12/3/12, "Senate Dems push climate change amendment," The Hill, Zack Colman
"Senate Democrats are attempting to force a vote on climate change through an amendment to the defense authorization bill.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-R.I.) amendment calls for the U.S. to “assess, plan for, and mitigate the security and strategic implications of climate change” out of concern for national security.
It is unclear whether the amendment will surface on the floor as senators work to complete the sweeping defense policy bill as soon as Tuesday....
Whitehouse’s amendment, S.A. 3181, cites the National Security Strategy’s climate change warning. It also mentions the Defense Department’s Quadrennial Defense Review, which outlined climate change as a national security threat."...
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For Sen. Whitehouse's information: US leads the world in CO2 reduction and scientists say emissions are going even lower. Experts interviewed by AP look for US policy to change to reflect less concern for CO2 danger. US CO2 is no longer a problem if it ever was.
Global Warming ‘action’ was institutionalized in US government in 1990 by George Bush the 1st via the “U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990.” CO2 is mentioned near the end. Also that year the U.S. began emissions trading "to control environmental problems." (p. 2)
Devoting 13 federal agencies to ‘climate' is probably too much 'climate action.'
Billions have been taken from US taxpayers for 'climate' via agency budget allocations, tax subsidies, diversion of US military to climate or green projects, countless federal regulations, vast sums shipped out in foreign aid for no-strings ‘climate’ endeavors.
Just last month, Obama took 'climate action' by giving $6 billion US taxpayer dollars to the Sultan of Brunei who owns 5000+ cars and to the Pres. of Indonesia, a country so corrupt even the World Bank says crime adds 20% to costs. Below, one of the Sultan's cars:
7/24/12, "The Sultan's Cars," wheel to wheel blog.
Regarding national security, even Obama recently cancelled one of the CIA's multi-billion dollar "global warming" danger divisions. In 2005 the UN predicted 50 million climate refugees by 2010 which obviously didn't happen. A lot of money changed hands for a lie. Americans are repeatedly sold out for scams like this.
11/29/12, "Obama orders CIA to close down multi-billion dollar unit," Examiner.com, J. Kouri
"More than three years later, and after spending billions of taxpayer dollars an Inside-the-Beltway watchdog group reported on Tuesday that President Barack Obama ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to quietly shutdown its example of government waste and duplication: the Center on Climate Change and National Security.
The scandal-plagued government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior U.S. policymakers, the military, homeland security officials and law enforcement operated an insignificant special unit that focused on global warming."...
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4/13/11, "The Climate Refugee Hoax," IBD, Editorial
"Junk Science: Five years ago, the U.N. predicted that by 2010 some 50 million people would be fleeing climate change, rising seas, mega-hurricanes and so on. Instead, no islands have sunk and their populations are booming."...
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Games about something that doesn't exist are a tragic waste of money and time considering America's real problems:
June 2009, "Climate Change War Game: Major Findings and Background, Center for a new American Security.
Report on the Climate Change War Game meeting in Washington, DC, July 27-30, 2008.
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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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Obama also cut back US measuring of greenhouse gases:
“NOAA has stopped measuring greenhouse gas levels at a dozen ground stations, eliminated some aircraft monitoring and cut the frequency of remaining measurements in half.”...
9/4/12, “NOAA: Budget woes force a halt to climate monitoring at 12 ground stations,” eenews.net , Lauren Morello
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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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1/23/11, "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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4/21/12, "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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The National Wildlife Federation says a "climate bill" to them means:
“Billions annually outside the political process so agencies could rely on it for years to come.“
From National Wildlife Federation website: “Funding for Wildlife and Ecosystems”
subhead, “Clean Energy and Climate Legislation“
“One of National Wildlife Federation’s core campaigns is to ensure that a portion of the revenue generated annually from clean energy and climate legislation will go to help safeguard wildlife and natural resources from the impacts of climate change.
This funding could amount to billions of dollars annually and, once established, would be
outside of the political process
so that agencies could rely on it for years to come. …
Bills that have reached Congress thus far are the American Clean Energy and Security Act and the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.
What a Climate Bill Means for Wildlife Professionals
Last spring (2009), a clean energy and climate bill passed the House of Representatives. This spring (2010), a bi-partisan effort is underway to craft a clean energy and climate bill in the U.S. Senate. The House bill
would provide $1.7 billion annually for natural resource conservation.
Meaning, thousands of wildlife and natural resource
jobs could be created and funded by a climate bill.“…
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It's stunning the amount of money people try to steal from innocent taxpayers. Normal care of wildlife and the environment is something quite different from putting all environmental conversations under the umbrella of CO2 danger and a permanent "jobs" program "outside the political process."
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"Virtually everyone believes the shift could have major long-term implications for U.S. energy policy.”…
8/16/12, “AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low,” AP, Kevin Begos
“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….
In a little-noticed technical report, the U.S. Energy Information Agency, a part of the Energy Department, said this month that energy related U.S. CO2 emissions for the first four months of this year fell to about 1992 levels. Energy emissions make up about 98 percent of the total. The Associated Press contacted environmental experts, scientists and utility companies and learned that
virtually everyone believes the shift could have major long-term implications for U.S. energy policy.”…
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1/15/11, “Recession Special: Cleaner Air,“ NY Times, Matthew Wald
“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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NRDC notes US CO2 drop and the fact that there has been minimal press coverage of it:
6/26/12, “The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Pollution Forecast – Part 2,” switchboard.nrdc.org, Dan Lashof
“While there has been some press coverage of these facts (see here and here) I continue to find that most people are surprised to learn about this progress.”…
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If temperatures go up for a day, a month or 6 months, US human-caused CO2 is not, can’t possibly be the reason:
6/29/12, “US Carbon Output Forecasts Shrink Again,” American Interest, Walter Russell Mead
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Some examples of climate cash sought in 2011:
1/11/11, "Big Money in Climate Change: Who Gives, Who Gets," Al Fin
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11/19/12, "White House Announces $6 Billion to Promote Clean Energy – in Asia," CNS News, Lucas
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Be happy, Sen. Whitehouse! Wonderful Rhode Island certainly needs help and with CO2 terror in the past, you can devote yourself to your state's real problems. Or look into Communist China's environmental problems:
11/28/12, "Toxic effect of China environmental nondisclosure," MarketWatch, via Caixlin online
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