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AL (THE WEASEL) GORE
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Still BLOWING THE HOT AIR —–AND THE LIBS Maintain SUCKING IT IN Tends to make ‘EM CRAZY– Tends to make ‘EM FROTH AT THE MOUTH JUST Thinking ABOUT THE ELECTRIC WINDMILL FACTORYS AND SOLAR PANELS STRAPPED TO Every Property, Car AND COW IN THE LAND WITH A Little GOVERNMENT (TAXPAYER) Aid OF COURSE
BTW AL GETS HIS NICKNAME (THE WEASEL) Because OF HIS SPEECHES ON Global WARMING MOST OF WHICH ARE Fairly AMUSING
WEASEL: To use evasive or deliberately vague language: equivocate, euphemize, hedge, shuffle, tergiversate.– Informal meanings: pussyfoot, waffle. –Idioms: beat about (or about) the bush, mince words
HERES SOME Information ABOUT "GLOBAL WARMING"
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There is a revolution coming that is most likely to burst the green worldwide warming bubble: the temperature trend utilized by the IPCC (the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Alter) to support their conclusion about anthropogenic international warming (AGW) is probably to turn out to be fake. The circumstance will grow to be clear after Virginia’s attorney general, Kenneth Cuccinelli, obtains details now buried in e-mails at the University of Virginia. Or Hearings on Climategate by the U.S. Congress may possibly uncover the "smoking gun" that demonstrates that the warming trend employed by the IPCC does not really exist.
It has turn into increasingly clear that any observed warming in the course of the previous century is of natural origin and that the human contribution is insignificant. It is doubtful that any substantial warming is attributable to greenhouse gases at all.
Once the public accepts these scientific conclusions, it should have immense consequences for policy. It will mean that the influence of increasing CO2 levels is negligibly small, as has currently been concluded by the NIPCC (Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change), a group of scientists skeptical of the U.N.-supported IPCC. It would also imply that wind energy, solar power, and other "non-carbon" power sources are not necessary and are in fact counterproductive. It would take away the want for alternative fuels such as ethanol (which may well please numerous correct environmentalists). It would also imply that carbon trading, cap and trade, and fanciful schemes for carbon capture and sequestration would all end up in the dustbin of history.
A single may possibly count on a massive outcry and serious and protracted opposition from those who have constructed their careers on international warming hype and who have made investments in option energy or are hunting for immense earnings from carbon trading. However the scientific facts must win out in the long run — even against the economic interests of favored groups, wind farm profiteers, ethanol refiners, carbon traders, and the investment firms and banks that have placed hundreds of billions of dollars of their clients’ cash into green projects.
Nothing at all has been learned from European disastrous experiences, it appears. As Bjorn Lomborg (a firm believer in AGW) reports, Germany led the planet in placing up solar panels, funded by €47 billion in subsidies. The lasting legacy is a enormous debt and lots of inefficient solar technologies sitting on rooftops all through a relatively cloudy nation, delivering a trivial .1% of its total energy supply. Denmark’s wind sector is practically completely dependent on taxpayer subsidies, and Danes pay the highest electricity rates of any industrialized nation. Spain has ultimately discontinued its solar subsidies as as well expensive as Prof. Gabriel Calzada reports, the program in fact caused a net loss of jobs.
Possessing effectively exploited domestic subsidies, Europeans are now hunting at the United States as the new "land of opportunity." A current instance (described in the Wall Street Journal of Oct. 26, 2010) is the world’s biggest solar-thermal energy plant, on 7,000 acres of Federal land in the desert of southern California. The -billion project is a venture by two German firms, and it could be eligible for a cash subsidy of practically one billion dollars in taxpayer cash. Even soon after these subsidies, the cost of the electrical energy generated will be 30 to 70 % a lot more costly than electricity generated by all-natural gas, the dominant electrical energy-producing fuel in California.
In addition to direct subsidies, the firms are looking for federal loan guarantees and, no doubt, an array of advantages from the State of California. Solar Trust of America, a joint venture amongst Germany’s Solar Millennium AG and privately held (mainly by Arab oil income) Ferrostaal AG, is awaiting approval from the Power Division for a federal loan assure for the very first two of its 4 planned units. Deutsche Bank AG and Citigroup Inc. are functioning with Solar Trust to obtain project-equity and tax-equity investment.
The White Home claims that the federal money subsidy will generate 3 hundred permanent jobs (at about million per job!). The nature of the jobs is not specified, but a single may possibly assume that there will be a lot need for sweepers to eliminate dust and dirt from about 7,000 acres of solar mirrors. Not exactly "high-tech," is it?
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THE OIL SPILL COULD HAVE BEEN SOLVED ON DAY 2……..IF WE HAD ASKED FOR Support FROM NATIONS WHO HAD Higher-TECH IN UNDERWATER OPERATIONS……….FOR Instance, CHINA, who constructed the Three GORGE DAM….could have solved this dilemma. I know this for a truth.
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Gradually, THE True TRUTH IS Beginning TO LEAK OUT…
Despite the vow by President Obama to hold the Gulf oil spill a top priority until the damage is cleaned up, 50 days right after the BP rig exploded, a definitive date and meaningful solution is however to be determined for the worst oil spill in the U.S. history.
So, you would consider if somebody is prepared to deal with the clean-up with equipment and technologies not accessible in the U.S., and finishes the job in shorter time than the present estimate, the U.S. ought to jump on the offer you.
But it turned out to be really the opposite. .
U.S. Refused Support on Oil Spill
According to Foreign Policy, thirteen entities had presented the U.S. oil spill help within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion. They were the governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations.
The U.S. response – Thank you, but no thank you, we’ve got it.
"..Although there is no need to have right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is assessing these gives of help to see if there will be some thing which we will need to have in the close to future."
Blame It On The Jones Act?
Separately, Belgian newspaper De Standaard also reported Belgian and Dutch dredgers have technologies in-property to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, butthe Jones Act forbids them to work in the U.S.
A Belgian group–DEME– contends it can clean up the oil in three to four months with specialty vessel and gear, rather than an estimated nine months if done only by the U.S. The report noted there are no far more than 5 or six of those ships in the planet and the top specialist players are the two Belgian organizations- DEME and De Nul – and their Dutch competitors.
The U.S. does not have the similar technology and vessel to accomplish the cleanup process since these ships would cost twice as considerably to create in the U.S. than in the Far East. The write-up further criticizes this "great technological delay" is a direct consequence of the Jones Act.
What Is The Jones Act?
The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 is a United States Federal statute that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters and between U.S. ports. Section 27, also recognized as the Jones Act, offers with coastal shipping and requires that all goods transported by water among U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents.
The objective of the law is to support the U.S. merchant marine industry. Critics stated that the legislation benefits in enhanced expenses moving cargoes in between U.S. ports, and in essence, is protectionism, Supporters of the Act keep that the legislation is of strategic financial and wartime interest to the United States. .
European Service Sector – Offshore Subsea Specialist
As discussed in my evaluation of the oil service sector, the European businesses normally possess the knowhow in offshore and subsea whereas their North American counterparts excel in onshore drilling and production technologies.
So, it is more than most likely that European firms do have the expertise to clean up the spill faster and far more effectively as DEME asserts.
Given that the Jones Act signifies the Belgian ship and personnel cannot work in the Gulf, it does appear the Act has inhibited technologies and understanding exchange & improvement, and possibly prevented a faster response to the oil spill.
Jones Waiver Time
On the other hand, waivers of the Jones could be granted by the Administration in instances of national emergencies or in cases of strategic interest. It would seem the U.S. government’s initial refusal to foreign assist most probably stemmed from a mis-calculation of the scale and deepwater technological barriers for this unprecedented disaster, and/or maybe ….. pride.
What ever the rationale, and if De Standarrd’s claim that the Jones Act forbids the European companies to assist fight the spill is correct, it is higher time the U.S. government grant the Jones waiver, and let this be an international collaborative work.
It really is usually much better late than by no means.
International Study Articles by Dian L. Chu
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Giving Beijing the green finger
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The Beijing Olympic volunteers showing the 3 fingered-symbol of
Peace Plus One particular. Inset: Philip McMaster. Photographs: courtesy of Philip
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By Matthew Jukes
Not a lot of men and women have the balls to give the finger to climate change. But all about the nation, locals and expats alike have began putting up an added finger to show their assistance for a livable future. With Copenhagen currently fading into the ever-expanding ether, all that is left is the typical man on the street to make a distinction when it comes to our increasingly toxic and unsustainable future.
Taking the universal symbol for peace and adding a finger has transformed thousands and thousands of potentially foolish vacation photos in China into a movement for adjust. This is the goal that Philip McMaster has set out to accomplish.
He believes that only by folks taking up a metaphorical call by themselves to adjust their life style or their company will the correct thought of sustainability be realized. "I’m not an environmentalist!" he says emphatically. "Fundamentally what we want to do is make it lucrative to be sustainable."
Now the "Sustainability symbol", also known as Peace Plus One has expanded into social clubs, beauty pageants (keep an eye out for Miss Lohas), English and business instruction for anybody and everybody who desires to be cool with a goal. The three fingers, one particular of several eerily occurring three’s in the McMaster philosophy, stand for society, atmosphere and economy, which kind the triple bottom line for every single organization duty.
Fingering the technique
Getting traveled the world as an adventurer, photographer and scholar of the wonderful outdoors, McMaster settled in Hong Kong to teach Corporate Social Responsibility to students. It was there that he saw the numerous vacationers and their peace pose for photographs and decided that with an extra finger, they could make a statement about worldwide warming, climate adjust and the sustainable economy.
Still keeping with the teaching concept, McMaster started to create a new legion of Chinese businessmen, which he dubbed Dragonpreneurs that could "clean up" in the market place and in the environment.
"There are 50 million students graduating this year, with jobs the first point on their mind," stated McMaster. "With all these young men and women in their outstanding numbers pondering three ways about society, the economy, and the atmosphere, their job prospects will increase and their ambitions and qualities will have an effect on every person."
The students discover via a method which evokes the five talons of the dragon (or 5 belts for martial arts minded). The first lesson is in communication, which branches out to relationships (not just with folks), wealth management, creativity and innovation and the black belt of leadership.
Already a pro at his personal art kind, McMaster’s speaking usually inspires other folks to join the trigger. When providing a speech at the Fantastic Hall of the Folks, budding recruits have been in the audience just waiting for a possibility. "The project impressed me most by the way it influences other men and women. It will not inform you anything about what you can or should in no way do. It just provides you a opportunity to believe on your personal. It assists you to make your personal decisions," stated Mike Que, a newbie to the sustainable life.
"When you do one thing excellent for mother earth or see other men and women do so because of your influence, it gives you a excellent sense of achievement. That’s what is most enjoyable."
But rather than taking the colonial road of changing China to fit the Western schematic, Peace Plus One particular hopes to stick to more standard Chinese values to get folks interested. "We never suggest that what we’re carrying out is altering anything that China is attempting to do. We’re just respecting and drawing out all the superb factors and possible and making them a reality. To make men and women self sustaining. Every single individual producing better and much better decisions about how they interact with the economy," adds McMaster.
"You want individuals who are aware of how funds is created. This is a balance. We have to aid the Chinese entrepreneur. But there is a challenge with the ethical entrepreneurship. The model is typically from the West. The Bill Gates and Buffets are in general the photos of robber baron capitalists. They see this and say we want that too and take income over every thing else. That is how I advance. What we require is a revamping of the new and old generations to a diverse model."
Enhancing the gene pool
1 of the a lot more relaxed parts of the Sustainability Symbol is the Peace Plus A single social club, which often organizes gatherings and likeminded matchmaking parties. Throughout the summer, these turn into rather worryingly named "improving the gene pool-parties". Despite the fact that there’s surely nothing at all proper-wing about the agenda, the notion is that certain sorts of folks are far more pre-disposed to save the globe than other people, and consequently would make far better future generations.
"That’s what men and women want. To be a bit elite, to have income. They could aspire to be Warren Buffet or Bill Gates, but it doesn’t matter how significantly cash they throw away, what matters is what they do. I believe in these parties we have men and women smiling and meeting buddies if not lovers, to enhance their group," said McMaster. "Yeah OK it’s a small bit elitist," he admits. "Well, come on join the elite. Be portion of the group, we never exclude individuals. These are the folks who are going to steer the ship in the direction it needs to go."
To find out more, or to get involved with Dragonpreneurs or the sustainability symbol, check out www. SustainabilitySymbol.com or www.dragonpreneur.com.
matthewjukes [at]globaltimes. com.cn