Happy Halloween Glasgow Style

 The world climate summit is taking place in Glasgow as I write this.  World leaders and climate bigwigs have flown in on their private jets and then driven in fleets of cars to the summit so that they can wring their hands and decry the people who produce major carbon emissions.  But they're supposed to be saving the planet from temperatures rising by 2 degrees or so.

But think about these facts:

1.  20 years ago, we were told by climate cognoscenti that if nothing serious were done, in ten years it would be too late to prevent major warming and all manner of disasters.  Carbon emissions increased over those ten years in nearly every country but no disaster came  10 years ago, we were told by climate cognoscenti that if nothing serious were done, in ten years it would be too late to prevent major warming and huge disasters.  Some countries decreased emissions in a major way - the USA for example -- by others like China and India increased their emissions by more than the decline in the rest of the world.  No disasters came.

3.  The biggest single reduction in carbon emissions resulted from horizontal drilling and fracking so that natural gas production rose by huge percentages and reduced prices.  Utilities that burned coal, switched to natural gas and cut emissions by about 70%.  Of course, when Old Joe Biden took office, the first week he delayed leasing federal lands for natural gas production and banned fracking for the time being on federal land.  Some states with liberal Democrat governors followed suit.  After all, their mantra is "rossil fuels are bad/"  As a result of these moves, the supply of nat gas decreased and prices rose.  Right now they have doubled in the USA in the ten months that Biden has been in office.  Millions of Americans who heat their homes with natural gas are paying twice as much as a year ago, and with winter coming, that price increase will really hit home for those families.  From a climate standpoint, though, Biden and his allies have actually managed to raise the price of nat gas so high that some utilities are switching back to cheaper coal.  COAL!!!  That means that those plants that switch will emit three to four times as much as they did while burning gas.  It could be enough that this year or next, the USA may go back to increasing carbon emissions.  Thanks Joe!

Look, there really is no definitive proof that humans have contributed to climate change.  Earth has been warming unsteadily since 1816.   Between 1900 and 1940 warming was by the same amount as was the case over the last 40 years.  Everyone agrees, however, that during 1900-1940 there was no human contribution to warming.  So we had the same warming with or without human carbon emissions.  But even if there is a human contribution to global warming, misguided policies that raise emissions while raising prices for average Americans to heat their homes and fuel their cars are, at best, idiotic.  Someone has to explain that to Old Joe and hope that he has enough functioning brain cells left to understand his mistake and change course.  Doubtful.

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Hey it's only 450

 Pentagon confirmed today that there are "only" 450 American citizens still trapped in Afghanistan after old Joe Biden's "glorious victory" of pulling out our forces and leaving citizens, and tons of war material behind.  It's appalling that 450 Americans are still in Afghanistan and we are doing nothing, NOTHING, to get them out.  Remember that after the hasty pull out, the Biden spokesperson told us that there might be as many as 100 Americans still in the country.  Now we quietly get word that after almost three months have passed there are actually four and a half times as many stranded citizens.

THIS IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE!!!!!

Biden should have his people working night and day to get these hostages out.  Instead, they are busy negotiating with Iran while the Iranians thumb their noses at the USA and complete work on their nukes.  

It's hare to imagine a worse president than Biden.  Even Jimmy Carter tried to rescue the captives in Iran.

Once again The Morons aka the Dems get what they deserve

 When Old Joe Biden took office, he immediately took "action" against fossil fuels to "help" in the battle against climate change.  The administration made all sorts of statements and took numerous bows to take credit for their great environmental policies.  As usual, though, it was all for show.  In actual fact, what Biden and the Dems have done has actually INCREASED carbon emissions which are supposedly the cause of climate change.  Let me explain:

1.  Over the last 20 years before Biden, American production of natural gas has soared and the price of that fuel has plummeted.  The fracking revolution opened enormous reserves of nat gas As a result, power plants that used to burn dirty coal changed to clean natural gas.  Carbon emissions is the USA decreased as a result by much more than any other developed country in the world.  And as an extra dividend, power costs were kept low.

2.  When Biden took office, he banned fracking on federal lands, stopped leasing certain lands for any natural gas production, took steps to limit oil production and stopped the Keystone Pipeline which allowed production of enormous quantities of Canadian oil that kept prices down.

3.  It has taken a while, but the price of natural gas in the USA has doubled.  Supplies are short so prices have spiked.  Oil prices have also soared, but not by as big a percentage.  Just ask anyone who buys gasoline, and they will tell you.

4.  As a result of soaring prices for natural gas, power plants are beginning to switch to burning coal or oil to produce energy.  Each such switch sends huge quantities of extra carbon into the atmosphere.  That's right, carbon emissions are rising again as a result.  Remember a coal fired plant produces about six times the emissions of a natural gas power plant.  Oil produces 65% more emissions than natural gas.

5.  On top of everything else, prices for the average American for gasoline and electric power are soaring.  Once again, this is thanks to the Biden/Dem inability to understand how markets work.  When Biden cut the supply, the law of supply and demand drove prices up, and is continuing to do so.

6.  It's hard to imagine that Biden and the Dems didn't know what the result of their idiotic policies would be.  Indeed, the principal beneficiaries of all the new government "environmental" policies are the big oil and natural gas companies.  They get to sell their products for multiples of the price during the Trump years.  Most likely, Biden is paying back big oil/gas for all those campaign contributions that they poured into his campaign.  The Dems say they care about the average American, but their actions prove that they don't.  Biden has engineered a major cash transfer from the average American to the big oil companies and has undermined the so-called fight against climate change to boot.

Don't forget this next time you get to vote.