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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Anti-Job-Creation EPA Twists Evidence

See Tainted EPA Report on Fracking.

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…it turns out that the EPA drilled two monitoring wells to some 900 feet – much deeper than water wells which are usually at about 300 feet – and indeed found hydrocarbons. In short, they drilled into the natural gas reservoir that has long attracted industry producers…In addition to noting that the EPA had in effect discovered natural gas by drilling into a natural gas reservoir, the company faulted the EPA’s “discovery” of various several man-made chemicals in the deep wells. Curiously, the agency found the same chemicals in the so-called “blank” water samples— the “ultra purified water commonly used in testing to ensure no contamination from field sampling procedures.” As Encana points out, the conclusion suggests “problems associated with EPA methodology”. No kidding.

Encana further complained that the EPA ignored historical evidence of naturally occurring contaminants in the area. They claim that the USGS reported about poor water quality in the 1880s and again in 1959 (preceding the start of drilling in the 1960s) due to “high concentrations of naturally occurring sulfate, total dissolved solids and pH levels which commonly exceed state and federal drinking water standards.” They also fault the EPA for not providing any “qualified” third party objective review of the report.

Obama clearly prefers to create a few dozen"green" jobs that produce energy at two to three times the cost of gasoline, rather than drilling for oil and natural gas, activity that brings thousands of jobs to poorer areas. The same attitude was displayed in his effectively killing Trans Canada’s plan for a pipeline to bring petroleum from Canada into mid-America, a project that would have created an estimated 150,000 jobs.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 12/15 at 05:46 PM
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

They Can Run, But They Can't Hide Their Crimes Forever

The scoundrels masquerading as climate scientist already have motivated billions of dollars of wasted public funds as “investments” in uneconomic green boondoggles and inflicted unnecessary increases in energy costs on the public, hurting the poor more than anyone else.

Benny Peiser spotlights BBC In Cahoots With Climategate Scientists

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 11/27 at 03:02 PM
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Sunday, November 06, 2011

Global Warming and Gnostic Paganism

The modern irruption of religious gnosticism, exemplified in the philosophical materialism of socialism, is a paradigm in which an intellectual elite see themselves alone possessed of special knowledge to restructure societies and perfect human life here on earth.

That sort of hubristic pretension to knowledge is simply a liberal-progressive urge to supplant our Creator God. It was described thousands of years ago in the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge to become like God. Such pretension has always resulted in expulsion from Eden.

Lenin and Stalin, backed by their American liberal-progressive supporters, were prepared to liquidate tens of millions of citizens in order to impose socialistic materialism, believing they were creating social, political, and economic perfection for future generations. Today’s believers in man-made global warming are prepared to wreck the world economy, casting millions of people into penury, to finance their schemes for reduction of so-called greenhouse gases.

Read this excerpt from Cardinal George Pell’s Global Warming Policy Forum annual lecture Wednesday at Westminster Cathedral Hall, London.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 11/06 at 06:24 PM
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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Two Sides To Every Question

Fact and Allah-Gorical fantasy (the delusion that Al Gore is a god capable of determining the world’s climate decades into the future) that verges into deceit.

Liberal-progressives don’t care about the truth. They lust for the power to control everybody else, the power that derives from controlling sources and uses of all the world’s energy.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 10/30 at 12:29 PM
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Sanity Makes a Comeback

Governments no longer can avoid confrontation with the destructive costs of green energy and other forms of rampant environmentalism.

The Great Green Energy Crack-Up

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 10/27 at 11:32 PM
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Facility Begets Falsehood

The various Darwinian evolutionary hypotheses all rest upon unproved assertions. In the final analysis, the best they can offer is “probably.”

All supposed proofs of Darwinian evolution, whichever of its many theoretical variants is chosen, amount to the unsubstantiated assumption that any two life forms that resemble each other must have evolved from a common ancestor or that one must have evolved from the other. Darwinian apologists have never, and probably can never, offered any example of a continuous evolution from one species to another, apart from controlled (i.e., the opposite of random Darwinian evolution) laboratory experiments with fast-breeding life forms, that doesn’t ultimately revert to the original. They are millions of miles removed from demonstrating a continuous evolutionary chain from one genus to another genus.

The only thing Darwinian apologists can offer to bolster their religious faith in godless materialism is “might have been,” “we can assume,” or “it is reasonable to think that.”

Casey Luskin, in Critically Analyzing the Argument from Human/Chimpanzee Genetic Similarity, looks at that sort of unsupported, facile Darwinian assertion that amounts to falsehood, such as Darwinian religionist Dennis Venema’s casual assertion, “By whatever measure used, we are but a hand-breadth away from our evolutionary cousins at the DNA level.”

Spanning that hands-breadth, it turns out, would probably require more than 100 million years of random genetic mutations.

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In 2008, [intelligent design advocate] Michael Behe’s critics Rick Durrett and Deena Schmidt tried to refute him in the journal Genetics with a paper titled “Waiting for Two Mutations: With Applications to Regulatory Sequence Evolution and the Limits of Darwinian Evolution.” But Durrett and Schmidt found that to obtain only two specific mutations via Darwinian evolution “for humans with a much smaller effective population size, this type of change would take > 100 million years.” The critics admitted this was “very unlikely to occur on a reasonable timescale.”

From Confusing Evidence for Common Ancestry with Evidence for Random Mutatuion and Natural Selection:

The following is the incredibly low level of detail they provide for the alleged Darwinian evolution of vertebrate genetic structure: “We imagine that rapid and extensive evolutionary change could possibly be an emergent property of having all genes duplicated at the same time, allowing this expanded gene repertoire to evolve together.” Such vague assertions of evolutionary processes in no way demonstrate the efficacy of random mutation and natural selection. Instead, without providing any evidence that natural selection and random mutation could produce observed vertebrate diversification, they simply assert that it happened.

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Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 10/16 at 05:06 PM
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Greenhouse-Gas-Climatology Is Not Science

Writing in an op-ed article on the Wall Street Journal website, physicist Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at City College of New York, reports on the turmoil in physics created by experiments suggesting that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light. If confirmed by other scientists’ experiments around the world, this would have wide-ranging ramifications in the physical sciences, upending key foundations of physics.

In sharp contrast to so-called climatology scientists, who falsify data, hide counter evidence, and engage in efforts to silence critics, Professor Kaku concludes:

Reputations may rise and fall. But in the end, this is a victory for science. No theory is carved in stone. Science is merciless when it comes to testing all theories over and over, at any time, in any place. Unlike religion or politics, science is ultimately decided by experiments, done repeatedly in every form. There are no sacred cows. In science, 100 authorities count for nothing. Experiment counts for everything.

The only possible conclusion is that Al-Gore-led charlatans proclaiming man-made-global warming are not engaged in scientific activity.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 09/26 at 12:15 AM
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Friday, September 02, 2011

Wind Energy Costs Outweigh Benefits

Read Paul Driessen’s analysis.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 09/02 at 09:41 PM
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Green Energy Comes Up Short

In addition to forcing citizens, with a disparate impact on lower-income people, to pay three to six times as much for energy, mandated green energy is dangerously inadequate.

All of the vaunted green-energy capacity in the nation, after years of huge subsidies and tax manipulation, overall amounts to little more than 2% of the nation’s power needs.

See Texas Wind Energy Fails, Again

Liberal-progressives, enraptured by the pagan environmental gospel of Al Gore, have campaigned to put petroleum producers and coal miners out of business To do so requires killing the free market, in which consumers have overwhelmingly demonstrated their preference for the opposite.

Green energy is a form of production controls, price control (raising taxes on petroleum and coal producers) and federal and state subsidies in a vain attempt to make green energy competitive by raising the price of traditional fuels.

One rationalization for federally-mandated green energy is the need to reduce reliance upon foreign sources of petroleum. This is arrant nonsense. Recent shale gas discoveries, as well as continuing discoveries of huge of oil deposits such as Exxon-Mobil’s recent one in the Gulf of Mexico, demonstrate that we already have more than a century’s supply of oil and natural gas, if the government will allow production to proceed.

If green energy policy is forced down our throats, as Democrat/Socialist Party leaders in Washington and states like California demand, there is real danger that we will freeze in the winter, broil in the summer, and go hungry as crops fail for lack of water, enough farm land, and diminished cultivation. People in the upper-income brackets may be able to afford battery-powered automobiles (made possible only by federal mandates and subsidies to auto makers), but the average citizen will be much less mobile than today.

To have sufficient, reliable green energy capacity, we would have to cut down almost every tree in the nation to cover the landscape with wind turbines and cover the deserts with solar panels. Hydro-electric power is out, because dams interfere with snail darters and salmon migration. Even solar panels are mightily resisted, because they interfere with the habitat of variety of desert rat. And to grow enough corn for ethanol, there will be little arable land left for food production, turning the nation into a net importer of food crops.

The ultimate irony is that many green energy projects consume more energy than they produce, and all of them reduce consumers’ standard of living.

There is a precedent for such willful destruction, imposed on the general public by intellectual planners. Russia, before 1917, was one of the world’s largest exporters of grain. Under Soviet control, the nation no longer grew enough to feed its own citizens.

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Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 08/31 at 08:51 PM
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