tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post8382919851190871995..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Climate CrusadersStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-78297325744338847442017-04-06T18:42:38.662-07:002017-04-06T18:42:38.662-07:00In fact, CO2 is a foliar fertilizer.In fact, CO2 is a foliar fertilizer.trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-72047420772229111272017-04-06T14:46:18.321-07:002017-04-06T14:46:18.321-07:00Not to mention, vegetation looooooooooooooooooooov...Not to mention, vegetation loooooooooooooooooooooves carbon dioxide. Makes 'em grow big and healthy!Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-4216371437805244152017-04-06T14:01:08.916-07:002017-04-06T14:01:08.916-07:00Climate Change is religious dogma, requiring faith...Climate Change is religious dogma, requiring faith in miracles, exegeses of sacred UN texts, and dismissing unexplainable historic climactic anomalies as irrelevant phenomena. Climate had changed before the growth of homonid populations, and without the presence of the automobile, air conditioning and other human comforts. The only solutions offered to counter the Climate Change apocalypse are government regulations, population control and increased government revenue. We've heard this many times before. Everyone must do more with less except government officials, bureaucrats and social justice activists. Indeed we are told these high priests, clerics and evangelists are the only hope for Gaea. <br /><br />It is interesting that so many Americans cannot recognize the fact that Climate Change is a leading Democrat Party issue because it advances their agenda of more government, more taxes, more regulations and more social justice activism fueling and fueled by the same. All claim moral superiority because of their parroted viewpoint on an issue that is at once so dizzyingly complex that they could never hope to understand it, and also in the next breath is so simple as to unify all climate and environmental science around the disastrous abundance of a single molecule all green stuff on Earth needs to survive. How elegant. Even quaint. <br /><br />Yet these activists chant with absolute dogmatic certitude that human beings are wrecking the planet with carbon dioxide, and others (persons who seem to uniformly meet the Left's criteria for political enemyhood) must suffer. All in the name of "Science says..." <br /><br />Crusaders indeed. Groupthink invites skepticism. Follow the money. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-14463485173303459162017-04-06T13:48:18.458-07:002017-04-06T13:48:18.458-07:00I'm thankful the world has Germany. All Americ...I'm thankful the world has Germany. All Americans should be grateful we have their Teutonically grim determination for garishly exhibitionistic conspicuous piety. From afar.<br /><br />If Western women must be raped by Muslim "youth", and the elderly must shiver in the cold due to grid instabilities, no nationality is more deserving.trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-60812721604745433472017-04-06T08:57:54.387-07:002017-04-06T08:57:54.387-07:00It is true that (in the US) it now makes more econ...It is true that (in the US) it now makes more economic sense to build a gas-fired than a coal-fired plant (for one thing, you can use combined-cycle turbines, which are more efficient, for another thing, the materials-handling problems are greatly simplified)...but the reality is that there are a lot of coal-fired plants operating now, representing billions of dollars of capital investment which in turn represent vast amounts of human labor.<br /><br />Trump's less-hostile attitude toward coal means that these assets are likely to get an extended lifespan, which is of considerable economic value and not only to coal miners.<br /><br />The tradeoffs are different in other countries, because natural gas cannot be shipped as easily and inexpensively as oil or coal.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-12069774481545704132017-04-06T08:10:32.886-07:002017-04-06T08:10:32.886-07:00This blog certainly reads as a true-believer (in o...This blog certainly reads as a true-believer (in our powerlessness?), whatever the climate crusaders are doing right or wrong. <br /><br />And I'm not sure Clinton was crowing proudly about killing jobs. Just a guess, but surely that was the Republican lies at work. Saying "job killer" 32 times a day might be in the Republican handbook for optimal brainwashing.<br /><br />Here's the NYT article with the quote from Mark Muro.<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/coal-jobs-trump-appalachia.html Coal Mining Jobs Trump Would Bring Back No Longer Exist<br />---<br />“However way you spin it, gas and renewables are going to continue to replace coal,” said Nicolas Maennling, senior economics and policy researcher at Columbia University and an author of the automation study.<br /><br />“And in order to stay competitive, coal will have to increase automation,” he said. “What Mr. Trump does will make little difference.”<br />---<br /><br />Myself, I didn't see regulating CO2 as a pollutant made much sense, or about the same sense as calling H2O a pollutant since it is a greater green house gas. But every conservative economist will say a carbon tax is best (and get rid of the ethanol subsidies, and farm subsidies too), and a revenue neutral carbon tax is possible, even if you give every taxpayer a $5000 refund at the end of the year, that'll mean Trump's jet fuel and Gore's 1MW house all will pay more, and people like me who choose to ride a bike or take mass transit can reduce our taxes further.<br /><br />And of course it should be a no brainer that the U.S. should ban selling coal to other countries, whether because we might need it someday, or because it is still an extremely environmentally destructive process outside of the CO2.<br /><br />I admit a few years ago I thought high energy prices might be more powerful than any carbon taxes would be in encouraging conservation and alternative energy, but prices came down with the fracking boom and the Saudi's trying to break the fracking budgets oil cheaper than fracking production costs. So we've still got more oil company bankruptcies ahead before the Saudis can finally start ratching up prices again by reducing their pumping.<br /><br />But it still seems hard to predict. The whole world has been running economies on new debt, which increases demand for oil, so even a slight global slowdown can reduce oil demand, and keep prices down a few more years.<br /><br />Anyway, while coal, oil, and gas prices are low, it should be a no brainer that we can afford a carbon tax. And if we can't do that, we're basically admitting our economy is doomed when prices rise again by the diminishing returns of taking the harder fossil fuels last.<br /><br />And learning how to live without coal seems essential to our future. If Trump wants to send humans to Mars, a world which even if it had billion year old coal beds would be unburnable for a lack of free oxygen, and temperatures -100F and half the solar radiation, Mars is 1000 times harder to survive than earth, so why not send some astronauts to Greenland or deathvalley where living is easy in comparison.<br /><br />Someday I might trust humanity has a viable future for 2100, but I see no evidence such faith is warranted. We're just clever children living off a one-time inheritence so far.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com