November 5, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

In October 2011, the Alberta Government launched a massive advertising campaign promoting the idea that billions of dollars of tax revenues and increased electricity rates (which climbed in October to about 12.5 cents per kWh for residential consumers) are needed to achieve “carbon” capture and sequestration (that is: “storage”), in an attempt to have Alberta do its part in regulating global climate trends.

First of all, the “carbon” in carbon capture and sequestration is a misnomer, because what is supposed to be captured is not carbon but carbon-dioxide, plain, old CO2, a benign, harmless trace gas that is essential to all life on Earth and without which life as we know it would not exist on Earth.

Atmospheric CO2 levels have been measured regularly and systematically since 1959.  Some people, some of whom are scientists, assert that global temperature trends are being affected and even controlled and driven by atmospheric CO2 levels. That assertion is not supported by hard evidence.  At best, nothing more can be said about it than that it is a theory for which the science is not settled.  It is supported only by computer models.

Computer models will say what they are designed to say, and the adage about computers, “GIGO” (Garbage In, Garbage Out), applies with a vengeance to computer models.  No scientific evidence exists that proves that atmospheric CO2 levels are a controlling factor in global temperature trends.

On the other hand, a good many scientific facts relating to CO2 have been established and are supported by real world measurements, such as,

1. There is no correlation between rising temperature trends and increasing CO2 levels.
2. In 1998, the global temperature trend levelled off and can even be said to have fallen a bit, while atmospheric CO2 increased since then to about 392 parts per million or about four hundredth of one percent of the atmosphere.
3. Man-made CO2 emissions comprise only about three percent of total atmospheric CO2.  The other 97 percent of atmospheric CO2 originate from natural sources.
4. Plants will stop growing when atmospheric CO2 reaches a level of 200 parts per million and will begin to die off when the CO2 level falls to 150 parts per million.
5. The rising CO2 levels during the last thirty years have helped along the greening of the planet and increased agricultural productivity (e.g.; by about 25 percent in China).  In reality, increased levels of atmospheric CO2 have helped substantially to alleviate world hunger.

The truth about CO2 emissions is not wanted by those who spend our money.  Indeed, some people try to oppress it!  Good luck with that.  The advent of the Internet has made it practically impossible to suppress the truth, but the Alberta Government’s CCS propaganda campaign makes it obvious that good, old propaganda tactics are alive and well.  There are just fewer people now who will be willing to swallow government-sponsored lies than there were, say, during the Hitler era.

John O’Sullivan: Popular Skeptic Writer Fired for Exposing Carbon Climate Fraud

Friends, I write to announce my employment with my publishers, Suite101, was  terminated today without prior notice or explanation and all my articles  published over a two-year period with them ar….(Full Story)

In  case you missed the link to it in John O’Sullivan’s article, the  observations offered here are fairly straight-forward and easy to  understand:

Japanese Satellites say 3rd World Owes CO2 Reparations to The West

Well, in a somewhat bizarre twist, it looks like I must reconsider my opposition to CO2 reparations. The notion that the evil sources of CO2 “pollution” must pay those who are lowering the planet’s CO2 levels….(Full Story)

So,  guess what! If we believe that man-made CO2 emissions are the cause of  catastrophic global warming, then let’s do the best thing possible to  ameliorate the problem.  Let’s make sure that the underdeveloped and  developing nations acquire the same living standard as achieved by the  developed nations, and the problem will go away all by itself.

However, if anyone wishes to put his money where his mouth is with his climate change superstitions and wants to spend billions of dollars implementing measures for amelioration of catastrophic global warming, let him do it with his own money, at the source and not here where it will do no good.  However, if he wants to spend that much money to do some good for humanity where he lives, let him spend it on fixing things that need fixing, such as our health-care system.

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October 27, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Not quite so fast, let’s take a step back, take a deep breath, and look at things a bit more objectively.

In October 2011, the Government of Alberta launched a massive advertising campaign on TV and in the press promoting the ostensible benefits of a number of carbon capture and storage projects that are largely funded by Alberta taxpayers and to a smaller extent out of federal tax revenues.

The October 26 issue of the Edmonton Journal included “A SPECIAL SECTION by the Calgary Herald in partnership with the Government of Alberta”, comprised of a collection of articles from various sources printed on a total of six full-sized pages.

Here is just one of those stories: “Taming CO2 crucial to our future“, by Brian Burton, for the Calgary Herald.

I agree to some extent with the assertion in the title of that article, but from a perspective that is opposite to the intended meaning.  CO2 doesn’t need to be tamed.  It is a benign, beneficial but nevertheless vitally essential atmospheric trace gas without which life as we know it would not exist on Earth. Globally, the man-made portion of atmospheric CO2 comprises about three percent of annual CO2 emissions.  The remaining 97 percent of CO2 emissions are from natural sources.  For starters, every human alive breathes out about 1 kg of CO2 each day.

The portion of Alberta CO2 emissions that is to be captured and stored is a minuscule fraction of global man-made CO2 emissions. Even if atmospheric CO2 levels were to drive and control climate trends, the fraction of CO2 captured and stored in Aberta would be so small that it would not ever be possible to measure how that would influence global climate trends.  If anyone ever calculated what the impact of our CCS schemes would be, the results of such calculations must be extremely disappointing, as they have not been published or mentioned in the main-stream media.  Aside from that, the “evidence” of the benefits of reductions in man-made CO2 emissions only exists in computer models.  There is no measurable evidence in the real world that proves that there is any substance to the claims made in the theory that reductions in Alberta CO2 emissions will have any measurable impact on global climate trends.

Those are just some of the circumstances of the context in which Alberta’s efforts at attempting to use CO2 capture and storage as a thermostat for global climate control take place.  Still, far from objectively addressing any of those circumstances, the Government of Alberta ignores and does not even mention them.  That is so because of the main premise of the theory of sucessful propaganda expressed by one of its masters:

“The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses’ attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for the first time placed within their field of vision. …

“All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction. …

“The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan….

“The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.” —Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter VI

One may well wonder why the Government of Alberta is waking up to the reality that if the propaganda that supports CCS schemes is not being promoted, all CCS schemes may well and most likely flop.  The CCS schemes are expensive white elephants that cannot come to life, exist and operate without massive government subsidies.

Page 2 of the Edmonton Journal’s special October 2011 section on Carbon Capture and Storage boasts that “Alberta Leads the Way: Pioneering province first to put money behind CCS projects and a levy on carbon emissions”, but I see nothing laudable about a scheme to waste $2 billion through blowing CO2 down Mother Earth’s derriere.  Alberta may lead the way now, but it was one of the last to jump on the wagon and may well be one of the last to jump off.

I have no intention of presenting here even only a partially complete list of CCS and green energy boondoggles, but let’s at least look at a couple of recent news items in that regard:

1.) In Scotland: “Longannet carbon capture and storage project is no more”, October 22, 2011
http://lce.folc.ca/2011/10/22/longanet-carbon-capture-and-storage-project-is-no-more/

2.) In West-Virginia: “High costs bury AEP’s carbon burial plan”, July 16, 2011
The king wears no clothing, but it is even worse that he can’t afford to pay for being made to look like a naked fool.
http://lce.folc.ca/2011/07/16/high-costs-bury-aeps-carbon-burial-plan/

It seems to me that just as the Nazi propaganda machine went into high gear and intensified its efforts the more elusive Hitler’s dream of his 1000-year Reich became, so the CCS and alternative energy  schemes will be promoted ever more intensively the more their objectives prove themselves to be unattainable.

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September 26, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Reason Foundation

Extreme Weather Events Are Killing Fewer People Than Ever Before

The worldwide death rate from weather happenings has dropped over 98 percent since the 1920s

September 22, 2011

Despite concerns about global warming and a large increase in the number of reported storms and droughts, the world’s death rate from extreme weather events was lower from 2000 to 2010 than it has been in any decade since 1900, according to a new Reason Foundation study….(Full Story) *

So, why all this doom and gloom, the hype and hysteria about the ostensible catastrophic, man-made global warming?

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* Indur M. Goklany is a science and technology policy analyst for the United States Department of the Interior, where he holds the position of Assistant Director of Programs, Science and Technology Policy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indur_M._Goklany

The graph identified here was provided in a posting by Indur Goklany at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/25/the-amazing-decline-in-deaths-from-extreme-weather-in-an-era-of-global-warming-19002010/.

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September 22, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Dr David Evans: Four fatal pieces of evidence (disproving the anthropogenic global warming nonsense)

Dr David Evans lays out four crucial pieces of evidence, and calls for a debate with Prof Andrew Pitman. But the evidence is so unarguably strong for skeptics, we know that the name-calling-team-who-want-our-money will do anything to avoid a public debate. If the evidence is “overwhelming” why are they so unwilling to explain it?  — Jo Nova

(Full Story )

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July 16, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

The king wears no clothing, but it is even worse that he can’t afford to pay for being made to look like a naked fool.

High Costs Bury AEP’s Carbon Burial Plan
Posted on July 15, 2011 by News Staff

American Electric Power has scuttled its pilot project to bury CO2 from its Mountaineer coal-burning plant in Red Haven WVa. The original projected cost, before unanticipated overruns, was $668 million. About 1/3 of the gross output from a plant would be required to capture, compress and inject the CO2 into the ground, generating an automatic 50% increase in the cost of net output, before conversion costs.

“The AEP plan, announced with much fanfare in 2009, marked the first time that carbon dioxide was to be captured and buried at a US power plant.”

The pilot system would only have captured 110,000 tons of CO2 per year, out of a total of 7.9 to 9.8 million tons per year from the plant. The company, headquartered in Columbus, “cited difficulties in getting state regulators to approve charging customers for the costs of carbon capture.”

From this morning’s Columbus (OH) Dispatch: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2011/07/15/high-costs-bury-aeps-carbon-plan.html?sid=101

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It is a good thing that the people that made the decision to scuttle the AEP CCS project came to their senses. A country that is at the verge of bankruptcy should not waste one-third of a power plant’s energy production to bury even a fraction of the beneficial natural fertilizer that plant exhausts into the air, fertilizer that is essentially free of cost.

The economics of the decision to scuttle the CCS project are sound and make sense. It boggles the mind why anyone in their right mind and not blinded by harmful environmental fanaticism ever made a move to spend even a single dollar on such a hare-brained scheme.

The situation with Shell’s CSS project in Alberta is no different with respect to it being a hare-brained scheme by environmental fanatics and government agencies catering to them holding Shell over a barrel. Don’t blame Shell for the idea that blowing CO2 down Mother Earth’s derriere at a billion-dollars a shot is a thing that Alberta consumers must fund. It is a political decision which Shell supports only because it cannot lose on it on account of taxpayers and consumers footing the bill.

I you think that those observations are not substantiated by facts, then you better have a look at the comments that were posted at wattsupwiththat.com in relation to the AEP CSS scheme.

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March 1, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

It is cold today.  In central Alberta, at Elk Island National Park, the source of the “local” official temperature values that are being shown for the communities of Andrew, Lamont, Chipman, Mundare and Bruderheim, the temperature reading at 9 a.m. was -39°C.  At the same time, 14km away from Elk Island Park, our thermometer in our backyard in Bruderheim showed -28.5°C.

The winds were slight, about 1-2 kmh.

It will stay cold for some time. It will also most likely snow a bit within the next few days.

There will not be much wind, which is a bad thing for those who have the illusion that wind power is a good thing and that it will be available when they need it most.

(Click on image to see source.  That web page is being updated every two minutes.)

That means that, although of the total Alberta generating capacity a full 5.8% is supposed to be derived from wind turbines, at 11:20 am only 0.022%  or 2.2 hundredth of one percent were being generated from wind power.

The reality of wind power is that a lot of power stations right now are working all-out to produce the increased power required due to the extremely cold weather and are being fueled by natural gas at peak prices, probably at a cost of about $0.07kWh, which means that the cost to consumers will be in the order of about $0.20 to $0.70kWh right now.  Yes, regardless of what rate you pay for what you use right now, the cost of a kWh is around $0.20 to $0.70 right at this moment, and that cost needs to be paid.

So how cold is it in all honesty where you live?  You still have to look up the thermometer in your back yard to get the correct answer for that.  Our thermometer says it is -28.5°C right now (at 9 a.m.) in Bruderheim, not -38°C, and that is a reading that is taken at some distance from the walls of our house, as those readings would be a bit “warmer” yet. as they would reflect more heat radiated by the house.

Many people watch the news to catch up on the weather forecast, or they check the Weather Channel on TV.  Few people take advantage of another feature that is available on the Internet, which feature will tell you everything you wish to know about the weather, without having to have it read to you by someone whose job it is to read it to you so that they can use that as a means to show you a bunch of commercials.

If you are happy with knowing the forecast trend (and historical weather trends many years into the past) at a level of accuracy that the pilots using the Edmonton Municipal Airport rely on, then here is a link to weather information at a glance, without commercials, a link you want to bookmark:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather+forecast+Edmonton

The source of the information upon which the information at that link is based is the Edmonton Municipal Airport.

And by the way, is it getting warmer, as Al Gore and David Suzuki are threatening?  Not on your life:

In the mean-time, the makers of wind turbines, such as General Electric, Siemens and anyone else who is reaping copious profits from the climate craze are laughing all the way to the bank — and we pay.

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February 27, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

After learning of my involvement with the utilities industry that lasted for more than 30 years, someone wrote to me and commented, “If you have some connections with some technical people in the utility business, that could be helpful.”

Yes, that is true. but only up to an extent, and most likely never to the extent where such connections would really matter.  Aside from that, it matters with which aspect of the utility business those technical people are involved.

I just read an ad by ENMAX (a Calgary-City-owned utility company).  The ad is one of those intrusive, targeted ones imposed by Google that pop up when searching the Internet.  It popped up in this case when I looked up the weather forecast for Edmonton.  The ad is intended to indoctrinate me into accepting that “With renewable energy playing a larger role than ever, the environmental future of Alberta has never been brighter” and is part of a currently massive advertising campaign in the mainstream media for which TV shows many commercials and for which even small-town newspapers feature whole-page ads that cater to the same theme.

Should one believe anything that comes from those quarters?

The mayor of Calgary concurs with ENMAX and with the theme of the massive propaganda campaign, but although his speech on energy issues was well received when he spoke at a recent ENMAX function (ENMAX is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the City of Calgary), he is not the best person to ask for an opinion on these issues.  He thinks that the pursuit of schemes for energy production from renewable sources is “the right thing to do”.

The Alberta government, which most definitely employs some technical people to be able to exercise its regulatory functions, is not likely to tell the truth about anything related to utilities.  They told me in 2001, when they deregulated the utility industry, that they were “committed to putting more money back into the pockets of Albertans.” I caught them out lying about many other issues. “The Alberta Advantage,” a slogan that Alberta politicians loved to mention on a daily basis and on every possible occasion, is not being mentioned much anymore these days, not since a number of businesses left the province or shut down on account of sky-rocketing energy prices.

How about someone in AltaLink?

As Canada’s only fully independent transmission company, we are responsible for the maintenance and operation of approximately 11,800 kilometres of transmission lines and 270 substations in Alberta. We own more than half of Alberta’s transmission grid and serve 85 per cent of its population. Additionally, we own the Alberta portion of the interconnection to British Columbia used to import and export electricity, connecting Alberta to the power grid in the Pacific Northwest. –AltaLink

Sounds great, but what about this?

AltaLink Enhances Reliability and Access to Green Power in 2010

February 25, 2011

During 2010, AltaLink improved system reliability by building and energizing new projects, and responding to increased demand from Albertans for wind generated electricity.

Sorry, they are neither an objective nor even an honest source of such information.  Then how about the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO)?  AESO is without a doubt very important, because, in their own words from their home page,

AESO leads the planning and operation of the power system, facilitates competitive electricity markets and ensures open access to the grid.

Well, if that would be a correct statement, then why the government- and industry-sponsored promotion of wind “farms” in Alberta that AESO facilitates?  Surely, with AESO “ensuring competitive electricity markets”, wind power would long ago have been laughed out of the market.  Of course, AESO is not an entirely independent organization.  It owes its very existence to the government and therefore a considerable psychological debt, if nothing else.

However, at the very least it is possible to obtain from AESO data on trends in electricity generation and consumption.

As to wind power, one of AESO’s operators wrote to me some time ago and complained that he is not happy about wind power and the serious threat it poses to the security, stability and quality of the electricity grid.  However, I do not recall that AESO ever spoke up officially against the promotion of escalating construction of wind power generating capacity.

The AESO seem to be the right party to get in touch with.  As to the sort of technical person one may want to contact at AESO, these search results for articles and papers on “wind power” at their website may provide ideas, but don’t get your hopes up too high.

The AESO is committed to integrating as much wind power as possible to the Alberta electric system without compromising reliability or the fair, efficient and openly competitive operation of the market. –AESO, Dec. 17, 2007 (Guide to wind power in Alberta, bottom of page 2)

There is a fundamental principle involved in all of this head-long rush for the promotion of wind power and energy generation from renewable sources.  It is a principle whose primary aim appears to be to rationalize the abrogation of common sense.  It seems that a fitting name for it would be Affirmative Action for Energy from Renewable Sources (AAERS).

AAERS does away with the requirement to be rational, logical, objective and fair when promoting government schemes for escalating tax revenues through tailored energy policies.  Instead, the promotion of AAERS needs no rationalization other than the assertion that “it is the right thing to do.”  That could well make it the ideal tool for politicians, because all checks and balances based on objective science no longer matter in decision-making relating to the utility business.  Moreover, no one will ever be able to hold anyone to account on any of this.  After all, even the most atrocious and most expensive utility boondoggles can be justified, simply because “they were the right thing to do.”

How can anyone argue against such a powerful tool, a tool that permits politicians and anyone else who can reap a profit from the utility business to get away with robbing the public in full public view?

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For related information on this, see Environmentalist Energy Concerns, February 25, 2011

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February 25, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

This posting contains pointers to sources of information that set straight common misrepresentations and misconceptions in regard to commonly-perceived pieces of “wisdom” such as wind power, nuclear energy, carbon capture and sequestration, bio-fuels, and the current craze of replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps.

Here are the links, grouped in alphabetical order of the main subject areas:

Alternative Energy Production

• Evaluation of comparative alternative energy production

Bio-Fuel

• To conjure gasoline out of corn and tax credits?
• The Ethanol debate — Ethanol through agricultural production: A scam?

Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)

• Topple the “carbon” fraud
• Weyburn, Saskatchewan: Land fizzing like soda pop
• No price too high for appeasing climate alarmists (Shell’s Quest CCS project in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland)

Incandescent Light Bulbs vs. Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs)

• The future of the light-bulb ban

Nuclear Energy

• Nuclear power generation alarmism overblown
• Nuclear Power — Comparisons and Perspective
• Energy from Thorium

Wind Energy

• Wind Energy — The Case of Denmark
• WindPowerFacts.Info, by John Droz

From that:

Master Resource is a good site for energy information. An example of the articles appearing there is one by Dr. Michael Trebilcock (a Law Professor at the University of Toronto, etc.) and his excellent testimony about a proposed Ontario RPS [Renewable Portfolio Standard] type legislation. He does a fine job of stating a case against industrial wind energy.

There are several reports that have been published about the Dutch experience with wind power, and why it is not what it seems. This September 2009 study is a good summary. Another informative one is authored by Dr. Vic Mason, an energy expert: Wind Power in Denmark (version 12/08). Still another worthwhile one was written by J. A. Halkema (M.S.E.E.), also a Dutch energy expert, and is titled Wind Energy Facts and Fiction: A Half Truth is a Whole Lie.

There is much more.  For example, have a look at this exhaustive and very informative discussion in the form of a slide presentation:

EnergyPresentation.Info (12/1/2010), by John Droz (more than 200 very interesting slides). E. g.:

Source: Slide 99 of 213 at EnergyPresentation.Info by John Droz (click on icon for “full screen”, in the lower, right-hand corner of image, in the menu bar below the image to be able to see full-sized image)

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February 19, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Is it worth spending billions of dollars to try and stave off impending gloom and doom allegedly caused by catastrophic trends in climate change?  Consider the following.

Climate Realists

FRED SINGER
What do Climate Data Really Show? The Berkeley Climate Data Project
Saturday, February 19th 2011, 9:25 AM EST

The e-mails leaked from the University of East Anglia in November 2009 produced what is popularly called “Climategate.” They exposed the thoroughly unethical behavior of a group of climate scientists, mainly in the UK and US, involved in producing the global surface temperature record used and relied on by governments….(Full Story)

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Fred Singer mentions in his article:

I applaud and support what is being done by the Project — a very difficult but important undertaking. I personally have little faith in the quality of the surface data, having been exposed to the revealing work by Anthony Watts and others. However, I have an open mind on the issue and look forward to seeing the results of the Project in their forthcoming publications.

Here is a link to the “revealing work by Anthony Watts”, the Surfacestations Project.  I won’t presume whom Fred Singer means by “and others”, but he also mentioned “Climategate”.

If the term “Climategate” is new to you, you may wish to look up a good historical overview of Climategate’s emergence into public view and of its resulting consequences.

When reading all of that about climate data and Climategate, keep in mind that we are engaging in a program of massive expenditures to address “fixes that the global climate needs” on the basis of alarmist and propagandistic findings of climate science that is at best not settled.

It is not a trivial problem for anyone in the world who pays the rising prices for the ability to use modern conveniences in everyday life. The costs of utilities and consumer goods experience enormous increases to help pay to implement climate fixes that are at best useless and at worst harmful and to help provide enormous profits from the resulting “solutions”.

Right now, the Alberta Government, under the leadership of Ed Stelmach, has committed $2 billion to the construction of a variety of oil-industry projects for carbon capture and sequestration that will ostensibly be beneficial in addressing allegedly adverse global climate trends.  Yet, we will find few people in this part of the world or elsewhere that cope with or suffer from record cold periods during winter who will clamour if the winters that make them shiver and even die in large numbers were to be a little less cold. It is obvious that cold weather kills and is at least costly.

One such project, Shell’s Quest CCS Project, will blow 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 annually down Mother Earth’s derriere, of which $780 million in initial construction costs will be funded through Alberta tax revenues.  The sequestering of an annual 1.2 million tonnes of CO2  may sound like a lot to some, and a $780 million price tag to achieve that may seem worth paying for.  However, it will do no more than to reduce man-made, global, annual CO2 emissions by a total of 21 minutes-worth of those emissions at a rate of 957 tonnes per second of global man-made CO2 emissions, while that reduction will not affect the annual emissions of the 97 percent of CO2 produced by natural sources.

Moreover, no one has so far produced any incontrovertible evidence that such an effort will have any effects on global temperature trends.  You may or may not be inclined to accept that, given that Ed Stelmach has already committed $2 billion dollars to such efforts.  However, there is ample, real-world evidence that shows that atmospheric CO2 increases and reductions over time have followed temperature trends.  Not once during the geological record of the world was there ever a time when CO2 drove temperature variations.  Here are two of many links to sources that explain that.

• Climate Change Reexamined, OEL M. KAUFFMAN, Emeritus, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, PA
  Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 723–749, 2007
• The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change, M Carter, Professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory (Node C), Sporing Road South, James Cook University, Townsville Qld 4811.
  The AusIMM New Leaders’ Conference Brisbane, QLD, 2 - 3 May 2007

Professor Carter states in that,

The currently favoured hypothesis of dangerous global warming includes the presumption that late 20th century warming was substantially caused by human emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. As will be elaborated later, this theory has failed the three main tests to which it has been subjected. First, no close relationship exists between the 20th century patterns of increasing carbon dioxide and changing temperature; second, 20th century rates and magnitude of temperature change fall well within previous natural limits of change despite accompanying increases in human-sourced carbon dioxide; and, third, the deterministic computer models that are used to engender public alarm have proved unable to predict the course of temperature change over the period 1990 - 2006, let alone out to 2100.

It is folly to spend money to avert catastrophic warming that — based on the evidence — will not happen, given that catastrophic warming has never happened before, while ignoring the need to adapt to the next period of glaciation that will surely happen soon.

The money spent on such useless pursuits would be better spent in ventures that truly need to be undertaken, such as fixing Alberta’s seriously ailing health-care system and curbing our run-away, government-induced debt.

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January 20, 2011 by Walter Schneider.

Anyone who still believes that we must do all we can to alleviate a global climate crisis due to rising temperature trends and that trillions of dollar must be spend doing so better have another look at the problems with the temperature records discussed in the following.

TransWorldNews
Washington, DC 1/17/2011

US Agencies Still Fiddling Temperature Record, Reports SPPI

NASA and NOAA, which each receive close to half a billion dollars a year in taxpayer funding, have been systematically fiddling the worldwide temperature record for years, making “global warming” look worse than it is, according to a new paper by the Science and Public Policy Institute.  The findings are reported by Joe D’Aleo, a leading meteorologist.

Robert Ferguson, President of SPPI, said: “Despite billions spent on official claims about the supposed threat of catastrophic man-made ‘global warming’, opinion polls show the public are no longer fooled. A  main reason why the voters [don’t buy] climate alarmism any more is that the tiny but well-connected, lavishly-funded Climategate clique keeps on being caught out bending the scientific evidence….(Full Story)

The paper that is being discussed in that article is the following:

WHY NOAA AND NASA PROCLAMATIONS SHOULD BE IGNORED
by Joseph D’Aleo | January 19, 2011
Science and Public Policy Institute
(Download Paper — 1.3 MB PDF file)

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