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Zealot blocks coal power plant permits
    #8544888 - 06/20/08 03:18 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

You can see the kind of damage global warming hysteria can cause from this article.



Kansan Stokes Energy Squabble With Coal Ruling Official Cites Warming In Blocking Two Plants; 'Ground Zero' in Fight
By STEPHEN POWER
March 19, 2008; Page A6
WASHINGTON -- Rod Bremby doesn't have the star power of Al Gore or Arnold Schwarzenegger, but his decision to block a permit for two big coal-fired power plants in Kansas has put him at center stage in the national debate over energy and the environment.

Last fall, Mr. Bremby, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, took the unusual step of citing global warming as the basis for blocking a major coal-fired power project. Legal experts said they couldn't recall another case where a regulator at either the state or federal level has held up such a project solely over concerns about greenhouse gases.

The decision provoked outrage from coal producers. A lawsuit is pending, and the Kansas Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in. A group backed by a major coal producer printed newspaper ads alleging that Mr. Bremby's decision benefits men like Vladimir Putin, Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by forcing Kansas to "import more
natural gas from countries like Russia, Venezuela and Iran." (The U.S. doesn't currently import natural gas from those countries, according to the U.S.'s Energy Information Administration.)

A majority of the Kansas Legislature has sided with the coal interests, passing legislation this month that would overturn Mr. Bremby's decision and strip him of much of his power. That triggered a confrontation with the state's governor, Kathleen Sebelius, who is threatening a veto.  "Kansas is ground zero in the fight over the future of coal," says Frank Maisano, a Washingtonbased
spokesman for developers of coal-fired plants. Bruce Nilles, an attorney who heads the Sierra Club's campaign against coal, calls Mr. Bremby's decision "a watershed moment."

Mr. Bremby says that rejecting the plants was "extremely difficult." The project would bring $3.6 billion in investment to the state. His own staff recommended approving it. But Mr. Bremby says it would have been "irresponsible" to ignore emerging information about the contribution of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to climate change and "the potential harm to our environment and health if we do nothing." His action also highlights a growing concern for U.S. industry. In the absence of national regulations governing carbon-dioxide emissions, state officials are stepping into the void,
proposing their own limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. As Congress weighs proposals to enact a national cap on carbon-dioxide emissions, members are debating how much leeway to allow states to pursue their own greenhouse-gas limits. Mr. Bremby's decision has delighted politicians in Washington who want to curb U.S. reliance on coal, the source of about half the country's electricity. Earlier this month, Democrats called him to
Washington to testify before a congressional committee on global warming and present a counterpoint to President Bush's top air-pollution regulator, Stephen Johnson. Mr. Johnson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has declined for months to publicly
declare greenhouse gases a threat to public health or welfare.
The 48-year-old Mr. Bremby doesn't have a law degree or a long history in climate-change politics. Before becoming Kansas' top health and environmental regulator, he was an assistant city manager in Lawrence, Kan., where his most extensive environmental work was controlling stormwater
runoff and pesticide use in local parks. Mr. Bremby's critics say he acted unlawfully by unilaterally altering public policy in the absence of federal or state laws governing carbon-dioxide emissions. A major reason why Kansans enjoy low electricity costs compared with the national average is that three-quarters of their electricity comes from coal-fired generating plants, according to the EIA. If Mr. Bremby's decision stands,
his critics say, it will lead to higher energy costs for consumers, while doing nothing to address Kansas' older, more inefficient coal-fired plants.
"For an unelected person to decide on his own to make this kind of decision without any input from the legislative branch is a huge mistake," says Steve Morris, president of Kansas' state Senate. "When you hear about China putting a new coal plant on line every week and so many other sources of pollution around, to try to single out one [project] as the magic bullet to offset the
emissions of tens of thousands of other emissions producers doesn't make a lot of sense."
Despite their large carbon footprint, the plants also would have emitted less carbon dioxide on a kilowatt-hour basis than any coal-fired plant in Kansas. The plants' developer had planned to partially offset their emissions by capturing their carbon-dioxide emissions and using them to grow algae. The algae would then be used for a number of purposes, including to make biodiesel,
an alternative to petroleum.
But, Mr. Bremby points out, most of the energy generated by the plants would have gone outside the state. In making his decision, he says, he was influenced by "a lot of things [that] were moving at the same time." They included a Supreme Court ruling in April that carbon-dioxide is a pollutant, emerging scientific evidence about climate change and a joint letter from attorneys
general for six states, warning him that the proposed plants' carbon-dioxide emissions would cancel out their own states' carbon-dioxide reductions.

That scenario, Mr. Bremby says, seemed "absurd," given that his state has only 2.7 million inhabitants, compared
with 45 million in the other affected states. "If appointed officials only did what they're directed to
do by policy makers, without [heeding] science or laws, they'd be just hacks," Mr. Bremby says.
He also notes that two months before his decision, the Kansas Energy Council -- a group that advises the state on energy policy and that includes half a dozen senior legislators -- declined to endorse either a cap or a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions.
"No one was dealing with it," Mr. Bremby says of man-made carbon-dioxide emissions in his state.
Some of Mr. Bremby's opponents accuse him of kowtowing to his boss, Gov. Sebelius. A fastrising star in Democratic Party politics, Ms. Sebelius had publicly opposed the project. Mr. Bremby says that he never discussed the plants with her before his decision and that her views
didn't influence him. A spokesman for Gov. Sebelius says the governor didn't attempt to sway Mr. Bremby.
In the absence of any state laws regulating greenhouse gases, Mr. Bremby has prodded Kansas' utilities to reduce their carbon-dioxide emissions voluntarily. Last month, he secured a commitment from Kansas' biggest utility, Westar Energy Inc., to measure its greenhouse gases
and find ways to reduce them.
But the company's agreement doesn't set specific  emissions targets. And until the federal government regulates greenhouse gases, Mr. Bremby says, his state will be limited in its ability to address carbon-dioxide emissions. "I can't do anything about what's going on in China," Mr. Bremby says. "But I know this decision means we [in Kansas] won't be contributing to that impact
of climate change."

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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: Luddite]
    #8544900 - 06/20/08 03:23 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

More insanity caused by the false religion of global warming hysteria.

Please buy our dirty oil

Mar 13th 2008 | OTTAWA
From The Economist print edition
A new American law could limit oil-sands production in Alberta


CANADIANS like to think that although they are the junior partner in their trade relations with the United States, the 174 billion barrels of proven reserves in the oil sands of Alberta provide a powerful ace up their sleeve in any dealings with their energy-hungry neighbour. That belief has now been shaken by an American law that appears to prohibit American government agencies from buying crude produced in the oil sands of the western province.

The Energy Independence and Security Act 2007 did not set out to discriminate against Canada, America's biggest supplier of oil. But that is the effect of banning federal agencies from buying alternative or synthetic fuel, including that from non-conventional sources, if their production and use result in more greenhouse gases than conventional oil. Transforming Alberta's tarry muck into a barrel of oil is an energy-intensive process that produces about three times the emissions of a barrel of conventional light sweet crude.

Having woken belatedly to the danger, the Canadian government is now scrambling to secure an exception. Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador in Washington, has written to America's secretary of defence, Robert Gates (whose department is a big purchaser of Canadian oil), stressing American dependence on Canadian oil, electricity, natural gas and uranium imports, and noting that some of the biggest players in the Alberta oil patch are American companies. Mr Wilson added plaintively that both George Bush and his energy secretary, Samuel Bodman, have publicly welcomed expanded oil-sands production, given the increased contribution to American energy security.

John Baird, the Canadian environment minister, referred this week to the American move when he unveiled new proposals to reduce industrial emissions in Canada, including the oil sands, by 20% by 2020. Big states like California were making similar pronouncements, he told reporters. The oil sands were an important national resource, but had to be expanded in an environmentally friendly way.

The fear in Canada is that the American purchasing restrictions, which at present apply only to federal agencies, is the start of a wholesale shift to greener as well as more protectionist policies under a Congress and potentially a White House controlled by the Democrats. With energy exports, mainly from Alberta, driving the Canadian economy, this is not a happy thought for Canadians.

Yet environmentalists point out that Canada is now paying for its own foot-dragging at the federal level on green initiatives. Having signed the Kyoto agreement under a previous Liberal government, Canada did little to stop its emissions rising. They are now almost 35% above the Kyoto target. And although Mr Baird likes to describe his plan as tough, it will not bring Canada into line with Kyoto. The rules for the oil sands, now the fastest growing source of greenhouse gases, have yet to be finalised and will not come into force until 2010. Furthermore, they rely on carbon capture, a promising but unproven technology.

The vagueness of the proposed federal rules did not stop the premier of Alberta, Ed Stelmach, from giving a defiant warning that he will stand up for the interests of Albertans (read oil industry) and will be examining the constitution to ensure that the federal government's proposed plan does not intrude on provincial jurisdiction. His province has one of the weakest environmental regimes in Canada.

Although the Canadian embassy says that there has been no official response to Mr Wilson's letter, there are reports of talks going on in Washington aimed at addressing Canada's concerns. But even if a deal is reached with the outgoing Bush administration, any exception for Canada may be short-lived if green-tinged Democrats take the White House in November.

http://www.economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10853957

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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: Luddite]
    #8544933 - 06/20/08 03:36 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Fuck our grandchildren, I need gas thats 50 cents cheaper per gallon.

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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: Luddite]
    #8544960 - 06/20/08 03:47 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Global warming... the greatest gaff in the history of mankind... what a way for the energy companies to manipulate the market and make astronomical profits... and the best part, anything anybody does to combat the illusion simply helps raise the profit margins even more!  There are some very wicked people laughing all the way to the bank...

> Fuck our grandchildren, I need gas thats 50 cents cheaper per gallon.

I didn't have children because I didn't feel fair dumping our problems on somebody else.  I am old enough that there is little chance that being childless will change.  Sorry, but I don't feel obligated to suffer now so that your grandchildren can have a nice clean place to live.


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    #8544967 - 06/20/08 03:50 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)




Greens Thwart Gasoline Production
Written by Steven Milloy, foxnews.com   
Thursday, 12 June 2008

Four-plus-dollar gasoline is forcing Americans to realize that we need increased domestic oil production to meet our ever-growing demand for affordable fuel. But even if the greens lose the political battle over drilling offshore and in places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, they nevertheless are way ahead of the game as they implement a back-up plan to make sure that not a drop of that oil ever eases our gasoline crunch.

The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, successfully pressured the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to block ConocoPhillips’ expansion of its Roxana, Ill., gasoline refinery, which processes heavy crude oil from Canada, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The project would have expanded the volume of Canadian crude processed from 60,000 barrels per day to more than 500,000 barrels a day by 2015. After the Illinois EPA had approved the expansion, the green groups petitioned the federal EPA to block it, alleging ConocoPhillips wasn’t using the best available technology for reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

Apparently, the plant’s planned 95 percent reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions and 25 percent reduction in nitrogen oxides wasn’t green enough. NRDC’s opposition is quite ironic since ConocoPhillips and the activist group actually are teammates in the global warming game. Both belong to the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of eco-activist groups and large companies that is lobbying for global warming regulation.

So even though ConocoPhillips is aiding and abetting the NRDC to achieve the green dream of absolute government control over the U.S. energy supply, the enviros still are in take-no-prisoners mode, refusing to allow the expansion of a single refinery.

Imagine what the rest of us can expect from the greens.

Meanwhile, in California, green groups are working through the state attorney general’s office to block the upgrade of the Chevron refinery in the city of Richmond. The $800 million upgrade essentially would expand the useable oil supply by permitting the refinery to process lower-quality, less-expensive crude oil.

California Attorney General, ex-Gov. and climate crusader Jerry Brown claims the upgrade will produce an additional 900,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year. But Chevron says the upgrade actually will reduce the emissions by 220,000 tons.

Whose figure is closer to the truth?

It’s hard to know for sure at this point, but it’s worth noting that material false statements made by Chevron are prosecutable under the federal securities laws and California state law, while Brown and the activists pretty much can say whatever they want without legal accountability.

Whatever the facts are, Brown and the city of Richmond insist that Chevron eliminate 900,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions so that the upgrade will be "carbon neutral." While the greens remain vehemently opposed to the project, it seems their plans for blocking the refinery might go awry as Brown and the local government eventually may side with Chevron rather than the greens, but only because the company has deep pockets and is open to being shaken down.

Brown and the city have proposed that Chevron ensure that half the total emissions-reduction projects be undertaken on-site at the refinery and the other half be done either in the city of Richmond itself or elsewhere in California.

Translating the latter part of this "offer that can’t be refused:" Chevron essentially must purchase 450,000 tons of "carbon credits" annually from the city of Richmond or the state. As the street value of carbon credits is about $10 per ton, Chevron is being "green-mailed" to the tune of perhaps $4.5 million per year to upgrade its refinery — amounting to perhaps a 1 percent annual "tax" on the gains in gross revenue produced by the upgrade. And the local government officials are not the least embarrassed about this extortion.

"When you’re dealing with a refinery where the project will cost close to a billion dollars and someone like Chevron with tremendous resources, that’s not a constraint, so they should do everything possible," an unidentified state official told Carbon Control News in a June 9 article.

The farcical nature of the entire transaction is underscored by that state official’s apparent lack of understanding about how greenhouse gas-induced global warming is supposed to work.

The official told Carbon Control News that the greenhouse gas emission reductions "are vital to protect low-income minority communities in the Richmond area, which already suffer disproportionate pollution impacts."

Climate alarmism, of course, is based on the notion of global emissions causing global warming, not local emissions causing local warming; moreover, the allegation that low-income minority populations are disproportionately harmed by industrial emissions — the basis of the so-called "environmental justice" concept of the 1990s — hasn’t stuck since no scientific evidence supports it.

Though green and local government shenanigans can be a source of endless amusement, let’s get back to the main point. As the 2005 hurricane season dramatized, oil production, itself, is only one factor in determining gasoline supply and prices.

Damage to Gulf Coast refineries by hurricanes Katrina and Rita reduced gasoline supplies and increased prices worldwide — a real problem given that U.S. refineries operate at or near capacity thanks to other green constraints.

We may produce all the oil we need, but if we can’t refine it, then it won’t do much for reducing gasoline supply problems. So while working to expand domestic drilling, we’ll simultaneously need to expand domestic refining capacity.

It will be quite the Pyrrhic victory to finally produce oil from ANWR and then not be able to do anything with it. 

http://www.climatechangefraud.com/content/view/1379/218/

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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: demon6fire]
    #8544975 - 06/20/08 03:53 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

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Fuck our grandchildren, I need gas thats 50 cents cheaper per gallon.




logical falicy

$100 a gallon gasoline is unafordable by most families.  The price of oil doubled in a year.  Maybe it'll double again within a year.  More supplies of oil will help reduce the cost.  Conventional oil production is declining in the world.  Maybe in ten years the price of oil will go up a hundred times unless other fossil fuels are used as alternatives.

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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: Luddite]
    #8544989 - 06/20/08 04:00 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

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Quote:

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Fuck our grandchildren, I need gas thats 50 cents cheaper per gallon.




logical falicy

$100 a gallon gasoline is unafordable by most families.  The price of oil doubled in a year.  Maybe it'll double again within a year.  More supplies of oil will help reduce the cost.



So will less consumption.

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    #8545048 - 06/20/08 04:20 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

> So will less consumption.

Unfortunately, consumption has very little to do with oil prices.  This is one of the big problems.


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    #8545052 - 06/20/08 04:22 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

More Global Warming Nonsense
By PAUL REITER and ROGER BATE
April 10, 2008; Page A14


Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on the implications of climate change for human health. Malaria will top the menu, but so will ignorance and disinformation.

The lead witness will be Dr. Jonathan Patz of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has suggested that U.S. energy policy may be "indirectly exporting diseases to other parts of the world." Dr. Patz, the World Health Organization (WHO) and others claim that global warming is now spreading disease and may be the cause of some 160,000 deaths a year.

In 2007, for example, WHO pointed to rising temperatures in an outbreak of a mosquito-borne virus, Chikungunya, in Italy. Yet WHO misdiagnosed the problem. Modern transportation, not climate change, caused the outbreak.

In that case, the transmitter of the disease, or vector, was the Asian Tiger mosquito. It is native to Asia, but exported world-wide in shipments of used tires. It is now abundant in parts of U.S. and in 12 countries in Europe. In cities, it breeds in man-made containers of water, such as saucers under flower-pots, water barrels, blocked gutters and so on. The virus was carried to Italy by an infected Indian who flew from Delhi, where an epidemic of the disease was then raging.

So the real technological villain in that case was the jet airplane. It was irresponsible, then, for WHO to state "although it is not possible to say whether the outbreak was caused by climate change . . . conditions in Italy are now suitable for the Tiger mosquito." And it was absurd for environmental alarmists to chime in with apocalyptic pronouncements.

The globalization of vectors and pathogens is a serious problem. But it is not new. The Yellow Fever mosquito and virus were imported into North America from Africa during the slave trade. The dengue virus is distributed throughout the tropics and regularly jumps continents inside air passengers. West Nile virus likely arrived in the U.S. in shipments of wild birds. These diseases are spread by mosquitoes and therefore difficult to quarantine.

It may come as a surprise that malaria was once common in most of Europe and North America. In parts of England, mortality from "the ague" was comparable to that in sub-Saharan Africa today. William Shakespeare was born at the start of the especially cold period that climatologists call the "Little Ice Age," yet he was aware enough of the ravages of the disease to mention it in eight of his plays.

Malaria disappeared from much of Western Europe during the second half of the 19th century. Changes in agriculture, living conditions and a drop in the price of quinine, a cure still used today, all helped eradicate it. However, in some regions it persisted until the insecticide DDT wiped it out. Temperate Holland was not certified malaria-free by the WHO until 1970.

The concept of malaria as a "tropical" infection is nonsense. It is a disease of the poor. Alarmists in the richest countries peddle the notion that the increase in malaria in poor countries is due to global warming and that this will eventually cause malaria to spread to areas that were "previously malaria free." That's a misrepresentation of the facts and disingenuous when packaged with opposition to the cheapest and best insecticide to combat malaria – DDT.

It is true that malaria has been increasing at an alarming rate in parts of Africa and elsewhere in the world. Scientists ascribe this increase to many factors, including population growth, deforestation, rice cultivation in previously uncultivated upland marshes, clustering of populations around these marshes, and large numbers of people who have fled their homes because of civil strife. The evolution of drug-resistant parasites and insecticide-resistant mosquitoes, and the cessation of mosquito-control operations are also factors.

Of course, temperature is a factor in the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, and future incidence may be affected if the world's climate continues to warm. But throughout history the most critical factors in the spread or eradication of disease has been human behavior (shifting population centers, changing farming methods and the like) and living standards. Poverty has been and remains the world's greatest killer.

Serious scientists rarely engage in public quarrels. Alarmists are therefore often unopposed in offering simplicity in place of complexity, ideology in place of scientific dialogue, and emotion in place of dry perspective. The alarmists will likely steal the show on Capitol Hill today. But anyone truly worried about malaria in impoverished countries would do well to focus on improving human living conditions, not the weather.

Mr. Reiter is director of the Insects and Infectious Diseases Unit of the Institut Pasteur, Paris. Mr. Bate is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

See all of today's editorials and op-eds, plus video commentary, on Opinion Journal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120778860618203531.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: Luddite]
    #8545108 - 06/20/08 04:44 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Oil Exporters Are Unable To Keep Up With Demand
http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/05/29/oil-exporters-are-unable-to-keep-up-with-demand/



There's a list of articles about coal here, many of them discussing the insidious global warming paranoia and how the niave elitists think we're too good for coal. 

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Journalists_covering_coal

Of course, they say nothing about alternatives and seem to imply there's some hidden utopian unlimited source of energy out there without any problems whatsoever. Which leads me to this article:


Enviro Mentalists Call For Culling Of Human Population
Push for Malthusian social control policies in name of curbing carbon emissions

Steve Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, May 7, 2007

A disturbing move is afoot by several "green" groups to associate climate change with over population and suggest that the solution is to implement depopulation policies and punishments for those who flout them.

more here http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/070507depopulation.htm

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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: Luddite]
    #8545860 - 06/20/08 10:36 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

The high price of oil is not a temporary thing. It will probably never go below $100/barrel. That's why OPEC is meeting in Saudi Arabia this weekend for crisis talks; the Saudis are getting hurt by the high prices. That alone should tell you that things have fundamentally changed.


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    #8546566 - 06/21/08 06:02 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

> The high price of oil is not a temporary thing.

The high price of oil is completely artificial... follow the profits and you will quickly figure out who and why oil is artificially inflated.  'Speculation' is only part of it...


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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: Seuss]
    #8546619 - 06/21/08 06:36 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Please tell me you are joking when you say that global warming is a gaff.

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    #8546890 - 06/21/08 09:21 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

But that's the thing, the price isn't completely artificial because it's affected by real-world factors like yield of new fields, refinery capacity etc. Speculation is making the situation worse, but that doesn't change the fact that the latest new fields are of much lower capacity than what we used to expect from a new field. And the big old fields are drying up. There's nothing about the situation that suggests the price of oil will go down again for any meaningful length of time, and all indicators suggest the price will continue to rise.


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    #8547664 - 06/21/08 02:14 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

> Please tell me you are joking when you say that global warming is a gaff.

I'm not talking about the science of climatology or the warming of the planet.  I'm using the term "global warming" with a cynical voice to describe the people that profit from 'the sky is falling' alarmist propaganda.  The term "global warming" has been hijacked by the eco-terrorist crowd and no longer has anything to do with science; hence my calling it a gaff.  (My argument is based on semantics... replace global warming with dynamic climate change any my gripe goes away.  Rather petty, I know...)


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    #8548487 - 06/21/08 07:08 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

What about "anthropogenic climate change"?


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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: zouden]
    #8548510 - 06/21/08 07:15 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

I'm fond of that term. It's quite appropriate.

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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: zouden]
    #8549809 - 06/22/08 04:29 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

> What about "anthropogenic climate change"?

Difficult to know as the "science" has been polluted by politics.  As with the war on drugs, when politics gets involved, ethics seem to go out the window (ethics or funding, which do I choose), as people do or say whatever "politics" want in order to get funding, publications, fame, etc.

I know what I think about "anthropogenic climate change", but I am not an expert in the field, and my opinion could easily be wrong, thus it is pretty irrelevant.


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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: Seuss]
    #8549888 - 06/22/08 05:38 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

It hasn't always been polluted by politics. I remember learning about it 15 years ago, before the politicians and media had even heard about it. I don't think the arguments in favour of it are any weaker now.


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Re: Zealot blocks coal power plant permits [Re: zouden]
    #8549939 - 06/22/08 06:14 AM (15 years, 10 months ago)

Global Warming Petition Project

31,072 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,021 with PhDs

We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals.  The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.  Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many benficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.


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