Environmental Insanity

So this guy, James Lee, finally snaps under the weight of his environmental lunacy.  He grabs his weapons and heads over to the Discovery Channel to fix their program linup, and takes hostages. (WTOP article here)  (Washington Post article here)

Did you happen to look at this guy's manifesto?

• All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants.
• Programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed.
• Talk about ways to disassemble civilization.
• Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn't, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??
• Find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies.
• Find solutions for global warming, automotive pollution, international trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don't build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using oil in order to REVERSE gobal warming and the destruction of the planet!
• Saving the planet means saving what's left of the non-human wildlife by decreasing the human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies! You're the media, you can reach enough people. It's your responsibility because you reach so many minds!!!
• You're also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing. All these unemployed people makes me think the US is headed toward more war.
• Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what's left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture.  THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!
• It is the responsibility of everyone to preserve the planet they live on by not breeding any more children who will continue their filthy practices. Children represent FUTURE catastrophic pollution whereas their parents are current pollution.
• War must be halted. Not because it's morally wrong, but because of the catastrophic environmental damage modern weapons cause to other creatures. FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS! Humans are supposed to be inventive. INVENT, DAMN YOU!!
• Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
• The humans? The planet does not need humans. You MUST KNOW the human population is behind all the pollution and problems in the world, and YET you encourage the exact opposite instead of discouraging human growth and procreation. Surely you MUST ALREADY KNOW this!

It's a very thorough and cogent thesis, yes, but I think this fellow needs a few extra points, like these:

• And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids. 
• Have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?
• Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

Folks, this here is what happens when the environmentalism gets completely out of hand.  Madness ensues... Someone from PETA, please help.  Come get your boy.  One of your overly-enthusiastic minions is getting out of hand.

Don't Touch It! It's Eeee-vil!!

Ok, I've officially had it with the carbon lunacy.   What set me off is this unbearable quote from a recent New York Times op-ed piece by Thomas Friedman:

"It is clear that if we, America, care about our energy security, economic strength and environmental quality we need to put in place a long-term carbon price that stimulates and rewards clean power innovation."

Okay, listen up now.  Carbon is our friend!  How is this not completely obvious to everyone, everywhere?  Without carbon, you wouldn't have a lot of things that you might start to miss, like:

• pencils
  
• sugar
• gasoline
• graphite-based lubricants
  
• coal (used in electrical power generation)
• archaeological dating (i.e., carbon dating with C-14)
  
• diamonds
• life itself
  

...and of course, everyone's favorite greenhouse gas:  CO2.  But that much-maligned gas doesn't account for much "global warming" effect.  In fact, it's less than 5%.  Why?  Because water vapor accounts for the other 95% of it!!  Worse yet, 97% of that CO2 comes from naturally-occurring sources.  Humans create only 3% of that 5% of "greenhouse effect" arising from CO2.  So we could shut down our factories, communications, transportation and the whole world economy to live in squalid indigence forevermore, and only improve the situation by one-tenth of a percent.

In other words, a negligible degree.

Look at the graph below.  The primary contributor, by far, to greenhouse effect is water vapor.  Note that this is a log-scale graph of percentage.  CO2 accounts for less than a tenth of what water vapor does.  And man contributes virtually nothing to that.

data source

Man-made CO2 is  significant, compared to natural CO2.  But compared to water vapor, it's nothing.

Friedman also states, in the same article, that:

"China is also engaged in the world’s most rapid expansion of nuclear power. It is expected to build some 50 new nuclear reactors by 2020; the rest of the world combined might build 15."

Is he actually bemoaning the lack of enthusiasm for nuclear power in western nations?  Do liberals really allow him to do that?   I thought nuclear power was the devil's hand incarnate (e.g., Three Mile Island, Chernobyl).

Sigh...