Posted by
thekeenobserver on Tuesday, December 01, 2009 6:48:19 PM
A blind pedestrian in Minneapolis is struck by a Toyota hybrid and lies seriously injured: A laid-off Houston petroleum engineer grows ever more despondent, wondering when he'll work again: In her kitchen, an Akron OH housewife accidently shatters a CFL lightbulb - contaminating her home with highly-poisonous mercury:
Given all three of these seemingly unrelated human interest stories, what do they share in common? In deference, we now move on to story number four:
A headline breaks in the London Times: "Unknown Alleged Russian Entity Hacks Into Computers of Major Center on Global Warming."
Indeed, hackers had now "exposed" the Hadley Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, England - obtaining 1079 emails and 72 files - containing nearly 4000 documents on global warming - proving it to be the greatest of all hoaxes...EVER!
The Russian hacker(s) released 61 megabytes of confidential files. The site - apparently originating in Tomsk, Siberia - is now down (closed).
Here is a sample of the purportedly hacked material (1079 e-mails) that had been available online:
From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@XXXX, mhughes@XXXX
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.
Mike's series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.
Cheers
Phil
Suspiciously, things began getting a bit shaky when "global warming" was esoterically morphed into 'climate change'. Then, in conjunction, the EPA "reclassified" CO2 as a "greenhouse gas." The stage was now set: the weather itself had become politicized:
- Blizzards in China? Climate change.
- Snow in Saudi Arabia? Excess greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
- Volcano eruption in Pago-Pago? Silly fool; it's climate change.
- Atlanta flooded by 11 eleven inches of rain? Yep - it's that nasty ol' climate change thing.
Until the Russian 'saviors' had intervened, UN liberals had been well-poised to use CO2 as a pretext to bankrupt developed countries; they would transfer trillions of their dollars to the "underdeveloped" nations by charging penalties pegged to carbon emissions (per metric ton).
But If Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a such a grave danger (as the EPA tells us) what is it doing in our childrens’ soft drinks? And why has it been delineated as a so-called greenhouse gas?
The IPCC (Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change) had for twenty years been using computer models that ominously had predicted a warming rate in the troposphere; with rises of 1.2* Centigrade per decade, using calculations based upon 'greenhouse-forcing' scenarios.
This implied carbon-tax increases of $14 to $24 per-ton - per DECADE.
At the upper end of the IPCC "warming forecast," emissions' taxes would have reached upwards of $200 per ton of CO2 by 2050, forcing major carbon-emitters into bankruptcy, and a presumptive global shift to "non-carbon" energy sources.
But why not avoid the controversy altogether? Tie all carbon taxes to ACTUAL levels of warming. Both skeptics and alarmists alike would've had their wishes answered - problem solved!
Now hacked e-mails lay bare the truth: the IPCC and the leftists in our Congress care nothing about saving Earth. Rather, they have been all about creating problems: fabricating a "global warming crisis" to further their own agenda - social justice. Or more specifically..."climate justice."
"Climate justice" is about redistribution of money from consumer countries (USA) to poorer countries in South America & Africa (the UN will conference in Copenhagen until December 18 to achieve this noble goal).
In the United States, climate justice says everyone in the middle class shall pay energy taxes; providing money to the welfare leeches (in the urban areas) for their energy needs.
The House Cap 'n Trade Bill provides these energy taxes to be distributed to "historically disadvantaged" urban areas. This same wording also lies in the "Stimulus" package.
The "endangered" coal-fired plants in the Midwest would be forced to double their rates; the energy users (everyone) would effectively be subsidizing the "poor". Hence, the leeches would get free "energy vouchers" to pay for their heating & energy costs.
Farmers would be devastated: cap 'n trade levies a charge of $20 for one sheep, $100 for a beef cow, $150 per head of dairy cattle. Reasoning? Methane output. Future food prices? Up 50%!
In wonderful Ohio - First Energy, an Akron utility, sent two energy-saving compact flourescent light-bulbs (CFLs) to customers, charging them $21 - whether they wanted them or not. The idea? - to compensate First Energy for future costs relevant to Ohio’s new law requiring utilities to reduce coal consumption 22.2 percent by 2025.
If states require utilities to reduce coal consumption, or use more expensive 'renewable' energy sources, rising rates must make up the difference - meaning less disposable income; more job losses - sending manufacturing jobs fleeing overseas to China.
In West Virginia, if the House cap-and-trade bill became law, 11,000 mining jobs would be gone in less than 15 years, according to a study commissioned by the National Association of Manufacturers.
"West Virginia's coal production would fall 85.1 percent; electricity production by 18.6 percent by 2030." According to the study, the poor would especially bear the brunt: they spend a greater share of their income on energy than people in higher income brackets.
And if the Senate should eventually pass their version, what then?
What about the airlines? What about cab drivers? What about truckers? What happens to our conventional cars? Because of bans on domestic drilling, America has been devastated enough by high fuel costs for the last several years.
This ‘cap n trade’ nonsense will force a vast majority of Americans to park their transportation, not to mention the conventional energy jobs lost because of the lunacy surrounding the "restructuring" of America into a new "greener" economy.
The push to smaller cars will mean fewer jobs in Detroit, plus all the concomitant satellite industries. Already, tens of thousands of jobs in the petroleum industry are gone because of restricted drilling policies, and an effective ban on refineries. Cap 'n trade will ulimately accomplish the subsidizing of US jobs to competing countries - ravaging employment once found here.
And what about the granddaddy of all job growth...the US domestic car industry? Look what stricter CAFE standards have already done. Many US consumers cling ferociously to their older, conventional LARGE cars - portending defeat to the electric car market before it even gets off the ground.
Global warming; climate change; so-called 'dirty gasoline' automobiles...all a pretext to destroy our freedoms.
Americans love their conventional cars, and will part with them only as a last resort.
But now that so-called global warming is in question, what happens to GM after all the money poured into developing its new, renewable-energy cars? Small cars, not only expensive and ugly, but inherently dangerous as well!
A recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that electric vehicles (and hybrids with all-electric drive mode) are three times more likely to be involved in pedestrian accidents at intersections and crosswalks.
The National Federation for the Blind has been lobbying automakers and the federal government to address the problem by ensuring that battery-powered cars make some sort of noise that will alert the sight-impaired to their presence.
And it’s not just the blind who have to worry: even slow-moving hybrids can get 40 percent closer to pedestrians than a combustion-engine car before being detected.
This endangers runners, walkers, children and bicyclists alike, who rely on hearing to place traffic around them. Hence, once electric cars become common, far more accidents and fatalities will occur than many realize.
Now, back to that "climate change" hoax, and its incredibly negative consequences: Add up the huge financial losses. The uncertainty and anxiety to be found everywhere. The destiny of so many lives now irretrievably altered.
Jobs departed. Livelihoods endangered. Increasing accidents. Our once-convenient lifestyles...our disposable incomes...our cherished American way of life - gone for what?
Because of some phony scam? - perpetrated by a condescending, desperado group of so-called climatologists? Laughing amongst themselves; arrogantly exchanging e-mails; congratulating one another; supportive of a scheme whereby the UN would control of much of the world's wealth.
But fortuituously, it now seems very much in doubt.
Americans are some of the most civilized, rational, and intelligent people on earth. If climate change truly portended danger, we all would be in unison about fixing the problem, before it could make life on our fragile planet even worse.
When the US Olympians arrived in China last year, they were shocked at the impurity of Beijing's smog-shrouded, filthy, coal-fouled air.
And everywhere, the global warmongers shouted "SEE... it's real! We need controls!"
But climate change is all about obfuscation:
Obfuscating data to show warming in place of actual cooling.
Obfuscating science to condemn harmlessCO2 as a greenhouse gas.
Obfuscating fossil fuel producers as agents of global warming - rather than only polluters.
John Glenn not long ago had commented that the "blue earth" image he once saw from space was now grayer - much hazier than his original voyage as an astronaut in 1962.
Yes; carbon pollution is real; and the world must unite that it be cleaned up:
But Global Warming is a ruse - used by fear mongers (Gore), Congressional politicians, and the UN con artists of the IPCC - to vacuum money from our pockets.
Oil & coal - like stone - are pertinent to Earth's composition; they are not fossil fuels!
Climate Change is nothing other than a leftist scam to displace our Constitution and Bill of Rights. To weaken America until it is "equal" to the rest of the world.
Who has proven global warming even exists?
The Russian hackers have inadvertently defined Climate Change for what it has been all along: a left wing, world-wide, wealth-redistributionist game - to buy Democratic votes. Nothing more.
There are no accurate ways to measure global warming; nor "increasing CO2 levels," because carbon dioxide is germane to the air around us.
The attempt to tax us into submission, and destroy the economic base of our great country - making America part of a “One World Nation - has been exposed.