Confused ousted Rep. Bob Inglis is in denial that US CO2 emissions have dropped steadily since at least 2006 and are going lower. Instead of getting a psychiatric evaluation, Inglis has opted for international fame and fortune as a catastrophic man-caused global warming advocate who promises to deliver the last Republican to David Rockefeller and the multi-trillion dollar climate industry. Inglis wants 'action' but forgets Global Warming "action" was institutionalized in US government in 1990 by George Bush the 1st, that 13 federal agencies are tasked with climate "action," $68 billion has been spent on 'climate' just in past 4 yrs. Other countries' CO2 hasn't dropped--despite billions spent on cap and trade and extra taxes.
7/13/12, "Climate change campaigners cautioned over reaction to extreme weather," UK Guardian, Suzanne Goldenberg
"Climate change contrarians will dig in even deeper if campaigners try to use recent extreme weather like wildfires, drought and heatwaves as a call to action, a Republican global warming heretic has warned.
Bob Inglis, a former South Carolina congressman behind a new global warming thinktank, is an endangered species as a Republican who believes in climate change.
The recent freak weather does provide powerful evidence of the dangers of climate change, and could break through the GOP's wall of denial, he said. But scientists and campaigners need to go easy on the doom.
"The thing that would not be helpful is for anybody associated with climate change action to be wagging their finger in Colorado and Texas or wherever it's hot saying, 'See I told you so,'" Inglis said in a telephone interview.
"That is the worst possible thing for anybody wanting climate action to do because then you engender the predictable response of, 'I will show you. I will not budge an inch.'"
Inglis learned the lesson the hard way, losing his seat in Congress in 2010 to a Tea Party challenger in part for his belief in climate change. It was, he says now, "my most enduring heresy".
His new venture, the Energy & Enterprise Institute at George Mason University, is aimed at getting conservatives on board for action on climate change.
Its tenets are unlikely to please the Democratic political establishment, or the wind and solar industry.
Half of the incoming crop of Republicans in that election denied the existence of climate change or opposed action on climate change. None of the Republican contenders for the White House in this election has acknowledged the dangers of climate change.
The House energy and commerce committee has yet to hold a hearing on the dangers of wildfires and drought due to climate change, despite 15 requests to date from Democrats on the committee.
But Inglis said Republicans will not be shaken out of their denial through fear.
"Those who do speak, speak in apocalyptic visions and that drives us further into denial as a suitable coping mechanism," Inglis said. "If you tell me we are all toast and it's just terrible, that doom is imminent, if you tell me that then eat, drink and be merry. If I am toast, I may as well just ignore it," he said."It's sort of like death. You know there's a 100% death rate, but no one is thinking about it because denials works when you are facing an existential threat."" via Tom Nelson
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Ed. note: The UK Guardian doesn't mention oil billionaire David Rockefeller is backing Bob Inglis's new global warming career targeting Republicans and ultimately the last member of the irritating US middle class. Despite that US CO2 is a moot issue, and that CO2 isn't poison to begin with.
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Art Laffer teams up with Inglis to tax the US for its non-existent CO2 problem:
"One need not take a side in the debate regarding manmade global warming in order to support improvements in US energy policy. Instead, by eliminating subsidies for all fuel types and making all fuel types accountable for their costs, free enterprise will make clear the best fuels for our future. Reduce taxes on something we want more of–income–and tax something we arguably want less of–carbon pollution. It’s a win-win.”
Art Laffer, Economics Adviser to President Ronald Reagan"
-----------------------------------------------------US CO2 drops steeply and is going lower:
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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6/4/12, "Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006," Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage
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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."...
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4/21/12, "Why [CO2] Emissions Are Declining in the U.S. But Not in Europe," by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, newgeography.com
"As we note below in a new article for Yale360, a funny thing happened: U.S. emissions started going down in 2005 and are expected to decline further over the next decade."
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7/2/12, "CO2 Emissions Will Likely Fall This Year to 1991 Levels," Carpe Diem, Mark J. Perry
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11/23/11, "Europe's $287 billion carbon 'waste': UBS report," The Australian, by Sid Maher
"SWISS banking giant UBS says the European Union's emissions trading scheme has cost the continent's consumers $287 billion for "almost zero impact" on cutting carbon emissions."...EU CO2 trading provided "windfall profits" to participants paid for by "electricity customers.""
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4/23/12, "'I made a mistake': Gaia theory scientist James Lovelock admits he was 'alarmist' about the impact of climate change," UK Daily Mail, L. Warren
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7/16/10, "Carbon Trading Used as Money-Laundering Front," Jakarta Globe
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10/8/10, "Murder on the Carbon Express: Interpol Takes On Emissions Fraud," Mother Jones, M. Schapiro
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5/6/12, "US Leads EU in CO2 Reductions," Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
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1/25/2009, "Global warming industry becomes too big to fail," Timothy Carney, Washington Examiner
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A 2011 report noted EIA results through 2009, US CO2 emissions dropped steadily since 1999. If, hypothetically, US temperatures have been on the increase, they couldn't possibly be related to US carbon dioxide emissions:
4/14/11, "Biggest Drop in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions," World Climate Report
"In 2009, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. experienced their biggest drop since the U.S. Energy Information Administration began tracking them during the 1990-2009 timeframe."
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7/13/12, "George Shultz Endorses Carbon Tax – You Were Surprised?" GlobalWarming.org, Marlo Lewis
"But there has always been a wing of the GOP — the “establishment,” “Country Club,” or “Rockefeller” Republicans — who care more about controlling the party than about advancing liberty or even about winning elections. AEI’s Ken Green (a colleague of Hassett’s) hits the nail on the head. In a story on Shultz’s endorsement of carbon taxes, Green told Climatewire: (subscrip):
“There seems to be an eruption of conservatives — very moderate-seeming conservatives, non-tea party, old country club-style conservatives — who are suddenly enamored of carbon tax,” said Kenneth Green, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
“I think this is mostly vanity and egotism on the part of these people who are coming forward, to try and reassert the Republican establishment over the tea party revolution,” he added. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we have more of these guys weigh in.”(begin parag. 11)...
As noted here, earlier this week, former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) launched a new institute with Rockefeller Family Fund backing [oil money] to promote carbon taxes as a ‘Republican idea.’ Inglis said nothing to suggest that he views carbon taxes as an alternative to EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations, or that one of his objectives is to rein in the agency
- and return control over climate policy to the people’s representatives."
12/4/2009, "Carbon Capitalists Warming to Climate Market Using Derivatives," Bloomberg
"Says the NRDC’s Stevenson...“There are trillions of dollars needed to make this transition, and companies need the banks,” says Stevenson, a former trader for London-based hedge fund firm Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP."
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2001 began "The Lost Decade," when US politicians stole the country from the people:
10/20/11, "The lost decade," Claremont Institute, Angelo M. Codevilla
"At home, the American people are less free, less prosperous, more bitterly divided, and much less hopeful in 2011 than in 2001 because a decade of the War on Terror brought a government ever bigger and more burdensome, as well as “security” measures that impede the innocent rather than focusing on wrongdoers. Our ruling class justified its ever-larger role in America’s domestic life by redefining war as a never-ending struggle against unspecified enemies for abstract objectives, and by asserting expertise far above that of ordinary Americans."...
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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:
- will be government-mandated.
- Goldman won't even have to rig the game.
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May 17, 2012, "Federal government spent nearly $70 billion on ‘climate change activities’ since 2008," Daily Caller, Caroline May
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