to tax US citizens billions of dollars so they can "save the world" while huge research dollars are directed to pro-climate change scientists that support their cause. FACT: The OCEAN naturally regulates and controls the amount of CO2. The ocean holds 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere. In fact, the Earth's carbon cycle is dominated by the ocean, which absorbs 50% of the CO2 released into the atmosphere by human activity. Carbon settling to the ocean bottom can eventually be stored for millions of years. FACT:Polar bear populations are 500% larger than they were 50 years ago. FACT:Human produced CO2 contributes just a tiny fraction of the natural emissions of Carbon dioxide. FACT:Methane gas is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide and could be a much more powerful "trigger" on climate change. A UN report concludes that animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of total greenhouse gas emissions, more than all transportation in the world combined. Some scientists have speculated that it was Methane gas which triggered climate changes which caused the dinosaurs to become extinct. Prediction - a meat tax is coming your way. FACT: Studies of Ice Core Samples show Carbon Dioxide TRAILING atmospheric temperatures - ie higher CO2 levels are likely the result (not the cause) of higher temperatures. FACT:Global temperatures have been falling - not rising - since 1998 - perhaps that's why the politicians are switching from "global warming" to "Climate Change"? FACT:atmospheric carbon dioxide has no significant influence on average global temperature. Examination of the temperature data of the last and prior glaciations from NOAA as determined from Vostok ice cores reveals that temperature trends reversed direction irrespective of carbon dioxide levels. FACT: atmospheric amounts of CO2 have risen and fallen far more dramatically in earlier centuries than they have in the last 100 years demonstrating (again) that it is a natural process. Medieval Earth where the temperatures were warmer than today and they did not correlate to CO2 levels. FACT:It is far better to live on a warm planet than a cool planet - (remember the ICE AGE - when hundreds of species died in the freezing cold.) Once upon a time the United States had Camels, Mammoths and Saber-toothed cats. There were also a wonderful variety of dinosaurs that are now long gone. FACT: The forces which drive the global climate and even local weather are complex and often unpredictable. Weather and Climate models (which are the basis of all this "climate change" controversy) are wildly inept and inaccurate. These computer models assume that CO2 is the primary climate driver, when in fact CO2 does not drive climate, and they do not take into account the Sun, which has the most significant effect on climate. Weather forecasts for just a small region of the globe (ie your state) are often wrong. Predicting the weather more than 15 days out is close to impossible. Since Climate Models (computer models of global climate projections) are a major basis of the current global warming scare it is ludicrous to presume that these same Climate Models can predict what the climate will be in 10, 20 or 50 years into the future. According the NOAA Climate Prediction center's own website: "All of the forecasts, however, have large uncertainties. In some cases uncertainties are gigantic, while in other cases they are only moderately large." Doesn't it make sense that if you can't predict the weather for Denver, Colorado 10 days from now - you certainly can't predict the global climate 50 or 100 years from now? FACT:Climate Change is about the MONEY and POWER. It's about taking your money in the form of various taxes and giving it to others. Chinese scientists have generously suggesting the United States give 1 percent of it's annual GDP (about $1.4 trillion) to other countries and scientific organizations to "save the world."
Costs of Climate Change and the Cap and Trade Bill S.2191
The "smart grid" an upgrade to the US electrical grid - (estimated cost $400 Billion - great if you're getting the money but not if you're paying the bill!)
Cap and Trade legislation will drastically raised the cost of energy to everyone in the US. Job losses in the US would be massive because 85% of all jobs are affected by energy and it's costs.
Cumulative gross domestic product (GDP) losses are at least $1.7 trillion and could reach $4.8 trillion by 2030 (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars).
Single-year GDP losses hit at least $155 billion and realistically could exceed $500 billion (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars).
Annual job losses exceed 500,000 before 2030 and could approach 1,000,000.
The annual cost of emission permits to energy users will be at least $100 billion by 2020 and could exceed $300 billion by 2030 (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars).
The average household will pay $467 more each year for its natural gas and electricity (in infla tion-adjusted 2006 dollars). That means that the average household will spend an additional $8,870 to purchase household energy over the period 2012 through 2030.
An that's just the tip of the iceberg. At the end of "saving the world" over climate change - we may very well ruin the United States economy and be too poor to pay for the roof over our heads.
SUN FACTS Without the heat from the sun - the earth would be a frozen rock in space. The sun is 750 times bigger than all of the planets in our solar system put together. The sun is so big that about 1,000,000 Earths could fit in the Sun. The sun's surface temperture is about 10,000 degrees farinheight. As every child understands, it is the heat from the sun that warms the earth. The sun is responsible for over 99% of all the global warming we have. The sun also has cycles - when it get hot - the earth gets hotter. The earth has warmed and cooled in cycles for millions of years.
Carbon dioxide is produced both naturally and by humans. (Humans create just a small fraction of the CO2 in the earth's atmosphere. There are much larger forces at work on this greenhouse gas!) > View a Chart on the Ocean and the Earth's Carbon Cycle from Dr. Robert Stewart Yes, the earth is marvelously made so that greenhouse gases trap the heat and create a planet that supports an abundance of life - unlike any other we have seen in the universe. So make no mistake...greenhouse gases are wonderful - as is global warming. Global warming is great! For it is far better to have a warmer planet than a frozen rock to live on.
CLIMATE CHANGE is a WELL KNOW FACT
Warren Buffett's Charlie Munger says CAP AND TRADE is "Monstrously Stupid"
Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK) Charlie Munger says in an interview with CNBC that it'd be "Monsterously Stupid... almost demented" to do cap and trade, because it'd be a "huge shock to the economy," and it "wouldn't do much," since China emits the vast majority of CO2.
Given the fact that over 95% of Carbon Dioxide is produced by nature - not man - the expected decreases in CO2 forced by CAP IN TRADE (tax penalties) on US small businesses and corporations would likely be undectectable on a global basis. The only certain effect would be a decrease of income for businesses - harming our economy and our standard of living.
Keep in mind that C02 is absolutely essential and beneficial for plants - food crops, forests, etc.) and plants are absolutely necessary for our survival.
Indeed, increased C02 is more likely a benefit plants and all life on the world.
1) In 1975 the scientific concensus was so concerned about falling global temperatures that Newsweek magazine warning of impending global cooling. More recently global temperatures have fallen over the last several years with many record temperatures recently recorded worldwide. Is it wise to spend billions of dollars on something that we may have no control over and will cause economic hardship on an already struggling US economy?
2) Over the last 20,000 years massive ice glaciers have come and gone, sea levels have risen and fallen hundreds of feet, global climate has fluctuated dramatically - all without any influence of humans. Climate change is in fact an unstoppable natural fact that has always been powered by the sun, oceans and other large natural forces. Isn't the attempt to control climate change by imposing taxes upon US businesses sheer folly?
3) Is the ultimate goal of the proposed legislation truly to turn back global warming? If so, what good would it do for the United States to adopt such a system if China and India — both major polluters — aren’t along for the ride?
4) Climate models which predict global warming are the scientific basis which supporters of Cap and Trade rely on to prove their case. It's a fact that basic weather forecasting for just one city is rarely accurate beyond 3 days, Hurricane forecasting has been remarkably inaccurate over the last several years. Why should we be confident that much more complex Modeling for earth’s climate beyond 6 months is dependable?
What happened to global warming? By Paul Hudson Climate correspondent, BBC News
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
...But one solar scientist Piers Corbyn from Weatheraction, a company specialising in long range weather forecasting, disagrees. He claims that solar charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted, so much so he says that they are almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures.
Colorado Ski Resorts open early - Loveland Ski Area is announcing its earliest opening day in 40 years. Loveland's opening-day run will have an 18-inch base of snow. While this is great for Colorado skiiers it begs the question...what happened to global warming? According to climate models and predictions of global warming these early snows and cold temperatures in Colorado defy what we've all been told...it should be getting warmer not colder! In 2007 Colorado Governor Bill Ritter and his team of envirnmental experts predicted "Warmer and shorter winters, thinner snowpack and earlier runoff...Less precipitation, with more falling as rain rather than snow " which would lead to the ruin and devistation of ski resorts like Aspen and Vail. Once again the global warming politicians and their alarmists were proven wrong. But facts don't matter to politicians - money and power does. This global warming nonsense is really all about money (taking yours in the form of taxes) and power.
Compact Florescent Light Bulbs - Dangerous and not as Cost Savings as Touted
CFL are the new light bulb the US government has mandated we switch to starting 2012. However, breaking a CFL can cause serious health risks. They contain mercury. This is especially hazardous for small children and pregnant women. If you drop and break a Compact Florescent Light Bulb (CFL) in your house you and your family will be subjected to a dangerous neurotoxin - mercury - which vaporizes immediately into the air. Mercury is extremely poisonous and dangerous. Another product that will be regulated into your life thanks to Big Government and the big business (Phillips - a German owned company) that created, build and lobbied hard for the elimination of the traditional incandecent bulb - all in the name of "global warming." CFL's create a serious nationwide disposal problem and are a source of health hazard. Some states are now requiring consumers to dispose of compact fluorescents as household hazardous waste. Other states are now prohibiting their disposal in regular trash.
FOLLOW THE MONEY - U.S. Funds Nearly $4 Billion in Climate-Change Research
Global warming is a good business to be in for government funding. More than 99.5 percent of American climate change funding comes from the government, which spends $4 billion per year on climate change research.
Researchers use this money to promote doom and gloom reports on what man is doing to his world.
The bigger and more catastrophic climate change cataclysm becomes, the more it is justifiable to take more money and exert more control – a cycle that feeds itself.
Top Austrailian scientist Ian Plimer debunks global warming. Plimer is currently Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide. He was previously a Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is also a prominent member of the Australian Skeptics. He was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2004. - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21542331-1702,00.html
Yes, there has been global warming over the last century - of about 1 degree. * But that is nothing to worry about. Look back over the centuries of temperature data and you'll find much more drastic temperature swings than we have today. Remember, the earth and the sun were here long before mankind - and so were plants and dinasours and thousands of other life forms. The planet and atmosphere that supported life for millions of years has undergone great fluctuations in temperatures. Scientists can look back for centuries thanks to studies of ice core samples and geology. And what do the scientsits see? They see cycles of global warming and global cooling - indeed, much greater than we have now - all naturally occuring. The popluar idea that humans are now the primary cause of global warming or global climate change is purely foolishness. Humans can't change the earth's temperature anymore than we can stop the sun from shining. Yet somehow we're supposed to trust climate models that predict doom and gloom (from global warming) for the next 50 or 100 years when these models can't reliably predict the weather out past a week or 10 days! The only thing these masterminds of global weather models can predict is that their paychecks have been growing ever since Al Gore started to scare the public with their boldly unreliable predictions. And when worldwide fear combines with money - big money - we stumble upon what is the real motivation for the global warming champions - greed. Global warming is the great land of opportunity for scientists worldwide. Climate change has become a worldwide movement - almost a religion. Billions of dollars being pumped into research with thousands of jobs depending upon proving that humans are the cause of global warming.
But while human energy consumption is often blamed for global warming - in fact, human produced CO2 amounts to less .003% (less than 1/3 of 1 percent) of CARBON DIOXIDE in our atmosphere - an insignificant amount. Yet, somehow were are told that human's are the cause of global warming and if we simply change our energy consumption (switch to CFL lightbulbs, drive smaller cars, build more solar panels, etc) the entire planet would be saved from global warming. However, one "burb" from the sun (in the form a sunspot - or cooling cycle) would dwarf anything the entire human race could do.
*It should be noted that the last 11-year sub spot cycle just ended in 2007, and we have been at a Solar Minimum, meaning that there has been very little sun spot activity and at times, none at all. Simultaneously, the earth's temperature has declined in the past 2 years at the same time that sunspot activity has declined to a level not seen since the early 1900's.
WATER VAPOR is the #1 GREENHOUSE GAS What is the #1 greenhouse gas?Water vapor.NOT Carbon Dioxide. CO2 is absolutely beneficial for life and good for the environment. Humans and animals breathe out CO2 - plants absorb and depend on CO2 to flourish and grow.
Water vapor and CO2 are both beneficial and essential for life on earth. Water vapor is most influential greenhouse gas on the planet. The fact is that water covers about 3/4 of the globe and as water evaporates it becomes part of the atmosphere. There is about 30 times as much water vapor in the air as carbon dioxide (CO2). The ocean is the biggest source of CO2 by far!
Water vapor in the atmosphere helps trap the suns heat which is reflected off the earth and helps keep the earth warm enough for life. Without water vapor we wouldn't have clouds or rain - and most plants and animals could not survive with out these things. About 80-90% of the Earth's natural greenhouse effect is due to water vapor. Water vapor also absorbs heat much more effectively than carbon dioxide. Water vapor absorbs three times as much radiation as CO2 - so it's a more powerful greenhouse gas too!
An amazing fact that we never hear about is that oceans regulate CO2. If humans output more CO2 the oceans will absorb it in a natural process which is continuous. The oceans (not people) are primarily what control the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. In fact, as the oceans heat up they release CO2. The reason why there has been an increase in carbon dioxide in the air over the past 150 years is because the oceans have been heating up, not because humans are producing more. And remember that the mass of water is much more powerful as a temperature conveyor than air.
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