GWPF | 24 March 2015
Another Scientific Consensus May Be Wrong
The detection of miniature black holes by the Large Hadron Collider could prove the existence of parallel universes and show that the Big Bang did not happen, scientists believe.
House Republicans are preparing a bill that would delay implementation of the Obama administration’s climate rule for power plants and let state governors veto compliance plans. Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s panel on energy and power, unveiled the draft legislation Monday that he worked on with Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the full committee chairman, and other members. The draft bill would delay the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule until all court challenges are over and let governors block any plans to implement the regulation — whether from the state or imposed by the EPA — if they think it would significantly increase electricity rates or harm reliability. –Timothy Cama, The Hill, 23 March 2015
The administration’s new rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal lands will add to the cost of shale oil and gas drilling operations and hamper an industry that’s been front and center in the economic recovery. Given this president’s allegiance to the environmental lobby, this may be the whole point of the new rules — to stop fossil-fuel development in order to make expensive renewable energy the only alternative. But a new study from the Brookings Institution — hardly conservative in its orientation — suggests the biggest victims of these new rules will be the poorest Americans, who’ll have to pay higher energy costs. –Editorial, Investor’s Business Daily, 24 March 2015
1) U.S. Republican Bill Delays Obama’s Climate Rule, Gives States Veto – The Hill, 23 March 2015
2) Editorial: Obama Administration’s New Fracking Rules Hurt The Poor – Investor’s Business Daily, 24 March 2015
3) FEMA To Deny Disaster-Preparedness Funds To US States Sceptical Of Obama’s Climate Policy – Hot Air, 23 March 2015
4) Rapid Recovery In Arctic Sea Ice Volume Back To 2006 Levels – Not A Lot Of People Know That, 23 March 2015
5) And Finally: Another Scientific Consensus May Be Wrong – The Daily Telegraph, 23 March 2015
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors to deny man-made climate change. Starting next year, the agency will approve disaster preparedness funds only for states whose governors approve hazard mitigation plans that address climate change. This may put several Republican governors who maintain the earth isn’t warming due to human activities, or prefer to do nothing about it, into a political bind. –Katherine Bagley, Inside Climate News, 18 March 2015
If your state gets levelled by an earthquake, you get help from the feds after everything’s been reduced to rubble. What you don’t get is help beforehand to mitigate the effects of earthquakes unless you’re willing to swear your oath of allegiance to the warmist cause. The biggest recipient of preparedness funds is Louisiana, so if a new hurricane ends up killing a few hundred people there, we’re all set for the mother of all blame games between Obama on the one hand and the state government on the other over whose fault it is that Louisiana didn’t get the money it needed up front to save lives. —Hot Air, 23 March 2015
Despite all of the headlines recently about “record low Arctic ice”, sea ice extent has actually been regrowing for the last two weeks, and is nearly back to where it was on 22nd February. According to PIOMAS, volume has been growing back rapidly in the last few years, and is “roughly back to 2006 levels.” Average ice thickness is also back to 2006 levels, and is higher than any other year since at this time of year. The reason is very simple – multi year ice has been steadily growing back after being blown out of the Arctic in 2007 and 2008. –Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 23 March 2015
The detection of miniature black holes by the Large Hadron Collider could prove the existence of parallel universes and show that the Big Bang did not happen, scientists believe. The particle accelerator, which will be restarted this week, has already found the Higgs boson – the God Particle – which is thought to give mass to other particles. Now scientists at Cern in Switzerland believe they might find miniature black holes which would reveal the existence of a parallel universe. And if the holes are found at a certain energy, it could prove the controversial theory of ‘rainbow gravity’ which suggests that the universe stretches back into time infinitely with no singular point where it started, and no Big Bang. -Sarah Knapton, The Daily Telegraph, 23 March 2015
1) U.S. Republican Bill Delays Obama’s Climate Rule, Gives States Veto
Timothy Cama
House Republicans are preparing a bill that would delay implementation of the Obama administration’s climate rule for power plants and let state governors veto compliance plans.
Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s panel on energy and power, unveiled the draft legislation Monday that he worked on with Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the full committee chairman, and other members.
The draft bill would delay the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rule until all court challenges are over and let governors block any plans to implement the regulation — whether from the state or imposed by the EPA — if they think it would significantly increase electricity rates or harm reliability.
“This rule is particularly controversial. It’s unprecedented in the power that they’re trying to grab here from the states, and they’re significantly changing the way they are looking at compliance with these [carbon dioxide] regulations in each state,” Whitfield told reporters Monday.
Whitfield said Republicans want to stop the rule altogether, but this plan is more likely to pass.
“This legislation won’t stop it, but it does give courts the opportunity to render a decision,” Whitfield told reporters Monday.
The federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear challenges to the proposed rule next month from a coal company and a dozen states.
Once the rule becomes final, lawmakers and advocates expect more litigation, including arguments at the Supreme Court. Whitfield’s bill would delay the rule until all challenges have been decided.
The GOP also wants to protect low electricity prices and reliability, Whitfield said.
“For those states where the governor thinks it will have an adverse impact on the ratepayers and the reliability and he or she can just talk to any groups they want to, consult with whoever they want to,” Whitfield said.
2) Editorial: Obama Administration’s New Fracking Rules Hurt The Poor
Investor’s Business Daily, 24 March 2015
The administration’s new rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal lands will add to the cost of shale oil and gas drilling operations and hamper an industry that’s been front and center in the economic recovery.
Given this president’s allegiance to the environmental lobby, this may be the whole point of the new rules — to stop fossil-fuel development in order to make expensive renewable energy the only alternative.
But a new study from the Brookings Institution — hardly conservative in its orientation — suggests the biggest victims of these new rules will be the poorest Americans, who’ll have to pay higher energy costs.
Titled “Welfare and Distributional Implications of Shale Gas,” the study finds that the annual per-family savings from shale gas are in the hundreds of dollars.
“The shale gas revolution has led to an increase in welfare for natural gas consumers and producers of $48 billion per year,” Brookings concludes, while also acknowledging “more data are needed on the extent and valuation of the environmental costs of shale gas production.”
It also finds that the 47% decline in natural gas prices due to shale gas has meant the “residential consumer gas bills dropped $13 billion a year from 2007-2013, thanks to the fracking revolution, amounting to $200 per year for gas-consuming households.”
The biggest winners are those who live in the West South Central states — Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas — with an average annual saving of $432 per person in consumer benefits, followed by East North Central (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin) with $259 per person in benefits.
Another study by John Harpole of Mercator Energy in Colorado finds that because the poor spend far more on utility bills than do the rich as a share of their incomes, “the poor benefit far more than the rich from the shale oil and gas boom.”
Harpole finds in his study that the fall in natural gas prices from 2007-12 translated to gains to poor households multiple times larger than the value of the $1 billion a year the feds throw at the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. In other words, the best way to keep the less fortunate warm in the winter is by allowing shale oil and gas drilling.
3) FEMA To Deny Disaster-Preparedness Funds To US States Sceptical Of Obama’s Climate Policy
C’mon. This isn’t real, is it?
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors to deny man-made climate change. Starting next year, the agency will approve disaster-preparedness funds only for states whose governors approve hazard-mitigation plans that address climate change…
The policy doesn’t affect federal money for relief after a hurricane, flood, or other disaster. Specifically, beginning in March 2016, states seeking preparedness money will have to assess how climate change threatens their communities. Governors will have to sign off on hazard-mitigation plans. While some states, including New York, have already started incorporating climate risks in their plans, most haven’t because FEMA’s 2008 guidelines didn’t require it…
Among those who could face a difficult decision are New Jersey’s Gov. Christie and fellow Republican Govs. Rick Scott of Florida, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Greg Abbott of Texas, and Pat McCrory of North Carolina – all of whom have denied man-made climate change or refused to take action. The states they lead face immediate threats from climate change.
So, good news — if your state gets levelled by an earthquake, you get help from the feds after everything’s been reduced to rubble. What you don’t get is help beforehand to mitigate the effects of earthquakes unless you’re willing to swear your oath of allegiance to the warmist cause. The biggest recipient of preparedness funds is Louisiana, so if a new hurricane ends up killing a few hundred people there, we’re all set for the mother of all blame games between Obama on the one hand and the state government on the other over whose fault it is that Louisiana didn’t get the money it needed up front to save lives. Bobby Jindal will play this to the hilt in the GOP primaries, using it as evidence of how he refuses to bow to Obama’s agenda even when big bucks are on the line.
“This story really brings together all the elements of Obamaism,” tweets Dan McLaughlin. Which is true. It’s legally dubious; it ignores Congress, which might constitutionally have the power to let FEMA make this judgment but hasn’t been consulted; it’s an obvious political pander to the left with a bonus of putting right-wingers in a spot, even at the expense of placing citizens at risk; and it craps all over state autonomy. Basically, it’s the environmental equivalent of executive amnesty. All that’s missing is 18-24 months of Obama statements denying that he’d ever do something like this before turning around and doing it…
4) Rapid Recovery In Arctic Sea Ice Volume Back To 2006 Levels
Not A Lot Of People Know That, 23 March 2015
Paul Homewood
Despite all of the headlines recently about “record low Arctic ice”, sea ice extent has actually been regrowing for the last two weeks, and is nearly back to where it was on 22nd February.
Most of the shortfall against the 1981-2010 average is in the Sea of Okhotsk, which is utterly irrelevant as it always melts quickly anyway.
What is much more interesting though is the ice thickness and volume. According to PIOMAS, volume has been growing back rapidly in the last few years, and is “roughly back to 2006 levels.”
Average ice thickness is also back to 2006 levels, and is higher than any other year since at this time of year. The reason is very simple – multi year ice has been steadily growing back after being blown out of the Arctic in 2007 and 2008.
5) And Finally: Another Scientific Consensus May Be Wrong After All
The Daily Telegraph, 23 March 2015
Sarah Knapton
Big Bang theory could be debunked by Large Hadron Collider – Scientists at Cern could prove the controversial theory of ‘rainbow gravity’ which suggests that the universe stretches back into time infinitely, with no Big Bang
The detection of miniature black holes by the Large Hadron Collider could prove the existence of parallel universes and show that the Big Bang did not happen, scientists believe.
The particle accelerator, which will be restarted this week, has already found the Higgs boson – the God Particle – which is thought to give mass to other particles.
Now scientists at Cern in Switzerland believe they might find miniature black holes which would reveal the existence of a parallel universe.
And if the holes are found at a certain energy, it could prove the controversial theory of ‘rainbow gravity’ which suggests that the universe stretches back into time infinitely with no singular point where it started, and no Big Bang.
The theory was postulated to reconcile Einstein’s theory of general relativity – which deals with very large objects, and quantum mechanics – which looks at the tiniest building blocks of the universe. It takes its name from a suggestion that gravity’s effect on the cosmos is felt differently by varying wavelengths of light.
The huge amounts of energy needed to make ‘rainbow gravity’ would mean that the early universe was very different. One result would be that if you retrace time backward, the universe gets denser, approaching an infinite density but never quite reaching it.
The effect of rainbow gravity is small for objects like the Earth but it is significant and measurable for black holes. It could be detected by the Large Hadron Collider if it picks up or creates black holes within the accelerator. […]
Scientists believe they could find the first proof of alternative realities that exist outside out own universe.
It is even possible that gravity from our own universe may ‘leak’ into this parallel universe, scientists at the LHC say.
