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[SilverSurfer]

before you jump on me, don't you think it would be better "optics" if the Climate Alarmists at least try a little bit to tone down their own use? I mean, "they" can easily afford massively higher energy costs, but can you and I or the poor.

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global traveling jetsetter Leonardo DiCrapio... personal owner of his very own carbon-spewing Private Jet, FIVE carbon-belching luxury Mansions across America, one heckuva carbon-dumping luxury Yachts ocean cruising aficionado, and soon to be rocketing into earth orbit aboard a Tourist Spaceship that is exclusively for the substantially wealthy and will dump far more carbon and nightmarish chemicals into our atmosphere in just his one, single, solitary manned launch [3.5 million pounds] than all the cars in America on the road during one day combined [2.5 million pounds].

at his multiple homes "Dicaprio tries to survive on the bare essentials."


Leonardo DiCaprio took over the world’s fifth largest yacht to watch the world cup in Brazil this year. The 482-foot Topaz, worth £400million, is owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emitates and owner of Manchester City FC.

The burden of these policies falls overwhelmingly on the world’s poor, because the rich can easily pay more for their energy. I am often taken aback by well-meaning and economically comfortable environmentalists who cavalierly suggest that gasoline prices should be doubled or electricity exclusively sourced from high-cost green sources. That may go over well in affluent Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where residents reportedly spend just 2% of their income on gasoline. But the poorest 30% of the US population spend almost 17% of their after-tax income on gasoline.

In Germany, where green subsidies will cost €23.6 billion this year, household electricity prices have increased by 80% since 2000, causing 6.9 million households to live in energy poverty. Wealthy homeowners in Bavaria can feel good about their inefficient solar panels, receiving lavish subsidies essentially paid by poor tenants in the Ruhr, who cannot afford their own solar panels but still have to pay higher electricity costs.

The list goes on. In Greece, where tax hikes on oil have driven up heating costs by 48%, more and more Athenians are cutting down park trees, causing air pollution from wood burning to triple.


Read more at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bj-rn-lomborg-says-that-the-prevailing-solution-to-global-warming-is-hurting-the-poor-more-than-the-problem-is#q5Q6GGXFjsmgQb3z.99


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/leo-dicaprio-gives-up-super-yacht-to-walk-in-nyc-climatemarch-parade/


Hype at the Highest Levels>
White House Chief Science Adviser: Wildfires Are Linked To Climate Change
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/06/3468115/white-house-video-wildfires-climate-change/

reality:

“Data from both U.S. and Canada show the number of wildfires has declined over the past 40-50 years and the number of wildfires was higher during the global cooling scare of the 1970’s.” In fact, the number of U.S. wildfires has dropped 10% per decade. The U.S. government’s National Interagency Fire Center has reported that US wildfires now occur “half as often as they did 50 years ago.”

Spanish researchers confirmed climate change not to blame for increased (size of) forest fires. “The change in the occurrence of fires that are recorded in the historical research cannot be explained by the gradual change in climate,” they reported. Instead, it “corresponds to changes in the availability of fuel, the use of sources of energy and the continuity of the landscape.” In the United States, wildfires are also due to a failure to thin forests or remove dead and diseased trees – due largely to environmentalist protests and lawsuits.

http://www.cfact.org/issues/climate-change/climate-change-truth-file/