While driving around town today, I caught a radio spot from our government extolling the virtues (and monetary savings) from using less energy. The spot was much like the following ‘helpful’ ad from the US Department of Energy:
The first two thoughts that came to mind listening to this nonsense was:
1. Stop wasting money producing and broadcasting these stupid ads. This will be an immediate savings for tax payers.
2. “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”
While our government nannies are trying to coerce us into saving energy, the Obama regime is doing everything in its power to block development of real energy resources in favor of his green energy scheme.
Oh, and if you think all this capping of ‘green house’ gasses and green energy is needed to save the ENTIRE planet from global warming, think again. Even hard core global warming fanatics are having to admit the so-called problem is not really as severe as first predicted.
Lead author Andreas Schmittner from Oregon State University, US, explained that by looking at surface temperatures during the most recent ice age – 21,000 years ago – when humans were having no impact on global temperatures, he, and his colleagues show that this period was not as cold as previous estimates suggest.
“This implies that the effect of CO2 on climate is less than previously thought,” he explained.
By incorporating this newly discovered “climate insensitivity” into their models, the international team was able to reduce uncertainty in its future climate projections.
The new models predict that given a doubling in CO2 levels from pre-industrial levels, the Earth’s surface temperatures will rise by 1.7C to 2.6C (3.1F to 4.7F).
That is a much tighter range than the one produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2007 report, which suggested a rise of between 2.0C to 4.5C
Of course, this still doesn’t explain why surface temperatures in my back yard have been slowly declining since the late 1930′s:
How can the mean temperature in my back yard drop at a rate of 0.0018 deg / year over the last 70+ years when the ENTIRE Planet is supposedly suffering from a catastrophic warming trend?
