Signal to Noise

Following on reports that the EPA is suppressing documentation that argues against the notion of man-made climate change, it appears that the agency may be running interference for the administration, whose warming stance is both idealogically and politically erect.

Carlin has an undergraduate degree in physics from CalTech and a PhD in economics from MIT. His Web site lists papers about the environment and public policy dating back to 1964, spanning topics from pollution control to environmentally-responsible energy pricing.

After reviewing the scientific literature that the EPA is relying on, Carlin said, he concluded that it was at least three years out of date and did not reflect the latest research. “My personal view is that there is not currently any reason to regulate (carbon dioxide),” he said. “There may be in the future. But global temperatures are roughly where they were in the mid-20th century. They’re not going up, and if anything they’re going down.”

It’s amazing to hear this stuff starting to come out. I wonder if the people in the trenches are finally beginning to realize that the monumental rush “Everything Eco”, the so-called Green Movement, is a collossal misallocation of fiscal resources at a time of 10% unemployment and a collapsed real estate industry. The federal government gives Tesla a half-billion dollars in what is a considerable R&D gambit, and I’m scratching my saying why isn’t our government keeping that money in order to stop destroying the credit of the American people?

Green I.T. is one of the chief offenders.  Even as we seek to move mobile apps to the cloud, we centralize power consumption in “hot spots”–the very same thing heavy industry did during the twentieth century. Load goes up, demand goes up, carbon is emitted. Manufacturing of mobile devices moves to China, whose plants are half as clean as American ones, and we’re worried about their Kyoto-boggling pollution instead of their murderous, liberty-defiling, anti-human regime.  Is all this the price of this Going Green?

Too rich for my blood.

When are our industry leaders going to get their heads screwed on tight again and get back to the business of innovating to help people instead of helping superstitious, political science?