Climate Change Blog Action Day
I signed up for blog action day, not because I wanted to " Tell the U.S. it’s Time to Act on Climate Change" but because I wanted to express my concern of pursuing this nonsensical idea that it’s ok to pollute our environment if you pay a carbon tax.
I used to consider myself politically as a left leaning Greenie and have voted for the Greens for most of my Adult life. However not anymore.
My politics changed 2 years ago when I started to study the Ron Paul movement and how networks harnessed him as their candidate rather than Candidates trying to harness networks. It was fascinating to me. I was appalled however when I realised he was not a fan of the Kyoto agreement and had some skepticism about MMGW. So I began looking into it deeper and my views began to change.
Unfortunately as a society there seems to be little tolerance for a point of view that says things like "Er you know there’s global warming on Mars right?" or telling them about Pluto’s global warming also makes them angry. So by the time you start talking about the never before seen magnetic tornadoes on Mercury and how increased Solar activity is the cause you begin to get labelled an environmental vandal if you suggest that maybe the Sun could have something to do with Global warming. Yet these same people believe a Carbon Tax is some sort of solution to our weather woes. Yet even NASA tells us that Solar activity is due to peak in 2012. Peak! That means it’s on its way up. Don’t you think it may have something to do with Global warming?
Now don’t misunderstand me. Do I think spewing millions of tonnes of toxic fumes into our atmosphere is a good idea? Of course not. However we seem to be doing little to support inventors of renewable energy or new energy research. The ancient Mesopotamians had an electric battery commonly known as the Baghdad battery. We don’t seem to have traveled very far in the last 5000 years when it comes to power sources. Nikola Tesla the inventor of AC power was also able to transmit power wirelessly but his funding was withdrawn by JP Morgan when he realised he couldn’t charge people for power this way. He also had several inventions that tapped into radiant energy – where is the weight of industry academia & Govt when it comes to these inventions? Where is the green movement for that matter. Even our home grown UNSW released a paper in 2004 on Solar Hydrogen "It would be the cheapest, cleanest and most abundant energy source ever developed" & "Rooftop panels placed on 1.6 million houses, for example, could supply Australia’s entire energy needs." Pretty impressive huh? What about Pons Flieschmann cold fusion experiments from the 1980s? Why aren’t we hearing more about that research? I’ll tell you why. Because it would upset a multi-trillion dollar industry. Because the trading of energy derivatives market would collapse & god knows what economic turmoil there would be. It would make 2008/09 financial crisis look like a blip.
We are not really serious about energy alternatives as a society. Anything that promises clean limitless energy will soon be bought out and shelved. It has happened throughout the last century and continues into this one. Our media doesn’t seem that interested. They do seem interested in a carbon tax. Here’s what gives me hope though. More & more at sites like http://peswiki.org, http://overunity.com & others, inventors are talking about going open source when it comes to energy research. They’re starting to realise that if they lodge a patent or hope to make $ out of it the big players will march in and buy them out.. or worse. By releasing their knowledge freely maybe one day we’ll all be able to take ourselves off the grid, breathe easier and be kinder to the planet.
In the meantime a carbon tax is NOT the answer. One thing is certain. Govts never abolish taxes. They only replace them.
Jim’s been here for a while, you know who he is.
