Stott: Sgt Moonbat's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Savonarola, aka George Monbiot, is at it again. He just can’t resist it, can he? First of all, damn it, folk like me can’t be tarred with accepting filthy money from the evil pervaders of fossil fuel death, so instead we have to be dismissed because we are “driven by vanity, not cash.” Then, even worse, we have the audacity to be in our “sixties or above”, heaven forfend, and are clearly totally incapable of understanding or writing about anything other than false teeth, the latest twinge, and pensions [although I have no doubt that there are far too many of us ‘oldies’ emitting carbon from our pipes and slippers].

George, this demeans you. Why can you simply not accept that what I say and write is what I genuinely believe? I am happy to grant this for you. Why can you not extend the same courtesy to me, and to other people, like David? Moreover, I can assure you that I have far better things to do with my life - I only need to write and to speak out to counter-balance the nonsense from good folk like yourself.

Sequester carbon in a piano: forestry advert hits bum note | smh.com.au

A TIMBER industry campaign that claims chopping down trees to build luxury items such as pianos will help save the environment has outraged green groups.

The print advertisements, funded by Forest and Wood Products Australia, feature a concert grand piano and a headline that declares: "It's more than a stunning piano. It's a helping hand in climate change."

The ad describes forestry as "one of the most greenhouse-friendly sectors of the Australian economy" and says using timber to make long-lasting products ensures the carbon inside them is sequestered from the atmosphere, thereby making room to plant new trees.

Obama’s plan ‘necessarily’ skyrockets energy bills

But the climate alarmists’ energy policy would inflict harm. The net effect of causing rates to “necessarily skyrocket” on a product that everyone must buy -, usually from state-sanctioned monopolies - is that we must “necessarily” lower our standards of living. In economically distressed areas and in the developing world, this is a death sentence.

These facts don’t deter Obama or congressional leaders like Reps. Henry Waxman, D-CA, and Ed Markey, D-MA, co-sponsors of the House’s primary cap-and-trade tax proposal, as they seek to change the mix of resources that fuel our lives.

Their favored sources of electricity production – wind and solar – demand government subsidies of at least 50 times (per megawatt-hour) the amount coal receives, and that’s just to meet a sliver of the total electricity demand that coal supplies. Imagine what utilities (and their customers) will pay if Obama and company implement their desired mandates for even more alternative, or “green,” energy.

Even “skyrocket” may not be a strong enough word.

From the biggest promoter of the biggest scientific fraud in history: Answers to Climate Deniers

Recently the Politico quoted RNC Chairman Michael Steel denying the existence of the climate crisis:

“In March, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told a national conservative radio program that the Earth is 'cooling,' not warming.”

I would refer Chairman Steele to the GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) Surface Temperature Analysis site which clearly demonstrates the opposite is true.

The debate over the climate crisis should not be partisan, it should not be ideological, and it shouldn’t be dominated by who can win the next news cycle. This is a moral issue and one that requires serious debate. That requires its participants to know the facts.