via: Ace

Global Warming Loon of the Day Winner is… Dr. McPherson:

Dr. McPherson has a bachelor’s degree in forest resources from the University of Idaho, a master’s degree in range science from Texas Tech University and a doctorate in range science from Texas Tech.

Not to knock Texas Tech, a fine fine university, but they should have throttled this guy. I have a dear friend who is totally into the whole save Gaia thing and he has trouble with me because I am the ultimate skeptic. I cannot help it. Anytime you have people screaming, screeching and calling wolf every five minutes it tends to dilute the message. Add it to obviously bad science and a Spokesman For Gaia who is a sanctimonious asshat who suffers from delusions of grandeur and I am not buying.

The only response I have for my friend is to point out there is no voice of sanity in this issue. One side says we have had no effect on the earth, which is obviously not true. The other side says the sky is falling every five minutes. I stand by my claim that in the end it is all about money. One group trying not to spend more on mandated regulations and another group launching a whole new cash cow called Green Commerce. Sorry, your not going to guilt this Catholic girl out of anything. It doesn’t work for my mom, it isn’t going to work for a bunch of tree hugging hysterics. Sorry.

This interview with Dr. M. is full of righteous indignation, his own inflated sense of self importance, and just downright fucking insanity. I will hit some highlights for you…

In your April 6 Sunday Viewpoints essay (www.viewpoints.com), you say some pretty frightening things: $400 for a barrel of oil soon, our oil supply running out altogether in 30 years, the modern world coming to a screeching halt because of lack of energy. How much of this do you actually believe, and how much is a scare tactic to get our attention?

I do not have to read his answer to know what he actually believes. He believes every fucking word he has ever uttered. He is, after all, a doctor of rangelike studies and grass. Let’s see what he says.

I believe everything I wrote. I am trying to inform people, not scare them. I do not benefit from peak oil or spreading the word about it. Indeed, it will cost me my 401k, my 403b, and the job I love, and writing about it has been costly to my so-called career. And then there’s the consequent hate mail …

[ JenNote: Pobrecito… it is hard being right all the goddamn time, isn’t it? The sacrifices the elitist academics in this country make are sometimes more than I can bear to hear. I feel certain one of the unnamed sacrifices is the fact only granola loving, tree hugging girls who do not shave are interested in his naughty bits. I mean what is the value of a pompous windbag without his 401k and his wd40 or ub40 or whatever it is he is paying as price for martyrdom? ]

However, one minor correction: I indicated the current supply of oil would be exhausted in about 30 years at current levels of demand, but demand destruction will certainly result from high prices (this is already occurring in “third world” countries and for many people in the U.S.). As a result, I suspect we’ll be pulling oil out of the ground as long as people occupy the planet.

[ JenNote: So we are gonna run out in 30 years, but not really.]

I am underwhelmed and bored with this article… let’s find something more interesting. Oh my… this is fantastic!

All three presidential candidates—Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain—are in favor of energy diversification and committed to battling global warming. So aren’t we, as a nation, finally getting on the right track?

First and foremost, all three viable candidates support economic growth,which strongly depends on the use of oil. They all support increasing efficiency, but not conservation. Conservation is political suicide, as Jimmy Carter discovered. The track we’re on is a monorail with a cliff at the end.

ONE candidate supports economic growth, the other two… not so much. Barry O wanting 1.7 trillion dollars in new taxes and emasculation of the military complex does not make a booming economy. Hillary, well she is like ANTI-growth Hormone. I think the gentlemen out there will attest to her shriveling effect on just about everything. Still that is not the most hilarious thing about the answer. That would be his thinking that Conservation is the reason Carter was not reelected. Hahahahhahaha

Also, who the fuck makes Monorail metaphors?

What personal measures do you take for conservation? And what personal measures do you recommend others take as a way to individually contribute to a sustainable energy future? And does it really matter or must everything be done on a grander, global scale?

I drive a compact, hybrid-electric car. I live in a small, old rental house less than two blocks from the University of Arizona, where I work. I buy only what I need, and I check labels with care. I avoid eating meat because vegetarianism saves water and energy. I use compact-fluourscent bulbs in my house. And so on, totaling dozens or perhaps hundreds of daily decisions.

[ I just threw up a little in my mouth. Ugh. Dozens perhaps HUNDREDS of daily decisions? What an asshat.]

Ultimately, none of these actions matter at all. My lifestyle has virtually no impact on the global system. I’d be willing to bet the U.S. military uses more oil in a weekend than I will use in my entire life, and corporate CEOs and politicians who control this country are firmly committed to maintaining the status quo, regardless of the costs to us, other cultures and species, or future generations.

Exactly, you are totally wasting your time and effort, yet you do it anyway? Hell you probably harass people who do not join in your insanity of making hundreds of decisions a day that have no fucking benefit. Ugh.

Any message to America as we approach Earth Day, which is coming up April 22? Anything other than gloom and doom, I mean? Is “bloom” anywhere in that equation?

Absolutely. This is wonderful news on many levels. Passing the world oil peak means the world economy will collapse, thereby giving other cultures and species an opportunity to persist a few more years. Economic growth is tightly linked to extinction rates, so the forthcoming Greatest Depression is great news from the other occupants of planet Earth.

Yeah, that pretty much negates anything he might have said at any point in his life that was of value. Fucking idiots like this should be culled from the heard. This is a guy who has probably never worked a day in his life. He probably possesses zero skills to survive in this New Stone Age of his which makes his eagerness to see it happen even more disturbing.

The comment reminded me of Ted Turner, another great American and Cocksucker, when he talked about global warming making us all into cannibals. If that is true, it will be the plebs with firearms, God, and some concept of reality who survive and continue the species. Basically the South with eat the North.

Finally, there is an upside to the cannibal scenario after all. You know those leftists are probably as tender as veal or kobe beef, what with never actually doing anything more strenuous than beating their chest with their weak little arms and hitting a few pilates classes. Pass the A1 and Chalula.