Professor Flip-Flops On Global Warming, Threatens Lawsuit To Keep Himself Off Documentary

You know, it’s one thing to claim that we need clean air .. and there is nothing wrong to say that the world’s supply of crude oil will one day run out. Both of these are good reasons to work on alternate fuels that don’t pollute our environment.

But the whole AGW story seems to be design by people who are too lazy to to argue the truth and must resort to distortions and hyperbole. Meanwhile, just like the good intentions of the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) were hijacked by profiteers to give us the current financial meltdown, the “Cap and Trade” regime seems to be one of the vehicles for the next big scam of “wealth transference” on the public.

Al Gore has a commercial stake, with his businesses and his consulting firms at the ready, in an attempt to make HUGE profits out of what is NOT scientific fact but rather scare tactics on steroids. It just so happens that lately temperatures are dropping slightly rather than increasing. Oh, well. Perhaps next time — in another 10 years.

Blast said:

“How many Russian fighters could Hugo Chavez buy if he did not have our money?”

More to the point, how many fighters could the US buy if we still had our money?

We should keep the oil industry here and the jobs and money with it. But noooo. Liberals say, ship all those jobs over seasa and spend our oil dollars on the arab states. I say keep it here. China is drilling right off of Florida but our liberals won’t allow us to drill in the same places. No Offshore, no Onshore, no Alaska, no drilling at all. So the money HAS to go overseas or we have the choice of simply shuttering all manufacturing in this country. I am sure the liberals would just love shuttering all our factories: they make us get our energy abroad. No nuclear. No Wind. No Solar. No Oil. No Coal. What the hell do liberals think we will use? They shut down wind farms in Oklahoma, solar farms in the Nevada desert, wind farms off the east coast. Liberals just don’t think about the consequences of their illogic.

@ Blast

Well Blast, here’s a few ideas. How about WE DRILL FOR OUR OWN DAMN OIL ON OUR OWN DAMN LAND? I know, what about the baby seals that might get oil soaked if we have an accident. Oh, what about this: HOW ‘BOUT WE BUILD A COUPLA NUKE REACTORS?

Funny, the left always brings up the money we send to foreign governments without any ideas to keep from doing it except power everything with sunshine and unicorns. Barney Frank stopped the construction of a clean LNG power plant by claiming the nasty Fall River was a historic place of beauty or some crap. All the left wants to talk about is what we can’t do because of global warming. There is no global warming. It’s been debunked. It’s not the right that is funding Chavez, it’s the people that won’t let us build anything here. It’s you.

@ Blast

I don’t know anyone that doesn’t believe we should seek alternative forms of energy. I find it telling that you said nothing of nuclear power. They actuall have come up with the technology for mini reactors with no moving parts that can be buried in neighborhoods to power up to 20,000 homes. They only have to refuel the reactors every 7 to 10 years. See for yourself here

That would be safe, clean energy that we’ll never see because of liberals. As for the oil, there are theories out there that say Peak Oil is not the fact that everyone says it is. See link here.

Even so, drilling our own oil isn’t going to expend the resource in the next 10 years. We wouldn’t see the results for a few years, so we should start now. In the meantime, we should use incentives to find alternative sources and we should move forward immediately with nuclear power and LNG. Instead, the left only wants to shut down refineries and coal plants with nothing to take their place. In your own words…nice. And we’re supposed to be the party of no. Whatever.

@ Blast

Links fixed.

If we haven’t found a permanent alternative to oil in the next 20 years, we aren’t the America I know. Wait, we’re not the America I know. As long as productivity and risk are punished, no one is going to take a chance. Productivity, inspiration and risk have to be rewarded for people to move forward with their ideas. Read Story of Krister Evertson
An inventor working on fuel cell technology prosecuted by the Federal Government. I’m not blaming Obama here, because I think he was prosecuted on Dubya’s watch.

Doing nothing though is stoopid. Doing nothing never solved a single problem, evah, in the history of the world.

Everything I have read says that we have enough oil and fossil resources so that we actually don’t need to import a drop – that is if it were being pumped right now. There is certainly a finite amount and there is no reason to not build nukes and RECYCLE the fuel – just like the French do with originally American technology. Congress and the envrionmentalists have ruined the nuclear industry in this country, and they are doing great damage to the rest of the energy industry.

We will need 20 to 30 years to re-work our infrastructure to accommodate alternative fuels and electric cars, for example, but that does not mean we have to shoot ourselves in the foot and DENY the use of nautral gas and oil and coal and coal liquefication, etc.

One also has to consider the myriad rules and hurdles the congress has put on natural gas and the like over the years which prevent easier access to LNG, or the ridiculous tax burdens on fossil fuels that never wind up in legitimate energy research but get wasted by the incompetent government. Give tax breaks to industry to develop new fuels and techniques and open up development – stop allowing the minority far-left eco-freaks to dominate what the rest of the country needs. This constant refrain that fossil fuels are terrible, terrible pollution sources is only partly correct – nothing is perfect. We have constantly updated and improved polllution controls and a big part of that is due to the environmentalists – thankfully – but now they are overstepping themselves and trodding on the rest of us.

Fundamentally, the incessant lying or deliberate misrepresentation of facts in this country anymore (and by far, mostly from the progressives/left) – about just about anything – is truly disgusting and absolutely prevents us from having more efficient and timely advancement – as well as a decent debate on the national scene. Their tatcics of personal attack and lawsuits at the drop of a hat are nasty as well.