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Midas Mulligan Magoo
     
 
(Senior Neanderthal, 5,167
 
Points)
 on 2/22/11 at 11:28am
vac

If there is one bright spot to the financial crisis it is the slowdown of the global hype machine that is Global Warming.

This closeted socialist doctrine has thankfully left the headlines for the time being.

But don't be fooled into thinking it gone for good.

During the current de facto moratorium on the subject, I think it a reasonable idea to reminisce over its lunacy and true intended goals. As your generation moves towards being the decision making body of our country and our world it bares worth examining not just the short run cost benefits of an idea, but the long term impacts, as well.

Militant environmentalism is nothing more than a pseudo socialist power grab and I always enjoy seeing it debunked in public. Carbon tariffs, quotas and taxes are not the topic du jour these days, but it is good to remember that they are constantly lurking around the next corner...waiting to take more dollars of your paycheck and out of your pocket.

Now that my rant for the day is complete, I would like to proudly present to some and reintroduce to others...

The World's Most Highly Regarded and

Respected Speaker on The Subject

The President of the Czech Republic, Mr. Vaclav Klaus.





I wholeheartedly reiterate my suggestion to read his bookand learn in depth.

For those who are interested in a more academic perspective on the subject, however, here is HBS's James Heskettand his widely circulated paper on the market impact angle.

Where I unload on Twits and take verbal S***s
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happypantsmcgee's picture

Someone I know talked to you

happypantsmcgee
      O
 
 
(Almost Human, 9,621
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 11:33am

Someone I know talked to you about that book once

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford

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econ's picture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

econ
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(Neanderthal, 2,416
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 11:41am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtbn9zBfJSs

For my aspiring Entrepreneurial Nomads, check out my blog.

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happypantsmcgee

Midas Mulligan Magoo
     
 
(Senior Neanderthal, 5,167
 
Points)
 on 2/22/11 at 11:55am
happypantsmcgee:

Someone I know talked to you about that book once

lol no shout outs if i knew about it beforehand, will gladly trade SB stash for an al gore pinata,however.

Where I unload on Twits and take verbal S***s

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coach.captain's picture

Seriously Midas? Please stop

coach.captain
      IB
 
(Senior Chimp, 26
 
Points)
 on 2/22/11 at 12:23pm

Seriously Midas? Please stop watching Fox News. It fucks up your brain.

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TNA's picture

I am a big environmentalist,

TNA
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(Human, 13,508
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 12:25pm

I am a big environmentalist, but one thing I always find funny is how much the left supposedly champions the poor, but this environmental stuff directly hurts the poor the most.

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coach.captain

Virginia Tech 4ever
      EN
 
 
(Neanderthal, 2,319
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 12:28pm
coach.captain:

Seriously Midas? Please stop watching Fox News. It fucks up your brain.

In fairness, this was CNN HLN, not Fox News...

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coach.captain

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(Almost Human, 9,621
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 12:28pm
coach.captain:

Seriously Midas? Please stop watching Fox News. It fucks up your brain.

There are a lot of people much smarter than you that think Global Warming is a scam. Environmental engineers, scientists, etc.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford

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Lol Glenn Beck as a source

Matthias
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(Orangutan, 298
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 12:29pm

Lol Glenn Beck as a source

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Well, the majority of the

coach.captain
      IB
 
(Senior Chimp, 26
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 12:34pm

Well, the majority of the scientists in the world state global warming is real and its effects are real. And it is man made.

I'm not talking about the few conspiracy theorists who believe global warming is a hoax made up by the left and Obama and muslims and gays and unicorns (yeah they're all working together to trick you..GET YOUR GUNS OUT).

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And seriously...to have the

coach.captain
      IB
 
(Senior Chimp, 26
 
Points)
 on 2/22/11 at 12:40pm

And seriously...to have the title "Climate Control = Communism?", that's just pathetic. I know this is a wall street forum so obviously there will be a conservative bias but I mean lets not go mental.

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Regardless of all the

Matthias
      CO
 
(Orangutan, 298
 
Points)
 on 2/22/11 at 12:48pm

Regardless of all the political leanings and everything I think the easiest way to break this down is to look at it logically. The Earth is a systems that has largely been in balance or cyclical or whatever for 4+ billion years. Now humans come along and in the last 2000 years have reshaped the landscape, cut down trees, burned things, created all kinds of waste (nuclear, heavy metal, and otherwise). Just based on this its ridiculous to think the system won't change at all in response to what humans have done. Now to what extent it will change and in what ways is a different beast.

Similar events have happened in the past - about 2.5 billion years ago the Earth had its first large scale "pollution crisis" as the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere went from around 1% to 15%. This led to one of the largest mass extinctions in Earth's history and life had to adapt and react and go from using anaerobic methods of respiration to aerobic. Of course this happened over hundreds of millions of years... So whether our carbon production now will cause a similar global crisis before we all kill each other in a global nuclear war is something I really don't know.

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I think you have the wrong

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(Monkey, 63
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 1:10pm

I think you have the wrong site, OP. This is wallstreetoasis.com not teapartynation.com

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IlliniProgrammer's picture

Midas, I hate to say it but

IlliniProgrammer
      ST
 
 
(Almost Human, 9,219
 
Points)
 on 2/22/11 at 1:19pm

Midas,

I hate to say it but you've gone off the deep end this time.

Most academics I know accept global warming. And global temperatures this year are at their highest level ever, despite a very short-term average temperature measure being lower in the midst of rising average temperatures over the past 50 years.

I think the real question is whether it is the government's role to stop negative externalities like global warming and air pollution. And if it isn't, where do we stop? If a large oil company spills millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, maybe they should leave it to homeowners to clean up the mess. Maybe when rich people commit fraud, they should be given a pass- because prosecuting them would constitute socialism. Maybe we should make society a place where he who has the most guns wins- to defend the weak and prevent injustice would constitute socialism.

Of course, without the enforcement of contracts, property rights, and the elimination or recompense for negative externalities, we can't really have a capitalist society, either. Instead, what we really have without recompense for negative externalities is a plutocracy. That's just as inefficient, unfair, and anti-capitalist as communism.

So here's the real question:

-If an energy company dumps oil on my beach, should they be required to make me whole?
-If a mine pollutes my groundwater, should they be allowed to walk away?
-If somebody puts my property underwater, am I entitled to recompense from that person?

If you answered those questions the way any capitalist would answer those question, then the answer must be that we need to do something to deal with global warming. Maybe it involves some combination of geoengineering and nuclear- both of which environmentalists will hate- but the fact is that we're dealing with a negative externality here and something has to be done to correct it.

Work hard, play hard.

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HappyThanksgiving wrote: I

prinmemo
     
 
(Senior Baboon, 191
 
Points)
 on 2/22/11 at 1:18pm
HappyThanksgiving:

I think you have the wrong site, OP. This is wallstreetoasis.com not teapartynation.com

+1 lol

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IlliniProgrammer

prinmemo
     
 
(Senior Baboon, 191
 
Points)
 on 2/22/11 at 1:20pm
IlliniProgrammer:

Midas,

I hate to say it but you've gone off the deep end this time.

Most academics I know accept global warming. And global temperatures this year are at their highest level ever, despite a very short-term average temperature measure being lower in the midst of rising average temperatures over the past 50 years.

I think the real question is whether it is the government's role to stop negative externalities like global warming and air pollution. And if it isn't, where do we stop? If a large oil company spills millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, maybe they should leave it to homeowners to clean up the mess. Maybe when rich people commit fraud, they should be given a pass- because prosecuting them would constitute socialism. Maybe we should make society a place where he who has the most guns wins- to defend the weak and prevent injustice would constitute socialism.

Of course, without the enforcement of contracts, property rights, and the elimination or recompense for negative externalities, we can't really have a capitalist society, either. Instead, what we really have without recompense for negative externalities is a plutocracy. That's just as inefficient, unfair, and anti-capitalist as communism.

So here's the real question:

-If an energy company dumps oil on my beach, should they be required to make me whole?
-If a mine pollutes my groundwater, should they be allowed to walk away?
-If somebody puts my property underwater, am I entitled to recompense from that person?

If you answered those questions the way any capitalist would answer those question, then the answer must be that we need to do something to deal with global warming. Maybe it involves some combination of geoengineering and nuclear- both of which environmentalists will hate- but the fact is that we're dealing with a negative externality here and something has to be done to correct it.

nice post!

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HappyThanksgiving wrote: I

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 on 2/22/11 at 1:21pm
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happypantsmcgee wrote: There

IlliniProgrammer
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 on 2/22/11 at 1:40pm

Work hard, play hard.

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Complete intellectual

Virginia Tech 4ever
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(Neanderthal, 2,319
 
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IlliniProgrammer's picture

Regardless, I am not worried

IlliniProgrammer
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(Almost Human, 9,219
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 1:46pm

Work hard, play hard.

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Virginia Tech 4ever

IlliniProgrammer
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(Almost Human, 9,219
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 1:51pm

Work hard, play hard.

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Anthropogenic global warming

Virginia Tech 4ever
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(Neanderthal, 2,319
 
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Illini, WND is REPORTING

Virginia Tech 4ever
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(Neanderthal, 2,319
 
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I support the Tea Party.

TNA
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 on 2/22/11 at 1:52pm

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Virginia Tech 4ever

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 on 2/22/11 at 1:53pm

Work hard, play hard.

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Virginia Tech 4ever

IlliniProgrammer
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(Almost Human, 9,219
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 1:55pm

Work hard, play hard.

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Illini, the argument isn't

Virginia Tech 4ever
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(Neanderthal, 2,319
 
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Virginia Tech 4ever

IlliniProgrammer
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(Almost Human, 9,219
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 2:13pm

Work hard, play hard.

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This debate is absurd.

Virginia Tech 4ever
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(Neanderthal, 2,319
 
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IlliniProgrammer

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(Senior Neanderthal, 5,167
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 2:10pm

Where I unload on Twits and take verbal S***s

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ANT wrote: I support the Tea

coach.captain
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(Senior Chimp, 26
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 2:16pm
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Midas Mulligan Magoo

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(Almost Human, 9,219
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 2:24pm

Work hard, play hard.

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Virginia Tech 4ever

Midas Mulligan Magoo
     
 
(Senior Neanderthal, 5,167
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 2:24pm

Where I unload on Twits and take verbal S***s

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coach.captain wrote: ANT

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(Neanderthal, 2,447
 
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Midas Mulligan Magoo

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(Senior Chimp, 26
 
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Midas Mulligan Magoo

IlliniProgrammer
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(Almost Human, 9,219
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 2:51pm

Work hard, play hard.

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MMM, the man is a politician.

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      EN
 
(Senior Gorilla, 767
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 2:45pm

I am not cocky, I am confident, and when you tell me I am the best it is a compliment.
-Styles P

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^^^I'll ask you as well Eok,

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(Neanderthal, 2,447
 
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Bottom line, when lower

IlliniProgrammer
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(Almost Human, 9,219
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 4:41pm

Work hard, play hard.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?

happypantsmcgee
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(Almost Human, 9,621
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 3:04pm

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford

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txjustin wrote: ^^^I'll ask

IlliniProgrammer
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Work hard, play hard.

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txjustin wrote: ^^^I'll ask

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      EN
 
(Senior Gorilla, 767
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 3:15pm

I am not cocky, I am confident, and when you tell me I am the best it is a compliment.
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nm

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(Neanderthal, 2,319
 
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Although I am not sure what

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(Neanderthal, 2,156
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 3:15pm

Reality hits you hard, bro...

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MMBinNC wrote: Although I am

eokpar02
      EN
 
(Senior Gorilla, 767
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 3:21pm

I am not cocky, I am confident, and when you tell me I am the best it is a compliment.
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A little more color on the

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(Almost Human, 9,219
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 3:29pm

Work hard, play hard.

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Guess nowadays every bad

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ANT wrote: I support the Tea

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coach.captain wrote: Midas

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awm55 wrote: coach.captain

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The arguement is not about

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      HF
 
 
(Neanderthal, 2,465
 
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 on 2/22/11 at 3:44pm

Follow the shit your fellow monkeys say @shitWSOsays

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