Need to know????

[Brian A. MacNeish]

A Canadian bank chief economist that 3 years ago predicted the $100 barrel of oil has now said that the $200 barrel of oil is just around the corner......demand is rising quickly in India, China and South America as cars become affordable for them due to good economic times. For example: About 750 million vehicles in the world now.......by 2020, it's predicted 1.2 billion vehicles will be in use......still fueled mainly by petroleum.

Food protests/riots in last 6 months or so: Egypt, the Phillipines, Haiti, Burkina Faso, Indonesia, Italy, Cameroon, Pakistan, India, Senegal, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, China, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Austria, Hungary, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Guinea,

Our new gas prices this AM- low test, self-serve: $1.34/liter, $6.08/imperial gallon or about $5.00 a US gallon

[Michael Larson]

Category: What warming?

The Great Race

By Steven Milloy
May 1, 2008

Can global warming’s vested interests close the deal on greenhouse gas regulation before the public wises up to their scam? A new study indicates alarmist concern and a need to explain away the lack of actual global warming.

Researchers belonging to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported in Nature (May 1) that, after adjusting their climate model to reflect actual sea surface temperatures of the last 50 years, “global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations… temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming.”
And the rest is here

[Brian A. MacNeish]

Originally Posted by gluck

"AAHH!! Nothing like good old "free enterprise" to take advantage of the worker!!!"

I think the worker in Mexico who had no job until the big bad corporations came to town might see this a little differently.

With Brian's attitude rife in Canada's Atlantic provinces it is no wonder they have the highest unemployment rate in the country and the smallest industrial base. Go figure

George:

What's going on in Ontario????? The national news is talking about it becoming a "have not " province!!! Dalton wants top change the economic agreements with other provinces!!! All while Newfoundland is undergoing huge changes with their oil money......1/2 billion to 1 billion budget surpluses for the next 15-20 years or so........engineers, etc rushing to get there......Good $$$$$.

OH!! I was wrong about the RIM facility being built here.....it's not manufacturing but a technical research center probably to be turned into a RIM "Campus"......They're already way ahead on hiring!!

Real esteate market is still very hot here. Can't believe the #'s of Lexus, BMW's, etc on the roads locally......reminds me of being in Carmel, California a few years back!! Poor us!!!

[Michael Larson]

Weather Channel Founder's Open Letter To Environmentalists

Thank you for your dedication to protecting our environment. Clean air and clean water are essential to preserving life on planet Earth. Protecting all species and natural lands and forests are admirable priorities. Recycling and a green lifestyle are wonderful. Making the environment the most important thing in your life is a good thing, not a problem. I support you.
But we do have a problem. You have vigorously embraced the Global Warming predictions of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and are using the warning of uncontrollable warming and a resulting environmental calamity to campaign for elimination of fossil fuels. Your environmentally conscious friends in politics and in the media have united with you to create a barrage of news reports, documentaries, TV feature reports, movies, books, concerts and protest events to build support for your goals. The war against fossil fuels has become a massive scare campaign that is giving children nightmares.

Here's what's wrong with that: the science is not valid. There is no Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is wrong. Dead wrong.
I know many scientists are part of your movement and they have tried hard to give your uncontrollable climate change panic a scientific basis. The UN Climate Change Panel has a large staff, a big budget, a headquarters in Geneva and a strong champion in Al Gore to lead the charge. And thousands of well-intentioned politicians and the media of the world have supported your movement. It must seem to you that there can be no doubt: fossil fuels are destroying the environment and will lead to uncontrollable global warming unless we act now. With all that powerful support for your anti-fossil fuel movement, and with the worthy goal of saving the planet from the disastrous consequences of runaway Global Warming, how can you fail?

Here's how: The science behind your global warming scare is bad and no anthropogenic global warming is happening. Dissenting scientists have now produced convincing evidence that the cornerstone of your scientific argument, increased atmospheric carbon dioxide forcing a rapid, irreversible rise in temperature, is invalid. All of the various "signs of global warming" you have so widely publicized have been proven wrong. They are normal variations in climate that result mostly from the cycles of the Sun. As the Sun cycle has changed in the last three or four years, they have reversed themselves. Arctic ice melting and polar bears dying, shrinkage of glaciers and the rise of ocean levels, increased intensity and number of hurricanes and intensified droughts have all been touted as signs of global warming. They are not. They are part of this natural variation in climate. The intensified hurricane claim never happened. Katrina was an isolated, random event. The droughts are part of the natural cycle and are reversing at this time. Glaciers are stabilizing. The Arctic ice cap is already back to normal.

Here is what I am suggesting you do. Campaign for your environmental goals on the basis of their own merit. Let go of the global warming frenzy before it leaves you discredited and embarrassed. Stop screaming, "The sky is falling." It is not.
Do your good work. Devote your lives to our environment. In many ways you will succeed. We are all grateful for your love of the planet. But, don't use scare tactics.
Most of all I urge you not to become extremists. And, may I encourage you to live your lives in a loving way, love your fellow human beings and our wonderful advanced standard of living and way of life as much as you love the Earth.

My very best regards,
John Coleman


P.s. - If you will read my briefs on the science that debunks the global warming frenzy and follow the links there, you will begin to realize the folly of Global Warming.


Go to ICECAP.us for a starter. JC

[Brian A. MacNeish]

A new Goldman Sachs prediction that oil prices could rise to $150 to $200 within two years seemed to motivate much of Tuesday's buying, although a falling dollar and increasing concerns about declining crude production in Mexico and Russia contributed, analysts say..............


But strong demand for oil from countries such as China, India, Russia, Brazil and in the Middle East will support high prices and keep global oil demand growing by about 1.2 million barrels a day this year, unchanged from last month's forecast, the EIA said.

[Michael Larson]

Originally Posted by Brian A. MacNeish

A new Goldman Sachs prediction that oil prices could rise to $150 to $200 within two years seemed to motivate much of Tuesday's buying, although a falling dollar and increasing concerns about declining crude production in Mexico and Russia contributed, analysts say..............


But strong demand for oil from countries such as China, India, Russia, Brazil and in the Middle East will support high prices and keep global oil demand growing by about 1.2 million barrels a day this year, unchanged from last month's forecast, the EIA said.

Tar and oil sands look better all the time.

There is no oil shortage.

There is a shortage of rational debate and thinking however.

[William R. DeVries, CMHI]

at $1.20 a litre or just under $5.00 a gallon free estimates seem to be falling by the wayside now, last night it cost 25 bucks to drive out to a house to give a quote and then be told no thanks your to high
Dam, wasted 25 bucks for nothing, and they were looking for a dam near free job as well, and I wont lowball
need to find a camel or a bike

[No Name, Jr.]

Bill, it's called a telephone. Try it.

[William R. DeVries, CMHI]

Originally Posted by No Name, Jr.

Bill, it's called a telephone. Try it.

Would love to see you stretch a tape over the phone while your quoting a deck and walkout.
If you can do it Kudo's
but I haven't figured that out yet.
Try it

[Michael Larson]

Category: We are So Screwed

John Mc Cain's Global Climate Change Tax

McCain has big plans for U.S. climate-change legislation, nonetheless. And he is willing to impose these strictures on the U.S. economy unilaterally — without India, Mexico, and China et al. signing on to do the same. But the Arizona senator says he will also negotiate with these countries to persuade them to similar strictures on their own economies (which, I might note, has been tried for a dozen years). And if they don’t agree to go along, well, he’ll start a trade war against them. McCain might want to double-check the express understanding of the Rio and Kyoto treaties: that nations have “common but differentiated responsibilities.” If that remains the regnant understanding — that, roughly, the West must lead the rest — McCain will have a little trouble going after Chinese and Indian goods on the grounds that they’re doing exactly what we’ve asked them to do (i.e., bupkis).

If elected (in late 2008, inaugurated in 2009), McCain says he will begin legislating in what would be record time — particularly for energy taxes in the face of a teetering economic situation — and that his EPA will implement something faster than anything the EPA has ever done before. Which is another way of describing his vow today to give the economy up to two years to bring emissions back down to 2005 levels. Sure, we’re doing better than anyone else in the world — which McCain doesn’t mention, only crisis-talk today, folks — but that’s still a bold prediction. He either knows something really bad about the economy, or isn’t worried about being realistic.

[Brian A. MacNeish]

Originally Posted by mlarson

Category: We are So Screwed

John Mc Cain's Global Climate Change Tax


If elected (in late 2008, inaugurated in 2009), McCain says he will begin legislating in what would be record time — particularly for energy taxes in the face of a teetering economic situation — and that his EPA will implement something faster than anything the EPA has ever done before. Which is another way of describing his vow today to give the economy up to two years to bring emissions back down to 2005 levels. Sure, we’re doing better than anyone else in the world — which McCain doesn’t mention, only crisis-talk today, folks — but that’s still a bold prediction. He either knows something really bad about the economy, or isn’t worried about being realistic.

Michael:

Nothing new!! 3-4 weeks ago, I said that there would be carbon taxes with a new US gov't ......had been talking to one of my old energy regulation buddies who'd been to a meeting in Washington.

[Michael Larson]

Originally Posted by Brian A. MacNeish

Michael:

Nothing new!! 3-4 weeks ago, I said that there would be carbon taxes with a new US gov't ......had been talking to one of my old energy regulation buddies who'd been to a meeting in Washington.

A tax is a tax is a tax is a tax.

In this case we get NOTHING for it.
It will not save the planet.
It will not increase productivity.
It will not build anything .
It will not have any impact on the climate.
It will not save a single person.

It now means that these idiots(ecogreen people hating fools) are in charge of national policy.

And as the science continues to mount proving this scam and the proposed "solutions" are wrong headed, there will be nary a politician that will say "I was wrong" and turn in the other direction to solve real problems.

We are being fleeced by those who insist they know what's best for us.

[Michael Larson]

Category: We are So Screwed

John McCain’s global-warming speech on Monday made it clear that
there will be no presidential candidate this year willing to question the assertion that global warming (a.k.a. “climate change”) is manmade, or the assertion that we can fix global warming by passing a few laws.

When the public finds out how much any legislation that punishes energy use is going to cost them, with no guarantee that anything we do will have a measurable impact on future climate,
there will be a revolt just like the one now materializing in the U.K. and the EU.

MORE

[Michael Larson]

Category:Save the Animals

Damn the science, full speed ahead on idiocy and emotional appeals

Interior Declares Polar Bears ‘Threatened’ by Global Warming
Backdoor Attempt at Cap-and Trade Legislation

Washington, D.C., May 14, 2008—Today the US Department of the Interior took the controversial step of listing the polar bear as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act, despite lack of a sound scientific basis and potentially enormous consequences for the U.S. economy. Listing the polar bear has long been a goal of global warming activists who claim that a warmer world will shrink the bears’ habitat.

[klott]

Poor Bears will have to move to the South Pole