Global Warming (part 2)

So in my last post, I touched on several factors as well as scientific reports that fortify my belief that global warming is not man made.  I do want to add something that I left out that I found interesting.  Al Gore used two graphs in “An Inconvenient Truth” that showed the levels of CO2 over time and a second graph that showed our climates temperature over time.  They seemed to mirror each other, thus providing the only “evidence” to support what Gore was saying.  But, if you place the graphs on top of each other (which Gore did not), then you see that CO2 levels trail the temperature levels.  A rise in CO2 comes after a rise in the climate temperature and vice versa. This is further proof that a rise in CO2 does not raise temperatures, it is in fact the opposite.  By the way, the big spike at the end of Gore’s CO2 graph has been proven beyond doubt to be false data.  There was not a spike.

Now, as for the question I posed at the end of my last post.  Despite my belief that we should be doing more to become less dependent on fossil fuels and coal as well as reducing waste, I think it is dangerous that we work towards those goals through a fear of global warming.  It’s kind of like a doctor falsely telling his patient that they suffer from hypertension and cardiac problems in order to get them to exercise and eat healthier. It is a manmade crisis that has been utilized to manipulate people through fear.  Napoleon Bonaparte once said that “Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.” Disagree with the quote if you like, but Napoleon was right about fear.  The government is effectively using this fear to receive a free pass without questioning from we the people on pushing through their agenda. In fact, they rely some much upon this fear, that the government spends three times more money on funding pro-global warming research than they do promoting and funding green sources of energy. Does that make sense to you? They are still looking for the smoking gun that ties man to global warming because the evidence still hasn’t been produced; and in the mean time, they will just keep scaring us with natural ice melts. So what’s their agenda? Simple… raising more money. You only have to look at the facts and pill back the skin to see that the fruit is rotten. Al Gore started a company that sold carbon credits to offset your carbon footprint and then created “An Inconvenient Truth” with faulty data to scare everyone into changing their lifestyle.  Guess what, his income shot through the roof as people flocked to his company to save the planet. By the way, if Al Gore truly believed what he was saying, then he wouldn’t be living in a home that uses 20 times more energy than the national average. He pays more in a month for electricity for his house then most people pay in a year. He wants you to change your lifestyle, but not himself.  Hmmm, must be something more to the story. 

The government is betting on your fears of man-made global warming to push through their cap and trade agreement.  So what does that mean for us? Here is what President Obama had to say about it, “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.” It will cost the consumers $1.9 Trillion over the next 8 years or $238 Billion each year.  By the way, it is a 40 year plan and as they tighten emissions regulation, the price will skyrocket.  If you buy gas, pay for electricity, purchase anything that is grown, shipped or manufactured, then you will be paying considerably more for those items.  Gasoline prices are expected to rise 144% just from the cap and trade taxes alone, not to mention rising oil prices.  Electricity is expected to rise by 129% as well. Under the cap and trade system, small companies will not be able to pay the hefty prices and will be forced out of business.  The Obama administration estimates that between 3 and 4 million jobs will be lost because of companies closing their doors who can’t pay to play.  Our GDP is expected to take a hit of $670 Billion dollars as a result of the cap and trade policy.  If the price of our products goes up, then other nations are less likely to buy them and our trade goes down. You say that surely no one is ludicrous enough to implement such a policy, but they are doing it as we speak.  They are able to do it because of the power we’ve given them through our fear in a man-made crisis.  By the way, the above numbers were produced by the very administration that is supporting the implementation of cap and trade.

The Kyoto protocol instituted an almost identical cap and trade program that has been a disaster. The UK claimed that emissions were never lowered and that energy companies were bankrupted as costs skyrocketed. Japan said that if they knew then, what they know now, they would have never agreed to any form of a cap and trade program. 

When you operate out of fear, then hasty decisions are made, decisions that are not based on the best information.  Stop empowering them out of fear, and lets work towards the best solution, not the one that raises the most money.