13-Year Old Boys Can’t Sleep to Due AGW Fears: ‘He thinks the world is doomed…It’s keeping him up at night.’

Via: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2014/03/14/11/#.UyNAgfmwIRo

If kids today have a greater awareness at a younger age of environmental issues, it’s probably because many schools have made earth science a part of the educational curriculum in earlier grades. For example, the fourth grade students in my son’s Brooklyn public school just performed in a recital called, “A musical journey through four environments: The arctic, the forest, the ocean, the city.” That’s a terrific way to teach young minds about ecosystems. (They also learn about the environment in more depth in their science class.)

I’m not sure what is being taught about climate change when students reach 6th or 7th grade, so I have no idea what might have triggered the sudden anxiousness experienced by the the two aforementioned boys.

Incredibly, there are some who think this message is not repeated enough. It would be an interesting societal experiment if the predicted climate apocalypse and ultimate collapse of civilization seeped into every pore of popular culture. I suspect there would be virtually no opposition to the use ofmedical marijuana.…

Four Reasons Why The Environment Movement Is Losing The Battle For Hearts And Minds: ‘Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket’

Four Reasons Why The Environment Movement Is Losing The Battle For Hearts And Minds

http://www.thegwpf.org/reasons-environment-movement-losing-battle-hearts-minds/

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket,” Eric Hoffer wrote more than 40 years ago.
It’s still anyone’s guess whether President Obama will approve the Keystone pipeline.  Perhaps he will continue to vote “present” and attempt to postpone a decision as long as possible—perhaps even through the next presidential election cycle in 2016.  The administration’s body language—and actual language from Secretary of State John Kerry—suggests a negative decision, a hope that the Democrats’ green base is doing everything possible to reinforce so as to raise the political cost for Obama to approve the pipeline to an unacceptable level.
The environmental left may yet win the skirmish over Keystone, but there are several reasons for thinking they are losing the war.  Here are four of them:
First, there’s an interesting little detail in the State Department environmental impact report on Keystone—the one that said the pipeline would have no impact on greenhouse gas emissions—that I haven’t seen anyone notice.  The premise of the State Department’s finding is that Canadian oil is going to come out of the ground and go somewhere; if it doesn’t come to the United States by pipeline, Canada will figure out a way to ship it here by rail or overseas to China by tanker.
However, the State Department analysis did allow that there was one condition that would change this: if the price of oil dipped back down below $65 a barrel.  (It’s been around $100 a barrel for quite some time now.)  At that price, Canada would be less likely to produce as much tar-sands oil—or at least not as quickly—and indeed the transportation costs to ship it to China are higher than through the Keystone pipeline.  But understand what a world of $65 oil would mean: it would mean we had re-entered a world of abundant and cheap oil.  (Adjusted for inflation, this price would be less that the cost of oil in the glut days of the 1980s.)  It would mean the world would be using a lot more of it.  While it would mean lower greenhouse gas emissions from Canadian oil, it would mean higher global emissions overall.  It would mean we wouldn’t care much whether the Keystone pipeline was built.  So environmentalists lose big time either way.…

Investor’s Business Daily: Dems climate talkathon “was just an attempt to draw attention to a pseudo problem”

Investor’s Business Daily: Dems climate talkathon “was just an attempt to draw attention to a pseudo problem”

Investor’s Business Daily: Dems climate talkathon “was just an attempt to draw attention to a pseudo problem”

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/03/investors-business-daily-dems-climate.html

Democrats, NASA Scientists And Global Warming

3/11/14   INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

Hysterics: Democrats from the secretary of state to Senate lawmakers can’t let go of their climate change obsession. Meanwhile, a group of NASA scientists and engineers says there’s no danger. To whom do we listen?

We’d say the folks at NASA. It’s unlikely the media will see it that way, though. They have too much invested in that other scientific “consensus” that says man is heating the planet to listen to officials at NASA who disagree with the press-feted, fanatically political James Hansen.

What do get wide coverage, though, are the rants of Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been screeching about climate change for some time now. Not so long ago, he called it “the greatest challenge of our generation.”

In addition to that madness, Kerry is asking the U.S. ambassadors who work under him to make climate change their diplomatic priority.

Not terrorism. Not Russia. Not America’s damaged reputation around the world. Not weapons of mass destruction in the hands of belligerents. Climate change.

“The environment has been one of the central causes of my life,” he told his envoys in what is reported to be his first department-wide policy guidance statement since becoming secretary a year ago.

Rather arrogant, we’d say, for the man to enlist an entire federal department, indeed, an entire nation, to fixate on one of the most important causes in his life.

While Kerry continues to bully his staff and distort foreign policy for a personal interest, Senate Democrats, 28 of them and two independents, held a global warming talkathon Monday night through Tuesday morning. Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, who is a co-founder of the Senate Climate Action Task Force, says Democrats wanted to use the all-nighter to “wake up Congress.”

The gabfest wasn’t a filibuster. It was just an attempt to draw attention to a pseudo problem — and away from the Democrats’ many real problems: the disaster of ObamaCare, the historically weak economy, unacceptably high unemployment and feckless foreign policy.

It was also a disturbing exhibition of silliness. The event was a sophomoric stunt and a profile in hypocrisy. As Anthony Watts wrote in his blog Wattsupwiththat, the senators had “a ‘denier bashing fest’ while” basking “in the warmth provided by …

Must Watch Video: John Coleman of KUSI- How the Global Warming Scare Began

Must Watch Video: John Coleman of KUSI- How the Global Warming Scare Began

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A great scientist named Roger Revelle had Al Gore in his class at Harvard and the Global Warming campaign was born. Revelle tried to calm things down years later, but Gore said Revelle was senile and refused to debate. John Coleman documents the entire story and shows how our tax dollars are perpetuating the Global Warming alarmist campaign even though temperatures have not risen in years and years.The must watch video is below: )Please email me at [email protected] to be put onto my mailing list.
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