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insurance tipping points un united nations 3 comments misleading graphs posted by the diatribe guy on september 1 2009 as anyone with a blog knows wordpress and i m sure the other blog sites do a nice job of showing you how people got to your site under the blog stats area if activity is generated from a link to your page it gives you a trackback to the link this allows the interested blogger to check back and see who posted the link and in what context i m sure a guy like anthony watts has enough of these links pointing to his site that he doesn t have time to check them out but since my traffic is a small fraction of his i often take a few minutes to check out and see what someone found interesting enough to provide a link for it s always kind of fun when i see it s to something like www theenvironmentsite com occasionally there will be comments that i d kind of like to respond to but not enough that i want to sign up for the site or anything so i just let it flow out into the ether well yesterday there was in fact a link to an environmental discussion forum predictably some guy was spouting off about deniers and how they are being dishonest because it s now proven beyond any reasonable doubt that there is anthroprogenic global warming read the rest of this entry posted in blogging climate change environmentalism global warming opinion 2 comments the green log posted by the diatribe guy on april 21 2009 i noted on a comment at the air vent that i have started trying to make a mental note on references to all things green lately obviously due to the nature of this blog i have been well aware of policy initiatives scientific debates and so on regarding the global warming climate change phrase du jor issue even i was surprised once i really paid attention just how pervasive this has become now don t get me wrong i am completely on board with reasonable and cost effective efforts to reduce pollution clean up our planet where we were irresponsible and save energy my reasons for this though are not sue to a fear of catastrophic global warming some of it is due to my own theological and philosophical position that we are to be good stewards of creation as an obligation to our creator part of it simply has to do with an appreciation for the beauty of earth and a willingness to sacrifice some amount of continued expansion of brick metal and pavement to preserve that beauty a lot of it has to do with safety and health preserving energy has to do with both saving money and hopefully prolonging current resources while we search for alternatives but in all these things there is a balance being a good steward of earth is a good decision precisely for the followign reasons in the above list and if you ll notice those reasons the beneficiary of those three things are human beings that would be people yes non human animals too but primarily people i know i know such an old fashioned attitude that people matter first is something from the dark ages well call me sir joe then the earth is a thing the entire purpose of it is to house life the most important life is the human being that in no way dismisses other life because without other life we not only couldn t survive but our own lives would be much less fulfilling and so i get back to my observation more and more i see the celebrate earth movement move into pantheism it s gaia worship by a different name and it is pervasive it s all about saving the earth and it s not abouot people i say that confidently because of the irrational arguments that reducing population will save the earth this implies that people are the problem not the target worth saving if not people then what is worth saving the earth of course global warming alarmism is just the first step in bringing about a form of modern day earth worship the alarmism effectively targets the human psyche with fear of the consequences from a human perspective hurricanes floods droughts yeah they all really suck when it becomes evident that this won t happen immediately then we move on to our children we want the good old days of cold and snowy winters for our kids because we love them pretty soon we move away from using global warming because we ve now successfully got people scared enough about something that we can just tweak things a bit and fairly easily keep the insanity alive climate change is a good catch all to cover all potential future events high five to the environmental fear mongering pr department elect politicians get a few scientists on board get the media on board and come up with a few seemingly benign phrases like green and pretty soon we ve shifted the entire psychology of the movement hammer away hammer away and hammer away it s good to be green why most people probably don t even know anymore they re not really scared of anything at this point but everyone is saying there s a problem so there must be and since there are people who tell us they can solve the issue with some taxes and credits and firing the president of gm then that means i don t have to worry anymore as long as i buy compact fluorescents drive a hybrid and celebrate earth day everything will be ok and so after a few years of this we will more and more put this movemebt into the context of celebrating the earth i m trying to figure out exactly what this means what am i celebrating is it earth s birthday am i celebrating as if she knows i m celebrating in my mind do i start thinking of earth as something more than a thing and the answer to that is yes oh very few environmentalists would say that they worship the earth but in fact there is a continual movement into the realm of earth as goddess it s just not well defined and most people really don t connect the dots and most are not really worshipping her at least not yet i may be off the wall but i predict that over the next 20 30 years we will see a more and more explicit unapologetic and vocal movement into the religion of some form of pantheism right now it s very indirect and discreet ok this actually isn t at all what i intended this post to be when i started i just get going and sometimes i don t know where i ll end up thank goodness i don t have to worry about being fired by the editor back to my log i may or may not add to this but here are my recent observations 1 april 20 drove by the local ymca they are having a celebrate earth day something or another i think to myself does the earth exercise 2 april 20 i catch the headline in our local paper i don t subscribe saw it in the stands i won t remember the headline exactly but it highlighted how green camping is catching on 3 april 21 just received an e mail at work help celebrate earth day 2009 did you know that the first earth day was celebrated in 1970 the year that the environmental protection agency was formed since that time many programs and laws have been implemented to improve the environment and our health from the passage of the safe drinking water act in 1974 to the ban on dumping of sewage sludge and industrial waste in the oceans in 1988 these are only a few of the programs that make the earth a cleaner and safer place to live most recently the energy star program started in 1992 resulted in the prevention of greenhouse gasses equivalent to those from 27 million vehicles for a full history on earth day and many improvements to our world since 1970 log onto http www epa gov earthday history htm what can we do to contribute our part on earth day 2009 consider carpooling to work carpool list posted at xxxx shut your computer down at the end of the day reduce reuse and recycle for more ideas on how to be green at home at work and in the community visit http www epa gov earthday index htm then there s an e mail address given for the company s green team which we all know is necessary one of the huge initiatives this team has managed to implement is kitchen ware made from potatoes rather than plastic because it s better to use a bunch of food to make utensils to eat other food with than to wash siverware total aside it s still snowing and 35 degrees happy spring april 21 as i was paying for my lunch i glanced up at the tv screen i was supposed to visit nbc green com or something like that i haven t bothered to find the correct web address as i won t be going there posted in climate change earth earth day earth worship environmentalism global warming opinion tagged earth day earth worship global warming green 2 comments taking a break to evaluate a really stupid idea posted by the diatribe guy on december 5 2008 some people wonder why people like you and me actually care whether or not the anthropogenic nature of global warming is real or for that matter whether it s even a bad thing after all they argue even if it isn t real isn t it a good thing that people are more aware of pollution and alternative energy and all those things so that we are better stewards of the environment the answer isn t a simple yes or no it would be simple if you eliminated the first part of the equation and simply said that we should be good stewards of the environment i couldn t agree more and i am all for research into ways to make existing fuels burn cleaner and to make alternative energy forms useful and efficient but the reality is that whenever you base decision making on bad information or bad assumptions you end up harming more than helping even if the goal is generally a good thing cleaner safer environment it just isn t that simple there is no better example of this than the agenda of agw proponents in the sphere of politics we all likely agree with the statement we should reduce pollution as much as possible within our means to do so the question that needs to be clarified though is what is pollution the day we started accepting carbon dioxide as a pollutant was the day all common sense went to hell in a handbasket the mind boggling dollars that are being discussed as a part of the solution to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is so numbing that most of us don t even flinch any more with numbers in the hundreds of billions we don t even bother to consider the tax implications on a global scale let alone a regional scale of what these numbers mean and that doesn t even take into account lost efficiencies jeff on the air vent link to the right has a number of posts on the impact of continuing to promote biofuels as a solution even if one could argue that the day will come when alternative fuels like these can be used more cleanly and efficiently trying to do that now is not only premature but counterproductive to efficiency cost opportunity cost and the actual benefit in the end to a cleaner environment at best you can say that the current state of biofuels is a stepping stone in research to something better in the future but as it stands now it is an outright lie to believe we are doing anything but hurting ourselves by this ignorant and obstinate push for biofuels check jeff s work so today i open up a link on drudge to find the following story proposed fee on smelly cows hogs angers farmers your meat will now cost 20 more suckers here is an excerpt montgomery ala for farmers this stinks belching and gaseous cows and hogs could start costing them money if a federal proposal to charge fees for air polluting animals becomes law farmers so far are turning their noses up at the notion which is one of several put forward by the environmental protection agency after the u s supreme court ruled in 2007 that greenhouse gases emitted by belching and flatulence amounts to air pollution this is one of the most ridiculous things the federal government has tried to do said alabama agriculture commissioner ron sparks an outspoken opponent of the proposal it would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about 175 for each dairy cow 87 50 per head of beef cattle and 20 for each hog the executive vice president of the wyoming farm bureau federation ken hamilton estimated the fee would cost owners of a modest sized cattle ranch 30 000 to 40 000 a year he said he has talked to a number of livestock owners about the proposals and all have said if the fees were carried out it would bankrupt them sparks said wednesday he s worried the fee could be extended to chickens and other farm animals and cause more meat to be imported we ll let other countries put food on our tables like they are putting gas in our cars other countries don t have the health standards we have sparks said epa spokesman nick butterfield said the fee was proposed for farms with livestock operations that emit more than 100 tons of carbon emissions in a year and fall under federal clean air act provisions there is simply no way to overstate how ridiculously stupid such a proposal would be i grew up on a dairy farm we milked 60 70 cows at any given time and had a number of heifers that we were raising both to replace the older cows or to send to market or butcher for ourselves now i can guarantee you that 60 70 cows is a small family operation my dad was great with his money and so he did well but he certainly didn t rake in huge dollars this was in no way some large scale operation this proposal would have cost my dad another 12 000 per year that means that one of two things would have to happen food costs go up in order to cover the additional cost to the farmer or the farmer goes out of business there is no way he could have absorbed another 12 grand the rest of the article burned me up too the fee would cover the cost of a permit for the livestock operations while farmers say it would drive them out of business an organization supporting the proposal hopes it forces the farms and ranches to switch to healthier crops it makes perfect sense if you are looking for ways to cut down on meat consumption and recoup environmental losses said bruce friedrich a spokesman in washington for people for the ethical treatment of animals we certainly support making factory farms pay their fair share he said peta need i say more yeah let s just fail to recognize that people who have invested in all the equipment and infrastructure to operate a dairy farm can just switch to crop raising no big deal right after all they should pay their fair share morons at least there was a heartening end to the article u s rep robert aderholt a republican from haleyville in northwest alabama said he has spoken with epa officials and doesn t believe the cow tax is a serious proposal that will ever be adopted by the agency i am happy to see that but a quick note to representative aderholt assume nothing many of the stupid things we do today were considered to be so ridiculous a few years ago that it couldn t possibly be a serious proposal these things start off as trial balloons until the ballon actually starts to float it may not be now but these inane proposals will continue and more will be passed posted in animals carbon taxes climate 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