Ohio Sen. Rob Portman "also voted Yes on implementing the Kyoto Protocol in 2000." (scroll down to energy subhead). Though CO2 is harmless, the US has drastically dropped its emissions since at least 2006 and is heading lower. Other countries haven't dropped theirs despite billions spent on cap and trade, CO2 taxes, free millions from US taxpayers, and jetting to endless UN climate conventions. The global climate disaster issue is officially moot regarding the US. Does Portman not know this? Or is he more worried about Goldman Sachs?
7/6/12, "VP Hopeful Portman Introduces Agenda 21-like “Global Conservation Act of 2012″," RedState.com, Paula
"Yesterday I posted a lengthy list of crimes against conservatism by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), who is rumored to top Mitt Romney’s short list of VP candidates. At the bottom of the diary was a link to the brief summary of an ominous-sounding bill introduced by Portman on Friday. The text of the bill is finally up at the Library of Congress website and it’s bad....
…Portman had no qualms about putting a bill in the hopper that promises to saddle our country with another massive federal bureaucracy: The Global Conservation Act of 2012.
It mandates:
"In General- Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President, acting through the Interagency Working Group on Global Conservation designated pursuant to section 202(a), shall establish and submit to the appropriate congressional committees a comprehensive strategy (hereafter referred to as the `International Conservation Strategy’) to strengthen the capacity of the United States to collaborate with other countries, international organizations, the private sector, and private voluntary organizations on a sustained international effort to conserve natural resources and enhance biodiversity in a manner beneficial to the economic well-being and security of the United States and other participating countries."
"(1) advancing conservation in the world’s most ecologically and economically important terrestrial and marine ecosystems;
(2) protecting distinct hotspot regions that provide a high level of economic benefit to human communities as well as a high concentration of genetic and other natural resources;
(3) helping developing countries address illegal, unreported, and unregulated industrial fishing where economies are negatively impacted by depleted fish stocks;
(4) safeguarding natural areas that provide fresh water to developing countries;
(5) protecting forests and advancing enforcement efforts against illegal logging in centers of the illegal logging trade;
(6) advancing enforcement efforts against poaching and unlawful wildlife trafficking operations;
(7) facilitating and leveraging the economic and conservation benefits that derive from properly managed international hunting, angling, and wildlife observation tourism;
(8) stabilizing or reversing renewable natural resource scarcity and degradation trends in regions that are vulnerable to conflict, instability, or mass migration from natural resource depletion;
(9) expanding substantially the amount of economically and ecologically significant forest in developing countries; and
(10) reducing the rate of erosion and desertification in developing countries where soil loss is resulting in severe impacts to the economy, food security, or stability."
You may recognize that many of these goals closely parallel those of the UN’s Agenda 21, which would drag the our country into a
- massive network of global environmental regulations.
Why Sen. Portman would choose to focus on these goals at a time that our economy is grinding to a screeching halt under the weight of a crushing debt is simply baffling. Perhaps he’s strategically thinking that as the VP candidate, he could reach out to the liberals. Perhaps he really believes in the UN and all this environmental justice nonsense. Whatever his reasons, this legislation completely contradicts what he wrote in a July 4th editorial in the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
“To get the economy back on track, we can’t continue with the status quo. Bigger government, more regulations, higher taxes, record federal spending and massive borrowing haven’t worked. Nor has anti-business rhetoric or class warfare. We need to put in place policies we know will actually help grow jobs in America.”
But that’s exactly what the Global Conservation Act of 2012 is: bigger government and more regulations that will likely lead to higher taxes on businesses and more federal spending and borrowing. Hardly a pro-growth agenda for Ohio and the rest of the country.
Portman is often suggested as a VP candidate because of his expertise in public policy and budgetary matters. The New York Times says, “[H]e is among a select breed of politicians who have a keen and deep understanding of the inner workings of government.” I’d like to suggest that he’s actually one of the few people in D.C. with a deep understanding of the Statist Administrative State. Portman is a Statist and this legislation is Exhibit A.
It’s worth noting that this is not Portman’s first foray into environmental statism. He authored the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 saying that, “Conservation should also be encouraged, including supporting ongoing efforts to restore and protect natural habitats across the globe. Deforestation is considered the second-largest source of CO2 emissions behind coal-fired electric plants.” He also voted Yes on implementing the Kyoto Protocol in 2000."...
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6/4/12, "Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006," Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage
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6/26/12, "The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Pollution Forecast - Part 2," switchboard.nrdc.org, Dan Lashof
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6/29/12, "US Carbon Output Forecasts Shrink Again," American Interest, Walter Russell Mead
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6/22/12, "U.S. cuts greenhouse gases despite do-nothing Congress," CNN, Steve Hargreaves
"Even factoring in a stronger economy, forecasters see greenhouse gas emissions continuing to fall."...
=============================4/21/12, "Why [CO2] Emissions Are Declining in the U.S. But Not in Europe," by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, newgeography.com
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4/14/11, "Biggest Drop in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions," World Climate Report
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4/4/12, "Arctic Shatters More Records," Real Science, Steve Goddard
"Arctic ice extent is the highest in nearly a decade, and has again set the record for both the latest peak and the longest winter. Normally it has been melting for almost a month already." (NORSEX, SSM/1)
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As of Feb. 2012, no Antarctic ice lost in past 30 years per AGU, American Geophysical Union--------------------------------------------------
2/8/12, "The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows," UK Guardian, Damian Harrington
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7/02/09, "The Great American Bubble Machine: How Goldman Sachs has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression," Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi
- "A groundbreaking new commodities bubble,
- called cap-and-trade.
- except it has one delicious new wrinkle:
If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices
- will be government-mandated.
- Goldman won't even have to rig the game.
3/26/12, "Obama Requests $770 Million to Fight Global Warming Overseas," CNS News, Matt Cover
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4/15/11, "UN Caught Scrubbing Embarrassing Climate Refugee Prediction (Update: Gavin Links and Hotairalanche)," Patterico's Pontifications, Aaron Worthing
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4/16/11, "The UN 'disappears' 50 million climate refugees, then botches the cover-up" Anthony Watts, Daily Caller
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4/13/11, "The Climate Refugee Hoax," IBD, Editorial
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