Caution: regular KisPers will have already heard my sermon below many, many times.
Feel free to skip it.
It’s a message no one wants to hear: To slow down global warming, we’ll either have to put the brakes on economic growth or transform the way the world’s economies work. That’s the implication of an innovative University of Michigan* study examining the evolution of atmospheric CO₂, the most likely cause of global warming.
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If ‘business as usual’ conditions continue, economic contractions the size of the Great Recession or even bigger will be needed to reduce atmospheric levels of CO₂,” …
To break the economic habits contributing to a rise in atmospheric CO₂ levels and global warming, … societies around the world would need to make enormous changes.“Since the 1980s, scientists like James Hansen have been warning us about the effects global warming will have on the earth,” …. “One solution that has promise is a carbon tax levied on any activity producing CO₂ in order to create incentives to reduce emissions. The money would be returned to the population on a per capita basis so the tax would not mean any extra fiscal burden.” [more]
Ah, the great fantasy of the self-appointed elite: the world will work the way we want it to work, if only we had enough power and if everybody had to obey (a version of the if-I-were-King syndrome). Thousands of years of human behavior can be dismissed as a classist artifact. The nut cases also believe physics is also an artifact.
My impression is that almost all global-warming “science” is based on the assumption/postulate that the concentration of atmospheric CO₂ causes global warming and that humans cause are responsible for a marginal, but significant portion of that.**
My point, no, two, two points:
1. “It is written” (i.e. the science is settled). Some of the AGWists are merely cultists, true-believers in a new thing to believe in that makes them feel … [insert long list of psychological needs, deviations, and warpedness normally associated with middle schoolers, serial killers, and Progs].
2. This is a classic Sorelian myth. Those seeking power use a myth which they, themselves, need not believe in. It is a tool for ignoring reality. Its main uses are to justify the use of tyranny and force, to recruit and direct a movement (revolutionaries, thugs, henchmen, propagandists, masses of true-believers, etc.), and to keep a society marching in formation.
Yep, looks like they’re stiiill trying to sell the ol’ world-socialism/fascism/totalitarianism nonsense.
This time, it’s to save the planet and humanity, not just the masses, a superior race, or a religion.
The price remains the same: your freedom, your individuality, and your aspirations.
You know, your very humanity.
Heck they’re not even trying to hide it, anymore.
[*puff*pant* wipes face, brushes away splinters of broken lectern, tries to straighten pointer]
* Yeah, my alma mater, “the Berkeley of the Midwest”
** There is no science proving the basis for that postulate (indeed, there is considerable basic science which contradicts it). There are only computer simulations which use irresponsible models that “assume that which is to be proved” fed by fraudulent and cherry-picked data.
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The CO2 graph on the U Mich site: when you graph rates of growth, you always use a log scale. That would show a straight-line graph – maybe even a turn down.
“… scientists like James Hansen …”
Yikes.
“The money would be returned to the population on a per capita basis so the tax would not mean any extra fiscal burden.”
Double Yikes. This is RoW (Redistribution of Wealth), pure & simple. Does anybody believe that none of that redistributed money would not find its way into the pockets of the redistributors?
“… a carbon tax levied on any activity producing CO₂ …”
Tell us, Dr Carpintero – what does the activity of breathing produce?
Take a look at one of the other “scientists”, José Tapia Granados:
“As Lord Keynes saw it, capitalism has suicidal tendencies and the task of economists is to avoid letting those tendencies materialize.
Wouldn’t it be better to say that capitalism, like any other economic system or human institution, has its own historical life and then has to die to allow for human progress? Just as cannibalism, feudalism, slavery, and the peculiar “state communism” of the old Soviet Union and Maoist China disappeared into history, capitalism will have to disappear to allow for a system more in agreement with the present stage of human civilization.
That stage has led us to form a global society in which national states and governments have become historical relics, increasingly unable to cope with worldwide problems that require worldwide solutions.”
Here’s the good Dr Tapia Granados :
“José Tapia is a researcher presently at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He studied medicine in Spain and public health and economics in the United States. His field of research is the relation between macroeconomic changes and changes in population health.”
In other words, “not climate science, not meteorology, not weather.”
The other guy, Edward Ionides, is Associate professor of Statistics – so at least, he’s qualified to look at data,
Carbon Tax:
Every business getting taxed passes the tax along to the general population in higher prices, which the general population can pay, because the tax is being “returned to them” by their benevolent government….
…thereby negating any CO2 regulating effect of the tax….
….does any proponent of this actually believe that it would be “returned to the population?”
I doubt that even graduates of Ivy League liberal arts programs are ignorant and stupid enough to believe in efficient “return of taxes to the general population,” so I am wondering about the real agenda of anyone who claims they buy into it.
In any case, this is a remarkably stupid argument. If the general electorate buys it, they deserve whatever they get.
“returned to the population?”
Ummm…. They forgot to mention the government skim off the top and the carbon credit broker fees.
Besides which, if “we” continue to make it warmer, I’m sure the banana farmers in the Dakotas will appreciate the climate change.
Carbon Tax — take 2:
Ah, but what if there’s another reason for global warming?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17953792
Dinosaur farts!
The dreaded cloud of methane surrounding all animal life. Dinosaurs then, cattle today…. or…. People!
Wonder what the biomass and methane output of just China’s population is today, compared to a few wandering dinosaurs then?
Maybe we need a methane tax on China (bet they’d welcome that!)…. and India…. and Indonesia…. and damn near everywhere.
For that matter, CO2 is a natural product of respiration in all animal life. So, while the dinosaurs were farting at one end, they were respirating at the other. Methane and CO2? [blanching in horror here!] Those dinosaurs were massive global warming machines.
It wasn’t the meteor that got them, it was global warming. Er…. wait, didn’t dinosaurs prosper & proliferate with a warmer planet, just like human populations have done during every prior warming age in human history? Okay, well maybe global warming didn’t get them, any more than it would us.
But still, that gets me back to China’s massive dinosaurian human population. Farting at one end and respirating at the other. They definitely need to be taxed…. and then the tax money can be redistributed to the general population — which can buy more goods from China.
The libtards don’t really care about the science.
They just want a Lords&Serfs society with THEM as the Lords.
An idealized 1750-1850′s society (that never really existed) has always been their goal.
Just because their version of Socialist Camelot starts looking like Pol Pot’s with everyone singing their praises while digging in the dirt and dying by the age of 35 is just a coincidence…..
TimO ^ which was kind of my point about their real agenda, since surely none of them are ignorant & stupid enough to actually believe that nonsense they are spouting.
“It’s”, in the possesive sense, does not have an apostrophe.
Otherwise, carry on…
Thank you, Mrs. Mason. Sixth grade, Grout Grade School.
Follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Aw, geeze. Take a pill, Doug. They’re in the equivalent of Cheyne-Stokes respiration, and they know it. Expect lots of wailing and foot-stomping.
As Saint Albert said “Were my theory incorrect, a single voice would be sufficient to destroy it.”
Or, as I like to say “Real science doesn’t need a PR flack.”
Yeah, but possesive has another ‘s’ … possessive. Thank you real-time
smellspell checker.Anyhow, I bet he knows that, but his fingers likely got away from him. It keeps happening to me too. Sometimes on compositional occasions, and sometimes on social ones…. ;-)
I had to look up Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Now my intellect is all astruggle with the concept.
Oh, by the bye:
“Oh, shit! They dug up Fast Louie’s corpse!”
Lots of shenanigans, looks like. What a shocker, eh?
^
Well, there’s human nature at work, which in the first grade is reprimanded, but not so much in global politics and big money matters.
Incidentally, I have decided that the real cause of Climate gate is that the charlatans involved were rendered intellectually (and morally) deficient by inhaling too much CO2 (and methane), hence demonstrating further the need to curb these “manmade” emissions.
Glowball wormers “believe” in glowball worming. That’s not science.
Science is:
1. Postulate a theory.
2. Prove that theory with tests
3. Release the data for independent corroboration.
The b’leevers have trouble with number three because they have bent the data so badly, it never replicates.
I didn’t need heat in my house today. Must be global warming.
You know what’s fun? Fun is having some new-hire with a brand-new flannel shirt, that’s never been washed, and then taking out your Bic Lighter™ and applying it to their arm in a semi-dark room. Bars are great for this.
It doesn’t hurt them, but the rapid prarie-grass-fire-effect is unbeatable. Besides, you’re always there to douse them with a beer if things get out of hand… like when their hair catches on fire, and stuff.
Taught to me by a Canadian logger. Okay, ‘former’ Canadian logger.
Or because you can no longer afford the ever increasing energy bill. Thanks, Obama, and all your eco-tard friends.
Hog (7)
Got me. Fixed it.
“It’s main uses are to justify …” was originally “It’s used to justify …” so I claim the editorial-oversight excuse.
(What? Another one? Where?)
mojo (9)
Re: “Take a pill, Doug. … Expect lots of wailing and foot-stomping.”
Me stomping on ‘em critters as they skitter out from unner ‘em rocks is a pill, and a danged good one. Even more fun to smash ‘em with a shovel.
Re: “As Saint Albert said “Were my theory incorrect, a single voice would be sufficient to destroy it.”
Yeah, kind’a explains his refusal to debate, dunnit?
Ironic (10) Thanks for watchin’ my six. (11) Me, too.
Stick (14)
The other side of the “it never replicates” coin is truly bizarre.
Using one of their models, no matter what data you input, you’d come up with the same output. It’s like they knew the answer ahead of time and made sure they got it. Who’d'a thunk?
Hog (16)
In a four-star logging camp, that’s called flambé.
(What? Well, my great-granny was a cook in a Canadian logging camp, so I must know something about it, eh? What? No, don’t think she was a injun. [goes over to mirror to check cheekbones])
Just make sure it’s not tequila, mate.
(or vodka either)
Doug (18)
Your six: any time
fourfor you.Your great-granny: maybe she was 1/32 injun. By the way, if I recall correctly (and I may not) Hitler’s regime drew the line at 1/16. As in 1/16 Jewish you got exterminated, but 1/32 you didn’t. If 1/32 wasn’t enough even for a fanatical fruitcake like Hitler to decide you were something, how can it possibly be enough to make you an
indianlaw faculty member?*standing ovation*
The difference between people who believe in the usefulness of capitalism and people who believe in the usefulness of Kensyian/Prog/redistributive economic system: the capitalists say ‘play – don’t play. your choice’ while the Prog types spend all their resources forcing everyone to go along with ‘em.
Funny, that….
I think I’m 1/4th Negro…
Sooooooooooooo, is that like saying, “My Johnson is only one-fourth of what it could have been?”
I think I’m 1/4th Negro…
No no no Hog, go for Native American. Negroes don’t get tax free casinos.
^ and tribal stipends.
1/4th Negro… I’ve been assuming that “Hog” was more than just a nickname; but anyway there’s the other 3/4 still to discover.
The BBC reporter’s hat’s too tight.
If indeed it was the dinosaur’s fault, well, there ain’t no more dinosaurs, so we got no worries.
If science is settled by consensus, then the Earth is flat and also the center of the Solar System – ’cause that’s what the consensus said (some years back).
All this “Save the Planet” hooey is just a way for people whose lives are meaningless to feel good about something.