Kansas Conservative Politics and Beyond
A new documentary about the dangers of the environmental movement will be premiering around the globe this Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 7pm. Not Evil, Just Wrong will premiere in Wichita and Topeka.
Americans for Prosperity and the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy will be co-hosting the premiere at Wichita.
Today’s Topeka Capital-Journal article highlights why it is so important to fight the false alarms raised by global warming extremists. Charlie Perry of the U.S. Geological Survey in Lawrence explained how cool spots on the sun’s surface could be contributing to fluctuations in the Earth’s temperature.
In fact, it looks as though the Earth may be entering into a “grand minimum” where temperatures will be cooler than normal. A lot of anecdotal evidence exists, Perry explains.
Perry said there is anecdotal evidence the Earth’s temperature may be slightly decreasing, but local weather patterns are much more affected by the jet stream than solar activity.
However, Perry said snow in Buenos Aires and southern Africa, the best ski season in Australia and a cooler Arctic region are some of the anecdotal evidence for a cooling period.
So, Perry said, sunspots may have a far greater impact on weather than previously thought.
Is this the smoking gun we’ve been looking for? Probably not. There is still significant evidence that any warming of the Earth is due to water vapor rather than CO2. And water vapor is something even Al Gore will have to admit is natural and NOT man-made.
Perry brings up a good point; how can the Earth be warming when there is so much evidence that it is actually cooling? That’s something global warming alarmists can’t answer because the facts simply don’t back up their theory.
As reported yesterday, nostimulus.com by American’s for Prosperity crashed due to the overwhelming traffic it received after a Fox News appearance by Tim Phillips, AFP President. The site was down for several hours yesterday but still racked up more than 100,000 signatures in just one day, according to an AFP press release today.
“There is growing citizen outrage against this spending nightmare and American citizens are not giving up,” said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity. “In fact, taxpayers raised their voices louder, doubling the number of petitions in one day.”
If you haven’t already, go and sign the petition at nostimulus.com.
More close to home, you can also do you part for state economic development and lower energy costs by signing the Kansas Republican Assembly’s online petition to build the Sunflower Electric Power Plants in western Kansas. Today’s economic climate no longer allows us to play environmental roulette with our state’s energy policies.
Sign the petition and we’ll deliver this message to your Legislators:
“I encourage you to develop energy policies that are based on proven science to meet our growing need for electricity and allow our economy to grow, while preserving our quality of life in Kansas.”
Lower energy costs, a balanced budget.
That’s the call that is hopefully being sounded through the statehouse this legislative session.
The expansion of the Holcomb power plants was a dominate issue in last years session. As we’ve previously discussed, the failed veto override can be attributed to just one house vote.
Environmentalists and others are already lining up to prevent another attempt to get the plant built. The Wichita Eagle didn’t even wait for the November elections before publishing an anti-power editorial.
Kansans should press their legislative leaders not to refight last session’ s coal wars with Sebelius. Instead, the Legislature should join entities such as the Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy advisory group and Kansas Energy Council in planning how to power Kansas cleanly and comprehensively long term.
The Wichita Eagle Editorial Board, Oct. 28, 2008
Many others have decided that the current budget crisis can be used to try to silence the power plant supporters. Never mind the nearly $5 billion in investment the expansion would bring to a state over $1 billion in the hole.
The fact is state spending and the plants can’t be separated. The budget crisis the state finds itself in only makes the expansion of Holcomb even more important than ever. KRA has posted an online petition to encourage our legislators to look again at the expansion project.
Follow the link to sign. Signatures collected will be submitted to your state Representative and Senator to let them know you support the nearly $5 billion in economic development the project would bring to the state.
Lower energy costs, a balanced budget. That’s something all Kansans can believe in.
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