Eco-scrooges can’t give it a rest
Environmental busybodies never take a vacation. The lead letter on Christmas day at the San Francisco Chronicle echoed dim bulb Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels’ recent “Stop global warming and buy CFLs or Santa will DIEDIEDIE!” threat:
Change our lifestyle to save Santa’s home
Editor – Santa is deeply concerned with the rapid shrinking of the North Pole. For generations, he has depended on swift, reliable and environmentally friendly reindeer power.
If we do not change our lifestyle soon and seek alternative energy sources, future generations will not experience the thrill of seeing Santa flying over the rooftops on Christmas Eve, and the only happy soul will be the Grinch, who wants to see a Christmas meltdown.
GEORGE EVANS
Novato
And in Aspen, Colorado, it looks like the green mayor there wants to kill a community hearth out of eco-guilt:
In the mountain resort of Aspen, where mansions each pump out more than 600 pounds of carbon dioxide annually, and jets delivering the rich and famous to their second homes add another 300,000 tons, the mayor is trying to eliminate a natural-gas fueled flame in an open municipal hearth in downtown that is intended to provide ambience.
“This isn’t Arlington National Cemetery. It’s not the eternal flame,” Mayor Mick Ireland told the Denver Post. “It’s a symbol like if the mayor were to run around in a Range Rover.”
…A week ago he called for a vote to kill the light, but it failed, 3-2, meaning city workers will return to their brainstorming to find some way to make the hearth “environmentally acceptable.”
Gulfstream eco-hypocrisy exposed…yet again:
Council member Jack Johnson told the paper the hearth should be an educational display, with a sign explanation how it is wasting fuel and why.
As the flame burns, Escalades and Hummers drive by, paparazzi trip over hearth chairs seeking photographs of supermodel Heidi Klum and sales associate Kate Kelly, in a nearby retailer, told the newspaper, “Al Gore wouldn’t be too happy about this.”
But participants in a newspaper forum ridiculed the situation.
“Maybe just put the fire out and hang a picture of a fire instead. You put up a kiosk with informational booklets (printed on recycled paper) that explain the Global Warming Crisis, why the fire had to be put out, and ask for donations to purchase Carbon Credits. Ask the rich to stop coming to Aspen, because it’s actually bad for the environment, to have all those jets flying around. Shut down the ski area. Because, really; can we afford to waste time skiing, when the oceans are about to rise 20 ft.? I think not.” wrote Rulo Melko. “Well, maybe not. We’ll let the rich still fly their jets in and ski, and spend money. As long as they’re the Hollywood rich who “get it”. Who “understand”.
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You know, if people want to bury themselves in so much undeserved guilt I can be man enough to simply let them. Besides, human stupidity is job security for me and my family.
These enviro- “mentally” retarded ex-hippies never seem to be satisfied unless they are bitching about some thing or another. A great many of these odd-balls have roots traced backed to “Earth Day” 1970. I don’t know if you were in Philly then Michelle, but the biggest gas- bag, blowhard, eco-lover from these parts was Ira Einhorn. He was just your average filthy, lazy, conning, complaining, hippie fraud. He is now doing a stretch in prison for murdering his girlfriend back in 1971. I am not saying every tree hugger is a murdrerer, but I’ll bet many, many are ex-hippie frauds.
Unfortunately, they will not go away if we simply ignore them. Perhaps we should all stock up on incandescents just to get them riled up. I have CFLs in my house for one simple reason: economics. I made the switch long before it became vogue. Perhaps they should just let the market decide. They may get their wish eventually.
If hillary is elected, we will have new “green” prisons built for those who are caught using incandescant bulbs and bar-b-que dead cows oveer open flames.
Rhetorical question. When are these ‘useful idiots’ going to realize that ‘global warming’ is good? Over population is a far more dangerous factor on our planet and ‘global warming’ is creating more arable land for crop production everyday.
We are on the edge of having the ‘Northwest Passage’ open to shipping in the summers every year.
Imagine shipping that isn’t controlled by Hutchinson Wampoa – a Chinese Company, as the Panama Canal can be controlled (Thanx Jimma).
While it is always wise to find more efficient ways to use our resources, the hysteria of ‘Global Climate Change’ causes reactions in culture and finance which are destructive on a global scale.
‘Global Climate Change’ is more aptly termed ‘Global Weather Change’ which can’t be predicted any more accurately the your 5 day weather report.
The non-hysterical scientific community is behind the basic idea that ‘Global Climate Change’ is probably caused by the Sun and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
I’m sure a warm sun has nothing to do with any climate change. Even if it melts ice on Mars, so glaciers are exposed and warms up unpopulated planets, it certainly has nothing to do with any changes on a planet like earth.
I prefer to opine ’season shifting’ -which is my own religion, and if you don’t believe in it, you must be completely dense. /sarc off
Get to the kids early and often.
Fight back. Tell the kids that Santa is happy to be working on his tan for a change. Santa is sick to death of the cold and, honestly, he spends most of his off time in South Florida! Oh, and remind the kids that Santa uses those old antique big fat light bulbs at the North Pole so, Santa is not concerned about the GW lie!
We can’t sustain our current rate of fossil fuel use. The math just doesn’t cipher. 600 million people in N. America and Europe using fuel now. Between China and India alone add another 2 billion + consumers. This isn’t about eco-scrooge it’s about waking up to reality. A so-called 21st century civilization and we’re still using energy technology that’s over 100 years old?! Considering that just a few hundred companies and families control the hundreds of trillions of dollars of fuel reserves, is it any wonder why we’re still plugged into this archaic acquisition and distribution system?
Belief in global warming caused by man now resembles some sort of pagan religion.
One has to wonder if these folks realize how stupid they appear – even pagan religions wre more sensible.
Surely you jest? In 100 short years we have advanced from “gathering around the fire” to unbelievably sophisticated fuel delivery and fuel use systems. Granted they are fossil fuels, but I sincerely believe a civilization that can go from horse and buggy to supersonic transportation around the globe in a measly 100 years can solve the fuel/energy problem without the help of ANY govt. Let the market do what it does best, research & development and bring new technology to market. If government regulations and Algore hysteria had been prevalent 100 years ago, we’d still be in horse & buggy mode.
At least we won’t have to worry about the cost of our fossil fuels as Hillary has promised that if she’s elected, the oil producing countries will lower their prices. She must think we’re all idiots.
If only the ones who love the Creator as they love the Creation but unfortunately they don’t. Yes it is important to be good stewards of the earth’s resources. Those who advocate open borders which will increase the population will also put burdens on using existing resources. I am not sure those who are for open borders what they expect these new citizens will be doing for resources? shall they be ignored? As usual the Demos have no answers. Remember atheiests that God only laughs at your puny plans according to psalm 2.
I notice that we are still using the wheel too, and that’s how many of thousands of years old?
Pardon me while I transport up to the mother ship! /sarc off
I cannot BELIEVE I missed this in my first post #6, swift, reliable and environmentally friendly reindeer power.
Note to self: Buy up as many reindeer as possible. Those I cannot buy I will have killed so will own the only reindeer in the world.
*voice of Brain
I am going to be rule the world!
What a moron. I believe that are using the water wheel went out of vogue for a reason (economics is bitch). Using that logic airplanes , trains and flatulant horses all have to go. Attempts have been made to move to nuclear power but the same eco-nuts stopped that one too. When Mass. tried to build a few windmills offshore the eco-nut Kennedy’s decided it was not pretty and stopped a technology that actually works on a limited scale (oh and the birds!!). Senseless people will always be with us –
Well we should all remember the king of the echo-scrooges, Jimmy Carter. He had everyone turn off the Christmas lights to save electricity.
I have heard Since 1990 50 thousand Million has been spent on this global warming fiasco. just think if this money was used for real problems here in the USA instead of creating this global warming cult.
These eco-morons moan and groan about the humble incandescent light bulb which has served us faithfully for over 120 years. Yet you never hear them shouting about their ipods, blackberries, cell phones, TiVos, PSPs, or the thousands of other gadgets that require plugging in to use or recharge. They view those as Must Haves. Can’t live with out those.
Leave my damn light bulbs alone, my little two bedroom house uses very little power. If we do need more electicity, build more nuclear power plants.
build more nuclear power plants.
and put a lid on the Goracle. His ‘footprint’ alone has got to be 20 times the average American.
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Nuke Gore! more nuke power=less gore. Perfect!
Did you ever notice how the “good intentions” that the greenies force down our throats usually has a dark side:
CFLs: full of mercury vapor. I literally have to shut down my lab if someone drops a mercury thermometer! (Note to self: did the mercury droplets I played with a a child have any effect on my earning a Ph.D.?) LEDs are the way to go….
Ethanol: relatively low energy fuels that consumes food for people and animals.
Lead free gasoline: used MTBE to substitute for the octane booster. MTBE was discontinued due to the fact that infinitesimal amounts poisoned well water supplies. See ethanol as its replacement.
Emissions controls, while effective, have increased the average price of cars ten fold in the last 30 years. The attempt to squeeze more fuel efficiency out of cars beyond the laws of physics will probably double that increase.
Man made global warming: will crush the economies of the most productive countries of the world (except China and India of course) to offset what could charitably called a negligible effect.
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a politician whose total scientific background consists of a few general science courses while he was in college, and which he effectively flunked. I gusee that explains the cowardly refusal of Gore to debate any of the “deniers.”
Is the term crackpot too kind?
Excellent point! Gore and his rich liberal buddies can buy carbon credits (actually paying himself) and live as extravagantly as they like, because they can afford to.
Tough luck if you are one of the poor/middle class that liberals pretend to defend.
Do as I say, not as I do, anyone?
Can we get John Edwards’ utility bills?
The most notable “problem” if you will, is the absolute lack of planning, foresight and common sense on everyones part. Every action has a reaction, (see ethanol) but with this many millions of people blindly clammering to save the world in 30 days, all common sense is thrown out the window.
It’s positively mind bending. The new CAFE regs are gonna make a handful of people feel good about themselves for ramming legislation through. That is, until they see their constituents dying in much higher numbers because to achieve CAFE numbers, you need what??
LIGHTER VEHICLES. Unfortunately, lighter and smaller vehicles make the occupants more susceptible to injury and death. (unintended consequences)
The lists and examples of “horse before cart” go on and on and on. How much you wanna bet, the cost to dispose of the CFL bulbs will far exceed the savings of doing away with incandescent. That’s not even a fair bet, you KNOW it will.
God help us, the Gorebots will be the death of us all.
Follow. The. Money.
“Treat the Earth well:
It was not given to you by your parents.
It was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
We borrow it from our children.”
Ancient Indian Proverb
Another great article over at American Thinker on the subject.
“$cience Mag Jumps on Global Moneywagon”
By James Lewis
picture to go w/proverb:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070912.html
Marshall Russ…that was a great article @ American Thinker.
Yes we will…we will shame the FKrs & VOTE THEM OUT! & MM will lead the charge.
*cheers coming up from the benches…Go MALKIN!*
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. The same sign Al Gore pulls behinds his jet I presume.
Re that “Ancient Indian Proverb” at #24:
Consider the mind-boggling illogic: we “borrow” the Earth from our children–but we were children once, so just when did we turn from lenders to borrowers? Can our parents repay this crushing debt? Is there a pre-payment penalty if they pay off their loan too soon? A balloon payment, maybe? And if people don’t have children, then what: do they remain lenders, or borrowers?
At bottom this is another example of mindless eco-weenie claptrap that collapses under examination — a saying perhaps taken from the “Collected Works” of that noted Native American Ward Churchill, or maybe sorrowfully intoned with a tear in his eye by Iron Eyes Cody (born a Sicilian!).
So coldfront: what’s the provenance of this “Ancient” proverb???? Can YOU explain its logic? Since Amer-Indians had no written language how can anyone know how old the saying is?
Just askin’, is all….
Free Ira he was wrongly accused he was just eliminating carbon from the enviroment. That’s the next lefty cause every one should eliminate themselves because after all everything on earth is made from carbon.
This is the twisted logic they use on a regular basis. Mooorooon’s
All I have to say is……
…Dude, you’re almost 60. Lose the stupid pony tail already. It hasn’t hidden your bald spot for 30 years. We get it, you’re a hippy, and for some reason still proud of it, fine. Why don’t you stick it to the man, and put the Starbucks down. Oh yeah, walking really sucks at that Vail altitude huh? Good thing the Escalade has idled long enough to be nice and toasty inside.
I still gotta laugh at them, as I have for nearly 50 years now. So sure in their convictions, they are hell bent to destroy society in order to save us all.
Jack should also consider putting a sign on the airport runway questioning the use of private jets and wasted jet fuel and the so-called carbon footprint, creating pollution that causes greenhouse gases. I bet ONE private jet flight would probably fuel that flame for an entire decade.
fulldroolcup
I found this @ http://www.ourtribalnation.com/
this morning.
My friend, all the ’snark’ in the world does not change the Life & Beliefs of a Peoples who lived as Caretakers of This Good Earth, the American Indians.
No, friend. This is American Indian teaching. That the hippies latched on to everything American Indian does not change the profound relation the Indians had w/this gorgeous planet. May I suggest ‘Black Elk Speaks’ http://www.cheapestbookprice.com/reviews/0803283857.html
To answer your question- If we were to live as though the next generation depends on how we live,… how much we use, destroy, replace, annihilate…because, in fact, IT DOES!!, we might live more honorably & in Peace w/’Mother Earth’.
I am not a ‘mindless eco-weenie’ but I fully understand that attitudes such as yours are also part of the problem. This planet is beautiful. How one thinks about it is how one will treat it.
coldfront, that’s….IT? A website??? As a source for an “ancient” Indian saying? On top of that — it’s still a mindless and illogical saying. You didn’t bother addressing that point, did you…
Geddoudaheah! Any Ward Churchill can make stuff like that up — and they do! because it makes them look good, and sets US up as oppressors. “Black Elk Speaks” is a perfect example of the idealization of Sioux culture — black elk doesn’t say how his own tribe contributed hugely to the near-extinction of the buffalo, once they got guns and horses from the Europeans.
Nor does he mention how the Sioux and others made vicious and genocidal war against each other, something that “Dances with Wolves” slid over as well: those Noble Lakota standing as symbols for all Indians, yet there were those pesky Pawnee pumping arrows into whites and Indians alike. Why were such peaceful folk as the Lakota called the Sioux…by their enemies? Were they warring over which tribe were the “True Caretakers”?
And who were the caretakers amongst the slave-owning death-worshiping Mayans shown in “Apocalypto”?
As for the Indians being such careful stewards of the Earth—-what a crock! Slash-and-burn agriculture, huge prairie fires set to drive thousands of buffalo over cliffs in order to gain the meat and hides of a few, and on and on.
Here’s just one example:
http://www.state.sc.us/forest/6wait.htm
“It was through agriculture that the Indians made their greatest impact on the natural environment. They cleared land by slash and burn techniques, deadening trees by chopping away the bark, then setting the area on fire. These fires doubtless burned large acreages of forest since the Indians had no way (or desire) to extinguish them once their original purpose was served. In these clearings, the Indians planted their crops of corn, squash, and gourds. When fields lost their natural fertility, the Indians simply abandoned them and applied the slash and burn process to another area. Abandoned fields and the clearings created by these wildfires eventually reverted to forest, creating extensive stands of pine.”
Will eco-weenies let anyone set large but **controlled** forest or brush fires these days? Ask the SoCal folks burned out of their homes about that, will you?
Do modern deerhunters start forest fires to drive their quarry into traps to be slaughtered by the hundreds?
Methinks you have a very idealistic view of what the past was like. Hint: there WAS no Golden Age. I suggest you read “Plagues of the Mind”, by Bruce Thornton, to learn how romanticized nonsense about the past has helped drive the politically-correct idealization of our ancestors as “caretakers” of the Earth.
You know, our weather forecast here in Denver Christmas MORNING was “50% chance of less than an inch of snow”. In western Arvada, a suburb about 15 miles northwest of downtown Denver, we woke up to 8 inches of snow yesterday morning and had more than a foot by the time it quit falling. And this when we’re “predicted” to have a dry winter. I already had a foot of snow from the previous week of storms. And it’s supposed to snow again tonight and tomorrow night. Just like last year when we ended up with over 10 feet of snow for the winter. No, we’re not in the mountains and don’t usually get this much snow. December is usually pretty dry.
I asked my Mom if Al Gore or Nancy Pelosi were in town
Global Warming my a**.
The good thing is that I’m on vacation as are the kids (teenagers) so we’re enjoying playing in the snow.
I saved the “forecast” article to frame with my picture of the snow. Along with the Bali conference article that was next to the picture of the ice and snow in the Midwest.
Yeah, me too. I live in the mountains of CA, and it’s a HIGH of 17 degrees today. In the past 10 years I’ve lived here, I can’t remember a colder December.
Last January, I was driving home from a visit with a friend around 9:00 p.m. I watched the external temp readout in my car at 2 degrees.
Wish some of this so-called global “warming” would come my way.
Let’s just see how much those “melting” polar caps melt this year.
This is such a scam.
Ah, I see meatpieandtatters is a conspiracy theorist when it comes to energy consumption. Just a hint, it doesn’t do your credibility any good.
BTW, The math results are far different from what you imply (hint: see north shore, Utah, Nevada and Canada for some interesting answers).
On one hand, global warming is supposed to cause global catastrophes: flooding, drought, famine, disease, storms, etc.; and on the other hand, the melting ice is supposed to put New York City and San Francisco under water. I’m still trying to decide if the positives outweigh the negatives.
BTW, does anyone know how much sea levels have risen in the past ten years? Pelosi visited Greenland and verified that ice melts in the summer. MSNBC had an article last week showing how much Arctic ice melted this year. They said the melt set a new record. The prophet Al Gore gave us ten years until doomsday when he first started showing his slide show after he lost to Bush. So shouldn’t Manhattan be under water by now?
If Rudolf’s nose were a CFL, Santa would have gotten lost and died in that blizzard years ago.
Me? I’m going to stockpile incandescent bulbs.
Uncle Monkey….just be careful you don’t break ‘em when ya stockpile ‘em….If the mercury doesn’t kill ya, odd’s are pretty good the new “lightbulb disposal police” will fine your ass or throw ya in jail. That task force hasn’t been formed yet, but it WILL be. Bet on it.
To any and all believers in global warming and its catastrophic effects I have a question:
What year would you suggest as our ideal climate year?
Whatever the answer, I’m quite sure a little research will produce a long list of floods, hurricanes, snowstorms, droughts, record highs, lows, etc.. that occured in that particular year. Still, I’d be interesed to know just what year we should be shooting for.
Well-said. Not believing that man can heat or otherwise affect the planet significantly has become a secondary religion for many, it seems, empirical evidence notwithstanding. When we face the effects of our planet misuse, then they can say they are God’s will. They will lose, but they can’t lose.
How many drugs does it take to get to this point of idiocy?
I spoke to santa the other night when he was unloading the preseants for my children under the tree. I brought up this issue, especially all these people who were supposedly speaking for him about these bulbs and how they were saying he was worried about the North Pole would melt if we didn’t all cave in to the blackmail.
He told me that he was really, really mad about people speaking for him, and that the last thing he wanted was for people to change the way they were living in order to satisfy foolishness and some people’s big lie and blackmai;l He said this who ridiculousness about lightbulbs saving the North Pole was a joke and if people were stupid enough to buy into that crap, he had some marshland in the middle of the Sahara he wanted to sell them as well, and they could use it to build their new world on it with Algore as their Emperor.
He wanted me to spread the word that the planet was just fine, that the North Pole goes through phases just like every other par of the planet and for people not to listen to these new aged “snake oil” salesmen.
He said that keeping the air, water and ground clean is always a good idea, as after all, we do have to live, breathe and drink here, but to do so for our health. The planet has been here for billions of years and has lived through and survived dinosaurs, mammoths and things we haven’t even discovered yet, and will be around for billions of years more after it shakes us off like a bad habit. Don’t worry about saving the planet, worry about saving the humans. Stop being so damn egotistical.
He also said that if these people sat around discussing what Santa was saying about Global Warming, and people were litening to it, then no wonder they believed in Global Warming.
We discussed a few more things, how my kids were doing, how I was doing and my wife, had a shot of Crown Royal, he put his finger against his nose, gave it a nod, ad up the chimney he rose.
He was a great guy, really wise. Too bad he couldn’t have stayed longer. Seriously, you should have seen how pissed he got when I mentioned all these people pretending to speak for him. I thought he was going to blow a gasket.