Climate Change & Environment
You Have a Clear Choice
I believe the most effective way to manage and protect our environment is to enforce property rights and allow the free market to advance technology, increase efficiency and develop new forms of energy production. The owner of property will guard the value of that property jealously. No one wants to live in a contaminated dump. Property rights ensure that anyone who damages another person’s property or threatens anyone’s health, via pollution, is subject to prosecution and lawsuit.
Energy is the capacity to do work. Without cheap, plentiful energy, our productivity will decline rapidly and our standard of living will deteriorate. The free market continuously develops more efficient means to use and generate energy, including new efficiency technology and new forms of energy production. Remember that oil, at the turn of the 20th century, was an alternative energy source. In time, it will be replaced by cheaper, more efficient, alternative energy sources - but only if people have the freedom to innovate. This will not happen if DC dictates innovation and subsidizes energy sources that are not economically viable
The incumbent voted for the cap-and-trade legislation, which President Obama has said will necessarily cause the cost of electricity to skyrocket. The incumbent’s approach will increase your cost of living and reduce your standard of living, as no other consequence is possible from the command and control tax burdens that cap-and-trade will impose. The incumbent wants to make more people dependent on the government as the cap-and-trade bill provides for massive energy subsidies to partially compensate lower income people for their increased energy costs. Furthermore, the incumbent has demonstrated his disregard for our privacy rights, as cap-and-tax will require government inspection and certification of all homes in real estate transactions. In sum, cap-and-trade is a terrible idea. It concentrates power into the hands of the few, and will not solve our energy challenges.
Discussion
Anthropologically caused climate change, is a massive fraud perpetrated on the world by scientists seeking government research funds or pursuing a political, not scientific, agenda. See the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit’s emails. Scientists have been speculating and arguing for decades (at least since the 1970’s) as to whether the earth is warming or cooling. I researched this area in 1977. At that time, roughly half the scientific community speculated that the earth was heading into a new ice age due to cooling. The other half speculated that the earth was warming from the greenhouse effect. Clearly, neither camp is correct as no climate models can accurately account for past climate patterns. If the models don’t fit past empirical data, they cannot possibly be accurate about future patterns. The fact is that global temperatures over the past several decades have fallen within the range of known global temperature variations over historic and pre-historic times. If global temperatures varied more widely prior to human existence, then temperature variability within the era of human life cannot be considered abnormal or caused by man.
Carbon dioxide has been vilified as the enemy. However, if carbon dioxide is a pollutant, then we humans, along with our pets, are polluting the earth just by breathing. Does this make any sense?
The fact of the matter is that regardless of what is occurring with our global climate, our Constitution remains in place and our rights remain inalienable. Climate variability is not a justification for abrogating individual rights and instituting an authoritarian government. In fact, if severe climate change is in progress, the best way for humans and other species to survive it is for humans to be free: free to innovate new technologies, homes and overall wealth generation so that we might be able to better tolerate our conditions, protect other species, and continue to prosper regardless of what Mother Nature throws our way.
I can speak from personal experience about how the free market advances more efficient use of energy. Through my work in the electronics industry, I have had the opportunity to make a significant impact in lowering energy consumption. Electronic chips are ubiquitous. They have become very advanced and pack an unbelievable amount of capabilities in a very small space. These chips require electricity to function, lots of electricity. A few years ago, the semiconductor industry came under intense pressure to reduce power consumption in electronic chips. The industry needed a new standard to enable the design of low power electronics. Because of my past success leading standards efforts and the low power design and verification capabilities my product team had innovated, I was asked to chair the effort. In less than 6 months, we released the new standard. Today, virtually all new electronics chips are being designed using this standard.
Did the government dictate the development of this new standard? No! Did they pay for its development or subsidize its use? No, No, No! It was the desire of corporations to use energy efficiently – to be more profitable – that resulted in the funding and development of this work.. The market – cell phone, iPod and other mobile electronics users and corporations with large compute server farms – demanded more powerful, efficient electronics. Battery life is a critical sales feature for mobile electronics. Meanwhile, the cost to power server farms and, more importantly, to keep them cool was skyrocketing. Clearly, companies offering more power efficient electronics could make plenty of money. The key is efficiency. The standard facilitated building smart, power management capabilities into the chips. I am proud of chairing this effort. Not only did we deliver a new standard in record time, we enabled substantial reductions in energy consumption. This successful effort demonstrates that a free market can and will deliver new technology for more efficient power usage – if given the chance.
You Have a Clear Choice
I believe the most effective way to manage and protect our environment is to enforce property rights and allow the free market to advance technology, increase efficiency and develop new forms of energy production. The owner of property will guard the value of that property jealously. No one wants to live in a contaminated dump. Property rights ensure that anyone who damages another person’s property or threatens anyone’s health, via pollution, is subject to prosecution and lawsuit.
Energy is the capacity to do work. Without cheap, plentiful energy, our productivity will decline rapidly and our standard of living will deteriorate. The free market continuously develops more efficient means to use and generate energy, including new efficiency technology and new forms of energy production. Remember that oil, at the turn of the 20th century, was an alternative energy source. In time, it will be replaced by cheaper, more efficient, alternative energy sources - but only if people have the freedom to innovate. This will not happen if DC dictates innovation and subsidizes energy sources that are not economically viable
The incumbent voted for the cap-and-trade legislation, which President Obama has said will necessarily cause the cost of electricity to skyrocket. The incumbent’s approach will increase your cost of living and reduce your standard of living, as no other consequence is possible from the command and control tax burdens that cap-and-trade will impose. The incumbent wants to make more people dependent on the government as the cap-and-trade bill provides for massive energy subsidies to partially compensate lower income people for their increased energy costs. Furthermore, the incumbent has demonstrated his disregard for our privacy rights, as cap-and-tax will require government inspection and certification of all homes in real estate transactions. In sum, cap-and-trade is a terrible idea. It concentrates power into the hands of the few, and will not solve our energy challenges.
Discussion
Anthropologically caused climate change, is a massive fraud perpetrated on the world by scientists seeking government research funds or pursuing a political, not scientific, agenda. See the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit’s emails. Scientists have been speculating and arguing for decades (at least since the 1970’s) as to whether the earth is warming or cooling. I researched this area in 1977. At that time, roughly half the scientific community speculated that the earth was heading into a new ice age due to cooling. The other half speculated that the earth was warming from the greenhouse effect. Clearly, neither camp is correct as no climate models can accurately account for past climate patterns. If the models don’t fit past empirical data, they cannot possibly be accurate about future patterns. The fact is that global temperatures over the past several decades have fallen within the range of known global temperature variations over historic and pre-historic times. If global temperatures varied more widely prior to human existence, then temperature variability within the era of human life cannot be considered abnormal or caused by man.
Carbon dioxide has been vilified as the enemy. However, if carbon dioxide is a pollutant, then we humans, along with our pets, are polluting the earth just by breathing. Does this make any sense?
The fact of the matter is that regardless of what is occurring with our global climate, our Constitution remains in place and our rights remain inalienable. Climate variability is not a justification for abrogating individual rights and instituting an authoritarian government. In fact, if severe climate change is in progress, the best way for humans and other species to survive it is for humans to be free: free to innovate new technologies, homes and overall wealth generation so that we might be able to better tolerate our conditions, protect other species, and continue to prosper regardless of what Mother Nature throws our way.
I can speak from personal experience about how the free market advances more efficient use of energy. Through my work in the electronics industry, I have had the opportunity to make a significant impact in lowering energy consumption. Electronic chips are ubiquitous. They have become very advanced and pack an unbelievable amount of capabilities in a very small space. These chips require electricity to function, lots of electricity. A few years ago, the semiconductor industry came under intense pressure to reduce power consumption in electronic chips. The industry needed a new standard to enable the design of low power electronics. Because of my past success leading standards efforts and the low power design and verification capabilities my product team had innovated, I was asked to chair the effort. In less than 6 months, we released the new standard. Today, virtually all new electronics chips are being designed using this standard.
Did the government dictate the development of this new standard? No! Did they pay for its development or subsidize its use? No, No, No! It was the desire of corporations to use energy efficiently – to be more profitable – that resulted in the funding and development of this work.. The market – cell phone, iPod and other mobile electronics users and corporations with large compute server farms – demanded more powerful, efficient electronics. Battery life is a critical sales feature for mobile electronics. Meanwhile, the cost to power server farms and, more importantly, to keep them cool was skyrocketing. Clearly, companies offering more power efficient electronics could make plenty of money. The key is efficiency. The standard facilitated building smart, power management capabilities into the chips. I am proud of chairing this effort. Not only did we deliver a new standard in record time, we enabled substantial reductions in energy consumption. This successful effort demonstrates that a free market can and will deliver new technology for more efficient power usage – if given the chance.
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