I usually don’t write about particular candidates in Congressional races, but this one really caught my attention, not only for the fact that New Jersey really does not need any new taxes, but also because the state itself could use a third generation small business owner who also happens to be a strict Constitutionalist and a politician who actually understands science enough to see through the obfuscations of global warming alarmists.

David Larsen is a man who recognizes cap-and-trade for what it really is – just another power grab and wealth redistribution scheme. If you want real change, then on Tuesday, June 8th say yes to Republican David Larsen and no to Representative Leonard Lance, who currently occupies the seat. You see Leonard Lance is what we call a RINO – that sort of squishy Beltway Republican who will often surprise you by doing something inane like voting for cap-and-trade. Voting for cap-and-trade is not the act of a fiscally responsible representative, especially given the current climate – pun intended – of the now unestablished science of global warming. When political agendas collide with science it is the people – you and I – who pay the price. And a hefty price it is. The only warming these days is in the anthropogenic global warming science community. It is there you will find a great deal of hot air.

Remember climategate? If not, here is refresher of many posts from American Thinker on the subject. The bottom line is how so-called scientists were exposed as biased hacks when emails were leaked that explicitly described how data was fudged to fit the climate scare narrative.

Today Al Gore, self-appointed leader of the Global Warming scare is being sued by The Weather Channel & 30,000 scientists worldwide. That has not stopped the winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, obviously awarded for the explicit demonstration of incompetence in a given field in which the recipient possesses no expertise, from continuing his crusade for your money. At least he has that invention of the internet thing going for him.

And guys like Leonard Lance are all too happy to join the previous Vice President in absconding with our hard earned cash, all under the guise of discredited science.

So serious is the climategate scandal it has also prompted another lawsuit from Peabody Energy Company (PEC) against the EPA; a suit which may lead to criminal prosecution.

One would think that with such overwhelming evidence the books have been cooked and the lid torn off exposing one of the greatest political tainting of science in its entire history, that politicians would be rushing away from cap-and-trade back into the reality-based world. The fact they are not says one of two things. Either they are completely ignorant of the scientific process and climategate cover-up or they are agenda driven hacks. As both cases would shed a negative light on any candidate, it is clear that anyone who voted for cap-and-trade does not deserve to hold elected office. As New Jersey’s elected representative for the 7th district last year Leonard Lance voted for cap-and-trade legislation in the House. Here is what his vote means to those of you in not just New Jersey but the rest of the country as well.

Visit the website of David Larsen for Congress to find out more about cap-and-trade. The bottom line is that some in your government are prepared to basically burden you with a tax while not calling it a tax, and they will do so under the umbrella of junk science and in the name of power and money. The Heritage Foundation estimates the total cost of living per average household in the U.S. will increase by $3,000 per year or more; in New Jersey the cost of living could increase by as much as $6,000.

Here is a nice little video outlining the issue of cap-and-trade and the position of Representative Leonard Lance who voted to put his hand in your pocket last year because a bunch of agenda-driven scientists provided him the cover to do so:

Of course, our story would not be complete without the gratuitous backpedaling that politicians like Leonard Lance are famous for. If I were Dan Rather – which thank God I am not – I might be tempted after watching the following video to come up with a useful metaphor. Perhaps something along the lines of “Leonard Lance is tap dancing faster than a barefooted Michael Flatley on a hot bed of coals”. Yeah, I think I like that one.

Watch Leonard Lance dance, wiggle, and attempt to spin his way out of his vote for cap-and-trade.

The die has been cast. The question is clear. Who has dibs on your money? You, or a bunch of bureaucrats and politicians using scientists as political fodder to get their grubby hands on more of your money? It’s not a hard choice. On June 8th vote for a man of reason and fiscal sanity. Vote for David Larsen.

If you want to go fast – go alone. If you want to go far – go together.

With the explosion of ClimateGate, who better to tell the truth about the global warming hysteria than Ian Plimer (see below). Mr. Plimer’s schedule should be booked for the next year if anyone is truly serious about getting to the truth and bypassing politics to see the real science and the actual data.

Cap-and-Trade, it’s next on the list so lets start thinking about it now. For an excellent background see Could Australia Blow Apart the Great Global Warming Scare? and A Tax on Thin Air.

These two links concern what happened in Australia. Ian Plimer’s book Heaven and Earth, Global Warming: The Missing Science, is a blockbuster that explodes the global warming myth. It turned the tide in Australia. I am sending a copy to my Representative and Senators. The more books we can send the better. Call your Senator and Representative and demand that Ian Plimer be allowed to testify in front of the Congress. The country deserves a balanced debate on the issue.

Anyone remember the television series Jericho? This show was about a devastating nuclear terrorist attack on the US (multiple cities) and one small Kansas town dealing with the aftermath. The show promoted family values, the power of communities, and the harsh reality that millions of Americans would face if such an event were to ever occur.” I loved the show and so did millions of others. When CBS decided to cancel the show, a grassroots movement began to keep the show on the air. The campaign involved sending crates of nuts to CBS. Nuts you say? Why would anyone possibly want to do that?

In the final episode of “Jericho,” the town is under siege from a neighboring community.

When asked to surrender, lead character Jake Green, played by Skeet Ulrich, has a one-word response: “Nuts.”

The response is in reference to Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, a U.S. Army general who in World War II was surrounded by Germans demanding his surrender.

His response: “Nuts.”

The campaign worked and a second season was aired. Ian Plimer’s book is our “nuts” campaign, as in your nuts if you think we are going to buy into this hype and pseudo-science. In a “this would be funny if it were not so serious moment”, Ian Plimer exposes one of the climate experts referenced in the International Panel on Climate Change as – you’re not going to believe this – an expert in fossil faeces. It’s like asking the weatherman on your local TV channel to perform your colonoscopy. Somebody’s getting it in the end and I think it’s supposed to be us – but not anymore. Australia did it and so can we.

The previous strategy would make a huge difference in turning the tide against global warming hysteria and could stop cap-and-trade dead in its tracks. Ian Plimer’s book that blows the lid off the man-made Global Warming myth and does such a good job that the book changed the mind of a leading global warming hysteric – Paul Sheehan (see his comments below). It changed the course of the debate in Australia and lead to the death of climate change legislation as the tide turned in public opinion.

One of the most remarkable changes brought about by Plimer’s book occurred on April 13, when leading global warming hysteric Paul Sheehan—who writes for the main Sydney newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, which has done as much to hype the threat of global warming as any Australian newspaper—reviewed Plimer’s book and admitted he was taken aback. He describes Plimer, correctly, as “one of Australia’s foremost Earth scientists,” and praised the book as “brilliantly argued” and “the product of 40 years’ research and breadth of scholarship.” What does Plimer’s book say? Here is Sheehan’s summary:

Much of what we have read about climate change, [Plimer] argues, is rubbish, especially the computer modeling on which much current scientific opinion is based, which he describes as “primitive.”…

The Earth’s climate is driven by the receipt and redistribution of solar energy. Despite this crucial relationship, the sun tends to be brushed aside as the most important driver of climate. Calculations on supercomputers are primitive compared with the complex dynamism of the Earth’s climate and ignore the crucial relationship between climate and solar energy.

To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable—human-induced CO2—is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is folly.

In response, this is Sheehan’s conclusion: “Heaven and Earth is an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence.” This cannot be interpreted as anything but a capitulation. It cedes to the global warming rejectionists the high ground of being “evidence-based,” and it accepts the characterization of the global warming promoters as dogmatic conformists.

It is time to stop the nonsense of wealth distribution in the guise of a scientific farce visited upon the American people by psuedo-science. It is time to open the curtain and take a peak at the real agenda of global warming fear mongers.

Ian Pilmer’s book Heaven and Earth, Global Warming: The Missing Science, is a blockbuster that explodes the man-made global warming myth. It is a powerful fact-based assault on the truth challenged alarmists in our midst. After reading this book, anybody who denies the truth that global warming is not man made will rightfully be compared to a Holocaust denier. The shoe will be on the other foot.

The book turned the tide in Australia. I am sending a copy to my Representative and Senators. Tea Parties across the nation should send a copy to their Representative and Senators, perhaps even news organizations and well known alarmists. This strategy would make a huge difference in turning the tide against global warming hysteria and could stop cap-and-trade and turn all the other associated nonsense concerning global warming on its head.

One of the most remarkable changes brought about by Pilmer’s book occurred on April 13, when leading global warming hysteric Paul Sheehan—who writes for the main Sydney newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, which has done as much to hype the threat of global warming as any Australian newspaper—reviewed Plimer’s book and admitted he was taken aback. He describes Plimer, correctly, as “one of Australia’s foremost Earth scientists,” and praised the book as “brilliantly argued” and “the product of 40 years’ research and breadth of scholarship.”

What does Plimer’s book say? Here is Sheehan’s summary (emphasis mine):

Much of what we have read about climate change, [Plimer] argues, is rubbish, especially the computer modeling on which much current scientific opinion is based, which he describes as “primitive.”…

The Earth’s climate is driven by the receipt and redistribution of solar energy. Despite this crucial relationship, the sun tends to be brushed aside as the most important driver of climate. Calculations on supercomputers are primitive compared with the complex dynamism of the Earth’s climate and ignore the crucial relationship between climate and solar energy.

To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable—human-induced CO2—is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is folly.

In response, this is Sheehan’s conclusion: “Heaven and Earth is an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence.” This cannot be interpreted as anything but a capitulation. It cedes to the global warming rejectionists the high ground of being “evidence-based,” and it accepts the characterization of the global warming promoters as dogmatic conformists.

Also read: Chu spanks Americans who dissent from global warming hysteria. Hey Chu, it’s not called dissent – it’s called science. Remember science? You know, hypothesis, test, verification, repeatability. Repeat after me Mr. Chu – science is not about your opinion, it is about established facts, you know, those inconvenient truths you and the rest of the global warming empty heads are missing – in droves. Now I would not go and call you a teenager – nope, that would be to kind. A child is a better descriptive for you, Mr. Chu. Now go suck on your thumb and let the grown ups do the real work.

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