|
http://bedbuginfo.dondodd.com/ http://www.venturesincapitalism.com Ventures In Capitalism - Business Brokers |
|
|
|
INDIA SETS UP INDEPENDENT GLOBAL WARMING PANEL India is setting up its own climate research unit because it no longer trusts the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I've been predicting such a move for years--partly due to the IPCC's biased science, but more because India simply cannot afford to curtail its desperately needed and energy-powered economic growth. India's government's stability depends on expanding prosperity for the all of its people. That means more energy, and over half of India's electricity comes from coal. Carried to its extreme, the global warming scare would pressure India to give up the nitrogen fertilizer that feeds nearly half its population--and even slaughter its 200 million sacred cows, which daily produce huge amounts of the greenhouse gas methane. Either would cause widespread rioting. ____________________________ Disclosing the real risks of climate change We are not weighing in on the climate debate. We are not opining on whether the world's climate is changing, at what pace or due to what causes, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Shapiro insisted on announcing the SEC's new "interpretive guidance" on climate change. The Commission's two Republican members objected that the Obama Administration was using the Commission to promote its global warming and renewable energy agenda (along with the EPA, NASA, Defense and Interior Departments and others). It's true, but irrelevant. ____________________________ Crazy Nancy, Cunning Barack When President Obama announced he would commit the nation to reduce "greenhouse gas emissions" in accordance with the failed UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference goals, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, issued yet another utterly crazed statement on January 29th. "President Obama's announcement marks a critical step forward in our effort to reduce the carbon footprint of the federal government--the largest consumer of energy in the U.S. economy." For the record, the Capitol building's electric power is provided by a coal-fired plant. And, for the record, the Speaker's use of an executive jet to travel back and forth from her home in California every week has burned through $2.1 million while producing tons of greenhouse gases. ____________________________ Worth Reconsidering President Obama is reassessing his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM) in New York City. A couple of related ideas also need to be reconsidered. The colossal cost of holding a KSM trial in New York City is evidently the primary motivation for moving the trial elsewhere. More worthy of reassessment is the liberal-progressive idea that terrorists should be dealt with as if they were ordinary criminals entitled to Miranda rights and the host of additional constitutional protections that go with ordinary criminal trials. ____________________________ Now You Too Can Have Your Own "Living Doll": Meet Roxxxy Some would call it a case of life imitating art. Others would put it into the You-Knew-It-Was-Going-To-Happen-Sooner-Or-Later Department. The "art" in question here is an old Sixties sitcom called "My Living Doll," which starred Robert Cummings and Julie Newmar. Cummings played the part of Dr. Bob McDonald, a psychologist to whom is entrusted the care of a robot in human form (Newmar), whose actual name is AF709, but is known to McDonald, and the viewing audience, as Rhoda. McDonald's job was to develop Rhoda into the "perfect woman" in all domestic skills with the expressed exception of sex (this was, after all, Sixties prime-time television), while keeping her identity a secret. Like most sitcoms, it was not meant to be taken seriously. ____________________________ Not So Famous Last Words This weekend I'm going to be at Carter Hall in Millwood, VA presenting a lecture on message development for candidates and elected officials. It's part of the University of Virginia's Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership. The Institute is a high-minded outfit that "seeks to improve political leadership in Virginia, thereby strengthening the quality of governance at all levels of government." I've always wondered why Sorenson risks damaging its reputation by associating with a disreputable character such as myself, but after looking at the my day's agenda, I suspect I'm comic relief brought in to liven up the proceedings after a few hours of lectures on campaign finance and ethics. ____________________________ A CHILL HITS WIND POWER As I write, a strong wind is blowing across the Alleghany Mountains onto my house. It's bringing an "Arctic Clipper" that will drop my temperatures this weekend to a frigid and unusual 6 degrees F. Why can't I get some good from this chill wind--with a wind turbine to harvest the "free" energy? Out in Oregon, General Electric has just announced a big wind project: 338 turbines, rated at 845 MW. GE claims it will power for 235,000 homes, and is applying for the appropriate federal subsidies. Will the wind turbines power 235,000 homes? Don't bet on it. My friend Donald Hertzmark--an energy economist--warns the power deliveries from this wind project are likely to average only 25 percent of its rated capacity. That would serve only 58,000 homes, not 235,000. ____________________________ The Great Green Land Grab All across America, various environmental organizations have been engaged in schemes to deter development such as housing, new energy plants, or the horror of a manufacturing facility that might actually employ people. In some states, the attack has been on farms and ranches, finding ways to punish their owners for improving their land in any fashion such as digging a drainage ditch. |
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright © 2001 to present all rights reserved Paid for by the Radiofree West Hartford (PAC), Donald J. Dodd Treasurer. |
|
|
|
Climate Change Debate Challenge - demand Yale host a debate on the merits of CO2 driven global warming. Why does Al Gore refuse to debate his Critics? Climate change is not a crisis! |
