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"Global greens develop stupid, horrible, expensive, counterproductive climate policy agendas, and then try to use the imprimatur of 'science' as a way to panic the world into adopting them. All too often, in other words, they fall prey to the temptation to make what the science says “clearer than truth” in Acheson’s phrase, in order to silence debate on their cockamamie policy fixes. A favorite tactic is to brand any dissent from the agenda as “anti-science.” It is not only a dishonest tactic; it’s a counterproductive one, generating new waves of skepticism with every exaggeration of fact."

Walter Russel Mead

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"One of the great injustices to the entire global warming hysteria is that many worthy endeavors have hitched onto the frame work of climate change and are now irrevocably tied to the myth. Not only does this increase the power of those promoting this agenda, it tars these worthy causes with the same brush. When the stack of cards begins to truly collapse, which it inevitably will, separating the wheat from the chaff will be a very painful experience and many good causes will likely suffer as a result."

Jer

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" ..green jobs have become the ginseng of progressive politics: a sort of broad-spectrum snake oil that cures whatever happens to ail you. They are the antidote to economic malaise, an underskilled labor force, the inherent unwillingness of the public to suffer any significant economic and personal dislocation in order to save the environment. They enhance nationalistic vigor. (If we don't act now, the Chinese will steal all of our green jobs!) They stave off aging of stale political platforms. And I'm pretty sure they're good for bunions, too."


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Megan McArdle
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"Since the power generated by modern wind turbines is so unpredictable, conventional power plants have to serve as back-ups. Therefore, these run at far less than half power most of the time. That is terribly uneconomical – only at full power they have good thermal efficiency and minimal CO2 emissions per kWh delivered. Think also a moment of the cable networks needed: not only a fine-maze distribution network at the consumer end, but also one at the generator end. And what about servicing? How do you get a repair crew to a lonely hillside? Especially when you decided to put the wind park at sea? Use helicopters – now THAT is green …! "

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Henk Tennekes
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Today's Thought

My view is that civilization has already ended -- at least at most western universities, where for too long kids have been brainwashed into eco-conformity by political zealots masquerading as professors.


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John Ferry
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"...The reason Obama opposes it and the reason the liberals oppose it is because of the environment. But by not drilling here, we simply end up have the drilling end up elsewhere, and it doesn't reduce pollution on the planet. It simply exports it into poorer countries where the safeguards are much less, for example, in Nigeria, where there are oil spills and siphoning and explosions all the time.

So the net effect on the planet of drilling elsewhere instead of here is that there is more pollution and despoiling of the environment, and it reduces American jobs. It makes no sense at all."

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Charles Krauthammer
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It’s a religion, Hugh. It’s not facts, it’s not science. It’s a religion. And they’ll do human sacrifice if they have to. The numbers are made up. They know, for example, I mean all of the cap-and-trade stuff, which would really destroy our economy, they know would be swallowed up in a week or two of India and Chinese emissions. China is starting a coal fired plant every week on average, and that is just throwing all that CO2 into the atmosphere, of which our reductions would be negligible. It would simply end up as a great transfer of wealth out of the West into the third world on a scale never seen. But it’s a religion. So they are impervious to empirical evidence.

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Charles Krauthammer
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"...humans are doing just what the other animals are doing: modifying and consuming their surroundings in order to thrive. The deniers curiously assert that all other forms of life on the planet have the ‘right’ to do this – except humans."

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Roy Spencer
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"Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact. Yet those who champion massive taxes and spending to fight climate change, for example, do not seem to understand that. If science is on their side, then why should they care who is against them? "The debate is over" is a line that's used only by those who realize they would never win a debate.

In the end, it is not the debate itself, but those preventing it that are truly un-American. Honest listening and, more important, honest questioning is the foundation of the American experiment."

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Glenn Beck

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"His band of angry young men would find Gore where once they found Marx....

....The word evil is used advisedly. Both the green and red positions are infused with overpowering religiosity. Dissenters from the consensus are shunned apostates. Professor Ian Pilmer, the Australian geologist and climate change sceptic, could not find a publisher for his book Heaven and Earth, which questions the orthodoxy about global warming. He is the subject of hate mail and demonstrations. It is entirely immaterial whether he is right or wrong. An environment that stifles his right to a voice is worse than one that is overheating.

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"Yes, so-called clean energy is very expensive and not at all cost competitive. It is not surprising that it takes three times as many people to create energy in that sector as in the carbon-based fuel sector. This is why we are better off using carbon-based fuels for quite a while into the future. What you are proposing doing is the same as the Luddite idea that if we eliminate tractors, we can create many more farm jobs with people using hand shovels and hoes. "

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Charles Anderson
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Environmentalism’s obsession with climate has become the central front in the global war against capitalism.


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Paul Taylor
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But the reality is, to paraphrase Henry Ford's famous quote, GM will be able to build any color car it wants, as long as it's green.

It's impossible to believe that a president who is so thoroughly invested in reversing climate change will allow an automaker he controls to respond to consumer demand for pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles. That's where the profits are, but GM's focus will have to be on the smaller, fuel-efficient cars Obama desires.

The pressure on the White House and on Congress from environmental groups will be enormous. Responsibility for those hated trucks and SUVs will now belong to Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Henry Waxman. They dance to the environmental movement's tune. If you want a GMC truck, better buy it now .

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Today's Thought

"While these Roman throwbacks attempt to save the planet, pagan style, so they can set up their Darwinian nirvana on earth, the rest of us have enough sense not to try to make the state our church."

Kyle-Anne Shiver
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"How wrong I was. I knew in the abstract that being ridiculous is no bar to public prominence. Consider: Al Gore, former Vice-President and Nobel Laureate. Al Sharpton, king maker and presidential candidate. Al Franken, U.S. Senator. And that’s just people whose first name is “Al.”

But although it is clear that something can easily be both ridiculous and prominent, somehow I underestimated the staying power of environmentalism. I did so partly because I underestimated the mesmerizing power of this version of paganism on the collective consciousness of our secular elites: too sophisticated to subscribe openly to traditional religion but who nonetheless yearned for a token of spiritual uplift with which they could flatter themselves and impress others."

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Roger Kimball

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"When the president speaks of new green energy economies creating 'countless well-paying jobs,' perhaps they really are countless, meaning incapable of being counted. "
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George Will
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"The day before yesterday they called it “global warming”. Yesterday they
called it “climate change”. Today they call it “energy security”. Tomorrow
they will call it what it is – absolute rubbish. "

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley


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"Given all the fruits of modernity that we enjoy, it's incredibly easy to slip into complacency and assume that nature can be dealt with and that danger and risk can be regulated or legislated away. Respect for nature is about much more than walks in the woods, rare-bird spotting, or even environmental activism.

It's about realizing not how massive a threat mankind is to nature, but how tiny a threat. Really. Claiming credit for preserving some forests and streams may be okay, but claiming credit for controlling the climate is downright egotistical."

Mike Smith
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"What’s so great about the earth? It’s just a rock floating in space, after all. The only really interesting thing about it is that it happens to support life - and the only thing that makes life itself interesting is the consciousness capable of perceiving it. That’s us, you environmental boneheads! The majesty of the whale, the grace of the leopard, the beauty of the sunset, even the blue of the sky - none of these even exists outside the imagination of man. And it’s that imagination that expresses itself, not just in the concertos of Bach and the plays of Shakespeare, but in our cities and factories and machines and systems of trade - in civilization itself. Let’s conserve and replenish our natural resources for sure so we can keep building what we build. But it profits us nothing to save the world if we lose the achievements of humanity. "

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Andrew Klavan
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Skeptics From Around the Globe

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David W. Schnare, Esq. Ph.D. a senior enforcement counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency


"When it comes to global warming, I'm a skeptic because the conclusions about the cause of the apparent warming stand on the shoulders of incredibly uncertain data and models,..."

"So what is the fourth climate change truth? It is that we are going to see important environmental actions sacrificed on the altar of global warming response. We have seen the cuts in Virginia’s environmental programs already. This is because, when push comes to shove, most folks consider current environmental problems, like Chesapeake Bay restoration, to be luxuries.. They are wrong, but the truth of the matter is that we have a limited pocketbook; an environmental dollar spent on carbon reduction is a dollar we don’t have to spend on water quality and recreating a vibrant economic opportunity called the Chesapeake Bay fishery."
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