The UN is
rushing about suggesting that the Obama Administrations efforts to
obliterate the American economy reduce CO2 emissions in the US will spark a revolution.
The head of the UN body charged with leading the fight against climate change has conceded that Barack Obama will face a "revolution" if he commits the US to the deep carbon cuts that scientists and campaigners say are needed.
You better believe there will be a revolution, particularly in the industrial Midwest where shuttering coal-fired plants will drive the area back into the 1880s. Meanwhile, with sea ice increasing and temperatures falling, Al Gore's Army of Drumbeaters is
seeing some defections.
The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."
For me, the question is how many endless miles of windmills will we have to build before the public finally wonders why we can't build a single nuclear power plant.
Little Johnny and Billy on a car vacation with Mom and Dad finally gave up counting the @&^@ing things after they reached 17,235.
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Personally, I kind of like the windmills:
- The standard design is clean and elegant, and I think a group of them is reminiscent of a flock of seagulls. They are relaxing to watch.
- They really are economically competitive, as long as you don't have to store the power.
- I like listening to environmentalists sputter about them, as they abrubtly realize that windmills are highly visible and have even more environmental impact than nuclear power, and so they have to twist themselves into knots trying to (a) justify their ongoing opposition to nuclear power, or (b) explain why wind power isn't a good thing *now*, when just a couple of years ago it was the be-all and end-all of their plans.
And that picture looks like the perfect place to site them. Far, far from the sailing waters of the SS Kopechne and the sloop John Heinz. Out there where the taxpayers live.
Well, as far as that goes, that location looks like the wind-blasted peak of a mountain, where only low scrub will grow. I doubt anybody, taxpayer or not, lives up there.
Tim, that's a very picturesque way of describing Colorado, Wyoming, and vast swathes of Montana, New Mexico and Utah. Had I known I was the last guy living there, I'd have turned off the lights when I left.
What a great picture! That location looks so beautiful and so far from the sailing waters of the SS Kopechne.
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