Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

When far left "social justice" dogma and homosexual kissing invade math class, something is badly wrong with our schools. What in the dickens is our Beaufort County School Boards doing adopting a new math curriculum filled with "social justice" political propaganda?

Commented: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 3:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Some of the worst destroyers of forests in today's world are the green energy grifters. They do this multiple ways. They clear cut old growth forests in Canada and the US, including North Carolina to make wood pellets to fire "biomass" electric plants in Europe. These are often retired coal plants, and burning wood pellets generates more CO2 than burning coal for the same amount of electricity produced, but they call it "green energy" because it is "renewable". We have some "biomass" electric plants in the US, but most are in Europe. It is just American and Canadian trees that are firing those plants in Europe.

Then there is the clear cutting of forests to actually build the "solar farms" and "wind farms". To look at just one example here. A request under the UK's equivalent of the Freedom of Information Act to Foresty Scotland produced not only documents but an official calculaton by that government agency of how many trees had been cut down in Scotland for wind farms on public land. This did not include pribate land deforestation or any of the solar farms. They calculated that 13.1 million trees had been cut down just of public land to build wind farms in Scotland. Wind and solar are very land intensive and forest loss to build these facilities worldwide is huge.

Then there is the blades for the wind turbines. The core of these is balsa wood which is light and strong, which is covered with resins. The source of the balsa wood is the Amazon rain forests, called "the lungs of the planet" which is being clear cut for balsa wood to make wind turbine blades.

It is rare that a new wind or solar farm is built in Germany without local environmentalists suing to stop it, arguing that it will lead to deforestation, loss of wildlife habitat, slaughter of birds and bats, and other environmental harm. Many of those lawsuits are succesful in stopping wind and solar farms. Last year, the German courts, for example, ruled with local enviornmentalists to prohibt a wind energy company from clear cutting the ancient forest that was the setting for the Grimm Fairy Tales.

Wind energy companies are also bad about water pollution. A wind project in Scotland was fined 5 million euros for a massive fish kill that their water pollution was responsible for, and in Ontanio Canada, four wind energy companies have been indicted for multiple criminal felonies for polluting the ground water. As a result of their pollution, water in one district in Ontario was so toxic people were told not only not to drink it or cook with it but not to even bathe in it.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 4:01 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What the globalists are after with their climate alarmist narrative was spelled out by the former President and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Dr. Vaclav Klaus who described climate alarmism as "a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom , democracy, and prosperity in the world today." President Klaus sets it out in detail in his book "Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What is in jeopardy, climate or freedom?" which has been published in eight languages.

Commented: Friday, June 9th, 2023 @ 5:04 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is a broken record with false claims by the climate crazies. We have seen this before with wildfires in California, Australia, and Washington / Oregon, and we are now seeing it in Canada. The problem in all those past cases, and it this one, too, is that environmentalists have stopped the good forestry management practice of controlled burns of underbrush that used to be done on a regular basis. Without those controlled burns, it is much easier for fires to feed on the excess underbrush and get out of hand. As long as good forestry practices continue to be ignored, we will keep having problems with wildfires.

I remember last year when there were major floods in a part of north Germany, and the knee jerk explanation by the talking heads was "climate change". The real culprit, as is very often the case with flooding was deforestation. And guess why the forests in that area had been clear cut? To put up wind turbines and solar panels to "save the planet". That flooding was not caused by "climate change" but to the contrary was caused by climate alarmism.

Commented: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 4:16 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The new pagan cult of Climate Scientology is a lot like the medieval church. Then anything bad that happens was called a punishment from God. Now the climate cultists try to tell us anything bad that happens is a punishment from manmade global warming. Those claims such as related to hurricanes regularly has to be debunked.

Commented: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 12:19 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a liberal rather than a progressive, and that means he has a lot more common sense, but still takes positions that are not optimum on some issues. He did hit the nail on the head about the globalist elitists using the climate scare to try to grab and control power and the danger that poses to democracy.

Commented: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 2:25 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Fact. The huge increase in European electric rates happened BEFORE the Ukraine war. Deal with it, moron. German electric rates, for example, were three times what we pay in North Carolina, as a result of expensive and unreliable wind and solar.

Commented: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 9:24 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Listin to that British TV documentary and you will learn why that emission rate is a big red herring. It is meaningless. Step outside your narrative and listen to some real science for a change.

Commented: Wednesday, May 31st, 2023 @ 7:04 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Tax money handed out to private organizations. That is political payola, vote buying, and corruption.

Commented: Wednesday, May 31st, 2023 @ 5:40 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Your responses are nothing but the tunnel vision of the key talking points of the globalist narrative. You have not even tried to counter any of the scientific arguments which are based on the information from those prominent scientists interviewed in that British TV documentary linked before that expose climate alarmism as a bunch of bunk.

Commented: Monday, May 29th, 2023 @ 1:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

All you do, Baghdad Bob, is parrot the globalist narrative on climate alarmism, or perhaps it is the dogma of the pagan religious cult of Climate Scientology. You refuse to engage on the specifics of why that narrative and that dogma is faulty, but let me give you an example that shows it is just a bunch of hot air. The "experts" supporting the globalist narrative on climate alarmist have issued a series of dire warnings on things they claimed woudl happen as a result of their climate "crisis" and several dozen of those have already passed the date by which they were supposed to have happened. Not a single one of them has come true or even come close to coming true. Anyone who continues to believe these con men is a fool.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 9:43 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Taxpayers should not be involuntary charitable givers through taxation. Thee charities should ask us directly for money. I have absolutely no respect for any of them who hold their hands out to politicians. This is totally corrupt because what they are doing is trading their political support for taxpayers cash from the politicians. The politicians themselves are corrupt in buying votes this way.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 1:02 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The scope of the problem is that there is no problem from human produced CO2, except that the fools who fall for the globalist narrative of climate alarmism threaten our freedom and prosperity. As Dr. Vaclav Klaus, past president and former prime minister of the Czech Republic wrote "climate alarmism is a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today."

If you want to know why the globalist narrative on climate alarmism is so full of hot air, listen to the many prominant scientists with PhDs in televent fields who are interviewed in this British TV documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle": www.youtube.com

Or read Dr. Klaus' book "Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What is in Jeopandy, Ckunate ir Freedom?" It has been published in eight languages and even you should undersand at least one of them, Bobbie.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 11:15 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

If you had bothered to watch just the opening segment of the British TV documentary "The Great GLobal Warming Swindle" you would know from scientists that 1) the Earth has had as much as 30 times as much CO2 in its atmosphere as we have today, and 2) it did not impact the climate then and it will not today either. These are scientists who do not have their snouts in the pig trough of government grant money tied to promoting the global warming theory like the Climategate rogue secientists. It is easy enough to listen to the scientists who do not have a financial interest in promoting the unfounded manmade global warming theory.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 4:56 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What Big Government Bob conveniently ignores in his usual tunnel vision, or perhaps those who wrote the narrative he,she parrots deliberately left it out is the relationship betweeen the Earth's oceans and CO2. When the Earth in in one of its cooling periods, the oceans absorb large quentities of CO2 and when it is in a warming phase, the oceans release large quantities of CO2. They are by far the largest source of CO2 changes in the atmosphere. There is a lag time of decades from the start of a warming period before the oceans start releasing CO2 and a similar lag time of decades from the start of a cooling period before it starts absorbing CO2.

The current natural warming period started in the mid 19th century at the end of the preceding cooling period, called the Maunder Minimum or Little Ice Age. That would trigger the oceans starting to release CO2 in the early decades of the 20th century and continue to do so until decades after the next cooling cycle starts.

Bobbie may want to junk the tunnel vision of his / her narrative and listen to prominent scientists explain it on the British TV documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle". Here is the link to that documentary which was broadcast nationally on the UK's Chaneel 4 and is packed full of scientific information from prominent scientists from around the world: www.youtube.com

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 2:13 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

CO2 is a very small percentage of the atmosphere. Most of the CO2 going into the air is from natural processes, NOT from humans. There have been periods in Earth's history with a lot more CO2 in the atmosphere than today. More CO2 means better growing conditions for plants, including food crops.

Commented: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 @ 2:37 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Spending is always the problem in government. Democrats raise spending, as Biden has done. RINOs too often help them do it, like Mitch McConnell. Republicans cut taxes rather than overspending, as our state legislature has done. Those in control of our county commission are a combination of the Bidens and the McConnells, sadly.

Commented: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 @ 7:03 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer