A123 Systems Wants to Pay Bonuses to Top Executives
October 22, 2012
A123 Systems Inc., the electric car battery maker that filed for Chapter 11 last week after receiving nearly $250 million in government grants, wants to pay more than $4 million in bonuses to a handful of top executives. …
h/t to Dave G
Puritans believed that humans were evil, and that faith and an ascetic lifestyle were essential components of salvation.
Global warmers share the same general idea, except that their faith is derived from James Hansen, Michael Mann and CO2.
Both groups believe that unbelievers in their faith should be severely punished.
The liar in chief knew it was a terrorist attack on 9/11, and then lied to the American people repeatedly, with the explicit help of Candy Crowley and CNN.
Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.
The emails, obtained by Reuters from government sources not connected with U.S. spy agencies or the State Department and who requested anonymity, specifically mention that the Libyan group called Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for the attacks.
The brief emails also show how U.S. diplomats described the attack, even as it was still under way, to Washington.
U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the Benghazi assault, which President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials ultimately acknowledged was a “terrorist” attack carried out by militants with suspected links to al Qaeda affiliates or sympathizers.
Administration spokesmen, including White House spokesman Jay Carney, citing an unclassified assessment prepared by the CIA, maintained for days that the attacks likely were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film.
White House told of militant claim two hours after Libya attack: emails | Reuters
Throughout the decade from 1998 to 2008, Democrats swung around more solidly behind climate concern, but Republican sentiment stayed roughly steady. Right around 2008, however, there was a sharp uptick in skepticism about climate change, almost exclusively among far-right conservatives.
Now, what happened in 2008 that might have turned conservatives against climate? Hm … thinking … wait, wasn’t there an election that year? Why yes, I believe there was. Black Democrat took office, as I recall.
I’ve said all this dozens of times. But I still see analyses of climate silence that draw on grand theories about “the public.” It’s not “the public” that’s behind the shift on climate. It’s the right-wing. It’s asymmetrical polarization. Until we discuss it in those terms, we won’t understand it or be able to address it.
h/t to Marc Morano
The upcoming election provides America the opportunity to again make America about Americans – conserving the vast amounts of money, energy and time currently being sucked up by Obama’s spectacularly insecure ego.
It took many hours of hard work to teach Barack and Joe how to smirk like that.
After the election, Obama will either be a four month lame duck or a four year lame duck.
Regardless of the election outcome, I’m predicting that Obama is going to start taking global warming very seriously – because it is the perfect vehicle to wreck the economy.
Obama is strengthening America’s military by cutting their budget and making them purchase environmentally destructive fuel at 1500% of the normal price.
The Air Force bought 11,000 gallons of alcohol-to-jet fuel from Gevo Inc, a Colorado biofuels company, at $59 a gallon in a program aimed at proving that new alternative fuels can be used reliably in military aircraft – once, that is, their pricing is competitive with petroleum, which now costs $3.60 a gallon.
CO2 makes crops grow faster, which causes more greenhouse gases, which means the climate will change and kill us all.
A new study led by the University of California, Davis finds that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, coupled with rising temperatures, is making rice agriculture a larger source of the potent greenhouse gas methane.
“Our results show that rice agriculture becomes less climate-friendly as our atmosphere continues to change,” said Kees Jan van Groenigen, research fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
The data showed that rice plants grow faster as more carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere. In turn, this growth ramps up the metabolism of the microscopic organisms that live in the soil beneath rice paddies and produce methane, pushing more methane into the atmosphere.
Global Warming And Rice Production – Science News – redOrbit
It might appear obvious to anyone with half a brain that a rice patty absorbs exactly the same amount of carbon as it produces.
During the 19th century, scientists discovered the law of conservation of mass – matter is neither created nor destroyed – but many climate scientists appear to have skipped high school and gone directly to work for the government.
