Hat tip Eagle Rising
Can't make this stuff up, Folks.
By now you have no doubt heard about all the horrible things happening in Iraq and Syria. ISIS is on the march. Beheadings, crucifixions, thousands dead, women and young girls being held as sex slaves. You get the picture. But do you know what is causing all this madness? No, it has nothing to do with Islam.
It's global warming. At least that's what two professorial-types in New York are telling us.
http://eaglerising.com/9161/liberal-says-global-warming-helped-create-isis/
Why didn't I think of that? You see, it gets real hot in Iraq and Syria-has for thousands of years actually. However, it is this year that is the charm. This year, tempers have gotten short due to the heat, and Bashar Assad has made tempers shorter. Thus, we have the perfect "storm'.
So what's the solution to ending the horrors in Iraq and Syria? That's where Al Gore and his crew come in.
First, we must turn our own economy upside down and transfer great sums of wealth to the Third World. We must also build more fuel-efficient vehicles instead of those gas hog Hummers, especially the ones that we paint sandy color and ship over to the Iraqis, so they can leave them behind as they flee ISIS. We want to send over more fuel-efficient vehicles so ISIS can save gas and leave less carbon footprint.
Here is what I suggest: Let's send Gore over to Mosul in his private jet to explain to ISIS why they should reduce their carbon footprint. If they agree, maybe they can share the next Nobel Peace Prize.
I sure hope we can apply that lesson out here in Southern California, where I live. You may have heard that we have had a record drought out here. As I write, people in Anaheim are so angry they are beheading each other. Christians and Jews are fighting pitched battles in the streets of Irvine, and a pitchfork army of some 30,000 is perched at the gates of Sacramento, while Governor Jerry Brown has no clue what to do next.
Global warming can make us so uncivilized.
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A pox on both your houses.
I am reminded once again of what it meant to the anti-war movement when Jane Fonda joined it... I wished she would have kept on making Barbarella movies.
No Findalis, I don't know ANYONE who has blamed Global Warming on the Jews.
Are you saying that if it hasn't been blamed on the Jews, then it can't be real?
Alas, it looks like I will not be able to achieve Siarlys' Utopian dream of powering my home with either solar or wind in the near future. In a project which sounds to me kinda like a probable mini-Solyndra boondoggle, the nearest "real" city to me (pop. 165K) has partnered with a private company, which in turn has built a five-megawatt solar farm (22,000 panels, enough for about 875 homes, roughly 25 panels per home) on 40 acres owned by the city. Customers who opt in will pay a 20-year locked-in rider/surcharge of about $50.00 per month ($12K total if it is not extended) for the privilege of using solar.
I used basic middle school arithmetic and assumed an average/typical household of four (the actual number is less than 3, and I also used a population of only 160K, but I sometimes do this in order to do a lot of the math in my head). Another result is that this places the case for solar, if there is one, in the best possible/most favorable light, and the following would therefore most definitely be on the low rather than the high side.
In any event, unless and until the technology improves quite dramatically, to power only the residential (not including commercial/industrial, which would be substantial) requirements of this one smallish city (about 0.05%, or 1/2000th, of total U.S. population) from solar would necessarily require, at the very least, 880,000 solar panels on something more than 1600 acres of land.
I know of at least two ways to calculate total national requirements for solar. Using the above parameters, to extrapolate/extend it to nationwide residential coverage would require something like at least 1.76 BILLION solar panels sitting on at least 3.2 MILLION acres, again not including any commercial/industrial customers.
However, U.S. Census data indicates that as of 2012, there were 115,226,802 U.S. households (a MUCH higher figure than the 80 million I used above), with an average of 2.6 persons per household. Again using the very conservative number of 100 million households, this translates to 2.5 BILLION solar panels sitting on 4 MILLION acres. Either way, that's a LOT of panels and a LOT of acres. Take your pick.
May happen, but I sincerely doubt it. More about wind later.
They're doing it wrong elwood. My mother said our former next door neighbors, a German Roman Catholic family, the husband and father worked in a paper mill all his life, went deer hunting every fall, enjoyed Adler Brau, a local beer... saved $300 a year on their electric bill after putting up solar panels on the roof.
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