“We can’t keep on being mired in the same old stale arguments between the left and the right.” This is all too true – we have to have cheap clean safe energy in plenty if we are to cope with the problems of our future.
Category: Energy
Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming Were Known About in the Late 50’s
we’ve known about the effects of CO2 and the Greenhouse effect since the 1950’s. The debate has never really been over whether CO2 can effect the world’s temperature, it’s always been about figuring out how much and how soon.
Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming Were Known About in the Late 50’s
In his latest Climate Denial Crock of the Week Peter Sinclair points out that we’ve known about the effects of CO2 and the Greenhouse effect since the 1950’s. The debate has never really been over whether CO2 can effect the world’s temperature, it’s always been about figuring out how much and how soon. I’ve known about this since the 80’s, and it was one of the factors that convinced me to become an advocate for nuclear energy – I was reading debates by some of my favorite authors about the various dooms posed by the Club of Rome and others, and nuclear energy seemed to address most if not all of those best. It was clean, and it could be cheap – with nuclear we could beat four of the horsemen: hunger, water shortages, global warming, and population.
During the past three years I’ve considered that the others were more important, and still do to this day. I published quite a few articles posing challenges to some of the more alarmist of the global warming claims thinking we had plenty of time to get there and that other matters were more important. That focus has changed, since the data keeps stacking up and getting more alarming, it’s time we start addressing global warming because waiting until the second half of the century will be too late. Something I had thought we could procrastinate on has come due.
I still do not think cap and trade and the other schemes are sufficient, and I don’t like them because they are coercive. Those type of plans usually fail. Instead I prefer that our country become the prime provider of clean, cheap, nuclear energy for a needy world — besides that clean energy is a bull market and blue sky – we need to stay ahead of that market for the future prosperity of our nation. Instead of billions in money flowing to other countries in a mad shell game we should instead just help build reactors. You can see some of the other factors that we need to consider and why nuclear is so important if we are to keep it real in this article where I roundly slam Al Gore.
UPDATE: Here’s one of the early modern articles from 1956 on CO2 and its effects, it wasn’t the slightest bit controversial when it appeared.
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Lawhawk on the Dollars and Sense of Emission Reductions
Lawhawk on the Dollars and Sense of Emission Reductions
Lawhawk has a good article up on what it takes to really reduce to emissions targets that our President will talk about in Copenhagen; I recommend you stop by and read it.
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President Obama and I agree
President Obama and I agree
I usually have quibbles, reservations, or complete disagreement with much of what our President says, but here I am in 100 percent agreement. Like it our not we are a high energy society. If we want our planet clean then we must have abundant clean energy to keep it that way. Approximately 25 percent of our domestic electricity production is used to clean sewage and treat water, something few people are aware of. Increased Nuclear energy here creates better prospects for our future prosperity, but also better chance for prosperity in the rest of the world. The current world food security crisis is driven in large respect by energy constraints, and we need to remove those constraints to fight hunger and to enable poor nations to improve their lifestyles; which will lead to clean futures everywhere.
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Cash for Clunkers = Euro Technocrat Fail
Cash for Clunkers = Euro Technocrat Fail
As you can see if you visit the scrappage article at Wikipedia the program in the US is not hope and change, but rather just another failed program borrowed from the Technocrats in Europe.
Congresswoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) is fond of pointing at the German program, but if she had looked close at all, she would have seen that the German program also ran out of cash almost as soon as it was implemented. Strange that they wouldn’t have noticed that large fail in Germany that was rectified by the government spending more money to buy people cars don’t you think? This is how Democrats get monstrous programs: they advertise a nickle as the cost when the true costs are a quarter.
I pretty much expect the same to happen here: we will see an emergency declared and Congress will vote some more of your money back to the public but in a manner they choose rather than a manner you personally choose.
Why did they halt the program? The buzz says they ran out of cash or that they couldn’t process the load quick enough, but you could also speculate on other causes. Perhaps more people are buying more Toyotas and Nissans than GMs and Chryslers. Perhaps the loans are looking pretty marginal because people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to cobble together a down payment are able to now. Who knows?
UPDATE: Lawhawk reports that the house has approved more as predicted.
I favor the program continuing however. We might as well since the Euros are doing it and if we don’t we lose what really amounts to a trade war started by the Euro’s large subsidization of their auto industries the past two years.
You also need to look at Euro Technocrat’s past interference in the auto market in pursuit of ecology for what might be next from our Technocrats and Czars.
Here’s a lecture from an expert who’s pretty convinced that the shortage of light sweet crude we’ve seen the past two years is a combination of Euro environmental regulations & incentive programs driving Euros to diesel coupled with Saudi market interference.
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Virgin CEO Branson Fully Favors Nuclear Energy
Virgin CEO Branson Fully Favors Nuclear Energy
Richard is somewhat halting in public speaking but what he says here is very pertinent and right on the money.
This is exactly in synch with what oil economy specialists say, especially in light of the new restrictions on shipping diesel fuel. The sooner we can free up more light sweet crude from power production for transport, the better.
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But would you pay for it?
But would you pay for it?
This CNN segment cuts to the essentials of the health care and cap and trade bill debates:
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Cap and Tax Under Hot Debate
Cap and Tax Under Hot Debate
Update: The bill passed 219-212
The Waxman-Markey Cap and Tax bill is under hot debate on the house floor right now, the bill will introduce a huge hidden energy tax to middle class americans, and do pretty much nothing to stop emissions. It’s turned into a huge patronage deal with massive pollution credits going to Dems in coal states to gain their votes. Here’s Representative Dave Camp, MI speaking on the effects of the bill:
The quickest way to stall the world economy that I know of is to introduce more draconian regs like this. The diesel regulations in Europe directly contributed to the recession we are trying to come out of now.
With the coming regulation of shipping diesel fuels, the future is looking pretty grim.
More from Representative Ryan:
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The Big Swindle – Global Warming Denial Film Debunked
This video created by an ally of my nemesis, Al Gore, pretty much destroys the main tenets and blunders of the movie “The Global Warming Swindle”. While I’m still not an alarmist, and I still think Al’s selling a carbon ponzi scheme that will cause great stress in third world countries, I do like truth. So here it is, real data and finished charts from authoritative sources.
The Big Swindle – Global Warming Denial Film Debunked
This video created by an ally of my nemesis, Al Gore, pretty much destroys the main tenets and blunders of the movie “The Global Warming Swindle”. While I’m still not an alarmist, and I still think Al’s selling a carbon ponzi scheme that will cause great stress in third world countries, I do like truth. So here it is, real data and finished charts from authoritative sources.
The jump to enact to cap and trade is the saddest part of this, while it’s true that we must do something sometime this century or early next, cap and trade does nothing. It’s already been shown not to work in Europe, where fossil fuel use rose under the system. Waxman and cohorts have turned cap and trade into a patronage game, trading credits for votes. This just makes it appear like congress is doing something when in reality they are just reshuffling the deck aimlessly. On top of that if you tell them they aren’t going to accomplish much with cap and trade, they will come after you.
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Why We Can’t Solve Global Warming Without China
Why We Can’t Solve Global Warming Without China
Whether you are an alarmist, a denier, or in the luke warmist camp like I am, you have to understand the contribution of coal and the challenge we face with China and other developing nations. Here’s a good lecture from a Sino expert that you should watch.
