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The Obama Legacy: Democracy Perverted by "Green" Corruption?

Read here. Obama and the Democrats want Americans to believe that their policies are about saving the world from global warming and at the same time creating green jobs. Unfortunately, the science proves that cutting U.S. CO2 emissions will do nothing to global temperatures, and what about green jobs? The "green jobs" farce is, well,.... er, a farce.

So, what is the goal of the Obama administration if the actual science and real economics reveal administration fanciful claims to be false?

Well, investments in solar and other alternative investments do have a "green" payback for a select few..... 

"For more than a decade a Silicon Valley venture capitalist has been going to Washington as an ambassador from the high-tech industry, donating along with his wife about $800,000 to Democrats since 2000....[his] interests in Beltway policies deepened, as he bet hundreds of millions of dollars in private capital on green-energy start-ups, many of which were seeking federal subsidies and regulatory aid....Obama's energy gurus rely on advice from campaign donors, lobbyists, corporations, think tanks, unions and environmentalists to help shape policies. Once again, there are questions about whether a new President's approach to energy is a product of Washington's unchanged, pay-to-play culture in which political supporters are offered special access to the policymaking process."  

Will Cutting Fossil Fuel Use Save The World & Create "Green Jobs"? The Farce That The Leftist Progressives Keep Pushing

Read here. One has to be significantly brain-impaired to actually believe what's being shoveled out by the Obama administration and the special interests (big $$ lobbyists) on jobs, energy and climate. As the article points out, the politician's "green jobs" are not necessarily real jobs, as a typical taxpayer might presume.

"While the phrase "green jobs" evokes organic farmers and wind turbine repairmen, there is no clear, common definition of what a "green" job is. Without one, special-interest lobbying will transform even well-intentioned programmes. Consider corn-based ethanol, a technology with no redeeming features. Corn-based ethanol is bad for the environment, placing unsustainable demands on water supplies and increasing harmful farming practices. It is bad for people, raising corn prices for some of the world's poorest people. It provides little, if any, environmental benefit, with a net energy gain often close to or even below zero (the exact amount depends on the weather during the growing season, among other things). Yet corn-based ethanol has received billions in taxpayer support and continues to be favoured in so-called "green" energy legislation...." 

Have a few minutes to learn more? Watch this video on politicians' favored "green energy," which supposedly produces "green jobs":

 

The Hypocrisy (and Greed) of Shell Oil's CEO: He Gets A Major Fisking For His Climate Crocodile Tears

Read here. Major corporations that join big government in an effort to control and manage and tax the economy, energy, healthcare and the climate are the true enemies of Americans' freedoms and liberties. Much like how Hitler and his National Socialism associates provided business/financial incentives to German executives to participate in the Nazi regime, we now have large corporations being incentivized to join forces with Obama's statist policies, which are the antithesis of free market principles, and individual free choice. 

Shell Oil is a major corporate player that has eagerly turned to this dark side, literally betraying its customers, individuals and small businesses with its support of 'cap & trade'. To see how the Shell CEO rationalizes this type of behavior, read the article - it's excellent.

"This is just a green variant of what Friedrich Hayek called the “fatal conceit,” the belief that the “best and brightest” know what the “next big thing” is, and therefore should be allowed to rig the market via mandates, taxes, and subsidies to create the infrastructure of the future. Just describing this mindset should be enough to discredit it. If Odum and others are the visionaries they profess to be, they could all make a killing just by putting their money where their collective mouth is. Instead, they lobby for policy privileges because the future they envision utterly depends on the triumph of politics over markets. Their plan would lead to a net loss of jobs and wealth..."

Oh, and btw, quit buying any Shell products if you find their anti-consumer, self-greed behavior revolting (or, any of these other corporations listed below....firms with red lines gave up on the "One" and came back to their pro-consumer senses.)

 

The Great Plains Soil Research: N. America's Roman & Medieval Periods Warmer Than Modern Temperatures

Read here. More scientific evidence that modern temperatures are not "unprecedented" as claimed by the IPCC and the Climategate scientists. (click image to enlarge)

 "....developed a time series of C4 vs. C3 plant dynamics for the past 12,000 14C years in the mixed and shortgrass prairie of the U.S. Great Plains; and because the percent soil carbon derived from C4 plants "corresponds strongly with summer temperatures as reflected in the soil carbon pool," as they [Nordt et al.] describe it, they were able to derive a history of the relative warmth of the region that indicates that the peak warmth of the Medieval Warm Period was slightly greater than it has yet to be during the Current Warm Period." [Nordt, L., von Fischer, J., Tieszen, L. and Tubbs, J. 2008.]

More historical charts here. Other climate history postings here. Modern temperature charts. 

Any Connection? Obama's Labor Thugs Embrace Global Warming Idiocy; Unions Now Sink To New Low In Gallup Poll

Read here and here. As Democrats and unions march in lockstep with anti-growth, anti-jobs, anti-consumer, anti-business, anti-choice and anti-democracy initiatives, it is becoming clearer that Americans are getting fed up with leftist/socialist leaders of the unions. 

As more Americans come to realize that union leaders support massive energy price increases and higher corporate taxes (which will be passed onto consumers) in order to battle the fake global-warming crisis, approval of unions will plummet even further.

 

Canadian Research: Medieval Warming Tree Line Over 50 Miles Farther North Than Current One

Read here. Forests respond to warmer temperatures by advancing the forest tree line farther north, and when it is colder, the tree line retreats - it's as simple as that. During the Medieval Warming, Canadian forests were established much further north versus the forests of today.

"Starting from the northern edge of continuous forest, which in the early 1960s crossed Canada's Ennadai Lake at about 60°45'N, 101°W, the authors presented evidence -- based on buried soil and charcoal characteristics and their radiocarbon dating -- "of forests at least 280 km north of the present tree line about 3500 years ago and at least 90 km [55 miles] north about 900 years ago," as well as evidence that forests were "farther south than at present" during the intervening interval [cooling period] of time, going on to state that they "correlate the first advance with the Climatic Optimum and the second with the Little Climatic Optimum," which is otherwise known as the Medieval Warm Period."

Is Wind Power A Worthless Replacement For Fossil Fuels? Latest Data & Shenanigans Suggests Yes, It's Worthless

Read here and here. It is very obvious to objective observers that wind power is an expensive and non-robust solution to real-time energy needs. Other countries have discovered this, yet the Obama administration attempts to keep this type of information from the public.

"There is no evidence that industrial wind power is likely to have a significant impact on carbon emissions… Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone)."

And this:

"They also show it was coordinated with the lobbyists for “Big Wind” and the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP)....But it is clear that senior staff in Ms. Zoi’s office, and another under her authority, were told by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) of its concern over the foreign economic analysis because of the media and policymaker attention it was receiving....The questions raised about green jobs also threatened the vast increase in Department of Energy spending to pursue green jobs. The Obama administration has poured cash into renewable-energy efficiency and renewable energy with abandon....What is clear is that the Department of Energy then worked with Center for American Progress and the industry lobby AWEA to produce an attack that would serve all their interests." 

Did IPCC Learn Its Corrupt Science Methods & Fear-Mongering From California's CARB? Or Was It Vice-Versa?

Read here, here and here. California is the epitome of the leftist/progressive/environmentalist 'car-plane-train' wreck that has devastated the bountiful economy of California. Once liberal environmentalists get their way, the environmental bureaucrats are hell bent to destroy economic activity in the name of their green-religion. 

California's CARB (California Air Resources Board) has done to California what the IPCC wants to do to the United States - cripple economic opportunity and bankrupt it.

And California's environmental scare-mongering fanatics are pursuing this course of action despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the air quality has improved dramatically since the 1980's.

Warming Tundra "Accelerates" The Release of Methane? Alaska Provides Evidence Countering That Prediction

Read here. During the world's "warmest" decade ending 2009, Alaska's tundra areas have experienced warming and thawing. Per the IPCC climate scientists' predictions, the Alaskan thawing tundra areas should be producing higher amounts of methane gas, at an accelerated rate.  

As is most often the case, scientists who predict catastrophe are most often the ones who are spectacularly wrong. The predicted accelerating increase of the feared methane gas, from warming Alaskan tundra, has spectacularly been wrong, as the latest decade evidence reveals. Source of below graph here.

 

Corruption 'Я' Us: The Most Corrupt International Government Body Will Investigate The Most Corrupt International Climate Science Body

Read here. The UN is going to investigate its own IPCC group due to the well publicized fraudulent science that the IPCC has been exposed as producing. (Note: Supposedly an independent group will review the IPCC at the behest of the UN but they're using 3rd party scientists from science groups that support the IPCC bogus claims.) Are we thinking 'whitewash' yet? Let's see.....the United Nations is well known for its own corruption, which hardly makes it suitable for investigating one of its own, or does it?

"The United Nations is under increasing attack by critics in the United States and other countries. At the heart of the organization's mounting problems is an almost total lack of accountability, which gives rise to suspicions of wholesale corruption. Existing evidence indicates that corruption and mismanagement go beyond the routine fraud, waste, and abuse of resources that mark all public-sector enterprises."

"....the reputation of the UN has been shredded by allegations of kickbacks, billions of dollars in graft in the oil-for-food scandal, the rape of minors in the Congo sex scandal, and a total lack of accountability. United Nations officials know it’s time for serious reform....The independent report on the oil-for-food scandal, produced by a committee led by former U.S. Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Paul Volcker, was finally released in September. Criticizing the UN from top to bottom, the language of the report was crystal clear: “The inescapable conclusion from the committee’s work” is that the UN “needs thorough reform—and it needs it urgently.” We will see exactly how serious the lapses in judgment were at every level."

Another Failed Prediction: Latest Peer-Research Finds Claims of Increased Mudslides Due To Global Warming Is Wrong

Read here. The pro-IPCC climate scientists predicted that mudslides and landslides (debris-flow) would increase due to global warming. Researchers examined the historical evidence and found the prediction to be without empirical merit. It appears that the left/liberal/progressive global warming, alarmist scientists (and IPCC) are again caught hyping calamitous predictions without the requisite scientific evidence.

"Matthews et al. report they could find "no obvious correlation between debris-flow frequency and a relative warm climate." In fact, they say that "debris-flow frequency was lowest post-8000 cal. BP during the Holocene Thermal Maximum," and that most of the "century- to millennial-scale phases of enhanced debris-flow activity appear to correlate with Neoglacial events," one of which was the "Little Ice Age."....they report that "there appears to be no consistent upward trend in debris-flow frequencies over recent decades," when one might have expected them to be growing in both number and magnitude if climate-alarmist claims were correct." 

As of February, 2010: 12-Year U.S. Cooling Now At -7.0°F Per Century Trend

 

Source here. Overall decade-long global cooling trend has not abated. Both the U.S. and the world are definitely not experiencing global warming, in any sense of the concept. The case for AGW is without merit as temperatures have done exactly the opposite of what IPCC experts and climate models predicted a decade ago. Note: A temperature trend as shown in the chart is not a prediction.

(click on image to enlarge)

Additional current temp charts here. Historical temp charts here.

San Franciso,The Greenies Nirvana, Experienced Warmer Temperatures During Medieval Warming

Read here. The leftist, environmental, Democrat crazies, who are currently in the process of torching the last remains of that once great state of California, should be made aware that California has a natural habit of getting warm and cold without the help of human CO2. You're overreacting dudes. And Mr. & Ms. Hollywood celebrity, learn some climate history, please.

"McGann (2008) analyzed a sediment core retrieved from the western portion of south bay near San Francisco International Airport ....researcher reports that "benthic foraminiferal abundances, stable carbon and oxygen isotopes, and Mg/Ca ratios suggest that the climate of south bay has oscillated numerous times between warm and dry, and cool and wet conditions over the past 3870 years," and that "both the Medieval Warm Period [MWP] and the Little Ice Age [LIA] are evident."....notes that "near the top of the core" foraminiferal abundances suggest that, "once again, regional warming has taken place." However, that warming does not appear to have returned the region to the level of sustained warmth it enjoyed during the peak warmth of the MWP."

As an aside: Evidence of destruction that leftists/environmentalists/Democrats wreak on a state's economy when given power (if there are any sane Californians left, move to Texas). (click on image to enlarge)

 

The Total Bogoisty of IPCC Peer-Reviewed Science: The Lies That The Science Community Condoned & Perpetuated

Read here. We've written previously about the joke of the claimed 2,500 climate scientists writing the latest IPCC report, and the idiocy of "consensus" science, and then how experts back in 2008 we're saying the IPCC global warming science was a Rube Goldberg fiasco. That was then. But we never imagined the mountain of lies about the IPCC peer-reviews that the entire scientific would condone and constantly perpetuate. (Thank goodness for the blogging community, for it is they who are constantly uncovering the climate science culture of corruption.)

With that said, clearly the overall scientific community should no longer be blindly trusted, in any capacity. All statements, claims, assertions and predictions made by any scientist should be triple-checked, and just to be safe, forensic audits should be conducted. "Peer-reviewed" has been exposed as a joke, and there is no way that this degree of lies and fraud being revealed in the IPCC climate science arena is limited to just this scientific field. Let's be honest here: scientists who have sold their souls for government and/or NGO funding are not to be trusted - they lost that "right."

"A few weeks afterward, in San Francisco, he [Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)] again told an audience that IPCC reports are "based on peer-reviewed literature." On that occasion, he mocked the idea that his organization might "pick up a newspaper article and, based on that, come up with our findings." IPCC reports rely, he insisted, "on very rigorous research which has stood the test of scrutiny through peer reviews."...."A couple of days ago I blogged about a chapter in the latest report which, I discovered, relies on peer-reviewed sources only 58 percent of the time. That number seems shockingly low when one considers that the IPCC's expert reviewers complained bitterly about the quality of the citations at the time the report was being written....Yet that may be the IPCC on a good day. Chapter 5, from Working Group 3's report - which I randomly chose to examine next - is far worse. Only 61 of the 260 references relied on in that chapter have their feet firmly planted in peer-reviewed literature – an abysmal 24 percent. Put another way, three-quarters of the material cited there is grey literature."