As a signatory to the Kyoto protocol in 2002, Iceland took a solemn oath to actively reduce dangerous life threatening greenhouse gases emissions.(GHG) (carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride).
Iceland's recent outrageous volcanic emissions of toxic global warming gases and smoke, are a blatant slap in the face to all people in our global community, who've worked so hard to save our planet.
As Americans work diligently to reduce their own oversized carbon footprint, by using eco-friendly mercury-laden compact fluorescent lights, restrain from using heavily polluting lawn-mowers and leaf blowers, and rediscover the time tested wind & solar renewable energies, successfully used by Romans and Egyptians to help build their empires, it is evident that the unchecked volcanic proliferation of rogue nations such as Iceland, is not helping cure the earth's fever.
The United Nations must call an emergency meeting of the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Unregulated volcanic nations must take immediate steps to control their volcanoes, or install EnergyStar compliant pollution scrubbers, catalytic converters and carbon capture and containment technology on top of their volcanoes to prevent unchecked emissions.
To date, Iceland has not apologized for it's crimes against our planet. Perhaps some good old fashioned diplomacy, will help them see the light.
I call on President Obama to issue an executive order demanding that Iceland cease and desist these illegal gas emissions from this unregulated volcano.
Call President Obama today, and demand Cap and Trade sanctions against Iceland. Iceland must immediately Cap it's volcano, or we will cease all Trade with them.
Jacques Ditte
Showing posts with label GLOBAL WARMING. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GLOBAL WARMING. Show all posts
Friday, April 16, 2010
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Carbon Footprints?
Our 4.5 billion year old planet earth’s atmosphere is currently made up of about 79% nitrogen and 20% oxygen and a staggering 0.038% of carbon dioxide (C02). Yes in the last century the amount of C02 has gone up from 0.035% to the astronomically suffocating amount of 0.038% which is almost 4 one hundredths of one percent! And so according to global warming gestapo it is the 3 thousandths of a percent increase in C02 that is turning mother earth in to a convection oven. How else could you explain the fact that when you compare 100 year old thermometer readings to today’s satellite readings, the earth might have warmed by about 1 degree in the last century?
The facts that are being ignored are that water vapor is single handedly responsible for 95% of the ‘greenhouse effect’, without which we would all freeze to death, and the other obvious fact is, that the insignificant levels of C02 could not possibly be responsible for the warming and cooling that has been taking place naturally for the few thousand years we’ve been standing on two feet and the billions of years before that.
But facts be damned. As my father used to say, there is the truth and then there is the Official Truth.
Under the guise of saving the planet and caring for our children, governments at all levels, led by pandering politicians, have quickly realized that waving the green flag is great way to show they really really care, all the while socking it to us with new taxes. The carbon footprint is the government’s very own new lucrative gold rush. In order to fight the evil carbon dioxide, the gas every living creature exhales, including Al Gore, the government now has a moral duty to tax us, to control our lives and do whatever else needs to be done to reduce our Carbon Footprint in the battle to stop the sweltering inferno we are already living in.
The cost of “being green” is all around us. Congress has already banned the incandescent bulb. In 3 1/2 years you will only be allowed to buy the supposed enviro friendly mercury laden compact fluorescents. Cars in 2012 will be forced by our government to average 35 mpg which means you will have to squeeze into a smaller car like it or not. Oil is now over $112/ barrel as new domestic drilling has been banned for years, at every attempt. New oil drilling has been stopped by our Congress, up in Alaska, and off shore. New York State has over 60 cents a gallon taxes plus a 8.75% sales tax on each gallon sold. So the more gasoline prices go up, the more NY State tax gouges us. Some states are now charging higher car registration fees for evil SUVs than for the ”eco friendly” hybrids. Government has been subsidizing 50cents/gallon for ethanol production. Meanwhile corn, a basic food staple, is now being used to make ethanol. And that has pushed up the price of virtually all food, as corn prices have now gone through the roof. California even tried to remotely take control of homeowners individual thermostats.
As new green measures are added weekly and take root, you can bet your already over taxed ranch that you will be the one who will be forced to pay yet a little more.
The question becomes how much longer do we remain silent like passive cattle to slaughter? When will common sense return to the citizenry of this great nation? When will you, the common citizen stand up and remember that “governments derive their just powers, only from the consent of the governed”? When will you stand up for your ever shrinking rights and repel the long train of abuses and usurpations you are voluntarily submitting yourself to by your very silence?
While we still have First Amendment rights, I challenge you to speak up and publicly denounce the global warming hoax. I submit to you, it’s not the Carbon Footprint we should be worried about, it is the ever increasing size of the Government Footprint that will crush us all.
The facts that are being ignored are that water vapor is single handedly responsible for 95% of the ‘greenhouse effect’, without which we would all freeze to death, and the other obvious fact is, that the insignificant levels of C02 could not possibly be responsible for the warming and cooling that has been taking place naturally for the few thousand years we’ve been standing on two feet and the billions of years before that.
But facts be damned. As my father used to say, there is the truth and then there is the Official Truth.
Under the guise of saving the planet and caring for our children, governments at all levels, led by pandering politicians, have quickly realized that waving the green flag is great way to show they really really care, all the while socking it to us with new taxes. The carbon footprint is the government’s very own new lucrative gold rush. In order to fight the evil carbon dioxide, the gas every living creature exhales, including Al Gore, the government now has a moral duty to tax us, to control our lives and do whatever else needs to be done to reduce our Carbon Footprint in the battle to stop the sweltering inferno we are already living in.
The cost of “being green” is all around us. Congress has already banned the incandescent bulb. In 3 1/2 years you will only be allowed to buy the supposed enviro friendly mercury laden compact fluorescents. Cars in 2012 will be forced by our government to average 35 mpg which means you will have to squeeze into a smaller car like it or not. Oil is now over $112/ barrel as new domestic drilling has been banned for years, at every attempt. New oil drilling has been stopped by our Congress, up in Alaska, and off shore. New York State has over 60 cents a gallon taxes plus a 8.75% sales tax on each gallon sold. So the more gasoline prices go up, the more NY State tax gouges us. Some states are now charging higher car registration fees for evil SUVs than for the ”eco friendly” hybrids. Government has been subsidizing 50cents/gallon for ethanol production. Meanwhile corn, a basic food staple, is now being used to make ethanol. And that has pushed up the price of virtually all food, as corn prices have now gone through the roof. California even tried to remotely take control of homeowners individual thermostats.
As new green measures are added weekly and take root, you can bet your already over taxed ranch that you will be the one who will be forced to pay yet a little more.
The question becomes how much longer do we remain silent like passive cattle to slaughter? When will common sense return to the citizenry of this great nation? When will you, the common citizen stand up and remember that “governments derive their just powers, only from the consent of the governed”? When will you stand up for your ever shrinking rights and repel the long train of abuses and usurpations you are voluntarily submitting yourself to by your very silence?
While we still have First Amendment rights, I challenge you to speak up and publicly denounce the global warming hoax. I submit to you, it’s not the Carbon Footprint we should be worried about, it is the ever increasing size of the Government Footprint that will crush us all.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Oil is not a sin.
So you’re paying $100 to fill up you car and you want to blame the oil companies right? And how dare they make all this profit off of us hapless consumers! Most politicians will stand by you and point that finger at Exxon for your misery.
Once upon a time, a few years back, the actual cost the gasoline and breakdown of taxes was clearly displayed next to each pump for all to see. Today you just see the final price to you-the-consumer. And that price soon approaching $4 to $5 gallon is a pretty tough experience every time you go for that fill up. Now if the old law requiring gasoline taxes to be displayed by the pump were still around today, you’d probably woulda realized that the biggest profiteer is NY state and it’s Tax Gouging policies. That’s right while the oil company makes a healthy profit of about 9 cents/gallon for all the hard work of researching to find oil, drilling it, transporting and refining a product you need, in NY (check your local state government taxes here:http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/1054.html), our government is Tax Gouging us over 63 cents a gallon plus an additional 8% sales tax. So the more gasoline prices go up, the more NY state rakes it in. And for the tax profiteering of 63 to 87 cents tax per gallon , the government does nothing and provides you with nothing except the sheer pride of knowing NY State has the highest gasoline taxes out of all 50 states in our Union! No wonder the taxes aren’t displayed at the pump anymore!
Perhaps, if we complained loud enough we could stop the tax gouging by pointing the finger at the NY State tax mafia instead of attacking the oil companies.
NY Taxes aren’t the only reason gasoline is going up. Nationally, ridiculous environmental regulations require refiners to make more gasoline blends than Baskin Robbins has flavors. So all blends of gasoline are always in tight supply adding to the cost.
Additionally, thanks to the environmental lobby, and a Congress full of demagogues, the United States has not built a new refinery since the 1970’s. Of course since then, the US population has grown by 75 million. Now these aging refineries are running at full capacity and even have to ship oil back out of the country to reimport it as gasoline. And once again, the additional costs are passed on to you and me. Meanwhile around the planet, we are all competing for the same world oil, as China has traded in it’s bicycles for cars and industry. This global demand has bid up oil prices to now over $110 barrel, cause the whole world wants oil. So China Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico and countless others are racing to drill the vast untapped oil resources right in our own backyard, in the Gulf of Mexico. But our own government won’t allow American companies to drill there. Up in Alaska, there is believed to be vast American oil resources in ANWR (Alaska’s National Wild Life Refuge). The oil companies only need to do their drilling on about 2,000 acres, which is about 1/20th the size of Disney’s Magic Kingdom (30,000 acres), in a wildlife reserve that is the size of the state of South Carolina. But Congress said we can’t drill there either, cause there is some Caribou that will be in danger if we deprive them of 2000 acres out of a reserve that is over 30,000 square miles large!
If we want to maintain our lifestyle and try to get away from being increasingly reliant on foreign oil, then The United States needs to allow our oil companies to aggressively resume drilling for domestic oil. Oil is plentiful, and our economy, as does the world’s economy, like it or not, depends on it. Oil is not a sin, it is a blessing. Most everything we have in our lives is made from it. From cell phones to saran wrap, milk bottles to MRI machines and even clothing, all are made from oil. And that won’t change anytime soon.
Although ethanol, solar, wind are in now in vogue, the reality is you can’t make plastic from a wind generator, and you can’t power nor even build passenger plane with solar power. These alternative energies will never solve the fundamental issue of satisfying our need for oil, and fantasizing that they are a panacea is a pure waste of focus, time and yes energy. We need more oil to maintain our standard of living, So we’d better start allowing oil companies to do what they do best. Drill for oil.
Meanwhile it wouldn’t hurt to aim our anger at the government for their Tax profiteering and demand that Congress stop interfering and allow the oil companies to get back to work!
Perhaps, if we complained loud enough we could stop the tax gouging by pointing the finger at the NY State tax mafia instead of attacking the oil companies.
NY Taxes aren’t the only reason gasoline is going up. Nationally, ridiculous environmental regulations require refiners to make more gasoline blends than Baskin Robbins has flavors. So all blends of gasoline are always in tight supply adding to the cost.
Additionally, thanks to the environmental lobby, and a Congress full of demagogues, the United States has not built a new refinery since the 1970’s. Of course since then, the US population has grown by 75 million. Now these aging refineries are running at full capacity and even have to ship oil back out of the country to reimport it as gasoline. And once again, the additional costs are passed on to you and me. Meanwhile around the planet, we are all competing for the same world oil, as China has traded in it’s bicycles for cars and industry. This global demand has bid up oil prices to now over $110 barrel, cause the whole world wants oil. So China Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico and countless others are racing to drill the vast untapped oil resources right in our own backyard, in the Gulf of Mexico. But our own government won’t allow American companies to drill there. Up in Alaska, there is believed to be vast American oil resources in ANWR (Alaska’s National Wild Life Refuge). The oil companies only need to do their drilling on about 2,000 acres, which is about 1/20th the size of Disney’s Magic Kingdom (30,000 acres), in a wildlife reserve that is the size of the state of South Carolina. But Congress said we can’t drill there either, cause there is some Caribou that will be in danger if we deprive them of 2000 acres out of a reserve that is over 30,000 square miles large!
If we want to maintain our lifestyle and try to get away from being increasingly reliant on foreign oil, then The United States needs to allow our oil companies to aggressively resume drilling for domestic oil. Oil is plentiful, and our economy, as does the world’s economy, like it or not, depends on it. Oil is not a sin, it is a blessing. Most everything we have in our lives is made from it. From cell phones to saran wrap, milk bottles to MRI machines and even clothing, all are made from oil. And that won’t change anytime soon.
Although ethanol, solar, wind are in now in vogue, the reality is you can’t make plastic from a wind generator, and you can’t power nor even build passenger plane with solar power. These alternative energies will never solve the fundamental issue of satisfying our need for oil, and fantasizing that they are a panacea is a pure waste of focus, time and yes energy. We need more oil to maintain our standard of living, So we’d better start allowing oil companies to do what they do best. Drill for oil.
Meanwhile it wouldn’t hurt to aim our anger at the government for their Tax profiteering and demand that Congress stop interfering and allow the oil companies to get back to work!
Right to Chose, a carbon credit
The Supreme Court has recently ruled by a 5 to 4 decision that Carbon Dioxide is now a pollutant. Carbon Dioxide, the principal gas emitted by SUVs, Priuses, Al Gore, and the spotted salamander, is a pollutant. The inconvenient truth is that Al Gore is right, we are destroying the planet, one carbon dioxide laden breath at a time and we need to stop this before it’s too late! The decision by the nation’s highest court means that, by it’s mere existence, all oxygen inhaling life is guilty of polluting the planet as it is carbon dioxide exhaling. And this is propelling us toward an eventual planetary inferno at the alarming rate of 0.3 (zero point 3) degrees increase in the past 100 years! Al Gore said our ‘planet has a fever”. Now I know that assuming that Mr Gore is not ill, his temperature taken by the less reliable oral thermometer should be 98.6 F. But i still am uncertain what the correct earth temperature should be? And how does one measure it? Should the thermometer readings be done in Central Park or along the East River? How many readings across the globe should we take? Are those readings taken in the same places as the ones from a 100 years ago? Were thermometer readings 100 years ago as reliable as today’s? Enquiring minds want to know.
Anyway i digress.....
The facts are undeniable. Human activity is contributing an alarming 4% of the global Carbon Dioxide emissions. (A mere 96% of the worlds C02 comes from non human sources like endangered cuddly polar bears and decomposing plant matter.) The blame America first crowd can take pride in knowing that the Imperialist United States is responsible for contributing staggering 1% of the global CO2 output.
So how do we save our planet from expiring, from all the exhaling?
Although eliminating our own lives would be ideal, Al Gore believes that Carbon credits may hold a solution. Most of us who aren’t that relevant should forgo emitting carbon dioxide. You and I will no longer drive cars and we’ll obtain special exception government permits to walk briskly only when absolutely necessary. The CO2 we consequently wont generate results in net credits. These carbon credits can then be used by important people who need to keep driving, flying and barbecuing. For instance John Travolta, needs 5 personal jets as he is an esteemed celebrity and needs to fly the globe for his acting career. So Mr. Travolta could keep flying guilt free, without any net impact to the planet cause he is counting on you and I to give up our lifestyles. Just one of Al Gore’s homes uses 20x the amount of energy of the average American house. But that’s OK, cause Mr. Gore ‘offsets’ his pollution by purchasing “carbon credits” from a company that he owns. In turn someone will plant some acorns or something to mop up that carbon dioxide. The purchasing of carbon credits doesn’t really reduce the overall carbon dioxide emissions, but it basically says, Al Gore gets to live the life he always has, cause someone else is forgoing theirs. And that’s the point. We are not all as fortunate to actually own our own carbon credit company. So how do we plebes become environmental leaders like Al, and save the planet from ourselves? First and foremost by generating our own Constitutionally sanctioned carbon credits. You see Roe vs Wade, is now more important than ever. In a sense this right should be elevated to a duty. We need to encourage a woman’s right to chose, a carbon credit. This will provide a vast untapped renewable resource of carbon offsets. It may seem drastic but think of it. It takes the all important left wing holy grail, the abortion, and raises it to a matter of global survival. Because there are some 4,000 abortions each and every day to sea to shinning sea. Women choosing to terminate their pregnancies, can now skip the guilt and bask in feelings of environmental empowerment. Now women can use their own power of choice to preemptively abort countless tons of carbon emissions that each non-born will now never generate! The new argument for having an abortion can be to save the life of the mother earth. If women across the United States stand up for their right to chose,(the carbon credit) (patriotic indeed) we can generate enough carbon offsets for Al Gore, and the left to continue living their limousine liberal lifestyle. And the rest of us can die off while taking care not to exhale too much carbon dioxide in the process.
Anyway i digress.....
The facts are undeniable. Human activity is contributing an alarming 4% of the global Carbon Dioxide emissions. (A mere 96% of the worlds C02 comes from non human sources like endangered cuddly polar bears and decomposing plant matter.) The blame America first crowd can take pride in knowing that the Imperialist United States is responsible for contributing staggering 1% of the global CO2 output.
So how do we save our planet from expiring, from all the exhaling?
Although eliminating our own lives would be ideal, Al Gore believes that Carbon credits may hold a solution. Most of us who aren’t that relevant should forgo emitting carbon dioxide. You and I will no longer drive cars and we’ll obtain special exception government permits to walk briskly only when absolutely necessary. The CO2 we consequently wont generate results in net credits. These carbon credits can then be used by important people who need to keep driving, flying and barbecuing. For instance John Travolta, needs 5 personal jets as he is an esteemed celebrity and needs to fly the globe for his acting career. So Mr. Travolta could keep flying guilt free, without any net impact to the planet cause he is counting on you and I to give up our lifestyles. Just one of Al Gore’s homes uses 20x the amount of energy of the average American house. But that’s OK, cause Mr. Gore ‘offsets’ his pollution by purchasing “carbon credits” from a company that he owns. In turn someone will plant some acorns or something to mop up that carbon dioxide. The purchasing of carbon credits doesn’t really reduce the overall carbon dioxide emissions, but it basically says, Al Gore gets to live the life he always has, cause someone else is forgoing theirs. And that’s the point. We are not all as fortunate to actually own our own carbon credit company. So how do we plebes become environmental leaders like Al, and save the planet from ourselves? First and foremost by generating our own Constitutionally sanctioned carbon credits. You see Roe vs Wade, is now more important than ever. In a sense this right should be elevated to a duty. We need to encourage a woman’s right to chose, a carbon credit. This will provide a vast untapped renewable resource of carbon offsets. It may seem drastic but think of it. It takes the all important left wing holy grail, the abortion, and raises it to a matter of global survival. Because there are some 4,000 abortions each and every day to sea to shinning sea. Women choosing to terminate their pregnancies, can now skip the guilt and bask in feelings of environmental empowerment. Now women can use their own power of choice to preemptively abort countless tons of carbon emissions that each non-born will now never generate! The new argument for having an abortion can be to save the life of the mother earth. If women across the United States stand up for their right to chose,(the carbon credit) (patriotic indeed) we can generate enough carbon offsets for Al Gore, and the left to continue living their limousine liberal lifestyle. And the rest of us can die off while taking care not to exhale too much carbon dioxide in the process.
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