Greens Want To Protect Squirrels That Aren't There

Even Schwarzenegger has had enough of the environmentalists. WOW! Finally he is standing up to these nut cases. Read the article below from WSJ and have a good laugh. We should all just laugh at the ridiculous environmentalists especially the Californian ones. Maybe the governor has found courage to defy environmentalists because of the "outing" of the lying "global warming" Gore and crew. The house of cards is crumbling.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is as green as any governor, from promoting alternative fuels to imposing carbon limits on California to fight climate change.

But even he's had enough of the mindless interference with development that characterizes the actions of many environmentalists. In a state where one out of eight workers is unemployed, Mr. Schwarzenegger is asking the legislature for more authority to fast-track projects after they have undergone an environmental impact study.

"Right now the way it's written, a lot of those laws, it's an invitation to misuse them," he told reporters last week. "And it holds up projects for too long a period of time, especially now."

Mr. Schwarzenegger singled out environmental obstacles that are blocking construction of alternative energy farms in the Mojave Desert. Some of his green allies have become "fanatics," he said, and "go overboard." He then launched an extended riff explaining why he thought environmental objections to the Mojave Desert projects on the grounds they could hurt endangered species were, well, specious.

"So the environmentalists . . . are confused because they want to have renewable energy but then when it comes to the permitting process, creating that renewable energy and building the solar plants, they are then in the way. And they then talk about, 'You cannot go and destroy this squirrel.'"

"I say, 'What squirrel? I was out there, I didn't see a squirrel.'

"They say, 'Well, there could be a squirrel coming very soon.
'
"So I say, 'But there's no squirrel there right now.'

"'But you've got to protect things that could be there.'"...READ at WSJ - Terminator Vs Squirrel.

The Environmentalists Have Never Been Right

The Environmentalists have been with us for a long time now and they have never been right about anything. But yet our government pays them such attention that it defies logic - why? I think that it's the squeaky wheel gets the attention theory. Because this small group of dedicated doomsday squawking people manage to captivate our media's attention, the politicians feel it their duty to respond by enacting laws that hurt us as individuals and our nation. Maybe it's time the rest of raise our voices in favor of reason and sense. Have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend and powerup that grill!

Here is more of Walter Williams -

"...The fact of the matter, according to the American Gas Association, there's a 1,000 to 2,500 year supply.

"…In 1970, when environmentalists were making predictions of man made global cooling and the threat of an ice age and millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity? When Ehrlich predicted that England would not exist in the year 2000, what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the U.S. Department of the Interior warned that we only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think that environmental alarmism is any more correct now that they have switched their tune to manmade global warming?

"Here are a few facts: Over 95 percent of the greenhouse effect is the result of water vapor in Earth's atmosphere. Without the greenhouse effect, Earth's average temperature would be zero degrees Fahrenheit. Most climate change is a result of the orbital eccentricities of Earth and variations in the sun's output. On top of that, natural wetlands produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all human sources combined.

"Here are a few facts: Over 95 percent of the greenhouse effect is the result of water vapor in Earth's atmosphere. Without the greenhouse effect, Earth's average temperature would be zero degrees Fahrenheit. Most climate change is a result of the orbital eccentricities of Earth and variations in the sun's output. On top of that, natural wetlands produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all human sources combined." (CapMag)

Scaremongers and Doomsday Evangelists

The scaremongers and doomsday evangelists have always been with us throughout history but it's simply amazing that these types never learn from their predecessor's past totally off the mark predictions of disaster and doom that await us if we don't change our ways. Walter Williams, one of my favorite observers of the American cultural and political landscape, lists at CapMag some of the prognostications and predictions of past environmentalists: I will list some of them here but read his article.

1969 "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war ..."
"The cooling since 1940 has been large enough ...that it will not soon be reversed."

1968 "Ehrlich forecasted that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and
1989 and by 1999 the US population would decline to 22.6 million".
"If I were a gambler I would take even money that England will not exist in ...2000."

1972 Club of Rome report declared that the world would run out:
gold in 1981
Mercury and silver by 1985
tin by 1987
petroleum, copper, lead, natural gas by 1992

1975 the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning "The world as we know it will
likely be ruined by the year 2000.

1970 Senator Nelson warned that by 1995 between 75-85% of all species of living animals will
be extinct.

1885 US geological Survey said "little or no chance" of oil being discovered in California.

1939 US Department of the interior said US oil supplies would last only another 13 years.

1949 the end of US oil supplies was in sight.

1974 the US had only a 10 year supply of natural gas (there's a 1000 to 2500 year supply)

Read the rest of this interesting column at Capitalism Magazine.