By Alan Caruba Thursday, February 20, 2014
While Americans coped with
massive snowfalls in the South, Midwest and Northeast, a dramatic volcanic
eruption occurred on February 13th in Indonesia when Mount Kelud in the
province of East Java erupted so loudly it could be heard 120 miles away. It is
one of 130 volcanos in the world’s fourth most populous nation, located on the
“ring of fire” volcanic belt around the shores of the Pacific Ocean. About
200,000 people were affected and more than 76,000 had to be evacuated according
to Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency.……While environmentalists are forever blathering about
carbon dioxide (C02) emissions from cars, plants that produce electricity, and
all forms of manufacturing, volcanos produce from 145 million to 255 million
short tons of CO2 every year. ……I cite this to drive home
the fundamental scientific fact that, as opposed to all the nonsense about
human control or effect on the Earth’s temperatures, volcanoes by comparison
render the human component infinitesimal.
Moreover, CO2 plays virtually
no role in the Earth’s overall temperature. Shutting down coal-fired electrical
plants and preventing the construction of new ones has no basis in science. The
outcry against CO2 ignores the fact that all life on Earth depends on it to
provide the “food” that all vegetation requires. More Co2, not less, is good
for the Earth.
President Obama, supported by
the Environmental Protection Agency, is seeking to deprive America of the use
of its enormous reserves of coal in coal-fired plants that produce the
electricity on which the economy and all life in America depends. This isn’t
just a “war on coal”, it is a war on America and one free market think tank,
the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
(CFACT) has been joined by six major unions to ensure that the EPA’s
proposed energy proposal, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule does not
become a regulation that they call “nothing less than industrial sabotage by
regulatory means.”
The EPA’s current regulations
have resulted in the shut down over more than 150 coal-fired plants over the
course of Obama’s first term and his second represents a threat to everyone living
in America. We are living through one of the harshest winters in recent years
and the 17-year-old cooling cycle which the entire Earth is experiencing
promises to last decades. Commenting on the proposed carbon pollution standards for
new power plants, Bonner
R.Cohen, PhD, a CFACT Senior Policy Analyst laid out the reasons why MATS
has no basis whatever in science.
“The contribution of coal-fired plants to the U.S., much
less global CO2 emissions, is so miniscule that it cannot be measured with any
degree of accuracy. And the contribution of those entities targeted by the EPA
to the Earth’s climate also cannot be measured. Thus the EPA has absolutely no
way of saying how its proposed regulations will affect the climate.”
By Alan Caruba Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Barack Obama will be
remembered for many things during his two terms in office, but high on the
list, right after lying to everyone about everything, will be his determination
to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on every Green scheme from solar and wind
energy to electric cars, and now on “climate change.” He is
calling for a billion-dollar climate change fund in his forthcoming budget, due
out next month. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the fund “would be
spent on researching the projected effects of climate change and helping
Americans prepare for them, including with new technology and infrastructure, according
to the White House.
All this traces back to the
founding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 by two
United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization and the
United Nations Environmental Program….And what has the IPCC done? It has
championed the utterly false claim that carbon dioxide (CO2) is responsible for
warming the Earth and that all the industries and other human activities that
create CO2 emissions had to reduce them in order to save the Earth. In 2007 the
IPCC and Al Gore would share a Nobel Peace Prize. As an organization and as an
individual these two have proved to be the among the greatest liars on planet
Earth.
By Alan Caruba Wednesday, February 12, 2014
From 1955 until I graduated in 1959, I was a student at
the University of Miami. Those were halcyon years for me, enhanced by Florida’s
famed bounty of sunshine and warmth. Born and raised in New Jersey, it was a
respite from the Garden State’s winters, shoveling snow, and enduring the chill……After
decades of “global warming” lies from Al Gore, environmental organizations, and
government agencies, I knew well that, while the northern hemisphere had begun
to warm around 1850 after a long cold cycle and the amount of warmth was
sufficient to provide comfort, it was too small for anyone to effectively
measure.
One of my favorite quotes is from Dr. Richard Lindzen, a
professor of atmospheric science at MIT: "Future generations will wonder
in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into
hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths
of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain
computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded
to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age."
By Alan Caruba Monday,
February 10, 2014
I recently received an
unsigned email about my Sierra
Club commentary in which I pointed out that it opposes traditional forms of
energy and made a passing reference to Obama’s lie that “climate change”, the
new name for global warming, was now "settled science.”
Global warming was never
based on real science. It was conjured up using dubious computer models and we
were supposed to believe that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
could actually predict what the climate would be twenty, fifty, or a hundred
years from now……A small army of scientists lined their pockets with government
grants to produce data that supported the utterly baseless charge that carbon
dioxide was causing the Earth to warm. They castigated other scientists or
people like myself as “deniers” while we proffered to call ourselves sceptics.
They were joined by most of the media that ignored the real science. And the
curriculums in our schools were likewise corrupted with the hoax.
Then, about 17 years ago the
Earth began to cool. It had nothing to do with carbon dioxide—which the
Environmental Protection Agency deems a “pollutant” despite the fact that all
life on Earth would die without it—and everything to do with the SUN.
By Alan Caruba Monday, February 3, 2014
If I told you that you should hate coal, oil and natural
gas, you might think I was crazy and you would be right. Everything we do
involves these three energy reserves and the U.S. has so much of them that we
could be energy independent of the rest of the world while, at the same time,
exporting them.
When you think about energy reserves, think about the
hundreds of thousands of jobs they represent. Then think about the huge revenue
in leases and taxes they represent to the government that needs to reduce its
debt. Ultimately, though, try to imagine a nation that does not utilize
petroleum in thousands of ways or fails to tap its enormous coal and natural
gas reserves to generate the electricity upon which that everything depends.
I recently received an email from the Sierra Club
praising the President’s State of the Union speech in which he claimed that
climate change—by which they mean global warming—is real and that the science
is “settled.” No, the science entirely refutes it—except if one means that the
climate has always been a state of change. The most recent climate change is
seventeen years of cooling that has gifted us with record-breaking cold as far
south as Florida.
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