Carbon Tax News

Bloomberg sticks his oar into everything. Now he wants to stop mining coal.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/07/mike-bloomberg-donations-coal/

Unfortunately for this ignoramus, who has more money than good sense, steel cannot be made from ore without coking coal. Period.

How steel is made, and why coal is necessary to continue making steel is in this New Zealand article:

https://www.letstalkaboutcoal.co.nz/future-of-coal/making-steel-without-coal/

China makes 46.4% of the world’s production of steel.

While steel can be recycled using an electric arc furnace, just as we can do with aluminum cans, new steel cannot be produced without coal. Period. And in reality, while there may seem to be a surplus of steel to recycle, it is not a high enough volume to stop mining ore for new steel.

Unless Bloomberg and Romney both are looking for a way to get rid of big cities and all the steel and glass-walled buildings they contain, what both of them are doing is letting all of us know exactly how ignorant they are. And let’s not forget: Bloomberg’s office is in one of those steel-and-glass hi-rise buildings in New York City.

The Empire State Building is constructed with steel girders and steel rivets. Military ships have a lot of steel in their structures, just to protect this country from tin pot dictators. The modern automobile still has a frame of steel, with the exclusion of the DeLorean which has a fiberglass frame. There’s a lot of other history there, and I could use this spot to go on about load-bearing capacity and strength of materials and other such things that engineers have to consider, but this is a short space and the point is that not only would Bloomberg have a fit and sit in it if he had to leave his sky-high throne in NYC, but — well, without steel, civilization is likely to disintegrate. But that might make wankers like Romney and Bloomberg happy,  until they found out that there’s no one around to answer their every call.

In addition, 75 GOPers have signed a letter to Congress to stop the passing of a carbon tax that Romney wants passed.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/10/conservative-groups-carbon-tax-romney/

Okay, well, I want Romney to go cold and hungry in the night until he figures out that he’s wrong, and HE should pay a carbon tax every time he runs his ignorant mouth.  Plants need CO2 simply to exist. They inhale it and exhale O2 through their tops and through pores and roots. The volume of carbon intake by the plant kingdom is astronomical; in fact, without CO2 for plants to use to produce sugar (plant food), the 20% balance we currently have in the atmosphere (which level protects us mere humans from hyperoxia [oxygen poisoning]), the planet will – not would – return to either the Carboniferous or Silurian levels of atmospheric oxygen at 30%, and all of these fools who say and do these abundantly ignorant, stupid things, will cease to exist. All of them.

Oh, yeah – as an aside, a biology lab ran an experiment to find out which insects could grow larger in a 30% O2 atmosphere. Dragonflies increased their own size by a factor of 200%.  https://www.wired.com/2010/11/huge-dragonflies-oxygen/

So which would you rather have in your fish pond: the common blue dasher, which is about 3 inches long? Or the meganeura, with its 28 inch wingspan and large jaws?  This is the logical answer to “let’s start a carbon tax.”

Otherwise, these politicians and ecohippies are doing their best to destroy the entire animal kingdom. But that means they’d go down that rathole, too. That’s called suicide. That hasn’t occurred to them yet.

 

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