Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Obama admits ongoing US CO2 drop, fails to note reasons for it, doubles down on CO2 climate terror

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8/28/12, "On Our Radar: Green Tuesday at the White House," NY Times Green blog

"In a speech at Iowa State University, he (Obama) noted that We’re on track to emit fewer greenhouse gases this year than we have in nearly 20 years.”

He did not note the role of the recession, with its attendant drop in manufacturing and car and truck trips. [White House Press Office]"

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Ed. note: Here's the full text of Obama's 8/28/12 speech at Iowa State:

8/28/12, "Remarks by President Obama at Campaign Event -- Ames, Iowa," enewspf.com

As noted by the NY Times above, Obama speaks of the remarkable, long term drop of US CO2 emissions (instead of referring to CO2 directly Obama speaks of 'greenhouse gases' but it's specifically CO2 that has been in the news, links below). Later in the speech he summarizes what are apparently meant to be his superior views, one of which is on America's role in CO2 terror. Apparently he doesn't want kids to know what's happening in the US. He says:

"Denying climate change won’t make it stop." (11 parags. from end)

He tells impressionable young minds that US CO2 terror isn't going away, denying remarkable news to the contrary he alluded to in passing moments earlier, at least in regard to the US. The news about this should be shouted from the rooftops so suffering Americans can know that their punishment has in some peoples' minds resulted in some good (ie lower CO2).

Reports say US CO2 is headed even lower (links below), and that other countries' CO2 is still rising despite hundreds of billions spent on cap and trade and extra taxes (links below). US tax money that could be used to feed the hungry or care for a sick animal is instead funneled to experimental 'climate' related ventures or research to "solve" US CO2 terror. But the problem has been solved-if it ever existed. As the NY Times notes Obama didn't elaborate on the topic.

CO2 endangerment has been the justification for diverting hundreds of billions of hard-earned tax dollars for over 2 decades at the expense of human beings.

The entire theory of catastrophic human-caused climate change/global warming rests on the notion that humans are creating too much CO2 and that it's killing people. A commodity trading market was even created just to trade carbon dioxide "offsets" for the alleged purpose of lowering CO2 in the atmosphere. This hasn't happened but CO2 traders still have billions at stake in it. Without the US as a practical and philosophical partner in "CO2 terror," world carbon markets would likely go bankrupt. This would be bad news for Goldman Sachs and many others. Citations in following links:

US CO2 has dropped since at least 2006 and is going lower. Massive global warming 'action' was institutionalized in US government in 1990 by George Bush the 1st in the "U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990." (He mentions CO2 near the end). Devoting 13 federal agencies to 'climate' matters and paying half of UN IPCC expenses is hardly lagging in action. Even the US military now spends billions on green endeavors. Government has partnered with the 'climate' industry by funneling trillions from US taxpayers to climate endeavors via agency budget allocations, tax subsidies, countless federal regulations, and vast sums given in foreign aid to save the 'climate.' The US economy has obediently weakened itself so it's now a fuel exporter.

People are starving because of decades of climate 'action.'

Other countries' CO2 hasn't dropped, despite hundreds of billions spent on cap and trade and extra taxes. US CO2 is now a moot issue. Perhaps this situation adversely affects persons with 'climate' investments. Perhaps US CO2 vanished more quickly and surely than 'investors' anticipated. (Assuming CO2 was ever a danger to begin with).

In any case, it's over. Even the NY Times notices:

7/15/12, "Recession Special: Cleaner Air," NY Times, Matthew Wald
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"What the government has not mandated, the economy is doing on its own: emissions of global warming gases in the United States are down.
According to the Energy Department, carbon dioxide emissions peaked in this country in 2005 and will not reach that level again until the early 2020s."...

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6/4/12, "Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006," Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage




"Not only that, but as my top chart shows, US CO2 emissions are falling even faster than what President Obama pledged in the global Copenhagen Accord."...
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Following may be the report Obama alluded to in his 8/28 Iowa speech:
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8/16/12, "AP IMPACT: CO2 Emissions In US Drop To 20-Year Low," AP via NPR

"In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.
Many of the world's leading climate scientists didn't see the drop coming, in large part because it happened as a result of market forces rather than direct government action against carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere.
Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, said the shift away from coal is reason for "cautious optimism" about potential ways to deal with climate change."...
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  • US CO2 has dropped 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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6/22/12, "U.S. cuts greenhouse gases despite do-nothing Congress," CNN, Steve Hargreaves
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"Even factoring in a stronger economy, forecasters see greenhouse gas emissions continuing to fall....Others take the U.S. success in reducing its energy sector emissions as a sign that its fragmented, state-based, regulatory approach has worked better than Europe's market-based cap-and-trade approach."
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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
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"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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4/20/10, "Buying Carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming," by Doug Struck, CS Monitor

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11/23/11, "Europe's $287 billion carbon 'waste': UBS report," The Australian, by Sid Maher
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"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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A 2011 report noted EIA results through 2009, US CO2 emissions dropped steadily since 1999. If, hypothetically, US temperatures have been on the increase, such couldn't possibly be due 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 time frame."

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1/25/2009, "Global warming industry becomes too big to fail," Timothy Carney, Washington Examiner

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8/23/11, "The Alarming Cost Of Climate Change Hysteria," Forbes, Larry Bell

"The Small Business Administration estimates that compliance with such regulations costs the U.S. economy more than $1.75 trillion per year — about 12%-14% of GDP, and half of the $3.456 trillion Washington is currently spending. The Competitive Enterprise Institute believes the annual cost is closer to $1.8 trillion when an estimated $55.4 billion regulatory administration and policing budget is included."...
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A few examples of climate cash sought in 2011:
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1/11/11, "Big Money in Climate Change: Who Gives, Who Gets," Al Fin

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"Organized crime may be responsible for theft of European Union emission allowancesthis month, and national authorities are working with Europol...a top EU climate official said." Sweden admits it has Austria's stolen 'carbon credits' but says it might just be 'a coincidence.'
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8/10/11, "U.S. Army Creates Renewables Office: Billions to Be Spent," GreenTechMedia.com
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"The U.S. military has emerged as a key ally for fledgling producers of non-food-based biofuels."...

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3/26/12, "Obama Requests $770 Million to Fight Global Warming Overseas," CNS News, Matt Cover
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"The Obama administration has requested $770 million in federal funds to combat the effects of global warming in developing countries, a new congressional report details, continuing its policy of using foreign aid to combat the effects of global warming in the developing world.
 
The figure, from a recent report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), shows that despite another year of $1 trillion deficits, the Obama administration continues to pursue its policy of using foreign aid funds for anti-global warming measures – known as the Global Climate Change Initiative (GCCI).

According to CRS, the government has spent a total of $2.5 billion on GCCI since 2010 on overseas anti-global warming efforts in Latin America, Asia, and Africa."...
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11/30/11, "U.S. Nears Milestone: Net Fuel Exporter," Wall St. Journal, by L. Pleven, R. Gold
A combination of booming demand from emerging markets and faltering domestic activity means the U.S. is exporting more fuel than it imports,
  • upending the historical norm.
According to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Tuesday, the U.S. sent abroad 753.4 million barrels of everything from gasoline to jet fuel in the first nine months of this year, while it imported 689.4 million barrels."...
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7/28/10, "The secrets 10 states and Wall Street don't want you to know," by Mark Lagerkvist, NJ Watchdog
  • mandatory cap-and-trade system.
Under the RGGI scheme, the smell of profiteering is powerful. New Jersey and nine other Northeast states have
The bidders at RGGI auctions include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase and other Wall Street heavyweights."...

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Global Warming "action" was institutionalized in US government in 1990 by George Bush the 1st. 13 federal agencies are tasked with climate "action," $68 billion has been spent on 'climate' just in the past 4 yrs.

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CO2 alarmist 'glory days' are over in the US. Congratulations to the greens, you won, best of luck in your future endeavors:
"But there is one group (other than the Russians and the Gulf Arabs and the Iranians) that isn’t sharing in the general joy: the greens. For them, the spectacle of a looming world energy crisis was good news. It justified huge subsidies for solar and wind power (and thereby guaranteed huge fortunes for clever green-oriented investors). ...But those glory days are over now, and the smarter environmentalists are bowing to the inevitable."...
The financial survival of the UK monarchy is dependent on the world believing in catastrophic man made global warming. Much of the monarchy's income will derive from lease payments for offshore wind turbines:
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10/24/10, "'It is wholly inappropriate that the Palace should have such a direct interest in a subject like windfarms, given Prince Charles's obsession with renewable energy. It raises the question as to whether he is seeking to increase his own
each time he makes a favourable reference to wind power.'"
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1/30/2012, "Americans on pace to have driven 40 billion fewer miles in 2011 vs. 2010," GasBuddy (Fed. Hwy. Admin. data)

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7/5/2008, "30 billion fewer miles driven, and counting," McClatchy via Seattle Times
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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."...
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12/7/2009, "US climate agency declares CO2 public danger," UK Guardian, Suzanne Goldenberg

"The Obama administration adopted its climate change plan B today, formally declaring carbon dioxide a public danger so that it can cut greenhouse gas emissions even without the agreement of a reluctant Senate."...
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1/3/12, "U.S. Taxpayers Cover Nearly Half the Cost of U.N.’s Global Warming Panel," CNS News, E. Harrington
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12/28/2010, "Fresno, Zimbabwe," Investors Editorial


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