Theorist Argues With Gibbons
April 14th, 2008A “climate scientist” seems kind of like a “behavioral scientist” to me, trying to pursue common sense through a towering forest of ambiguity, uncertainty and doubt. Such scientists might get the answer right, but no one will ever succeed in proving, or disproving their theory. It’s a fanciful mix of government subsistence and science fiction. Nevertheless, Nevada’s higher education system has chosen to highlight one at its annual fundraising dinner. It’s a story because the honoree has picked a fight with Governor Gibbons over the Ely power plant projects.
Nevada’s electicity demand is increasing with our population, and our power bills are increasing even faster because our legislature has enacted both the most aggressive mandate for uber-expensive alternate energy of any state, plus a percentage-based add-on welfare program to pay for a few lucky people’s electric bills.
A few extremists, the University’s hero amongst them, want your power bill to go up even faster in order to finance even more unconventionally generated electricity, so they oppose the new plants underway in Ely. Of course, he doesn’t live here and pay into our power system, or have to sweat our potential brown-outs, so it’s a little easier for him.
My favorite part of the Associated Press story is the last paragraph:
Without a bias, most journalists would have written that paragraph:
Coal plants provide just over half of the nation’s electricity. That makes them the largest generator of the electricity we all use everyday, by far. Although they provide more than half the nation’s electricity, they only emit well under a third of the country’s total “greenhouse gas” carbon dioxide. Mammals, including humans, are the largest source of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Wind is very expensive and is not predictable.
Solar is expensive and is not predictable. Solar thermal plants consume more water than nuclear plants. Solar PV farms do not use water, but are so expensive that they are prohibitive for large energy plants.
Does Nevada have enough water to run a host of large solar thermal plants?
It cost around $18,000 to put a small PV Solar system on your roof. In you live in CA, then you the taxpayer will give yourself $9k to reduce your cost! The payback for such systems is never unless the cost of power goes up so much because of similar government decisions. That probably will happen so it is a good idea to buy a PV system!
Coal and nuclear generate cheaper and predictable energy. But the government is subsidizing wind and solar to make it “cheaper” and also the government is passing more and more laws that make coal and nuclear more costly. (Wikipedia)
In this study, they estimate the government is subsidizing job creation at a rate of more than $600,000 for each green job. Sounds like a great deal!
Bio-fuels could be a reason why food prices across the plant are dramatically increasing.
Also, it takes more energy to generate one gallon of bio-fuel then what one gallon of the bio-fuel will generate. That fact it is self should raise a red-flag.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/opinion/07krugman.html
Our energy needs grow every year because our population grows every year.
Our energy infrastructure will be in a complete mess in about 20-30 years.
God have mercy on our children.
April 19th, 2008 at 11:51 am
This so-called scientist doesn’t have a clue atmospheric science. Readers should go to
http://OISM.org/pproject/s33p1845.htm where over 19,000 scientists have signed the Oregon Institut of Science and Medicine’s letter debunking anthropogenic global warming. Professor Richard S. Lindzen of MIT has written a paper: Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus which is posted on the Cato Institute’s site. Also see the Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change at http://www.sepp.org/policy%20declarations/LDrevised.html where a group of Euopean scientists have debunk anthropogenic global warming. Professor S.Fred Singer of the Univ. of Va. wrote a piece entitled Global Warming: Man-Made or Natural? in the August 2007 issue of “Imprimis” which also debunks Global Warming. In short, anthropogenic global warming is a HOAX perpetrated by a few U.N. scientists, socialists all, who wish to empower government
April 20th, 2008 at 8:24 am
My sister goes to Foothill high school in Henderson. (Clark County School District) A substitute teacher forced her class to watch “An inconvenient truth” by Al Gore
Jim and David above make points that the global warming intellectuals will never address. They cannot refute those facts so their strategy is to ignore them.
The apathetic government school teachers in this country have many people so dumbed down that they can’t even begin to understand the points that Jim Nance makes above.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:23 am
If you can scare people, you can make money. It is simple. The sad fact is that people usually do not realize the truth until it is too late. Rate hikes for all utilities are a common occurrence and usually get a lot of talk…..but people continue to pay. High gas prices? No problem, you gotta have it. Just count on our handlers to take care of it (remember Nancy Pelosi who promised low gas prices if only Democrats were in charge?).
The bottom line is that nobody will get serious about the long-term balance of environment and energy until the lights go out. At that point, damn the elk, full drilling ahead. It is very convenient to whine about global warming as long as you have your power on and your gas tank full. Let this change (I lived through the gas crisis in 1974 and it wasn’t pleasant) and we can burn down the forests as long as the light switch works….that especially includes “environmentalists”. You just better get used to $6+ gasoline for the simple reason that you will pay the price and the oil companies have more power over Congress than you do. If you really believe that Obama does not take money from PACs and big-money donors, I have a deal on some land for you. It is a farce to claim that you get donations from “millions of small donors” when they come over the internet. How hard is it to have one big-money donor give over many internet sites? Our heroes are simply puppets for the large money interests. It is a system that has worked for 70+ years in America, and it does not look like we are getting any smarter.
America, you are living in a dream world and praying to false scientists. I guess it would be great to completely do away with pollution (far more dangerous to health than CO2), but who will be the first to become a hermit? I know it won’t be Al Gore…he has to have his jets and very lucrative carbon offset business. If we do not wake up, we will never be able to wake up. It is just common sense, people.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Steve hit right on the head.
The Democrats tell you that you can have everything you need. All they have to do is raise taxes.
The price of gas will stay high as long as the big oil companies have their hands in our politicians pockets.
It is time to tell all the tree huggers to take a hike. The United States has more oil off the coast of California and up in the barren tundra of Alaska, than the Arabs and Iraq combined.
It is time for people to stop listening to the people in congress and vote them out. They are supposed to be working for the people, not for big business and themself. Stop letting them dumb you down. That is how we loose everything we have worked for all our lives.
I am glad that i won’t live long enough to see the good old USA become a third world country with it’s people starving in the streets. That is where our government is pushing us.
Wake up people!!!!! It is time to take back what is ours and then take down the oil companies to a reasonable price for gas. I persoanlly am sick or hearing that the oil companies are making billions of dollars each quarter.
I don’t know about you, but my pockets are starting to get real shallow. GOD Bless the USA!!!