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US poll gives Labor audacity of hope

On Friday, it was reported in The Australian Financial Review that Labor planned to borrow techniques from the Obama campaign to persuade ”key groups, including women” to reject the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott. To which Abbott quickly said he didn’t want that nasty personal stuff from the US here.

The Gillard camp is chuffed on all sorts of fronts about Obama’s win. Beyond the obvious of not having to deal with Mitt Romney.

That Obama could prevail in adverse circumstances is an encouragement to a PM struggling to get Labor’s primary vote up. Here is an endorsement of an activist administration with a progressive agenda – a rejection of smaller government.

US poll gives Labor audacity of hope

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Obama keeps talking about “energy independence” as being the motivation for “green energy”

This is utter nonsense. North America has vast reserves of fossil fuels, and we already have the ability to achieve energy independence. Green energy advocates are the ones keeping us from becoming energy independent.

It is all about creating an excuse to tax fossil fuels. I doubt that even Obama is stupid enough to believe that Air Force One can run off windmills or solar cells.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska –  A half mile below the ground at Prudhoe Bay, above the vast oil field that helped trigger construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, a drill rig has tapped what might one day be the next big energy source.

The U.S. Department of Energy and industry partners over two winters drilled into a reservoir of methane hydrate, which looks like ice but burns like a candle if a match warms its molecules. There is little need now for methane, the main ingredient of natural gas. With the boom in production from hydraulic fracturing, the United States is awash in natural gas for the near future and is considering exporting it, but the DOE wants to be ready with methane if there’s a need.

“If you wait until you need it, and then you have 20 years of research to do, that’s not a good plan,” said Ray Boswell, technology manager for methane hydrates within the DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory.

The nearly $29 million science experiment on the North Slope produced 1 million cubic feet of methane

Alaska ice tested as possible new energy source | Fox News

Top government experts tell us that Alaska is the canary in the coal mine for global warming.

Alaska experienced record cold, snow and ice last winter, and are faced with frozen turkey again for Thanksgiving.

Weather Forecast Fort Yukon, AK | Fort Yukon Weather | Wunderground

Temperatures here in balmy Colorado are forecast to be -20C tonight.

Weather Forecast Tabernash, CO | Tabernash Weather | Wunderground

I propose eliminating the EPA and all income tax, in exchange for a $20/gallon gasoline tax levied on people who believe that global warming is a serious problem.

That would kill multiple birds with one stone.

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President Obama has no plans to propose a tax on carbon emissions, a White House official said.

“The Administration has not proposed nor is planning to propose a carbon tax,” the official said.

White House says Obama is not planning a carbon tax proposal – The Hill’s E2-Wire

Spurs are beating City at halftime, for the same reason that Aston Villa lost yesterday.

There is no sane reason to play an offsides trap on a set piece. Defenders should be running away from the goal, not towards it. Offensive players always have the advantage when everyone is running in towards the goal. Manchester United gets most of their goals on crosses when defenders are facing the wrong direction, including the winner yesterday. Rooney scored an own goal a couple of weeks ago, because he was facing in.

You don’t gain anything by trying to hold the line on a set piece. Why does everyone make the same mistake? Just say no to offsides traps on set pieces.

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The Most Sensible Tax of All

The United States should jump at the chance to adopt a similar revenue-neutral tax swap. It’s an opportunity to reduce existing taxes, clean up the environment and increase personal freedom and energy security.

A Carbon Tax, Sensible for All – NYTimes.com

The Post is telling Obama to pull a Julia Gilliard, and implement a carbon tax after the election.

The Post’s View The carbon tax

EARLY WEDNESDAY, delivering his victory speech in Chicago, President Obama elevated an issue that had hardly come up during the campaign. “We want our children to live in an America,” he said, “that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.”

Later that day, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters that climate change is an important issue and that he wants to “address it reasonably” — particularly following big storms in the Northeast that have highlighted rising sea levels and other dangers associated with global warming.

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A tax on carbon ….. is the best plan lawmakers can take off the shelf to fight global warming.

The carbon tax – The Washington Post

There can be little doubt that raising US taxes during a deep recession will end the 20,000 year long rise in sea level, and prevent future hurricanes from intersecting with cold fronts.

File:Post-Glacial Sea Level.png – Global Warming Art

h/t to Marc Morano

Experts tell us that hurricanes combined with snowstorms are a new phenomena caused by your SUV.

DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

In a letter dated Constantinople, Jun. 7, we find the following :—” On the 3rd of this month we had here one of those dreadful hurricanes which are only to be found in the annals of the West Indies. At half-past ten at night a heavy shower of rain fell, which was rapidly succeeded by a snow storm ; at about midnight it blew a thorough hurricane, which lasted till day- break. Never in the memory of man had such a storm burst over Constantinople. Trees were unrooted, houses unroofed, chimneys hurled to the ground. Several minarets have lost their kullafs, or extinguishers, and the steeple of the Galata Tower was blown clean off. The old bridge was broken to pieces, and, floating about the port, caused considerable damage to the shipping. The losses have been calculated at upwards of ten millions of piasters. Among other losses an Eng- lish brig, name unknown, was lost at the mouth of the Black Sea.”

17 Jul 1849 – ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

h/t to Ivan

Parts of Puget Sound could rise 2 feet
Scientists offer projections on higher sea level

January 17, 2008

A study released Thursday by scientists with the University of Washington and state Department of Ecology could help answer that question.

In the worst case — which assumes high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and faster melting of ice sheets — Puget Sound is inundated with nearly 2 feet of water by midcentury, more than 4 feet by 2100.

Parts of Puget Sound could rise 2 feet – seattlepi.com

Experts indeed tell us that greenhouse gases are rising faster than expected and ice sheets are also melting faster than expected (at -50C.)

Sea level in the region has been completely steady since 1975, Tamino’s period of modern global warming. Once again, scientists are trying to pretend that they know something scary, when in fact there is not one shred of evidence to support their claims.

Data and Station Information for PORT ANGELES, WASHINGTON