“Global warming expert” Kenneth Chilton is the true mastermind behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He also is responsible for the death of Michael Jackson, and I’m pretty sure he had something to do with that Lindbergh baby thing.
Ok, so Kenneth Chilton probably didn’t do any of those things, but he deserves to be treated as if he just confessed to all three crimes.
Why?
In a column in the Detroit News, Chilton claims that the energy tax included in the Waxman- Markey climate bill hurts the impoverished, and therefore it would make Jesus angry.
And that’s not even the dumbest thing he wrote. Check out these gold-star winners from the post:
“Congress appears to be convinced that predictions from computer models of high levels of global warming 50 to 100 years in the future are unquestionably accurate. But the latest Gallup poll on global warming finds that 41 percent of Americans now believe that global warming is “generally exaggerated.“
As if that makes everything ok? Scientists say that we’re a generation away from catastrophic climate change, but because 41 percent of Americans don’t buy into all that hooey and malarkey, it’ll just go away. But wait! There’s more!
“On the cost side, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that any cap-and-trade bill that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 15 percent could cost the average household roughly $1,600 (in 2006 dollars).“
Really? 1600 dollars? That’s quite a number. I wonder where he got it from. Furthermore, I wonder what the time-frame is for that increase, considering he failed to mention one in his article? Maybe he just forgot. But Chilton isn’t done there. After running down the costs of the bill that he yanked from his own rectum, he transitions out of nowhere into this fine piece of freshly plucked fertilizer:
“As an elder in a 300-member evangelical church, I am aware of efforts to recruit church leaders to push for climate change legislation… But efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions necessarily result in higher energy costs that impact “the least among us” most harshly. The Biblical command to care for the poor and deal with them justly should give us pause as we consider policies with almost no benefit and great cost to the least of these.“
As a member of planet Earth, I’d like to start a petition here for Kenneth Chilton to get a vasectomy, because nobody this stupid should be allowed to procreate. (Direct your requests here.)
If you’re a militant atheist, you might also want to thank him for driving away as many intelligent people from Christianity as possible.
July 2, 2009 at 4:02 pm
And don’t forget this quote…
“A Heritage Foundation analysis finds that Waxman-Markey would, by 2035, raise electricity rates 90 percent, gasoline prices 74 percent, residential natural gas prices 55 percent and an average family’s monthly energy bill by more than $100.” -Kenneth Chilton, a total dipshit who got this drivel printed in a newspaper in a (formerly) major city that is now a flaming ruin because the retards running its major industry bet the farm on permanently cheap oil…and lost.
Hmm, I seem to remember the “Free Market” doing this “nightmare” scenario all on its own in the last 5 years with NO societal benefit whatsoever. The only folks gaining were Enron when they created a bogus electricity shortage in California that still didn’t keep their criminal enterprise afloat. Exxon, OPEC, the Saudi Royal family, Canada (mostly Alberta) and various speculators were the only ones to gain when fossil fuel prices surged and gasoline doubled in less than a year. They made out like bandits. How soon we forget.
Paying an extra $100 a month on your family’s energy bills will seem like chickenfeed compared to what your bills will look like COMPLETELY ON THEIR OWN in 10-15 years, never mind 2035. Saying that a family’s energy cost will be $100 more a month by 2035 is actually an argument IN FAVOUR of this proposal. You might as well say “Nobody will even notice the difference.”
Me? I cut my gasoline use in half by doing nothing more than replacing my 13yr old car that got average fuel economy for its day with a 2004 Prius. It cost the same as the car I was replacing. I cut my gas use by at least another 50% when I moved closer to work, which also cost me nothing extra. Without even suffering the humiliation of walking or -gasp- taking the bus, I’m using less than a quarter of the gasoline than I did in 2003 and I’ve saved a bundle doing it. All it cost me was a few extra calories of brain power. I know I’m in a better economic position that most, but instead of masturbating that away like most people have been trained to do by our consumer culture, I use it to keep improving my position so I can afford to such decisions in the future. Does that make me an “elitist” or just “not a moron”?
People who think energy prices won’t go through the roof all on their own by 2035 probably expect Ronald Reagan to come back from the dead, repeal term limits, and rule for 1,000 more years of ignorant bliss.
If these fucking Free Market promoting geniuses actually understood Supply & Demand, they would know fossil fuels are single-use items with a limited supply. They will only get more expensive over time, unless demand drastically diminishes. In other words, the less we use, the less each unit should cost. The more we waste, the faster it becomes more expensive. Any regimen that gets us to use less, will ease upward pressure on prices. Taking action could be rewarded with reduced overall costs via reduced total units used and on a price-per-unit basis.
And if there is a theoretical economic based argument to be made against conservation, that’s it. Reducing demand will decrease prices and cheaper energy will encourage future consumption, thus negating conservation’s effect. However, any action to increase costs of the product will ride on top of the natural price mechanism and cause a drag on long term profit profitability. It may drive competitors out of the market which might make the remaining companies more viable, even with a less profitable product. But as long as demand decreases, so will both cost and profit. So as long as the tax/cap-trade mechanism is ongoing, fossil fuels are still fucked. (Gee, I’m sounding like another fucking windbag economist!) In English, economic arguments are a total dog’s breakfast and you can make any of the above economic bullshit stick to any theoretical wall you want.
But speaking of Free Market worshippers…Does anybody remember how much money we just handed over the financial fraudsters who ruined the world’s economy? What, like a trillion dollars and counting? Let’s see what that works out to be per person. (1 Trillion bucks divided by 300 million Americans = a higher number than my old calculator can handle) And what good will come out of that money? Well, it’s going to keep things exactly the way they were…until the next economic meltdown!
No wonder we are in such deep shit. A guy like me who can’t add without a calculator and was “failed” by a shitty economics professor at university knows more about the economy than the supposed “financial geniuses” who do this shit for a living.
Of course, even a high school dropout living (or formerly living) in the 9th ward of New Orleans could tell you that poor people will take the brunt of global warming. Almost four years later and most of the survivors are STILL sleeping on other people’s couches.