Monetizing the Effects of Carbon - from WUWT

What a brilliant rebuttal to the argument.  If we apply the same logic to all of the costs that are being heaped upon people for potential ecological degradation from human activity, we should also benefit from the benefits that those same human activities cause.  There is no justifiable reason not to look at all sides of an issue to come to a conclusion.  The laws of physics taught mankind long ago that for every action, there is a re-action.  Likewise, for every cost there is a benefit.

Enjoy the article and share widely.

YiT ~  Shelly

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Posted on January 11, 2013 by Willis Eschenbach

I see that the New York Times (NYT) is going to close their environmental desk. Given that there still are actual environmental problems on the planet, I consider the closing as a sad commentary on the hijacking of the environmental movement by carbon alarmists. CO2 alarmism has done huge damage to the environmental movement, and thus to the environment itself.

In any case, a few months ago in the NYT Green Blog they talked about “monetizing” the “social cost” of carbon. The article said:

In 2010, 12 government agencies working in conjunction with economists, lawyers and scientists, agreed to work out what they considered a coherent standard for establishing the social cost of carbon. The idea was that, in calculating the costs and benefits of pending policies and regulations, the Department of Transportation could not assume that a ton of emitted carbon dioxide imposed a $2 cost on society while the Environmental Protection Agency plugged 10 times that amount into its equations.

How does one “monetize” something, and what is a “social cost” when it is in its native habitat?

First, the easy one. A “social cost” is generally some estimated or inferred cost to society from something, in particular a cost that is not reflected in the price of the item itself. For example, alcohol has a social cost in the form of a variety of societal problems. That cost is not included in the raw ex-factory price of alcoholic beverages.

First, the easy one. A “social cost” is generally some estimated or inferred cost to society from something, in particular a cost that is not reflected in the price of the item itself. For example, alcohol has a social cost in the form of a variety of societal problems. That cost is not included in the raw ex-factory price of alcoholic beverages.

Next, to “monetize” a social cost means 1) to attach some monetary value to that social cost, and then 2) to attach that monetary value to the retail cost of the product in the form of an increased price. In the case of alcohol, that is usually done through government taxes. Sometimes, the revenue from these taxes is dedicated to ameliorating that social cost. In the case of alcohol, that might be in the form of alcohol dependence programs or clinics. Other times the income goes into the general fund.

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My second objection is that while people are often in a hurry to monetize the social costs of something, they rarely take the necessary other step. They rarely are in a hurry to monetize the social benefits of something. But if you do one, you have to do the other. After all, this is why it’s called a “cost/benefit” analysis …

I have even had someone seriously argue that there is no need to monetize the social benefits, because they were already included in the market price. After all, he argued, the reason we buy something is because of the perceived benefits. So they are already included in the price.

I find this argument singularly unconvincing. Some benefits are already included in the price, and some aren’t. Since a single counter-example will serve to disprove the general theorem, let me take a social benefit of CO2 as an example. This is the known effect of atmospheric CO2 levels on plants, which is that they increase their production with increasing atmospheric CO2. Obviously, nobody goes out and buys gasoline for their car in order to help the plants, so it is not included in the market price. However, increased plant growth is an undoubted social benefit, a huge one that affects the whole world. Therefore, it is an un-accounted for social benefit, one which does not get included in the price.

Click here to read the full story.

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The Extreme Weather Page

As advocates for common sense, it is incumbent upon us all to share the knowledge we find.  At the WUWT.com website, they have posted a series of statistical reports to debunk the claims that Co2 has led to a pattern of Extreme Weather (aka: global cooling, global warming, climate change).

Enjoy this resource and share widely.

YiT ~ Shelly

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“Extreme Weather” Page

Tropical Cyclones

Global Tropical Cyclone Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) – 1971 to Present

Ryan N. Maue PhD – PoliClimate.com – Click the pic to view at source

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Obama breaks another election year promise

Very shortly after the Presidential Election of 2012, President Obama’s Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, has announced that the Administration will shut out 2/3rd of the public land slated for oil shale development, will instead be closed to it.

Just a first in what is going to be another really long four years.

YIT ~ Shelly

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US limits oil-shale development in Rocky Mountains

By: PAUL FOY | Associated Press
Published: November 09, 2012

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The U.S. Department of the Interior scaled back a Bush administration plan Friday to lease Western range lands for development of oil shale and tar sands, the unconventional sources of oil found in pockets of the Rocky Mountains.

Federal officials said they were set to make 1,250 square miles of public land available for commercial leasing in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. That's a third of the range lands that President George W. Bush planned to offer, and the new administration said it was taking wilderness-quality lands off the table.

On paper, the Rocky Mountain oil shale deposits could yield a great abundance of oil more than 1 trillion barrels but environmental groups say it would involve ripping up public lands and depleting scarce sources of water. Political leaders in Arizona and Nevada and farmers worry about a diversion of Colorado River water. Big-game hunters oppose the intrusion of mining. Thousands of pages of comments have been filed on the plans.  Click here to read the full

LiveJournal Tags: Agenda 21,EPA,Energy,Secretary of the Interior,BLM,Salazar,Oil,Shale,Federal Land Oil Leases,Obama Administration

Rosa Koire of “Democrats Against Agenda 21” speaking at WWU

Rosa Koire, the author of “Behind the Green Mask” and the originator of the website, “Democrats Against Agenda 21,” will be speaking at WWU’s Arntzen Hall, on October 21st at 7:00 pm.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear her message, ask her the questions that need to be asked and spread the knowledge.

YiT ~ Shelly

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“Xcor” blasts off from California and lands safely in Texas

When states like California refuse to deal with their insanity it is only a matter of time till all of California is bankrupt.

YiT ~ Shelly

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LiveJournal Tags: California,Bill Whittle,Xcor,Texas,Insanity

We have clear choices for Washington State Governor

The Governor’s race in Washington State appears (to the uninformed) to be a two man race.  Well there are three people running for the Governor’s office in the State of Washington.  One of the three is a clear contrast from the other two, so if you believe as I do, that We the People need to elect principled leaders who understand, support and will defend our individual liberty (that’s ‘your” contractual guarantee to retain “your” civil liberties), then please consider spreading the word that there is a third candidate and his name is “Shahram Hadian”.

YiT ~  Shelly

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Go to “Hadian for Governor” and check his credentials for yourself.

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Communitarianism is the new vision for Communism ~ for “You”

Found this article on the Whatcom Excavator and decided to put together a collage of items that show how this is not a hoax.  This is not a joke.  This is a plan which has been well thought out, well funded, global in scope and well on its way.

YiT ~  Shelly

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Link to “Whatcom 2031”, the Whatcom County visioning plan for implementation of Agenda 21 into the local planning for Whatcom County.

Link to “Envision Skagit 2060”, the Skagit County visioning plan for implementation of Agenda 21 into the local planning for Skagit County.

Link to “Transforming America”, by Henry Lamb – “The endgame of sustainable development”

“Behind the Green Mask”, Rosa Koire speaking on the ACTION plan of Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development.  The Agenda for the 21st Century.

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“GREEN” is the new “RED”

What more do we need to know that hasn’t already been exposed?  The green movement was infiltrated and taken over by the red movement.  It was a perfect marriage.  The green movement is religiously based to the point of zealotry, but they insist that their Gaia worship is nothing like the Christian, Jewish, Catholic, Muslim or any other “faith” based worship.  The red movement is based in atheism, so they were easily able to merge into a “watermelon”.

As anyone who takes the time to deeply understand a watermelon, it’s tasty, juicy, sweet and there’s absolutely no nutritional value to it.

Are you fed-up with “greenies” influential take-over of local government and legislating a faith based, enviro-economy, that is bankrupting us all?  I am!

YiT ~  Shelly

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‘GREEN IS THE NEW RED:’ GBTV DISCUSSES GLOBAL WARMING AND RADICAL FACTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTALISM

• Posted on June 22, 2012 at 8:29pm by Christopher Santarelli
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The U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development closed Friday in Rio de Janeiro after having brought 100 world leaders and more than 45,000 people to Brazil to discuss reconciling economic and environmental aspirations. While the global summit itself has already cost tens of millions of dollars, world-wide adoption of far-reaching policy to address global warming may end up costing more. Glenn Beck sat down with several authors and analysts during his broadcast Friday who are skeptical of global warming and the effects of policy aimed at advocating green jobs. Twenty years ago the U.N. held the same summit in Rio that would give birth to a renewed enthusiasm in environmentalism and global warming awareness. The panel on GBTV Friday broke down the views and policy advocated by activists coming out of Rio in 1992, and how their predictions have proven to be inconsistent and extremely expensive.

Click here to read the full story and find the video.

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Green ‘drivel’ exposed

The godfather of global warming lowers the boom on climate change hysteria

BY LORRIE GOLDSTEIN ,TORONTO SUN

FIRST POSTED: SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2012 10:56 AM EDT | UPDATED: SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2012 03:45 PM EDT

James Lovelock is a world-renowned scientist and environmentalist.

Two months ago, James Lovelock, the godfather of global warming, gave a startling interview to msnbc.com in which he acknowledged he had been unduly “alarmist” about climate change.

The implications were extraordinary.

Lovelock is a world-renowned scientist and environmentalist whose Gaia theory — that the Earth operates as a single, living organism — has had a profound impact on the development of global warming theory.

Unlike many “environmentalists,” who have degrees in political science, Lovelock, until his recent retirement at age 92, was a much-honoured working scientist and academic.

His inventions have been used by NASA, among many other scientific organizations.

Lovelock’s invention of the electron capture detector in 1957 first enabled scientists to measure CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and other pollutants in the atmosphere, leading, in many ways, to the birth of the modern environmental movement.

Having observed that global temperatures since the turn of the millennium have not gone up in the way computer-based climate models predicted, Lovelock acknowledged, “the problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago.” Now, Lovelock has given a follow-up interview to the UK’s Guardian newspaper in which he delivers more bombshells sure to anger the global green movement, which for years worshipped his Gaia theory and apocalyptic predictions that billions would die from man-made climate change by the end of this century.

Click here to read the full story.

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Is it any wonder?

When we indoctrinate the youth to believe unsubstantiated, thus false science as truth in our K-12 education, in our halls of higher learning, is it any wonder that the suicide rate is up?  Is it any wonder that the artistic community has turned to darkness?  Is this what we send our children to school for?  Wake-up and smell the hypocrisy that has been written into our text books, sold to the educators and is causing the next generation to believe that they are a cancer to “Mother Earth”.

YiT ~  Shelly

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Give Youth A Hug ~ Share Scientific Truth Not Scientific Fear

The brain washing that has, is and continues to happen to today’s youth is infuriating.  When unproven propaganda is put out as truth and facts of science, it has a devastating effect on our youth.  Science has an obligation to only publish that which is provable through scientific process, not “scientific outcomes of a potential effect”.

WUWT published this piece that stems from a publication put out by the “IEA” on the “potential” for an 11 degrees Fahrenheit increase in earth’s temperature by 2050.  The earth’s overall temperature has increased less than 1 degree Fahrenheit since the turn of the century “and” the oceans have only risen 6 mm (the equivalent of the thickness of ‘6’ fingernails – as stated by Dr. Don Easterbrook, local Emeritus Professor of Geology), plus the provable fact that the global temperature has trended cooler since 1998.  This makes my heart ache for the youth of the world who are being lied to for the goals of UN A21 for Sustainable Development.

Give our Youth a hug.  Share the truth with them.  Show them the science they can trust, not the hope of those who want to control their lives with fear of the future.

YiT ~  Shelly

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A student in despair over Romm’s 11°F temperature increase article – if this comment was reversed, it would be called a ‘death threat’

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Anthony Watts

This is sad. Joe Romm promotes another overt fabrication, and some poor kid writes in despair, hoping all the “oil/coal people” here die “a horrible death, preferably caused by climate disasters”. If that were sent to somebody at ANU, it would by the Appell/Stokes rule, be declared a “death threat”. Since it’s on Romm’s site, the poster gets sympathy and counseling instead of admonishment. See below.

First, Romm’s reporting of an overt fabrication of 11°F temperature rise by 2050 by Fatih Birol.

Fatih Birol, the Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency, at a conference in Vienna, 22 June 2009. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The claim of 11°F  comes from this Reuters news article . It cites Fatih Birol, the chief economist of the IEA, who says:

“When I look at this data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius (by 2050), which would have devastating consequences for the planet,” Fatih Birol, IEA’s chief economist told Reuters.

Of course 6°C =11°F, and given the climate sensitivity figures bandied around by the IPCC, there doesn’t seem any way these numbers can pencil out.

Hans von Storch writes on Die Klimazwiebel that this is “pure alarmism”:

A forth interesting issue is that climate science has become irrelevant; it shows up in passing, when “limit devastating climate effects like crop failure and melting glaciers” is mentioned, and the quote “the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius (by 2050)” is made.This is a pretty bold prediction, given that we have so far less than 1 degree warming since pre-industrial times, so that the warming must be more than 5 degrees/38 years, i.e., about 0.7-0.8 deg/decade. I consider this pure alarmism, which is related to the timing, and a misuse of scientific analysis for creating some unsustainable short term drama for the Bonn-negotiations.

I wonder if this 6-degrees claim is really from IEA, or just an addition by Fatih Birol, because is no not mentioned in the IEA’s announcement.

Even Joshua Halpern, aka “Eli Rabbet”, says in comments the claim by Birol makes no sense:

Not having a BS detector that works on himself, Romm runs with it, embellishing it with this bit of propaganda:

As Birol said of 11°F warming late last year, “Even School Children Know This Will Have Catastrophic Implications for All of Us.” If only school children ran the country.

And following his rant, we get this comment first up from a school age child:

And not one person in the thread following that comment, not Halpern, nor even Romm himself, says anything about the death wish, or even suggests to the poor kid that saying such things are unacceptable. There’s agreement in the silence.

I have to wonder though, if this commenter has ever driven or ridden in a car, or used electricity made from coal. Maybe he/she thinks such things are powered by the grace of the green energy fairy.

If the situation were reversed, Romm, Appell, Halpern, and the whole cast of haters would be all over it as yet another example of how terrible skeptics are.

Their double standard behavior is disturbing. Romm should be ashamed of himself, but he won’t be, because he’s paid a six figure salary to promote this garbage.

LiveJournal Tags: Agenda 21,Deception,EPA,Environment,ICLEI,Regulations,Responsibility,Fraud,WUWT,IEA,International Energy Agency

Lord Christopher Monckton–Agenda 21 & Environmental Marxism

The awareness of the global plan to impose Marxism on a global scale is growing.  Every day I see more people, bloggers and politicians, who are acknowledging its existence.

This quote comes directly from the United Nation’s online publication of the treaty on, “Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development”:

Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced - a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action to be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.

It is my firm belief that my comments are unnecessary.  You know that that thing you’ve been unable to put into words, with regards to the eroding conditions of the United States and other first world countries, is easily recognizable within the language of UN treaty, “A21 for Sustainable Development.”  This treaty will never be ratified and approved by our elected representatives in Washington DC, our States or even our Local Governments.  But!  As they continually impose the goals of UN/A21 for Sustainable Development through bits and pieces of regulations, this soft law is becoming the law of the land from sea to shining sea.

Push back, America!  Without our rights endowed upon us through our Constitutions and Charters, we will have no future for ourselves and our children.

YIT ~  Shelly

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Lord Christopher Monckton on Agenda 21

Another piece of knowledge to help you recognize and push back against the UN/A21 for Sustainable Development.

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“MY KINGDOM FOR MORE LEADERS LIKE McCUNE”

Enjoy this State of Washington Legislative update from  .  If you find Rep. McCune’s bent on how things should be in the State of Washington, please consider contacting him and for sure donate time or money to keep principled representative’s like McCune in office!

Yours In Truth ~  Shelly

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A message from Rep. Jim McCune, May 10, 2012

Dear Friends,

We are finally receiving some nice weather and I’m glad to hear the lawnmowers and trimmers fired up in the neighborhoods. There are many of us still cleaning up from the winter storms. It would be much more convenient if we didn’t have so many restrictions on how we utilize and care for our private property.

My office has received many calls from constituents commenting and lamenting on how boxed-in they feel with the never-ceasing rules and regulations directing their behavior. Authority over the use of our natural resources has been intertwined with many agencies—governmental and non-governmental. It’s rather sad that we must have permission to put overhangs on our shops to keep water off our equipment, or remove a fallen tree that is creating a water hazard, and that we could be fined for cutting down a tree on our own property. The stories are never-ending.

It’s difficult to comprehend how America (and the globe) became so enamored with the term “sustainability,” the rule-making system in place that guides policies. By reviewing the history of the concept and the background of those who funded, wrote and promoted the concept, we can see a pattern that is too obvious to ignore.

There are many pieces to understanding “sustainability.” Start by checking out the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 in the United Kingdom (UK). It is famous for a number of its provisions. It greatly strengthened the control of local authorities over planning and land use. You can see sample chapters here. Please note the watermark UNESCO-EOLSS. The provisions in this document read like provisions in America. How did they get here?

Tracing “sustainability” is easy. Just go to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Web site. What is difficult is understanding why America is embracing and implementing this foreign agenda, not to mention sifting through the voluminous pages of research and information about it. For a visual explanation, watch this video. Yes, gaining this knowledge will require a good chunk of your time, but without this knowledge, we will continue to give away our individual rights that were given to us through the blood of our ancestors, and destroy the fabric of our liberty guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Washington State Constitution.

In earlier e-mail updates, I cited information about the Earth Charter (look under non-governmental organizations) and how our own Department of Ecology promotes it on their Web site. Here is an easy-to-read article from the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law that explains the Earth Charter. A constitution for the environment has been written. You can read all about it and more here. For a short synopsis, click here.

According to Noah Webster, “sustainable” means: That may be sustained or maintained. The action is not sustainable. What does “sustainability” mean today? It means a new norm for ethical living described by Gro Harlem Brundtland (first Vice-President of the Socialist International and then prime minister of Norway) in her report, Our Common Future. “Sustainability” is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. We are told that painful choices have to be made. Thus, in the final analysis, sustainable development must rest on political will. Who will define what our “needs” are? We must determine whose code of ethics we shall live by—those of our Founders or a global mix of confusion?

EDUCATION

How does education fit in with the “sustainable” agenda?

What is the focus of education today? Factual knowledge? As a reminder, here is the link to a speech by Dr. Shirley McCune (former OSPI employee under Terry Bergeson) discussing the restructuring of schools and telling us that education is no longer about teaching facts. Note, this astounding and applauded speech was back in 1989. An article titled A Changing Vision of Education by Nancy Carlsson-Paige and Linda Lantieri mirrors the vision described by Dr. Shirley McCune in her lecture. Does her philosophy align with your understanding of the purpose of education?

Now we have the federal government promising grant money to states that adopt Common Core State Standards (CCSS). We have Marc Tucker’s American Agenda for Education Reform. Marc Tucker designed the failed WASL. Marc Tucker (pg. 6) is famous for his “Dear Hillary” letter. Here is additional background on Marc Tucker’s influence on our country’s educational system, including RTTT and CCSS. Why is he considered an expert? There is no shortage of information on this subject.

BUDGETS (State and Federal)

As I mentioned in my end-of-session mailer, because of my concerns with the very low reserve it left, I could not support the supplemental budget. I also feel we can do a better job of controlling our spending. The federal government is setting a poor example for states and all entities. It is important you know what the budget breakdown looks like at the federal level. There is a trickledown effect. The state relies on a great amount of money from the federal government. The current debt at the federal level is $13 trillion. You can find a budget breakdown here: Background on Budget and Economy.

TRANSPORTATION

My interest in the history of our state’s Growth Management Act (GMA) led me to a very interesting interview with former Rep. Joe King. He said he was stuck in traffic and wanted to do something about unplanned growth. That was 25 years ago. Is the plan (GMA) that was put in place working?

Recently, I watched an eye-opening presentation (starting at 49 min. mark) by Wendell Cox about our region’s transportation and land-use policies. The Seattle Times ran his article titled “Region’s transportation and land-use policies have little effect on traffic congestion.” It’s an excellent read!

WOODSTOVE LEGISLATION

I have received a number of calls on House Bill 2326, the woodstove burning bill. I want to clarify that I did not support this measure. The legislation gives the Department of Ecology authority over woodstove use, particularly uncertified woodstoves. Apparently, parts of Pierce County did not meet federal air quality standards about 10 days each year. It amounts to more government intervention in our personal lives.

ELECTION-YEAR RESTRICTIONS

I want to remind you that because this is an election year, my legislative communications to you are restricted. After May 11, I am no longer allowed to send e-mail updates, such as this one. Hopefully, there is enough information in this e-mail to keep you busy for several months. After June 30, I am unable to initiate communications with constituents by mail or e-mail unless you contact me about an issue or request information. If you contact me, I can respond as a normal course of my work as your legislator. The mailing restrictions will remain in place until Dec. 1, 2012.

I appreciate all your support during my time in the Legislature. Please continue to contact me during the interim if you have any concerns, comments or need assistance with a state issue.

Sincerely,

Jim McCune
State Representative
jim.mccune@leg.wa.gov
www.houserepublicans.wa.gov/McCune/
(253) 536-6088

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Are You Part of the Problem? Or, Are You Part of the Solution?

This video says it all…why mess with perfection.

YiT ~  Shelly

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Buffett Profits from Keystone Pipeline Shut-Out

When oil platforms were turned out of the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama Administration was quick to seek favor with the country of Brazil ($5bil of favor) to import crude oil to the United States.  Of course that didn’t happen, because the Brazilian’s took our $5bil and then contracted with the Chinese to refine their crude oil.

Now that the Obama Administration has sided with the EPA and asked to leave the Keystone pipeline decision for after the 2012 elections, it has been ascertained that one person is positioned to potentially profit from this decision.  Warren Buffett.  Buffett’s empire has been buying into “railroads” and if the Canadian’s don’t get too peeved off at the US for shutting down the pipeline, they could likely sign-on with Buffett’s railroad to transport their oil for refining in the US or Mexico.  It would be a much more expensive venture for the Canadian’s, than a pipeline (over the long term) would be, but it is do-able. Or, the Canadian’s could choose to build a pipeline westward in Canada and export the crude oil to China.  China is knocking on Canada’s door to sign a “long term” contract with them to purchase Canadian oil for refining in China.

Only time will tell, but the big losers here are all of the jobs the creation of the Keystone pipeline would create, the immediate economic boost from energy stability for the US and the greatest benefit of all is that we retain and improve our bonds with Canada.

Time will tell and I, for one, pray that the pipeline issue continues to be made by those who understand the great benefit to the people of the United States.

YiT,  Shelly

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Buffett would profit from Keystone cancellation

By Dave Boyer

The Washington Times

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 ~ Warren Buffett

 

Warren Buffett, whom President Obama likes to cite as a fair-minded billionaire while arguing for higher taxes on the wealthy, stands to benefit from the president’s decision to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.

Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. owns Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, which is among the railroads that would transport oil produced in western Canada if the pipeline isn’t built.

“Whatever people bring to us, we’re ready to haul,” Krista York-Wooley, a spokeswoman for Burlington Northern, a unit of Buffett’s Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., told Bloomberg News. If Keystone XL “doesn’t happen, we’re here to haul,” she said.

Click here to read the full story…

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Let Congress Know How “You” Want to be Represented

Speaker Boehner is asking to hear from you on the Keystone Pipeline proposal.

The Keystone Pipeline endeavor has been in the works for three years, has passed approval of the EPA,is solely funded by private capital, but is being prevented from passage by the Obama Administration’s failure to act on it.  The Obama Administration has the opportunity to give a “thumbs up” yes, or a “thumbs down” no.  The fact is that Obama wants this to be a plus for his 2012 campaign by appearing to be against the project now, but soon after his election he is expected to approve the project to reward the labor vote.

The United States needs reliable energy sources now, reliable jobs now, without being a puppet to the politicians and their elections.

Let Congress, Senate and the Obama Administration know how you feel.  Is a Social Security temporary tax reduction of $40.00 per week (which further risks that Social Security will become insolvent, sooner) a positive thing for government to be concerned with?  Or, should our elected representatives get out of the way of a private venture that will bring energy, jobs and much needed tax revenue to states and federal coffers?

YiT,  Shelly

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VIDEO: If You Were President – And Could Help Create Thousands of Jobs – What Would You Do?

Posted by Bryant Avondoglio, Don Seymour, and Michael Ricci on January 12, 2012

What would you do if you were president and, with one decision, could help create at least 20,000 jobs in the United States?

That’s the question posed by a new video released 21 days after President Obama signed legislation giving him until February 21st to decide on the popular Keystone XL pipeline extension.

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Federal Energy Regulators vote for Wind Power, against Hydro-Electric Power. Greenie wins. The Collective Loses.

With judicial rulings that favor wind power over hydro-electric power, how does the collective (you and me) benefit? Hydro-electric power is very clean and very renewable, but the wisdom of the “Feds” is apparently bent to support “green” energy technology that is under developed, inefficient and far more expensive than hydro-electric energy.  Too bad for us, great for the “greenies”.

In today’s world, where we hear hues and cries for the exploding costs of life's necessities, common sense would side with doing that which is best for the collective, by keeping costs for energy down to the lowest possible dollar.  Energy is the basis for “everything”, thus it affects the costs and availability of everything that the collective needs and uses. 

Is it any wonder that Bill Gates has chosen China to develop new technology for nuclear power?  The United States is the least friendly place on earth to develop inexpensive, stable, reliable energy sources.  The current Federal energy policy and those appointed to the Energy Department, need a house cleaning to rid the cobwebs from the minds of the entrenched lunatics that currently reside there.

YiT,  Shelly

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Regulators tell Bonneville Power Administration to stop pulling the plug on wind farms

Published: Wednesday, December 07, 2011, 12:25 PM     Updated: Wednesday, December 07, 2011, 4:42 PM

By Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian

Thomas Boyd/The OregonianWind turbines in eastern Oregon in 2008. Federal funds will boost renewable energy development in the state.

Federal energy regulators told the Bonneville Power Administration Wednesday that it can no longer discriminate against wind farm owners by cutting off their transmission during periods of excess electricity generation in the region.
The decision is a rare defeat for the federal power marketing agency, which sells electricity generated at 31 federal hydroelectric projects in the region to 140 public utilities. BPA also controls three quarters of the high voltage transmission system in the Northwest.
During last spring's massive runoff, BPA adopted a policy of curtailing generation by wind farms in the region when there was too much power going into the grid, and substituting its own hydropower for free to satisfy those winds farms' contracts with customers. Click here to read the full story.

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All Politics is Local ~ Anti-Growth measures are best fought at the local level to protect liberty

“All politics is local”, is a well tread slogan, by former Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill. 

What that means is that the real power in politics is at the local level.  This is born out in the fact that the ability to affect the economy of a community has always been at the behest of the locally elected politicians.  Local politicians whine and moan that they have to do things the local property owners object to, because the State or Federal government forces them to.  The reality is that they do these things in order to get funding from the State or Federal government(s), not because they have to.  If our local communities were to live within their economic means, their tax base, then the State or Federal government could do very little to force them to over regulate the individual rights and liberties of private citizens.

Enjoy this well written article that warns us of the dangers of Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development (A21), but explains that it is not A21 that we must fear.  What we must protect ourselves from is the growing number of NGO’s who dangle the carrot stick of money, to fund the ever growing desires of local politicians to bring home the bacon, even if it means hog tying their citizens to an international agenda, through local regulations.

YiT,  Shelly

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United Nations

Focus on Agenda 21 Should Not Divert Attention from Homegrown Anti-Growth Policies

By Wendell Cox , Ronald Utt, Ph.D. and Brett Schaefer
December 1, 2011

Abstract: Agenda 21, a voluntary plan adopted at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, unabashedly calls on governments to intervene and regulate nearly every potential impact that human activity could have on the environment. However, Agenda 21 is non-binding; it depends on governments for implementation. If opponents focus excessively on Agenda 21, it is much more likely that homegrown smart-growth policies that undermine the quality of life, personal choice, and property rights in American communities will be implemented by local, state, and federal authorities at the behest of environmental groups and other vested interests. Preventing American implementation of Agenda 21 should therefore be viewed as only one part of a broader effort to convince U.S. government officials to repeal destructive smart-growth programs and prevent the enactment of new ones.

Radical environmentalists, local business groups, and the ever-present Not in My Backyard crowd have been trying for decades to reshape American communities to conform to their preferred “smart growth” policies. These advocates work to impose land use regulations that would force Americans into denser living arrangements, curtail freedom of choice in housing, discriminate against lower-income Americans, and compel people to pay more for their houses and give up their cars in favor of subways, trolleys, buses, and bicycles.

Clean Coal is not a Myth?

Ask any thinking person, what is the nucleus to economic health?  If they really are a thinking person they know the answer is energy. That is why it is every thinking persons responsibility to fully understand what, where, how and when to stop the insanity of bankrupting not just the United States, but the world, with investments into “green energy” that’s not really “green” and costs multiple times more than the readily available forms of coal, gas, hydro and nuclear energies.

Enjoy this new article from Watts Up With That? on the untold story of “clean coal” and how the main stream scientists, media, and, oh yeah!, the Obama Administration, ignores that which is staring them in the face.

Yit,  Shelly

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Coal – confirmed by NASA as getting cleaner

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Anthony Watts

Oh Dear, It’s another Joe Romm head exploder. The improvement is verified by satellite data and the results are peer reviewed. Yet the EPA still insists on closing coal plants nationwide.

NASA Satellite Confirms Sharp Decline in Pollution from U.S. Coal Power Plants

A team of scientists have used the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite to confirm major reductions in the levels of a key air pollutant generated by coal power plants in the eastern United States. The pollutant, sulfur dioxide, contributes to the formation of acid rain and can cause serious health problems.

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And even more evidence…

Japanese Satellites say 3rd World Owes CO2 Reparations to The West

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Well, in a somewhat bizarre twist, it looks like I must reconsider my opposition to CO2 reparations. The notion that the evil sources of CO2 “pollution” must pay those who are lowering the planet’s CO2 levels.

It seems that the Japanese have a nice tool on orbit and set out to figure out who was a “maker” and who was a “taker” in the CO2 production / consumption game. (h/t to kuhnkat in an o.t. comment. Seems they found out that CO2 was largely net absorbed in the industrialized ‘west’ and net created in the ’3rd world’. So pony up the cash, China, Brazil, and Africa. I want my environmental compensation!

This isn’t that much of a surprise to me. I’d figured out some time ago that trees and bamboo could consume far more CO2 than I “produce” via burning oil and gas. I’ve also pointed out that The West is largely letting trees grow, while mowing our lawns and having the clippings “sequestered” in land fills (along with an untold tonnage of phone books and junk mail…) while the 3rd world is busy burning and cutting down their forests. The simple fact is that “jungle rot” will beat out my “gallon a day” of Diesel any time. Basically, we in the west grow far more wheat, corn, soybeans, wood, lawns, shrubs, etc. than we burn oil. In the 3rd world, they burn their sequestering plants. (And it takes one heck of a lot more wood to cook a meal than it does coal via a highly efficient furnace / electric generator / microwave oven.) But it’s nice to see it documented in aggregate in the “facts in the air”

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Climategate Part 2.0

Time to shake off the bird and get back to the business of sharing the news that get very little coverage in the mainstream press (even though this article comes directly from Forbes Online) for those of us who have enough common sense to know when we’re being treated like sheep.

Today I’ve brought you a number of items all related to the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)  ”fraud” and how it relates to the United Nations, Cap & Trade, which all leads back to…you guessed it!, Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development.  Enjoy this article from Forbes and a short video from Lord Monkton, who is a leader in unearthing the fraud of AGW.

Back in late 2009, it took the concerted effort of the blogging world to share email’s that were hacked from the scientist’s who are purportedly the experts on “anthropogenic (human caused) climate change” (AGW).  These emails exposed the conscious effort to manipulate the data that the “global warming  spewing” scientists, had compiled.  They sought to discredit scientists they’d coined as “climate change skeptics”, bar any of research that conflicted with their research from being published in well read scientific publications, destroy, or consider to destroy, personal communication between themselves and other scientists who collaborated in this deception, and refuse to comply with any FOIA requests on their research.

Apparently there has been a “document dump” of 5000 emails from the discredited scientists.  So hang-in there all of us AGW skeptics, because they’re already finding more explicit proof of their efforts to keep the threat of catastrophic AGW at the forefront and keep the tax payers money flowing into their fraudulent research.  Can you say…we told you so?

I for one would like to know when all of this AGW deception to further advance Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development and the continuing encroachment on our private property rights is going to stop?  When will our elected representatives go back to pre-AGW threats and restore our private property rights?  It’s time for good people to demand that this happens, and soon.  All of this fraud has and continues to bankrupt people, counties, cities, states and countries, who’ve adopted the “green” hope.  “Going green” has destroyed the free markets and our ability to advance as free people with inalienable rights to our property.

Please be sure to click on the links embedded within my post to learn more about Climategate 2.0.

YiT,  Shelly

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Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global Warming Debate

A new batch of 5,000 emails among scientists central to the assertion that humans are causing a global warming crisis were anonymously released to the public yesterday, igniting a new firestorm of controversy nearly two years to the day after similar emails ignited the Climategate scandal.                      (Image via Wikipedia)

Three themes are emerging from the newly released emails: (1) prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions; (2) these scientists view global warming as a political “cause” rather than a balanced scientific inquiry and (3) many of these scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.

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