Protesting Global Warming Today in Washington D.C.

One has to thing God has a sense of humor. Two contrasting stories in the news about sums it up.

Climate concerns spur power plant protest
By Jordy Yager
Posted: 03/02/09 06:53 AM [ET]
Several thousand people are expected to descend on the Capitol Power Plant (CPP) Monday afternoon to protest its continued use of coal.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who last week requested the plant shift to use the more environmentally-friendly natural gas, is planning to hold a press conference of her own Monday morning in support of discontinuing coal use at the plant.

The protest was organized by environmental groups like Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) who have battled with lawmakers from coal producing states such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.).

"The more than 2,500 people coming to Washington to call for a solution to the climate crisis and (put) an end to the use of coal are still coming because the climate is still in crisis and coal is still driving that crisis," said Michael Brune, executive director of the RAN.

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The counter protest...

Storm dumps up to 10 inches of snow
Transportation officials keep close watch on first major system of season
Joseph Weber (Contact)
Monday, March 2, 2009

The District had received roughly 3 inches and was expected to get 1 or 2 more before the powerful, late-winter storm moved into the Northeast, according to the National Weather Service.

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People Get Ready the UN is Coming

We are all going to die. Well maybe not but the world food price problem is now going to be made worse because the UN and the World Bank are set to tackle the issue. Not that they have any understanding of the reasons and possible solutions. They just sense an easy opportunity to pick the pockets of western citizens.

First on the agenda is the plea for funds, $755 million to start. Second will be the formation of a task force so needy relatives can get a piece of the action. This will all be followed by impotent resolutions and calls for more financing of their effort to find a remedy, mainly getting the west to give them more money toward the goal of UN control of commerce.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to provide the WFP all of the $755 million in emergency funds it needs for the crisis.

"Without full funding of these emergency requirements, we risk again the specter of widespread hunger, malnutrition, and social unrest on an unprecedented scale," Ban said.

Sadly this will result in the matter becoming completely out of control. Not only will the prices of food continue to increase but new unforeseen disasters will spin off of the very programs adopted to fix them.

The problem itself is directly attributable to the hysteria generated over Global Warming and the exploitation of that hysteria by politicians and the UN. The brilliant minds who saved us all from nuclear power plants, off shore oil rigs, domestic oil exploration and refineries decided that the need for energy would be met by bio-fuel. Unfortunately no one considered the crops that needed to be grown for bio-fuel were going to be grown on the same land as the crops for food. Nor did it enter their minds that an additional demand for crops would lead to an increase in the selling price. No surprise however that they accept no responsibility for their ill considered efforts having only made the world less prosperous.

Save the planet, close the UN.







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Bio-Fuel and Global Hunger

Bob Marshall is not the only official that recognizes the increase of food prices is directly related to the mandate for bio-fuel. The UN of all places has been reported in the British news service the Telegraph that it will lead to world hunger.

"The reality is that people are dying already," said Jacques Diouf, of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "Naturally people won't be sitting dying of starvation, they will react," he said.

The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted "massacres" unless the biofuel policy is halted.

This of course is in contrast to their programs that support bio-fuel as the answer to global warming.

Likewise, combustion of fossil fuels can lead to outdoor air pollution, acidification of land and water and emissions of greenhouse gases. In all these cases, the environmental damage and its harmful effects can be reduced by increasing energy efficiency, introducing modern technologies for energy production and use, substituting cleaner fuels for polluting fuels, and introducing renewable energy.
814 World Health
Organization. 2002.
The World Health Report
2002. Geneva.

Is it any wonder that people are skeptical of the whole global warming nonsense? While Our political leaders are all stumping for ethanol while standing in the way of oil field production and refining capacity the rest of us have to suffer the unintended consequences of their ignorance.

The New York Times of all places has an article that reveals how some politicians are waking up to the problem yet lack the backbone to do anything about it.

Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, said he had come to realize that Congress made a mistake in backing biofuels, not anticipating the impact on food costs. He said Congress needed to reconsider its policy, though he acknowledged that would be difficult.

"If there was a secret vote, there is a pretty large number of people who would like to reassess what we are doing," he said.

Nit wits such as Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and Ron Litterer, President of the National Corn Growers Association pass off the complaints as scapegoating despite the fact that farmers have decreased the acreage of other crops to plant additional corn acreage to take advantage of the dramatic upward move in the price for corn because of the new demand. Unlike oil, bio-fuel is subject to the real possibility of wide spread crop failure from drought and flooding.

The government has conducted the war on poverty only to see generations of families trapped in the welfare rolls. It instituted public education and millions of parents have to put their children in homeschool or privet school to ensure they get a real education. It punishes companies that move jobs overseas while letting tens of millions of foreigners to work here illegally. Now they are promising energy independence by driving the cost of everything including fuel to levels never seen before. Bob Marshall is not the only one who knows that bio-fuel is doing more harm than good but he seems to be one of the only one who holds public office that can see the damage that politics is causing the citizens.







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The New Light Bulbs are Already History

I said earlier that it would only be a matter of time before those screwy light bulbs Congress has mandated for us to use are found to be dangerous to our health. It didn't take long. The EPA is now warning that these bulbs are not safe to use anywhere. Just the suggested clean up procedures point to a future lawsuit.

Fluorescent light bulbs contain a very small amount of mercury sealed within the glass tubing. EPA recommends the following clean-up and disposal guidelines:

Before Clean-up: Vent the Room

1. Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more.
2. Shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system, if you have one.

Clean-Up Steps for Hard Surfaces

3. Carefully scoop up glass fragments and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
4. Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
5. Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes and place them in the glass jar or plastic bag.
6. Do not use a vacuum or broom to clean up the broken bulb on hard surfaces.

Clean-up Steps for Carpeting or Rug

3. Carefully pick up glass fragments and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
4. Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
5. If vacuuming is needed after all visible materials are removed, vacuum the area where the bulb was broken.
6. Remove the vacuum bag (or empty and wipe the canister), and put the bag or vacuum debris in a sealed plastic bag.

Disposal of Clean-up Materials

7. Immediately place all cleanup materials outside the building in a trash container or outdoor protected area for the next normal trash.
8. Wash your hands after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing clean-up materials.
9. Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your specific area. Some states prohibit such trash disposal and require that broken and unbroken mercury-containing bulbs be taken to a local recycling center.

Future Cleaning of Carpeting or Rug: Vent the Room During and After Vacuuming

10. The next several times you vacuum, shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system and open a window prior to vacuuming.
11. Keep the central heating/air conditioning system shut off and the window open for at least 15 minutes after vacuuming is completed.

It will not matter that Congress mandated these things. When the time comes you will be held liable for any pollution from the mercury in your home. Just like the Radon testing nonsense the day will come when you will have to prove zero mercury contamination before you can sell your house. The concerns are great enough that we may get Congress to repeal this stupid mandate before we are all on the hook for a nation wide Super Fund clean up.






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