Update: Expert calls Rapid Sea level Rise Claims Absolute Nonsense
World-leading sea-level expert Prof. emeritus Nils Axel Morner presents some stark examples that show how the IPCC and climate activists are wildly exaggerating their claims of rapid sea level rise here.
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The Green New Deal isn't just un-American, it's also completely bonkers.
By David Harsanyi
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Note: Ocasio-Cortez's office has taken down their page describing the Green New Deal.
A number of Democratic Party presidential hopefuls - including Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Julian Castro, and Beto O'Rourke, for starters - have already endorsed or expressed support for the "Green New Deal" (GND). Today, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Edward J. Markey dropped details about her plan.
It is not hyperbole to contend that GND is likely the most ridiculous and un-American plan that's ever been presented by an elected official to voters. Not merely because it would necessitate a communist strongman to institute, but also because the societal cost are unfathomable. The risible historic analogies Markey and Ocasio-Cortez rely on, the building of the interstate highway system or moon landing, are nothing but trifling projects compared to a plan that overhauls modernity by voluntarily destroying massive amounts of wealth and technology. That is the GND.
While some of the specifics need to be ironed out, the plan's authors assure us that this "massive transformation of our society" needs some "clear goals and a timeline."The timeline is ten years. Here are some of the goals:
Ban affordable energy. GND calls for the elimination of all fossil fuel energy production, the lifeblood of American industry and life, which includes not only all oil but also natural gas - one of the cheapest sources of American energy, and one of the reasons the United States has been able to lead the world in carbon-emissions reduction.
Eliminate nuclear energy. The GND also calls for eliminating all nuclear power, one of the only productive and somewhat affordable "clean" energy sources available to us, in 11 years. This move would purge around 20 percent of American energy generation so you can rely on intermittent wind for your energy needs.
Eliminate 99 percent of cars. To be fair, under the GND, everyone will need to retrofit their cars with Flintstones-style foot holes or pedals for cycling. The authors state that the GND would like to replace every "combustion-engine vehicle" - trucks, airplanes, boats, and 99 percent of cars - within ten years. Charging stations for electric vehicles will be built "everywhere," though how power plants will provide the energy needed to charge them is a mystery.
Gut and rebuild every building in America. Markey and Cortez want to "retrofit every building in America" with "state of the art energy efficiency." I repeat, "every building in America." That includes every home, factory, and apartment building, which will all need, for starters, to have their entire working heating and cooling systems ripped out and replaced with...well, with whatever technology Democrats are going invent in their committee hearings, I guess.
Eliminate air travel. GND calls for building out "highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary." Good luck Hawaii! California's high-speed boondoggle is already in $100 billion dollars of debt, and looks to be one of the state's biggest fiscal disasters ever. Amtrak runs billions of dollars in the red (though, as we'll see, trains will also be phased out). Imagine growing that business model out to every state in America?
A government-guaranteed job. The bill promises the United States government will provide every single American with a job that includes a "family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations, and a pension." You can imagine that those left in the private sector would be funding these through some unspecified "massive" taxation. On the bright side, when you're foraging for food, your savings will be worthless.
Free education for life. GND promises free college or trade schools for every American.
A salubrious diet. The GND promises the government will provide "healthy food" to every American (because there are no beans or lettuce in your local supermarket, I guess).
A house. The GND promises that the government will provide, "safe, affordable, adequate housing" for every American citizen. I call dibs on an affordable Adams Morgan townhouse. Thank you, Ocasio-Cortez.
Free money. The GND aims to provide, and I am not making this up, "economic security" for all who are "unable or unwilling" to work. Just to reiterate: if you're unwilling to work, the rest of us will have your back.
Bonus insanity: Ban meat. Ocasio-Cortez admits that we can't get zero emissions in 10 years "because we aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast." The only way to get rid of farting cows is to get rid of beef.
The GND uses the word "massive" to explain the size "investments" (formerly known as "taxes") 13 times. How will we pay for this plan? "The same way we did the New Deal, the 2008 bank bailouts and extend quantitative easing," say Markey and Cortez, who earned her degree in economics at an institution of higher learning that should be immediately decertified. The plan itself seems to insinuate that billionaires can pay for the whole thing. Of course, best case scenario, it is estimated that instituting a top marginal tax rate of 70 percent would raise a little more than $700 billion over that decade. She does not explain how we're going to raise the other 20 bazillion dollars it will cost to tear down modernity.
Cortez and Markey claim that 92 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of Republicans support the Green New Deal. I'm not sure where that number is derived. But ask them again when government agents come to take out their water heater.
Cortez demonstrates the failure of our education system which has indoctrinated instead of educated our young people. There is a new movement to go after universities to recover tuition for their failure to educate (they indoctrinate) and prepare students for real world jobs. Students leave and are qualified for jobs as social media trolls, activists and social justice warriors but not prepared for real jobs. Students leave with debts equivalent to home mortgages, that will delay or deny their future. I only hope this movement grows and we penalize the schools and eat into their precious endowment money to create more balanced and useful education.
Markey is a typical Massachusetts politician (doesn't matter if they have a D or R after their name) who is just full of himself. A friend sat in a restaurant and at the table behind him was someone who spoke loudly and used the word I more times than Obama at his SOTU addresses - it was Ed Markey. His last job before government was Mr. Frosty.
All this for what?? It really has little to do with climate which is not becoming more severe (see the updated alarmist claim fact check here) and more here and is solely meant to advance the green agenda and give the government more power over every aspect of out life.
Update: Expert calls Rapid Sea level Rise Claims Absolute Nonsense
World-leading sea-level expert Prof. emeritus Nils Axel Morner presents some stark examples that show how the IPCC and climate activists are wildly exaggerating their claims of rapid sea level rise here.
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The Green New Deal isn't just un-American, it's also completely bonkers.
By David Harsanyi
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Note: Ocasio-Cortez's office has taken down their page describing the Green New Deal.
A number of Democratic Party presidential hopefuls - including Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Julian Castro, and Beto O'Rourke, for starters - have already endorsed or expressed support for the "Green New Deal" (GND). Today, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Edward J. Markey dropped details about her plan.
It is not hyperbole to contend that GND is likely the most ridiculous and un-American plan that's ever been presented by an elected official to voters. Not merely because it would necessitate a communist strongman to institute, but also because the societal cost are unfathomable. The risible historic analogies Markey and Ocasio-Cortez rely on, the building of the interstate highway system or moon landing, are nothing but trifling projects compared to a plan that overhauls modernity by voluntarily destroying massive amounts of wealth and technology. That is the GND.
While some of the specifics need to be ironed out, the plan's authors assure us that this "massive transformation of our society" needs some "clear goals and a timeline."The timeline is ten years. Here are some of the goals:
Ban affordable energy. GND calls for the elimination of all fossil fuel energy production, the lifeblood of American industry and life, which includes not only all oil but also natural gas - one of the cheapest sources of American energy, and one of the reasons the United States has been able to lead the world in carbon-emissions reduction.
Eliminate nuclear energy. The GND also calls for eliminating all nuclear power, one of the only productive and somewhat affordable "clean" energy sources available to us, in 11 years. This move would purge around 20 percent of American energy generation so you can rely on intermittent wind for your energy needs.
Eliminate 99 percent of cars. To be fair, under the GND, everyone will need to retrofit their cars with Flintstones-style foot holes or pedals for cycling. The authors state that the GND would like to replace every "combustion-engine vehicle" - trucks, airplanes, boats, and 99 percent of cars - within ten years. Charging stations for electric vehicles will be built "everywhere," though how power plants will provide the energy needed to charge them is a mystery.
Gut and rebuild every building in America. Markey and Cortez want to "retrofit every building in America" with "state of the art energy efficiency." I repeat, "every building in America." That includes every home, factory, and apartment building, which will all need, for starters, to have their entire working heating and cooling systems ripped out and replaced with...well, with whatever technology Democrats are going invent in their committee hearings, I guess.
Eliminate air travel. GND calls for building out "highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary." Good luck Hawaii! California's high-speed boondoggle is already in $100 billion dollars of debt, and looks to be one of the state's biggest fiscal disasters ever. Amtrak runs billions of dollars in the red (though, as we'll see, trains will also be phased out). Imagine growing that business model out to every state in America?
A government-guaranteed job. The bill promises the United States government will provide every single American with a job that includes a "family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations, and a pension." You can imagine that those left in the private sector would be funding these through some unspecified "massive" taxation. On the bright side, when you're foraging for food, your savings will be worthless.
Free education for life. GND promises free college or trade schools for every American.
A salubrious diet. The GND promises the government will provide "healthy food" to every American (because there are no beans or lettuce in your local supermarket, I guess).
A house. The GND promises that the government will provide, "safe, affordable, adequate housing" for every American citizen. I call dibs on an affordable Adams Morgan townhouse. Thank you, Ocasio-Cortez.
Free money. The GND aims to provide, and I am not making this up, "economic security" for all who are "unable or unwilling" to work. Just to reiterate: if you're unwilling to work, the rest of us will have your back.
Bonus insanity: Ban meat. Ocasio-Cortez admits that we can't get zero emissions in 10 years "because we aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast." The only way to get rid of farting cows is to get rid of beef.
The GND uses the word "massive" to explain the size "investments" (formerly known as "taxes") 13 times. How will we pay for this plan? "The same way we did the New Deal, the 2008 bank bailouts and extend quantitative easing," say Markey and Cortez, who earned her degree in economics at an institution of higher learning that should be immediately decertified. The plan itself seems to insinuate that billionaires can pay for the whole thing. Of course, best case scenario, it is estimated that instituting a top marginal tax rate of 70 percent would raise a little more than $700 billion over that decade. She does not explain how we're going to raise the other 20 bazillion dollars it will cost to tear down modernity.
Cortez and Markey claim that 92 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of Republicans support the Green New Deal. I'm not sure where that number is derived. But ask them again when government agents come to take out their water heater.
Cortez demonstrates the failure of our education system which has indoctrinated instead of educated our young people. There is a new movement to go after universities to recover tuition for their failure to educate (they indoctrinate) and prepare students for real world jobs. Students leave and are qualified for jobs as social media trolls, activists and social justice warriors but not prepared for real jobs. Students leave with debts equivalent to home mortgages, that will delay or deny their future. I only hope this movement grows and we penalize the schools and eat into their precious endowment money to create more balanced and useful education.
Markey is a typical Massachusetts politician (doesn't matter if they have a D or R after their name) who is just full of himself. A friend sat in a restaurant and at the table behind him was someone who spoke loudly and used the word I more times than Obama at his SOTU addresses - it was Ed Markey. His last job before government was Mr. Frosty.
All this for what?? It really has little to do with climate which is not becoming more severe (see the updated alarmist claim fact check here) and more here and is solely meant to advance the green agenda and give the government more power over every aspect of out life.
from Climate Change Skeptic Blogs via hj on Inoreader http://www.icecap.us/
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