The Global Warming Hypocrites

The Global Warming Hypocrites

By Bill Wattenburg, KGO Radio, March 7, 2007.

WARNING: You may think this analysis is harsh, but you can easily check the facts presented. If you don't, I guarantee that you will suffer the truth before long.

I’m sure you have noticed that your conscience and your life style are being assaulted by the red guard army of politically correct global warming prophets who are painting you with collective guilt for spoiling this still wonderful world. But if you live in California, your political leaders are making a global warming sucker out of you. If you live in the world, your self-styled environmental saviors are forcing you to breathe thousands of times more radioactivity and toxic pollution than you ever dreamed could come from a nuclear accident. I'll tell you why.

Here is a bit of the truth:

THE BAD NEWS is, yes, the earth has been warming at a more rapid rate than normal for the last few decades. (Actually, we would not be here if it were not for gradual global warming for millions of years since the last ice age that covered much of the earth with a mile of ice.)

THE DULL NEWS is that it is all your fault. You working folks have been putting excessive amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels for the energy you need to achieve a better standard of living (and double your lifespan in the last 100 years).

THE GOOD NEWS is that there is an immediate solution, nuclear power. It is economical and safe compared to the dangers of burning coal. Nuclear power is the only way to generate the massive amounts of additional energy that the world needs without putting more billions of tons of CO2 and other deadly pollutants into the atmosphere by burning more coal. Clean nuclear power puts no pollution in the atmosphere. Utilized properly, it is a cheap supply of energy for the world for hundreds of years. And smart countries are building new nuclear plants as fast as they can. These are the countries that are taking the jobs away from the U.S. while our political leaders twiddle their thumbs and sell American workers down the drain.

The New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Kristof reported on April 9, 2005, that many top scientists and environmental leaders (who are not making money as global warming prophets) have recognized and pronounced that nuclear power is the only available source of massive amounts of energy that can avoid the increased burning of fossil fuels, coal in particular. This list now includes the founder of Greenpiece, Patrick Moore (www.greenspirit.com), and the founder of The Whole Earth Catalog, Stewart Brand. Both were staunch opponents of nuclear power for many years. Then they realized that the advantages of no air pollution or CO2 production by nuclear power plants made them the only sensible substitute for the thousands of new coal burning power plants that will be built otherwise. These honest environmentalists are wise enough to recognize that fifty years of operation of 104 nuclear plants in the U.S. alone has shown that the purported dangers of nuclear power are far less than the proven world-wide damage done by filthy coal burning power plants, and they know that we must begin building the nuclear plants immediately. Polls show that over 75% of the American public now believe we should be building many more nuclear power plants. But why is it not happening? The answer is that the nuclear hysterics who frightened the world for thirty years will not admit the damage they have done to the world. The nuclear nuts continue to intimidate the timid politicians of America who should be protecting your health and saving your economy. Only you can change this by contacting your political representatives and giving them some backbones.

Here is one appalling fact. An average 1000 megawatt coal burning power plant burns about 4 million tons of coal per year. That one plant produces over 12 million tons of CO2 each year and over 500 tons of radioactive uranium and thorium up the smokestack and into the atmosphere for all to breathe. We now have over 450 coal burning plants operating in the U.S. every day. The number will be about 600 plants within five years -- even if we start building nuclear plants today. We can not even stop the building of new coal plants for at least ten years. Can we afford to wait any longer?

Here is the real Inconvenient Truth:

If you believe that global warming is caused by excessive CO2 in the atmosphere, then the so-called environmental savior organizations and their followers are responsible for it. And they are the loudest global warming prophets calling you guilty. They have deliberately polluted the world that they claim to protect just to carry out their religious fanaticism against nuclear power. (Remember the MTBE poison in the nation’s gasoline that they claimed for ten years was good for you). The U.S. EPA really qualifies as the Environmental Pollution Agency. These anti-nuclear groups are the ones who have intimidated our political leaders for the last thirty years to make sure that not even one more nuclear power plant was built anywhere in the U.S. Filthy coal burning plants were the only alternative in most cases. They stood by while hundreds more were built in the U.S. These are the vulgar hypocrites who actually caused indeed forced most of the U.S. contribution to global warming, and now they have the gall to tell the working folks that it is all their fault and they must clean up their act.

Like religious cult leaders, the global warming hypocrites don’t dare mention anything that is not in their standard PC bible-like nuclear power. They must keep their flocks under control by forcing them to publicly chant the cult buzzwords like "global warming" and collectively adopt soul-cleansing habits like calculating one's "carbon footprint" each day and keep it shirt-pocket available for the faithful to see. The last thing that any self-respecting cult leader will even mention is any real solution to the dangers that brought his frightened flock together to bow at his feet. Know of any prominent former politician in this category?

In many ways, the global warming hypocrites in this country have become the modern-day equivalents of the Red Guard army of angry peasants unleashed in China to punish the troublesome folks who had learned to read and write. Only in this case, global warming prophets such as Al Gore have managed to turn the collective guilt of the rich and getting richer in the Hollywood elite to mount a snide attack on the lifestyles of the working people. Why? It's easy. Working folks don’t have the time or money to fight the guilt trip. Rich and famous folks write big checks to escape responsibility and applaud each other for their virtuousness.

To put things in perspective, just remember the thousands of end-of-the-world Y2K prophets of a few years ago? Yes, there was a Y2K problem. But in no way was it the world’s biggest problem. The real computer experts had devised reasonable solutions and they were using them. However, the manipulative Y2K prophets were able to make suckers out of the newspapers, TV networks, and most of the gullible public for most of two years. They were able to sell their hysterical stories because no one could prove that there were solutions in place until the clock struck 12:01am on January 1, 2000. Then the world experienced the deafening dud of almost nothing happening. And so it could be with the global warming problem, providing the honest scientists, real environmentalists, and sincere political leaders are allowed to solve the problem.

Grand-standing politicians everywhere are using the global warming hysteria to impose new and stringent regulations on the guilty ones, U.S. citizens. These politicians only want to prove that they are "PC Green" without taking any responsibility for solving the problem. But the most draconian restrictions on working families will produce only minor reductions in CO2 compared to the billions of tons of CO2 and other toxic pollutants put in the atmosphere by coal burning power plants every year now.

About 40% of the CO2 put in the atmosphere comes from coal burning power plants. About 40% comes from burning oil in our cars and trucks. We can stop building more coal plants. But working folks can not stop driving to work to pay for everyone else in our country. Political leaders must be told to approve building many more modern and clean nuclear power plants immediately. They must be told to outlaw building more fossil fuel (coal and natural gas) power plants that will only increase the CO2 in the atmosphere that they preach is the cause of global warming. Otherwise, get out of the way and get out of political office.

Hypocrite political leaders are allowing, in fact promoting the building of hundreds of new coal burning power plants in the U.S. alone over the next ten years. They know where their bread is buttered. They have to make sure the voters get the new energy supplies that the economy needs each year and the coal industry is a 100 billion dollar lobby that pumps money into all political campaigns.

The U.S. needs at least twenty new large power plants every year. They are already being built and most will be coal. China will be building over 2000 new coal plants in the next twenty years. While the global warming preachers are telling the working folks to watch their “carbon footprint,” they know that the smallest estimates are that CO2 emissions into the atmosphere will increase at least 10 percent over the next ten years, including the contributions by California, and the U.S. as a whole.

An appropriated analogy is this: The opponents of nuclear power plants have been scaring you with the dangers of smoking while they deliberately blow hundreds of tons of second-hand smoke into your lungs by forcing the world to build thousands of coal plants.

The absurdity of all absurdities is that coal burning power plants put over 14,000 tons of radioactive uranium and thorium into the air each year. This is thousands of times more than the total released into the environment by the highly regulated nuclear power industry. The reason why is that coal as it comes out of the ground contains a little over 1 part per million of uranium and 3 parts per million of thorium plus several parts per million of almost every other toxic metal such as mercury, lead, arsenic, etc. Twelve billion tons of coal burned worldwide every year puts thousands of ton of these toxic substances in the air. We have been forced to breathe this pollution all of our lives. The cruel irony is that the scientifically ignorant generation are panicked when the nuclear hysterics scream that an accident at a nuclear waste storage site might leak a few grams of uranium over ten thousand years!

The filthy pollution and the enormous radioactivity put in the air by coal burning power plants has been the big secret that the so-called environmental savior organizations and the anti-nuclear crowd do not want the general public to know. They have known the truth. Read the shocking scientific report on the dangers of coal burning plants from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy (Coal Combustion: Nuclear Resource or Danger by Alex Gabbard). It is posted on my website on KGO.com and www.pushback.com. This report and its easily verified data will make you feel like some kind of fool if you ever believed the nuclear hysterics who told you that nuclear power plants are the most dangerous things around.

The California Swindle:

California is one of the best examples of institutionalized global warming hypocrisy. The so-called environmental agencies in California have told the governor and legislature to pass new regulations on California motorists to reduce "greenhouse gases." The bureaucrats plan to force changes in the way folks drive to work and heat and cool their homes to reduce their “carbon footprint” that is generated because they burn gas in their cars and use electricity produced by fossil fuel power plants. However, the total amount of CO2 reduction that can be squeezed out of the working citizens without crippling the California economy is less than the amount of CO2 produced by a couple of new coal burning power plants each year. And California is building more of them right now!

Right now, behind your backs, the California Energy Commission, with full approval of a gullible governor and legislature, is promoting the building of new coal burning power plants in Wyoming to bring more power to California. They are building a billion dollar power transmission line to bring the coal generated power to California. California must have at least 1000 megawatts of new power each year (one standard coal plant). However, just one of these filthy coal burning power plants will produce much more air pollution and CO2 than all the regulations on California citizens can reduce in the next ten years.

The clever politicians in California are going to satisfy the increasing power needs of the California voters while claiming to be "green" by not allowing polluting coal burning power plants to be built in California! They simply put the millions of tons of CO2 and pollution in someone else's backyard (but still in the world's atmosphere). We all share and breathe the same atmosphere. This is a deliberate, massive increase in global warming. How does it feel to be considered so dumb that they can do this right in your face?

It looks like this absurdity can only be stopped by a proposition on the next ballot that orders the governor and legislature to build nuclear plants for any new energy generated in California or purchased for California. The power utilities are ready. They just need the support.

It is rather amazing that everyone in the U.S. has been using, indeed, depending on, three to four hours of electricity produced by nuclear power plants every day for the last thirty years. Without the nuclear plants operating over ninety percent of the time, we would have had blackouts every day somewhere. Yet, many will still listen attentively to any nuclear hysteric who wants to tell them about the evils of nuclear power.

And, oh yes, let us not forget the PC mantra: It's all Bubba's fault.