Global warming hypocrites (Mike Gallagher)

[Neil Peart]

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MikeGallagher/2008/06/20/global_warming_hypocrites

When I was told I'd be on the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" debating Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about the contentious issue of oil consumption and Barack Obama's refusal to consider offshore drilling or nuclear energy, I really looked forward to the exchange. After all, how many times does one have a chance to have a frank and open exchange with one of the true high priests of the shrill global warming crowd?

Meeting him in the Fox News Channel's green room before the appearance, I began to have some concerns. I'm the kind of guy who likes to have a little friendly banter, even with someone I disagree with. Mr. Kennedy pretty clearly does not, at least not with me. I asked him how his uncle Ted was doing, joked about us being invited to be on the "early morning" shift that day (our appearance aired at 6:15am), and did everything I could to try and establish that, contrary to the way many liberals believe, a conservative like me doesn't have any horns or fangs.

He wasn't buying it.

To describe Mr. Kennedy as aloof might be the understatement of the century. The Kennedy family might be a lot of things, but for RFK, Jr., "warm and fuzzy" doesn't exactly come to mind.

And the ice didn't thaw much once we got out onto the set and began the segment. The host directed the first question to him and he launched into a fairly lengthy monologue that reflected his many years of leading the "let's go green" brigade.

When he got to the part about how the United States should be more like countries like Iceland and Costa Rica in terms of energy conservation, I couldn't take it any more. As I finally got to speak my mind about the scare tactics of Kennedy's disciples on the loony left -- those who bellow about carbon footprints, a "planet in peril", the evil Republicans like me who believe in drilling in just about every square inch of our country so that we don't have to pay 10 dollars a gallon some day -- the look of rage on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s face was priceless.

[DoctorDoom]

When the last Kennedy dies, the world should celebrate it with a week-long festival. They are the most loathsome, despicable gang of cretins that ever wasted oxygen.

Robert F. Jr is every bit as much of a sleazy, functionless scumbucket as his elders (especially Ted, who taught him how to drive). If the world were a punchbowl, the Kennedys would be dead flies. If the world were bread, the Kennedys would be mold. If the world were a white-tie banquet, the Kennedys would be gate-crashing wiggers.

The more I see of those bastards, the more I appreciate the worth of cockroaches.

[RogerFGay]

When he got to the part about how the United States should be more like countries like Iceland and Costa Rica ....

And right there is the core of the argument. So that's the vision he has for the future of the US - it should be more like Iceland and Costa Rica.

[DoctorDoom]

BTW, in the YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6efhS0DYeLU) linked to by Gallagher, the Kennedipshit repeats the same egregious lie that the no-nukes know-nothings have been chanted about for decades: if newkewlar power is so safe, why can't we buy newkewlar accident insurance (the wackjob can't bear say "nuclear" lest his lying tongue explode in white-hot fire)? He mentioned Price-Anderson this way:

"That's why the industry had to pass the Price-Anderson Act, a sleazy legislative maneuver in the middle of the night, which shifts the risks of operating newkewlar power plants from the industry to you."

The Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (commonly called the Price-Anderson Act) is a United States federal law, first passed in 1957 and since renewed several times, which governs liability-related issues for all non-military nuclear facilities constructed in the United States before 2026. The main purpose of the Act is to partially indemnify the nuclear industry against liability claims arising from nuclear incidents while still ensuring compensation coverage for the general public. The Act establishes a no fault insurance-type system in which the first $10 billion is industry-funded as described in the Act (any claims above the $10 billion would be covered by the federal government). At the time of the Act's passing, it was considered necessary as an incentive for the private production of nuclear power — this was because investors were unwilling to accept the then-unquantified risks of nuclear energy without some limitation on their liability.Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price-Anderson_Nuclear_Industries_Indemnity_Act)

Junior's ignorant rant continued:

"You go home and look at your home insurance policy, you will see what's in it."

What the dumfuk is sayng is that the proof of the danger of nuclear power is that a homeowner cannot spend money on large premiums to buy insurance coverage that the industry is providing at no charge via P-A.

Truth is alien to ecowackos.

[DesertFox]

Kennedy completely disregards that the nuke industry is plagued with bogus Lefty lawsuits that no one else has to contend with. For that reason they need insurance no one else needs.

[buckeyepete]

And, pencildick JR. is relying on the insurance gangsters to tell him when nuclear power is safe?

Can the member of the kennedy dynasty, JR. give one example of a sailor, getting liberty after months submerged on a nuclear submarine, glowing in the dark as he/she walks down the pier at night?

Does dildobreath JR. chastise his messiah, Gore, for his wasteful mansion and frequent trips via private jet to lecture on what the little people need to do to allow himself to reign as the earths savior?

No, JR. is nothing but an embarrassment to the memory of his mother and father, but a shinning example of the rest of the clan...........:flame:

[DoctorDoom]

And, pencildick JR. is relying on the insurance gangsters to tell him when nuclear power is safe?The standard of safety that the anti-nukes demand is physically unattainable. Their requirement is designed to make nuclear energy impossible to use.

I doubt that Junior has ever heard of the acronym ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable). It has been the nuclear industry's standard from the outset. What it means is that there is a point where an increase in the safety factor becomes unjustifiable based on the increase in safety vs the cost of implementing it. It has reached the status of "safe enough", and no additional gains will be meaningful.

The first large-scale commercial US nuclear plant, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, went online on 26 May 1958. In the 18,289 days since then, no one has died or been injured because of reactor operation, and there has never been a significant release of radiation to the outside world.

The consequences of the event at Three Mile Island 2 (28 March 1979), long trumpeted by the antis as proof of the EEE-vills of N-ergy, were as follows: sero deaths, zero injuries, a miniscule release of radiation, and an expensive cleanup. More people died in traffic accidents resulting from the fear-mongering of the media and the no-nukes than have died from US nuclear power.

More people died in the Oldsmobile of Junior's Uncle Ted than from commercial N-ergy.

Lest anti-nukes cite Chernobyl to support their arguments, here are the facts.

• The accident was in the Soviet Union, not the US.
• The RBMK-1000 (Reaktor Bolshoy Moshchnosti Kanalniy) is a graphite-moderated reactor. By design it has a "positive void coefficient" in which a loss of coolant increases the reaction rate.
• RBMKs do not have containment structures surrounding the reactors.
• A similar accident would be physically impossible in US reactors.
• The RBMK could not be licensed in any western country.
• The accident was the result of an unauthorized experiment that involved deliberately disabling the reactor's safety systems, in direct violation of the Soviet regulations.

In order to prevent the reactor from shutting itself off from xenon poisoning, the operators pulled the control rods almost all the way out. This caused an enormous increase in the nuclear reaction to many times the reactor's normal power level. This caused a steam explosion that blew the top off the reactor, probably stopping the nuclear reaction. Then the carbon caught fire and burned for about nine days. This scattered the reactor contents and large amounts of radioactivity.Chernobyl disaster (http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/chernobyl.html)

Chernobyl is not a rational argument against US nuclear power.

[PaulRevere]

Libtards love to point to 'those sophisticated Europeans', but ignore convenient truths such as France getting 80% of its electricity from nuclear power.

[sunsettommy]

Libtards love to point to 'those sophisticated Europeans', but ignore convenient truths such as France getting 80% of its electricity from nuclear power.

Ah yet a socialist nation that eats snails and quiche.

But smart enough to prominently use Nuclear Energy for power production.

Why does that fact elude the hollyweirds and environmentalists who loves to live there?

:smirky: