Global cooling

[mac]

Ah, mister polite is back with more insults, and the sackcloth argument. As polls show more and more suspicion of denier propaganda, spokespeople for the carbon industry resurface old arguments and attribute an apocaliptic future of cold and no computers to those who want to capture the true cost of carbon emissions. It bothers them not at all that nobody who understands climate change is arguing that we must abandon oil. But protecting that market share for oil is the goal, and no lie told in service of that goal is, to some, unethical.

So first, let's look at the growth of renewables. New generating capacity shows dramatic growth in renewable energy--estimates run from 37% to 75%. http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2014/01/renewable-energy-provides-37-of-all-new-us-electrical-generating-capacity-in-2013.html

for 2013, and for first quarter 2015: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2015/04/renewables-account-for-75-percent-of-new-us-generating-capacity-in-first-quarter-of-2015.html

Of course, the increasing support for a carbon tax or fee seems to be what most scares the climate liars. More and more people and increasing numbers of Republicans and businesses are falling in line to support such a fee. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/08/1702861/price-carbon-tax-broad-bipartisan-support-congress/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/business/energy-environment/large-companies-prepared-to-pay-price-on-carbon.html?_r=0

So business, and particularly the insurance industry, understand the increasing costs associated with global warming. Those with some vision and truly conservative principles understand that a carbon tax is much more efficient than a sector-by-sector regulatory structure that is currently in its initial stages.

But rather than take on serious alternatives, with serious discussion, propagandists will resurface the false choices of sackcloth and ashes. Perhaps they are linked too closely with hair shirts to understand the difference.

[mac]

It seems that there are a few Republican legislators, and organizations like the API, that get it. Some form of carbon tax is inevitable.

[mac]

Strange silence from the land of defense contractors and climate change apologists. Mrgybe and his ilk have now been publicly rebuked by the pope. It doesn't phase him to ignore facts, scorn the left coast (and all to the left of Atilla) but this is his own moral beacon. The oft-quoted line in the news:

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[real-human]

[mrgybe]

So embarrassingly predictable. They ridicule the Pope's positions on abortion, gay marriage, contraception, population growth. In these matters, to use their laughable dialog, the Pope is a member of the "Argentinian Taliban". They continuously accuse him and his colleagues of abuses of children when justifying bad behavior in their own ranks. However, if the Pope says something that they agree with.........no matter how much more balanced than their own inflammatory language..........he is their champion to be quoted as an authority. Schoolyard intellect.

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[real-human]

[mac]

I can understand mrgybe's defensiveness. After telling us all how important and influential he is, he proved it. The pope directly chastized him and his brethren in the denier business. Ouch. Pretty high profile. So he makes up a bunch of stuff, and pulls the classic diversion game.

[mrgybe]