The Green Tsunami: A Tidal Wave of Eco-Babble Drowning Us All (11 page)

As a final update, here are a few miscellaneous late-breaking news
tidbits you need to know:
The U.N.’s notorious IPCC that was discredited during the
Climategate Scandal is at it again. The Climate Research Group is
about to issue an updated report on Climate Change, Global Warming
and Greenhouse Gases. Who will provide the “expert science” for
their 2013 study? Nine of the studies were done in whole, or in part,
by The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), another of the long list of megainternational environmental organizations. The WWF, you will recall,
produced the panic about the Himalayan Glaciers melting by 2035.
Two WWF employees and other activist environmentalists will serve
as “scientific reviewers” of the new IPCC study. Be forewarned. The
new U.N. report will most likely be another round of eco-babble written from a globalist Agenda 21 perspective.
California’s industrial emission of green house gases dropped for
the third year in a row. This was before the Draconian AB 32 laws
were implemented and before the state’s Cap and Trade auctions
began. Stated simply, without the state’s stringent environmental laws
ordered by the unelected members of the California Air Resources
Board, businesses around the state are already reducing air pollution
to 1992 levels, but it didn’t taken them to the year 2020.
The California Air Resources Board is levying expensive fines on
the state’s businesses that fail to comply with their AB 32 rules and
regulations. Foster Enterprises was slapped with a $300,000 fine after
CARB said they failed to upgrade their refrigerated diesel trailer fleet
(review Chapter 8 for CARB’s diesel truck regulations). One reporter
wrote, “In Texas, the officials welcome business. But in California the
state government sends out press releases celebrating the massive fines
they impose on private enterprise”. By the way, Foster Enterprises is
not a part of Foster Farms, the chicken folks.
California’s governor, a majority of his state legislators and his
“deep pocket” environmental buddies continue to push for approval
of a public transportation fiasco “The Bullet Train to Nowhere”. In
2008, the massive high speed rail project was introduced to California
voters as Prop 1A. Voters were told the $10 billion project would
deliver passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in two hours
and forty minutes and the entire project would be completed in 2020.
The project has been in the works for five years without a shovel of
dirt being turned and the estimated cost ballooning to nearly $100
billion.
Recently, Governor Brown revised the costs downward and now
estimates the completed project will cost only $68 billion. The
completion date is now 2028, if not a single lawsuit is filed to delay
construction. That amazing amount of spending would set a new
record for “the fastest rate of construction in U.S. transportation
history”. In Governor Brown’s revised plan, the bullet train passes
through major cities but shares tracks with Amtrak and other slower
moving trains. In order to launch his massive boondoggle, state officials must obtain 120 individual land use permits and purchase 1,100
parcels of land (most of it, prime Central Valley farm land). Potential
bullet train customers say, faced with a choice between the proposed
plans for the “slow-speed” bullet train and a commuter airline, they
would choose the more convenient, less expensive plane ticket from
L.A. to San Francisco, with a one way travel time of approximately 70
minutes.
Hurricane Sandy is, according to President Obama, Al Gore and
other green activists, an obvious example of climate change producing
intense storms that destroy America’s low lying coastal communities.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Al Gore said, “…. Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act
quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather”.
Environmental experts report the exact opposite is true. As bad as
Hurricane Sandy was, it is not considered to have been, in technical terms, a major hurricane. In fact, the United States has now set a
record of more than 2,500 days without being struck by a Category 3
or larger hurricane. Since 1950, hurricane strikes in Florida have been
progressively further apart.
America’s deadliest hurricane happened in 1900 long before our
industrial revolution began causing pollution that is supposedly to
blame for “Climate Change”. In short, scientists and historians tell
us a completely different tale than the climate alarmists and their
political and media allies. There is no conceivable connection between
Hurricane Sandy and “Climate Change”, no matter what President
Obama and his new Secretary of State, John Kerry, might claim.
In another late breaking news story, Warren Buffett and a division
of his Berkshire-Hathaway conglomerate is now the second largest
solar operator in America. Does that mean that solar power is a top
grade investment for you to add to your portfolio? Michael Horowitz
in the Financial Times analyzed the report and suggested that under
the latest version of the Congress “avoiding the fiscal cliff deal” taxpayers will continue to subsidize green developers with an incredible
30% of their total projected costs in cash. The Sage of Omaha is merely
tapping into a river of never-ending government venture capital for
gigantic solar experiments. California for example, demands that 33%
of all of the state’s electricity must come from renewable sources by
2020. Twenty nine other states are making similar demands. Buffet
has simply made another very shrewd investment and America’s taxpayers will contribute to his bottom line profits for the foreseeable
green future.
California is now known as “The Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas”.
An untapped shale oil deposit, The Monterrey Field stretches from
the Pacific Coast to the inland community of Bakersfield. That translates into California sitting atop a 200 mile wide ocean of untapped
oil. The U.S. Energy Information Agency says the deposit contains
an unimaginable 15.4 billion barrels of oil which is almost the total
of all of America’s conventional oil reserves. In dollars, if California
were to join Texas, Alaska and North Dakota and open the Monterrey
field for development, the economic benefit would exceed a staggering $1trillion. California would become one of the major exporters of
oil in the world. To economically mine the oil in the Monterrey field,
developers would use the horizontal drilling method known as “fracking”. (The technique opposed by radical environmentalists who were
willing to show their protest by handcuffing themselves to the fence
surrounding the White House.) Of course, California’s radical environmentalists have fallen in step to oppose “fracking” in California
as well. While Governor Brown constructs his latest budget based on
new taxes, California could be awash in billions of new natural profits
and leasing revenues, if only….

And now, here is a personal addition to this book that I would like
to leave with you.
I am a Christian.
I believe, God created the Earth. I believe that simple statement is
at the very heart of the Global Environmentalism debate. There are
those who believe the earth and the universe came into existence by a
“Big Bang” that happened eons ago. But they never seem to be able
to answer the simple question, who made the stuff that went bang?
I believe, everything we see around us is the work of a marvelous
Creator. Stated another way, if we see a beautiful building, somewhere
there is an architect who designed it. If there is a painting to be appreciated, somewhere there is a painter.
The entire universe around us functions so perfectly, so minutely
and intricately perfect, that it begs for a simple yet fundamental question, “Did it all happen by accident and did man evolve from a single
cell and suddenly become Bill Gates?
Frankly, I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist. It is much easier
for me to simply acknowledge that there is a Creator who I call God,
the Father, and He rules the universe He created—and quite frankly,
doesn’t need my help.
I believe there are fundamental laws that operate behind this marvelous creation. No one invented the Law of Gravity—it existed before
mankind was smart enough to recognize and codify it. The same holds
true for the Laws of Centrifugal Force, Relativity and Curved Space.
Whether you believe in God or not, those laws apply to all of us.
If two people leap from the San Francisco Bay Bridge and one of
them believes in God and the other doesn’t, they will both hit the
water at the exact same time. The Law of Gravity, created by God who
designed this universe, prevails.
By the way, the God I have come to know is perfectly capable of
maintaining His creation. The planets will continue to revolve around
the Sun and any other Suns and Universes we have yet to discover.
God is keeping them operating too.
The earth is at the precise, perfect distance from the Sun so life can
exist. If we were a few degrees off in our orbit through the Universe,
the earth would be too hot or too cold for life to survive.
Can mankind screw up those fundamental rules that keep the earth
and the universe functioning? I don’t think so. Honestly, I do not
think the flatulence of farm animals, the exhaust from a tailpipe or
the eco-babble we hear around us will seriously hamper the functioning of the universe. The assurance I maintain is that Creation and life
will come to an end when the Creator decides it will and not a nanosecond sooner or later.
My wife and I once spent an afternoon with one of the NASA astronauts who walked on the moon. Imagine that reality. And yet with all
of his scientific knowledge and all his critical thinking, he does not
believe in a Creator or God. While I find that remarkable, everyone is
entitled to their belief.
If you believe creation was an accident and that mankind simply
evolved out of a simple one cell creature, you are still confronted with
the question, who created that one cell creature?
Either God has everything under His control or He doesn’t. And
further, if He doesn’t and He needs my help, we’re all in trouble.
Quite honestly, I don’t spend much time each day thinking about the
orbit of the earth.
Nor do I think to myself each day, “That was a monstrous breakfast
this morning, I’m really going to need to manufacture lots of extra
digestive fluids today.” Or, “I’m going to sleep now, so I have to put
my heart on automatic control so it keeps beating, my lungs continue
to filter air and my blood keeps flowing.” Each night, by faith, I go to
sleep and don’t worry about my body’s functions for the next eight
or nine hours.
I live each day expecting to live tomorrow and lots of tomorrows.
Perhaps that is hope. I call it faith. I voluntarily chose to put my faith
in the God who created me—that He will sustain me on His earth and
in His universe until the day He decides it will end. Believe me, having
arrived at that point in my life gives me great peace.
I recommend that you think Faith through. How did the Earth
begin? Was it created or is everything around you an accident? If it
was created, does it have rules we can discover? Albert Einstein once
asked, “Do you live in a hostile or friendly universe?” Am I at peace
with the world around me and with my fellow humans and all of the
creation I see?
If I were troubled and not at peace, I would hope to keep my unrest
to myself and not pollute (pardon the pun) the world around me with
my suspicions and paranoia.
I believe we can all do more to live a life that overflows with peace
and caring for others. I don’t need orders from any political or military government demanding that I be more caring. I have discovered
the wonders of charitable giving on my own. A concept that the government must take from the rich and redistribute to the poor calling it
“social justice” or any other name is coercive, government-demandedcharity. It is a curse, not a blessing.
And I believe we must all learn to once again respect each other.
That doesn’t mean you must think a certain way, live a certain way
or believe a certain way that agrees, totally, with me. But you must
permit me to have my opinion and I will do the same for you.
If you honestly don’t believe there is a creator that is fine. But
please don’t impose your way of thinking on me. Give me the freedom
and respect to believe the way I want. I promise, I will do the same
for you.
Harmony is a wonderful thing and I believe God created it too. To
make musical harmony, each instrument or voice adds one note to
create a chord. Harmonious chords are always beautiful to hear but
if one note is slightly off key, there is a discord and it sounds shrill.
Do we want to create a world of harmony and beauty—or a world of
discord and ugliness?
Paraphrasing the remarkable G K Chesterton; harmony isn’t something that we have tried and it has failed us; harmony is something we
have tried, found difficult to achieve and simply discarded it.
Hopefully, the discord that the Global Environmental Movement
has created will quickly fade away so the rest of us can learn to live
harmoniously—and freely—on a planet that isn’t hostile to any of us.
My astronaut friend told me when he was traveling through space
that the Earth appeared through his porthole as a beautiful blue
planet, silently orbiting the earth. Once he got to the moon, the earth
was precisely in its place in orbit so he and his team could head the
space craft back home and land safely.
The color of Earth isn’t green—unless that giant Green Tsunami
is allowed to sweep across the planet and cause global governance to
reign supreme and cause individual freedom and liberty to become
extinct.
Would that such a day would never happen.