How Well Do Energy Sources Stack Up?

By William Teach June 5, 2013 – 4:27 pm

This picture comes from page 193 of  The Mad, Mad, Mad World Of Climatism by Steve Goreham (I plan on writing a review as soon as I am done. Getting close. Taking my time. Make sure to get your own copy)

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(Click the photo for large view via Photobucket)

Notice the overall power comparisons, especially average delivered power, along with the footprints. While I certainly support alternatives, as I’ve said time and time again, they aren’t ready for primetime. The London Array needs 95 square miles to produce 370 megawatts, while the West County natural gas plant needs .3 square miles to produce 3,263.

Also, from page 191, we learn that on a clear day about 1,000 watts of sun power reaches each square meter of the earth. This is reduced to about 800 watts in the US and Southern Europe at midday. Electrical efficiencies of solar systems is 10-20%. “After accounting for power transmission losses, this means only a single 100 watt bulb can be powered for every card-table-sized surface area of a solar system, and only at noon on a clear day.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 5, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is snow created by too much fossil fuels heat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is NoFrakkingConsensus, with a post on living in harmony with nature.

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The Intolerance Of Climate Change Zealots

By William Teach June 5, 2013 – 11:46 am

And interesting piece by Ian Dale, with that

This evening on my LBC show we discussed Ed Davey’s outrageous idea that newspapers and broadcasters should refrain from giving a platform to climate change sceptics. How very ‘liberal’ of him. I remember at 18 Doughty Street back in 2007 I phoned Greenpeace to invite them to take part in a panel discussion on climate change. They refused on the basis hat the argument was won and there was nothing to debate. It’s attitudes like this that make me very suspicious of this climate change industry, which is supported by people whose fanaticism borders on the religious.

He’s referring to the attacks by a UK political appointee on those who dare question science, because, you know, science should never ever be questioned.

The very same people who warned the world in the 1980s about the coming nuclear apocalypse are now warning about the end of the planet. In the 1980s we had politicians who were able to expose these zealots for what they were. We now have cabinet ministers who go along with them and give them money. And have the cheek to tell people on radio stations that they shouldn’t be providing platforms for climate change sceptics. Ed Davey agreed to come on my show tonight – first in the studio, then by ISDN, then on the phone, first at 620, then at 630, then at 720. Then not at all. A meeting, apparently. It happens. But if any of his staff were listening, they might have been rather worried to discover than with one exception, every caller expressed some degree of scepticism about global warming. I’d say that proves that the argument is far from won and that people like Ed Davey need to up their game. He’d probably say they were all brainwashed by a climate change sceptical media. of course.

Warmists are incredibly intolerant, and are uninterested in science. They’re interested in doctrine. Scientific research is still done on things that were supposedly “settle science”. Yet, when it comes to “climate change”, any inquiries that do not toe the official line are heresy.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ~Thomas Henry Huxley

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Susan Rice To Replace Donilon As National Security Advisor

By William Teach June 5, 2013 – 8:08 am

In the Obama regime, people who are embarrassments and incompetent get better jobs

(Fox News) Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador who drew criticism for her initial account of the Benghazi terror attack, has been promoted to national security adviser, a senior White House official confirmed to Fox News.

Rice will replace Tom Donilon, who is resigning from the post. Rice, the current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, does not need Senate confirmation for the job.

She never would have gotten through the confirmation process for Sec of State, and would have had to answer inconvenient questions regarding Benghazi. Fortunately, she’s eminently qualified to be the NSA, because, um, well, she, ah, supported Obama and went on 5 shows to give idiotic and misleading (to be charitable) talking points that no one believed.

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Liberal Group Linked To Doug Shulman’s Wife Had Many White House Meetings

By William Teach June 5, 2013 – 7:58 am

Funny how some people get easy peasey access to the White House and Obama, eh?

(Daily Caller) Nick Nyhart, the CEO of a liberal organization that criticizes corporate campaign spending and employs the wife of former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the White House seven times and had two visits with President Obama around the time that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

Nyhart, the president and CEO of Public Campaign, appears on the White House visitor logs seven times between September 16, 2009 and September 22, 2010.

Public Campaign wants to reduce the amount of special interest money in American politics, yet takes a boatload of money to lobby to reduce Other People’s money. And shares a floor with other progressive groups that take a boatload of money.

Public Campaign is funded by the pro-Obamacare coalition Health Care for America NOW! and other progressive donors and foundations.

As The Daily Caller first reported, former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman’s wife Susan L. Anderson is the senior program advisor for Public Campaign.

Nyhart’s seven White House visits included two meetings with “POTUS,” or the President of the United States, on December 15, 2009 and on May 10, 2010 in the East Room.

And the IRS targeting started in March, 2010. Just a coincidence, right?

But, but, but, Bush appointed Shulman!!!!!!1!!!! Yeah, the same one who donated to the DNC in 2004 and whose wife works for a far left Progressive organization.

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Michelle Obama Has Fit Over Heckler

By William Teach June 5, 2013 – 7:26 am

Granted, there’s a time and place for everything, and heckling someone giving a speech can be rude, but, it is protected by 3 parts of the 1st Amendment (free speech, redress of grievance, and protest peaceably)

(Washington Post) First lady Michelle Obama experienced a rare face-to-face encounter with a protester late Tuesday – approaching the activist and threatening to leave a fundraiser if the person did not stop interrupting her speech.

Obama was addressing a Democratic Party fundraiser in a private Kalorama home in Northwest Washington when Ellen Sturtz, 56, a lesbian activist, interrupted her remarks to demand that President Obama sign an anti-discrimination executive order.

Obama showed her displeasure – pausing to confront Sturtz eye to eye, according to witnesses.

“One of the things that I don’t do well is this,” she said to applause from most of the guests, according to a White House transcript. “Do you understand?”

A pool report from a reporter in the room said Obama “left the lectern and moved over to the protester.” The pool report quoted Obama as saying: “Listen to me or you can take the mic, but I’m leaving. You all decide. You have one choice.”

They forgot to include that part in the official White House transcript.

What you have is two rude people going head to head. One, because they want (NMP) Obama to Do Something regarding anti-discrimination for LGBT people (note: everyone should be treated equally under the law, IMO, and under the Constitution), and the other thinking she should not have to deal with anyone daring to engage in their 1st Amendment Rights.

Sturtz was escorted out of the room. She said in an interview later she was stunned by Obama’s response.

“She came right down in my face,” Sturtz said. “I was taken aback.”

Sturtz said she told Obama she was happy to take the microphone to plead her case, which, Sturtz said, appeared to fluster the first lady.

It was a planned protest by Sturtz’s group, GetEqual. And it is interesting to see how Liberals and the LGBT supporters react to this. Most have seemed to take the side of Michelle Obama, calling Sturtz rude, at the least. Which is interesting to compare regarding how they idolized people who heckled President Bush and Laura Bush, including the ones who became violent. Yet, can anyone find an example of George and/or Laura acting in the same manner as Michelle? Barack hasn’t typically been graceful when confronted with hecklers, either.

Here’s my favorite comment at Buzzfeed from Bruce Dent

As a gay man, to read the classlessness, and the crude remarks made by gay men and women is horrifying! What is wrong with you people? This President and his first lady have been more supportive aggressively for the LGBT community and you all sound like those idiot republican senators from Texas, or the south! SHUT THE F UP…and learn exactly HOW to get government to actually vote for your causes. You obviously don’t have a clue…Embarrassing.

To which I replied

As a non-gay Conservative man, I find it appalling that the 1st Lady would treat someone exercising their 1st Amendment Rights to petition for redress of grievance and protest peaceably with such disregard and classnessless. And that you, Bruce, would tell people engaged in their 1st Amendment Rights to “STFU”. The president and 1st Lady are not King and Queen, they are our employees, public servants, and should treat protesters with respect.

Does anyone think that either Bush, or any Republican, wouldn’t be excoriated by Liberals, the LGBT community, and the media if they acted in that way? Heck, the media used to love Bush hecklers. Consider their headline for their Michelle O article: First Lady Refuses to Let a Heckler Go Unscolded. ObamaWuv.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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1st World Problems: Talking To Your Kids About “Climate Change”

By William Teach June 4, 2013 – 4:34 pm

Only in the 1st World can this happen

‘The Talk’ — How to Tell Your 8-Year-Old About Climate Change

When Ian Kim imagines the world his 7-year-old daughter will be living in 20 years from now, he says, it keeps him up at night. Images of ever more frequent super storms like Sandy, along with rising seas, or drought and heat waves wreaking havoc with crops haunt his waking hours.

“It’s a huge worry for me,” said Kim, a self-described environmental and social justice activist. “On a scale of 1 to 10, it’s a 10.”

It’s a sentiment likely shared by parents the world over, though it’s especially pronounced among those working close to the issue. Kim described climate change as “a slow motion disaster that is already happening right now.”

Interestingly, what’s missing in the entire article is any notion that these climaparents are actually making changes within their own lives.

Unsurprisingly, the people quoted in the story are far left activists (one worked for a Van Jones group) or have a vested interest in pushing hotcoldwetdry (one has husband who works for a solar panel company).

Fortunately, an entire generation will soon graduate having experienced no statistically significant warming.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 4, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a torrential downpour caused by global warming induced drought, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Wake Up America, with a post on IRS targeting victims testifying to Congress today.

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Rep. Jim Bridenstine Blasts Obama Administration

By William Teach June 4, 2013 – 11:15 am

Epic (and I take no responsibility for what happens to your laptop/Smartphone/Tablet when you get to the end)

This comes via The Blaze, which provides a transcript, and

He then went on to say that the president’s “dishonesty, incompetence, vengefulness and lack of moral compass lead many to suggest that he is not fit to lead.”

“The only problem is that his vice president is equally unfit and even more embarrassing,” Bridenstine concluded.

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Surprise! Obama Political Appointees Using Secret Email Addresses

By William Teach June 4, 2013 – 8:39 am

This was not just Lisa Jackson, but others, and, apparently just because their regular inboxes are overloaded or something.

(Newsday) Some of President Barack Obama’s political appointees, including the secretary for Health and Human Services, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, according to a review by The Associated Press.

The scope of using the secret accounts across government remains a mystery: Most U.S. agencies have failed to turn over lists of political appointees’ email addresses, which the AP sought under the Freedom of Information Act more than three months ago. The Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay more than $1 million for its email addresses.

The AP asked for the addresses following last year’s disclosures that the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency had used separate email accounts at work. The practice is separate from officials who use personal, non-government email accounts for work, which generally is discouraged — but often happens anyway — due to laws requiring that most federal records be preserved.

So, what’s the problem?

The secret email accounts complicate an agency’s legal responsibilities to find and turn over emails in response to congressional or internal investigations, civil lawsuits or public records requests because employees assigned to compile such responses would necessarily need to know about the accounts to search them. Secret accounts also drive perceptions that government officials are trying to hide actions or decisions.

“What happens when that person doesn’t work there anymore? He leaves and someone makes a request (to review emails) in two years,” said Kel McClanahan, executive director of National Security Counselors, an open government group. “Who’s going to know to search the other accounts? You would hope that agencies doing this would keep a list of aliases in a desk drawer, but you know that isn’t happening.”

Let’s be clear, this is not necessarily illegal, and they could be called “secondary email accounts”. However, what we saw with Lisa Jackson and her “Richard Windsor” account was an attempt to circumvent FOIA requests, transparency, requests from Congress, and a way to spread propaganda and coordinate secretly with fringe environmental and “climate change” groups.

Unsurprisingly, many agencies are stonewalling the AP’s FOIA request

Ten agencies have not yet turned over lists of email addresses, including the Environmental Protection Agency; the Pentagon; and the departments of Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Treasury, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security, Commerce and Agriculture. All have said they are working on a response to the AP.

And tried to hide information about Sebelius

The Health and Human Services Department initially turned over to the AP the email addresses for roughly 240 appointees — except none of the email accounts for Sebelius, even one for her already published on its website. After the AP objected, it turned over three of Sebelius’ email addresses, including a secret one. It asked the AP not to publish the address, which it said she used to conduct day-to-day business at the department. Most of the 240 political appointees at HHS appeared to be using only public government accounts.

Sebelius’ wasn’t as strange as Lisa Jackson’s (yes, the AP did publish it, it’s in the above article), but, as Ed Morrissey points out, department heads tend to have people who go through correspondence, including email, to sort out the chaff from the wheat. Remember, Most Transparent Administration Ever!

Main Memeorandum pull here, and those discussing are White House Dossier, Michelle Malkin, Power Line, Jammie Wearing Fools, Wake up America, americanthinker.com, The PJ Tatler, The Jawa Report, Washington Free Beacon and National Review

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