Via Global Warming Policy Foundation:
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If people are prepared to ban innocent childish pastimes on the flimsiest of environmental excuses, what else are they prepared to ban? What other aspects of our public and private lives will the green police intrude on?
See above. Where there is no reason, there are no limits.
h/t Kevin B, Adrian
The alarmists had hoped that they could be outlived by the threat of our getting sizzled, but it appears that they have not – except those who have jumped off a cliff to avoid their death by the sun.
And they’re pissed off.
Those who said 10 years prove that we’re in a slippery slope to mass deaths are now denying that 15 years disproves it.
I’ve learned that symbolism is never empty. If you can get people-especially kids-to make meaningless sacrifices and convince them that it is for a right cause, then you can later make them make meaningful sacrifices for the cause. Public education must be abolished.
and that’s why we home school. no more Lord’s prayer, we are just making sacrifices to mother gia now.
My new paper is now online …
ABSTRACT
The paper explains why the physics involved in atmospheric and sub-surface heat transfer appears to have been misunderstood, and incorrectly applied, when postulating that a radiative “greenhouse effect” is responsible for warming the surfaces of planets such as Venus and our own Earth.
A detailed discussion of the application of the Second Law of Thermodynamics endeavours to settle the much debated issue as to whether or not a thermal gradient evolves spontaneously in still air in a gravitational field. The author is aware of attempted rebuttals of this hypothesis, but cogent counter arguments are presented, together with reference to empirical evidence.
The ramifications are substantial, in that they eliminate any need for any “greenhouse” explanation as to why the surface temperatures are as observed. No other valid reason appears plausible to explain how the required energy gets into the planetary surfaces, this being especially obvious in regard to the high temperatures measured at the surface of the crust of Venus.
The paper includes some counter-intuitive concepts which sceptical readers may be tempted to reject out of hand. Physics sometimes has some surprises, and so you are encouraged to read and understand the argument step by step, for it is based on sound physics, and unlocks some mysteries of the Solar System, including core and mantle temperatures, not previously explained in this manner to the best of the author’s knowledge.
http://principia-scientific.org/publications/PROM/PROM-COTTON_Planetary_Core_and_Surface_Temperatures.pdf
They used to buy and sell air in North America but it collapsed a few years ago when carbon bottomed out at 10 cents per tonne. That was the Chicago Climate Exchange. I thought the European Market cratered too. I guess not.
I heard a radio interview of an Indian chief who seemed to think they were going to get rich by selling credits earned by letting the forest grow. Do they have to buy millions of credits when the sequestered carbon they sold burns in a forest fire. They were talking $ 10 or $ 20 per tonne when the market value is http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Great+Bear+Rainforest+enters+carbon+economy/7840943/story.html
The whole problem with credits is that there will be enough fraud to satisfy all the bogus demand there is. Policing a system would be all but impossible. It’s like organic certification where fraud is the norm.
In the above reply the statement that ends with “the market value is” had a symbol indicating less the 10 cents but apparently the symbol meant “stop the text”
“what else are they prepared to ban?” The answer is almost everything.
Just ask anyone who has lived under communism.
That reminds me, I may well have to purchase my office supplies from a supplier other than Staples, as they have bought into the “Earth Day” bs.
Also related: Scratch an environmentalist, find a Malthusian.
“This is counterfactual lunacy, thoroughly discredited, and yet some of the world’s richest people believe it as gospel, in the same way that the teenage private-school students who identified with the ”Occupy” movement believed they were the “99 percent.””
In 1969, I was in a chemistry lab at the U of C and I jokingly asked my hippy lab partner (who was complaining of a bad “trip”) to show me his needle tracks. To my surprise he rolled up his sleeve and he was peppered. I asked him WTF he was trying to do to himself and he replied that his ecology professor told his class that due to “pollution”, humanity only had ten years left to survive and so he was going to ride the dragon (into oblivion) as a young man. Whether or not he survived, many that did, went on to carry-on in the same hysteria-pimping tradition as his ecology professor. Hysterical pseudo-environmentalism and coercive statists make for a natural symbiosis as the fear generated by the former invites the later to offer the snake oil of tyranny as a cure.
I imagine that the carbon pricing trends above would correlate quite well with their GDP growth rate.
“Public education must be abolished.”
Socialized medicine and public education — common to Cuba, North Korea and Canada.
its one year past the 5M sealevel rise . danke gott Obama said , this is the moment when the seas cease to rise
I was discussing Valentine’s Day cards with a green acquaintance on Facebook. He was proud that his children had decided to forgo unnecessary waste for the good of the planet. Thirty seconds later he was bragging about his new Keurig and the large selection of K-cups he had for it. Uh, hello? You were saying something about waste?
No surprise,Sean. Lefty hypocrisy. I hope you stuffed it back into his swelled air head.
In my next lifetime I am coming back as a carbon credit farmer instead of a sugar beet farmer.
Farming, conservation agriculture
and creating carbon credits
Don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it.
Carbon Trading Pays For Alberta Farmers
Sounds like a sweet deal – work your land less and get paid for it. The above story ran in our paper a few years back. Don’t know if the program still exists. And being away from the farm for so long now, I have no idea how effective the low-till methods are in producing a crop.
Top link not working.
How many trees will be saved by kids not exchanging valentine cards? Zero if it comes from BC. Paper here (and most other places) is made from wastewood, debris that is a by-product of logging.
Dirtman:
Here’s the correct link:
http://www.thegwpf.org/eu-emissions-trading-scheme-freefall/
The screwed-up link began with “www.smalldeadanimals.com/…”
The commenter’s here are all wrong. It is great to save your bit of paper. But valentines are small potatoes. Think how much more paper you can save if you don’t buy the Calgary Herald.
one doesnt know whether to laugh or cry with the lamenting first paragraph saying that due to the recession carbon emmisions have dropped so there is nothing to trade. its obvious it was just a money grab from that , if it was to reduce carbon emmissions they should be rejoicing and have thier arts students dancing in the streets.
These things happen, but always for a reason. I think it is just the beginning of the end of this market.
You may be right that it is the beginning of the end of this market. It may signal other problems in other markets as well.
It may show signs of wearing out, but it is certainly not the end of the world.
The end of the world is still way ahead. Turmoils in market are natural phenomenons.