“We could be just around the corner from a full-blown ice age or, at the very least, a mini-ice-age, which would mean longer, harsher winters across most of the northern land mass of Earth.”
Obama’s Energy Policy and the Possible Effect on the Poor
By D. M. Mitchell
I don’t believe in human-caused global warming/climate change. I’ve been researching for over three years now and there is plenty of evidence to show that CO2 has little to no effect on global warming. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that heat always flows spontaneously from regions of higher temperature to regions of lower temperature, and never the reverse.
So what has the higher temperature, the surface of the Earth or the upper atmosphere? The upper atmosphere is extremely cold, of course. Yet we are supposed to believe that the CO2 in the upper atmosphere will radiate heat back to the warmer surface of the Earth thereby breaking the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
CO2 is absolutely necessary for plant growth and the more the better. Without CO2 plants die and then everything else dies, including people. Plants, if you will remember from your middle school science classes, produce oxygen, which is what humans, and other animals need in order to survive. Simple, right?
Ice core samples have shown that in the past CO2 levels followed the warming of the Earth, not the other way around as we have been told and as Obama obviously believes. (Of course, if he really doesn’t believe that then … well, I really don’t want to go there.)
Also, it’s been hotter in the past with lower CO2 levels. Humans, it seems, have short term memories or don’t bother to check on what happened 50 to 100 years ago.
We are also near the end of an inter-glacial period. Over the last several hunderd thousand years, there have been major ice-age glaciations of the northern hemisphere. Each ice age lasted about 100,000 years and the inter-glacial period last between 10,000 and 12,000 years. That along with the fact that sun spot activity is low (more sun spots means more energy output from the sun, means more energy–heat–received by the Earth) among other factors, means that we could be just around the corner from a full-blown ice age or, at the very least, a mini-ice-age, which would mean longer, harsher winters across most of the northern land mass of Earth.
Okay, that’s the basics. So, if we don’t have global warming to the point that Obama, Gore, et.al., believe, we will, eventually, have global cooling. There are some who are predicting a mini-ice-age beginning in 2014. But the Obama policy, if carried out in full, will raise energy prices and raise them substantially. Those on fixed incomes and the poor in general, will not be able to afford to properly heat their houses or apartments. That means we will have a higher than average death rate from pneumonia and other cold-related disease, including some who will merely freezed to death if they don’t starve to death first. What can they afford to pay for? The choice will be between food and heating costs.
Of course, if the global warmist are correct that we are going into a severe warming stage on Earth (but, surely not from CO2), then the higher energy prices means that the poor and elderly on fixed incomes will die at a higher rate from heat exhaustion because they won’t be able to afford to properly cool their homes or apartments.
Either way, it looks like the Obama energy policy is design to harm those on the lowest end of the economic scale in America. The middle class will struggle with higher energy prices, but will be able to manage it, and the rich, of course, won’t have any problem at all paying to keep their houses warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
This begs the question: Why is Obama and the liberal left so set on harming the most vulnerable people in our nation?
http://logicversusemotion.blogspot.com/2012/09/obamas-energy-policy-and-possible.html
Posted by permission
25 Responses to Obama’s Energy Policy and the Possible Effect on the Poor
SUNSPOTS
11 May - 4 sunspots
Credit: landscheidt.infoGood news! A publisher in Italy has now translated Not by Fire but by Ice into Italian.
La Prossima Era Glaciale
Available hereClick for full size
Ice Age Maps
Are You Prepared?
I recommend this DVD
Warmer during most of
the past 10,000 years
- 530,003
Unique
VisitorsPowered By
He isn’t worried the poor might not be able to pay. He will steal the middle class and rich peoples money to give them. The way its going we can burn dollars for warmth after the FED devalues them.
Well then, everyone will be poor. And, as it states in the Declaration of Independence: “[A[ll experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” So then the question is: At what point will the citizens of the U.S. decide that the “evils” are unsufferable and rise up to change them?
That is why the democrat and progressive politicians and their enablers are so for gun control and against second the second amendment. Once the ignorant masses realize what’s been done to them, there will be no means to “throw off such government” as was done in the American Revolution. The masses will indeed be serfs with no means to leave the region or to improve their economic or social status.
This is why democrats and progressives and their enablers are so for gun control and against second amendment rights. Because once the ignorant masses realize what’s been done to them they will not have the means to “throw off such government” and the people will indeed be serfs with no means to leave the region or to improve their economic or social condition.
It’s chilly here today in Massachusetts. I’m writing this in my car and I have to keep running it for the heater. I wonder if the ice age has already started?
Yeah, it’s chilly here in the Central Valley of California, too. I think it only got to 78 degrees today.
Try staying warm in an electric car sometime. By the time the car is warm inside, the batteries are so dead you won’t make it out of the driveway. That’s eco friendly for you.
What is it about eco products anyway? They are always pricey and they suck. If a company makes a bad product, all they need to do is put a green eco-label on the outside and suddenly it will sell. The over-price and poor performance are forgiven because its eco.
I feel that Obama is tired of his job as a puppet. A new president will be “elected”. The new one will come forth with the powers and will of his lords of shadows chipped in his poor brain with all their glory! And the BS about “global warming” will live on like frankenstein. It’s alive!
Yeah, except when all those Candaians have to move south. Then they will come up with some other emergency that needs the government to help us poor, helpless citizens out.
There are only 35 million Canadians, and 80% of them live within 200 miles of the US border. If the temperature falls, it will be 200 years before it gets too cold for those frost bitten Canucks. They’re used to it.
Mr. Mitchell, the answer to the question “Why is Obama and the liberal left so set on harming the most vulnerable people in out nation?” is easy.
The more down-trodden people can be made, the more they will look to government for salvation from big, rich, evil corporations. It’s about garnering more votes. It’s about control!
It was actually a rhetorical question. The government, as defined as Democrat or Republican, is a tool of the rich. We were warned of this by several of the founding fathers of this once great nation.
The US is blessed with the American farmer, the most productive and innovative food producer in world history. Whether in a “little ice age” or in a full-blown ice age, the American farmer will produce enough for both domestic use and export – just different crops, different varieties, different modes of cultivation. But the rest of the world is another matter. Today Egypt produces only half of its food needs, and is out of money to buy the rest. In an ice age, little or big, world food prices will be much, much higher, and governments in poor countries will fall before hungry, angry people. The US will be an island of (cold) stability.
The US farmer produces lots of grain, I agree. Tell me, though, just how much “grain” is on your table when you sit down to eat your meal? Did you forget that when it becomes untenable to live further north, people will be moving further south? Are you sure there will be enough farm land? If we are such great producers of food, why is it we import so much of what is on our table? The farmers in the US – what will be left of them after the energy policy bankrupts them, won’t produce for export. We’ll be lucky if they can produce enough to feed those that are left after the first big freeze with no reliable energy sources.
The govt. tells the major farmers what they can and cannot grow, they also pay farmers not to plant and is now trying to tell what the back yard farmer-homeowner if they can grow their own food and or how much. If it were up to me I would abolish the FDA, EPA, Dept energy, Dept of agriculture, Dept of education and a host more of govt. overlord, bureautic leaches…..
Hmm? I guess we will all have to have our 400 pounds of beans. (Reference: Tortilla Flat, by John Steinbeck.) Although I am following a paleo diet and know the hazards of eating grains and legumes, if worse come to worse, beans and tortillas will be just fine with me … better than starving, eh?. And, if the population and growing areas have to move south, so will cooler weather and more precipitation, making Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Northern Mexico a better place to grow the corn and beans. Archeologists have confirmed that several thousand years ago, pinon pine and oaks grew in what is the Northern Sonoran Desert surrounding Tucson, Arizona.
“Global warming,” and any attendant policy, has always had only one agenda in mind. It’s not about wealth redistribution, it is about population reduction. No policy, facing the strong possibility of a return to ice age like conditions, that intentionally removes the tools of survival – shelter and food – is intended for any other reason than to rid the world of “useless eaters.”
You are correct in saying the rich will survive, and you probably are right when you say the middle class will struggle, but, I suspect, they will survive in poverty level conditions – perfect for serfdom. The lower class? The poor? The elderly? Not essential in the Utopia envisioned by the powers that are in control.
Let’s take it as possible that global warming DID exist. What would happen? Yes, there would be a shift in ecology, but does that mean we go back to the days of the dinosaur, when it very obviously was far warmer, globally, than it is now? Not likely, but it would mean that we would be farming in the tundra and still living as a race in a different landscape of animal life.
All through the history of the planet, either known or surmised through scientific investigation, species have come into existence and have died out. It wasn’t likely to have been Man’s fault that the ecosystem failed the dinosaurs. It isn’t likely now, either, that the ecosystem fails because of carbon dioxide.
Yes, we probably have affected much with our usage of “unnatural” chemical compounds that have seeped into the ecosystem. But carbon dioxide from burning carbon based fuels? Has not there always, most likely, been forest fires and wild fires sweeping the prairies?
You couldn’t have sold this AGW BS to the citizens of the world 50 years ago, but to the dumbed down, undereducated mass that exists today, it has become the holy grail. The powers that are put their priorities in the correct order, first insured the public would be ignorant by shorting their education, and then did what you can do with any ignorant society – brought in the Boogieman and scared them in the direction they chose. Look! there goes the dummies now, stampeding over the cliff! Hooray, hooray, what a lovely site. After they decompose, maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll turn into oil!
We have many wise comments. While watching Obama’s lackadaisical performance in the debate, it would seem there is something he knows about the future that we don’t. Many pertinent facts & guesses are in all these comments. The powers around & above him have their agenda, no doubt. Fiddlin
I honestly believe that when gorey started spouting this MMGW hoopla, he had already invested millions in the alternative energy manufacturing plants. He had it all planned out, convince congress and senate members to invest also in, “his”, plants, and then get them to pass laws to benifit the investments. Now that all of them have millions, (scancy pelosi alone has close to 12 mil invested in “alternative energy” manufacturing),tied up in the industry, they have to convince the sheeple that it is real or else lose all their investments. It is very possible that several have realized they were, “sold a bill of goods”, by gorry, but, its too late now. Bottom line, too many people in power, have too much money tied up in this con to lose. So, one way or another, they are going to pass laws or let the epa make laws to get their money back!!
You said that “Over the last several hundred thousand years, there have been major ice-age glaciations of the northern hemisphere. Each ice age lasted about 100,000 years and the inter-glacial period last between 10,000 and 12,000 years.” What caused the ice age cycle to start??? Why were there not ice ages before that time period??? How did the earth maintain such a long extremely warm period for the dinosaur era??? It has been theorized that the elliptical orbit that the earth describes as it circles the sun is a component of the reason for ice age cycles. Has the earth’s movement around the sun changed down through the ages??? Or is it possible that the “fact” of the the earth’s approximate age could be in fact way off???
Here in southeast Texas, summer is back with a vengeance. Hot, humid and uncomfortable again. Don’t think we need to worry about freezing yet…
“What caused the ice age cycle to start???”
We have no explanation at present. This particular one has lasted for 2.5 M years. During the past 1 M years the cycle has been as described – approx 90,000 years of cold, and 10,000 years of warm. We are nearing the end of the present 10,000 year warm period.
“Why were there not ice ages before that time period???”
There were. This is not the first ice age.
“How did the earth maintain such a long extremely warm period for the dinosaur era???”
The earth is slowly cooling. It started out hot, and is slowly cooling.
“It has been theorized that the elliptical orbit that the earth describes as it circles the sun is a component of the reason for ice age cycles. Has the earth’s movement around the sun changed down through the ages???
Yes, the regular and periodic changes in the earth’s orbit are one factor in the present approximately 100,000 year cycle. It is possible that these periodic changes have always been happening, but unless the earth is in a colder period overall we would not have the 90,000 years of cold. This cycle is not the reason for the 2.5 MY ice age we are in. In short, nothing is static in nature, things are always changing, but observing previous regular cycles is is helpful in trying to predict what may happen in the future. This might be helpful: 4 Billion Years of Climate Change
Scientists can only go back so far–with ice core samples and mud from the bottom of the ocean–to see how many ice ages we’ve had. There is also a theory that when all the land mass was together there was a snowball Earth, completely covered in ice. Google it.
Dale, This isn’t your fault the Author of this article and this site should know better not to confuse people with statements like this:
“Each ice age lasted about 100,000 years and the inter-glacial period last between 10,000 and 12,000 years.”
He knows we have had only one Quaternary Ice age in the last 2.5 million years and many glaciations. But he uses the same terminology that has confused people for decades to believing we are not in the an Ice age.
I do wish we would be more accurate with our terminology
Thank you
Robert
Each ice age lasted about 100,000 years and the inter-glacial period last between 10,000 and 12,000 years.
Yes, we have descended into a major glaciation approximately every 105,000 years having to do, I believe, with orbital stretch. But we have also descended into lesser periods of glaciation approximately every 11,500 years in sync with both precession of the equinoxes and geomagnetic reversals. (If you consider a glaciation “lesser” where 40 percent of the larger mammals in the Northern Hemisphere went extinct.)
All I am trying to say is calling the glaciations ice ages is very confusing and it implies we never left the Quaternary Ice Age.
The Quaternary Ice age (can be called Quaternary glaciation) is the over all glaciation of the earth for the past +2.5 million years.
During Quaternary Ice age we have had glaciations and Interglacial
which is simply forming and retracted ice caps.
During the Quaternary Ice age the ice cap never melt away completely even in the most warmest periods of an interglacial.
There is absolutely no doubt glaciation during an ice age caused a number of mass extinctions.
Robert said,
“we have also descended into lesser periods of glaciation approximately every 11,500 years in sync with both precession of the equinoxes and geomagnetic reversals.”
Are you referring to something like the Younger Dryas? Or what Aristotle called supreme year?
Thank you