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Like Padmasana, this is also the Asana for meditation. One can sit comfortably for a prolonged period in this Asana.Pre Position
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Fold the left leg in the knee and place the toe on the floor. |
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It is important to keep the spine, the neck and the head, upright in one straight line in this Asana. Keep the sight fixed at the level of the height. Don't have any pressure on the hands. The whole weight of the body be set on the spine. Continue smooth breathing, when the final position is attained.Releasing
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Remove the palms from the knees and bring them to the sides. |
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Take out the left leg and straighten it. |
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Take out the right leg and straighten it. |
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Take the sitting position. |
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At present time, EPA is in the final stages of implementing a rule that would effectively eliminate electricity produced by coal from America's future energy portfolio. Using questionable authority, EPA set arbitrary standards regarding acceptable emissions of greenhouse gases from power plants. The set standards are well below the emissions levels achieved by even the most advanced coal facilities and are an obvious backdoor attempt to effectively outlaw coal. This move by EPA is antithetical to the best interests of Americans concerned with energy security. Coal is the nation's most abundant fossil fuel resource and one of its most affordable. Clearly EPA is more concerned with its own radical agenda than Americans trying to heat their homes and power their businesses.
The Electricity Security and Affordability Act works to curb EPA's ability to implement such arbitrary and unrealistic standards. First, the law requires that EPA, when setting emission standards for new power plants, sets standards that are actually achievable with existing technology and proven by real-world facilities.
In addition, the law protects existing electricity facilities by forcing EPA to answer to Congress. Under this legislation, when setting greenhouse gas emission rules that are applicable to extant facilities, EPA must justify their actions before Congress and conduct economic impact assessments. Further, no rule promulgated by EPA regarding greenhouse gas emissions from power plants shall take effect unless a specific effective date is passed by Congress and becomes federal law.
Finally, and most importantly, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act will immediately repeal EPA's proposed greenhouse gas rule for new power plants.
It's time that Congress begins to reign in an EPA run amok. The war on affordable and reliable energy from abundant sources like coal must come to an end. The Electricity Security and Reliability Act is common sense reform and a good step towards this end. Thus, I urge you to contact your representative and senators today and urge them to support the Electricity Security and Reliability Act, H.R. 3826 and S. 1905.
Matt Kibbe
President & CEO
Late last week, the Obama administration announced a month-long push back for second-year Obamacare enrollments, placing the enrollment date conveniently past election day. With that move, the administration will successfully push back the horrifying optics of disastrous rate hikes, lending a hand to Democrats up for election in 2014.
This is, of course, the same administration that concocted an entirely false sense of urgency on certain legislative matters via the "We Can't Wait" campaign. Now however, as the Obamacare train wreck rolls on and mid-term elections appear along the horizon, the concept of "We Can't Wait" has seemingly turned to 'Hold the Phone'.
But this isn't even vaguely the first time the Obama administration has slowed down policies or votes that could prove to be election day negatives for Democrats struggling to hold onto their congressional seats.
With that, here are the top 10 instances where President "We Can't Wait" has tried to stall items in an attempt to hide them from the public until after they have voted...
10) Rangeling in Corrupt Politicians
In a clear demonstration that politics trumps ethics in today's Democratic party, the ethics committee continually delayed the trials of Representatives Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters through to a lame duck session in November, 2010.
Politico reported that Waters had "been hit with three ethics violations related to actions she and her top aide, Mikael Moore, took in September and October 2008 on behalf of a minority-owned bank in which her husband owned stock
As for Rangel:
Rangel has been hit with 13 ethics charges, including allegations that he improperly solicited money from corporate officials and lobbyists for the Charles B. Rangel Public Policy Center in New York; failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars of income and assets on financial disclosure forms; maintained multiple rent-stabilized apartments in a luxury Harlem apartment building; and failed to pay income taxes on a villa in the Dominican Republic.
Rangel's trial was subsequently held on November 15th, and Waters' was scheduled for the 29th. Rangel would be found guilty of 11 ethics violations, while Waters trial was further postponed for two years due to disarray in the committee. She would eventually be cleared due to insufficient evidence.
9) General Delay-Us
Reports surfaced shortly after the 2012 presidential election that the resignation of General David Petraeus was pushed until after Election Day at the request of the Obama administration. The general had begun an extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell in 2011. Attorney General Eric Holder was aware that the FBI had discovered the affair, but Director of Intelligence James Clapper was not advised until November 6th. Petraeus would then resign three days later.
An FBI source explained, "The decision was made to delay the resignation apparently to avoid potential embarrassment to the president before the election."
8) Bush's Fault
Democrats, who controlled the Senate agenda in 2010, blamed Republicans for conspiring to derail plans to vote on an extension of the Bush tax cuts prior to the election.
Democrats had spent weeks claiming the issue would be a winner for them at the ballot box, then lacked the courage of their convictions in pulling the trigger on a vote before the deadline.
7) A New Date For The Mandate
In what the Hill called a "stunning announcement," the White House announced that the employer mandate in Obamacare would be delayed by a year, placing it just after the 2014 midterm elections, and potentially disarming one aspect of the train wreck for the GOP in their quest to unseat vulnerable Democrats. The mandate requires businesses with 50 or more employees to provide those that are considered full-time workers with government approved health insurance plans, or risk paying a fine.
This amendment to Obamacare has been questioned for its legality, but making such a move also indicates just how detrimental the employer mandate is.
While conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh referred to the tactic as a way to "delay the suffering", the mandate had already prompted numerous employers to respond by cutting thousands of jobs or hours for their employees as a cost-cutting measure.
6) Cuts Like a Knife
Recent estimates indicate that Obamacare raids Medicare to fund other aspects of the legislation - to the tune of $717 billion over 10 years, with $154 billion of that coming out of the Medicare Advantage program. Medicare Advantage provides money for private insurers to cover seniors.
Those cuts had to be covered up in a major way, in order to dupe seniors in the election.
In May of 2012, it was discovered that the administration had developed a ploy to spend $8.35 billion in taxpayer money to hide the effects of Obamacare's Medicare Advantage cuts until after the election. The Weekly Standard referred to it as the "Senior Swindle" and described it as a brazen "attempt to keep Obamacare's effects from being demonstrated until it's too late for voters to respond."
5) Coal Country Crush
A month prior to his re-election bid, President Obama's EPA, according to a report from Senator James Inhofe, "punted" on numerous regulations in an attempt to "earn votes" for a second term.
A few days before election day, another report surfaced that the administration illegally failed to meet a deadline for releasing regulatory plans for the coming year.
Why? Because letting voters in coal-reliant states know that their industry and economic livelihood were about to be crushed would not translate well at the ballot box.
On the eve of the election, we gave coal country a dire warning of what was to come:
Lurking quietly in the shadows, behind a wall of political rhetoric and campaign season hype, is a post-election surprise that could ring the death knell for the coal industry, killing massive amounts of jobs in states such as Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Reports are beginning to surface that the Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to implement a slew of anti-coal regulations after the election, which will result in the elimination of nearly 900,000 jobs annually.
In June of 2012, a report from Clean Coal USA had indicated that jobs were already being decimated through the closing of 288 coal plants, which have directly noted the EPA as a factor in some manner.
In September, the EPA released a draft regulation that would hold the "coal industry to impossible standards", potentially leading to hundreds of thousands of lost jobs.
4) Pipeline to Nowhere
Three years. Approval by 10 federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency. Study upon study demonstrating the economic and energy independence benefits to our nation. Bi-partisan support.
Yet in 2011, the White House announced that they would delay a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline until after the 2012 election. The move was designed not only to placate environmentalists, but to also plant a small seed of hope that President Obama may at some point, after the election, put aside politics and pursue a project that would provide tens of thousands of jobs in a struggling economic recovery, hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil per day, and countless opportunities for revenue.
In the end however, more than five years since the controversy began, President Obama has shown his allegiance to environmental extremists, continuing to avoid commitment to a project that former President Bush described as a "no brainer."
3) Enrollin' Rollin' Rollin', Right Past Election Day
As mentioned above, the Obama Administration has, coincidentally I'm sure, pushed back the start of second-year enrollment in Obamacare by one month to November 15th, 2014.
The Obama administration plans to push back by a month the second-year start of enrollment in its health program to give insurers more time to adjust to growing pains in the U.S. law, a move that may stave off higher premiums before the 2014 congressional elections.
Moving enrollment out of election season will hide the price hikes and cancellations from voters until after they have had a chance to cast their ballot in the 2014 mid-term elections.
An early Christmas present for vulnerable Democrats who are already seeing their re-election chances tanking.
2) So Long, Solyndra Employees
As midterm elections in 2010 were approaching, the poster child for the President's green energy stimulus plan, Solyndra, had found itself in economic shambles. The stimulus was being touted as a tremendous job creator, but Solyndra, a major beneficiary of taxpayer funds, was poised to announce significant layoffs at their factory.
According to an e-mail from a Solyndra adviser however, the administration was "pushing 'very hard' to delay making the layoffs public until the day after the elections."
Ultimately, the White House was successful in masking this story until voters had already cast their ballots, with the layoff announcement being made on November 3rd, one day after the midterms.
1) Mr. Flexibility
It was the hot mic heard 'round the world. In March of 2012, the President was caught discussing the contentious issue of missile defense with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, telling him he needed "space" from Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that "After my election, I have more flexibility."
The comment raised suspicions amongst Republicans who wondered if the President was referring to concessions in missile defense talks, and whether or not this "flexibility" would apply to other issues concerning a President who would no longer have to be concerned about the concerns of voters.
The incident led Doug Powers to translate the flexibility statement to "if you back off this year, you can have it your way after I'm re-elected."
The Obama administration may be a case-study in smoke and mirrors, but make no mistake that this is an overall Democrat strategy to winning elections. It will happen more prior to the 2014 elections. And it will most certainly happen again in 2016, even with Obama off the ballot.
It has to be a part of the overall strategy for Democrats. How many voters would have cast their ballots for politicians supporting these policies if they really knew the effects these policies would have? We know the president knew you couldn't keep your plan, and if Americans knew it, they wouldn't have kept this president.
Late last week, the Obama administration announced a month-long push back for second-year Obamacare enrollments, placing the enrollment date conveniently past election day. With that move, the administration will successfully push back the horrifying optics of disastrous rate hikes, lending a hand to Democrats up for election in 2014.
Today on the FreedomCast, reporter from the Washington Free Beacon, CJ Ciaramella is here. We'll talk about an EPA official who cost taxpayers nearly $1 pretending to be a CIA spy, the administration's continued efforts to stonewall Congress on the investigation into former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson and why Big Corn is pushing back against an investigation by the Associated Press.
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Today on the FreedomCast, reporter from the Washington Free Beacon, CJ Ciaramella is here. We'll talk about an EPA official who cost taxpayers nearly $1 pretending to be a CIA spy, the administration's continued efforts to stonewall Congress on the investigation into former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson and why Big Corn is pushing back against an investigation by the Associated Press. Related Links:
The Obama administration has had a rough go with their attempts to make America more "green" over the past few years. After the notable failures of Solyndra, Ecotality, and Fiskar, one would think maybe the government shouldn't be pouring more dollars down this eco-money pit, right? Wrong. Cue ethanol, which is another environmental boondoggle. This is a mess so big that environmentalists and big oil have found a rare spot of common ground to fight Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS).
Obama started the push for ethanol ahead of the 2007 Iowa Caucuses and his first bid for the White House. RFS' mean a larger market for corn, which of course is grown in states like Iowa. But propping up markets with policy proposals that line the pockets of lobbyists can also have consequences far more reaching than just adding more debt.
A new AP article digs into "The Secret, Dirty Cost of Obama's Green Power Push." It points out that his green initiatives have done more harm than good to our economy and our environment. More than 5 million acres of land set aside for conservation is now gone. Air and water studies? They were skipped, even though required by law. The use of nitrogen fertilizer used by corn farmers was increased by more than 1 billion pounds between 2005 and 2010, and this has left a dead zone on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico the size of Connecticut. This means that "the consequences are so severe that environmentalists and many scientists have now rejected corn-based ethanol as bad environmental policy." That's right, it was created to make America more "green," but it has done just the opposite.
The EPA had to do some fuzzy math to make ethanol appear significantly cleaner than biofuels, and it's coming back to haunt them. It is expected that they will have to reduce the ethanol requirement, although others are pushing for the entire program to be reconsidered. This has put some who would traditionally be in the left-wing camp at odds with Obama. One example of this is Craig Cox of the Environmental Working Group, who said bluntly "This is an ecological disaster."
Meanwhile, this has driven up food prices around the country. If refineries can't significantly increase their ability to meet ethanol mandates, they will be fined, causing gas prices to rise yet again. Can the average American afford to spend more on food and gasoline in this economy? Doubtful. So doubtful, in fact, that even Move On has a petition against ethanol on both economic and ecological grounds. Move On and big oil in agreement? Environmentalists and big oil in agreement? Clearly this is bad policy all around.
Getting rid of this mandate is one of the (very) few things on which this groups agree. When everyone hates a policy, maybe it's time to let it go.
The Obama administration has had a rough go with their attempts to make America more "green" over the past few years.
Like so many U.S. states in the last decade, Ohio's legislature was successfully lobbied by crony capitalists and environmental radicals to impose a back-door tax on consumers via government mandates on renewable energy and energy efficiency. State Republicans in the legislature overwhelmingly supported these measures that, in the end, will hurt coal power generation in Ohio more than coal-related regulations from President Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). GOP State Senator Bill Seitz seeks to address some of the insanity perpetrated by the previous state legislature via Senate Bill 58, but opposition from within the Republican Party to reform remains formidable. Although we support a full repeal of these market distortions created by the state government in order to protect all consumers, including the poor and elderly who survive on a fixed income, we believe that Senator Seitz is moving the discussion in the right direction. Accordingly, his GOP colleagues should support his endeavor.
By 2025, the amount of Ohio's electricity produced by alternative energy sources is required to increase to 25 percent. Specifically, generation from renewable sources is required to reach 12.5 percent – in contrast to a 2-percent mandate today. At the same time, the state requires a 22 percent reduction in the annual average energy consumption and peak demand that occurs during the three-year period prior to 2025.
These numbers were chosen by the legislature in Columbus when demand for electricity was expected to grow substantially over the next few decades. In a textbook example of why government – at any level – should stay out of Soviet-style market planning, state legislators reasoned that reducing demand for electricity (increasing efficiency) would be less expensive than building new generation. Moreover, they also assumed that putting aside a relatively small percentage of new generation build-out for renewable sources could be achieved at a reasonable cost. Unfortunately, they were dead wrong.
Soviet-Planning Ohio Style
Rather than demand for power increasing, electricity generation in Ohio dropped significantly – 15.3 MWh in 2008 to 12.4 MWh (in thousands) this year – already a reduction of nearly 20 percent. With lots of excess generation capacity on the grid, there is no market for building new capacity for renewables nor is there any regulatory justification for efficiency gains to reduce the cost of building new generation.
Efficiency, by definition, is good for our economy when it is based on rational economic choice. However, government-imposed energy efficiency results in inefficient and costly demand destruction. Specifically, the Ohio energy efficiency mandate drives baseload power generation from the grid, particularly coal-fired electricity, which utilities must reduce to achieve the efficiency target while meeting the 2025 alternative energy mandate.
To make this simpler to comprehend, consider the 2008 demand for electricity as being represented by the baseline of 100. As a result of falling demand, today's number is nearly 80 percent of the 2008 baseline, which could be reduced sharply as a result of demand destruction from the efficiency mandate of 22 percent. Thus, in the dire scenario where electricity demand does not rebound and stays fairly constant over the next 12 years, Ohio's electricity generation in 2025 could be capped at roughly 60 percent of the 2008 baseline. What this means is a possible energy starvation of the Ohio economy, which would certainly lead to a rationing of electricity – a decision that would ultimately be determined by government bureaucrats and not by the free market.
Moreover, given the fact that 25 percent of generation in 2025 must be met by alternative sources, the available market for coal and other non-qualifying baseload, including nuclear, could shrink to only 38 percent of the 2008 baseline – which is a substantial reduction for the role of coal-fired generation in the state's electricity mix. In 2011, coal accounted for about 80 percent of Ohio's electricity generation. If these mandates remain in place and we do not see a surge in electricity demand, we expect coal's share to fall dramatically as utilities increasingly fuel switch to natural gas and make way for renewables. Thus, within only 12 years, coal-fired generation could nearly be extinguished in the state of Ohio – regardless of EPA regulation of greenhouse gases.
Of course, this may be the worse-case scenario for consumers, but it is a scenario that is quite plausible, nonetheless, and one that is worth consideration by the state legislature. This is why GOP Senator Seitz, Chair of the Public Utilities Committee, has moved forward with Senate Bill 58. Although Seitz's bill would not repeal the mandates, it would mitigate some of the damage to Ohio's economy by limiting the costs of the energy efficiency program charged to consumers and by providing greater flexibility on how energy-intensive industries can meet the mandates. However, Republican legislators are blocking progress on this discussion, protecting the back-door tax that kills affordable electricity.
In his recent letter to Ohio Senate President Keith Faber (Republican - District 12), Seitz offered this insightful observation, "The enviro-socialist movement will apparently stop at nothing in its effort to prevent any modifications to the costly and ineffective centralized mandates foisted on Ohio ratepayers…" We agree completely with this assessment and urge the Republican Party in the state of Ohio to abandon bad regulation that will only harm the state's competitiveness, particularly the poor and the elderly.
With a bleak economy and excess power generation, the price tag to consumers of meeting the mandates will be much greater than what was originally sold to the state by renewable energy lobbyists and environmental activists. Given the dependence of the Ohio economy on energy-intensive industry (which accounts for one third of energy consumption in the state), these mandates will wreak havoc on the state economy, causing companies to relocate to other parts of the country that have not been overtaken by the religiosity of environmental fundamentalism.
Ohio Republicans remain supportive of the imposition of these mandates to gain political credit from the left and other advocates pushing for the end of affordable electricity in the state. At the same time, they openly criticize the EPA for its War on Coal. Given the likelihood that Ohio Republicans are causing more damage to the coal sector than the Obama Administration, we urge the GOP to end its hypocrisy and support consumers. Backing crony capitalists in the renewable energy sector and their radical environmental allies is not good policy or politics for any Republican in the state, and it is an issue that we will keep a close eye on.
Like so many U.S.
One of the fondest memories of my childhood, growing up in the idyllic countryside of Connecticut, was the crisp air of autumn days, the smell of dried leaves from the maple and walnut trees on our farm, and the crackle of a fire in our woodstove or fireplace warming our colonial era home. Since I've relocated to Oregon as an adult, some of the most epic scenes in this rugged countryside involve giant fireplaces in the great lodges of the West. But if Oregon has its way, you'll be able to warm your bones beside the fire no longer.
The killjoys at the office of Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum have taken aim at woodstoves:
We thought Oregon's offensive against woodstoves reached the apex of its lunacy back in 2009, when the Legislature passed a law that prohibits people from selling a home that contains a stove that isn't certified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
We were wrong.
Now, it seems, not even that coveted EPA certification, which was supposedly so vital four years ago, no longer is sufficient.
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has joined officials from six others states in filing a lawsuit against the EPA, claiming the agency has failed to adequately limit air pollution produced by new woodstoves.
You read that correctly: New woodstoves, not those old, uncertified smoke-belchers that are the target of the 2009 law (which is still in effect, by the way).
In other words, no woodstove meets muster with the guardians of Oregon's pure air. But the evidence that smoke from woodstoves poses a significant risk to the clarity of Oregon's atmosphere seems to us too scanty to justify spending tax dollars to sue a federal agency (which, of course, will use more tax dollars to defend itself).
"Smoke from residential woodstoves pose a real threat to air quality, in rural Oregon and the Portland area," Rosenblum said in a press release.
Except statistics from another state agency — the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) — suggest that Rosenblum is exaggerating this threat.
Just two Oregon cities don't meet federal air quality standards — Klamath Falls and Oakridge.
As the article points out, it's pretty absurd that a state is using taxpayer money to sue the federal government, defending itself at taxpayer expense. This is the latest twist in the Sue and Settle tactics being used by the professional Left to use the courts to write regulation while bypassing the state and federal legislative process. But instead of the feds coming in and taking over the state agencies in charge of environmental regulation, here the states are forcing the the feds to add wood stoves to their suite of regulations - which they will then turn around and implement on the states without their input. All to create a solution to a non-existent problem.
It's a funny world we're living in these days.
One of the fondest memories of my childhood, growing up in the idyllic countryside of Connecticut, was the crisp air of autumn days, the smell of dried leaves from the maple and walnut trees on our farm, and the crackle of a fire in our woodstove or fireplace warming our colonial era home.
Global warming.... Not so hot.
It's a climate puzzle that has vexed scientists for more than a decade and added fuel to the arguments of those who insist man-made global warming is a myth.
Since just before the start of the 21st century, the Earth's average global surface temperature has failed to rise despite soaring levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases and years of dire warnings from environmental advocates.
Now, as scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gather in Sweden this week to approve portions of the IPCC's fifth assessment report, they are finding themselves pressured to explain this glaring discrepancy.
This puzzle really isn't that difficult to figure out, actually. Much of what has passed for established climate science in the past couple of decades has actually been based on projections and computer models, not on any empirically obtained data. In fact, it's been almost anti-science, with presumptions being treated as fact before being proven.
But the skeptics are knuckle-dragging flat earthers. Sure.
The new IPCC report has the climate hysteria evangelists so nervous that they have begun trying to sweep it under the rug.
Here is their conundrum: for the longest time, they've told us that the IPCC proclamations on climate are gospel. In fact, they are the gospel for the Climate Church. And anyone who didn't listen was immediately branded an anti-science heretic.
Now this very same group is about to say, "Yeah, not so much..." and those who have been holding it up as the paragon of all things climate change are forced to do things like make up a "hiatus".
In reality, there isn't much backing up the claim that this is just a lull. In fact, a noted climate scientist (and IPCC member) says the panel may soon have to throw its projections out the window into the increasingly cool air.
If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models. A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations.
In a sane world, one could reasonably expect that the new evidence would be taken into account before proceding with any burdensome federal regulatory response. However, in a world where most of the federal government arrives at work each day in the same clown car, exactly the opposite is happening.
We know that carbon pollution is the most prevalent heat-trapping greenhouse gas, warming our planet and fueling climate change. In 2011, power plants and major industrial facilities in the United States emitted over 3 billion metric tons of carbon pollution, which is equal to annual pollution from over 640 million cars. Annually in the U.S., carbon pollution from power plants accounts for one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions, or 40 percent of total carbon pollution, surpassing industrial sources or the transportation sector. That means power plants emit more carbon pollution than every boat, plane, train, and car in the U.S. combined.
With these facts in mind, and given our legal obligation to the American people, EPA is releasing a proposal to limit carbon pollution from future power plants.
Today's proposal applies only to future power plants, and sets separate national limits for natural gas-fired power plants and coal-fired power plants.
So, even though the "heat trapping greenhouse gas" doesn't appear to be heating anything up, it's full speed ahead with the crippling regulatory burden.
California has been experimenting with save-the-earth regulation for a long time and that's going-if the polar bears will pardon the pun-swimmingly.
President Obama's first term was devoted to two things, for the most part: passing Obamacare and hemorrhaging taxpayer money on worthless green companies at a time when the economy was doing its Titanic impression. While we are all caught up in the looming Obamacare implementation fight and whatever is happening in Syria at this hour, Team Lightbringer remains focused on getting its executive overreach fix through the EPA.
We also have an immigration reform battle coming up in the near future but the important thing to remember is this: this administration has a blatant disregard for the legislative process and, even when it seems like it is losing a congressional battle or two, it is usually hitting the back alleys to score some steroids for its Executive Privilege.
Global warming.... Not so hot.It's a climate puzzle that has vexed scientists for more than a decade and added fuel to the arguments of those who insist man-made global warming is a myth.
On the eve of this past election, we made a plea to toss-up states that are widely described as residing in coal country to understand that if President Obama were to emerge victorious, the EPA would soon unleash a slew of anti-coal regulations that would absolutely crush the coal industry, and eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs in those states.
Today is the day that this all comes to fruition. Today is the first strike in the war on coal, the first carpet bombing of the industry, and the beginning of the President's long-sought dream to bankrupt the industry and take out numerous employment and economic casualties with it.
This morning, the EPA has released a draft regulation that will require all new coal plants built in the United States to limit their emissions to less than 1,100 pounds of carbon pollution per megawatt-hour, while gas-fired plants would be forced to limit their emissions to less than 1,000 pounds.
The Wall Street Journal reports that even the most advanced coal-fired power plants in the world would fall well below the new standards, with new plants generally releasing roughly twice the emissions. The only remaining options for new plants "is to capture carbon-dioxide emissions and stick them underground—a costly process that hasn't been demonstrated at commercial scale before."
Ben Howe of RedState helpfully translates the EPA's actions into plain English:
Obama is set to ban all future coal-fired power plant construction ... by regulatory fiat.
Howe adds:
Now, of course, the regulation will not actually say "no one may ever again construct a power plant that burns coal to produce electricity anywhere in the United States of America." Instead, it will just say you can't build anything in the future that emits more than a certain amount of greenhouse gas and then set a really low number that is commercially untenable as the relevant highest amount that can be emitted in order for a plant to be legally constructed.
The National Journal explains that the President is executing these regulatory policies in the name of the environment, saying that he "views these regulations as his global warming legacy."
This, despite EPA head Gina McCarthy's testimony earlier in the week before the House Energy and Commerce committee, in which she was unable to cite tangible evidence that regulations had any impact whatsoever on slowing global warming.
In an attempt to appease environmental extremists, who religiously and rigorously develop all of their platforms around the highly disputable concept of man-made global warming, unelected bureacurats are also unleashing collateral damage on the economy that will suffer for decades to come.
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has referred to the EPA's plan as a "job-destroying environmental agenda", charging that President Obama's "big government agenda is more important to him than respecting our Constitution and encouraging private sector job creation."
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) previously has declared that the EPA should be trying to work with the industry rather than attempting "to destroy our coal industry." In a just released statement, Manchin confirms the above by saying the administration is holding "the coal industry to impossible standards."
He added, "Never before has the federal government forced an industry to do something that is technologically impossible."
Most Democrats have remained nervous and silent however, having to walk a fine line between pleasing their constituents and remaining loyal to a scientifically-challenged President.
While previous regulations have already killed jobs through the shuttering of existing coal units, the potential remains for many other employment casualties - to the tune of hundreds of thousands of jobs.
The economic impact doesn't end there according to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE). They explain that the every day American consumer will also feel the strain of these regulations.
Despite their talk about an 'all of the above' approach to energy, the EPA is banning the construction of modern coal plants resulting in fewer fuel choices in the market. Fewer energy choices could cause American consumers to pay the ultimate price of higher energy bills.
Indeed, the President's war on coal will mark the death of an industry, will result in the loss of a multitude of job opportunities, and could mark the end of affordable energy in America.
But don't say the President didn't warn you of this attack on the economy. He openly dreamed of bankrupting coal companies. He warned that electricity rates will 'necessarily skyrocket.' And coal states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia knew of the damage they would sustain under a second-term Obama presidency.
The question now remains, can the industry and the economy somehow find a way to fight back, or will they have to surrender?
On the eve of this past election, we made a plea to toss-up states that are widely described as residing in coal country to understand that if President Obama were to emerge victorious, the EPA would soon unleash a slew of anti-coal regulations that would absolutely crush t
Chicken, Alaska is a tiny community 30 miles west of the Canadian border and about 300 miles east from Fairbanks. With an official population of 7, Chicken has no electrical service, telephones or central plumbing.
Needless to say, the quiet band of residents was shocked to see a SWAT-style squad pour out of the wilderness wearing full body armor demanding answers. Was it an attempt to break up a terror cell, arrest drug runners, or rescue endangered women, children and puppies?
The Alaska Environmental Crimes Task Force conducted the paramilitary raid to check for dirty water.
The commando squad… er, Environmental Task Force… was enforcing Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, which governs water discharges into rivers, streams, lakes and oceans.
The greater Chicken metroplex (pop. <100) is home to a few independent gold miners. These old-school prospectors dig up dirt from their claim area, place it in a sluice box and use water to wash away everything that isn't gold. Not exactly open-pit mining.
"Imagine coming up to your diggings, only to see agents swarming over it like ants, wearing full body armor, with jackets that say POLICE emblazoned on them, and all packing side arms," said C.R. "Dick" Hammond, a Chicken gold miner who got a visit from the task force.
"How would you have felt?" Hammond asked. "You would be wondering, 'My God, what have I done now?'"
An isolated miner carrying gold easily could have mistaken the raids as a robbery attempt and reacted accordingly. Local miner David Likins is thankful no one got hurt. "If it were my mine, and I was sitting on some gold, and people came storming out of the woods, I would probably meet them on the porch," he said, hinting at a Bidenesque confrontation.
The miners understandably felt intimidated by the government's extreme tactics and successfully requested that their senators and representatives look into the matter. The EPA eventually sent a junior representative to Chicken, but he didn't offer many answers.
Ken Fisher, the EPA's Deputy Director for Alaska, claimed the officers were armed because Alaska State Troopers warned of drug and human trafficking. But the Troopers laugh at that claim — there isn't much demand to smuggle contraband between unpopulated rural Alaska and the unpopulated Yukon Territory.
Fisher later claimed the EPA had evidence of severe water quality violations, and targeted dangerous miners with past violations. But to date, no charges have been filed against any Chicken-area miners and several of those raided had never received so much as a citation.
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell has called for a special counsel to investigate the task force's tactics, but he worries how the feds will respond. "My next concern is that people might now be facing trumped-up charges because the EPA is trying to justify its actions," Parnell said. "I don't believe we are getting all the facts."
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Chicken, Alaska is a tiny community 30 miles west of the Canadian border and about 300 miles east from Fairbanks. With an official population of 7, Chicken has no electrical service, telephones or central plumbing.
Recently, I reported on the ambiguous rules and potential conflicts of interest involved in the voluntary forest certification programs that are being encouraged by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As I said then, adherence to these programs may not, in fact, be fully voluntary and may be frought with severe economic impacts, conflicting interests and the potential for abuse. Now, even the editorial board of a major newspaper has noticed.
This past Sunday, The Oregonian Editorial Board wrote:
LEED certification has become a must-have for many government agencies that want new buildings to say something about their values. The paperwork and auditing alone can boost the cost of even a modest project by tens of thousands of dollars, but public officials often spend the money gladly in exchange for a label that says, in effect, "we care about environmental and employee well-being." It's branding, government style.
Oregon's public sector would be far less enamored of the LEED label, however, if more taxpayers were aware that the certification process discriminates against the state's extensive forest products industry. They might even avoid it entirely for the message its use sends unintentionally: "We care more about environmental branding than Oregon's economy."
LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) is a program of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). It maintains rating systems for various types of projects, which collect points toward certification by incorporating elements related to green design, product origin and so forth.
Now, personally I'm not quite convinced that the latte sipping bike riders in downtown Portland would ever switch their views in favor of jobs over the environment, but at least a major publication in this state is noticing.
Plus, the wood products industry in Oregon certainly is noticing. Evidently, LEED construction certification only awards points for wood certified by the Forest Certification Council (FSC). You may remember FSC from my previous report and the push to create a virtual monopoly for their certification in domestic production. This monopoly, according to a recent study, would severely limit production, destroy jobs and increase costs.
Compared with the relatively less burdensome certification program offered by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), the FSC program covers a tiny proportion of the wood products available for production in Oregon:
Oregon has more than 3 million acres [of SFI certified forestland]. Of ... the LEED-preferred [FSC land] ... the state has fewer than 138,000. New Hampshire has more.
Why, you ask, don't all those Oregon forest owners just call up FSC and get themselves LEED legal? The answer -- surprise! -- is complicated, and it has a lot to do with the nature of west-side Oregon forests and with modest differences between the programs themselves.
"Substantively, there isn't a huge difference" between the two programs' requirements here, says Kevin Boston, a professor at Oregon State University's college of forestry. But small differences can matter, and one, he points out, involves maximum clear-cut size. SFI, echoing state rules, targets 120 acres. That's roughly twice the area of FSC's regional maximum. While clear-cuts may not be popular, they're appropriate in forests dominated by Douglas fir, a species that needs full sunlight to regenerate.
That's one reason Roseburg Forest Products has not sought FSC certification for the 460,000 acres of forest it manages in Oregon, relying instead upon strict standards contained in state law. The company has obtained FSC certification, on the other hand, for 175,000 acres of forestland it manages in California. The terrain in Oregon lends itself to larger harvest units, says Eric Geyer, the company's manager of external affairs and corporate development. And so do the trees themselves. The company's California land is heavy on pine, and its Oregon land on Douglas fir.
Several industry officials are speaking out, saying that LEED should recognize more certification programs. Indeed, FSC certification can act to shut Oregon wood out of Oregon public works projects. Officials point out that FSC certification can be more favorable to foreign wood production than domestic, and that foreign wood can paradoxically be produced under less stringent conditions. Instead, with the backing of the EPA, environmental groups are attempting to pick winners and losers. But at least the local paper is starting to notice - and that's progress.
Recently, I reported on the ambiguous rules and potential conflicts of interest involved in the voluntary forest certification programs that are being encouraged by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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'Peer of the Realm' Monckton now a Birther
'Peer of the Realm' Monckton now a Birther
This is a guest post by Greenpeace USA's Kevin Grandia, former DeSmog Managing Editor.
Christopher Monckton, well known for his wacky behavior attempting to deny the scientific realities of climate change, has now moved on to look into the conspiracy theory around whether US president Barack Obama was actually born in the United States!
Monckton, decked out in an American flag shirt, fire arm on his hip and a cowboy hat, tells the interviewer that:
My purpose in being here [in Arizona] is to have a further look into whether the president of the United States is the president of the United States. Now you might say, what has this got to do with someone from Britain... I am here because I am curious. As a peer of the realm I am allowed to stick my long aristocratic nose into anything I want to stick it in.
Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. Here is the video:
You can read more on the history of Monckton here on DeSmogBlog's Disinformation Database.
Monckton recently spoke at the Heartland Institute's climate denier conference. As part of that conference, an outrageous ad campaign ran by Heartland just prior to the conference equated anyone who believed in climate change to Osama Bin Laden, the Unabomber and the mass-murderer Charles Manson.
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I don't usually follow Christopher Monckton, but I do notice that he is reviled by alarmists and is often called a denier. At 1:26 in the video, he says global warming is real and is happening. He questions whether it is happening fast enough to be a great danger. Is this denying science?
Conman shows his ignorance of climate science when he stupidly utters the following:
"He questions whether it is happening fast enough to be a great danger. Is this denying science?"
We know exactly how fast it is occurring, just check all the temperature data bases found at woodfortrees. Where the discount monk denies science is in his completely dishonest and incompetent calculations for climate sensitivity. He pretend to be a scientists and mathematician in his calculations and even published a "paper" on his comical calculations (http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/monckton.cfm).
Competent scientists reviewed this "paper" and found at least 125 errors in it (http://www.altenergyaction.org/Monckton.html).
Now, someone has to be completely ignorant or completely dishonest to make so many errors in one paper. My guess he is both.
"We know exactly how fast it is occurring"
The error bars look pretty large to me. While there is clearly an upward trend in temperatures, they also fluctuate all over the place.
I'll have to admit that Christopher Monckton is a pretty bizarre character. I don't understand his apeal.
Keep it up conman you are just showing your ignorance of just about everything to do with climate change in every post.
I suggest you take remedial courses in simple science, maths and statistics. You should also include English grammar since most deniers are lacking in that discipline too.
Maybe conman should be renamed "cloneman" since deniers seem to be clones of the most ignorant, arrogant and despicable person you can find.
"What graphs are you talking about?"
Every month I check out the release of the University of Alabama in Huntsville's graph on reason.com's Hit&Run blog:
I'll have to admit that the BEST graphs on the page you linked to, shows a very clear trend. Different temperature measuring methods can have different characteristics that lead to different looking results.
I suspect your choice of a 'reason.com' blog may cause considerable misunderstanding.
Here's the latest UAH data;
The official University of Alabama in Huntsville data states clearly tha the global positive trend is +.13C, +0.17C on Land;
Read it, get educated, and stop using crappy information sources. The official report from the UAH data contradicts your little blogger friend. Never go back there.
Here's a great video by a Republican Scientist regarding your hero;
He loves to forget data that disagrees with him, and forgets to graph error margins and other such useful things. Generally doing things that get you fired on the job.
It is a common denialist tactic to give with one hand and take with the other. Here he is taking with his other hand:
"there is a startling absence of correlation between the CO2 concentration trend and the temperature trend, necessarily implying that—at least in the short term—there is little or no causative link between the two"
Which is it? Either CO2 causes warming or it doesn't. The basic mechanism isn't really that hard to understand. CO2 absorbes IR from the Earth and radiates it back as heat, thus warming the environment. CO2 is why we are not now a frozen ball of ice. Without it there could be no life on Earth.
Secondly, his claim is false. Here is the "CO2 lags warming" claim:
1. Climatologists say that CO2 is responsible for the warming we see today.
2. The geological record shows that CO2 has lagged warming in the past.
3. Therefore CO2 is not reponsible for warming today.
The argument is invalid because the conclusion does not follow from the premises. The paleo-geological record shows cycles of warming that correspond to the precession of the Earth's axis. These cycles of warming then trigger the release of CO2 from permafrost and other sources. Which in turn sustain the warming period for longer that it would have been without CO2. Studies have *proved* this to be the case.
Scientists know more than your 8th grade understanding of the climate. They know that many sources contribute to our current climate. The sun, water vapor etc. All things being equal the Earth exists in dynamic equlibrium. Very very recently however, humans have been putting MASSIVE amounts of CO2 into the equation. Since CO2 is in fact a greenhouse gas adding more of it logicaly would result in pushing, forcing as the scientists say, the climate out of equilibrium causing more warming.
And that is what we observe.
You are talking about the 'Monckton Maneuver' the sudden and utter about face from climate change deniers.
Why don't you hear it from his own lips he's sold quite a lot of videos that state the world is not warming. So, yes, he's a climate change denier. There is not debate on that fact. You can take his word for it.
And what kind of sap, CONMAN would get fooled by his 'cure for HIV'. You? You're that stupid? Would you trust a guy like that? How?
Christopher Monckton lies like a cheap suit. His presentation in California he shows raw uncalibrated satellite data to explain that he thinks the ocean isn't rising.
Presentation; Look at Page 39... Raw Envisat Data.
So... how is that sooo different from what the satellites really say?
Good thing I checked ocean rise is 10 times higher than he says.. (Hint: Aviso states very clearly not to use Envisat data Raw. That data does not represent ocean level.)
Monckton is a worm, Conman. Can you explain to me what kind of idiot would trust him as a source? You should know.
For all the handwringing and dire forecasts because of the supposed 'massive' amounts of CO2 being pumped out, we still have only warmed less than 1 degree C in the past 100 years!
You guys don't get it. People like Hansen and Romm and Mckiben are making total fools out of the AGW movement with their way over the top predictions! And when someone like Monckton comes along and asks "Where's the beef" everyone has a hissy fit.
Blame your own high priests for the current state of skepticism, they are the ones that are out of control.
"the supposed 'massive' amounts of CO2 being pumped out"
FALSE - Are you aware that we can in fact measure the amount of CO2 humans contribute to the environment? Humans are responsible for 29 BILLION tons of CO2. It is enough to alter the climate.
"we still have only warmed less than 1 degree C in the past 100 years"
Yes, and that is enough to cause a great deal of damage to the environment and to our infrastructure.
"People like Hansen and Romm and Mckiben are making total fools out of the AGW movement with their way over the top predictions!"
FALSE. Your suggestion that global warming is not something to worry about is FALSE. The IPCC has spelled out several different scenarios. Even in the best case scenario things would be very bad for a great many people.
It is sane and rational to prepare for unforseen consequences. When you build a house in a flood plane it is NOT sane and rational to ignore the possibility of a flood destroying your home. The fact that we do not know for sure what will happen SHOULD make us all the more willing to prepare for the worst. It is even more true given the fact that switching to alternative energy sources and no longer being dependent on foreign oil all by itself has benificial effects.
Sounds like a win win to me.
Do you two jokers own part of DeSmog Blog or do you have compromising pictures of Chris Mooney and Christopher Monckton (with his eyes really bugged out) or something? How do you get away with your incessant name calling (in violation of the comment policy)? I would think that you two would be banned on grounds of embarrasment alone.
cloneman, stop acting like a fool and people will stop calling you a fool. Surely you are not that ignorant that you cannot see that we are only responding to your dishonest nonsense?
You should know by now, Canman, that this is the accepted practice of the AGW faithful everywhere.
If you can't respond intelligently to questions about warming, use name-calling and ad hom attacks. It's telling that Desmog overlooks this from the 'regulars' but I'm used to it by now.
In the end, as they say, "the truth will set you free"!
p.s. to Oilman and Ian; we will not "go away" anytime soon, get used to it!
cloneman and Hank_ you do neither yourselves nor your friends the deniers any favours by spouting your dishonest nonsense. The more you post the more obvious it becomes how you lack knowledge of climate science.
It also becomes more and more obvious that you are a pair of dishonest nasty trolls who seem intent on wishing the worst possible future outcome onto future generations. That is just despicable behaviour.
Actually Hank_ I got dumped on all over the place. My behaviour is a learned reaction to you and your kind, nothing more.
Originally I thought there really was some sort of truth to what you guys would claim. But after debunking false claims time and time again, I began to realize that this is all some sort of game for you guys. I also realized that you really don't know what you're talking about. I'm positive that your role here is to spread misinformation.
Over the last 6 months or so, I've noticed a serious drop in attempting to offer links to the 'facts' you and your kind seem to like. I know that this is because there is no truth to what you say. It gets debunked rather instantly under a logical discussion.
And as I said, I'm only here because you are here.
P.S. to the Quislings; You will not "Get Educated" anytime soon, we're used to it!
"Do you two jokers own part of DeSmog Blog or do you have compromising pictures of Chris Mooney and Christopher Monckton (with his eyes really bugged out) or something? How do you get away with your incessant name calling (in violation of the comment policy)?"
I must admit, the same thing annoys me over at WUWT. Deniers are allowed to say what they want. Realists are censored for similar offences. At least you are not censored here. WUWT could take a leaf out of desmogs book.
I tell you what. How about you start with asking "skeptic" blogs to stop using such words as warmists, alarmists, communists, socialists, fascists, marxists, leftists etc in association with those that accept AGW science.
And I'm sure that those on this side of the fence will reciprocate.
On the issue of AGW, the two extreme sides seem to have a lot of emotion invested in the issue. I often hear each side accusing the other's blogs of censoring comments.
FWIW, I had a link to a climate progress post clipped from a comment at WUWT (at least I think I did):
Of course, the only time I ever tried to post a comment (admittedly snarky) on climate progress, it dematerialized after a few hours. I castigated Joe Romm for writing a long post on clean energy without mentioning nuclear power.
That is why Mann has the FBI investigating the email leaks.
In fact its common practice to post someone real identity and contact information to give them a real dose of hate. The idea being that if you can cause your enemy to fear you, maybe they'll go away.
You wouldn't engaging in what Chris Mooney calls black/white thinking now, would you? One thing I have to give Anthony Watts credit for, is that on his list of climate blogs, he lists some of them as "lukewarmers". I don't think the FBI has Judith Curry in their sights.
As much as I respect the high school he graduated from. I don't believe it grants him the intellect of 15,000 phds. Nor do I believe that Monckton has a cure for Cancer and HIV and all the other crap he exclaims.
I just picture Monckton at the front of a church slapping people on the face, "Be Healed!"
Yeah, sure... its all real.
What kind of complete and total idiot would trust a lier and shyster like that? Tell me Conman, what does it take to be so utterly deluded?
"On the issue of AGW, the two extreme sides seem to have a lot of emotion invested in the issue."
False equivilence. The truth about any matter of fact does not depend on whether it's supporters behave well or poorly. And it is simply not the case that science is a political body *only*. What makes something true? A statement of fact is true if it is in fact true. Not if someone in authority says it is. That is the main difference between conservative authoritarians and science. For a conservative something is true because an authority figure says it is true. That authority then justifies them defending him by any and all means available. By violence if need be. As the history of science and of liberalism shows, conservatives will oppose *any* change with extremely violent means.
Anger and violence are based in fear. When people are afraid they defend themselves by putting up a wall of anger. The problem though is that the truth is not a respector of persons. The facts do not care that your feelings are hurt or that you are afraid. They just are.
The facts: Global warming is a fact. That human sources of CO2 are the main drivers of global warming is a fact. That the consequences of global warming will negatively effect large populations is also a fact. The only real questions are over what we should do about it and over how quickly and how much global warming will effect us. To me it seems prudent, even conservative, to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. The least effective response would be to try to pretend global warming is not happening or that it will have no serious consequences.
Liberals care about our country too. We care about our future and what kind of a world we will leave our children. The best available science says that if we do something about global warming now we can prevent great suffering and loss of capital later. I would have thought that being willing to do more with less now for a greater reward in the future would be a conservative value.
The simple fact Canman is that you have no facts on your side. It might have turned out differently. It might have turned out that global warming is not happening or that it's consequences would not be a threat. But that didn't happen. Reality doesn't give a frack what *we* want. A boulder rolling down a hill doesn't give a flying crap about those who get in the way. Even if it is really really inconvient for them to get out of the way. If you do not move it will crush you and everything you love.
The rich and powerful know all this. They believe that no matter what happens their money will buy them and their children security. They play you for a chump. They're more than happy for you to bravely stand athwart shouting no to that boulder coming right at you. They'll be fine. You... not so much.
You're not a conservative Canman. You're just a mark in the latest con.
I am not a conservative, although I agree with them on many issues. I am a small "l" libertarian.
I don't see how the alarmist side can say that they are not authoritarians. They are the ones saying that we must leave everything up to the experts. The late Richard Feynman said: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts". My favorite Feynman video:
Conman... Read and get educated;
"Authoritarianism is a form of social organization characterized by submission to authority as well as the administration of said authority. It is usually opposed to individualism and libertarianism. In politics, an authoritarian government is one in which political authority is concentrated in a small group of politicians."
Denailists are taking their marching orders from an exceedingly small number of individuals.
Now, speaking of Libertarian Values... You should watch Hansen's video again;
Hansen's Republican Libertarian Economist provides a solution with ZERO government.
One more thing Conman. I don't believe in experts. I've read the scientific papers on both sides, and frankly you guys come back wanting. In engineering this is called a review. When faced with too much information for a single human to understand, we do a drill down from requirements to implementation. I've done a drill down through various parts of climate science.
You on the other hand like to post links to creepy bloggers who can't do math.
"I am not a conservative, although I agree with them on many issues. I am a small "l" libertarian."
Yes, you are a conservative. Libertarianism is one form that conservativism takes. It is essentially economic conservatism with an emphasis on limited government and without all the social issue/morality shit that is such a big part of mainstream U.S. conservatism.
I don't see how the alarmist side can say that they are not authoritarians.
Because I believe in FACTS does not make me an authoritarian. Truth is it's own authority. If I claim "The Earth revolves around the sun" the fact that I can say it is true with absolute authority does not make me an authoritarian. But... when the Church said "The sun revolves around the Earth". That WAS authoritarianism because it's truth was not based in reality but in the authority of men.
So.. when I say that "Global warming is real and humans are responsible" and say so authoritatively I am not being an authoritarian because the truth of my claim does not come from any man or woman but from reality itself. When your 3rd grade math teacher taught you that 2 + 2 = 4 she was not indoctrinating you in a political ideology. She was teaching you the truth.
"The late Richard Feynman said: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts"."
But the opposite claim is NOT true. It is NOT true that "Disbelief in experts is science".
What makes something true? Some statements like 2 + 2 = 4 are absoutely true in all possible worlds because we can show that "2 + 2" is defined in a way that it is really the same thing as "4". Scientific claims are true because we can show that there is an objective fact of the world that *makes* it true. The claim that "The speed of light is 186,000 mps" is true not because we can prove it true in all possible worlds (it isn't) like that above but because we can show that it is true of this world by referring to brute facts about our world.
In no case does any man make any claim true. However, scientists are more trustworthy than oil executives or priests because they dedicated to objective truth and not the subjective opinion of men but they do make mistakes. So citing that 97% of scientists believe in global warming doesn't *make* it true. It just ups the odds that they are right. What makes warming a fact is that we can measure the rise in temps with instruments (and then do some statistics). Temperature is a brute fact of the world. Asserting it's truth is authoritative but not authoritarian.
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