Gallup Poll: Climate change is least important of 13 issues surveyed
http://www.gallup.com/poll/178268/voters-give-gop-edge-handling-top-issues.aspx…
Princeton U. Physicist Dr. Will Happer in DC to Speak on ‘The Myth of Carbon Pollution’
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http://marshall.org/events/the-myth-of-carbon-pollution/
The Myth of Carbon Pollution On October 15, 2014, Dr. William Happer, Chairman of the George C. Marshall Institute, will discuss “The Myth of Carbon Pollution.” “Carbon pollution” is a propaganda slogan for the campaign against carbon dioxide (CO2). It is not science. Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant but is essential for plant growth. Current CO2 levels are far below optimum for most plants, and far below norms of geological history, when CO2 concentrations averaged several times higher than present values. A substantial fraction, about 15%, of current world food production is due to the higher levels of CO2 compared to preindustrial values. Contrary to unambiguous computer predictions, there has been no statistically significant surface warming in at least 15 years. It is now clear that the warming potential of CO2 has been exaggerated by a large amount, and it is unlikely to be much more than 1oC for doubling of CO2. There is not the slightest evidence that more CO2 has caused more extreme weather or accelerated sea level rise. Nor is there the slightest support for the notion that government control of CO2 will “stop climate change.” Many real environmental issues need attention, smog, waste disposal, short-sighted suburban development, adequate clean water, public health, etc. These are being overshadowed by the phony issue of “carbon pollution.”Dr. William Happer is Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics (emeritus) at Princeton University, a long-term member of the JASON advisory group, and former director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. In addition to being a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt award, the Herbert P. Broida Prize and the Thomas Alva Edison patent award.Time: 1:00-2:30pmPlace: 2325 Rayburn House Office Building, Independence Ave. & South Capitol St., SW Washington, D.C.Via email
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How Alabama’s 66k military personnel may end up fighting Obama’s climate change war
World Bank Chief Warns Climate Change Is Like EBOLA
http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/dan-joseph/world-bank-chief-likens-climate-change-ebola…
Activists All Pissy About Water Consumption…Call For Urinating In The Morning Shower To Save On Toilet Water!
Activists All Pissy About Water Consumption…Call For Urinating In The Morning Shower To Save On Toilet Water!
Germany’s popular daily Bild here reports on a pair of English environmental activists from the University of East Anglia in Norwich who have a novel idea on how to cut back on water consumption: Urinating while taking your early morning shower rather relieving yourself in the toilet bowl. Also read here in English. Bild writes that Debs Torr and Chris Dobson calculated that if their 15,000 classmates all did the same, enough water to fill 26 Olympic-size pools would be saved each year. This is a rather strange idea for a country where rain and water are hardly in short supply. Let’s not kid ourselves. This is just the latest nutjob idea to regulate humans back to prehistoric lifestyles. The activist students would like to see their “GoWithTheFlow” water savings initiative implemented nationwide across Britain. Thankfully the two leakers are not calling on making it mandatory. Bild writes: Chris requests to be considerate of others. “When students share the shower stalls, then you should only do it when it’s okay for everyone.” Thanks for asking. My God, can you imagine how the shower would smell after a few months time? Who brought up these two slobs? To me it’s truly mystifying as to why there would be any urgency at all “to save water” in a rain-drenched country like Great Britain, as if water is some kind of disappearing resource. Is civilization now at “peak water”? Even here in wet, damp Germany there are constant calls by enviro-lunatics to not waste water. Granted some places have seen the local groundwater table drop due to agriculture and industry, and so I suppose in some areas there are legitimate arguments to do so. However at many municipalities, city officals are begging for an end to all the water-saving madness. Wastewater from homes and businesses has dropped to dangerously low levels and put city sewage systems at risk. Waste water levels are so low that solid waste material in wastewater systems ends up stalling and plugging the system. The water is simply too inadequate to keep everything flowing. Indeed municipalities are pleading: How about a “GoWithTheFlow” initiative for sewage systems! A number of German public utilities are forced to regularly pump millions of gallons of additional water just to keep the system from breaking down, …