2/13/13, "Post-State of the Union Poll: 60 Percent of Americans Support Presidential Action to Fight Ravages of Climate Change," nrdc.org
NRDC's poll sampled "registered voters" not "all Americans." NRDC headline conflates "60% of registered voters" and "60% of Americans:"
1. NRDC poll surveyed 1218 registered voters.
2. There are about 150,000,000 registered voters in the US
3. 60% of 150,000,000 registered voters is 90,000,000.
4. There are about 207,643,594 eligible voters in the U.S. as of 2006 including registered and non-registered not including felons and non-citizens (Census data from Answers.com)
5. 60% of eligible voting age Americans is 124,586,156 (not including felons and non-citizens)
6. That's a difference of 34 million voting age Americans between NRDC's claim and reality, ie voting age Americans not registered. NRDC asserted the same claim (ie, "% of all Americans" vs % of registered voters") on numerous other questions in the poll.
NRDC presents itself as a source of scientific and legal superiority for the purpose of changing the US government and transferring trillions of dollars (citation below). Unfortunately they're not careful enough about facts. (via Tom Nelson)
In any case, care of the planet is one thing. NRDC is about something else.
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NRDC trader says 'trillions of dollars' will be needed in a global warming transition:
12/4/09, "Carbon Capitalists warming to climate market using derivatives," Bloomberg
"Companies need the financial markets to help them drive down their greenhouse gas emissions at a reasonable price, says the NRDC’s Andy 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."...(subhead, 'Companies need banks')
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NRDC's long history of litigation and political activism:
11/1/05, "Has the NRDC Gone Hollywood?" eponline.com, J. Daniel Hull, JD
"A good measure of star power can't hurt one of the country's most influential political action groups."
"Among other things, the NRDC is a boutique law firm of lawyers who practice only environmental law....
In fact, in its 35 year history, the NRDC has surpassed all other political action, citizens', and trade groups in "pro-environment" victories and accomplishments -- many of them
through litigation."
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Extra links on US census, voting, and registration:
As of the 2006 general election the Voting Age Population (all adults) was 225,964,346 whereas the Voter Eligible Population (adults - ineligible people like felons or non-citizens) was 207,643,594. source: Answer.com
Additional voting/registration Census data for 2008 and 2010:
US Census Bureau Voting Age Population and registration
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6/26/12, “The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Pollution Forecast – Part 2,” switchboard.nrdc.org, Dan Lashof
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“Back in February I posted about a surprising development: Despite the failure of comprehensive climate and energy legislation in 2010, U.S. carbon pollution emissions and projections of future carbon pollution have been coming down ever since....
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."...
graph from NRDC article
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News of US CO2 plunge has been described as:
- “Surprising,“
- “little noticed,“
- “dramatic,“
- “stunner,“
- “most people are surprised to learn,“
- “quiet but tremendous progress,”
- “major long term implications,”
- “game changing,”
- “shocker,”
- “huge contrast to the forecast.”
NRDC has long worked toward the US signing a "global treaty" with UN kleptocrats and thugs despite that US CO2 has plunged (per chart above), other countries' hasn't, and we already send billions of no strings US tax dollars around the world for "climate" efforts. This assumes CO2 was ever a danger to begin with. A 'global treaty' merely means taking the last dime from the US taxpayer and turning it over no strings to the legal criminal enterprise called the UN (UN personnel cannot be prosecuted for any crime anywhere in the world). Criminally immune con artists, billionaires and their lazy relatives would be invited to insert themselves between chump US taxpayers and their elected representatives--even more than they already are:
12/12/2008, "At United Nations Conference, Developing Countries Moved Forward While Lame Duck Administration Quacked Through its Last Climate Negotiations," nrdc.org, Eric Young
“At the end of these negotiations,
developing countries are primed for strong action on global warming.
With President-Elect Obama in office, the U.S. will field a team that
will move forward with these developing countries in crafting an
international agreement to fight global warming.
“A president working with the international community can
prevent the worst impacts of global warming, create millions of new
green jobs, produce more energy from clean sources and use energy more
efficiently.
“The politics of global warming have completely changed in
America. For the past seven years, states, cities, the business
community, and the U.S. Congress have moved forward. The next president
can build on their work and make real progress towards a new climate
treaty.”
"The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with more than 1.3 million members and online activists. Since 1970, our lawyers, scientists, and other environmental specialists have worked to protect the world's natural resources, public health, and the environment. NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Livingston, Montana, and Beijing."
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3/26/12, "Obama Requests $770 Million to Fight Global Warming Overseas," CNS News, Matt Cover
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Devoting 13 federal agencies to 'climate' matters is hardly 'lagging' in action.
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." CO2 reduction is mentioned near the end in Section 204, #4.
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US 'climate action' in Nov. 2012 included giving $6 billion US taxpayer dollars for 'clean energy' to the Sultan of Brunei who owns 5000+ cars and to the Pres. of Indonesia, whose country is so corrupt even the World Bank says crime adds 20% to costs.
Below, one of the Sultan of Brunei's cars:
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"Federal prosecutors in New York City were forced to drop criminal and civil cases because the U.N. officials have immunity,"...
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4/16/09, "Report: U.N. spent U.S. funds on shoddy projects," USA Today, Ken Dilanian
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11/18/10, "UN IPCC Official Admits 'We Redistribute World's Wealth By Climate Policy'," NewsBusters, Noel Sheppard
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