tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post2508530052194129639..comments2024-03-28T08:17:02.778-04:00Comments on Multiplication by Infinity: The Mother of All Climate Change DeniersSteven Colyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-19232332229284138782012-02-16T08:46:35.600-05:002012-02-16T08:46:35.600-05:00George Carlin On CO2 Fear Mongering EnvironMENTALi...George Carlin On CO2 Fear Mongering EnvironMENTALists <br /><br />“And the greatest arrogance of all: “save the planet”. <br /><br />“I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths.”<br /><br />“Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.”<br /><br />“The planet has been through a lot worse than us. “<br /><br />“Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages …” <br /><br />“The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE ARE!”<br /><br />“The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.”<br /><br />“The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-76495360479587044002011-03-06T22:05:12.386-05:002011-03-06T22:05:12.386-05:00Eureka and Egads! By Jove I think I've Got it!...Eureka and Egads! By Jove I think I've Got it!<br /><br />Click on the below link for the Prosperity Index that shows America's fall, as well as the rankings of the other nations:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2057225,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2057225,00.html</a>Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-91975227274667341522011-03-06T20:32:23.726-05:002011-03-06T20:32:23.726-05:00Well, it's not just China, right? When is was ...Well, it's not just China, right? When is was The Soviet Union, Russia was bad too, yes? Even America before the 60's and all this "green" stuff. <br /><br />China is at a crossroads. They made money selling to the USA and Europe, partly by taking the blue-collar jobs that made those places great, then without jobs we didn't buy as much, so they didn't sell as much. <br /><br />Anyway, I just saw in TIME magazine yesterday that America went from 1st to 10th in prosperity in the world in the last 4 years. Thanks, Bush. Top six in order are Norway, Denmark, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden if I recall correctly. Canada's ahead of US. China and Russia are way way down. Only prosperous countries can afford pollution control, I guess.Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-22691356790048309562011-03-06T15:31:12.555-05:002011-03-06T15:31:12.555-05:00As you say it so well, we should greatly worry abo...As you say it so well, we should greatly worry about what is happening nowadays in China, as China is told to be the big trashcan of the World.Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-12340129345140851272011-03-05T09:52:27.708-05:002011-03-05T09:52:27.708-05:00I don't find it amazing so much as yet another...I don't find it amazing so much as yet another example of capitalism run wild. The capacity of human beings to sell bullshit to legislators never ceases to amaze me. Anyway, if the BS doesn't work, there's always money. :-(<br /><br />The core of all this is Big Energy's utter disgust of pollution control equipment. China doesn't have the problem, as the PRC lets the companies do whatever they want - hence, the Yellow River dries up before it reaches the ocean, it's that polluted.<br /><br />Another problem with pollution control equipment, above and beyond the fact that the cost of same cuts into profits, is that the cost will ultimately be passed on to the consumer - yet another "hidden tax" on us all.<br /><br />But, I'd rather pay that tax than corporate tax, as corporate tax will only send me to the poorhouse, while the pollution tax will make it less likely my children are born with 3 eyeballs, or one or none.Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303246073824127471.post-77559715723126559962011-03-05T05:10:18.653-05:002011-03-05T05:10:18.653-05:00Denying climate change is the same as denying this...Denying climate change is the same as denying this law of thermodynamics: "Work produces energy loss in the form of heat". <br />It is a well-known problematic which engineers know far too well. The less you produce heat with a transformation process, the more you are good at your stuff. And we all know it is IMPOSSIBLE to reduce energy loss so to attain 0% production of heat. From the chemical point of view, this problem should be turn into production of gazes with green-house effect, thus indirectly into heat, but the issue remains the same. <br /><br />I feel quite amazed by those who stand on their line saying it can't be true, as they are in turn telling us : "Thermodynamics is a legend".<br /><br />Aren't they judging the same law of thermodynamics with which to have a motor running, so straightforwardly, the reason why they are selling oil worldwide?<br /><br />Best,Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.com