tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post1571948640871535215..comments2023-10-27T03:41:13.171-07:00Comments on Warning Signs: The Mayor's Windy NightmareAlan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-178036444665762622008-08-21T18:59:00.000-07:002008-08-21T18:59:00.000-07:00It's worth noting that Mayor Bloomberg, after bein...It's worth noting that Mayor Bloomberg, after being ridiculed by NYC newspapers, backed off this hairbrained proposal within a day, saying, "I have absolutely no idea whether that makes any sense from a scientific, from a practical point of view." Too bad that didn't occur to him with he suggested it, but reality rarely intrudes on most Green "solutions" to real problems and needs.Alan Carubahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-64044015704156230512008-08-21T06:26:00.000-07:002008-08-21T06:26:00.000-07:00It would appear that the two presidential candidat...It would appear that the two presidential candidates are all so keen to be seen to be Green. In that respect they can be seen to be on the same 'ticket' on environmental issues.<BR/>America is still the largest and richest economy in the world and, after dragging its feet, is now firmly in the grip of the environmentalist agenda. The Candidates, political and corporate America are falling over themselves in the rush to embrace this retro-culture of minimalism.<BR/>With our present technology based upon our resources of fossil fuels and nuclear fission we can progress as a civilization to our next mandatory point – the development of controlled, safe nuclear fusion. Although always claimed to be 40 years away its time will come – as long as we can be ‘allowed’ to progress our research.<BR/>The minimalist retro-culture of the Greens, now well entrenched in all levels of government and public life threatens all our futures – and specifically those generations coming up.<BR/>As both candidates are eager to slash greenhouse gas emissions by some form of ‘cap & trade’ I shall borrow some figures from British journalist Christopher Booker – a writer of sensible realities – to illustrate just how crippling this minimalist retro-culture will be to the American economy. <BR/>Even at this time America has five-times the wind turbine capacity of Britain, amounting to some 10,000 turbine eyesores over thousands of square miles. The total power from these things is 4.5GW which is only slightly more than one large coal-fired power station.<BR/>The economic cost of both candidate’s ‘cap & trade,’ to slash US greenhouse gas emissions to 63 percent below 2005 levels, is an estimated cost by 2030 of more than $600 Billion a year. This represents a cumulative loss to the US economy, from 2005 to 2030 (22 years) of a staggering, eye-watering $4.8 Trillion.<BR/>The US reserves of coal are at least 200 years. However, in state after state Green policies are treating coal like the plague – even natural gas and new-generation nuclear. <BR/>US government scientist are still firmly in the ‘warmist’ camp. They have prepared a 149-page report as part of a response to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling under the Clean Air Act. The report lays out the ‘grave risks’ that global warming poses, and that the EPA is mandated to regulate greenhouse gasses. This is the kicker, though: in a Supreme Court Judgement – Mass. v the US EPA, the Court rules that the EPA must treat all greenhouse gasses as ‘pollution’ to be regulated under America’s Clean Air Act. CO2 - the life giver and from every source - is to be mandated a pollution? <BR/>The implications of this ruling are hard to envisage; the sanity of such measures should be questioned by all as the economic consequences are grave, indeed. However, the two candidates march blindly in happy ignorance, oblivious that their acceptance of this policy of insanity which will all but doom America to a 2nd rate power. <BR/>When your lights start to go out, making the Texas black-out look like a dipped headlight, you’re there!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com