Comments on: Did The “Best And Brightest” Just Do Another Stupid Thing?

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:35:43 +0000

Remember that all it takes is one sentance inserted into any bill that Congress passes to shut down the EPA. Something along the lines of “The EPA shall expend no funds on the enforcement or regulation of CO2.”

By: ropelight

ropelight — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:34:41 +0000

fm, my next to last paragraph overstates the case. My point is:

It’s not that GW is thus a hoax, it’s the role of CO2 as the agent of temperature change which is unsustainable. Warming may well occur because of factors unrelated to CO2, fluctuations in solar activity for instance.

AWG, or warming caused by man’s emission of Carbon Dioxide is the hoax. There is no such thing as a “greenhouse gas.”

By: ropelight

ropelight — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:12:30 +0000

feeblemaind, I recall reading about Robert W Wood who invented both Infrared and Ultraviolet photography back in 1910. If memory serves, he built identical greenhouses to find out if CO2 could hold heat, and thus influence his heat related photographic efforts.

One greenhouse was kept at normal levels, while the other had elevated CO2. He found that internal temperatures remained essentially equal. Thus, he concluded that CO2 did not hold heat.

Actually his associated experiments indicated that temperatures in greenhouses are directly related to the materials used it their construction, that is, how much light and heat are allowed to enter the greenhouse and are trapped inside the enclosed space increases the internal temperature, and is thus unrelated to the concentration of CO2.

His conclusions refute the fundamental assumptions which underlie Global Warming: That since man’s activities emit increased levels of CO2, and that CO2 is a “greenhouse gas” which traps heat in the atmosphere, it follows that man is responsible for a global increase in temperature.

If Wood was correct, then CO2 isn’t a so-called “greenhouse gas,” and Global Warming is exposed as a hoax.

BTW, October 2010 will be the 100 year celebration of the publication of Wood’s first infrared photographs. I’d like to see a few real scientists have a forthright look into Wood’s greenhouse experiments, we may have more than his photographic discoveries to celebrate.

By: feeblemind

feeblemind — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:34:52 +0000

Re ropelight: I didn’t mean to imply that the dem congress would fix this. I am saying an act of Congress prohibiting the regulation of CO2 by the EPA is what it will take. In other words, I don’t see it getting fixed until we have a Congress (and POTUS)that will address the issue. One of the things about EPA and OSHA in particular,that seem blatantly unconstitutional to me is that these unelected bureaucrats can enact laws (disguised as regulations) that the rest of us must comply with. Legislating is the job of Congress. At the very least any proposed regulations should be voted on by Congress and signed off on by the POTUS before going into effect, but that does not happen. Anyway, the courts have ruled that the present procedure for enacting laws by regulatory agencies is constitutional, so we are likely SOL, at least for the time being.

By: ropelight

ropelight — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:05:13 +0000

feeblemind, we can’t count on the Democrat Congress we now have to buck the usurpers in the White House and the EPA. This Congress opposes the interests of the American public.

Unfortunately, the next election is almost a year away, so we’re just going to have to stop this Obamanation ourselves. Get ready for Tea Party-II, Washington DC, April 15, 2010.

Stand up for America, or get on your knees for Obama. The choice is yours.

By: feeblemind

feeblemind — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:24:08 +0000

I sure wouldn’t count on the courts to fix this. I think it will take an act of Congress to rein in the EPA.

By: Mwalimu Daudi

Mwalimu Daudi — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:56:52 +0000

Obama is trying to legislate through the executive branch. This is going to backfire.

It will only backfire if the GOP stands up to the Won, or if the courts intervene to stop this power grab.

By: dorf

dorf — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:44:51 +0000

I only repeat what I read. …the first president to be a lame duk in the first year…

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:47:57 +0000

I’ve spent my entire professional career in the energy field, Maggie. It never ceases to amaze me at how utterly clueless the advocates of some of these “magical” projects are as to the basic laws of physics.

Just wishing it so does not make it so.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:34:46 +0000

Here ya go, Gaius. Seems that whole geothermal drilling thingy Algore was spewing about on Conan a couple weeks ago ain’t all it’s cracked up to be (pun intended for the old 1960s sci-fi flick “Crack In The World”)

http://tinyurl.com/ybv33mb

And here’s the Gore-speak from Conan to go along with it:

http://tinyurl.com/yl4g2s4