Don’t you know that the extreme environmentalists are crapping themselves today with this announcement. Their “man” has let them down. All of those wannabe “environmentalists” from the media and Hollywood who enjoy their Hummers and limos, yet all try to act like they are Green must be livid.

Al Gore probably blew a blood vessel.

In a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling, President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia’s shorelines. At the same time, he is rejecting some new drilling sites that had been planned in Alaska.

Read the whole story at:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/31/obama-unveil-offshore-oil-drilling-plans/

H/T to www.blackfive.net for this video.

This video goes perfectly with the posting I put up yesterday. Not only is it very funny, but completely accurate.

Hey there Al gore, lets talk about you Chicken Little Rants of Global Warming.
 

How is that working out for the people in DC?

Or the people in Philly?

Or New York City?
 

Hmm, it looks like all your lies and claims about hot temperatures are nothing more than your own HOT AIR!!

Good Job Loser!

The best line is by far “You Gore is a jealous Gore…”

President Barack Obama spoke before the United Nation’s “Climate Change Summit” today. 

No nation, however large or small, wealthy or poor, can escape the impact of climate change.  Rising sea levels threaten every coastline.  More powerful storms and floods threaten every continent.  More frequent droughts and crop failures breed hunger and conflict in places where hunger and conflict already thrive. On shrinking islands, families are already being forced to flee their homes as climate refugees.  The security and stability of each nation and all peoples — our prosperity, our health, and our safety — are in jeopardy.  And the time we have to reverse this tide is running out.  
 
And yet, we can reverse it.  John F. Kennedy once observed that “Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.”  It is true that for too many years, mankind has been slow to respond or even recognize the magnitude of the climate threat. It is true of my own country, as well.  We recognize that.  But this is a new day.  It is a new era.  And I am proud to say that the United States has done more to promote clean energy and reduce carbon pollution in the last eight months than at any other time in our history.

Obviously,  Obama isn’t listening to some of the leading scientists on so-called “global warming,” or it’s current PC term “climate change.” 

Last week, Professor Mojib Latif of Germany’s Leibniz Institute gave a speech about global warming climate change.   The Calvary Herald is about the only media that covered the event, for obvious reasons.

Latif is one of the leading climate modellers in the world. He is the recipient of several international climate-study prizes and a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has contributed significantly to the IPCC’s last two five-year reports that have stated unequivocally that man-made greenhouse emissions are causing the planet to warm dangerously.

Yet last week in Geneva, at the UN’s World Climate Conference–an annual gathering of the so-called “scientific consensus” on man-made climate change –Latif conceded the Earth has not warmed for nearly a decade and that we are likely entering “one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.”

The global warming theory has been based all along on the idea that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would absorb much of the greenhouse warming caused by a rise in man-made carbon dioxide, then they would let off that heat and warm the atmosphere and the land.

But as Latif pointed out, the Atlantic, and particularly the North Atlantic, has been cooling instead. And it looks set to continue a cooling phase for 10 to 20 more years.

So, who do we believe here?  The most partisan President in the history of this country trying to further an extremely liberal agenda, or a scientist whose past research indicates that global warming is indisputable and now says he was wrong? 

But it is increasingly clear that global warming is on hiatus for the time being. And that is not what the UN, the alarmist scientists or environmentalists predicted. For the past dozen years, since the Kyoto accords were signed in 1997, it has been beaten into our heads with the force and repetition of the rowing drum on a slave galley that the Earth is warming and will continue to warm rapidly through this century until we reach deadly temperatures around 2100.

While they deny it now, the facts to the contrary are staring them in the face: None of the alarmist drummers ever predicted anything like a 30-year pause in their apocalyptic scenario.

Latif says he expects warming to resume in 2020 or 2030.

In own words during the speech, Latib said that he is “not one of the sceptics.  However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves or other people will do it.” 

The New Scientist also published parts of the speech.

Latif said NAO cycles also explained the recent recovery of the Sahel region of Africa from the droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. James Murphy, head of climate prediction at the Met Office, agreed and linked the NAO to Indian monsoons, Atlantic hurricanes and sea ice in the Arctic. “The oceans are key to decadal natural variability,” he said.

So, instead of facts from leading scientists on the issue of global warming climate change, President Obama used his typical “crisis” and “urgency” defense to try and force stupidity down our throats.

Mr. Secretary, as we meet here today, the good news is that after too many years of inaction and denial, there’s finally widespread recognition of the urgency of the challenge before us. We know what needs to be done.  We know that our planet’s future depends on a global commitment to permanently reduce greenhouse gas pollution.  We know that if we put the right rules and incentives in place, we will unleash the creative power of our best scientists and engineers and entrepreneurs to build a better world.  And so many nations have already taken the first step on the journey towards that goal.  
 
But the journey is long and the journey is hard.  And we don’t have much time left to make that journey.  It’s a journey that will require each of us to persevere through setbacks, and fight for every inch of progress, even when it comes in fits and starts.  So let us begin.  For if we are flexible and pragmatic, if we can resolve to work tirelessly in common effort, then we will achieve our common purpose:  a world that is safer, cleaner, and healthier than the one we found; and a future that is worthy of our children.

But, has the mainstream media mentioned what this scientist has said?  Have they noted is 180 degree reversal?  No.  It doesn’t fit the liberal template of what they want the public to believe.

Get this. 1948. With some minor changes it could be 2009… well, 2008 really. All too many already drank the brew and now we are seeing what it brings. Remember, in 1948 the United States had a national debt that was over four times the GNP as a result of WW-II. (And you thought we have a huge debt!) Our nation had a lot of choices to make.

Of course, most of the people who owned US Bonds then were Americans… not Chinese. But now we are waaaaay too smart to buy our own junk. Goes for cars, too.

There is not much on this earth that cannot be undone… except death and the passing of time. Most everything else can be undone… or perhaps fixed would be a better word. Make no mistake, though, the bottle of “ISM” has already been purchased and consumed by more than half of the population. Call it what you want… “liberalISM,” “socialISM” or whatever.

It’s funny that this actually came from a college. Nowadays, you’d be more likely to have a college or university produce a cartoon extolling the virtues of “ISM.”

It’s still nothing new. You know what is new?

So many people bought it.

Nice way to give up the ship. I guess rolling over and playing dead is one way to do it. I’d rather have a part in what’s happening then not. Maybe its just me, but I don’t give up so easy.
NY-David

It’s not about rolling over and playing dead. It’s about taking our medicine as a country. Between conservatives not voting, the unpopularity of many members of the last administration, and the personality cult that developed around Obama, the nation… WE… handed over the keys to the government completely to a single party. We found pretty much the only way to circumvent the checks and balances of the republic.

Now it’s time to reap the whirlwind.

It’s the political equivalent of what convinced some of my friends to quit smoking as they barely started… their father caught them and made them smoke the whole pack. “You want to smoke? Smoke ‘em all!”

“You want hopey-change? Take ALL of it!”

The hopey-change cannot be prevented, or potentially even blunted. Pelosi and company will have their way with America… and it is well under way. All the talk of bipartisanship is bullshit. They don’t need Republican participation or agreement, nor have they made more than cursory shows of seeking input from the other side of the aisle. There will be no restraint shown. There really hasn’t been to this point. There’s the “watch this hand… pay no attention to the vote this week on the other issue…” going on for months now. Obama announces that there is an urgency to do something and it is rammed through Congress post haste.

And there is not a thing that conservatives can do about it.

Cap and Trade has now passed the House. It is a shoe-in to pass the Senate. It is coming, and it is going to hurt. It is a tax on everyone, and it cannot but hurt everyone. Everyone got caught up in the Great Illusion of 2008. The left and center got caught up in the hopey-change and the right got caught being persnickety and then by the illusion of futility. Millions failed to vote as a result. Millions in the center decided to “try something new.”

I had a co-worker, Clint, whose personal views are more conservative than not. He is not a politically committed individual. McCain didn’t set his soul on fire, and he had become seduced by the concept that we somehow needed “change.” What kind of change was never solidified in his mind. He had become convinced that some vague change was needed, because an undefined sense of dissatisfaction had been instilled in him.

He couldn’t explain why, or what was so wrong.

He voted for Obama. As he explained, “I just wanted to see what he would do. It couldn’t be that bad, right?”

Right. Reap the whirlwind, Clint.

Clint’s not so happy now. He’s worried about how such things as Cap and Trade are going to affect his household budget. It can’t be good. He’s about to be taxed on his energy usage… his “carbon footprint.” He has no real idea of how this is going to affect him. He just wondered what Obama was going to do. He wonders how the health care “reform” is going to change his family’s health care situation.

It would be one thing if we had a balanced legislature, one that required compromise. We don’t. It would be one thing if it were just an administration. That’s not the extent of it. Everyone got suckered like a massive Ponzi Scheme and now it’s time to reap the whirlwind.

You’re going to reap it sooner or later. The best hope for this country to wake up with a hopey-change hangover in 2010 prior to the next series of Congressional elections is to forget about trying to blunt the whirlwind.

Liberalism is hopelessly idealistic. It has at its root the idea that government is somehow the higher power that can make it all okay. Those on the left cannot be disabused of this, but those in the center who have been seduced have only been temporarily seduced. Once they feel the pain of the increased burden, they will hate it. They just can’t see it coming.

Many are in the center because they basically have no ideology, no values that they can put a finger on that drives their political decisions. They call themselves “independents,” because that sounds reasonable, and many do not make up their minds until the last minute. They do not truly listen to the proposals of a particular candidate, only the impressions they feel. Obama is great about the impressions, and the Democratic Party is great about using simplistic one-liners. “It’s the economy, stupid” was a great example. No matter that it took the Democrats losing Congress in ’94 to moderate the liberalism of Clinton. It’s what saved us from going through all of this fifteen years ago.

But we love to flirt with the idealistic hopey-change. We want to eradicate poverty and take care of everyone. We hate the idea of human suffering, and we wish fervently for “someone” to make it all go away. The government making all human suffering disappear sounds like a great idea. Let’s make life fair through new governmental organizations.

We begin to buy into such blatant lies as, “Health care is a right.”

Well, then, so is food and housing. Doctors spend eight years in school, running up debts and living an austere life for the promise of a life spent in worthwhile causes and with great rewards. Now we announce, as a country, that because of their vocation, the fruits of their labors are the rightful property of the masses. This announcement brings with it a fundamental shift in our reality. A doctor’s time and skills are no longer something that we must provide to ourselves and our families, but something that belongs to us rightly… now we just have to figure out how to take it from the doctors. No matter what anyone says about it not going far, it cannot help but go through to its reasonable conclusion, because of the fundamental shift in ownership. The doctor no longer has the right to sell his service, because it is rightfully ours/. We will let the doctor retain the illusion of selling his services, but inevitably we will have to control it, because it is ours. We took ownership of it when we determined that health care is a right.

Which I failed to note in the Constitution, by the way. Liberals claim that it falls under the “right to life” part of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration of Independence, and that it falls under the “Provide for the general welfare” part of the responsibilities of government in the Constitution. I vehemently disagree with those assertions.

I have been out-voted. Some of those votes were from committed leftists, and many were from the center who has no idea what kind of Pandora’s box they have opened… and the conservatives who failed to vote at all. Let them feel it. Let them taste the government they have tacitly asked for. Let them have it.

I am convinced that most of us won’t like it. I know that I won’t. I don’t want to be part of a beehive. I do not admire the ants as a model for human society. I do not yearn for the government to solve all of my problems and to make life fair. I do not view the government as a beneficent Higher Power. Once they taste what they have sown, they won’t like it, either. It is the best chance that in 2010 Congress will be taken away from the Pelosians and some semblance of balance will be restored. The more we delay the inevitable, the greater the chances that by 2010 we won’t be suffering enough. It’s not about giving up the ship. It’s about realism. It’s about letting people taste what they have asked for. Like Clint, I don’t think that they really understand what they have done.

Jonn over at This Ain’t Hell tells how the Democrats are trying to sneak Cap and Tax by us without it being examined. To say that I am perturbed would be an understatement.  I suppose the “transparency” that was used to jam the stimulus package down our throats is still in play (and even as I’m typing this, BHO is having a presser about a potential immigration reform amnesty bill and touting “transparency”).  Why do I get the feeling that Cap and Tax will be considered “emergency legislation” by the administration in order to avoid that promised five day review period?   Time to light up those Congressional switchboards.

You really want to improve the economic outlook of this country AND relieve our dependence on foreign oil at the same time? I wonder why this didn’t make news and why our politicians aren’t pushing it:

Reston, VA – North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.

A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency’s 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil.

Technically recoverable oil resources are those producible using currently available technology and industry practices. USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources.

New geologic models applied to the Bakken Formation, advances in drilling and production technologies, and recent oil discoveries have resulted in these substantially larger technically recoverable oil volumes. About 105 million barrels of oil were produced from the Bakken Formation by the end of 2007.

The USGS Bakken study was undertaken as part of a nationwide project assessing domestic petroleum basins using standardized methodology and protocol as required by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 2000.

The Bakken Formation estimate is larger than all other current USGS oil assessments of the lower 48 states and is the largest “continuous” oil accumulation ever assessed by the USGS. A “continuous” oil accumulation means that the oil resource is dispersed throughout a geologic formation rather than existing as discrete, localized occurrences. The next largest “continuous” oil accumulation in the U.S. is in the Austin Chalk of Texas and Louisiana, with an undiscovered estimate of 1.0 billions of barrels of technically recoverable oil.

“It is clear that the Bakken formation contains a significant amount of oil – the question is how much of that oil is recoverable using today’s technology?” said Senator Byron Dorgan, of North Dakota. “To get an answer to this important question, I requested that the U.S. Geological Survey complete this study, which will provide an up-to-date estimate on the amount of technically recoverable oil resources in the Bakken Shale formation.”

The USGS estimate of 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil has a mean value of 3.65 billion barrels. Scientists conducted detailed studies in stratigraphy and structural geology and the modeling of petroleum geochemistry. They also combined their findings with historical exploration and production analyses to determine the undiscovered, technically recoverable oil estimates.

USGS worked with the North Dakota Geological Survey, a number of petroleum industry companies and independents, universities and other experts to develop a geological understanding of the Bakken Formation. These groups provided critical information and feedback on geological and engineering concepts important to building the geologic and production models used in the assessment.

Five continuous assessment units (AU) were identified and assessed in the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana – the Elm Coulee-Billings Nose AU, the Central Basin-Poplar Dome AU, the Nesson-Little Knife Structural AU, the Eastern Expulsion Threshold AU, and the Northwest Expulsion Threshold AU.

At the time of the assessment, a limited number of wells have produced oil from three of the assessments units in Central Basin-Poplar Dome, Eastern Expulsion Threshold, and Northwest Expulsion Threshold. The Elm Coulee oil field in Montana, discovered in 2000, has produced about 65 million barrels of the 105 million barrels of oil recovered from the Bakken Formation.

Results of the assessment can be found at http://energy.usgs.gov.

Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable… at $107 a barrel, we’re looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion. Here are the official estimates: -

8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia -

18-times as much oil as Iraq -

21-times as much oil as Kuwait -

22-times as much oil as Iran -

500-times as much oil as Yemen -

And it’s all right here in the Western United States. HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people dictate our lives and our economy.