End Global Warming? Okay... "Mission Accomplished"

Thirty Years of Warmer Temperatures go "Poof"
By Lorne Gunter
(Emphasis mine-Redstater)
In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since it is hard for skeptical scientists to get published in the cabal of climate journals now controlled by the Great Sanhedrin of the environmental movement.

Still, the number of climate change skeptics is growing rapidly. Because a funny thing is happening to global temperatures -- they're going down, not up.

On the same day (Sept. 5) that areas of southern Brazil were recording one of their latest winter snowfalls ever and entering what turned out to be their coldest September in a century, Brazilian meteorologist Eugenio Hackbart explained that extreme cold or snowfall events in his country have always been tied to "a negative PDO" or Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Positive PDOs -- El Ninos -- produce above-average temperatures in South America while negative ones -- La Ninas -- produce below average ones.

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The Surge, Pork for Votes and Moonbat of the Day

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is my MOONBAT OF THE DAY!
On November 30th of 2006, (just over 4 months ago)...Harry Reid said that he "would NOT do anything to cut off funding for the troops in Iraq".

Today, Harry Reid is proposing what?
Hint: Cut off funding for the troops in Iraq by March of 2008.

Even Michael Ware of CNN in Baghdad today said that cutting funding (and withdrawing) by March of '08 would be a "nightmare scenario" for the entire region and for America. It would result in "a disaster of horror and death to millions of Iraqi's and would endanger America by turning Iraq over to Iran and terrorist groups".
Hey Harry, you're trying to play Texas Hold-'em with a Texan and playing politics with the lives of men and women who deserve much, much better.
Harry Reid is Today's Moonbat of the Day!

Coming in Second Place was Senate House Leader (and self appointed Sec. of State) Nancy Pelosi who is currently meeting with the Leaders in Syria against White House request.
SURGING
For all of you out there who said that the US can NOT win the war in Iraq, ...the "surge plan" IS working and we ARE winning. If you are still in denial, This story in the New York Post details exactly how President Bush's plan is working and why it is working by someone who was there.
Of course most of you Bush/America haters would rather believe the throat cutting terrorists than the truth, but that doesn't change the facts.

News Media Diverting Attention Away From Iraq Surge Success
Have you noticed that CNN, MSNBC etc. is covering everything BUT the war in Iraq lately?
Since the MSM ONLY reports the bad news for America, it seems that they virtually have nothing to report from Iraq. So, instead we get endless over-coverage of the Anna Nicole Smith drama and over-coverage of algore's global warming hoax to fill the void from the lack of bad news in Iraq, thus taking our minds off of the success of the surge.

Democrat House and Senate Votes for Sale
It's not looking good for the "Iraq is Vietnam" moonbat college professors (you know who you are) or the fake journalists (David Podvin & Jamil Hussein) or you anti-war peaceniks (Fonda, Rosie and the Sheen's). The new Democrat led congress looks more and more like a bunch of blithering idiots unable to accomplish anything except spending.
First, Democrats threatened to de-fund the war, then they agreed to fund the war if it means lots of PORK BARREL $pending for their home $tates.
So, these brave and honorable Democrats will fund a war they claim is illegal, immoral and can't be won as long as it gets them some PORK ($) which gets them re-elected.
All of you voters that voted Democrat last election must be $o VERY proud. (lol)

Truth has a way of finding it's way to the top and liberal Democrats are headed to the bottom.
By the 2008 election, voters will have had more than enough of their junior-high mentality politics and junk science global warming nonsense to last a while.... hide and watch.

Moonbat of the weekend: On HSN this past weekend a woman was selling a new line of clothing. It was tie-die looking shirts. She made the comment that "people can't wear Cashmere sweaters anymore because of global warming".
So, I guess all those ski-coat companies are shutting down too? And, what are we going to do with all these long sleeved shirts? (lol)

This moonbat has the potential to be the Democrat Presidential nominee providing she likes pork and hates winning wars.

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Get Your Red Hot Carbon Offsets Here

FRIENDS, Neighbors and Nature Lovers...

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Are you having trouble sleeping at night because of the danger to Polar Bears caused by the melting ice caps due to increasing temperatures caused by man’s obsession with oil?

You might be one of the millions who suffer from the hearbreak of GWG Syndrome (Global Warming Guilt).

How can YOU make a difference and change the rest of the world from the comfort and security of your home without affecting your personal life or busy schedule?

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(Without any personal inconvenience)

Yes, Friends, you can help end global warming and achieve environmental balance in your life by purchasing your official Redstater Carbon Offsets today!

For each $100 offset purchased, I will not leave my 2-stroke weed whacker called “The Mosquito Killer” running all day long (or till it runs out of gasoline), thereby allowing YOU to mow your lawn once per week without feeling guilty of ruining the planet.

For each $500 offset purchased I will not leave all of the lights in the house (and garage) on all day long, allowing YOU to run the A/C a little cooler this summer, knowing you did your part to help stop global warming.

For every $1000 offset purchased, I will not drive my 800HP 110+ Octane gas guzzling, N02 assisted, muscle-car for one day allowing YOU to drive your Honda Civic to work and back all week with the peace of mind that you are saving Polar Bears and perhaps all mankind. ($5000 if you drive a hybrid since the electricity probably came from coal)

For each $10,000 offset, I will cut down one less tree for one year allowing YOU to keep it toasty warm all winter and even have a fire in your fireplace with the confidence that you are actually saving trees and are at one with nature and the universe. (BONUS OFFER: For $15000, I will throw one less Deer, Elk, Antelope or other critter in the freezer)

For each $50,000 offset, I will not leave the 4x4 Suburban diesel running all day long between stops and errands so that YOU can drive whatever you want whenever you want with a bumper sticker that reads “Got Carbon Offsets?” and a “better than you” smirk on your face. (decal and smirk not included)

For each $100,000 offset, I will park my nascar, monster truck and nitro dragster teams along with the entire moonshine operation for one week, allowing YOU to fly first class or charter aircraft, drive an RV or Motorhome Coach, limo’s, yacht’s etc. (with full bar of course) without the guilt normally associated with such extravagant ozone destroyers.

For a $1,000,000.00 offset, I will retire and never write another blog again, while you can fly around the country in your private jet giving lectures on manmade global warming and selling Carbon Offsets to the useful idiots while wearing a “better than you” smirk on your face.

NOTE: Leave the "Offset" money in an environmentally friendly recycled paper bag behind the mailbox down at the end of the road beside the big rock... or just put it in the "lockbox".

If you notice that I suddenly stop posting blogs, it simply means that Algore or some other idiot stopped by with a cool million and I am busy spending it ....with a “smirk” on MY face.

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A Tale of Two Pintos

IS THIS YOUR NEXT NEW CAR?
The big push to eliminate the use of fossil fuels has finally "jumped the shark" (as they say).
The Democrat ruled congress is calling for increased emission regulations and decreasing consumption of fuel just like they did in 1972.
President Bush has even called for ending our "addiction" to oil and for reducing our consumption by 20% in the next few years. (yeah right)
We are supposed to reduce fuel consumption while increasing the economy, increasing business, increasing travel and increasing the population...uhhh... NOT gonna' happen.
What was sold to America as the answer for our addiction to oil back in the 70's?
The Pinto (and Vega, Chevette etc.) I use the Pinto as an example because it was prone to burst into flames.
So, would you prefer an electric Pinto, a ethanol powered Pinto, a Hydrogen powered Pinto or a Rubber band powered Pinto? (They might give it a new spiffy modern new PC name... but it might as well be a Pinto)

Experts are pointing to ethanol (made from corn and/or sugars) as the glorious answer to all our energy problems, however "the proof just isn't in the pudding" (as they also like to say).

One major problem is that ethanol is not cost efficient to produce since it takes more energy to produce ethanol than it yields as opposed to petroleum which yields 5 times the energy required to refine it.
Additionally, to produce ethanol, coal is usually used to heat the corn and release the sugar which is converted to ethanol alcohol... this process eliminates any potential environmental gain from ethanol usage over gasoline.
Lastly, ethanol doesn't perform anywhere near as well as gasoline and therefore mileage goes down 20%-30% compared to gasoline (along with performance).

The same problem exists with hydrogen in that it takes more energy to produce it/refine it than it yields in return. In addition there is storage and refueling problems along with performance issues yet to be resolved.

Electric cars are really just golf carts with an ugly body on top... underpowered and low range between recharges make them unusable, uninteresting and un-fun.

Then we have this... Several scientists believe that oil sources may actually be self replenishing as an ongoing result of the earths core activity and NOT derived from organic material like fossils, animals and plants and is not a limited quantity. There is much evidence to support this theory... certainly MORE evidence than there is to support man's influence on global warming.(which is debatable and very questionable).

So, before you go out and buy yourself a brand NEW hybrid electric ethanol hydrogen powered
ford Pinto wagon(or whatever)...
you might want to think back to the 1970's (or do some research) when they claimed to have killed the muscle car and saved the planet from the evils of OIL, by introducing us to the NEW 1972, enviroment friendly, high gas mileage, Ford Pinto wagon. It was a huge failure, flop and actually dangerous. (Worse than the Edsel itself)

Meanwhile, the "muscle car" lives on and Hemi Cuda's, Z-28's and Shelby Mustang GT's are worth hundreds of times their original value... and the Pinto.... well you can get one at the salvage yard for about $200, or you can get one which has been turned into a muscle car by stuffing a big American gas guzzling V-8 hotrod engine under the hood for a few thousand.

Score: Muscle Car-1, Pinto gas saver- 0

Look, fleets of cars across the country (like the city of Denver) have gone to LP gas (propane), ethanol and every other alternative fuel out there and the result is always the same. The cars don't run as well, have more mechanical problems and they don't end up getting better mileage.

The reason we are not already driving a non-combustion engine powered vehicle or alternative fuel vehicle is simple.
Americans won't buy one UNTIL it can out perform the cars we are currently driving.
The instant you see a factory built ethanol car produce 12 second ET's in the quarter mile... or a 13 second golf cart for that matter... Americans will switch to ethanol or whatever.

Personally, I love the smell of nitromethane in the morning... (my favorite alternative fuel) ...but that's just me.

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