Nancy Pelosi would apparently do just about anything. Closed-door strong-arming of Representatives in the Oval Office with not only the President but his whole family on hand Thursday night while Waxman frantically threw together another 300-page amendment, passing out Dove bars and other concessionary amendments to special interests, kicking Al Gore out of Washington so as not to remind folks that H.R. 2454 wouldn’t be on the table without the false premise of global warming, and forcing an ill-prepared House to a hasty vote as the truth begins to bubble up; all so she could say, “We passed transformational legislation which takes us into the future.”
Well, Nancy, I don’t think the future you’re envisioning, the one in which your stock in CLNE makes you even richer and Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management makes him even richer (with the help of none other than Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson; just in case you ever wondered why Goldman Sachs didn’t do a Wall Street meltdown, too) is quite as sure a bet any more.
Friday’s House vote to increase American’s tax burden passed by a very slim margin. As we’ve already noted, it swung on the political suicide votes of 8 Republicans who threw their constituents under the Obama short bus, and bodes ill for the 44 Democrats who did the right thing and voted against it. (Votes which, ironically and also previously noted, were for a bill that didn’t even exist; I strongly suggest that, no matter where you live, calls be made tomorrow to the 8 Republican traitors telling them to change their vote since they have 5 days in which to do so.) The gibbering House monkeys swing on their ropes much farther to the left than do the more conservative mindsets in the Senate so its less-than-stellar passage leaves the door open for what some are already acknowledging as its Senate defeat.
And such defeat certainly seems more and more possible as word gets out that turning pollution into a commodity, with trading managed by new companies formed by those with vested, political interests (Al Gore, GE, etc.) as well as Wall Street’s Geithner-overseen involvement, solely to “maybe” reduce the Earth’s temperature by 2/10 of a degree in some 50 years but significantly increasing the cost of everything touched by recession-struggling American hands today is, to quote sensible Ohio Representative John Boehner, “a piece of shit”.
This can’t be very comforting to the Polar Bear Specialist Group (a set up under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission), who is meeting right now to figure out how to further their own agenda. An agenda that – how else? – hinges on monies coming from those who believe in the myth of global warming.
What is most telling is not who will be there, but instead, who will not. Dr. Mitchell Taylor, a renouned Canadian biologist who has studied the polar bear for 30 years, was told his presence is not welcome. Why? Why wouldn’t a polar bear “specialist group” want the credibility of someone who knows polar bears inside and out? Trust the British to give us the scoop:
Dr Taylor had obtained funding to attend this week’s meeting of the PBSG, but this was voted down by its members because of his views on global warming. The chairman, Dr Andy Derocher, a former university pupil of Dr Taylor’s, frankly explained in an email (which I was not sent by Dr Taylor) that his rejection had nothing to do with his undoubted expertise on polar bears: “it was the position you’ve taken on global warming that brought opposition”.
Dr Taylor was told that his views running “counter to human-induced climate change are extremely unhelpful“. His signing of the Manhattan Declaration – a statement by 500 scientists that the causes of climate change are not CO2 but natural, such as changes in the radiation of the sun and ocean currents – was “inconsistent with the position taken by the PBSG“.
That’s right. Dr. Taylor’s research disproves the global warming theory so he is now become persona non grata.
Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee. More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. Of the 19 different bear populations, almost all are increasing or at optimum levels, only two have for local reasons modestly declined.
Dr Taylor agrees that the Arctic has been warming over the last 30 years. But he ascribes this not to rising levels of CO2 – as is dictated by the computer models of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and believed by his PBSG colleagues – but to currents bringing warm water into the Arctic from the Pacific and the effect of winds blowing in from the Bering Sea.
And it seems that those currents aren’t a long-term problem, either:
The average temperature at [Arctic] midsummer is still below zero, the latest date that this has happened in 50 years of record-keeping. After last year’s recovery from its September 2007 low, this year’s ice melt is likely to be substantially less than for some time.
Recovery. Nice word, isn’t it? I’m sure it’s a big relief to these poster children of Al Gore and all the environmentist groups who have used them to encourage you to part with your hard-earned dollars to donate in support their “fight global warming” efforts, too:
But this amazing image isn’t what those who want your donations would have you believe. It was discredited 2 years ago. Al Gore and the “charities” in support of the global warming myth first used this photograph in their propoganda, saying it had been taken by “Canadian environmentalists”. A big, fat, bald-faced lie.
The student who took the photograph…gives a slightly different account: ‘They were on the ice when we found them and on the ice when we left. They were healthy, fat and seemed comfortable on their iceberg.’
Amanda Byrd, an Australian graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), says she took the picture around three years ago – in the summer. The photograph was not ‘taken by environmentalists’ but as part of a field trip with the university [ 2004].
Over the past few months the photo has been published widely as a snapshot of the dangers of global warming.
Byrd is clearly a little miffed that ‘the image you have seen around the world was distributed without my consent, and [with] the wrong byline’.
I bring up this “old news” (at least I hope it’s old news to you) because it’s yet another clear demonstration of the lengths to which some, including Obama and the current administration (now including transnationalist State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh, who the Senate snuck into place while Americans were watching “breaking news” that Michael Jackson was still dead or trying to convince the House to squash the “Energy bill”), are willing to go to cram cap & trade down America’s throat. It’s horribly sad that no one is safe from exploitation – not scientists, not students, not innocent polar bears – by those whose only goal in life is to get as much money and control over other people as possible.
These people have got to go.