More wasted research dollars on social problems

Yesterday I saw a nicely dressed woman walk up my sidewalk and look at my house number and walk away. I saw “U.S. Census” on her bag. I went to the door and yoo-hooed, “Is that it? Am I counted?” “Oh no,“ she laughed. “That will be next year.” Maybe they’ll also be checking my appliances, light bulbs, plumbing and heating units for my carbon footprint. Checking my cupboard and waistline for obesity. Clocking the mileage on my exercycle. Look what Obama's been able to do to kill the economy in just 100 days. What will it be at 465 days?

“CWC (Carbon Water Climate Clutch of Ohio State) has partnered with the PHPID (Public Health Preparedness for Infectious Diseases) to fund a grant to determine "How is the carbon cycle being disrupted by human activities (e.g., fossil fuel combustion) and how can the cycle be re-balanced to mitigate Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) and its adverse effects?"

It’s important to understand that ACC, anthropogenic climate change, although never proven (climate records go back about 150 years), is a given in this study grant--don‘t apply if you think it is a hoax. To get promotion and tenure at any university you have to buy into this. Keep in mind, a “green job” has never been defined--but this would be one. I think it’s like victimhood--it’s in the eye of the beholder (grant applicant).

We (this is both federal and state money) don't need to spend money to determine footprints and meaningless surveys, but we should research how these crazy theories hurt the poor, create food and fuel shortages, shore up a few investors like Al Gore and George Soros in the cap and trade exchange (located somewhere in Europe), and destroy large segments of the economy so that we can come under global domination, most likely by the Chinese. the Big O is still laying the ground work for that.

“Specifically, the project seeks to identify the most effective ways to move the public health system to adopt strategies aimed at reducing the carbon footprint on a population scale. As ACC continues, the effects on public health are anticipated to worsen: shortages of food and water are developing and will intensify; the extent and range of disease-carrying insect vectors will broaden; destruction of coastal areas through rising ocean levels and storm-surge flooding will affect millions; and intensified summer temperature extremes will threaten, directly and indirectly, millions more.


“The "twin" issue of peak oil, or the world's reaching the maximum rate of petroleum extraction, poses different risks than ACC does — depletion of energy resources amplifies all of the previously mentioned threats by limiting societies' ability to provide resources toward ACC mitigation. These issues all devolve back to the collective carbon footprint of U.S. citizens and are potentially solvable through society-wide behavior change.


“This project will begin with a descriptive survey of U.S. state and local health departments to assess their baseline understanding of the general concept of carbon footprint and its attendant problems as outlined above. Secondly, the experimental arm of the study will be a pilot intervention project. A "tool kit" of resources will be disseminated to facilitate health departments' engagement with citizens, the business community, and other governmental agencies with the aim of enhancing public cooperation in reducing the collective carbon footprint.” Link

And here's another one that appeared in two different e-mails I received today (on behalf of my husband)

The House of Representatives will soon vote on legislation that would provide funding for undergraduate and graduate architecture and engineering programs relating to the design and construction of high performance buildings. The bill, The Green Energy Education Act of 2009 (HR 957), could be on the House floor as early as today.

The Green Energy Education Act will help educate today's college and graduate architecture and engineering students on the numerous benefits of high performance buildings by authorizing the National Science Foundation to provide grants to universities to develop curricula, laboratory activities, training practicums, and design projects focusing on green buildings and advanced energy technologies. Ensuring that today's architecture and engineering students are aware of the importance of high performance buildings is a necessary step to facilitate increased construction of green buildings in the future.

This is unbelieveable waste. The magazines and newsletters have been filled with this stuff for decades. The Ohio continuing education requirements in being green, environmentally friendly, sustainable and off the grid could fund Al Gore's HVAC bill for years.