Comments on: Even the Generals are Worried! Mission Creep, Climate Change, and National Security (Part 2) http://www.masterresource.org/2009/09/even-the-generals-are-worried-can-you-spell-m-i-s-s-i-o-n-c-r-e-e-p-climate-change-and-national-security-part-2/ A free-market energy blog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:09:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Celebrity Paycut - Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. http://www.masterresource.org/2009/09/even-the-generals-are-worried-can-you-spell-m-i-s-s-i-o-n-c-r-e-e-p-climate-change-and-national-security-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2347 Celebrity Paycut - Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:45:53 +0000 http://masterresource.org/?p=4735#comment-2347 [...] week, on the free-market energy blog MasterResource.Org, I posted a two-part column on climate change and national security. In a nutshell, I argued that global warming is likely [...] [...] week, on the free-market energy blog MasterResource.Org, I posted a two-part column on climate change and national security. In a nutshell, I argued that global warming is likely [...]

]]> By: Andrew http://www.masterresource.org/2009/09/even-the-generals-are-worried-can-you-spell-m-i-s-s-i-o-n-c-r-e-e-p-climate-change-and-national-security-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2344 Andrew Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:47:04 +0000 http://masterresource.org/?p=4735#comment-2344 Richard-Well, I'll fully admit that I was recalling something I had heard and not something I <i>knew</i>. Now, where did I hear something about Opium? Oh, maybe that was the Taliban? I know that they grow quite a bit of Poppy in Afghanistan. But my memory is, again, fuzzy. Richard-Well, I’ll fully admit that I was recalling something I had heard and not something I knew. Now, where did I hear something about Opium? Oh, maybe that was the Taliban? I know that they grow quite a bit of Poppy in Afghanistan.

But my memory is, again, fuzzy.

]]> By: Richard W. Fulmer http://www.masterresource.org/2009/09/even-the-generals-are-worried-can-you-spell-m-i-s-s-i-o-n-c-r-e-e-p-climate-change-and-national-security-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2345 Richard W. Fulmer Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:09:51 +0000 http://masterresource.org/?p=4735#comment-2345 This website has extensively documented the threat that Waxman-Markey poses to Americans’ financial security. Dr. Lewis’ post persuasively demonstrates that the bill’s threat is far more fundamental. While his arguments are unlikely to sway the Administration (much less the apocalyptic wing of the global warming faith), it is very likely to convince voters who may, in turn, be able sway their congressmen and senators. This website has extensively documented the threat that Waxman-Markey poses to Americans’ financial security. Dr. Lewis’ post persuasively demonstrates that the bill’s threat is far more fundamental. While his arguments are unlikely to sway the Administration (much less the apocalyptic wing of the global warming faith), it is very likely to convince voters who may, in turn, be able sway their congressmen and senators.

]]> By: Richard W. Fulmer http://www.masterresource.org/2009/09/even-the-generals-are-worried-can-you-spell-m-i-s-s-i-o-n-c-r-e-e-p-climate-change-and-national-security-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2346 Richard W. Fulmer Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:40:39 +0000 http://masterresource.org/?p=4735#comment-2346 Actually, Andrew, bin Laden’s money came from his father who was a wealthy Saudi business man with ties to the royal family. Among other things, Saudi oil money is being used to fund madrassa schools around the world. These schools teach Wahhabism, a fundamentalist form of Islam that is particularly hostile to the West. A number of the Taliban were educated in Pakistani madrassas funded by the Saudis. So the concern about oil money being used to fund terrorism is not as farfetched as you imply. In any case, it seems to me that allowing U.S. petroleum companies to produce domestic oil (both on and offshore) is a more practical way to guard against future price spikes than is relying on windmills, photovoltaics, and biofuel. Clearly, the people involved in the PSA briefing aren’t stupid and are fully capable of looking at both sides of the issue. The fact that they did not suggests that they face incentives that discourage them from doing so. I suspect that they can read the writing on the wall just as clearly as can the EPA regulators who suppressed Dr. Alan Carlin's report (http://masterresource.org/?cat=310). That writing clearly suggests that it would be harmful to their careers to stand in the way of the Administration’s support for Waxman-Markey. Actually, Andrew, bin Laden’s money came from his father who was a wealthy Saudi business man with ties to the royal family.

Among other things, Saudi oil money is being used to fund madrassa schools around the world. These schools teach Wahhabism, a fundamentalist form of Islam that is particularly hostile to the West. A number of the Taliban were educated in Pakistani madrassas funded by the Saudis. So the concern about oil money being used to fund terrorism is not as farfetched as you imply.

In any case, it seems to me that allowing U.S. petroleum companies to produce domestic oil (both on and offshore) is a more practical way to guard against future price spikes than is relying on windmills, photovoltaics, and biofuel.

Clearly, the people involved in the PSA briefing aren’t stupid and are fully capable of looking at both sides of the issue. The fact that they did not suggests that they face incentives that discourage them from doing so. I suspect that they can read the writing on the wall just as clearly as can the EPA regulators who suppressed Dr. Alan Carlin’s report (http://masterresource.org/?cat=310). That writing clearly suggests that it would be harmful to their careers to stand in the way of the Administration’s support for Waxman-Markey.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.masterresource.org/2009/09/even-the-generals-are-worried-can-you-spell-m-i-s-s-i-o-n-c-r-e-e-p-climate-change-and-national-security-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2348 Andrew Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:52:38 +0000 http://masterresource.org/?p=4735#comment-2348 On oil "funding terrorism"-Um, I seem to recall that Osama's riches came from the Opium trade, NOT oil production! On oil “funding terrorism”-Um, I seem to recall that Osama’s riches came from the Opium trade, NOT oil production!

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