March, 2020, Part 3, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: Trump Delivers Reduced Carbon Footprint and Democrats Feast on Demon Beef

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in man made global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have waded through the whole issue of man made global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) When Trump pulled the United States out of the ill fated and horrible Paris Climate Agreement several years ago, liberals and global warming advocates were besides themselves. They hated him from pulling out of an agreement that was never ratified by the Senate as required by the Constitution and which was horrible biased and costly against the United States. But the advocates acted like Trump had condemned the entire human race to death by global warming.

But according to a February 12, 2020 article on the Daily Wire website by Ryan Saavedra, their fears and forecast of doom, as always, failed to become reality. In fact:

• In 2019, the United States reduced its carbon footprint/CO2 emissions by more than any other country in the world.
• And unlike what would have happened if we had stayed in the Paris agreement, this reduction in emission was done while experiencing solid economic growth.
• According to the International Energy Agency (IEA): “The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis – a fall of 140 Mt, or 2.9%, to 4.8 Gt. US emissions are now down almost 1 Gt from their peak in the year 2000, the largest absolute decline by any country over that period.”
• The use of coal in this country was down 15%, a big goal of the failed Paris agreement.
• But despite the use of less coal, the cost of natural gas for energy also went down to the economic benefit of every American.
• As we have said many times in this blog, it does not matter what the United States does from a carbon footprint perspective unless the world gets China and India to seriously decrease their ever rising use of coal.
• This point was driven home again by the International Energy Agency which found that 80% of the increase in carbon came from Asia, mostly China and India: “Emissions grew strongly in Southeast Asia, lifted by robust coal demand.”

So, Trump pulls us out of the unfavorable conditions imposed on the United States by the Paris Climate Agreement and the global advocates of the world predict gloom and doom. Instead, the United States leads the world in total carbon emissions reductions, the cost of energy goes down, and economic conditions improve steadily, the exact opposite of what the advocates predicted.

And the reality continues that unless India and China get on board and do what the U.S.has done with its carbon footprint and substantially clean up its behavior and reduce its coal usage, the air and the climate will not get much better despite the United States stellar climate change behavior.

2) One constant culprit that liberals, Democrats, and global warming advocates love to attack is cows and the beef they provide. California has gone so far as to regulate what cows eat in order to clean up their farts, i.e. reduce the amount of methane that comes out of the rear ends of cows. Yes, cows are guilty of causing global warming and climate change.

But the hypocrisy of such advocacy was certainly on parade recently at a Democratic political rally:

• A few months back, the Democratic Party was in full blown hysteria trying to figure out who their 2020 Presidential candidate should be.
• At that time, the candidates and their campaigns were in Iowa trying to win the Iowa Democratic caucuses and be the early leader in the Presidential race.
• The Polk County (Iowa) Democratic party hosted a Steak Fry in which they cooked over 10,000 pieces of beef for the event.
• This was the menu despite weeks and weeks of lead up to the caucuses where every Democrat running for President lamented about the gloom and doom of man made climate change, of which beef production and cow farts have always been a part of the Democrats and liberals hatred.
• Many of the candidates had actually come out and stated they wanted to limit and cut down on beef consumption in this country because of their fallacy that it was messing up the climate.
• But despite their fear mongering, they were fed about 10,500 steaks but only 1,000 vegan burgers.

The hypocrisy is overwhelming: do as I say not as I do….or in this case, what I eat.

So Trump delivers great news about reducing our carbon footprint despite the gloom and doom from people like Al Gore. But people like Al Gore scarf down some big chunks of beef, the very culprit they accuse of causing climate change. What a crazy and hypocritical world we live in.

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The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding! A Two Year Review Of The Trump Administration

Before we start today’s discussion, let’s review my voting history: 

• I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life. 
• Thus, I did not vote for Trump. 
• I have rarely voted for a Republican for national office in my life. 

About 2 years ago, many liberals, Democrats, and millennials were besides themselves with grief and fear because their pre-ordained queen, Hillary Clinton, was not elected President. Instead, Donald Trump was elected, an individual that these same people despised, hated, and feared, an individual they felt would endanger and possibly destroy the country and our democracy. For the past year and a half they fretted, worried and lashed out at anything or anyone that even remotely smelled of Donald Trump.

Given that Trump has been in office for almost two years, I thought, that as someone who did not vote for him, it would be a good idea to review the horror, trauma, and terrible things that Trump has subjected the country to in just eighteen month’s time. This is obviously a very sarcastic comment when you take an unbiased look at what has happened during the Trump Presidency.

The many previous posts we did on this topic identified over 200 good things that have happened to America and Americans since Trump became President and they can found by entering the phrase “the horrors and destruction” in the search box above. 

Given we are coming up on Trump’s second year in office, I thought it would be a good idea to list out some of his many accomplishments that we have already listed in the previous 20 posts on the topic. As the previous paragraph points out, we have already named over 200 ways that American is better off today than it was two years ago when he took office. So in no particular order, consider the following improvements that have occurred in America under the Trump administration:

1. The national unemployment rate has been running below 4% for most of the past two years, an 18 year low, with the unemployment rate incredibly below 2% in some areas of the country, an indication of a very strong economy.
2. The unemployment rate for African-Americans is at or near the lowest level ever.
3. Trump’s approval rating among African-Americans has doubled in the past two years.
4. African American median income is at the highest level ever.
5. The unemployment rate for Hispanic-Americans is at or near the lowest level ever.
6. The unemployment rate for veterans is at the lowest level in 18 years.
7. The unemployment level for disabled Americans is also at a record low level.
8. Those older than 24 years old without a high school diploma have an unemployment rate of 5.4%, close to the lowest level ever.
9. Trump’s approval rating among Hispanic-Americans has surged in the past two years.
10. At the end of 2018, 156,945,000 Americans were employed, an all time high.
11. Over four million jobs have been added to the economy since Trump was sworn in.
12. Steel production in the U.S. is at its highest level since 2007.
13. The unemployment rate for women is at or near the lowest level ever.
14. Weekly unemployment benefit filings have decreased steadily over the past two years, recently hitting a 45 year low.
15. Wages gains have been steady over the past two years after being stagnant or negative for most of the Obama administration. 
16. There are about a million more open jobs available across the country than there are unemployed Americans looking for jobs, a rare occurrence over history.
17. Manufacturing job opportunities across the country are at their highest levels since 2000.
18. Trump signed into law a major, and positive, criminal justice reform law that will cut back and soften the draconian criminal sentencing law enacted under Bill Clinton, a draconian law that unfairly targeted African-Americans over the past few decades.
19. Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, advocated and got Congress to pass the WEEE legislation, the Women’s Entrepreneurship & Economic Empowerment Act, a law that promotes and focuses U.S. foreign aid on programs that support women and women-owned business.
20. Food stamp enrollment levels have dropped by about 3.5 million people over the past year, with 47 out of 50 states reporting fewer food stamp residents this year than last year, due to the booming Trump economy and reforms that Trump has initiated to weed out recipients that do not deserve to be on the program.
21. According to recent Rasmussen polling, Trump’s current approval rate is up to 48%, two percentage points higher than what Obama’s was at the same point in time in their respective Presidencies.
22. Due to the Trump tax cuts, millions of Americans received one time substantial bonus from their companies who saw their Federal tax bill decrease.
23. Due to the Trump tax cuts, U.S. companies have brought back $300 billion back to this country from overseas.
24. Due to the Trump tax cuts, over one hundred million American taxpayers will pay less in Federal income taxes going forward.
25. Due to the Trump tax cuts, over one hundred utility companies have slashed their electricity rates.
26. Due to the Trump tax cuts, millions of Americans saw a rise in their hourly wage rate from their companies who saw their Federal tax bill decrease.
27. Due to the Trump tax cuts, thousands of companies have invested their tax savings into growing their businesses, increasing job and economic opportunities across the country.
28. Due to the Trump tax cuts, businesses have increased their charitable donations due to the decrease in their Federal tax bill.
29. Contributions to charities hit an all time high in 2017, exceeding $400 billion for the first time ever, possibly due to Americans having more money in their pockets because of the Trump tax cuts.
30. Trump eliminated about 1,500 unnecessary government regulations to spur investment and business growth and save the economy an estimated $89 billion in excessive regulation costs.
31. The U.S. national carbon footprint has decreased substantially over the past few years while most other nations, especially China and India, have seen their carbon footprint increase.
32. Trump withdrew us from the horrible Paris Climate Agreement which would have crippled the American economy and allowed other nations such as China to increase their carbon footprint unabated for at least the next decade.
33. Trump withdrew us from Obama’s Iran Nuclear Weapons agreement, an agreement that rewarded Iran with relaxed sanctions and billions in physical cash while Iran did nothing to improve the lot of its people or reduce its terrorism efforts around the world.
34. Trump made the most in roads of any President ever with North Korea in a continuing attempt to rein its nuclear program and while already reuniting the remains of Korean War U.S. soldiers missing in action with their families.
35. Trump has begun to withdraw U.S. troops out of Syria, a hell hole on Earth that should not be part of any American military effort and which is hopefully a precursor to getting all U.S. troops out of the Middle East.
36. Trump forced many NATO nations to finally fulfill their treaty requirements by increasing their defense budgets to be in line with their legal requirements.
37. Trump moved the U.S. Israel embassy to Jerusalem, indicating strong support for Israel and a rebuttal to Islamic terrorists such as Hamas.
38. Trump signed legislation to clean up the sea of floating plastic off the west coast while at the same promising to prod China and Japan to clean up their recycling efforts, pitiful current efforts which are the main cause of the floating mass of plastic in the Pacific Ocean.
39. Trump has signed, new, better trade deals for America and American workers with Mexico, Canada, and the European Union.
40. Trump is in serious negotiations with China to fix the broken trade imbalance with that country, already getting China to import American rice farmer crops for the first time ever.
41. After increasing during the last two years of the Obama administration, the national murder rate is trending downwards during the early part of the Trump administration.
42. The number of police officers killed in the line of duty in Trump’s first year fell to the second lowest level in at least 50 years.
43. Trump signed legislation that eliminated the oppressive and tyrannical Obama Care requirement that all Americans MUST purchase health insurance if they did not want it, could not afford it, or did not need it.
44. Trump signed the Right To Act legislation that allows over a million Americans to more easily try experimental drugs if other methods of treatment have not cured their dangerous afflictions.
45. Trump reversed a silly Obama administration requirement that banned people from joining organizational health plans and negotiating for cheaper health insurance rates from insurance companies.
46. Trump issued regulations that helped fast track generic drug approvals to more quickly get drugs into the market to help ailing Americans.
47. The Trump administration will start a program to help states care for pregnant women who are using opioids and for their babies who are born dependent on the drugs, the Maternal Opioid Misuse program, or the "M-O-M model."
48. Trump was able to get $6 billion money dedicated to fight the opioid epidemic in the country.
49. The Trump administration has for for intent and purposes killed the Common Core education effort, a program that has cost so much money and done so much harm to education in this country.
50. Christmas season retail sales were up a very robust 5.1% vs 2017 and online seasonal sales were up 26.4%, another great economic feat under Trump.
51. Consumer, business, and general confidence in the country and the economy by any measurement is soaring under the Trump administration and its actions.
52. Most major stock market indices are up over 20% since Trump took office.

Okay, let’s stop the list here, you get the idea. The previous posts under this topic found over 200 successes and good things since Trump took office. Higher wages, better job opportunities, higher economic growth, better approaches to health and drug addiction, stronger actions and respect in foreign affairs, reductions in government bureaucracy, hardly the disaster that liberals, Democrats, and Hillary Clinton predicted.

For those of you that have hated on Trump since day one, and given your obvious gross error in judgment relative to Trump given the well 200 accomplishments we have previously listed, let me ask that you to do us all a favor by implementing the following changes in your behavior and attitude:

• Chill out, tamp down your TDS affliction. No matter how much you hate Trump on a sexist, personal basis, get over it. He is the legally and duly elected President, he will be around for a while so refocus your hatred on more constructive issues and matters. You will live a lot longer if you take your hatred out of your heart and soul and devote it to something positive.
• I would really appreciate it if some of you would apologize to the Trump voters you have disrespected in some of the grossest terms possible over the past year. You have called millions of voters racists, ignorant, stupid, Nazis, KKK members, and other horrible names simply because you disagreed with their voting choice. No American should be called such disgusting names simply because they exercised their Constitutional rights to the best of their abilities. Plus, slandering over 60 million Americans is no way to unite the country and get it focused on the real issues facing us all.
• More personally, I would like, no I am demanding, an apology from some of you for your slanderous and disgusting name calling because in doing so, you insulted and disrespected my sister, my family members, my friends, and my co-workers who simply voted their conscience. I will defend their right to vote anyway they wanted and will no put up with your childish and vicious venom and bile directed at them, very important people in my life.
• And finally, I challenge you to read the following blog post, a post that shows quite clearly that it was hateful people like some of you and your silence during the Obama years that actually caused Trump to be elected. Thus, the people you hate for voting for Trump are actually looking back at you in the mirror:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-american-liberals-and-washington.html

If you were silent in the dozens of instances listed in this post then you were responsible for the very thing you hate: a Trump Presidency. Or put another way, a so far successful and productive Trump Presidency. Over 200 accomplishments in two years is not too shabby despite many of you wanting both Trump and the country to fail.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


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http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

The Horrors And Destruction That Donald Trump Has Imposed On America...Just Kidding! Part 20

Before we start today’s discussion, let’s review my voting history: 

• I have never voted for a Republican for President in my life. 
• Thus, I did not vote for Trump. 
• I have rarely voted for a Republican for national office in my life. 

About 2 years ago, many liberals, Democrats, and millennials were besides themselves with grief and fear because their pre-ordained queen, Hillary Clinton, was not elected President. Instead, Donald Trump was elected, an individual that these same people despised, hated, and feared, an individual they felt would endanger and possibly destroy the country and our democracy. For the past year and a half they fretted, worried and lashed out at anything or anyone that even remotely smelled of Donald Trump.

Given that Trump has been in office for almost two years, I thought, that as someone who did not vote for him, it would be a good idea to review the horror, trauma, and terrible things that Trump has subjected the country to in just eighteen month’s time. This is obviously a very sarcastic comment when you take an unbiased look at what has happened during the Trump Presidency. 

The many previous posts we did on this topic identified over 200 good things that have happened to America and Americans since Trump became President can found by entering the phrase “the horrors and destruction” in the search box above. Today, let’s add another dozen or so good things that are going on in the country even though the doubters hate the reality that Trump is President:

- The dollar is at its strongest level in 30 years, indicating great confidence in the U.S.economy.

- U.S. steelmakers made more than 95 million tons of steel in 2018, the most since 2007 and 6.5% higher than in 2017.

- The economy added a whopping 312,000 jobs in December, 2018.

- Manufacturing jobs are growing at a 714% faster clip under Trump than over a similar time under Obama.

- Under Obama, federal state and local government employment grew 6 times faster than did manufacturing jobs, while under Trump, that ratio has been reversed, with manufacturing jobs growing 5 times faster than government jobs, a much healthier mix of economic results.

- The labor force participation rate increased two-tenths of a point to 63.1 percent in December, 2018, the highest it's been since Trump took office.

- At the end of 2018 there were 156,945,000 Americans with a job, a gain of 4,869,000 in two years, and a record high for the U.S. economy.

- The national unemployment rate continues to be under 4.0%, an 18 year low.

- Trump has convinced China to open up its markets to the importing of U.S. grown rice for the first time ever.

- According to a recent poll, Thirty-eight percent of respondents said the national economy is getting better, the biggest amount since March 2002.

- Last week the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to a near 45-year low last week.

- Retail gasoline prices continue to bump along at lower levels not since in a very long time, with the price of unleaded gas less than two dollars a gallon in many places across the country.

- Despite a growing economy, the U.S. reduced its carbon emissions in 2017, leading the world in reduction of carbon usage and continuing the long term trend of reducing the nation's carbon footprint while China and India (and the rest of the world) continue to significantly increase their carbon footprint.

- Trump has started pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, hopefully a first move to get all U.S. troops out of this hell hole region

For those of you that have hated on Trump since day one, and given your obvious gross error in judgment relative to Trump given the well 200 accomplishments we have previously listed and the dozen or so of the newest accomplishments listed above, let me ask that you to do us all a favor by implementing the following changes in your behavior and attitude:

• Chill out, tamp down your TDS affliction. No matter how much you hate Trump on a sexist, personal basis, get over it. He is the legally and duly elected President, he will be around for a while so refocus your hatred on more constructive issues and matters. You will live a lot longer if you take your hatred out of your heart and soul and devote it to something positive.
• I would really appreciate it if some of you would apologize to the Trump voters you have disrespected in some of the grossest terms possible over the past year. You have called millions of voters racists, ignorant, stupid, Nazis, KKK members, and other horrible names simply because you disagreed with their voting choice. No American should be called such disgusting names simply because they exercised their Constitutional rights to the best of their abilities. Plus, slandering over 60 million Americans is no way to unite the country and get it focused on the real issues facing us all.
• More personally, I would like, no I am demanding, an apology from some of you for your slanderous and disgusting name calling because in doing so, you insulted and disrespected my sister, my family members, my friends, and my co-workers who simply voted their conscience. I will defend their right to vote anyway they wanted and will no put up with your childish and vicious venom and bile directed at them, very important people in my life.
• And finally, I challenge you to read the following blog post, a post that shows quite clearly that it was hateful people like some of you and your silence during the Obama years that actually caused Trump to be elected. Thus, the people you hate for voting for Trump are actually looking back at you in the mirror:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-american-liberals-and-washington.html

If you were silent in the dozens of instances listed in this post then you were responsible for the very thing you hate: a Trump Presidency. Or put another way, a so far successful and productive Trump Presidency. Over 200 accomplishments in a little less than two years is not too shabby despite many of you wanting both Trump and the country to fail.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

October, 2018, Part 4, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: Who Needs Paris (And Its Climate Agreement) and Screwing The Poor In California

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in manmade global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have dove into the whole issue of man made global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) Just a couple of quickies today to wrap this month’s global warming discussion. We have previously discussed a few topics as they relate to the infamous United Nations Paris Climate Agreement:

• Trump was right to pull the U.S. out of the agreement since we as nation would have made all of the sacrifices while the rest of the world would make minor, if any, energy sacrifices.
• For instance, Pakistan’s pledge in the treaty was that they would reduce their carbon footprint an unspecified amount at an unspecified point in the future, hardly taking a bullet for the cause.
• India and China, along with other countries, continue to build thousands and thousands of coal burning power plants that would have wiped out any carbon reductions that the U.S. would have incurred.
• The agreement had no teeth in that there was no way to punish any country who did not meet their goals, it was more of a gentleman’s agreement.
• And as we recently reported, only nine out of the dozens and dozens of countries who actually signed the agreement have actually met their assigned carbon reduction goals, only a few years out from the agreement.

Trump, of course, got brutalized for the decision even though it was best for the American taxpayer and our economy. So how is the U.S. doing even though it is no longer bound by the agreement? Have we allowed our carbon footprint to explode, endangering the future of every living thing on Earth? 

Joseph Curl, writing for the Daily Wire website on October 28,2018, brings us up to date with the latest official statistics:

• Despite a red hot economy which should have resulted in higher and higher carbon emission levels, according to the EPA after Trump’s first year in office, our country’s greenhouse emissions actually went down despite not being a part of the Paris Climate Agreement.
• The EPA report found the U.S. carbon emissions went down 2.7% last year.
• A lot of this decrease was because emissions from U.S. power plants went down an amazing 4.5%.
• All of which makes Al Gore’s prediction/statement back in June 2017 sound so stupid today, another global warming prediction that apparently was also grossly wrong: "I think it [pulling out of the Paris agreement] was reckless. I think it was indefensible. It undermines America's standing in the world. It threatens the ability of humanity to solve the climate crisis in time."
• Another, non-EPA report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, found that U.S. carbon emissions from major energy sources dropped to the lowest levels since 1993 in 2017.
• Still another study from the June 2018 BP Statistical Review of Global Energy found that the U.S. led the world in reducing carbon emissions in 2017.
• The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) estimates that the U.S. reduced its carbon emissions by 42 million tons in 2017, far ahead of the second leading reducer, which, believe it or not, was the Ukraine, at a 20 million ton reduction.
• Canada, Spain, the European Union, and China, all of whom signed the Paris agreement, all saw their carbon emissions rise last year.
• China saw its 2017 carbon emissions go up a whopping 120 million tons, three times the size of the emission reduction of the U.S.
• The European Union increased its 2017 carbon emissions by about the same amount, 40 millions, that the U.S. reduced its carbon footprint in 2017.

So, Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, and despite a red hot economy, the U.S. leads the world in reducing its carbon footprint. Many of those that actually signed the agreement actually added tremendous amounts of carbon emissions to the environment. Go figure, I guess Al Gore and global warming advocates were wrong AGAIN, when they predicted that exiting the Paris agreements would kill off humanity. 

The Paris agreement was a joke, an ego trip for Obama to strut around with in his pocket. It has no enforcement teeth, it was vague and non-committal in many areas, and it allowed the fastest growing economies, e.g. India and China, to bring havoc from an emissions perspective while the U.S. and its taxpayers would have paid the price.

2) The Freedom News Report website had a recent article that shows how out of control global warming enthusiasm is bad both logically and financially relative to the less wealthy in the world:

• The state government in California recently enacted legislation that would force the entire state to be carbon emission free by the year 2045 as it relates to its use of electricity.
• In other words, all electricity generated in the state by that date would have to come from renewable resources, e.g. solar and wind.
• The state’s governor, Jerry Brown, fancies himself a sovereign nation at least relative to the bogus Paris Climate Agreement we just finished discussing, claiming that his state was “sending a message to California and to the world that we’re going to meet the Paris agreement.”
• Given that California residents currently pay, on average, 60% more for electricity, and this proposed transformation will further increase the state’s power costs, this plan/dream will not come cheaply.
• For example, since renewable sources of power, solar and wind, are not constant and vary according to the current weather, massive amounts of storage would have to be set up to store non-renewable electricity generation for times when the wind was not blowing or the sun was not shining, further increasing the cost of the state’s electricity, the cost of which has been rising five times the national average over the past years.
• Research by the Boston based Clean Air Task Force estimates that for California to reach just 80% of its energy from carbon free sources, somehow a whopping 9.6 terawatt hours worth of electrical storage would have to be put online.
• With today’s technology, 9.6 terawatt hours of storage would require the purchase and installation of 500 million Tesla Powerwalls which currently cost $6,000….not including installation in order to constantly supply the state’s 40 million residents with uninterrupted electricity.
• As an aside, one wonder where the state would actually place 500 million Powerwalls, that would take up a lot of real estate.
• In today’s dollars, this comes out to a cost of $3 TRILLION or about $75,000 per resident (excluding installation costs).
• Even if you could find a way over time to reduce this cost by say 80%, you are still looking at a per resident cost of $15,000, the burden of which would be paid by the state’s resident’s.
• Thus, a California family of four would be on the hook for about $60,000 if the cost of this law’s impacts could be reduced by 80%, more than $60,000 if the cost did not come down that much.
• At that point, I would bet that the wealthier residents would say screw that and would install their own solar and wind projects to generate the electricity they need for themselves, something they could do for far less than $75,000 per person, further burdening the less wealthy residents who cannot afford their own power installation.
• Which is exactly is being anticipated by a coalition called “The Two Hundred,” a group of civic organizations who lobby for and try to protect the interests of less wealthy citizens.
• This coalition realizes that the burden for this ambitious and ego driven plan will eventually fall to those in the state that can least afford higher and higher electricity rates, a situation that will get worse with this carbon free by 2045 law and thus, they have filed suit to stop this plan.
• In the lawsuit, the group correctly claims that these types of policies “have a disparate negative impact on minority communities and are discriminatory against minority communities and their members.”
• Furthermore, “Every time they pass new regulations, the burden falls on the people who can least afford it,” Two Hundred representative John Gamboa reportedly said. “That’s the history of the environmental movement: They care more about spotted owls than brown babies.”
• The article points out that Germany’s effort to get to more renewable energy sources has seen the average cost of electricity go up 50% in the past ten years, a harbinger of what would happen under this new California law.

The U.S. is doing just fine, in fact better than anyone else, in reducing its carbon footprint even though it is not part of the Paris Climate Agreement. And California is screwing its lower income citizens just to chase what is becoming more and more likely, the global warming myth. More myth busting next month.

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August,2017, Part 1, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: The Ecological Benefits of Global Warming and Al Gore's Intense Carbon Footprint

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in manmade global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees

As we have dove into the whole issue of manmade global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control of our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical posts listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) We have often discussed the reality that for almost 20 years the Earth’s temperature has been about constant. This is in direct contrast to the myriad of global warming models that predicted that global warming would march ever upwards with no hesitation, never mind a nearly 20 year pause. This reality more than any other that we have discussed has so destroyed the global warming hysteria that the movement had to rebrand itself as the more nebulous “climate change”movement.

But up until about 20 years, the Earth did indeed get warmer as more carbon dioxide went into the air. And despite what Al Gore says about this long ago warming, it was not necessarily a bad thing. Consider some statistics and thoughts from a recent Heritage Foundation article written by Texas Congressman Lamar Smith:

• This higher concentration and presence of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has helped plants with their photosynthesis process.
• This improvement in photosynthesis leads to greater and higher quality food production.
• The Congressman claims that research studies have found that as plants get more efficient from the presence of more carbon dioxide they use less water, a good thing.
• Although global warming stopped almost 20 years ago, the warming up until that point in time allowed farm belts around the world to experience longer growing seasons.
• This “carbon enrichment” process from global warming helps farmers grow more resilient crops of maize, soybeans, wheat, and rice.
• More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has made “The world’s vegetated areas are becoming 25-50 percent greener, according to satellite images. Seventy percent of this greening is due to a rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.”
• This greater vegetation helps reduce water runoff, improves animal habitats, and as vegetation volume increases, it helps actually remove the carbon dioxide from the air, which should make Al Gore happy.

To my knowledge, the Congressman is not scientist. But these ideas are not new, we have talked about them before via other scientific research and reality. He just puts those realities together in a short, concise and easy to understand summary. 

Shouldn’t his ideas and the realities of what carbon dioxide has done for the planet’s flora and fauna along with the improvements in the food supply for humans be part of any “climate change” discussion?

2) One thing that makes me crazy probably more than any other trait is that of hypocrisy. I hate being preached to on a subject when that preacher does not adhere to what they are advocating. According to a recent Independent Journal Review article by Benny Johnson, Al Gore, the all time preacher and screamer about man made global warming and climate change, would appear to be just that type of person:

• Al Gore’s net worth is now about $200 million, a level he did not attain by being a politician in office, much of his wealth has been gathered since he left politics and got paid handsomely for advocating for global warming via huge speaking fees, book deals, and movie deals.
• New research by the National Center for Public Policy Research has found that Gore is quite the hypocrite from a personal carbon footprint perspective.
• I believe he is no longer married, having gotten a divorce from his wife Tipper a number of years ago and has only grown children, but he owns three different homes, all of which contribute to his carbon footprint.
• His Nashville home/mansion alone has 20 rooms:

• His Nashville mansion is over 10,000 square feet in size and sits in the eighth wealthiest neighborhood in the country.
• He also owns at least two other homes in addition to this 10,000 square foot monster, one in San Francisco and a farmhouse in Carthage, Tennessee.
• The research obtained the public records of Gore’s electricity usage and the numbers are staggering, especially when you consider there is no wife or kids involved in the living arrangements.
• Gore’s electricity usage averages 19,241 kilowatt hours (KWh) every month while the average U.S.household uses 901 kWh a month.
• Thus, he uses about 20 times the amount of electricity in a month than the average U.S household uses in a month.
• In September, 2016 Gore’s mansion used 30,993 kWh in that single month, more than what the typical household burns in 34 months.
• In one year, Gore spent almost $22,000 on just electricity bills.
• Which is amazing since as you can see from the above pictures, Gore has 33 solar panels on his roof so his electricity usage is even greater than what he is paying in utility bills.
• Less than 6% of his monthly electricity use comes from those solar panels.
• In the past 12 months Gore used 66,159 kWh just heating his pool, enough energy to power six average households for a whole year.

Look, the guy is rich and it is understandable that he would use more electricity than the average American. But really, how large of a carbon footprint does this global warming preacher-type use every month. a carbon footprint that dwarfs what the average American uses? And he has the nerve to preach to us when his unmarried lifestyle is creating a carbon footprint in multiple locations that is far and away out of control? Give me a break from a hypocrisy perspective.

That will get us started for this month;s discussion under the theme, “I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.” An interesting discussion on the good side of global warming from an ecology and food production standpoint and the hypocrisy of Al Gore and his daily and mega carbon footprint.

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August, 2015, Part 1, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: The Ice Caps Are NOT Melting!

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.”This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in manmade global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have dove into the whole issue of manmade global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.
• To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims

1) According to the website, Real Science:

• The Arctic ice cap is now growing at a very quick pace and at the current pace of growth it will be about the same size it was back in the 1980s in about five years, dispelling any remaining global warming doubts and proving just about every historic global warming forecast model to be wrong.
• It also makes a mockery of Al Gore’s 2009 prediction that the entire ice cap might melt by the year 2014.
• The increase lately has been due to a change in winds which is helping to preserve and grow the ice volume.

Oopsie from a global warming perspective.

2) We have often made the case that even if the U.S. substantially reduced its carbon footprint, something it has already done in the past decade or so and has done at a substantial rate, if the rest of the world does not reduce its growth in carbon usage, whatever the U.S. does will be wiped out and overwhelmed by the growth in carbon output from countries such as China and India. 

We have previously discussed the reality that with an economy growing at seven percent of more year over year, China will need more and more cheap energy to feed that economic growth and keep its citizens happy. And the quickest, cheapest, and best way to do that is to continue using high carbon content coal to generate energy. In fact, China is building massive infrastructure projects to mine coal and turn it into electricity in its coal rich western regions and transport that electricity to its growing cities in the east. They are not about to give up on coal anytime soon.

There are more people living in India today that do not have access to electricity than who live in the entire U.S. The best and quickest way to get these 300 million plus people onto an electric grid is via coal. 

But some people in this country, e.g. Obama and Gore, want the U.S. to continue to hamstring its energy supplies and usage to make a philosophical point that will destroy jobs and economic growth in this country without having an substantial impact on worldwide carbon usage and the environment. Recently, Republican candidate for President, Carly Fiorina, elegantly made this exact point in an interview:

“The scientists that tell us that climate change is real and caused by man made activity, also tell us that a single nation acting alone can make no difference at all. So, when I see a state like California destroy lives and livelihoods with environmental regulations that will make no difference at all to climate change, when I see the Obama administration take that same regulation and apply it nationally – it will make not difference at all, yet we’re destroying people’s lives and livelihoods – I wonder, why are we doing this? Why are we doing this when it won’t have any impact? So I think the answer to this problem is innovation, not regulation. But I must say, it angers me when liberals says “I’m prepared for you to lose your job in the name of sending a signal to…” whom? China could care less? In fact, China is delighted that we are not spending any time or energy figuring out clean coal, because they’re going to go do it.”

Her insightful interview can be seen at: 

http://rightwingnews.com/top-news/carly-fiorina-destroys-katie-couric-on-climate-change/

3) Matt McGrath, writing for the BBC on July 21, 2015, reported that the Arctic ice volume grew by one third after a cool summer in 2013. That is a lot of growth over a wide area. He also went on to report that the growth in the ice cap continued into 2014. 

But rather than accept the fact that the growth was so much, climate change advocates are claiming that 2013 and the subsequent growth in the ice cap was a statistical anomaly. They insist the ice cap will continue to shrink in the decades ahead. Rather than accept the reality that according to the article, “Relative to the average of the period between 2010 and 2012, the scientists found that there was a 33% increase in sea ice volume in 2013, while in 2014 there was still a quarter more sea ice than there was between 2010 and 2012,” they still grasp the concept that this is not reality and this growth is some kind of fluke.

Same attitude with their global warming models. It took decades to prove that all of the highly touted global warming forecast models were wrong even though for those decades they kept telling themselves and yelling at global warming doubters, that the realities emerging, i.e. the world was not longer cooling, was a statistical fluke and due to natural variations but that their theories and models would win out. Which they never did.

4) Maybe these doubters of a growing ice cap should have read a recent article by James Taylor writing in Forbes. His article claims that new, updated NASA data from their satellites show that Earth’s polar ice caps have not receded since the satellites began measuring the size of the ice caps in 1979. 

In addition, total polar ice volume has remained above the post-1979 average size. One reason for the panic over global warming and its effects on the ice cap is that 1979 marked the end of a 30 year colder than average trend, which made the ice caps larger than average. Once that cooling trend ended in the late 1970s, the ice cap started to shrink which caused global warming advocates to incorrectly correlate mankind’s activities with shrinking ice caps. The total shrinkage was much less than 10% but that was enough to set off the hysteria.

But all that shrinkage began disappearing in 2012 as the ice caps began growing again, making the 2009 Al Gore prediction seem that much more idiotic. According to Mr Taylor, May, 2015 NASA data from its satellites show that the ice cap is now 5% larger than the post 1979 average. More data means less believability of Al Gore types.

That will do it for today’s proof that it is possible to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science. One of the big selling points of first global warming and then the rebranded hysteria, climate change, was that the ice caps were melting as a result of mankind’s energy generation activities. 

Which is what happens when you selectively look at historical data that only proves your point without having a basis in reality. Reality: the ice caps are growing, not shrinking as predicted by global warming tenets. Reality: whatever the U.S. does relative to coal and carbon footprint, it will have little effect unless the rest of the world aggressively does the same, a reality that is unlikely to happen as elegantly pointed out by Fiorina. 

More updates tomorrow.

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