EERE

Is the "I" Left Out?

I spend a lot of time on the net. Recently I came across the acronym “EERE”. It stands for the following: Energy Efficient and Renewable Energy”. It's a web site used to inform us about the latest developments concerning the environment. It is a mouthpiece for the Environmental Protection Agency. This department is always partisan depending on which party holds the White House. Nothing new here. It did tempt my appetite for more information about this powerful and intrusive group of do gooders. So, I signed up for news releases from the various sub-departments. I don't know exactly what it costs in manpower, but the number of emails I get daily is so large that it overwhelms my other incoming messages.

There are many self congratulatory releases, then awards to schools, individuals and something they are exceedingly proud to tout. The fines that this one agency costs our private business and regular individuals is astronomical. The power they wield is comparable to the IRS. When I said someone left out the “I”, I meant that it should more aptly be “EERIE”. I think think the “I” should probably stand for “Insane”. Take a look at the following list. It is only a small collection that I put together over the last week or so.

U.S. EPA <usaepa@govdelivery.com> or Contact: Daniel Duncan, EPA PCB Program, (206) 553-6693, duncan.daniel@epa.gov
Midas Muffler shop reaches $9,300 settlement with EPA for PCBs in used oil

$9,300.00

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U.S. EPA <usaepa@govdelivery.com> or CONTACT: William Omohundro, 312-353-8254, omohundro.william@epa.gov / Air News (Region 5): EPA reaches agreement with Laminated Products on clean-air violations

$5,000.00

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U.S. EPA <usaepa@govdelivery.com> or Contact: Wendy Chavez, 415/947-4248, chavez.wendy@epa.gov/ Painting contractor, Fine Custom Painting, Inc.

$10,000.00

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U.S. EPA <usaepa@govdelivery.com> or EPA audio file is available at http://www.epa.gov/region6/6xa/podcast/may2009.html

$4,150.00

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U.S. EPA <usaepa@govdelivery.com> or EPA audio file is available at http://www.epa.gov/region6/6xa/podcast/may2009.html

$13,000.00

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U.S. EPA <usaepa@govdelivery.com> or View all Region 8 News Releases

$1,000,000.00

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U.S. EPA <usaepa@govdelivery.com> or

Cheryl Williams, Air/RCRA Compliance Unit, 206-553-2137, williams.cherylb@epa.gov

$33,000.00

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U.S. EPA <usaepa@govdelivery.com> or

Erin Halbert, EPA FIFRA Program, Office of Compliance and Enforcement (206) 553-4627, halbert.erin@epa.gov

Hanady Kader, EPA Public Affairs, (206) 553-0454, kader.hanady@epa.gov

Helena Chemical Company Fined $41,600 for Misbranded Pesticide Sold in LaCrosse, Wash.

$41,600.00

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And the list goes on and on and on. I guess it would be silly to suggest that we could just let our fellow citizens simply clean up any mess they might have made without sticking it to them with a punitive fine. The EPA always over reaches. They have the authority and they love to step on business and individuals. The rules and regulations are excessive in the first place. All this crap about CO2, etc. causing “global warming” is the same stretch of credulity. Watch the back door on this one!

We only need 2 federal departments. That would be defense (including veterans affairs) and state (sortof). The Department of the Treasury has proved we would be better off without them. Ahh. Heaven. Oh well, I guess we have to trust'em. Huh?

Robert Wilson


P.S. In my last post, I promised copies of the "Invitation To Debate" which are being sent to Al Gore. Give me a little more time since my scanner is acting like a liberal; nutsy. Same with the special "collectibles". They will be ready pdq.

By the way, we have already sent 7 of the invites.

Are things changing besides the climate?

There are some minds that have changed and they're going public. For whatever reason, many scientists are turning against Al Gore's foregone conclusion that climate change is being drastically effected by man. We owe a lot to Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma. He is now the Vice-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. His steadfast opposition to Al Gore and his ilk has been unflappable. The following is a compilation of many scientists who do not, for scientific reasons, condone Al Gores chicanery:

Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics

Growing Number of Scientists Convert to Skeptics After Reviewing New Research

Following the U.S. Senate's vote today on a global warming measure (see today's AP article: Senate Defeats Climate Change Measure,) it is an opportune time to examine the recent and quite remarkable momentum shift taking place in climate science. Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics. The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent scientists who have spoken out recently to oppose former Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations, and the media driven “consensus” on man-made global warming.

The list below is just the tip of the iceberg. A more detailed and comprehensive sampling of scientists who have only recently spoken out against climate hysteria will be forthcoming in a soon to be released U.S. Senate report. Please stay tuned to this website, as this new government report is set to redefine the current climate debate.

In the meantime, please review the list of scientists below and ask yourself why the media is missing one of the biggest stories in climate of 2007. Feel free to distribute the partial list of scientists who recently converted to skeptics to your local schools and universities. The voices of rank and file scientists opposing climate doomsayers can serve as a counter to the alarmism that children are being exposed to on a daily basis. (See Washington Post April 16, 2007 article about kids fearing of a “climactic Armageddon” )

The media's climate fear factor seemingly grows louder even as the latest science grows less and less alarming by the day. (See Der Spiegel May 7, 2007 article: Not the End of the World as We Know It ) It is also worth noting that the proponents of climate fears are increasingly attempting to suppress dissent by skeptics. (See UPI May 10, 2007 article: U.N. official says it's 'completely immoral' to doubt global warming fears )

Once Believers, Now Skeptics ( Link to pdf version )

Geophysicist Dr. Claude Allegre, a top geophysicist and French Socialist who has authored more than 100 scientific articles and written 11 books and received numerous scientific awards including the Goldschmidt Medal from the Geochemical Society of the United States, converted from climate alarmist to skeptic in 2006. Allegre, who was one of the first scientists to sound global warming fears 20 years ago, now says the cause of climate change is "unknown" and accused the “prophets of doom of global warming” of being motivated by money, noting that "the ecology of helpless protesting has become a very lucrative business for some people!" “Glaciers’ chronicles or historical archives point to the fact that climate is a capricious phenomena. This fact is confirmed by mathematical meteorological theories. So, let us be cautious,” Allegre explained in a September 21, 2006 article in the French newspaper L'EXPRESS. The National Post in Canada also profiled Allegre on March 2, 2007, noting “Allegre has the highest environmental credentials. The author of early environmental books, he fought successful battles to protect the ozone layer from CFCs and public health from lead pollution.” Allegre now calls fears of a climate disaster "simplistic and obscuring the true dangers” mocks "the greenhouse-gas fanatics whose proclamations consist in denouncing man's role on the climate without doing anything about it except organizing conferences and preparing protocols that become dead letters." Allegre, a member of both the French and U.S. Academy of Sciences, had previously expressed concern about manmade global warming. "By burning fossil fuels, man enhanced the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which has raised the global mean temperature by half a degree in the last century," Allegre wrote 20 years ago. In addition, Allegre was one of 1500 scientists who signed a November 18, 1992 letter titled “World Scientists' Warning to Humanity” in which the scientists warned that global warming’s “potential risks are very great.”

Geologist Bruno Wiskel of the University of Alberta recently reversed his view of man-made climate change and instead became a global warming skeptic. Wiskel was once such a big believer in man-made global warming that he set out to build a “Kyoto house” in honor of the UN sanctioned Kyoto Protocol which was signed in 1997. Wiskel wanted to prove that the Kyoto Protocol’s goals were achievable by people making small changes in their lives. But after further examining the science behind Kyoto, Wiskel reversed his scientific views completely and became such a strong skeptic, that he recently wrote a book titled “The Emperor's New Climate: Debunking the Myth of Global Warming.” A November 15, 2006 Edmonton Sun article explains Wiskel’s conversion while building his “Kyoto house”: “Instead, he said he realized global warming theory was full of holes and ‘red flags,’ and became convinced that humans are not responsible for rising temperatures.” Wiskel now says “the truth has to start somewhere.” Noting that the Earth has been warming for 18,000 years, Wiskel told the Canadian newspaper, “If this happened once and we were the cause of it, that would be cause for concern. But glaciers have been coming and going for billions of years." Wiskel also said that global warming has gone "from a science to a religion” and noted that research money is being funneled into promoting climate alarmism instead of funding areas he considers more worthy. "If you funnel money into things that can't be changed, the money is not going into the places that it is needed,” he said. (Continue with further examples)

Robert Wilson

Call Me Uninformed

Now, Call Me “Ill”informed!

Last week I saw something completely new to me on National Public Television. That happens fairly frequently on NPT. Nevertheless, this segment floored me! I did not know that so-called “carbon credits” are actually being traded, you know, like bushels of corn. The financial show was interviewing the “Head Con Artist” of the “Chicago Climate Scheme”.(Actually, the Chairman of the Chicago Climate Exchange.)

Apparently, keep in mind that all this was established via political and arbitrary means, certain limits on CO2 gases emitted into the atmosphere have been established. Through this gobbledygook of some method such a percentage will be; you are allowed thus; trees absorb this amount; you plant so many; you buy this; you sell this; you are allowed so many credits; some participate, some don't; invest in sustainable; and finally it goes to the very socialist Millennium Development Goals. Wow! What a hoax!

To prove my point, emissions trading principles are based on proposals by the Technocracy movement of the 1930's. Technocracy proposed a system of Energy Accounting, or emissions trading, to promote “balanced and harmonious” development throughout the world. Doesn't that sound a lot like “can't we all just get along”. The thirties in the United States were a period when we came the closest to communism in our history. Nonetheless, we still ended up with many socialist programs as a trade off.

There are critics of the methods, mainly environmental justice NGOs and movements and anyone with common sense. They level accusations of failures in accounting, dubious science and the destructive impacts of projects upon local peoples and environments as reasons why trading pollution rights should e avoided.

But wait! If this hucksterism continues, we can make a fortune! Anyone living in serene surroundings like Montana or Colorado, etc. fax me all the clean air you can find. Don't worry, we can fake it just like the “greenies”. I'll then bag it, sell it for $10.00 each and split the proceeds with you and the Sun Gods of Outer Mongolia. Doesn't it make as much sense as trading so-called “carbon credits”?

Robert Wilson