Just a few considerations in addition to previous remarks about the explosion of the East Anglia Climategate e-mails in America. The reaction is growing exponentially there. Fox News, Barack Obama’s Nemesis, is now on the case, trampling all over Al Gore’s organic vegetable patch and breaking the White House windows. It has extracted some of the juiciest quotes from the e-mails and displayed them on-screen, with commentaries. Joe Public, coast-to-coast, now knows, thanks to the clowns at East Anglia’s CRU, just how royally he has been screwed.Congress has already passed a bill banning incandescent lightbulbs in 2012. Who's going to introduce the bill to reverse that?
Senator James Inhofe’s Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has written to all the relevant US Government agencies, acquainting them with the nature of the e-mails. But the real car crash for Obama is on Capitol Hill where it is now confidently believed his Cap and Trade climate legislation is toast. It was always problematic; but with a growing awakening to the scale of the scientific imposture sweeping the world, as far as the Antipodes, the clever money is on Cap and Trade laws failing to pass, with many legislators sceptical and the mid-term elections looming ever closer.
At the more domestic level, the proposed ban on incandescent light bulbs, so supinely accepted in this servile state of Britain, is now provoking a huge backlash in America. US citizens do not like the government coming into their houses and putting their lights out. Voters may not understand the cut and thrust of climate debate at the technical level, but they know when the Man from Washington has crossed their threshold uninvited.
The term that Fox News is now applying to the Climategate e-mails is “game-changer”. For the first time, Anthropogenic Global Warming cranks are on the defensive, losing their cool and uttering desperate mantras such as “You can be sceptical, not denial.” Gee, thanks, guys. In fact we shall be whatever we want to be, without asking your permission.
At this rate, Copenhagen is going to turn into a comedy convention with the real world laughing at these liars. Now is the time to mount massive resistance to the petty tyrants and hit them where it hurts – in the wallet. Further down the line there may be, in many countries, a question of criminal prosecution of anybody who has falsified data to secure funds and impose potentially disastrous fiscal restraints on the world in deference to a massive hoax. It’s a new world out there, Al, and, as you may have noticed, the climate is very cold indeed.
Friday, November 27, 2009
The ClimateGate Story Will Get Out
Whether the mainstream media chooses to report it or not, word is getting out about the ClimateGate emails. Of course, we'll have to have a Brit tell us about it (from Gerald Warner, UK Telegraph):
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Who's going to reverse the light bulb ban, you ask? Any Republican who can grow a pair in the next few days.
Rick,
the light bulb ban makes no sense
from any perspective.
Different lights have different advantages - most prefer the ordinary bulbs
(that’s why they are being banned - they are preferred 8 to 9 times out of 10 by people in both USA and EU, obviously no point in banning an impopular product).
Supposed energy savings aren’t there (lifespan, lifecycle, power factor, heat , brightness etc comparisons also by governments and institutions http://www.ceolas.net/#li13x onwards )
- and even if they were, ordinary people, not politicians, pay for the energy and how they wish to use it.
Light bulbs don’t give out any CO2 emissions, power stations do, and can (and will) be dealt with directly.
Even if all else was wrong, taxation on the bulbs would in my view be better for all,
reducing sales while giving government income and keeping consumer choice, and efficient lights could have lower sales taxes than today.
Taxation is still unjustified - just better for all than bans.
Notice the strangeness of the ban:
We are not talking about banning lead paint here!
This product has been safely used for over 100 years.
This gives the notion of "we must get rid of old technology"
Well, the more energy using radio (and TV) tubes weren't banned
just because the transistor came along - people could see the advantages for themselves.
About the unpublicised industrial politics behind the ban
http://www.ceolas.net/#li1ax
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