n all Republican Red and Democrat Blue states, Green Politics seems to be the Midas Touch. "[C]andidates running for office can gain votes by taking green positions and might lose votes by expressing skepticism about climate change." - "The Impact of Candidates' Statements about Climate Change on Electoral Success in 2010: Experimental Evidences, Stamford University 2010." Taking a "green" position on global warming attracts votes from Democrats and Independents, while skepticism about the warmist theory alienates those same voters. On the Republican side there was no significant impact either way, so the logical conclusion for vote-hungry pols is to pander to the greens.
But it is getting harder and harder to stay on that conspiracy with a straight face. The fact about the so-called "Inconvenient Truth" is that the world stopped warming in 1998, but that fact has somehow intensified green alarmism. Warmists have no shame. Science has proven that the magnetic poles change, the solar poles change as do the solar seasons, weather and atmospheric conditions change in cycles, all of which have moderate effects on the atmospheric pressure, temperature, and weather patterns. Warming alarmists exploited the tragedy when a tornado devastated Joplin, Missouri last May, even though there is no scientific evidence that global warming is making weather more violent. Warmists made the same opportunistic claim after Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans in 2005, darkly warning of worse to come. But Katrina was followed by some of the mildest hurricane seasons on record. A recent study of fossil records from North Carolina's coast reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences yielded scary headlines that global ocean levels are rising at their fastest rate in 2000 years. But in practical terms, despite repeated predictions of coastal inundations and sinking islands, sea levels have not even posed a nuisance let alone a threat. Some warming alarmists have even claimed that atmospheric pressures have been effected enough to allow tectonic pressures to fluctuate and cause earthquakes and volcanoes.
These are a remake of the same people who clamored for ecology in the 1970s and are the ones in power, today. Anyone old enough to remember the ecology generation will recall that the efforts to "Go Green" then were a dismal failure, and they are no less a dismal failure, now. Not one good green ecological science came out of that generation. Hydrogen fuels, used vegetable oils, and corn oils as fuels were proven alternative fuels; solar panels and wind turbines were proven electricity alternatives; pollution projections were half of what they are today. What was done? Nothing. The only difference between then and now, is the people clamoring are the very same, only this time they can make a personal profit out of it. The government is holding back on exploration and development of new technologies, as it did then, in an effort to choke the last possible penny out of the highest possible price.
Oh, and have you noticed what color congress has been during both times? Makes one stop and go, "Hmm."
But it is getting harder and harder to stay on that conspiracy with a straight face. The fact about the so-called "Inconvenient Truth" is that the world stopped warming in 1998, but that fact has somehow intensified green alarmism. Warmists have no shame. Science has proven that the magnetic poles change, the solar poles change as do the solar seasons, weather and atmospheric conditions change in cycles, all of which have moderate effects on the atmospheric pressure, temperature, and weather patterns. Warming alarmists exploited the tragedy when a tornado devastated Joplin, Missouri last May, even though there is no scientific evidence that global warming is making weather more violent. Warmists made the same opportunistic claim after Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans in 2005, darkly warning of worse to come. But Katrina was followed by some of the mildest hurricane seasons on record. A recent study of fossil records from North Carolina's coast reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences yielded scary headlines that global ocean levels are rising at their fastest rate in 2000 years. But in practical terms, despite repeated predictions of coastal inundations and sinking islands, sea levels have not even posed a nuisance let alone a threat. Some warming alarmists have even claimed that atmospheric pressures have been effected enough to allow tectonic pressures to fluctuate and cause earthquakes and volcanoes.
These are a remake of the same people who clamored for ecology in the 1970s and are the ones in power, today. Anyone old enough to remember the ecology generation will recall that the efforts to "Go Green" then were a dismal failure, and they are no less a dismal failure, now. Not one good green ecological science came out of that generation. Hydrogen fuels, used vegetable oils, and corn oils as fuels were proven alternative fuels; solar panels and wind turbines were proven electricity alternatives; pollution projections were half of what they are today. What was done? Nothing. The only difference between then and now, is the people clamoring are the very same, only this time they can make a personal profit out of it. The government is holding back on exploration and development of new technologies, as it did then, in an effort to choke the last possible penny out of the highest possible price.
Oh, and have you noticed what color congress has been during both times? Makes one stop and go, "Hmm."
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