Slow News Day – So A Mini-Rant
Let me state what should be obvious as background:
Given: Anthropogenic (i.e., human-induced) climate change can happen locally, but it is likely a trivial factor globally.
Given: Many, if not most, AGW proponents are hypocritical Luddites who have never lived off-grid. I’ll posit we should be seeing more Amish-like communities who eschew technology if they were sincere.
Given: Many, if not most, AGW proponents are closet Malthusians who kinda/sorta wish ‘the great unwashed” would die off.
Here’s what prompted this post: Scientists say cut soot, methane to curb warming
Some selected quotes:
In fact, they say we have to stop focusing on carbon dioxide and instead, try to reduce methane and soot emissions.
Although carbon dioxide is the lead contributor to global warming, soot and methane pollution are the second and third on the list.
Their pollution is also more “potent”. Methane gas traps 23 times more heat than carbon dioxide.
This means that even though carbon dioxide is the biggest problem we face, soot and methane can do more damage to global temperatures in the next 20 years.
Does this mean we can “drill baby drill” in this country? I sure hope so. I live on 75 acres of Marcellus Shale AND own the mineral rights.
Soot, also known as black carbon, is created by burning things like wood, and is a major pollutant in developing countries where the majority of population uses fire instead of electricity in their homes.
Methane, on the other hand, is released from landfill sites, coal mines … and cow farts.
OTOH, on my ridge here in WV well over half of the houses are heated with wood.
And, of course, those in developing countries can shift to solar or wind?
Last note in this rant. I’ve lived off-grid. Coupla solar panels (engender pollution during manufacturing), some batteries (engender pollution coming and going). Used propane for several things (it magically appears?).
Category: Geezer Alert!
I’m a conservationist. I love the Wild, and believe it should be preserved, but I also believe those resources should be USED!!!
Been reading your site for a while now. Big fan. Just have this to say:
I’m a professional ski patroller in Oregon, so let’s just say that weather and weather patterns are very important to me.
All through the last summer we had every climate scientist in the Pacific Northwest telling us that this winter would be cold and wet and start early. I’m pretty sure there was a scientific “consensus”. In our line of work, that was considered very good news.
Then this winter actually arrived. Not cold and wet, or early, but warm and dry (record-setting warm and dry) and late. In other words, the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the “consensus” said would happen.
Also, they only had to forecast out about six months, with reliable data that was current and accurate.
So now i make a point of telling everyone i meet on the ski lifts, who complain about the dismal season thus far (and the fact that most of the ski areas in the West are either closed or barely open), the following:
“So, the next time someone comes to you and says that they can predict out 10, 20 or more years. That they KNOW what the climate is doing and going to do. Remember how badly they botched a six-month forecast. Then punch them in the nose.”
Ya mean maybe they DON’T know any more about it than any of the rest of us? Shocking. SHOCKING!
Would really like to ask these folks who keep telling us we MUST clean up our act for the good of civilization exactly what it is that they want us to do. Perhaps if we all congregate more or less around the equater where we need no clothing or heat, eat only raw foods, kill all the livestock so that they emit no carbon dioxide, and forage like a bunch of cave persons they would be happy?
Also wonder where they think their ipads and Nikes come from. To say nothing of their bicycles and electric cars.
Oh. Maybe the unicorns just leave them on the doorsteps of their caves.
#3 …and the first time one of those happy-go-lucky, back-to-nature, cave-dwelling types gets snake-bit or comes down with a case of appendicitis, they’d be screaming for all the technology they could get.
Could we live with a little less technology? Probably. Could we live without it?
Only the naturally selected few. And survival of the fittest HURTS, folks. Go ask any gazelle that just became a leapord’s dinner, if you don’t believe me.
Put it this way…if they believed their own bullshit they would have gone off the grid long ago.
The whole AGW thing is a hoax. There is so much more information coming out now about faulty data, skewed data, and outright lies by the hoaxers that anyone that still buys into it is either brain dead, or another one of the “blame everything on man” crowd. The premier “experts” have been caught with their weiners hanging out several times, but they just keep on putting out more and more “climate crisis” bs. Why? Money. If they didn’t scare us into believing all this bullshit, then they wouldn’t be getting millions/billions in research grant money. They are perpetuating this in order to continue getting a paycheck; it’s that simple.
2 very good sites to look at are:
http://www.wattsupwiththat.com
http://www.climatedepot.com
Wait, I thought conservatives were for the unwashed masses going away, not liberals! So confused.
That’s an excellent response, Mark. Love it, gonna have to use it myself, lmao! Another item that might be of interest to everyone is the RGGI or “Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative”, a partnership of the thirteen northeastern states and several provinces of Canada. These asshats are eyebrow deep in buying & selling CO2 and helping to drive utility rates sky-high like a certain politician wants. Numerous utility companies have signed onto it too, so if you wonder why your utility bills are going up, you now know.