Ice Melt

Well since the ice is melting again, we expect to hear the Arctic alarmism all summer.  It’s been a disappointing year that way leading into the Copenhagen one world festival.  I expected more.

Still as we approach the annual minimum Arctic sea ice.  In somewhat belated fashion a news article this morning like so many others has declared that global warming is worse than expected.  I’m not going to write climate change as a replacement for AGW. Apparently a new study guesses at feedbacks again and finds the same thing everyone else being paid to study global warming.  It’s worse than we thought.

If it’s always worse than we thought, how can it still be unexpected?

GLAND, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwire) — 09/02/09 — The new report, Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications, outlines dire global consequences of a warming Arctic that are far worse than previous projections. Peer-reviewed by the world’s top climate scientists, this report reinforces that there’s no time to waste in tackling climate change, because this meltdown will have major implications for people around the world – not just in the Arctic.

The reason the article caught my attention was some of the gorgeous quotes from those being paid to ‘study’.

“Think of the Arctic as the refrigerator for the planet that helps keeps global warming at bay,” said Craig Stewart, Director of WWF-Canada’s Arctic program. “Right now, we’re melting the ice in the chiller and the gas escaping is one of the most potent greenhouse gases in existence. Not only are we turning off the fridge, these feedbacks mean we’re using it to heat our house.”

Doubletalk

Here’s some extra economic load courtesy of the peoples economic recovery plan.  PERP.  When you have to pay extra to force people to do something, that thing is likely a stupid one.

The NTEA organization actually believes they may benefit.  Failing to even mentioning that there just might be additional economic load on their customers who just bought the trucks that use the fuel.  Even subsidized economic load is economic load.  I’ll never cease being amazed that people have such difficulty with seeing the second step in a logic pattern.

1- Step 1 -Customer get government money, buy truck

2- Step 2 – Customer’s customer pay more for tax less for goods

3- Step 3 – Customer buy less truck

I don’t care how people spin it, load is load and this is a load.

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DOE Announces $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants — NTEA Members Could Benefit
On Aug. 26, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). These funds will be matched by the grant recipients.

Projects funded by these grants will result in the addition of more than 9,000 light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles using alternative fuels and technologies to the nation’s fleet. These grants will also fund the establishment of 542 refueling locations across the country. The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity and hybrid technologies.