We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors

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Despite billions spent in investments over decades, solar energy will only make up 0.6 percent of total electricity generation in the United States, according to a report released by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA).

"In spite of government's best efforts to encourage innovation by solar energy companies and encourage Americans to rely more heavily on solar electricity, solar power continues to be a losing proposition," the report said. "American taxpayers spent an average of $39 billion a year over the past 5 years financing grants, subsidizing tax credits, guaranteeing loans, bailing out failed solar energy boondoggles and otherwise underwriting every idea under the sun to make solar energy cheaper and more popular. But none of it has worked."


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For those of a certain mindset,record low temperatures, record ice areas in both the Arctic and Antarctic, and take a peak at the Drudge report for Great Lakes ice areas, are all the result of "Global Warming" don't you know! They go to great lengths, even arbitrarily altering temperature records upwards at numerous sites, to boost the claim of "Climate Change! Why? They make huge salaries in their taxpayer financed jobs and fiercely protect those positions. Remember how anyone accepting financing from oil companies was deemed unable to have unbiased opinions on climate change or global warming.

WATERMELONS......

Green on the outside and red on the inside like that grinning, commie, jackass Van Jones.......

Billion? Schmillion. Anything big enough to matter has to be in the Trillions these days.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/01/17/you-think-the-deficit-is-bad-federal-unfunded-liabilities-exceed-127-trillion/

Yeah...but that's those dumb Yanks. Here in Ontario we have Dildo McDinky's wonderful green energy plan that makes soar polar viable. It works like this:

1. convince a stupid public that there is an AGW problem so we have to go green.
2. subsidize foreigners and farmers to put up solar panels
3. buy the nice green power from the foreigners and farmers at exorbitant rates
4. raise the dummies' (see point 1) electricity bills to pay for numbers 2 and 3

As my mother says, some folks just have a habit of tossing good money after bad:

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-social-housing-group-lost-more-than-1m-in-bad-investment-1.2242701

If Politicians are sufficiently blessed with omniscience to control and make all important decisions regarding access to energy for entire nations and provinces, then we should also be using them as brain surgeons or any other critical field where I'm sure they are equally blessed. Capitalism was supposed to be the revolution against such collective folly. I want it back.

You nailed it.

Our two local schools have gone solar powered it like wind farms are a total waste of money for rediculous green ideology

There are at least a dozen differences between man-made global warming (MMGW) and real science. Real science, for example:

1. says "Question everything". MMGW advocates say "Questioning MMGW is unacceptable because it threatens the planet."

2. never ends, but is an ongoing cycle of testing and correction. MMGW tries to break that cycle by claiming "the debate is over" and "the science is settled". "Settled science" is an oxymoron invented by non-scientist Al Gore to avoid debating his profitable beliefs in public.
http://www.pqatesting.com/uploads/diagram.jpg

3. develops hypotheses that are falsifiable via testable predictions. MMGW isn't falsifiable because it makes contradictory, changing predictions. More hurricanes (see Al Gore's movie cover) or fewer hurricanes (reality now attributed to MMGW), more snow or less snow, warmer or cooler than average temperatures, etc. are all cited AFTER the fact as proof of MMGW. There is no observation that MMGW proponents will accept as refuting their belief. Predictive models created by warming proponents are consistently wrong:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/05/new-peer-reviewed-paper-shows-just-how-bad-the-climate-models-are/

4. relies on skeptics to make progress. Many real scientists spend their careers try to disprove accepted wisdom. MMGW, on the other hand, intimidates and smears skeptics as "non-believers", equating them to holocaust deniers and treating them more like the Church treated Galileo:
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/05/15/eminent-swedish-scientist-latest-victim-of-climate-mccarthyism/

5. grants awards for disproving accepted truths. MMGW researchers, on the other hand, have a vested interest in only one outcome. They can access billions of dollars in government money only while MMGW is perceived by the public as a threat to humanity:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/19/the-well-funded-climate-business-follow-the-money/

6. has nothing to do with polls or consensus, but MMGW proponents constantly use them to defend their claims. Ironically, even when they use polls they have to spin their outcomes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/07/17/that-scientific-global-warming-consensus-not/

7. doesn't claim validity by citing the credentials of proponents. It respects only data and analysis, regardless of who is publishing it. Einstein was a little known patent office clerk when he overturned the consensus understanding of space and time in 1905 with Special Relativity. “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it’s wrong.”-Richard Feynman, Physicist

8. keeps testing to eliminate remove bias and discard bad models. Einstein's Relativity is still being tested a century later. MMGW ignores or hides data it doesn't like:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/6636563/University-of-East-Anglia-emails-the-most-contentious-quotes.html

9. accepts that bad predictions imply bad hypotheses. When MMGW predictions are wrong they don't question the hypothesis...they just change the predictions and rebrand the movement.

10. never recommends that skeptics be jailed:
http://gawker.com/arrest-climate-change-deniers-1553719888

11. doesn't create billionaires who get rich peddling untested theories.

12. works hard to understand and account for all interfering variables in studies. MMGW simply ignores all the variables that have drastically impacted Earth's climate for billions of years, unless those factors are needed to excuse faulty predictions.

If we could harness all that Hot Air Al Gore and Greenpeace would be very use9eful

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