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11/17/2010
Christopher Horner in Milwaukee, tonight
It’s absolutely worth going to Milwaukee tonight to hear a presentation by Chris Horner, best selling author, global warming expert and skeptic.
Tonight, Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 6:15 PM
Weasler Auditorium Marquette University. Free.
Booksigning following presentation, about 7:30 PM
Parking available in visitor parking structure on 16th Street.
Tonight’s presentation by Mr. Horner is sponsored by the Marquette College Republicans and Young America’s Foundation.
Just to get you started, here aer a few of Horner’s blogs from this week:
You say Portugal and Ireland, I say Californina
Is this a bad time to remind readers that after Spain, touted over and over by President Obama as his model for a 'green economy' -- debt-financed temporary jobs mandating higher energy prices on top -- hurtled toward bankruptcy thanks in great part to that very scheme, the New York Times pivoted to say oh... no... Portugal and Ireland, that's where the success was...yeah, that's it?
And, Prop 23-rejecting California, can you hear them now? The sole difference and remaining unknown is that California might possibly be forced to deal with its own mess (with residual harm throughout the US, regardless), with the ant that is the American taxpayer tired of bailing out the silly green grasshopper.
Carbon tax to pay for the bailouts!
About the developing Euro bailouts of windmill welfare-queen states, the push is on to impose the long-sought Europe-wide carbon tax (promoted by the French, who get 80% of their juice from nuclear, wink wink nudge nudge) to fund the bailout.
Please, please do this. I can't think of anything that would more quickly and resolutely seal this awful mess's fate. Even (especially?) the German people will finally get it re: the 'green', and the enterprise collapses. Tying carbon taxes to bailouts will be the death knell.
Maybe we could impose a national carbon tax here to fund California's bailout? Then we really would become Europe as our president wants. We could tax West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia and a few other states into oblivion. Oh. Right. Tried that. MU Prof John McAdams encourages your attendance by channeling his inner Al Gore.
Did your high school teacher (or maybe your Marquette professor of English or Sociology) make you watch “An Inconvenient Truth?”
Do you get all your news from the New York Times and PBS (we have a colleague who does this and is proud of the fact)?
Then you need to know about the other side. After all, why would anybody want to hear only one side of a debate?
Horner is an attorney, author, speaker, and Global Warming policy advocate. His book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism was published in 2007 when it spent several months on the New York Times Best Selling List. Horner has also written Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed and Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America.
Jo Egelhoff, FoxPolitics.net
COMMENTS
There was a time when conservatives embraced conservation. Efforts on the part of business and industry to preserve and replace natural renewable energy sources and good land and forest conservation practices were at the heart of conservative philosophies and strategies. Now with the efforts underway to discredit climate change theories and science we are embarking on a path which will ultimately lead to a planet that is increasingly more uninhabitible. It is certain that climate cycles are a natural fact of life on earth and should be considered in the study of climate change, but it is equally certain that humankind is a cancer on the planet. Without thoughtful policy and practice there is no doubt that we will contribute to distorting the normal natural cycles in ways that we will come to regret. We are using up our natural resources at a pace that will be unsustainable for future generations. Don't let this frivolous debate muddle our thinking and distract us form the pursuit of rational action. Go to Milwaukee, burn up a tank of gas, leave behind a vapor trail of carbon based waste and leave it to your children to struggle with the mess you are about to create.
billie (Wed Nov 17 09:26:38 2010)
Oh, Jo, how I wish we could hear it! The choir and I can’t hear squit in the orchestra pit. And we dearly love a good pep talk from the librettist. GIve three cheers and one cheer more for the jolly rebutter of the goon Al Gore.
timbeaux (Wed Nov 17 15:53:02 2010)
Gosh, why would conservatives ever embrace a good, sustainable environment, after all we believe firmly our children and families are expendable, any corporation should be allowed to pollute and rape the landscape if it means a buck.
This is and remains the lamest of arguments. Wakeup, so many of my generation own Stewart Brand's "Whole Earth Catalog." I am and will always be a pioneer of energy saving, non-polluting building. I am so proud of the home I built, I pushed and helped enable the EnergyStar construction financing in the entire country.
That's who my generation is, we are fiscal conservatives who value a buck, 10 pointer or not, laugh here! The argument that conservatives care not for the environment is so lame it's laughable,
Richard Parins (Wed Nov 17 22:17:54 2010)
Jo,
I see that Chris Horner hit a nerve! "billie" says, "Go to Milwaukee, burn up a tank of gas, leave behind a vapor trail of carbon based waste and leave it to your children to struggle with the mess you are about to create." Goodness!
Anyway, I saw Chris Horner earlier this year when the Oshkosh College Republicans sponsored his appearance at Kolf Sports Center. The venue was horrible: part of the main gymnasium was partitioned off and the PA system was as you'd expect the PA system for a basketball court to be: practically all echoes. I sat in my seat cupping my ear the whole time trying to hear Mr. Horner's voice on "line-of-sight", so to speak, rather than trying to decipher the echoes.
That was important because Mr. Horner speaks like he writes: lots of wit and parenthetical comments and multiple thoughts thrown together into a single sentence, and he meanders off into topics connected to the beginning of the sentence before he scoots back to the period. I bought a copy of his latest book, "Power Grab", while I was there, hoping that his writing style would be more clear. It was more clear...but reading his stuff requires more concentration because apparently he doesn't expend much effort on being straightforward. It's sort of like going back to read Adam Smith or Thomas Paine and having to struggle with updating and translating the language as you read it...even though it's English!
That said, however, Mr. Horner has powerfully important and revealing things to say about everything to do with the climate debate. "Power Grab" was published this year and there are plenty of very up-to-the-minute analyses of proposed environmental, alternative energy, and climate-busting legislation that's still pending in Congress.
I can highly recommend "Power Grab". As far as seeing him in person, though I'm writing this AFTER his Milwaukee appearance, be prepared to sift through his sentences for the multiple gold nuggets he fires out with the speed of a Gatling gun.
Steve Erbach
Neenah
Steve Erbach (Sun Nov 21 07:46:07 2010)
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