The Climate Heretic

New report on the Pine Beetle from Colorado states that Forest Management namely fire suppression is what lead up to the infestation of Pine beetles that decimated Western North American pine forests.

Pine beetles as a harbinger of manmade climate change destruction 

I worked in the Forest Industry in the late nineties in British Columbia, Canada and was there in the forest looking at the first major infestations in person. I also harvested live beetles in -40C temperatures during the winter negating the claims that cold winters killed off the beetles which is the Global Warming theory that beetle populations are killed off in cold winters. Through our forestry research we determined that lack of natural forest fires when the conditions were optimum for the beetle to migrate lead to the massive killing off of whole stands of pine, the actual environment that the beetles like (dry,warm) are also the exact conditions that lead to natural forest fires. These naturally occurring fires completely destroy the colonies of beetles because the trees they infest become very combustible and burn very quickly, which is also something I witnessed,  the trees literally explode in flames. I was also in a meeting with the British Columbia Ministry of Forests where we presented a plan to contain the beetle outbreak by burning infected areas plus an addition 1000 meters around the perimeter in a controlled manner, we were told that the policy of Zero Tolerance for using fires to manage the forests was the official policy. This was 1998.

Over the past decade I have, before I had this blog and even recently on an article regarding Gavin Schmidt’s Climate Picture Book I have been telling this story of how the Pine Beetle was man’s fault, but not for the reason being reported. It now seems that real research and not environmental dogma has actually taken place and all the work we did in late 1997 and early 1998 has been vindicated. Too late to stop the damage but maybe not too late to change the policies on forest management that lead to these types of problems.

Read on Reuters. Read on Sunday. Trying to stop laughing.

U.S. hunters, anglers lobby for climate bill

Ok the main group behind this "lobbying effort" is…. The National Wildlife Federation… you know that big hunting and angling group! That is like saying Greenpeace is an association of Whale Harvesting Enthusiasts.

This is the group behind the "Certify your Garden as Wildlife Friendly" Program. The NWF is a knock off of the WWF and has the exact same agenda and goals as they do in the area of species preservation, land endowments and you guessed it Global Warming Hysteria.

The reporters took a Press release that had a study funded by the NWF containing data regarding hunters and anglers and extrapolated that to the headline. Then they wonder why MSM is struggling, well it is because they suck at their jobs.

Visit the National Wildlife Federation and spot their Hunting Advocacy outreach program.

Ok John Kerry ran for President and many thought that he lost because of Republican tactics and the now infamous "Swift Boat" attacks, but I read a piece today that I have to recommend reading as to why he really lost, that being because he is an idiot of epic proportions.

It appears the charges of Democrats being anti-growth and anti-economic activity is true and Senator Kerry Admits Recession is a Good Thing in the Fevered Minds of Democrats when it comes to Climate Change! – read here.

"Let me emphasize something very strongly as we begin this discussion. The United States has already this year alone achieved a 6 percent reduction in emissions simply because of the downturn in the economy, so we are effectively saying we need to go another 14 percent."

If this one statement is not the single most stupid thing ever said by a sitting Senator in the middle of a recession with a mid-term election coming up then I do not know what it possibly could be. Topping it off he said it in a hearing about Cap and Trade! I am rather speechless. In Fact it is so idiotic that I actually did not believe it at first and had to get confirmation! I found it here. I am still looking for the actual hearing though on CSPAN and will post that when I locate it, so for now take it with a grain of salt and as partially verified until I get confirmation of dates and text or video of the hearing.

This ties into a previous post I made as a simple observation earlier this year, now confirmed by Senator Kerry…

Some Good News and Some Bad News

The point is that the Democrats trying to ram climate legislation containing any sort of price on emissions down our thoughts know what the impact will be and simply do not care. While I was looking for the Kerry quote I found Senator Boxer explaining that the EPA finding and rules on GHG emissions really is a hammer being used to scare the Senate and Industry into  accepting this plan (in Boxer’s Closing Remarks at the end of this hearing).

The Cap and Trade from both the House and Senate are so ripe with rent seeking provisions for certain companies that the entire cap and trade system is unfair and flawed fatally. Big energy names like PG&E, and PNW are all leaving the US Chamber of Commerce because of the Chamber’s resistance to the EPA and Cap and Trade and are looking only at the potential for huge trading profits from free allowances, profits that will not be passed onto consumers as these utilities can raise prices in lock step with the ones most affected while gaming the market on any excess credits by minor investments in renewable research and development or token solar or wind farms which will pay a nice healthy taxpayer funded PTC to them as well.

This practice will only serve to enrich those corporations that have political patronage by democratic representatives who secured free tradable emissions credits to sign onto the cap and trade legislation. Apple is leaving the Chamber as well sighting Climate Change as the reason, I sight poor judgment by a company selling based solely on image trying to appease what it feels is its target demographic, a portion of the population who really could not give a crap about Apple’s "green-ness"only that they produce cool "got to have" gadgets at outrageous prices. They could burn a Polar Bear a day to heat their HQ and people would still flock to Apple Stores to get the next newest iThing.