THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XII, Issue # 196, September 19, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
NO SCIENCE, FAKE SCIENCE, & DESTRUCTION OF THE NATION
By Alan Caruba
ENERGY SOURCES, ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE, & THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS: ENVIRONMENTALISTS,
LEFTISTS, & THEIR ATTACK ON THE USE OF COAL, OIL, NATURAL GAS, & NUCLEAR FISSION AS SOURCES OF ENERGY --
GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF CARBON DIOXIDE & THE IMPACT ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY -- CARBON DIOXIDE &
CLIMATE CHANGE -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CARBON DIOXIDE & LIFE ON EARTH
FULL STORY:
Any scientist who has not sold his soul to the environmentalist movement will tell you that the reason that greenhouse
gases, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), do not cause any warming is due to the fact that they have to conform to the laws
of thermodynamics. The first law states that “energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only change form.”
Energy produced by coal, natural gas, oil, or nuclear fission is energy that has changed from one form of matter to another. The
attack on these sources of energy is a direct attack on the economic success of America, and it is one that is at a
dangerous peak of activity generated by the Obama administration, primarily through the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
There is simply no such thing as “dirty energy.” The push for socalled "clean energy," or "renewable energy," is a
fiction to advance the use of the two worst, most unpredictable and unreliable forms of energy, solar and wind energy.
They exist solely because of government subsidies and mandates. They produce little over three percent of the energy
used nationwide every day.
The September 12, 2010, edition of Bloomberg Businessweek addressed this in an article, “Lisa Jackson’s
High-Wire Act on Carbon Controls.” What the article did not say was that, if the EPA gains the authority to control
carbon dioxide, it will literally control all business and industrial activity in the nation, as well as the lives of all
Americans.
What the article did not say is that there is no scientific justification for controlling CO2 because it plays no role in the
socalled “climate change,” the new language being used to avoid saying “global warming.” It should be evident to a
kindergartner that humans not only do not affect the climate, but have no control over it.
The environmentalist movement that has devoted decades and millions to perpetrate the greatest science fraud in the
history of mankind has backed away from “global warming” for the obvious reason that the Earth has been in a cooling
cycle for the past decade, the result of a reduction in solar activity, a dormant period that has a long history of
preceding periods of cooling.
One of President Obama’s goals has been to secure legislation, known as the “Cap-and-Trade Act," that would
authorize a scheme by which “carbon credits” would be bought and sold by utilities and industry for the right to
produce and use energy. It is part of the global warming fraud and its sole purpose is political power while enriching a
few insiders betting on the expansion of alternative energy sources.
As the Bloomberg Businessweek article noted, the EPA has been attempting to exert authority over CO2, but
has been doing so "cautiously" to avoid evoking a public outcry against it. Thus, Lisa Jackson has offered a “tailored”
approach “that exempts mom-and-pop dry cleaners and pizza parlors and initially regulates only power plants and oil
refineries.”
The effect on oil refineries would drive up the cost of gasoline and every other oil derivative.
Under the Clean Air Act, however, the EPA does not have this authority, as CO2 is exempt from such action. Moreover,
as noted, there is zero need to control CO2 as a threat to the environment because, without it, all life on Earth would not
exist. It is CO2 that is the vegetative equivalent of oxygen that maintains all animal life. The two are symbiotic and have
been for billions of years.
Americans and people worldwide have been deluged with fake science based entirely on computer models whose results
have been deliberately skewed to produce results that affirm CO2 as a primarily factor affecting the Earth’s climate. It is
not.
As Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser has noted in his book, Convenient Myths, and in articles on the subject, “The
atmosphere contains currently a bit less than 0.04% CO2. The rest is mainly oxygen (20%) and nitrogen (79%).” This
represents an increase since the Industrial Age when the amount was an infinitesible 0.03%.
If all the CO2 produced by power plants and the use of coal, oil, and natural gas was reduced to levels the EPA and
environmentalist groups deem “safe,” it would have zero affect on the atmosphere.
Dr. Kaiser noted:
“Nearly all life on earth depends on the presence
of CO2 in the atmosphere. Without any CO2, the
Earth would be a barren place like the moon, or
our neighboring planets, Venus and Mars.”
The Environmental Protection Agency is lying to Americans, using fake science. On July 29, 2010, the EPA refused to
“reconsider its greenhouse gas endangerment finding.” It avoided citing any of the scientists in its employ; instead it
quoted the chief scientist of the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization that is entirely devoted to the global
warming fraud. That socalled scientist, Dr. Steven Hamburg, said:
“The science behind EPA’s finding is strong.
Now America needs to forge clean energy
solutions that reduce the vast pollution
discharged into our air.”
That is a lie. Indeed, more CO2 in the atmosphere would be extremely beneficial, aiding larger crop yields to feed
Americans and others worldwide. It would improve the health and vitality of the planet’s forests. Ads on television
touting “carbon sequestration” are part of the lie.
To sum up, the Cap-and-Trade Act and government control of CO2 constitute, in the simplest of terms, a vehicle to
destroy the American nation’s economy.
You won’t read that in the Bloomberg Businessweek article, but it is a truth that cannot be denied and it is a
battle for the future of the nation that must be won against the Obama administration, against the EPA, and against the
environmentalist organizations that have devoted themselves to this purpose.
© Alan Caruba, 2010
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and public policy.
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