The high priests of eco-destruction

The high priests of eco-destruction
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2012
Rick Santorum is right. Pushing back against Democrats’ attempts to frame him as a religious menace, the GOP presidential candidate forcefully turned the tables on the White House: “When it comes to the management of the Earth, they are the anti-science ones.”
Scrutiny of the White House anti-science brigade couldn’t come at a better time (which is why Santorum’s detractors prefer to froth at the mouth about comments he made four years ago on the existence of Satan). It’s not just big-ticket scandals like the stimulus-subsidized Solyndra bankruptcy or the Keystone pipeline debacle bedeviling America. In every corner of the Obama administration, the radical green machinery is hard at work — destroying jobs, shredding truth and sacrificing our economic well-being at the altar of environmentalism.
–Take Obama’s head of the National Park Service, please. While serving as the Pacific West regional director of the NPS, Jon Jarvis was accused of at least 21 instances of scientific misconduct (pdf) by Dr. Corey Goodman, a high-ranking member of the National Academy of Sciences. Extensive information about Jarvis’ alleged role in cooking data about a California oyster farm’s impact on harbor seals at Point Reyes was withheld during the 2009 nomination process. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has ignored complaints and follow-up from both Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Republican Sens. James Inhofe and David Vitter.
The National Research Council determined that the NPS had “selectively” slanted its report on the oyster farm. The federal Marine Mammal Commission found that “the data and analyses are not sufficient to demonstrate a causal relationship” between the farm’s operations and harbor seal health. In a letter blasting the NPS for bullying the small oyster farm, Feinstein — normally a reliable eco-ally — concluded earlier this month that the “crux of the problem is that the Park Service manipulated science while building a case that the business should be shuttered.”
Given Salazar’s own role in manipulating science while building his case for the White House offshore drilling moratorium — actions for which several federal judges spanked Salazar in the past two years — it’s no wonder he’s looking the other way. Remember: Two years ago, Salazar and former Obama eco-czar Carol Browner falsely rewrote the White House drilling ban report to wholly manipulate the Obama-appointed panel’s own overwhelming scientific objections to the job-killing edict. Despite repeated judicial slaps for their “determined disregard” for the law, the Obama administration continues to suppress documents related to that junk science scandal. Last month, House Republicans threatened to subpoena the Interior Department for information. Call it a greenwash.
–Water wars and the Delta smelt. The infamous, endangered three-inch fish and its environmental protectors continue to jeopardize the water supply of more than 25 million Californians. Federal restrictions have cut off some 81 billion gallons of water to farmers and consumers in Central and Southern California. Previous courts have ruled that the federal biological opinions used to justify the water cutoff were invalid and illegal. Last September, the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of California admonished two federal scientists for acting in “bad faith.” The judge’s blistering rebuke of the Obama administration scientists concluded that their slanted testimony about the delta smelt was “an attempt to mislead and to deceive the Court into accepting what is not only not the best science, it’s not science.”
GOP Rep. Devin Nunes, who represents the hard-hit San Joaquin Valley area, noted that Salazar recently “doubled down on the illegal policies of the Department of Interior and attacked critics as narrow minded and politically motivated. Ironically, these were the same basic criticisms levied against his department by the federal court.”
While Salazar manufactures a new biological opinion on the matter to get the courts off his back, unemployment and drought plague the Central Valley. And the White House stands by its “scientists.”
–Dams in distress. In Siskiyou County, Calif., local officials and residents announced last week that it intends to sue Salazar and Team Obama over their potential removal of dams on the Klamath River. Once again, the administration’s systematic disregard for sound science and the rule of law is in the spotlight.
Salazar is expected to make a decision by the end of March on environmentalists’ demands that four private hydroelectric dams be demolished to protect salmon habitats and “create” demolition and habitat restoration jobs. Opponents say Salazar has already predetermined the outcome. Green activists blithely ignore the massive taxpayer costs (an estimated half-billion dollars) and downplay the environmental destruction the dam removals would impose. GOP Rep. Tom McClintock put it most charitably: “To tear down four perfectly good hydroelectric dams at enormous cost is insane.”
People of faith aren’t what’s bedeviling America. Blame the high voodoo priests of eco-destruction in Washington who have imposed a green theocracy on us all. Science be damned.
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Speaking of “green” technology. I see that at least one electric car has a serious (not to mention expensive) problem. The Tesla motors electric cars cannot have a fully depleted battery. If that happens the car basically becomes a brick that cannot start or even be pushed. The only fix is to spend $40k to replace the entire battery.
On February 22, 2012 at 03:06 pm, Truesoldier said:
Not to worry. It’ll be like the leftists who bought a Prius. Something they HAD to have, then sue the company because it didn’t get the mileage they thought it should.
Rogue Cheddar:
When are you going to stop acting like an imbecile and support someone who has actually WON 4 primaries, with more to come? Besides, looks like RP is just another sellout, what with his cozing up to Romney. Maybe been offered the VP slot? Great: another Biden.
Straight_Talk_Luigi:
You’re an environmental scientist? Man, to the enviro-nuts, YOU’RE PUBLIC ENEMY #1!
Since you rely on science, not nonsense, YOU MUST BE SILENCED!!!
This people worship the Mythical Earth. They don’t give a damn about humanity. If I were you, I’d walk around with a flak vest. This people are nuts, after all.
I concur, as much as I want to see Barky being packed off to prison (not the constitutionally proscribed punishment after being convicted in the Senate; that would have to come elsewhere). Impeachment proceedings would stop at the Senate’s door if it ever got there. Try and visualize what the lame and lazy main stream media would do with that in an election year. That would not work well in dislodging the Marxist-in-Chief in the WH.
Hangfire:
You just mentioned another couple of reasons why I fear for this country. God, give us the strenght to resist until 1/20/13.
In my view, Sen. Jim DeMint and those aligned with him are Patriots.
“the GOP presidential candidate forcefully turned the tables on the White House: “When it comes to the management of the Earth, they are the anti-science ones.”
Jeez – who wrote this insanity?
Beware of those who call good, “evil”, and evil, “good”. And you are right on target by asking for prayer for Santorum and his family. I suspect he has been receiving death threats from the unhinged, lunatic left that have gone unreported.
ChapBix:
Precisely. I’d be the first one to volunteer to haul Barry’s carcass all the way from DC to Leavenwoth, even if it screwed up by back and feet permanently. But it’s not going to happen. Not with 53 lapdogs in the Senate, plus a bunch of supine Republicans. Impeachment is nothing more than a wet dream.
ILMC:
Speaking of Satan’s minions, look who just showed up.
Ka-ching!! Ka-ching!!
While you may be the first to start hauling Barky’s sorry carcass to Leavenworth, you would very quickly be joined by others helping you. This could very easily be a relay race.
A lot like handing off the Olympic torch……good American after good American.
One need look no further than the Democrats’ refusal to acknowledge the success and utility of free markets, for a demonstration that they are the anti-science party.
Wooo Ilovemycountry I thought something happened to you. Are ya learning anything today?
Uh oh looks like you’re still with that Obama guy, that’s
Did you plug your Volt in today or last night?
Nah, he’s out of “gas” and sitting on-the-side…about 18 miles from home…
…oh, and because of his ‘obummer’ bumper sticker,
NOBODY will ‘stop and provide assistance’…
Ms Malkin was just on Hannity, where she talked about this column and how the “green” movement is a religious cult. Nice to see that she’s been reading my comments to her blogs!
Now if I can just get her to slip “Green is the New Stupid” or “Green is as Stupid Does” into her commentary on Hannity
That’s what I said; Green is the New Stupid
For years I have been shouting from the rooftops that the “green” movement, and globular warming in particular, is a religious cult. We’ve had ample evidence from its adherents. I’m encouraged to see more and more people openly proclaiming that it is a religious cult with all the associated baggage.
Today Fox Gnus… tomorrow the MSM! (who’m I kidding?
)
Looking at the Stonehenge pic…OK, whose bright idea was it to cross the Klan robe with a burqa?
I despise these people. Two-faced, fickle and duplicitous, they would have gutted Reagan if the opportunity had presented itself. Coward thy name is RINO.
It’s not the man, it’s the ideas behind the man, that is important. I don’t see active military marching on behalf of your choice.
Rogue Cheddar:
Really? looks like RP is just another sellout. Rush just said Rand Paul has been offered the VP slot, ALLEGEDLY.
I take a day off and already the threads’ wandering everywhere.
Removing damns in the NW? Primarily, damns are built in this region for flood control. Using them as a hydroelectric source is secondary.
Remove the damns and they are putting peoples welfare and lives in jeopardy. Oh, wait. These are liberals wanting to do this. That’s what they do.
The RINOs at the time brushed him aside in ’76 in favor of the vapid Ford, and did their best to foil Reagan in’80 but failed. He was just too popular and with his victory, they begrudgingly held on to his coat tail to get a piece of that popularity. Those RINOs did saddle Reagan with GHWB as VP, even though he wasn’t Reagan’s choice.
Hmm, I thought those outfits were standard Druid apparel.
Yep, he’s one of the few Patriots in DC, and does make an effort on behalf of the citizenry. I also think Jeff Sessions is a good one.
On February 22nd, 2012 at 5:53 pm, IlovemyNambladad said:
Don’t you ever get tired of being a Liberal Colon Imp?
I still suspect ILMC is Doug’s alter ego. Just to drop into threads to rile some of us up for some good ripostes. And it seems to work really good too!
On February 23rd, 2012 at 2:14 pm, hawkeye54 said:
Or Hairy belly or Ruta Bega posing as a I lovemywhatever while tripping on bad Acid or after ingesting some tainted dirt – whichever warps their noodle.
Reminds me of one of Jim Carrey’s best skits on In Living Color.
Something screwy happened with the link, but the above should work.
Did anyone in Britain even have white cloth in the Iron Age?
This toy Marxist is as dumb as the proverbial bag of hammers.
Obama: Use ‘algae’ as substitute for oil
Stonehenge -Spinal Tap
In ancient times…
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people… the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock… Of Stonehenge
Stonehenge! Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge! Where a man’s a man
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
Hey!
Stonehenge! ‘Tis a magic place
Where the moon doth rise with a dragon’s face
Stonehenge! Where the virgins lie
And the prayers of devils fill the midnight sky
And you my love, won’t you take my hand?
We’ll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there, I will show you how
Oh!
And oh how they danced
The little children of Stonehenge
Beneath the haunted moon
For fear that daybreak might come too soon
And where are they now?
The little children of Stonehenge
And what would they say to us?
If we were here… tonight
one of the best lines in rock music–satire or no.
Stonehenge -Spinal Tap
Isn’t this how we destroyed the food-chain in “Soylent Green”?
Although I am loathe to badmouth our military, and question any suggestion of dishonor among them, I have to wonder at the mentality of the military to support Ron Paul…
It smells an AWFUL lot like Big-n-Large employees supporting a store manager who wants to pay them to sit in the break room watching TV.
Semi-off-topic:
An interesting example of leftist double-think…
I was watching the tv show “Sanctuary” today in order to look at Amanda Tapping (yes I find her very attractive, don’t judge me!).
In the episode, one member of the Sanctuary crew, a gal born in Mumbai, but raised in the U.S., is searching for another member of the crew in Mumbai. The guy she’s with chastises her for not behaving properly in Mumbai. She counters that she was *born* there. To which he replies that she was born elsewhere, and therefore couldn’t appreciate how to behave properly in Mumbai.
Yet, it would never ever occur to Tapping or the other producers to think this logic applied to say, Obama, who may have been born here, but was raised in foreign countries with very alien cultures.
But, I do love her eyes…
Then you haven’t really listened to them as to why.
Of course you do. What color are they?
Hiraghm: ..Humina humina…
Thought so.
You’re right, all I’ve heard is people assert that the military supports him, I haven’t heard any soldiers tell me they support him.
The only possible explanation, I don’t want to hear; they want the pay and benefits without having to fight our enemies, regardless of what harm that will mean for the U.S.
Paul doesn’t want to fight our enemies unless and until they are raping grandmothers in Des Moines. And maybe not even then, if we can be blamed for it.
kind of a jade green…
Dang it, edit correction…