If you need any more proof that the concept of Global Warming is less "science" and is more just a replacement for the kind of failed concepts of communism and socialism that is increasingly being rejected by the world, two recent stories helps clarify the point. These same stories also highlight how the media facilitate the lies that is globaloney.
The first is a recent article by one Kellie Hastings, a writer who claims that her "research is thorough" and her "articles are written with style and intellect." In a piece titled "Deadly Ozone From Drive-Thru Mania," our Miss Hastings pours out her considerable "intellect" into the theory that drive thru windows are destroying the planet and making us a bunch of fatties.
These drive-thru window services contribute to smog, emissions, noise pollution, air pollution, pollution within the store itself as employees at the window are constantly breathing in exhaust fumes. They add to our obesity problem creating a lazy society. They congest the parking lots creating line ups adding to even more idling vehicles.
Wow, that is quite a list, a result of her "thorough research," no doubt.
And what does all this evil come down to as far as Miss. Hastings is concerned?
And all this is for what, convenience sake, money, success?
Is the human species evolving or are we becoming selfish to our never ending needs, our services rendered mind set? Or is it because we cannot turn back the clock and change the structured society we all love so much?
Maybe we have misled ourselves in regards to the meaning of purpose. Materialistically speaking, is it our destiny or purpose to acquire as much as possible? Is our evolutionary success based on our technologically convenient lifestyle? Or are we here to serve the almighty dollar?
Yeah, it's all because of ... you guessed it... capitalism. Her solution, of course, is to put an end to all this capitalism stuff like all good communists aim to do.
She fails utterly to prove with all her "research" that the "air pollution" she claims is a result from drive-thru windows will be reduced by getting rid of the convenience. She just states it straight out as fact. But, if Miss. Hastings is unhappy over the continued and expanded use of automobiles because of the air pollution they cause, she can't be too happy about the Tata Corporation in India offering a new auto for around $2,500, an offering that will allow many millions more people than had ever been able to afford a brand new car.
Now, owning a car opens up possibilities to a person that is beyond their reach otherwise, it opens up a freedom that many millions do not currently enjoy. The ability to find work at further distances from their homes than ever gives them more choices to find lucrative employment opportunities, the ability to find markets and entertainments are also greatly expanded. All this greatly expands individual freedom.
If many millions more of the people of India (and around the world) find themselves able to afford this new car, it will incredibly improve their standard of living. It will also force the government to redirect their own efforts to internal improvements to accommodate this rise in cars that will add even more to raising the standard of living in once poor countries.
Isn't this great news? Not to the communists of Greenpeace who are protesting this new product. Green communists are attempting to forever keep the poor in the grinding poverty in which they currently wallow. These green communists do not want people to be raised up out of poverty because to do so will cause "pollution" and "global warming."
And Greenpeace isn’t alone. Their pals in the media are happy to fan the flames of alarmism over the supposed "global disaster" of this incredible new freedom-promoting car. As the Washington Post proved with an article outrageous titled "It Costs Just $2,500. It's Cute as a Bug. And It Could Mean Global Disaster."
Green communists do not care about people and these two stories add to the ever growing proof that enviro-communists have gravitated to environmentalism as a replacement for an overt espousal of communist ideals.
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Maybe if we all just return
January 15, 2008 - 20:37 ET by Chris NormanMaybe if we all just return to the Dark Ages of disease, pestilence, and famine - where the world is filled with mud and horse poop and everyone dies before the age of thirty - the Eco-Left will be happy.
Right
January 15, 2008 - 20:42 ET by iveseenitallRight,Chris. And all of this has never been about global warming. It has been about money, politics, and power. Anyone who can't see it has his eyes closed or worse, his head up his you-know-what.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Of course they will, Chris.
January 15, 2008 - 20:56 ET by motherbeltOf course they will, Chris. Some of them actually come out and say that the best thing for the Earth would be for man to be gone. None of them ever volunteer to take themselves out first and start the process, of course.....
Well, now that you mention it...
January 15, 2008 - 21:01 ET by c5thenThe climate was much warmer back then. Climatologists have the well documented period known as the medieval warm period nicknamed as the "climate optimum". The climate emerged from the last ice age warmed up, cooled down, warmed up again, then cooled down. In the late 1700's, at the time of the Revolution, the climate was much cooler, now it's warmer.
It's almost as if the climate is cyclical or something.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.
Just more af an eletist
January 15, 2008 - 21:09 ET by ziplinedownJust more af an eletist attitude from these liberals. They claim that they want good for everyone, but they wont subject themselves to this "good" This applies to the new car, fast food drive thrus and health care.
"give me a break!" - John Stossel
Questions to ask Environmentalists
January 15, 2008 - 21:25 ET by PopularTech1. Do they like Capitalism
2. Do they like Noam Chomsky
You will get everything you need to know from these questions.
Global Warming as European Imperialism (The American Thinker)
Global Warming Equals Socialism (NewsMax)
Global Warming: Socialism’s Trojan Horse (LewRockwell)
Green and communist propaganda: comparison (Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist, The Reference Frame)
Socialism's Trojan horse (WorldNetDaily)
The Anti "Man-Made" Global Warming Resource
And don't forget, "the top 2% need to cough it up".
January 15, 2008 - 21:52 ET by mastersofdeceitAnd don't forget, "the top 2% need to cough it up".
Oh that's not me. That's Air America's Ed Schultz, insignificant as he is; although he did have John Kerry on 20 mins before, last night on his show. Basically summing up the Democrat platform in nine words. New tagline?
" the top 2% need to cough it up ".- Ed Schultz expressing the Democrat platform.
It's kind of a mixed
January 15, 2008 - 21:58 ET by MidAmericaIt's kind of a mixed blessing but the Chinese drive to be the worlds super power will not be put on hold to save the envronment. Just for survival we won't be able to either. What the world needs to do is set aside an adequate land area just for these pesky socialists. It won't be all that expensive because they don't want any modern non-renewable products. All we would have to do is drop them food ever so often and they can go giddy with delight by dividing it up 'fairly'. Everybody gets the same. Whoopee! I'm not quite sure what they will do with their extra time. I guess they can sing songs and create bio-degradable art. Think of it as a leper colony for persons unable to transition from failed 20th century economics.
We already have that nice
January 15, 2008 - 23:09 ET by Conservative in the ArtsWe already have that nice little piece of land for them called Cuba, just 90 miles away. Problem is that all those claiming it's wonderfulness won't go live there, and those that do are swimming those 90 miles to get here.
But at least Castro goes out and curses each and every hurricane, what has Bush done to stop them? They've got me on that one.
MidAmerica, I have the
January 16, 2008 - 00:07 ET by CJK51MidAmerica, I have the perfect piece of land for them: it's about three-days flight from Earth, and I hear they have a lovely flag and leftover NASA souveniers there.
The moon is ours
January 16, 2008 - 15:06 ET by DarkCurrentLet them have Antartica instead. They say it's warming up.
That WaPo article is
January 15, 2008 - 21:57 ET by CortillaenThat WaPo article is incredible. They manage to fit half of the liberal agenda into what is supposed to be commentary on a new car. I think it's time to give the DUmmie FUnnies style a try (though sans the Bolshevick red):
"If millions of Indians and Chinese get to have their own cars, the planet is doomed."
Right, cars = CO2 = planetary death, even if the science doesn't say so.
"And surely the glow of the American century is beginning to dim."
The US is can't possibly survive in a global economy!
"The Model T revolutionized the auto industry and brought the world into the age of mass production and Big Oil."
And thus was our fall from grace into the sins of Oilyness.
"...for an already overheating world."
For the last time, there is a consencus and the science is settled!
"No magic bullet can reconcile mass ownership of automobiles with global warming."
The planet is overheating, so shut up and quit trying to confuse me with facts!
"Others tout plug-in-and-go electric cars. True, they produce no carbon,
but if the source of the electricity used to power the car is coal --
the most common source of electricity in the United States."
Hmm, now how do we shove the blame for preventing the construction of new nuclear plants onto Republicans... Oh! No, we should turn nuclear power into the new Big Oil! Then we can hold our heads high and declare we were protecting the planet!
"On the upside, India has fewer bad habits to break than the United
States. Because India has lagged in improving and expanding its
roadways, it has very little to undo." That's right, capitalism and everything that comes from it is bad...
"It doesn't have to completely change an economy that runs on oil; most of its citizens consume very little, if any, of it."
...and oil is evil! *hiss*
"As India becomes a car culture, it can find far better role models than the United States. Rather, India should look to Japan and Europe, with their super-modern, super-efficient public transportation systems."
The United States is, unfortunately, still a largely capitalist society (we're working on it!), so gaea-forbid you look to it for inspiration. Instead, be like the EU, that budding hope of commun-er... environmentalism.
"Meanwhile, car-addled Western societies are starting to change their ways."
Cars are really evil monsters (made by Big Oil!) that hypnotize you into driving endlessly to pump out CO2 to kill the planet. Really.
"India is a highly status-conscious country, and no status symbol is
more exhilarating than a new car. (Sound familiar?) Its new middle
class is eager to acquire the goods that only now are within its grasp,
especially those that raise their eminence, and they don't want to hear
from us gas-guzzling killjoys."
Oh goody! Soon we can start spreading the message of class warfare to India! Oh, and we (the US) are bad.
"As one college student told me last year: "Just when we can finally
start to enjoy the things you people have had for decades -- cars, air
conditioners -- you tell us, 'Sorry, too late, you can't now.' I mean,
you created this mess. You won't reduce your consumption, but you tell
us we can't increase ours."
She has a point."
We've been killing the planet for decades! It's all our fault!
Heh, I can see how doing this regularly could be entertaining.
www.rhjunior.com Great comics with a hefty dose of Christian and anti-nutjob goodness.
"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." -Miyamoto Musashi
Great Post Mr. Huston
January 15, 2008 - 22:13 ET by Lame CherryIt is wonderful to see you link the entire communist cartel movement behind all this massive attack on the west and the even more important link of showing how 3rd world millions are to be nothing more than slave labor and die young and never advance their lives to human conditions.
Mr. Huston, I follow God and one of his most wonderful gifts to mankind, Ronald Reagan. President Reagan I was extolling today in earlier posts on economic and foreign policy.........and I give God credit and mirror Ronald Reagan in showing how God's outlook is so different from liberals.
A liberal beholds there soup can cars and never cares whether it improves an Indians meager life and only bitches about the nonsense of gases polluting the world.
A Conservative by God's Wisdom instead has me looking at India and building on a concept I was writing about earlier in this:
Imagine if the opium lords of Russian, Muslim and European cartels could be convinced that damming up the huge chasms and rivers of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal etc.... would help them too so they would not blow them up.
Think of the electricity which would be generated, perhaps traded between lesser nations like Afghanistan to India.....to supply these soup can cars not with gas engines, but hydro electricity, in electric engines.
These cars are not designed for high speeds and in fact their bearings wear out if running at 70 mph. The main thrust being, these cars in India's warm climate are perfect conversion cars to electricity using cheap batteries and sound electric motors a bit bigger than golf cart motors.
I see in this regional trading partners creating and developing economies with energies they have on hand. Economic power soon translates into citizens not being led around by ranting despots as they have their own power and don't need some local jerk telling them to be terrorists.
That is what Ronald Reagan would see and promote in this. If there were American's like Henry Ford, he would be here and over there churning out billions of these new cars and not the current sodomite Fordication loosing billions.
"Hooking" Asians on technology only helps America, but America needs to help direct this for the best of both worlds.
All of that water in dams can also be sold to thirsty China like oil.
That is balance of trade and if India can use renewable resources like hydro power instead of fueling OPEC, the entire world will be better off.
That is the difference between liberals and Conservatives. Conservatives see promise and a liberal sees ruins.
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Remeber the Ozone Hysteria
January 16, 2008 - 00:36 ET by tcm22It struck me today that the Global Warming issue has become the new environmental disaster that is just around the corner, ready to cause widespread destruction and horror unless.....drumroll......government programs are there to save us.
Before GW it was the infamous hole in the ozone layer that had us all at death's door from skin cancer. Gov't saved us by banning freon.
Before that it was acid rain where we were told the entire northeast of the US was going to turn into a wasteland unless we "did something." I guess we went ahead and killed off enough heavy industry in this country that it's no longer a problem. Heavy regulation and unions apparently saved us from that tragic end.
It's turned into such a religious construct for the left. These potential environmental disasters are an article of faith that defines their morality. Repent and give up carbon or face hell on earth.
The GW fiasco is the worse yet. The potential long term impacts of government intervention to control nature in the form of climate control exceed all other efforts combined.
Drive-thru paranoia
January 16, 2008 - 00:37 ET by SeptemberAnd all this is for what, convenience sake, money, success?
Heck no, I just want a taco.
LMAO!!
January 16, 2008 - 08:38 ET by Full MonteLMAO!!
This too shall pass
January 16, 2008 - 01:44 ET by rammingspeedThe man-made global warming fanatics want to make laws restricting freedom (i.e., the ability to be a capitalist) and this harum-sacrum baloney is their ticket. Rather, they think it's their ticket, because once they starting hurting people unnecessarily with stupid regulations, the people will challenge and then turn on them. That'll happen through elections cycles.
Abraham Lincoln once told his cabinet: "The quickest way to get rid of bad laws is to vigorously enforce them." Wait til the global warmers hurt people and they have no truly good explanation. They will be gotten rid of quickly. You have to trust the ability of people to catch on and throw the bums out.
And all this is for what,
January 16, 2008 - 03:01 ET by GlidedonAnd all this is for what, convenience sake, money, success?
What if the meaning of life is to create a CO2 rich atmosphere to make it possible for a more advanced life form to inhabit the earth.
The lefties are trying to stop evolution!
Wow, that is quite a list,
January 16, 2008 - 03:40 ET by cleverpigWow, that is quite a list, a result of her "thorough research," no doubt.
Actually, she appears to have done research. She cites a study from a university about CO2 from drive thrus, has numbers for prevalence of drive thrus, and facts about the effects of ground ozone. Surely you don't expect an amateur ezine writer to go out and measure CO2 herself! In most cases journalistic research involves reading papers other people have written and repackaging them in a more palatable way because you think your readers will find them interesting. Kind of like you guys do on NewsBusters :)
That said, she is clearly not a writer and not an expert on anything covered in this article. The page is full of grammatical and punctuation errors and picks a truly odd bone to begin with. Drive thrus, of all the evils in the world?
It is a common dirty tactic to discredit the opposite side of an argument by holding up crazy people who who take the same position and saying "See? All people who believe in global warming want to take away your Big Macs." The fact is that global warming is believed by many smart, educated, well-read people who are experts in the field of atmospheric science. The fact that this random writer on an ezine no one has ever heard of agrees with them does not make them wrong.
If I had the time to sift through the dregs of the internet, I could find many stupid people who think global warming is a lie and a conspiracy. That, however, does not mean that all of you are stupid.
"The fact is that global
January 16, 2008 - 08:12 ET by Pete Wilson"The fact is that global warming is believed by many smart, educated, well-read people who are experts in the field of atmospheric science."
And, apparently, many smart, educated, well-read people who are experts in the field of atmospheric sciences do not believe in AGW and all the ill effects said to be caused by it, real or imagined.
What are we to do - think for ourselves, perhaps?
Or, perhaps we should try to determine the motivation of those who espouse such things as AGW?
Or, perhaps we should try
January 17, 2008 - 12:24 ET by cleverpigOr, perhaps we should try to determine the motivation of those who espouse such things as AGW?
As long as we turn the same degree of scrutiny on those who don't. Thinking for yourself is always encouraged, but unless you are an expert in atmospheric science, you will at some point have to rely on someone's expertise. Evaluating which side of an argument has the best support isn't easy, and I applaud anyone who puts honest effort into it!
"The fact is that global
January 16, 2008 - 09:31 ET by JohnM"The fact is that global warming is believed by many smart, educated, well-read people who are experts in the field of atmospheric science."
Interesting language - "The fact is" sounds irrefutable. However, what you assert as "the fact" is "that global warming is believed."
So your statement is correct: many (educated) people BELIEVE in global warming. We know that. What are you adding to the discussion?
Ah, here it is: many (educated) people BELIEVE in global warming. Hmmm. I may have underestimated your contribution to the discussion.
But (to paraphrase someone famous) - BELIEFS do not a science make.
So I take it that "the fact" you assert is that GW is a system of BELIEFS, and to my way of thinking, that's tantamount to being a religion.
But I do appreciate the clarity and honesty of your statement, and will use it in my lawsuit when my school district requires my children to BELIEVE in GW.
Nice. Keep that logic up
January 17, 2008 - 12:19 ET by cleverpigNice. Keep that logic up and you can make my words mean anything you like!
There are facts regarding global warming and it's causes, and there are disputes about what those facts mean and what should be done about them.
I guess I should be more careful about not adopting the language of the people I argue with, but "belief" is just a nice short way of expressing the fact that two different people, both of whom are educated and smart, can look at the same facts and come to a different conclusion. I happen to disagree with most people here on which side has the most support for their conclusions.
Feel free to call me to testify in any future lawsuits. That would be fun.
Another thought
January 16, 2008 - 09:37 ET by JohnM"The fact is that global warming is believed by many smart, educated, well-read people who are experts in the field of atmospheric science."
How much you want to bet that a bunch of those people also "believes" in UFOs, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, etc.?
I am sure that one or two of
January 17, 2008 - 12:21 ET by cleverpigI am sure that one or two of them do. And I'm equally sure that if those people spoke publically about it, it would garner disproportionate amounts of press attention and be cited on NB to show that scientists who think AGW is happening are weirdos.
I for one...
January 16, 2008 - 08:35 ET by Sua Sponte 75Want them to bring back "global cooling"....say whatever happened to all the "smart" people pushing that? Oh yea, I remember, the common populace was smarter than that...eventually the GW will go the same path.....then I'm sure they will come up with some other nutty idea to try and punish developed countries....what a load of hack....It's interesting that they use "global warming" as the answer to ANY and ALL issues....and the only way to fix it is for YOU to fork over money, for YOU to change your lifestyle, blah blah blah...snake oil salesman...
"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem"
So proof another ice age is
January 16, 2008 - 08:51 ET by taterSo proof another ice age is on the way...I was talking with one of my friends at the National Weather Service...our area is probably going to set the second longest time period with at least 1 inch of snow on the ground as well as 2 inches. We've had it for over 40 days so far...and with two bursts of cold air from Canada, it's not going away anytime soon.
Heck Algore we need more SUVs, I enjoy winters with temperatures in the 50s.
Do you realize how much it costs to run for office? More than any honest man could afford. -Montgomery Burns
Remember now it's GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE!
January 16, 2008 - 08:57 ET by PawpawNRemember now it's GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE! That takes in warming, cooling, ice, drought, etc. Heck, it takes in everyday, as very seldom is any one day just like the day before!
Left out...
January 16, 2008 - 08:59 ET by Sua Sponte 75GLW....Global Lukewarming...
"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem"
paw -- and don't forget..
January 16, 2008 - 09:00 ET by Jack Bauerpaw -- and don't forget.. in the 4 billion years mankind was not on the planet, the climate remained exactly the same.
Stooopid homo sapien sapien.
Old, but not that old
January 16, 2008 - 09:03 ET by PawpawNJack, I'm old, but not that old to remember. I do know there have been warm days, cool days, hot days, cold days, wet days, dry days, hey, it's beginning to sound like a song "OLD DAYS".....
Eco-nuts...
January 16, 2008 - 09:02 ET by Sua Sponte 75"Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad".
-Eric Cartman
"I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about 'protectin' the earth' and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!
-Eric Cartman
New Mantra
January 16, 2008 - 09:49 ET by mytwocentsMy new bumper sticker is
"Stop Continental Drift NOW!!"
I'm gonna make millions (al la Gore) and save the planet.
/sarc off.
Now Thats funny
January 16, 2008 - 21:05 ET by allahallahoxenfreeI would buy those in protest of the unbelieveable stupidity of these man made global warming morons
I don't understand...
January 16, 2008 - 10:03 ET by mbuelWhy people still listen to greenpeace after they promoted removing chlorine from our water supplies...
(Chlorine was put in water to kill the bacteria that was causing millions of people to get sick and possibly die.)
So i am watching An
January 16, 2008 - 10:45 ET by red_dragon311So i am watching An Inconvienent Tuth right now, never have I seen this movie before, and I am 15 mins in to it and i just threw up u litttle bit. all this garbage the algore is saying and at the time this thing was produced he was the biggest "criminal" on earth, accouding to his take
"Get off the phone you big dope!!!!!!!!!!" Mark Levin
Exploding Myths ...
January 16, 2008 - 10:53 ET by Crashone gas-bag at a time.
There's always this to worry about: www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071217-death-star-galaxy.html
Some things are way beyond our control; even for egomaniacs like the leftist.
MY GOD
January 16, 2008 - 21:02 ET by allahallahoxenfreeWhen will this idiocy go away? I predict 3 to 5 years and this will all be gone like a bad dream, or global cooling.
It sounds like Tata Motors as well as thier $2.500 car....
January 18, 2008 - 00:38 ET by fastfoodmight be more eco-nomically sound than many are giving them credit for.
http://www.tatamotor...