4.      If you bring together five or more environmental activist groups and publicly announce a joint protest to show the full force of public fury against a science conference, a free enterprise group or some other undesirable entity, try to show up with at least 40 protesters.

5.      If you bring fewer than 40 people to a protest, you probably don’t want to chant “We are the 99 percent!” It simply makes you look foolish.

6.      If there are 40 or less of you chanting in the street, and you really do comprise 99 percent, that means there are only 41 people in the world who agree with you, giving you the benefit of the doubt and rounding up the 99-percent figure.

7.      When your protest leader is a troll-looking creature wearing a long, black rubber boot on his head and holding a megaphone with the self-identifying words “Vermin Supreme” written on it, you may wish to call off your protest after all.

Just published here at The Commentator (UK) and here at Energy Tribune (US). Here's a taster:

What’s the difference between the European Union and the Titanic? Answer: the Titanic was holed by a single immovable object and took minutes to sink. The EU, another allegedly “unsinkable” project, is taking a little longer. As if Eurozone crisis and keeping Greece afloat wasn’t threatening enough, the next crisis is looming: energy – a crisis entirely of the EU’s own policy-making.

The EU’s ideologically-driven Energy Road Map prioritized ‘green’ renewable energy, diverting away from Russian natural gas dependency and harmonizing energy and environmental needs. The result: a devastatingly inept screw up that threatens continent-wide power outages even, as Die Welt recently reported, in Germany as early as next winter.

In short order, EU energy policies have created an unsustainable, publicly-subsidized, market-skewing ‘green’ energy bubble, eschewed a cheap fossil fuels policy and realistic alternatives to Russian gas imports. Together those failed policies have resulted in the double double-whammy of soaring of energy prices and, as is now being reported, diminishing European industrial competitiveness.

Time we held the false prophets of environmental alarmism accountable for their abysmal failures. My artilce published here at Energy Tribune.  Here's a taster:

When Elijah stood on Mount Carmel he faced a formidable array of 950 prophets (I Kings 18:19). All were resolute in their populist ‘consensus’ theory about a troubling environmental matter. But Elijah didn’t mind the odds. He wasn’t interested in predictions and theory, just hard facts. The issue on Carmel was one that countless would-be prophets throughout the ages have played on: weather (no rain) and climate change (a three-year drought).

It didn’t end well for the false prophets on Carmel. And it was faith in their theoretic sacrificial solutions that proved to be their downfall. These days, of course, we don’t put false prophets to the sword. Instead we put them on the public payroll, give them status awards and grant them high-profile media prestige, no matter how pathetic their prophetic insight may have been. Take Paul Ehrlich, for example.

Ehrlich came to prominence in 1968 with the publication of his environmental blockbuster The Population Bomb. The book’s central Malthusian thesis is that a growing population is unsustainable in a world of dwindling finite resources. As Malthus’ scenario failed to materialize, so too Ehrlich’s apocalyptic vision of hungry and dead bodies on the streets in the 1970s proved a total fiction. Not that this has deterred Ehrlich. He has continued to make a healthy living from a litany of population predictions – not one of which has come to pass.

Made by the good people at Free Market America - good job.

This is where we are heading as the climate alarmists (while losing the scientific case) still hold sway over governments.

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"Fascism per se has its roots in the beliefs and ideology of the radical Left, not as is often portrayed, the Right, radical or otherwise. German National socialism (it still exists), communism, even Islamism, all favor Big Government, centralized power and control, the subversion of democratic processes and, especially, the restriction of liberty and free speech.

If fascism in any guise doesn’t get what it wants, it has always sought ways of grabbing power first by bullying others to keep silent, then asserting the need to “put democracy on hold”. We can all understand the extreme need in times of war. But as Lovelock says, we have no idea what the climate is doing. Yet the eco-fascists are gaining social headway imposing their will through regulatory ‘laws’ often emanating from unaccountable quangos (quasi-non-governmental organizations), unelected czars and other un-democratic agencies.

The US Homeland Security Dept, has just announced it is setting up local law enforcement "green police" to enforce "environmental justice". I kid you not. And Audi are already using the reality to help sell their cars as per this Super Bowl ad.

My article on the bonanza available from world class shale gas reserves for the UK - and the idiot green  fact-free fractivists that would prefer we went back to live 'quaintly' in the dark ages.

For the full article go here. Here's a taster:

While Eurocrats and eco-fractivists remain captivated by the synchronized stupidity of anti-fossil fuel policies and the precautionary principle, some UK officials, at least, perceive 2012 as the time to go for what promises to be an Olympian-scale prize: shale-fuelled economic ‘gold’.

The above article from me is published this weekend here at The Commentator (UK) and here at Energy Tribune (US).

My article (as titled above) published at here Energy Tribune (US) and here The Commentator (UK). Here's a taster:

That’s the thing about flying to the moon. It gives you an untrammelled perspective and respect for the real world, facts and hard data. In a blast worthy of a rocket launch, 49 former NASA scientists, astronauts and engineers have finally had enough of NASA’s climate advocacy role. Going public with a letter to Chief NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, the group pull no punches in asserting the lack of empirical evidence in support of the agency’s “extreme position” as a bastion of climate change alarmism.

The letter’s co-signatories “respectfully request” that both NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) – the latter run by the high priest of climate alarmism James Hansen – refrain from making “unproven remarks in public releases and websites”.

Claims that man-made CO2 is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are “not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data.” And, alluding indirectly to the high-profile headline grabbing alarmism of James Hansen and his GISS team, the letter emphatically states “the science is NOT settled”.

Dear Charlie,

We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.

The unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASA’s history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data prior to making decisions or public statements.

As former NASA employees, we feel that NASA’s advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate. We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject. At risk is damage to the exemplary reputation of NASA, NASA’s current or former scientists and employees, and even the reputation of science itself.

For additional information regarding the science behind our concern, we recommend that you contact Harrison Schmitt or Walter Cunningham, or others they can recommend to you.

Thank you for considering this request.

Sincerely,

(Attached signatures)

CC: Mr. John Grunsfeld, Associate Administrator for Science

CC: Ass Mr. Chris Scolese, Director, Goddard Space Flight Center

Ref: Letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, dated 3-26-12, regarding a request for NASA to refrain from making unsubstantiated claims that human produced CO2 is having a catastrophic impact on climate change.

• Jack Barneburg, Jack – JSC, Space Shuttle Structures, Engineering Directorate, 34 years
• Larry Bell – JSC, Mgr. Crew Systems Div., Engineering Directorate, 32 years
• Dr. Donald Bogard – JSC, Principal Investigator, Science Directorate, 41 years
• Jerry C. Bostick – JSC, Principal Investigator, Science Directorate, 23 years
• Dr. Phillip K. Chapman – JSC, Scientist – astronaut, 5 years
• Michael F. Collins, JSC, Chief, Flight Design and Dynamics Division, MOD, 41 years
• Dr. Kenneth Cox – JSC, Chief Flight Dynamics Div., Engr. Directorate, 40 years
• Walter Cunningham – JSC, Astronaut, Apollo 7, 8 years
• Dr. Donald M. Curry – JSC, Mgr. Shuttle Leading Edge, Thermal Protection Sys., Engr. Dir., 44 years
• Leroy Day – Hdq. Deputy Director, Space Shuttle Program, 19 years
• Dr. Henry P. Decell, Jr. – JSC, Chief, Theory & Analysis Office, 5 years
• Charles F. Deiterich – JSC, Mgr., Flight Operations Integration, MOD, 30 years
• Dr. Harold Doiron – JSC, Chairman, Shuttle Pogo Prevention Panel, 16 years
• Charles Duke – JSC, Astronaut, Apollo 16, 10 years
• Anita Gale
• Grace Germany – JSC, Program Analyst, 35 years
• Ed Gibson – JSC, Astronaut Skylab 4, 14 years
• Richard Gordon – JSC, Astronaut, Gemini Xi, Apollo 12, 9 years
• Gerald C. Griffin – JSC, Apollo Flight Director, and Director of Johnson Space Center, 22 years
• Thomas M. Grubbs – JSC, Chief, Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Branch, 31 years
• Thomas J. Harmon
• David W. Heath – JSC, Reentry Specialist, MOD, 30 years
• Miguel A. Hernandez, Jr. – JSC, Flight crew training and operations, 3 years
• James R. Roundtree – JSC Branch Chief, 26 years
• Enoch Jones – JSC, Mgr. SE&I, Shuttle Program Office, 26 years
• Dr. Joseph Kerwin – JSC, Astronaut, Skylab 2, Director of Space and Life Sciences, 22 years
• Jack Knight – JSC, Chief, Advanced Operations and Development Division, MOD, 40 years
• Dr. Christopher C. Kraft – JSC, Apollo Flight Director and Director of Johnson Space Center, 24 years
• Paul C. Kramer – JSC, Ass.t for Planning Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Div., Egr. Dir., 34 years
• Alex (Skip) Larsen
• Dr. Lubert Leger – JSC, Ass’t. Chief Materials Division, Engr. Directorate, 30 years
• Dr. Humbolt C. Mandell – JSC, Mgr. Shuttle Program Control and Advance Programs, 40 years
• Donald K. McCutchen – JSC, Project Engineer – Space Shuttle and ISS Program Offices, 33 years
• Thomas L. (Tom) Moser – Hdq. Dep. Assoc. Admin. & Director, Space Station Program, 28 years
• Dr. George Mueller – Hdq., Assoc. Adm., Office of Space Flight, 6 years
• Tom Ohesorge
• James Peacock – JSC, Apollo and Shuttle Program Office, 21 years
• Richard McFarland – JSC, Mgr. Motion Simulators, 28 years
• Joseph E. Rogers – JSC, Chief, Structures and Dynamics Branch, Engr. Directorate,40 years
• Bernard J. Rosenbaum – JSC, Chief Engineer, Propulsion and Power Division, Engr. Dir., 48 years
• Dr. Harrison (Jack) Schmitt – JSC, Astronaut Apollo 17, 10 years
• Gerard C. Shows – JSC, Asst. Manager, Quality Assurance, 30 years
• Kenneth Suit – JSC, Ass’t Mgr., Systems Integration, Space Shuttle, 37 years
• Robert F. Thompson – JSC, Program Manager, Space Shuttle, 44 years/s/ Frank Van Renesselaer – Hdq., Mgr. Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters, 15 years
• Dr. James Visentine – JSC Materials Branch, Engineering Directorate, 30 years
• Manfred (Dutch) von Ehrenfried – JSC, Flight Controller; Mercury, Gemini & Apollo, MOD, 10 years
• George Weisskopf – JSC, Avionics Systems Division, Engineering Dir., 40 years
• Al Worden – JSC, Astronaut, Apollo 15, 9 years

Thomas (Tom) Wysmuller – JSC, Meteorologist, 5 years