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Stupid Gubmint: Use alternative fuels, get a tax fine!

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” –Ronald Reagan

Gaze at the stupidity of gubmint regulation.

Dave Eck, a Half Moon Bay mechanic, had attracted a media spotlight with his fleet of vehicles fueled by used fryer grease from a local chowder house. So when Sacramento called, he figured officials wanted advice on promoting alternative fuels.

Not at all. The government rang to notify Eck that he was a tax cheat. He was scolded for failing to get a “diesel fuel supplier’s license,” reporting quarterly how many gallons of grease he burns, and paying a tax on each gallon.

“All of a sudden they nailed me for a road tax,” said Eck, who drives a Hummer converted to run on vegetable oil. “I said, ‘Not a problem. I’ll do my part. But what do I get? At least let me into the carpool lane.’ ”

No such luck. The state offered Eck only a potentially large fine — and not just for failing to pay taxes. He can also get in trouble for carting kitchen grease away from eateries without a license from the state Meat and Poultry Inspection Branch.

Or for not having at least $1 million in liability insurance, in case he spills some of the stuff. Or for not getting permission from the state Air Resources Board to burn fat in the first place.

The regulations are so burdensome that even Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, trying to set an example for Californians by driving a Hummer that burns cooking oil he buys at Costco, had not complied. Schwarzenegger, who has said that the exhaust from his Hummer smells so much like French fries that his passengers get hunger pangs, was unaware that he was required to send Sacramento an 18-cent road tax for every gallon of kitchen oil he burned, according to spokesman Aaron McLear. After The Times raised the issue, McLear said the governor would pay the taxes he owed.

The governor’s staff says it is working on making it easier to drive using vegetable oil without being an outlaw.

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Celebritard eco-hippycrites

I really have nothing to add to this wonderfully snarky article about celebrity ecofascists, except that I wish they would all just kindly STFU about Goreball Worming™ until they practice what they preach. Of course, none of this is news to anyone–it’s just fun to point and laugh at their hypocrisy.

Here’s world-renowned genius Brad Pitt:

“There’s a lot of problems in the world right now because of our dependency on oil,” Pitt gravely warned his fans in a recent interview.

Key word being “our,” as in his and Angelina’s dependency on oil, along with the rest of celebritardom.

Apologies all around for sending you to a link with a frightening pic of Sting and Trudie Styler. ACK!

Al Gore didn’t invent the internets

But he DID reinvent food shortages!

I kinda missed talking about Soviet bread lines. Er…not.

it’s cooler because it’s getting warmer

See?

Me neither.

The journalists that parrot this rubbish have lost any sense of inquiry, and have simply become an organ of propaganda transfer for the global warmingist left.

It’s not gotten any warmer since 1998 - this is a fact that not even the global warmingists can deny.

This year is wet, cool and getting cooler. Another fact nobody is attempting to deny.

But we still have this little gem inserted into the middle of a news piece (please remember, that the consensus has no actual evidence for their belief, but a ‘journalist’ makes the absurd statement that follows):

The consensus among scientists is that long-term temperature rises since 1880 can only be explained by greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide, caused by human activity.

Can only be explained……..by carbon dioxide (which is a result of higher temperatures, not a trigger for) caused by human activity. Even though cows fart more ‘greenhouse gases’ than the entire motor vehicle fleet of the human race.

So you see it’s a no-lose proposition - it’s man-made when the climate ‘changes’, except when it’s cooler………and then it’s………………………..LA NINA!!!!!!

Either the people who recycle this tripe know it’s baloney, or there are a huge number of bovine, credulous dupes in the world.

I suspect it’s a bit of both.

globaloney warming update

It’s still a fantasy!

The BBC prints a story that numerous other writers have ripped to shreds so I don’t have to. Suffice to say it’s choc full of internal contradictions and unasked (let alone answered) questions.

Like, if natural phenomenons like La Nina can be the sole attributed cause of a cooling trend, then why not a warming one?

The reporter’s bias is palpable:

This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.

But experts say we are still clearly in a long-term warming trend - and they forecast a new record high temperature within five years.

(Which experts, btw? Names, bona fides?)

No change since 1998, when the world was on the brink of catastrophe? No change, at all? None?

The uninitiated could conclude that global warmingism might be a figment of some charlatans imagination.

Errrrm. doesn’t john travolta do this every day?

And countless other limousine liberals to boot?

A major airline is under fire from environmentalists for flying an aircraft across the Atlantic with only five passengers on board.

Paying passengers, who had booked a flight to London from Chicago, and Friends of Those Who Want to End Capitalism on Earth™ thinks American should have bumped them.

While it was able to find places for nearly all the passengers on the fully-booked flight, five still had to be accommodated. Those who did fly were upgraded to the business class cabin.

But while they enjoyed lavish hospitality, the airline was accused of an “obscene waste of fuel” by Friends of the Earth.

Where to start? I’ve flown Business on American, and lavish it is not (It’s very nice, and far better than Cattle Class™, but lavish is a significant exaggeration).

Where are these statements when Hollywood jets around the globe in planes with nobody in them but the ’star’ and their flunkeys?

It turns out that these leftard enviroclowns have, as usual, misunderstood the whole two-way-street model that the airline industry operates upon, forgetting that when the plane gets to Heathrow, some more passengers get on and fly back to America.

“With such a small passenger load we did consider whether we could cancel the flight and re-accommodate the five remaining passengers on other flights.

“However, this would have left a plane load of west-bound passengers stranded in London Heathrow who were due to fly back to the US on the same aircraft.

“We sought alternative flights for the west-bound passengers but heavy loads out of London that day meant that this was not possible.”

Retards.

Doomsday Cometh

Oh my! but then, on a happy note, at least we’ll be safe from zombie polar bears, right?

So… How would you survive the Zombie Apocalypse?

Stick with me:

The sky still isn’t falling in

I have a feeling the global warmingist movement is getting a little worried. Maybe not worried. Annoyed, perhaps.

More than 400 scientists challenge claims by former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations about the threat of man-made global warming, a new Senate minority report says.

The scientists — many of whom are current or former members of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Mr. Gore for publicizing a climate crisis — cast doubt on the “scientific consensus” that man-made global warming imperils the planet.

400 heretics. You know what an inquisitor like Gore would do with heretics, don’t you? First discredit them.

After a quick review of the report, Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said 25 or 30 of the scientists may have received funding from Exxon Mobil Corp.

Quite why Exxon research money would be any more likely to produce bias than UN money is obviously not addressed. No matter; not so, says Exxon.

Exxon Mobil spokesman Gantt H. Walton dismissed the accusation, saying the company is concerned about climate-change issues and does not pay scientists to bash global-warming theories. “Recycling of that kind of discredited conspiracy theory is nothing more than a distraction from the real challenge facing society and the energy industry,” he said. “And that challenge is how are we going to provide the energy needed to support economic and social development while reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.”

The usual response is anticipated from the liberal thought police, who will deploy the usual smear and slime tactics against these 400 dissident ‘deniers’.

The hundreds of others in the report — climatologists, oceanographers, geologists, glaciologists, physicists and paleoclimatologists — voice varying degrees of criticism of the popular global-warming theory. Their testimony challenges the idea that the climate-change debate is “settled” and runs counter to the claim that the number of skeptical scientists is dwindling.

The report’s authors expect some of the scientists will recant their remarks under intense pressure from the public and from within professional circles to conform to the global-warming theory, a committee staffer said.

The very idea that humans can affect the atmospheric temperature of this enormous, predominantly uninhabited planet, is a preposterous, arrogant conceit, that could only be credible to the left, and is actually simply a cover for the usual liberal goal of ending US economic activity.

Global warming should be spelled s-n-a-k-e-o-i-l.

Weather Channel boss joins the Global Warmingism fray

And he’s not holding back: the PLANET IS BURNING!!!!!!!

Oh. Wait a minute. Maybe not.

“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM,” John Coleman wrote in an article published on ICECAP, the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, which is known for challenging widely published theories on global warming.

A scam!! Who knew?!?!

The Daily Telegraph clearly don’t agree, however, and insert a piece of blatant editorializing into their ‘news’ item:

His views challenge the consensus of the international science community that it is at least 90 per cent certain that temperatures will continue to rise, with average global surface temperature projected to increase by between 1.4 and 5.8ºC above 1990 levels by 2100.

This increase will be accompanied by rising sea levels, more intense precipitation events in some countries, increased risk of drought in others, and adverse effects on agriculture, health and water resources.

In other words, there will be widely varying weather events. Just like there have been throughout history.

I have a question. If human beings, internal combustion engines and car exhausts are required to effect global warming, how did the planet ever exit the Ice Age?

Mr. Coleman goes on:

“Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens.

“Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minutes documentary segment.”

He added: “I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct.

“There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril.”

And that, as they say, is that.

John Stossel on Global Warming and Education in America

Via Robert Bluey - John Stossel’s “Give Me A Break” on Global Warming:

If you’re up for a longer video, definitely watch Stossel’s bit on education, Stupid in America. It’s jaw-dropping. If you don’t watch it now, bookmark it and watch it later.

Video below the break.

Globaloney Warmingism

The Wall Street Journal publish a piece by Daniel Botkin, president of the Center for the Study of the Environment and professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He’s not a right wing shill, in other words.

A recent article in the well-respected journal American Scientist explained why the glacier on Mt. Kilimanjaro could not be melting from global warming. Simply from an intellectual point of view it was fascinating–especially the author’s Sherlock Holmes approach to figuring out what was causing the glacier to melt. That it couldn’t be global warming directly (i.e., the result of air around the glacier warming) was made clear by the fact that the air temperature at the altitude of the glacier is below freezing. This means that only direct radiant heat from sunlight could be warming and melting the glacier. The author also studied the shape of the glacier and deduced that its melting pattern was consistent with radiant heat but not air temperature. Although acknowledged by many scientists, the paper is scorned by the true believers in global warming.

Quite. Al Gore’s fairytale movie refers.

Read the whole thing.

Absolutely Fabulous

Joanna Lumley, the implausibly posh old tart from AbFab, has taken up the climate change cudgels, and she displays the same grasp of this complex global issue as that enunciated by her fellow thespians Penn, Robbins et al.

Dahling.

Livestock farming has many other adverse effects on the global environment, being the largest source of water pollution and degradation of coastal areas and coral reefs. In some parts of the world overgrazing is harming biodiversity and pasture lands; elsewhere it is turning more and more pastures to desert.

Blah blah blah. It’s the usual alrmist tripe but it is interesting for one reason - she’s strayed way off the ‘blame oil’ reservation, and it’ll be interesting to see whether and for how long this ‘new’ slant on globaloney warmingism survives eco-politburo scrutiny.

Blaming Exxon is one thing, blaming poor peasants trying to eke out a living with a few cattle, while CheneyHalliburtonBusHitler Inc. continue to ply their deviant trade is quite another.

Gore the peacemaker

Al Gore seems likely to get the Nobel Peace Prize according to this Reuters report on Yahoo.com.

If a campaigner against global warming carries off the high world accolade later this month, it will accentuate a shift to reward work outside traditional peacekeeping and reinforce the link between peace and the environment.

Errr no, it will reinforce the link between left wing orthodoxy and the Nobel comittee.

The irony is that Nobel was an actual scientist.

Gore, who has raised awareness with his book and Oscar-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” and Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, who has shed light on how global warming affects Arctic peoples, were nominated to share the prize by two Norwegian parliamentarians.

Are there any grown-ups at all on the left?

CNN - Al Gore makes things up

Sort of.

CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, “Finally,” in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” from UK schools because, according to “American Morning,” “it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies.”

There’ll be a chill wind blowing past a certain weather-man’s cubicle somewhere in Downtown Atlanta for the forseeable future, I suspect.

The Business and Media Institute has extensively critiqued the media’s coverage of global warming in Fire & Ice, which covers a hundred years of coverage of global warming. While journalists have warned of climate change for more than 100 years, the warnings switched from global cooling to warming to cooling and warming again.

The main cause of the media’s total credulousness on the subject is down to a single fact that we often forget:

Journalists don’t know anything but what they are told.

And this is compounded by another fact that we should also remember:

There are none so blind as those that do not wish to see.

BBC ‘has no line on climate change’ - and the band played believe it if you like

From last Monday’s Bishop Hill Blog:

On the BBC’s climate change portal at the moment, the main stories include

* Calls to strengthen the EU emissions trading scheme for airlines
* Calls to encourage homes to go green
* A report that the British are addicted to cheap flights
* A report that the risk of flooding due to climate change has been underestimated
* A conference to discuss tackling climate change
* Increases in forest fires due to climate change
* A report that APEC has muddied the climate change waters
* A way to track your carbon emissions through your phone
* A report that winter sports threaten mountain ecosystems

and lastly, and surely with tongue firmly in cheek, an entry from the Editors blog in which Head of TV news, Peter Horrocks says that the BBC has no line on climate change.

You couldn’t make it up.

Quite so.

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