Pigs On Neptune

The title will make sense in a moment, just stay with me…

I stumbled across this post on michiganliberal regarding Granholm’s ‘EO’ to the ‘DEQ’:

I don’t understand why this is so difficult to comprehend.  The Obama administration is going to follow the very clear instructions of the U.S. Supreme Court to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant and if Michigan wishes to have authority delegated to it to enforce the Clean Air Act within its borders, it’s going to have to let the DEQ regulate carbon dioxide emissions as a pollutant.  That means necessarily having a say in the construction of new coal plants.  We can either prepare for that, or wait around for the federal government to force us into compliance.

I love the argument the author puts forth. Either you do what the Obama administration wants or they will do it for us. The people of Michigan gets no say in the matter.

This whole global warming / climate change hoax is getting dangerous. We need to be planning for our future energy needs, not pandering to the ‘Green’ movement. Twenty years from now our kids will be looking back at us saying ‘what were they thinking?’

Our friends at michiganliberal continue:

If you’ve ever watched Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, you know that methane cometh from pig s***.  It also comes from cows.  Methane is also a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Any cap-and-trade scheme that comes down from Washington is going to include sources for methane emissions, like factory farms.  Is this even on anyone’s radar?  Must we allow our pork chop and milk factories to also contribute to global warming?

The author get’s the cap-and-trade thing correct. It’s a scheme and is only going to benefit the government.

Regarding methane, I have one question. How did large amounts of methane gas (1.6% of its atmosphere) get on Neptune?

Zooming into Neptune, the colors were enhanced to show the subtle details in Neptune’s atmosphere. The spectral region of light is changed from the visible to special methane bands in the near-infrared resulting in Neptune’s atmosphere becoming very dark, except for high-altitude clouds.

Do they have pigs on Neptune? On farms? You know, the large scale types. Like the one in the movie?

I’m sorry, any measurable amounts of methane gas in our atmosphere are a part of the geological / volcanic processes in the earth, not from cow flatulence. If man wants to control the amount of methane in the atmosphere, we will have to stop all volcanic activity on the earth.

This last part reminds me of watching an NFL football game with my uncle. He’s telling you how he would be a better head coach. “They should run play action here… you know…to freeze the linebackers”

Here is how you do things … first off, you figure out how much energy you can reliably produce from renewable sources of energy.  Then, you update the electrical infrastructure to more quickly and easily shift energy around from renewables that aren’t available 100 percent of the time.  Then, you focus on energy efficiency, updating buildings that are old, out-of-date, and inefficient and building new ones that aren’t.  Finally, what’s left of demand … you figure out how to provide that energy in as efficient and cost-effective a way as possible.  You do this all the while keeping in mind that the costs for things like coal are going to be even higher in the future than they are today, because you’re going to have some kind of new regulatory structure come from Washington.

Don’t let the BlogProf see this…

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