8/2/12, "
Dumpster fire, not global warming, melted Oklahoma streetlamps,"
Daily Caller, Caroline May
(
dumpster fire on left)
"Always a lightning rod for global warming activists’ discontent,
Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe was treated to some challenging tweets Thursday after the
left-wing blog ThinkProgress posted a photo of melting street lights in his home state
and claimed they were the result of global warming. “WOW. It’s so hot in Oklahoma that the streetlights are melting,” ThinkProgress declared, noting the temperature topping off at 114 degrees.
“Hey Senator @InhofePress, even your streetlights are saying #ImTooHot http://ow.ly/cHbX4,” the Climate Reality Project tweeted later, linking to the ThinkProgress claim.
“Senator Inhofe, God may be trying to get your attention. Check out this picture http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/02/630211/in-oklahoma-its-so-hot-the-street-lights-are-melting/ …” added Environmental activist Bill McKibben, highlighted by blogger Tom Nelson.
That tweet was later deleted.
But according to KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, the street lamps melted because of a dumpster fire in the area the night before. KFOR first posted the streetlamp photo on its Facebook page.
“That is the consensus in the newsroom,” a KFOR staffer confirmed to The Daily Caller.
On Thursday afternoon, KFOR provided a picture of the dumpster blaze to Inhofe’s staff at the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works."
Think Progress has since issued a correction to its initial article.
Correction: The lamp was standing pretty close to a recent fire, so it’s likely they didn’t melt from the heat. Here’s what the photographer said:
‘Being the person that actually took this photo, I’d say that this was due to a fire semi-close by coupled with the unbelievable heat we are experiencing. Still an amazing photo and not fake as many are saying on here. Enjoy!
All that said, it’s still very hot.
While ThinkProgress was covering its bases, Inhofe was amused by the ill-fated attempt to demonize him.
“Poor Bill McKibben — he’s been trying to get something to melt for ages but it keeps backfiring,” Inhofe said in a statement.
“These alarmists never learn their lesson. Remember Bill McKibben was the one who was going to melt a giant ice sculpture in the shape of the word ‘hoax’ on the national mall, but his group had to cancel because there wasn’t enough interest. Now, after proclaiming that street lights in Oklahoma are melting because of global warming, it turns out that a fire caused this scene.”
Inhofe maintains that global warming alarmists have lost the debate over whether humans have caused the earth’s temperature to rise.
“This isn’t the first time alarmists have tried these stunts and it certainly won’t be the last — when will they finally realize they’ve lost this debate?” he concluded.
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8/2/12, "
Romm / McKibben Think That Glass Melts At 114F," Steven Goddard
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Bill McKibben says others shouldn't benefit from oil yet
he's financed by billions made in the oil business. Greens
won't give up the Glory Days gracefully so perhaps Mother Nature, seeking to balance her books, is giving them a push.
For those
unaware of the
good news,
US CO2 emissions have dropped steadily
since at least 2006 and are going
lower! This has been acknowledged
in the NY Times at least once
.
Other countries' CO2 hasn't dropped,This isn't to say the US hasn't become
partners with the 'climate' industry.
Trillions have been taken from US taxpayers for climate expenses via outright agency
budget allocations, tax
subsidies, diversion of
US military to climate or
green projects, countless
federal regulations, vast sums shipped out in
foreign aid for 'climate' endeavors, etc.
Devoting 13 federal agencies to 'climate' matters is hardly 'lagging' in action!
Global Warming 'action' was institutionalized in US government in 1990 by George Bush the 1st in the
"U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990." (He mentions CO2 near the end). The US
even exports fuel now!
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On the new US energy abundance:
7/28/12, "
The Energy Revolution 4: Hot Planet?," Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
"But there is one group (other than the Russians and the Gulf Arabs and the Iranians)
that isn’t sharing in the general joy:
the greens. For them, the spectacle of a looming world energy crisis was good news. It justified huge subsidies for solar and wind power
(and thereby guaranteed huge fortunes for clever green-oriented investors). Greens outdid themselves year after year with gloom and doom forecasts about the coming oil crunch.
They hoped that public dislike of the Middle East and the costs of our involvement there could be converted into public support for expensive green energy policies here at home: “energy independence” was one of the few arguments they had that resonated widely among average voters.
Back in those salad days of green arrogance, there was plenty of scoffing at the ‘peak oil deniers’ and shortage skeptics who disagreed with
what greens told us all was settled, Malthusian science. “Reality based” green thinkers sighed and rolled their eyes at the illusions of those benighted techno-enthusiasts who said that unconventional sources like shale oil and gas and the oil sands of Canada would one day become available.
Environmentalists, you see, are science based, unlike those clueless, Gaia-defying technophiles with their infantile faith in the power of human creativity. Greens, with their awesome powers of Gaia-assisted intuition, know what the future holds.
But those glory days are over now, and the smarter environmentalists are bowing to the inevitable. George Monbiot, whose cries of woe and pain in the Guardian newspaper have served as the Greek chorus at each stage of the precipitous decline of the global green movement, gave voice to green grief at the prospect of a wealthy and prosperous century to come: “We were wrong,” he wrote on July 2,”about peak oil. There’s enough to fry us all.” Monbiot now gets the politics as well....
In other words, a newly oil rich United States is going to fight even harder against global green carbon policies, and the new discoveries will tilt the American political system even farther in the direction of capitalist oil companies.
Capitalism is not, Monbiot is forced to admit, a fragile system that will easily be replaced. Bolstered by huge supplies of oil, it is here to stay. Industrial civilization is, as far as he can now see, unstoppable. Gaia, that treacherous slut, has made so much oil and gas that her faithful acolytes today cannot protect her from the consequences of her own folly....
A year later, despite the success of environmentalists like McKibben at persuading the Obama administration to block a pipeline intended to ship this oil to refineries in the US, it’s clear (as it was crystal clear all along to anyone with eyes to see) that the world has every intention of making use of the “crappy liquor.”
Again, for people who base their claim to world leadership on their superior understanding of the dynamics of complex systems,
greens prove over and over again that they are surprisingly
naive and crude in their ability to model and
to shape the behavior of the political and economic systems they seek to control. If their understanding of the future of the earth’s climate is anything like as
wish-driven, fact-averse and intellectually crude as their approach to international affairs, democratic politics and the energy market, the greens are in trouble indeed. And as I’ve written in the past,
the contrast between green claims to understand climate and to be able to manage the largest and most complex set of policy changes ever undertaken,
and the evident incompetence of greens at managing small (Solyndra) and large (Kyoto, EU cap and trade, global climate treaty) political projects today has more to do with climate skepticism than greens have yet understood. Many
people aren’t rejecting science; they are rejecting green claims of policy competence. In doing so, they are entirely justified by the record....
The problem is the original sin of much environmental thought: Malthusianism. If greens weren’t so addicted to Malthusian horror narratives they would be able to see that the new era of abundance is going to make this a cleaner planet faster than if the new gas and oil had never been found.
Let’s be honest. It has long been clear to students of history, and has more recently begun to dawn on many environmentalists, that
all that happy-clappy carbon treaty stuff was a pipe dream and that nothing like that is going to happen. A humanity that hasn’t been able to ban the bomb despite the clear and present dangers that nuclear weapons pose
isn’t going to ban or even seriously restrict the internal combustion engine and the generator.
The political efforts of the green movement to limit greenhouse gasses have had very little effect so far, and it is highly unlikely that they will have more success in the future. The green movement has been more of a group hug than a curve bending exercise, and that is unlikely to change. If the climate curve bends, it will bend the way the population curve did: as the result of lots of small human decisions driven by short term interest calculations rather than as the result of a grand global plan....
Perhaps,
and I know this is a heretical thought,
but perhaps Gaia is smarter than the greens."
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7/26/12, "
Penn State climate panel silent on big news of US CO2 drop but says PSU is more powerful than state gov. & its global warming view can change society"
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7/19/12, "
Journalists beware: Shell Arctic hoax signals move from subtle spin to activist deception," Poynter.org, Jeff Sonderman
"It was the beginning of
an elaborate hoax by Greenpeace and a group called the Yes Men. Not only was the video fake, but journalists who wrote about the video received followup emails (also fake) from “Shell” calling the video a hoax and directing them to a company website. But that Arctic Ready website, it turns out, was yet another hoax.
So, activists produce a fake viral video, get journalists to write about it, send journalists a fake email admitting the video hoax but steering them to yet another Web hoax."...
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7/18/12, "
Shell Oil's Social Media Nightmare Continues, Thanks To Skilled Pranksters Behind @ShellisPrepared," Forbes
7/28/10, "
The secrets 10 states and Wall Street don't want you to know," by Mark Lagerkvist, NJ Watchdog
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7/02/09, "
The Great American Bubble Machine: How Goldman Sachs has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression," Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi
"
A groundbreaking new commodities bubble,
- called cap-and-trade."...
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8/2/12, "Congressman Introduces Carbon Tax Bill," Marlo Lewis, GlobalWarming.org
"Today, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) introduced the “Managed Carbon Price Act of 2012″ (MCP), a bill imposing a tax on carbon dioxide-equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from producers of coal, oil, and natural gas, refineries, and other covered sources. The MCP has roughly the same long-term goal as the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, the Copenhagen climate treaty, and California Assembly Bill 32 — an 80% emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2050."...
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8/2/12, "Soros-Funded Propaganda Machine Think Progress Falsely Claims Global Warming Melted Street Lights in Oklahoma," NewsBusters, Noel Sheppard
via Tom Nelson, via Climate Depot, image above NJ Watchdog
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Ed. note: The bright white background behind much of this post was put there by hackers.
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