committeeconstructivetomorrowcfactorg--2020-07-29--Alaska’s Pebble Mine clears Obama-era obstruction

America ’ s infrastructure needs gold and copper , with the needs for electronics and our power grid particularly acute .
Alaska ’ s proposed “ Pebble Mine ” would unleash new sources of these essential metals , but today ’ s Green anti-capitalists never met an essential project they didn ’ t hate .
Green gadflies have been obstructing the project , raising bogus claims that it would harm local salmon fisheries .
They stood in the way with the Obama Administration ’ s active assistance .
Bonner Cohen reports at CFACT.org that this important project has just taken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two-decades-old controversy surrounding a proposed gold and copper mine in Southwest Alaska entered a new phase July 24 , when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ( Corps ) , reversing an Obama-era finding , and concluded that the project “ would not be expected to have a measurable effect on fish numbers ” in the Bristol Bay watershed , which supports the world ’ s largest sockeye salmon fishery .
Bristol bay is the easternmost arm of the Bering Sea , which lies between Alaska and Russia .
In its environmental assessment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would affect up to 2,261 acres ( less than four square miles ) of wetlands and up to 105.8 miles of streams but that there would be “ no measurable change in the number of returning salmon.
” Bonner further reports that the usual suspects are livid , and are bringing further bogus arguments to bear : Taryn Kiekow Heimer , who heads the Natural Resources Defense Council ’ s ( NRDC ) campaign to stop the mine , was delighted to play the race card .
“ It ’ s especially embarrassing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ current social context we are in , ” she told The Washington Post ( July 25 ) , referring to the Trump administration ’ s accelerated approval process .
“ It ’ s just another example of the entrenched and systemic racism that this government is showing people of color and indigenous people in particular.
” Alaska ’ s pebble mine will not harm salmon , and has nothing to do with race .
The Green ’ s can not demand that we expand the nation ’ s power grid to include widespread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and at the same time deny us the copper it takes to do so .

America’s infrastructure needs gold and copper, with the needs for electronics and our power grid particularly acute.
Alaska’s proposed “Pebble Mine” would unleash new sources of these essential metals, but today’s Green anti-capitalists never met an essential project they didn’t hate. Green gadflies have been obstructing the project, raising bogus claims that it would harm local salmon fisheries. They stood in the way with the Obama Administration’s active assistance.
Bonner Cohen reports at CFACT.org that this important project has just taken a big step forward:
The nearly two-decades-old controversy surrounding a proposed gold and copper mine in Southwest Alaska entered a new phase July 24, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), reversing an Obama-era finding, and concluded that the project “would not be expected to have a measurable effect on fish numbers” in the Bristol Bay watershed, which supports the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery. Bristol bay is the easternmost arm of the Bering Sea, which lies between Alaska and Russia.
In its environmental assessment, the Corps found that the mine would affect up to 2,261 acres (less than four square miles) of wetlands and up to 105.8 miles of streams but that there would be “no measurable change in the number of returning salmon.”
Bonner further reports that the usual suspects are livid, and are bringing further bogus arguments to bear:
Taryn Kiekow Heimer, who heads the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) campaign to stop the mine, was delighted to play the race card.
“It’s especially embarrassing for the government and appalling given the current social context we are in,” she told The Washington Post (July 25), referring to the Trump administration’s accelerated approval process. “It’s just another example of the entrenched and systemic racism that this government is showing people of color and indigenous people in particular.”
Alaska’s pebble mine will not harm salmon, and has nothing to do with race.
The Green’s cannot demand that we expand the nation’s power grid to include widespread, inefficient wind and solar installations, and at the same time deny us the copper it takes to do so.


committeeconstructivetomorrowcfactorg--2020-07-29--Online debate Wednesday: Food Security in a Post-Covid World

US-EU trade talks are already stalled over agriculture issues .
And yet the European Union ’ s new “ Farm to Fork ” strategy doesn ’ t just double down on the EU ’ s contentious agricultural regulations .
It promises to use access to European markets to compel the United States and other countries to adopt EU-style organic farming , precautionary and other regulations if they want to remain trading partners with Europe .
“ Farm to Fork ” ( or F2F ) is being billed as “ the heart of the European Green Deal.
” Like recent energy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is largely an environmentalist wish ( or demand ) list – with little basis in science , practical experience or real world impacts .
It sets out three primary objectives , which the EU intends to implement fully by 2030 , barely nine years from now : * Bring “ at least 25 % of EU agricultural land under organic farming ” – from its current 7.5 % * Reduce “ overall use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50 % – forcing greater use of “ natural ” chemicals * Reduce the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at least 20 % ” – again forcing “ natural ” substitutes F2F is being billed as a continental and global agricultural transformation that will ensure a “ just transition ” to a “ more robust and resilient food system , ” guarantee “ affordable food for citizens , ” and simultaneously improve human health , protect biodiversity , and promote environmental sustainability .
It will almost certainly end up doing just the opposite .
Which is why the European Conservatives and Reformists Party is hosting a ‘ Europe Debates ’ webinar on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The problems with “ organic ” farming are well documented , though largely ignored by environmentalists , policy makers , regulators , journalists and academics .
Organic agriculture requires far more land and much more human labor than modern mechanized farming with manmade fertilizers and crop-protecting chemicals , to get the same crop yields .
Many of the “ natural ” fertilizers and other chemicals that organic farmers employ are equally or more dangerous to bees , other insects , birds , fish and terrestrial animals than modern manmade alternatives .
Low-yield @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , particularly harming poor families and countries , many of which have been especially hard hit by the Covid pandemic .
It makes EU farmers increasingly uncompetitive in world markets .
It creates a less resilient food system that is increasingly vulnerable to plant diseases , invasive species , floods , droughts and insects .
As a result , it inevitably undermines the climate , “ sustainability , ” biodiversity and nutrition goals it promises to achieve .
Finally , Farm to Fork will also likely exacerbate the EU ’ s growing trade @ @ @ @ @ @ @ F2F , agriculture issues were already imperiling US-EU bilateral trade agreements .
Meanwhile the US and some 35 other nations had formally complained to the World Trade Organization that current EU regulations on agricultural imports clearly violate internationally accepted norms , because they are not based in science .
And now F2F promises to impose similar productivity-destroying regulations on even its poorest trading partners : African countries .
In fact , the European Commission ( EC ) itself has admitted : “ It is also clear that we can not make a change @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world with us.… Efforts to tighten sustainability requirements in the EU food system should be accompanied by policies that help raise standards globally , in order to avoid the externalisation and export of unsustainable practices.
” Now the European Conservatives and Reformists Party ( ECRP ) is offering an opportunity to learn more .
This Wednesday , July 29 , US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and new European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski will appear together in a webinar hosted by the ECRP .
The event is free and open to the public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discussion of these agriculture and trade issues between the US and EU since Farm to Fork was released .
Other debate participants include : * Anna Fotyga , Member of European Parliament , Poland & Acting President of the ECR Party * Jon Entine , Founder and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project Please tune in : Wednesday * July 29 * 10 am ET / 4pm CET Go here for more information and here to register .
( The European Conservatives and Reformists Party https : //www.ecrparty.eu/ is a conservative Eurosceptic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the European Union on the basis of “ Eurorealism , ” as opposed to totally rejecting the EU .
Its more than 40 political parties are united by center-right values , under the Reykjavik Declaration , and dedicated to individual liberty , national sovereignty , parliamentary democracy , private property , limited government , free trade , family values and the devolution of power away from a centralized EU and EC ) .
Quite clearly , humanity ’ s brief encounter with food uncertainty in the early days of COVID was a stark @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technologically capable nations on Earth can not take the safety and security of their food supply for granted .
Poor countries are still dealing with Covid-related food uncertainty .
Among the other topics the panelists will be discussing are the following .
What lessons have we or should we have learned from the Covid crisis ?
From past experience with organic agriculture , pesticide and fertilizer policies and practices ?
What policies could give our vast and complex food supply system the strength and resilience it needs to withstand whatever shocks and dislocations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ How will the US respond to these EU demands and threats under the Farm to Fork initiative ?
Inside the EU , who will bear the costs involved and how can the EU and EU nations assure equity , given the vast regional disparities across the EU ?
How will F2F impact the global competitiveness of European farmers ?
Does growing political opposition to the EU ’ s agreements with Latin America and Canada signal a reassessment of its broader trade strategy ?
Will the EU take an evidence-based scientific approach to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shortcomings of organic agriculture ?
How does the EU demand that impoverished African countries adopt European ideas – on organic farming , agro-ecology , the precautionary principle , pesticides , fertilizers and sufficient affordable energy , for instance – reflect EU ideals on justice , human rights and self-determination ?
This week ’ s debate promises to be an invigorating and informative program .

US-EU trade talks are already stalled over agriculture issues. And yet the European Union’s new “Farm to Fork” strategy doesn’t just double down on the EU’s contentious agricultural regulations. It promises to use access to European markets to compel the United States and other countries to adopt EU-style organic farming, precautionary and other regulations if they want to remain trading partners with Europe.
“Farm to Fork” (or F2F) is being billed as “the heart of the European Green Deal.” Like recent energy, climate and other initiatives, it is largely an environmentalist wish (or demand) list – with little basis in science, practical experience or real world impacts. It sets out three primary objectives, which the EU intends to implement fully by 2030, barely nine years from now:
* Bring “at least 25% of EU agricultural land under organic farming” – from its current 7.5%
* Reduce “overall use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50% – forcing greater use of “natural” chemicals
* Reduce the use of manmade chemical fertilizers “by at least 20%” – again forcing “natural” substitutes
F2F is being billed as a continental and global agricultural transformation that will ensure a “just transition” to a “more robust and resilient food system,” guarantee “affordable food for citizens,” and simultaneously improve human health, protect biodiversity, and promote environmental sustainability.
It will almost certainly end up doing just the opposite. Which is why the European Conservatives and Reformists Party is hosting a ‘Europe Debates’ webinar on the topic this Wednesday, July 29.
The problems with “organic” farming are well documented, though largely ignored by environmentalists, policy makers, regulators, journalists and academics.
Organic agriculture requires far more land and much more human labor than modern mechanized farming with manmade fertilizers and crop-protecting chemicals, to get the same crop yields. Many of the “natural” fertilizers and other chemicals that organic farmers employ are equally or more dangerous to bees, other insects, birds, fish and terrestrial animals than modern manmade alternatives.
Low-yield organic agriculture raises food prices for consumers, particularly harming poor families and countries, many of which have been especially hard hit by the Covid pandemic. It makes EU farmers increasingly uncompetitive in world markets. It creates a less resilient food system that is increasingly vulnerable to plant diseases, invasive species, floods, droughts and insects. As a result, it inevitably undermines the climate, “sustainability,” biodiversity and nutrition goals it promises to achieve.
Finally, Farm to Fork will also likely exacerbate the EU’s growing trade frictions with other nations. Even before F2F, agriculture issues were already imperiling US-EU bilateral trade agreements. Meanwhile the US and some 35 other nations had formally complained to the World Trade Organization that current EU regulations on agricultural imports clearly violate internationally accepted norms, because they are not based in science. And now F2F promises to impose similar productivity-destroying regulations on even its poorest trading partners: African countries. In fact, the European Commission (EC) itself has admitted:
“It is also clear that we cannot make a change unless we take the rest of the world with us.… Efforts to tighten sustainability requirements in the EU food system should be accompanied by policies that help raise standards globally, in order to avoid the externalisation and export of unsustainable practices.”
Now the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECRP) is offering an opportunity to learn more.
This Wednesday, July 29, US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and new European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski will appear together in a webinar hosted by the ECRP.
The event is free and open to the public. It will be the first high-level discussion of these agriculture and trade issues between the US and EU since Farm to Fork was released. Other debate participants include:
* Anna Fotyga, Member of European Parliament, Poland & Acting President of the ECR Party
* Hermann Tertsch, Member of European Parliament, Spain
* Jon Entine, Founder and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project
* Richard Milsom, Executive Director, ECR Party
Please tune in: Wednesday * July 29 * 10 am ET / 4pm CET
Go here for more information and here to register.
(The European Conservatives and Reformists Party https://www.ecrparty.eu/ is a conservative Eurosceptic European political party primarily focused on reforming the European Union on the basis of “Eurorealism,” as opposed to totally rejecting the EU. Its more than 40 political parties are united by center-right values, under the Reykjavik Declaration, and dedicated to individual liberty, national sovereignty, parliamentary democracy, private property, limited government, free trade, family values and the devolution of power away from a centralized EU and EC) .
Quite clearly, humanity’s brief encounter with food uncertainty in the early days of COVID was a stark reminder that even the most advanced, technologically capable nations on Earth cannot take the safety and security of their food supply for granted. Poor countries are still dealing with Covid-related food uncertainty. Among the other topics the panelists will be discussing are the following.
What lessons have we or should we have learned from the Covid crisis? From past experience with organic agriculture, pesticide and fertilizer policies and practices?
What policies could give our vast and complex food supply system the strength and resilience it needs to withstand whatever shocks and dislocations may hit us in the future?
How will the US respond to these EU demands and threats under the Farm to Fork initiative?
Inside the EU, who will bear the costs involved and how can the EU and EU nations assure equity, given the vast regional disparities across the EU?
How will F2F impact the global competitiveness of European farmers?
Does growing political opposition to the EU’s agreements with Latin America and Canada signal a reassessment of its broader trade strategy?
Will the EU take an evidence-based scientific approach to the climate, sustainability, biodiversity and safety shortcomings of organic agriculture?
How does the EU demand that impoverished African countries adopt European ideas – on organic farming, agro-ecology, the precautionary principle, pesticides, fertilizers and sufficient affordable energy, for instance – reflect EU ideals on justice, human rights and self-determination?
This week’s debate promises to be an invigorating and informative program.


committeeconstructivetomorrowcfactorg--2020-07-30--Space Invaders: Will the Earthlings land first?

If one was to use Hollywood movies as a precursor of the future , one would have thought that it was only a matter of time until Earth was visited by Martian invaders .
In real life , however , it may actually be Mars that will see an invasion of Earthlings soon , not the other way around .
A new space race could be under way , as several countries are scheduling satellite and rover launches to Mars this summer .
These include the United States , China , and the United Arab Emirates .
The launches will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the season approaches where Mars is closer to Earth than at any other point in its orbit .
This “ launch window ” closes on August 15 .
“ The robots are expected to make the first global map of the Mars climate , drill into the planet ’ s surface , and search for signs of long-dead microbes that may have once thrived in Martian valleys and riverbeds .
These missions could find the first footprints of life on another planet.
” The USA ’ s mission , led by NASA , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s surface to collect samples via the rover , named “ Perseverance.
” “ If all goes well , the rover will land on February 18 , 2021 in Mars ’ Jezero crater — an ancient riverbed that could harbor signs of past microbial life .
The mission , which will cost a total $ 3 billion start-to-finish , will drill into the Martian surface to collect samples of rock and soil , then stash them at a collection point for a future mission to bring back to Earth .
“ Perseverance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tools : a new navigation system to make landing on the red planet less risky , a machine designed to produce oxygen from carbon dioxide , and instruments to collect data that could help scientists better predict Martian weather.
” Once the rover lands , it is designed to deploy a “ small helicopter ” from its underside that has been called “ Ingenuity.
” If successful , Ingenuity will pull off the first powered flight on another planet .
With these developments , human visits to Mars may not be as far @ @ @ @ @ @ @ builds with the efforts by both NASA and Space X , those skeptical of the practicality of landing on Mars may soon find that “ resistance is futile.
” To read the Business Insider article , click here .

If one was to use Hollywood movies as a precursor of the future, one would have thought that it was only a matter of time until Earth was visited by Martian invaders.
In real life, however, it may actually be Mars that will see an invasion of Earthlings soon, not the other way around.
A new space race could be under way, as several countries are scheduling satellite and rover launches to Mars this summer.
These include the United States, China, and the United Arab Emirates. The launches will be coming later this month, as the season approaches where Mars is closer to Earth than at any other point in its orbit. This “launch window” closes on August 15.
As reported by Business Insider:
“The robots are expected to make the first global map of the Mars climate, drill into the planet’s surface, and search for signs of long-dead microbes that may have once thrived in Martian valleys and riverbeds. These missions could find the first footprints of life on another planet.”
The USA’s mission, led by NASA, will focus on drilling into the planet’s surface to collect samples via the rover, named “Perseverance.”
“If all goes well, the rover will land on February 18, 2021 in Mars’ Jezero crater — an ancient riverbed that could harbor signs of past microbial life. The mission, which will cost a total $3 billion start-to-finish, will drill into the Martian surface to collect samples of rock and soil, then stash them at a collection point for a future mission to bring back to Earth.
“Perseverance itself will carry a suite of cutting-edge tools: a new navigation system to make landing on the red planet less risky, a machine designed to produce oxygen from carbon dioxide, and instruments to collect data that could help scientists better predict Martian weather.”
Once the rover lands, it is designed to deploy a “small helicopter” from its underside that has been called “Ingenuity.” If successful, Ingenuity will pull off the first powered flight on another planet.
With these developments, human visits to Mars may not be as far off as previously thought.
As momentum builds with the efforts by both NASA and Space X, those skeptical of the practicality of landing on Mars may soon find that “resistance is futile.”
To read the Business Insider article, click here.


committeeconstructivetomorrowcfactorg--2020-07-30--Video: California’s dysfunctional energy policies

California , with less than 0.5 % of the world ’ s population ( 40 million vs. 8 billion ) , remains the state with the highest cost of electricity and fuels in the country and its dysfunctional energy policies are doing everything possible to further increase those costs to the detriment of those that can least afford it .
The states ’ pursuit of going green at any cost , appears to be oblivious to the fact that renewable energy is only renewable ELECTRICITY , and intermittent electricity at best .
Alex Epstein , Founder and President of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York Times best-selling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels , interviewed me about the dysfunctionality of California ’ s energy policies on his weekly Power Hour show .
The first 50 minutes of the 90-minute video are dedicated to the interview with Ron .
Wind and solar are incapable of providing societies and economies with the thousands of products made from petroleum derivatives manufactured from petroleum , and the various fuels also manufactured from petroleum .
Those products and fuels “ make things and moves products , ” required by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economies .
Energy literacy will enhance one ’ s comprehension that the cost of energy affects everything , from the food we eat , the clothes we wear , transportation , communications , housing , healthcare , and the leisurely living made possible by energy and its products .
Raising the cost of energy is immoral and racial biased as it negatively affects those that can least afford increases in their cost of living .
Enhancing one ’ s energy literacy will help them understand that the mining for precious metals and minerals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ batteries associated with ‘ clean ’ energy is having harmful ecological consequences and causing human rights abuses worldwide .
Here are the questions Alex Epstein asked during this 50-minute video interview on his weekly Power Hour show that addressed the messages in my Op Ed articles and my two books to the public to be more energy literate : • How did you become interested in energy policy ?
( approx .
2 minutes into video ) • Why are California gasoline prices so high ?
( approx .
5 minutes into video @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use , and for what ?
( approx .
9 minutes into video ) • Where does California ’ s oil come from and how has this changed over the last several decades ?
( approx .
12 minutes into video ) • Who is hurt most by California ’ s oil policies , and how ?
( approx .
19 minutes into video ) • How do California electricity prices compare to the rest of the country ?
( approx .
21 minutes into video ) • How much electricity does California @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into video ) • Where does California ’ s electricity come from ?
( approx .
25 minutes into video ) • Who is hurt most by California ’ s electricity policies , and how ?
( approx .
28 minutes into video ) • What is the current state of EV use in California ?
( approx .
33 minutes into video ) • What are the prospects for EV use in California ?
( approx .
37 minutes into video ) • What will happen if California ’ s energy policies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approx .
39 minutes into video ) • What energy policies should California adopt ?
( approx .
41 minutes into video ) • What can we , especially Californians , do to fight back ?
( approx .
43 minutes into video ) Here are the links to the three books that address the questions on the podcast , energy literacy , and much more : • The five-star rated book from 2019 Energy Made Easy – Helping Citizens become Energy Literate • The new 2020 book Just GREEN Electricity – Helping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hopefully , you ’ ll have time to view and listen to the 50-minute video interview to obtain a better understanding of the dysfunctionality of California ’ s energy policies .

California, with less than 0.5% of the world’s population (40 million vs. 8 billion), remains the state with the highest cost of electricity and fuels in the country and its dysfunctional energy policies are doing everything possible to further increase those costs to the detriment of those that can least afford it.
The states’ pursuit of going green at any cost, appears to be oblivious to the fact that renewable energy is only renewable ELECTRICITY, and intermittent electricity at best.
Alex Epstein, Founder and President of the Center for Industrial Progress, and a New York Times best-selling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, interviewed me about the dysfunctionality of California’s energy policies on his weekly Power Hour show. The first 50 minutes of the 90-minute video are dedicated to the interview with Ron.
Wind and solar are incapable of providing societies and economies with the thousands of products made from petroleum derivatives manufactured from petroleum, and the various fuels also manufactured from petroleum. Those products and fuels “make things and moves products,” required by every transportation infrastructure for prosperous societies and economies.
Energy literacy will enhance one’s comprehension that the cost of energy affects everything, from the food we eat, the clothes we wear, transportation, communications, housing, healthcare, and the leisurely living made possible by energy and its products. Raising the cost of energy is immoral and racial biased as it negatively affects those that can least afford increases in their cost of living.
Enhancing one’s energy literacy will help them understand that the mining for precious metals and minerals to support wind, solar and EV batteries associated with ‘clean’ energy is having harmful ecological consequences and causing human rights abuses worldwide.
Here are the questions Alex Epstein asked during this 50-minute video interview on his weekly Power Hour show that addressed the messages in my Op Ed articles and my two books to the public to be more energy literate:
How did you become interested in energy policy? (approx. 2 minutes into video)
Why are California gasoline prices so high? (approx. 5 minutes into video)
How much oil does California use, and for what? (approx. 9 minutes into video)
Where does California’s oil come from and how has this changed over the last several decades? (approx. 12 minutes into video)
Who is hurt most by California’s oil policies, and how? (approx. 19 minutes into video)
How do California electricity prices compare to the rest of the country? (approx. 21 minutes into video)
How much electricity does California use? (approx. 23 minutes into video)
Where does California’s electricity come from? (approx. 25 minutes into video)
Who is hurt most by California’s electricity policies, and how? (approx. 28 minutes into video)
What is the current state of EV use in California? (approx. 33 minutes into video)
What are the prospects for EV use in California? (approx. 37 minutes into video)
What will happen if California’s energy policies continue in their current direction? (approx. 39 minutes into video)
What energy policies should California adopt? (approx. 41 minutes into video)
What can we, especially Californians, do to fight back? (approx. 43 minutes into video)
Here are the links to the three books that address the questions on the podcast, energy literacy, and much more:
Hopefully, you’ll have time to view and listen to the 50-minute video interview to obtain a better understanding of the dysfunctionality of California’s energy policies.


committeeconstructivetomorrowcfactorg--2020-07-30--Biden’s false climate promises

Biden’s false climate promises

Biden ’ s multi-trillion dollar climate action is full of promises that the law says he can not keep .
Promising to do what you can not do is a false promise .
Here are some big ticket examples .
Biden says “ If I am elected I will do the following : Create millions of good , union jobs rebuilding America ’ s crumbling infrastructure from roads and bridges to green spaces and water systems to electricity grids and universal broadband… Create 1 million new jobs in the American auto industry , domestic auto supply chains , and auto @ @ @ @ @ @ @ electric vehicle charging stations… Provide every American city with 100,000 or more residents with high-quality , zero-emissions public transportation options through flexible federal investments with strong labor protections that create good , union jobs and meet the needs of these cities… ” What is wrong with these grand promises ?
Simple .
The President of the United States has no authority , or the money , to do any of these things .
That authority ( and money ) belongs solely to the U.S. Congress .
So here is what these promises really @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If elected I promise to do the following : Beg Congress to do something about America ’ s crumbling infrastructure .
I will propose a big plan but what they do is up to them .
Implore Congress to somehow create a lot of jobs in the American auto industry .
How they do it is up to them .
Repeatedly ask Congress to build a lot of zero-emissions public transit stuff .
I will bug the hell out of them .
( What they do is up to them . )
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they ?
In fact they are pretty humble , because Congress , not the President , runs the U.S. Government .
That who is President is all important is just a myth , albeit a seemingly universal myth .
Nor is the Congress likely to do much of this hugely expensive stuff , even if the Democrats win both houses , which is also unlikely .
Unlikely + unlikely = very unlikely .
This is especially true because Biden ’ s undocumented cost estimate of two trillion dollars is way low .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would require trillions of dollars in new taxes , which is political suicide , especially in the House where every seat is voted on every two years .
The symbolic House Climate Crisis Committee put out an even grander than Biden ’ s , but like the toothless Committee that plan is just symbolic .
Note by the way that there is no mention of all these jobs being union in the real promises .
Even Congress can not make that happen .
There are “ Buy American ” clauses in Federal contracts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Can Bid On This ” clauses .
That would be truly unconstitutional .
It has been suggested that all this pro-union rhetoric is to make up for Biden ’ s unacceptably truthful admission that killing the fossil fuel industry would kill hundreds of thousands of jobs .
Or it may be because AOC , who is on unions , is his top climate plan planner .
In any case it is yet another false promise .
People running for President should only promise to do what Presidents can actually do .
They can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pretend to .
Biden ’ s climate promises are so false they are absurd .
You can ’ t get there from here .

Biden’s multi-trillion dollar climate action plan is full of promises that the law says he cannot keep. Promising to do what you cannot do is a false promise. Here are some big ticket examples.
Biden says “If I am elected I will do the following:
Create millions of good, union jobs rebuilding America’s crumbling infrastructure from roads and bridges to green spaces and water systems to electricity grids and universal broadband…
Create 1 million new jobs in the American auto industry, domestic auto supply chains, and auto infrastructure, from parts to materials to electric vehicle charging stations…
Provide every American city with 100,000 or more residents with high-quality, zero-emissions public transportation options through flexible federal investments with strong labor protections that create good, union jobs and meet the needs of these cities…”
What is wrong with these grand promises? Simple. The President of the United States has no authority, or the money, to do any of these things. That authority (and money) belongs solely to the U.S. Congress. So here is what these promises really amount to.
Biden really says “If elected I promise to do the following:
Beg Congress to do something about America’s crumbling infrastructure. I will propose a big plan but what they do is up to them.
Implore Congress to somehow create a lot of jobs in the American auto industry. How they do it is up to them.
Repeatedly ask Congress to build a lot of zero-emissions public transit stuff. I will bug the hell out of them. (What they do is up to them.)”
Not quite so grand sounding, are they? In fact they are pretty humble, because Congress, not the President, runs the U.S. Government. That who is President is all important is just a myth, albeit a seemingly universal myth.
Nor is the Congress likely to do much of this hugely expensive stuff, even if the Democrats win both houses, which is also unlikely. Unlikely + unlikely = very unlikely. This is especially true because Biden’s undocumented cost estimate of two trillion dollars is way low. It is more like twenty trillion.
It would require trillions of dollars in new taxes, which is political suicide, especially in the House where every seat is voted on every two years. The symbolic House Climate Crisis Committee put out an even grander plan than Biden’s, but like the toothless Committee that plan is just symbolic.
Note by the way that there is no mention of all these jobs being union in the real promises. Even Congress cannot make that happen. There are “Buy American” clauses in Federal contracts, but no “Only Unions Shops Can Bid On This” clauses. That would be truly unconstitutional.
It has been suggested that all this pro-union rhetoric is to make up for Biden’s unacceptably truthful admission that killing the fossil fuel industry would kill hundreds of thousands of jobs. Or it may be because AOC, who is hot on unions, is his top climate plan planner. In any case it is yet another false promise.
People running for President should only promise to do what Presidents can actually do. They cannot speak for Congress so should not pretend to. Biden’s climate promises are so false they are absurd. You can’t get there from here.


committeeconstructivetomorrowcfactorg--2020-07-31--Fear, Fallacies,and Funding — The Common denominators of Covid and Climate

“ We ’ re facing down the barrel of a gun with climate change , and particularly young people are looking for businesses and government to step up , ” cofounder of Allbirds Joey Zwillinger .
This Begs the Question : If it ’ s a Gun is it a Toy Gun ?
The facts do not support the statement as far as staring down the barrel of a gun with climate .
I wrote earlier about the false parallels between Climate and Covid , that Covid is a pressing issue .
Climate is not .
Climate and the environment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thing .
The Environment and its cleanliness is a pressing issue , since I do believe we are stewards of the earth .
The hiding of the fact that the US is a leader in reduction of air , land and sea pollution , is meant to feed into the missive that our way of life is ruining the planet .
As in so many things we see the slight of hand where an agenda hijacks the true issue .
However a common denominator is the fear that has been pushed .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disease that is here now .
But that ignores the fact that the vast majority of people with severe results had pre-existing conditions , which should give us reason to realistically assess the fear factor for the average person .
But inclimate , As we have shown so many times , there is a fallacy with the idea that a ) man is causing so much of the warming and b ) that the warming is bad unless metrics such as Climate deaths plummeting , Personal GDP , Life expectancy , population is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than ever , the planet greener than its ever been in the satellite era , the reduction of strong tornadoes and the intensity and frequency of major hurricane hits on the our coast ( Though we have been front and center on this years threat , similar to 2005 , and 2017 ) Wildfire acres burnt less than 20 % of what it was in the early 20th century , ( I can go on and on with this ) are bad .
They are , if your goal is to suppress progress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you know the drill .
So fear and fallacy are common in both , one may be reasonable as a disease with no known cure like this , is an event that can evoke fear .
However given mans constant adaptation to climate over the years , and what is turning out to be metrics that show things are better , that fear factor is overdone based on fallacy .
There are ways to balance the co2 increase no matter what the cause , and I discussed that in the previous blog and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cures for Covid , there are real “ cures ” for those that fear co2 and you can see it in the seasonal decrease of co2 when the northern hemisphere greens .
Again I have written about this before , but might as well show it again , The 2 year co2 Keeling Curve courtesy of Scripps institution : The intuitive and easy , relative to the destructive Green New Deal , is to plant more trees globally .
If you love the environment , why would you stand against that anyway ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Michael Schellenberg ’ s book , Apocalypse Never : Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All It is one thing for me to say it , but when a prime Catastrophic Global Warming person comes out like this , it ’ s a different , almost impossible level to fathom on a personal level , because of the intimidation that is put on anyone who dare breaks the ranks of that movement .
Along with Alex Epstein ’ s The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels , it exposes this for what it is , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tool for another agenda which the reader can figure out .
Funding .
It is darn near impossible for anyone on the CAGW side of this argument to reverse course .
Companies and Countries have invested what is now trillions of dollars into something that leaves them powerless to back down from .
Grants and funding to our universities are heavily tilted toward proving the catastrophic Climate change missive .
( which of course begs the question if it ’ s a done deal , why are we researching it any more ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Gravity is settled science , The sun is darn hot is settled science .
So if this is settled science why is this continuing ? )
Just try to get a grant that would prove the opposite , or even raise a question .
Which means if we are still researching it , it is not settled science , and science demands opposing arguments , something that has gotten shut down .
Freedom of speech is another victim of this agenda Consider this : Does not the missive of Fear , Fallacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ improving human condition , contradict life itself ?
Doesn ’ t the shutting down of ideas contradict freedom ?
Isn ’ t the limiting of energy , the continued draining of the average persons funds via something like the Green New Deal , contradict the pursuit of happiness ?
( not to mention the censoring of certain kind of talk , including spiritual , one can argue that hits all 3 at once ) A possible , if not likely , conclusion , is all this is designed to go against the number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country .
Life , Liberty , and the Pursuit of Happiness .
If an agenda limits all that , what can its purpose possibly be ?
The triple crown of inexpensive methods of solving the co2 fear , The Trillion Tree initiative , Nuclear power and Carbon Capture should appeal across the board instead of the 10 trillion dollar Green New Deal .
But again this would lead to a lot of funding drying up and also mean the problem goes away , meaning a lot of money was wasted both already spent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ How is this like Covid ?
Without getting into too much detail , there is great resistance to methods that have appeared to have success in other areas .
What is Japan doing,1000 deaths in a country of 120 million ?
Taiwan 10 deaths in a country of 23 million.South Korea 51 million people , 300 deaths .
So without lockdowns , how did they do it ?
Theories range from lifestyle , enhanced immunity to the disease , and a nearly detection and treatment regimen , which is relatively inexpensive .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but its worth looking at .
I do think though , that the common denominator here is that with what is now trillions invested in fighting this , it is going to be hard to be purely objective , it has to be .
I know full well in just what I do how hard that can be ( take the current tropical system coming at the US ( this was written Wednesday ) .
My company was warning clients and anyone on our site , a week ago about this threat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stay with the idea .
And that is only over a week and one weather event ) But imagine if the stakes are so much higher , in larger aspects , economic , political , etc .
An extra common denominator is the state of humility needed to be objective .
Very very tough For if You have sunk everything you have into something you believe in , be it co2 destroying the planet of in finding this cure , how can you turn back ?
I can see how I can be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I am showing are fallacies in themselves .
But doesn ’ t questioning serve a purpose toward the common good , if it ’ s the common good being pursued ?
As I love to do , I will leave the reader the freedom to decide on these matters .

“We’re facing down the barrel of a gun with climate change, and particularly young people are looking for businesses and government to step up,” cofounder of Allbirds Joey Zwillinger.
This Begs the Question: If it’s a Gun is it a Toy Gun?
The facts do not support the statement as far as staring down the barrel of a gun with climate. I wrote earlier about the false parallels between Climate and Covid, that Covid is a pressing issue. Climate is not. Climate and the environment should not be confused as the same thing. The Environment and its cleanliness is a pressing issue, since I do believe we are stewards of the earth. The hiding of the fact that the US is a leader in reduction of air, land and sea pollution, is meant to feed into the missive that our way of life is ruining the planet. As in so many things we see the slight of hand where an agenda hijacks the true issue. However a common denominator is the fear that has been pushed. I certainly understand the fear with an unknown disease that is here now. But that ignores the fact that the vast majority of people with severe results had pre-existing conditions, which should give us reason to realistically assess the fear factor for the average person. But inclimate, As we have shown so many times, there is a fallacy with the idea that a) man is causing so much of the warming and b) that the warming is bad unless metrics such as Climate deaths plummeting , Personal GDP, Life expectancy, population is going up, more food being grown than ever, the planet greener than its ever been in the satellite era, the reduction of strong tornadoes and the intensity and frequency of major hurricane hits on the our coast ( Though we have been front and center on this years threat, similar to 2005, and 2017) Wildfire acres burnt less than 20% of what it was in the early 20th century, (I can go on and on with this) are bad. They are, if your goal is to suppress progress brought about by American exceptionalism. But you know the drill. So fear and fallacy are common in both, one may be reasonable as a disease with no known cure like this, is an event that can evoke fear. However given mans constant adaptation to climate over the years, and what is turning out to be metrics that show things are better, that fear factor is overdone based on fallacy.
There are ways to balance the co2 increase no matter what the cause, and I discussed that in the previous blog and others. So while there are suspected cures for Covid, there are real “cures” for those that fear co2 and you can see it in the seasonal decrease of co2 when the northern hemisphere greens. Again I have written about this before, but might as well show it again, The 2 year co2 Keeling Curve courtesy of Scripps institution:
The link
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/wp-content/plugins/sio-bluemoon/graphs/mlo_two_years.png
The intuitive and easy, relative to the destructive Green New Deal, is to plant more trees globally. If you love the environment, why would you stand against that anyway?
All this climate hysteria is revealed in Michael Schellenberg’s book,
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
It is one thing for me to say it, but when a prime Catastrophic Global Warming person comes out like this, it’s a different, almost impossible level to fathom on a personal level, because of the intimidation that is put on anyone who dare breaks the ranks of that movement. Along with Alex Epstein’s The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, it exposes this for what it is, little about science, but simply a tool for another agenda which the reader can figure out.
Funding. It is darn near impossible for anyone on the CAGW side of this argument to reverse course. Companies and Countries have invested what is now trillions of dollars into something that leaves them powerless to back down from. Grants and funding to our universities are heavily tilted toward proving the catastrophic Climate change missive. (which of course begs the question if it’s a done deal, why are we researching it any more? Water freezing at 32 is settled science, Gravity is settled science, The sun is darn hot is settled science. So if this is settled science why is this continuing?) Just try to get a grant that would prove the opposite, or even raise a question. Which means if we are still researching it, it is not settled science, and science demands opposing arguments, something that has gotten shut down. Freedom of speech is another victim of this agenda
Consider this: Does not the missive of Fear, Fallacy and Funding, in light of the improving human condition, contradict life itself? Doesn’t the shutting down of ideas contradict freedom? Isn’t the limiting of energy, the continued draining of the average persons funds via something like the Green New Deal, contradict the pursuit of happiness? ( not to mention the censoring of certain kind of talk, including spiritual, one can argue that hits all 3 at once)
A possible, if not likely, conclusion, is all this is designed to go against the number one principle of the foundation of this country. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. If an agenda limits all that,what can its purpose possibly be?
The triple crown of inexpensive methods of solving the co2 fear, The Trillion Tree initiative, Nuclear power and Carbon Capture should appeal across the board instead of the 10 trillion dollar Green New Deal. But again this would lead to a lot of funding drying up and also mean the problem goes away, meaning a lot of money was wasted both already spent or invested, or for future considerations
How is this like Covid? Without getting into too much detail, there is great resistance to methods that have appeared to have success in other areas. What is Japan doing,1000 deaths in a country of 120 million? Taiwan 10 deaths in a country of 23 million.South Korea 51 million people, 300 deaths. So without lockdowns, how did they do it? Theories range from lifestyle, enhanced immunity to the disease, and a nearly detection and treatment regimen, which is relatively inexpensive. I have no idea what the answer is, but its worth looking at. I do think though, that the common denominator here is that with what is now trillions invested in fighting this, it is going to be hard to be purely objective, it has to be. I know full well in just what I do how hard that can be ( take the current tropical system coming at the US ( this was written Wednesday). My company was warning clients and anyone on our site, a week ago about this threat, so there is a willingness to stay with the idea. And that is only over a week and one weather event) But imagine if the stakes are so much higher, in larger aspects, economic, political, etc.
An extra common denominator is the state of humility needed to be objective. Very very tough For if You have sunk everything you have into something you believe in, be it co2 destroying the planet of in finding this cure, how can you turn back? I can see how I can be wrong, and that perhaps these parallels I am showing are fallacies in themselves. But doesn’t questioning serve a purpose toward the common good, if it’s the common good being pursued? As I love to do, I will leave the reader the freedom to decide on these matters.


committeeconstructivetomorrowcfactorg--2020-07-31--Historic Space X news conference 10:45 AM ET, will Hurricane Isaias delay reentry?

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are scheduled to return to Earth August 2nd , but may be delayed @ @ @ @ @ Florida .
Watch their press conference LIVE : July 31 , 2020 at 10:45 AM @ @ @ @ @ mark the first launch and return of Americans on an American spacecraft since the shuttle @ @ @ @ @ be thousands more !

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are scheduled to return to Earth August 2nd, but may be delayed by Hurricane Isaias approach to Florida. Watch their press conference LIVE: July 31, 2020 at 10:45 AM.
This historic mission will mark the first launch and return of Americans on an American spacecraft since the shuttle was decommissioned. May there be thousands more!


committeeconstructivetomorrowcfactorg--2020-08-01--Watching CO2 feed the world

Watching CO2 feed the world

Watching a child grow is seeing carbon dioxide in action .
Plants turn CO2 into the food we eat to live and grow on .
“ You can ’ t live on air ” is a common saying but that is just what we do ; we live on air and water .
Few people appreciate this amazing fact , that CO2 in the air is the global food supply .
Our meat , fruit and veggies , also our candy and ice cream , milk and wine , are built almost entirely from carbon dioxide and water .
Everything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also a bit of nitrogen , to make protein , plus a bunch of trace minerals and vitamins , but you and I are basically composed of processed H2O and CO2 .
We should be very thankful that this CO2 food supply is increasing every year , along with our hungry mouths .
Instead the climate alarmists want to reduce it , supposedly to make the weather better .
This is truly stupid .
Carbon dioxide is feeding the world , more every year .
The last thing we want to do is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chemistry is complex but the facts are simple ( and miraculous ) .
Plants use the energy of sunlight to transform CO2 and water into their food .
They both live and grow on this food , just as we do .
Animals eat the plants and each other , then we eat both .
Thus we all live on processed carbon dioxide .
It is no accident that we exhale water and carbon dioxide .
We are simply completing what is called the carbon cycle when we do this .
Our bodies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the energy they need to live and this returns the carbon dioxide and water to their original form .
All living things exist this way .
It is a tragedy of ignorance that almost no one knows about this miracle .
I have seen school lessons that actually teach the carbon cycle without mentioning carbon dioxide .
They talk as though plants get their food from the ground , not the air .
Even worse , CO2 is demonized as air pollution .
The world ’ s food supply can not be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ To correct this ignorance it might be useful to label our foods with the amount of carbon dioxide they embody .
We already label them for calories , fat , vitamins and such .
People should learn how much CO2 they eat every day and be thankful for it .
Water is plentiful in most places , but carbon dioxide is scarce everywhere .
For every million molecules of air only about 400 are CO2 .
That plants can actually find and consume these scarce molecules is amazing in itself .
That all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even more amazing .
A hundred years ago there were less than 300 molecules per million but happily that number has increased steadily .
Plant productivity has increased accordingly , helping to feed our growing population .
This is called the greening of planet Earth .
The climate alarmists have people calculating their so-called “ carbon footprint ” which is how much CO2 they cause to be generated .
Everyone should be proud of their carbon footprint ; it is helping feed the world .
Make it bigger , not smaller .
For @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , check out the C .
For a lot of the science see the website .

Watching a child grow is seeing carbon dioxide in action. Plants turn CO2 into the food we eat to live and grow on. “You can’t live on air” is a common saying but that is just what we do; we live on air and water.
Few people appreciate this amazing fact, that CO2 in the air is the global food supply. Our meat, fruit and veggies, also our candy and ice cream, milk and wine, are built almost entirely from carbon dioxide and water. Everything we eat and drink.
There is also a bit of nitrogen, to make protein, plus a bunch of trace minerals and vitamins, but you and I are basically composed of processed H2O and CO2.
We should be very thankful that this CO2 food supply is increasing every year, along with our hungry mouths. Instead the climate alarmists want to reduce it, supposedly to make the weather better. This is truly stupid. Carbon dioxide is feeding the world, more every year. The last thing we want to do is reduce the global food supply.
The chemistry is complex but the facts are simple (and miraculous). Plants use the energy of sunlight to transform CO2 and water into their food. They both live and grow on this food, just as we do. Animals eat the plants and each other, then we eat both. Thus we all live on processed carbon dioxide.
It is no accident that we exhale water and carbon dioxide. We are simply completing what is called the carbon cycle when we do this. Our bodies use some of the CO2 based food for the energy they need to live and this returns the carbon dioxide and water to their original form. All living things exist this way.
Carbon cycle: CO2 (+ water) in —> Life—> CO2 (+ water) out.
Life is a CO2 based miracle.
It is a tragedy of ignorance that almost no one knows about this miracle. I have seen school lessons that actually teach the carbon cycle without mentioning carbon dioxide. They talk as though plants get their food from the ground, not the air.
Even worse, CO2 is demonized as air pollution. The world’s food supply cannot be pollution. How stupid is that!
To correct this ignorance it might be useful to label our foods with the amount of carbon dioxide they embody. We already label them for calories, fat, vitamins and such. People should learn how much CO2 they eat every day and be thankful for it.
Water is plentiful in most places, but carbon dioxide is scarce everywhere. For every million molecules of air only about 400 are CO2. That plants can actually find and consume these scarce molecules is amazing in itself. That all life ultimately feeds on these molecules is even more amazing.
A hundred years ago there were less than 300 molecules per million but happily that number has increased steadily. Plant productivity has increased accordingly, helping to feed our growing population. This is called the greening of planet Earth.
The climate alarmists have people calculating their so-called “carbon footprint” which is how much CO2 they cause to be generated. Everyone should be proud of their carbon footprint; it is helping feed the world. Make it bigger, not smaller.
For more on the miracle of carbon dioxide, check out the C O2 Coalition . For a lot of the science see the CO2 Science website.


committeeconstructivetomorrowcfactorg--2020-08-01--Will a threatened Australian species check into the “Seahorse hotel”?

Could an underwater “ hotel ” of sorts provide an endangered seahorse the opportunity to avoid extinction ?
Well that is what scientists say will be the case when it comes to “ White ’ s seahorse , ” a species that is native to waters off Australia ’ s Pacific coast .
Out of some 50 seahorse species globally , the White ’ s seahorse is one of only two that is threatened with extinction ( the other being the South African seahorse ) .
To make matters worse , in recent years its population has tumbled dramatically due @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroyed its habitat — wiping out 90 % of the population in its favored waters around Sydney .
To help resuscitate White ’ s seahorse numbers , wildlife experts in Sydney Harbor are constructing special “ seahorse hotels ” to provide them a place to reside and multiply .
As explained in the publication EcoWatch : “ Seahorses wrap their tails around seagrass and corals to avoid being carried away on currents .
They use the habitat to spawn and hide from predators such as crabs , while also feeding on riches of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reef .
“ Where corals aren ’ t available , scientists found seahorses taking up residence in fishing nets and old crab traps abandoned at the bottom of the ocean .
“ This inspired the Sydney team to increase available habitat in the famous Australian harbor by building cages of net and steel .
Over time , algae , sponges and corals colonize the structures , creating a safe , welcoming environment for the seahorses , say the researchers .
The hotel frame will eventually corrode , leaving behind the coral mounds that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trialed the first hotels in 2018 .
Within two months , seahorses had begun to move in and soon a few males fell pregnant.
” Will these hotels ultimately succeed in saving the rare , odd looking marine animal ?
Time will tell .
In the meantime , scientists remain optimistic as a project that recently released 90 seahorses into the wild has seen good success after its first month of operation .
For more information , you can read the full story in EcoWatch here .

Could an underwater “hotel” of sorts provide an endangered seahorse the opportunity to avoid extinction?
Well that is what scientists say will be the case when it comes to “White’s seahorse,” a species that is native to waters off Australia’s Pacific coast.
Out of some 50 seahorse species globally, the White’s seahorse is one of only two that is threatened with extinction (the other being the South African seahorse). To make matters worse, in recent years its population has tumbled dramatically due to a pair of wild storms that destroyed its habitat — wiping out 90% of the population in its favored waters around Sydney.
To help resuscitate White’s seahorse numbers, wildlife experts in Sydney Harbor are constructing special “seahorse hotels” to provide them a place to reside and multiply.
As explained in the publication EcoWatch:
“Seahorses wrap their tails around seagrass and corals to avoid being carried away on currents. They use the habitat to spawn and hide from predators such as crabs, while also feeding on riches of plankton and small crustaceans living in the reef.
“Where corals aren’t available, scientists found seahorses taking up residence in fishing nets and old crab traps abandoned at the bottom of the ocean.
“This inspired the Sydney team to increase available habitat in the famous Australian harbor by building cages of net and steel. Over time, algae, sponges and corals colonize the structures, creating a safe, welcoming environment for the seahorses, say the researchers. The hotel frame will eventually corrode, leaving behind the coral mounds that have grown around them.
The researchers trialed the first hotels in 2018. Within two months, seahorses had begun to move in and soon a few males fell pregnant.”
Will these hotels ultimately succeed in saving the rare, odd looking marine animal? Time will tell. In the meantime, scientists remain optimistic as a project that recently released 90 seahorses into the wild has seen good success after its first month of operation.
For more information, you can read the full story in EcoWatch here.


Green “porn?”

Too often , reporting on the state of the environment is designed to frighten rather than enlighten .
Our Green friends don ’ t want to engage your intellect , which never works out for them .
Instead they seek to titillate , excite , unsettle , disturb and keep you hooked so you come back for more .
They implants lurid images in thought , foster anxiety , and implant unhealthy obsessions .
They push their message into through headlines , articles , statements and images ( many of them computer-enhanced ) that disseminate vivid , disturbing images and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disasters .
They embed their message in movies , TV shows , advertisements , online clickbait , etc .
Scary scenarios are the stock in trade .
The never ending Green narrative has inflicted cruel psychological damage on millions of young people .
News reports have stated that 20 , 30 , or more percent of young people ( Greta Thunberg being only the tip of the iceberg ) have suffered climate-change-related anxiety , depression , or fear .
Green porn is prolific and pervasive .
For decades , the Greens have has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ranging from agricultural devastation to inundated cities – none of which are coming to pass .
Sometimes they are absurdly self-contradictory , such as the prediction from several decades ago that Britain would have a Siberian climate by 2020 , while the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free ( neither of which has come to pass ) .
The Greens have hyped climate change as the greatest danger ever to human wellbeing .
It has screamed that the world is “ dangerously close ” to “ irreversible change.
” Jeremiads allege that Earth “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the wiggle word “ might ” ) .
An article earlier this summer proclaimed , “ Climate Change is Killing Americans ” ( although the article was sorely lacking in evidence ) .
Green porn exploits all forms of media .
TV shows include such depressingly absurd dialog as , “ We are going to flood and burn and starve.
” Books abound warning about Earth becoming “ uninhabitable , ” Green porn traffics in wild speculations of various ways the human race could be “ wiped out.
” Apocalyptic fantasies abound .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ predictions are remotely possible unless a giant asteroid hits our planet , Earth ’ s plate tectonics go into convulsions , or the sun ’ s output changes .
More CO2 in the atmosphere ( where it plays a relatively minor secondary role to water vapor in the life-saving greenhouse effect ) will not end life as we know it .
Green porn can be laughably absurd .
One example : “ Expert ” assertions that rising seas levels due to climate change are more destructive than nuclear bombs .
Oh , really @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a minute , whereas , at the current rate of seven inches of sea level rise per century , it would take 1200 years for the water level to rise seven feet , which is the current lowest elevation on Manhattan Island .
Before you tremble in fear about impending submersion under rising sea levels , consider the 1989 prediction made by a U.N. environmental official that “ entire nations could be wiped off the faces of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the way , if you to read a “ greatest hits ” compilation of failed green porn disaster predictions , check out the Competitive Enterprise Institute ’ s “ Wrong Again : 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.
” ) Are you , like me , an animal-lover ?
Then you might be disturbed by green claims that up to 75 percent of species are doomed and that 25,000 to 30,000 species will become extinct annually within the next 30 or 40 years .
Such fantastic – and fantastically wrong – predictions of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
For example , green icon Paul Ehrlich once boldly asserted , “ [ By 1985 ] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct.
” Today , 35 years after 1985 , the rate of species extinction ranges between two per year to less than one-half per year , depending on who is keeping score .
Bottom line : There is no need to fear a massive wave of extinctions .
Earlier this year , UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres resorted to green porn , declaring , “ Our planet is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fiddle.
” The Nero allusion is cute , but as a reasonable assessment of the state of the planet , Guterres is not even in the ballpark .
Earth has warmed somewhere between – brace yourself !
– one or two degrees since emerging from the Little Ice Age in the 1800s .
Two degrees warmer than a little ice age – which happens to be several degrees cooler than the Roman and Minoan periods during which civilizations advanced – is not exactly getting fried .
We should be grateful for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Little Ice Age .
The most effective antidote for green porn is to have a command of the pertinent facts .
Understand that the purveyors of green porn , like the purveyors of any porn , are in it for the most selfish reasons – money , popularity ( who can seduce the most eyeballs ? )
, and trendy ideology .
If your eye catches an apocalyptic headline proclaiming the climate-change-induced end of the world , be alert .
Don ’ t let the green pornographers use you .
Think , evaluate @ @ @ @ @ @ @

Too often, reporting on the state of the environment is designed to frighten rather than enlighten. Our Green friends don’t want to engage your intellect, which never works out for them. Instead they seek to titillate, excite, unsettle, disturb and keep you hooked so you come back for more.
They implants lurid images in thought, foster anxiety, and implant unhealthy obsessions.
They push their message into through headlines, articles, statements and images (many of them computer-enhanced) that disseminate vivid, disturbing images and messages of (allegedly) impending environmental disasters. They embed their message in movies, TV shows, advertisements, online clickbait, etc. Scary scenarios are the stock in trade. The never ending Green narrative has inflicted cruel psychological damage on millions of young people. News reports have stated that 20, 30, or more percent of young people (Greta Thunberg being only the tip of the iceberg) have suffered climate-change-related anxiety, depression, or fear.
Green porn is prolific and pervasive. For decades, the Greens have has tormented millions with scary scenarios and predictions ranging from agricultural devastation to inundated cities – none of which are coming to pass. Sometimes they are absurdly self-contradictory, such as the prediction from several decades ago that Britain would have a Siberian climate by 2020, while the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free (neither of which has come to pass).
The Greens have hyped climate change as the greatest danger ever to human wellbeing. It has screamed that the world is “dangerously close” to “irreversible change.” Jeremiads allege that Earth “might be unrecognizable” (but note the wiggle word “might”). An article earlier this summer proclaimed, “Climate Change is Killing Americans” (although the article was sorely lacking in evidence).
Green porn exploits all forms of media. TV shows include such depressingly absurd dialog as, “We are going to flood and burn and starve.” Books abound warning about Earth becoming “uninhabitable,” Green porn traffics in wild speculations of various ways the human race could be “wiped out.” Apocalyptic fantasies abound. Reality check: None of these over-the-top predictions are remotely possible unless a giant asteroid hits our planet, Earth’s plate tectonics go into convulsions, or the sun’s output changes. More CO2 in the atmosphere (where it plays a relatively minor secondary role to water vapor in the life-saving greenhouse effect) will not end life as we know it.
Green porn can be laughably absurd. One example: “Expert” assertions that rising seas levels due to climate change are more destructive than nuclear bombs. Oh, really? A nuke can flatten Manhattan in a minute, whereas, at the current rate of seven inches of sea level rise per century, it would take 1200 years for the water level to rise seven feet, which is the current lowest elevation on Manhattan Island. Before you tremble in fear about impending submersion under rising sea levels, consider the 1989 prediction made by a U.N. environmental official that “entire nations could be wiped off the faces of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.” Oops. (By the way, if you to read a “greatest hits” compilation of failed green porn disaster predictions, check out the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.”)
Are you, like me, an animal-lover? Then you might be disturbed by green claims that up to 75 percent of species are doomed and that 25,000 to 30,000 species will become extinct annually within the next 30 or 40 years. Such fantastic – and fantastically wrong – predictions of species extinctions have been around for decades. For example, green icon Paul Ehrlich once boldly asserted, “[By 1985] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct.” Today, 35 years after 1985, the rate of species extinction ranges between two per year to less than one-half per year, depending on who is keeping score. Bottom line: There is no need to fear a massive wave of extinctions.
Earlier this year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres resorted to green porn, declaring, “Our planet is burning but too many decision makers continue to fiddle.” The Nero allusion is cute, but as a reasonable assessment of the state of the planet, Guterres is not even in the ballpark.
Earth has warmed somewhere between – brace yourself! – one or two degrees since emerging from the Little Ice Age in the 1800s. Two degrees warmer than a little ice age – which happens to be several degrees cooler than the Roman and Minoan periods during which civilizations advanced – is not exactly getting fried. We should be grateful for the warming that lifted us out of the Little Ice Age.
The most effective antidote for green porn is to have a command of the pertinent facts. Understand that the purveyors of green porn, like the purveyors of any porn, are in it for the most selfish reasons – money, popularity (who can seduce the most eyeballs?), and trendy ideology. If your eye catches an apocalyptic headline proclaiming the climate-change-induced end of the world, be alert. Don’t let the green pornographers use you.
Think, evaluate, reason. They hate that.


committeeconstructivetomorrowcfactorg--2020-08-02--Watch the historic SpaceX splashdown — 2:42 PM EDT, Sunday August 2nd

All our hopes and prayers are with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley and yours should be , too .
Their Dragon spacecraft separated from the International Space Station Saturday and is due to splashdown off the West Coast of Florida today at 2:42 pm EDT .
America has regained the ability to launch manned space missions for the first time since the space shuttle , with a private company leading the way .
This couldn ’ t be more important .
This will be a major step forward for America ’ s future in space and with us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power of free enterprise .
On Saturday , May 30 , SpaceX ’ s Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon ’ s second demonstration ( Demo-2 ) mission from Launch Complex 39A ( LC-39A ) at NASA ’ s Kennedy Space Center in Florida , and the next day Crew Dragon autonomously docked to the International Space Station .
This test flight with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Dragon spacecraft returned human spaceflight to the United States .
SpaceX and NASA are now targeting 7:34 p.m. EDT on Saturday , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ undock from the Space Station , with the two astronauts aboard the spacecraft , and return to Earth .
Approximately 19 hours later , after jettisoning its trunk and re-entering Earth ’ s atmosphere , Dragon will splash down at one of seven targeted water landing sites off the coast of Florida at 2:42 p.m. EDT on Sunday , August 2 .
The Demo-2 mission is the final major milestone for SpaceX ’ s human spaceflight system to be certified by NASA for operational crew missions to and from the International Space Station @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and the SpaceX and NASA teams have reviewed all the data for certification , NASA astronauts Victor Glover , Mike Hopkins , Shannon Walker , and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi will fly on Dragon ’ s first six-month operational mission ( Crew-1 ) targeted for late September .

All our hopes and prayers are with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley and yours should be, too.
Their Dragon spacecraft separated from the International Space Station Saturday and is due to splashdown off the West Coast of Florida today at 2:42 pm EDT.
America has regained the ability to launch manned space missions for the first time since the space shuttle, with a private company leading the way. This couldn’t be more important.
This will be a major step forward for America’s future in space and with us, all mankind.
Never underestimate the power of free enterprise.
From SpaceX:
On Saturday, May 30, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon’s second demonstration (Demo-2) mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the next day Crew Dragon autonomously docked to the International Space Station.
This test flight with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Dragon spacecraft returned human spaceflight to the United States. SpaceX and NASA are now targeting 7:34 p.m. EDT on Saturday, August 1 for Crew Dragon to autonomously undock from the Space Station, with the two astronauts aboard the spacecraft, and return to Earth. Approximately 19 hours later, after jettisoning its trunk and re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, Dragon will splash down at one of seven targeted water landing sites off the coast of Florida at 2:42 p.m. EDT on Sunday, August 2.
The Demo-2 mission is the final major milestone for SpaceX’s human spaceflight system to be certified by NASA for operational crew missions to and from the International Space Station. Once the Demo-2 mission is complete, and the SpaceX and NASA teams have reviewed all the data for certification, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi will fly on Dragon’s first six-month operational mission (Crew-1) targeted for late September.


committeeconstructivetomorrowcfactorg--2020-08-03--Cancel culture wants delete key for discourse, history

There ’ s finally some encouraging new evidence that a few leftward-leaning media and academic establishment types are becoming “ woke ” to growing perils and punishments for ideological blasphemy .
Last Thursday , even the moderate Wall Street Journal editors posted “ A Note to Readers ” that “ These pages won ’ t wilt under cancel-culture pressure.
” The notice was issued in response to a leaked letter signed by 280 of their “ colleagues ” that criticized allowing conservative viewpoints in their opinion section .
Earlier this month , Bari Weiss , a prominent New York Times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scathing open letter that charged she had been “ the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagreed with my views , ” and that she had been called “ a Nazi and a racist ” by them .
Weiss also claimed that the paper ’ s editors were more interested in appeasing powerful liberal social media influences than exercising objective news judgement .
She wrote , “ Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times , but Twitter has become its ultimate editor.
” In addition , Weiss referred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a kind of performance space ” where stories are selected and presented in a way to “ satisfy the narrowest of audiences , rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions.
” Also in April , about 150 writers , mostly clearly of liberal persuasion , finally mustered up the nerve to publish “ A Letter on Justice and Open Debate ” in Harpers magazine which calls for addressing an increasingly stifling climate of illiberality that has set in on all sides of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ [ appropriately righteous ] powerful protests for racial justice and demands for police reform , along with greater equality and inclusion ” have also led to an “ intensified new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity.
” The Harpers letter observes that the free exchange of information and ideas which constitute the vital lifeblood of a liberal society is daily becoming ever more constricted .
Censorship is spreading , as are an intolerance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public shaming and ostracism , and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty .
They write , “ We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters .
But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.
” For example , “ Editors are fired for running controversial pieces ; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity ; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics ; professors are investigated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study ; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes.
” As boundaries of what can and can not be said without threat of reprisal continue to narrow , writers , journalists and artists have come to fear losses of livelihoods if they dare to depart from the consensus , or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement .
Writing in The Wall Street Journal , theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss discusses how the ideological aggression of the cancel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Krauss observes that “ academic science leaders have adopted wholesale the language of dominance and oppression previously restricted to ‘ cultural studies ’ journals to guide their disciplines to censor dissenting views , to remove faculty from leadership positions if their research is claimed by opponents to support systemic oppression.
” A group of protesters used a strike at Michigan State University to force the resignation of its vice president for research , Stephen Hsu , for his crime of studying how human genetics might influence cognitive ability — something they charged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sinfully accused of supporting psychology research at MSU on statistics of police shootings that didn ’ t clearly support claims of racial bias .
A group of linguistic students initiated a public petition asking that the psychologist Steven Pinker be stripped of his position as at the Linguistics Society of America for such offenses as tweeting a New York Times article they disapproved of .
A distinguished chemist in Canada was censored by his provost for arguing in favor of merit-based science and against hiring practices that aim at equality of outcomes if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most meritorious candidates.
” Dr. Krauss believes that many scientists hold back in defending hard sciences from such corrupting intrusions by witnessing what happens to those who do .
Krauss writes , “ They see how researchers lose funding if they can ’ t justify how their research programs will explicitly combat claimed systemic racism or sexism.
” Also writing in The Wall Street Journal , Gerard Baker observes that “ in classrooms , newsrooms and boardrooms across the country , you can almost hear the silence as people internally check what they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cross the line they ’ ll be publicly denounced and very likely terminated.
” Lamenting that this darkness has indeed claimed democracy , Baker then asks , “ Will democracy , real democracy , where people can still find a place to express dissent , survive the darkness that will fall on them ?
” We might all wonder , and perhaps find light in courage to expose the tyranny .

There’s finally some encouraging new evidence that a few leftward-leaning media and academic establishment types are becoming “woke” to growing perils and punishments for ideological blasphemy.
Last Thursday, even the moderate Wall Street Journal editors posted “A Note to Readers” that “These pages won’t wilt under cancel-culture pressure.”
The notice was issued in response to a leaked letter signed by 280 of their “colleagues” that criticized allowing conservative viewpoints in their opinion section.
Earlier this month, Bari Weiss, a prominent New York Times reporter resigned, doing so with a scathing open letter that charged she had been “the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagreed with my views,” and that she had been called “a Nazi and a racist” by them.
Weiss also claimed that the paper’s editors were more interested in appeasing powerful liberal social media influences than exercising objective news judgement.
She wrote, “Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times, but Twitter has become its ultimate editor.”
In addition, Weiss referred to the paper having increasingly become “a kind of performance space” where stories are selected and presented in a way to “satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions.”
Also in April, about 150 writers, mostly clearly of liberal persuasion, finally mustered up the nerve to publish “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate” in Harpers magazine which calls for addressing an increasingly stifling climate of illiberality that has set in on all sides of issues.
The letter signatories warn that “[appropriately righteous] powerful protests for racial justice and demands for police reform, along with greater equality and inclusion” have also led to an “intensified new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity.”
The Harpers letter observes that the free exchange of information and ideas which constitute the vital lifeblood of a liberal society is daily becoming ever more constricted. Censorship is spreading, as are an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty.
They write, “We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.”
For example, “Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes.”
As boundaries of what can and cannot be said without threat of reprisal continue to narrow, writers, journalists and artists have come to fear losses of livelihoods if they dare to depart from the consensus, or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss discusses how the ideological aggression of the cancel culture is suppressing and corrupting scientific inquiry.
Krauss observes that “academic science leaders have adopted wholesale the language of dominance and oppression previously restricted to ‘cultural studies’ journals to guide their disciplines to censor dissenting views, to remove faculty from leadership positions if their research is claimed by opponents to support systemic oppression.”
A group of protesters used a strike at Michigan State University to force the resignation of its vice president for research, Stephen Hsu, for his crime of studying how human genetics might influence cognitive ability — something they charged smacked of eugenics. Hsu was also sinfully accused of supporting psychology research at MSU on statistics of police shootings that didn’t clearly support claims of racial bias.
A group of linguistic students initiated a public petition asking that the psychologist Steven Pinker be stripped of his position as at the Linguistics Society of America for such offenses as tweeting a New York Times article they disapproved of.
A distinguished chemist in Canada was censored by his provost for arguing in favor of merit-based science and against hiring practices that aim at equality of outcomes if they result “in discrimination against the most meritorious candidates.”
Dr. Krauss believes that many scientists hold back in defending hard sciences from such corrupting intrusions by witnessing what happens to those who do. Krauss writes, “They see how researchers lose funding if they can’t justify how their research programs will explicitly combat claimed systemic racism or sexism.”
Also writing in The Wall Street Journal, Gerard Baker observes that “in classrooms, newsrooms and boardrooms across the country, you can almost hear the silence as people internally check what they say in the knowledge that if they cross the line they’ll be publicly denounced and very likely terminated.”
Lamenting that this darkness has indeed claimed democracy, Baker then asks, “Will democracy, real democracy, where people can still find a place to express dissent, survive the darkness that will fall on them?”
We might all wonder, and perhaps find light in courage to expose the tyranny.


Climate misanthropes

Most of the doomsaying elites are candid about their contempt for the value of human life and about their political endgame .
They are defined by the term misanthropes , “ people who dislike humankind ” .
Liberal ideologues preach that an all powerful central government on a Global scale is necessary to save the planet .
It is also necessary to equitably distribute the worlds financial and physical resources .
Christina Figueres , former chief of The international Panel on Climate Change , called communism the optimal system for avoiding dangerous global warming in an article in the Daily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A year later on February 3 , 2015 at a European conference she acknowledged that the UN ’ s climate program has provided the political and organizational wherewithal to replace the economic system that made modern economic growth possible .
She said : “ This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally , within a defined period of time , to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years , since the Industrial Revolution.
” That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said Steve Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White in their brilliant 2016 book FUELING FREEDOM .
This requires central planning with uncompromising faith in the power of government and an even stronger belief that personal freedom need not be present in society .
It actually describes all the groups battling against our current government .
Could they all be misanthropes ?
The economic development model that the UN climate czar consigns to the dustbin of history allowed a middle class to flourish .
The hallmarks of that model , private property rights , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intertwined with the availability and and creative conversions of fossil fuels .
In the 1970s when the politics of environmentalism emerged , The Club of Rome published a dystopian manifesto titled Limits To Growth predicting the end of growth and the need for a centrally controlled economy .
Mr. Biden is building on that plan in his platform for the nation .
In the Club of Rome ’ s 1991 publication The First Global Revolution , the organization unashamedly revealed their misanthropic world view .
It said , “ The common enemy of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a new enemy to unite us we came up with the idea that pollution , the threat of global warming , water shortages , famines and the like would fit the bill.
” Yes you read that correctly .
Not to be outdone in misanthropy Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich wrote in a report to The Federation of American Scientists in 1978 “ Giving society cheap , abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.
” The Marxist founder of the United Nations Environment Program , the late @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only hope for the planet ” is the collapse of industrialized civilizations .
The planetary management advocated by these alarmists is to be carried out by those sanctioned by the elites rather than by the consent of the people .
Few Americans on either side of the political spectrum appear to be aware of this dark side of the global warming issue , and few public officials seem willing to risk the wrath that the mainstream media reserves for climate heretics .
Yet opinion polls consistently show that a strong majority of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governance .
Europeans may be accustomed to their governments social engineering .
We doubt that a critical mass of Americans are willing to surrender to green mandates that will limit the number of miles they drive until they purchase an electric car .
If our democratic form of government is to endure , energy policies must be made to satisfy the desires of the public .
This could well end Nov 3 .
Given the weakening evidence for any concern about climate change and the counterproductive consequences of climate policies , surely economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to what ever change the Earth might experience .
America ’ s future may not offer a climate any different from today ’ s , but the future that the alarmists propose is a regression toward the pre-industrial era devoid of the freedoms and prosperity afforded by plentiful energy .
Today it would be hard to argue that no one other than George Soros is the worlds most powerful and effective misanthrope .
It would take a team of psychiatrists to figure out why a man with a billion dollars who has made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this country as to devote decades and his few remaining years at 89 to destroying his adopted homeland .
Perhaps an undiagnosed brain tumor or premature dementia brought on this psychosis .
Why else would he finance people intent on undermining all this country has stood for .
Why else would he help elect the politicians who allow thugs to run wild burning , looting and vandalizing to their heart ’ s content .
We are told that Soros is a socialist , but what is a Socialist ’ s idea of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the old Soviet Union , China , Cuba , North Korea or Venezuela ?
Or perhaps Nazi Germany , where though he was a Hungarian Jew , he cast his lot with the barbarians .
He identifies with them still .
Note : Portions of this article were excerpted directly from the book Fueling Freedom with permission of the authors Steve Moore and Kathleen White .
The book is recommended as the very best treatise on American energy yet to be written .

Most of the doomsaying elites are candid about their contempt for the value of human life and about their political endgame. They are defined by the term misanthropes, “people who dislike humankind”.
Liberal ideologues preach that an all powerful central government on a Global scale is necessary to save the planet. It is also necessary to equitably distribute the worlds financial and physical resources.
Christina Figueres, former chief of The international Panel on Climate Change, called communism the optimal system for avoiding dangerous global warming in an article in the Daily Caller on January 15, 2014. A year later on February 3, 2015 at a European conference she acknowledged that the UN’s climate program has provided the political and organizational wherewithal to replace the economic system that made modern economic growth possible. She said : “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”
That is a “frighteningly arrogant statement” said Steve Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White in their brilliant 2016 book FUELING FREEDOM. This requires central planning with uncompromising faith in the power of government and an even stronger belief that personal freedom need not be present in society. It actually describes all the groups battling against our current government. Could they all be misanthropes?
The economic development model that the UN climate czar consigns to the dustbin of history allowed a middle class to flourish. The hallmarks of that model, private property rights, a competitive market and personal freedom are today intertwined with the availability and and creative conversions of fossil fuels.
In the 1970s when the politics of environmentalism emerged, The Club of Rome published a dystopian manifesto titled Limits To Growth predicting the end of growth and the need for a centrally controlled economy. Mr. Biden is building on that plan in his platform for the nation.
In the Club of Rome’s 1991 publication The First Global Revolution, the organization unashamedly revealed their misanthropic world view. It said, “The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famines and the like would fit the bill.” Yes you read that correctly.
Not to be outdone in misanthropy Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich wrote in a report to The Federation of American Scientists in 1978 “Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”
The Marxist founder of the United Nations Environment Program, the late Maurice Strong, contended that “the only hope for the planet” is the collapse of industrialized civilizations. The planetary management advocated by these alarmists is to be carried out by those sanctioned by the elites rather than by the consent of the people.
Few Americans on either side of the political spectrum appear to be aware of this dark side of the global warming issue, and few public officials seem willing to risk the wrath that the mainstream media reserves for climate heretics. Yet opinion polls consistently show that a strong majority of the U.S. citizens abhor the idea of global governance. Europeans may be accustomed to their governments social engineering. We doubt that a critical mass of Americans are willing to surrender to green mandates that will limit the number of miles they drive until they purchase an electric car. If our democratic form of government is to endure, energy policies must be made to satisfy the desires of the public. This could well end Nov 3.
Given the weakening evidence for any concern about climate change and the counterproductive consequences of climate policies, surely economic growth offers the best bet for adaptation to what ever change the Earth might experience. America’s future may not offer a climate any different from today’s, but the future that the alarmists propose is a regression toward the pre-industrial era devoid of the freedoms and prosperity afforded by plentiful energy.
Today it would be hard to argue that no one other than George Soros is the worlds most powerful and effective misanthrope. It would take a team of psychiatrists to figure out why a man with a billion dollars who has made his home in America would so despise this country as to devote decades and his few remaining years at 89 to destroying his adopted homeland.
Perhaps an undiagnosed brain tumor or premature dementia brought on this psychosis. Why else would he finance people intent on undermining all this country has stood for. Why else would he help elect the politicians who allow thugs to run wild burning , looting and vandalizing to their heart’s content.
We are told that Soros is a socialist, but what is a Socialist’s idea of a perfect socialist state: a dictatorship modeled on the old Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea or Venezuela? Or perhaps Nazi Germany, where though he was a Hungarian Jew , he cast his lot with the barbarians. He identifies with them still.
Note: Portions of this article were excerpted directly from the book Fueling Freedom with permission of the authors Steve Moore and Kathleen White. The book is recommended as the very best treatise on American energy yet to be written.