2/11/13, "The price of Keystone may be a carbon tax," Terence Jeffrey, FinancialPost.com
"The Keystone-carbon tax trade off was also suggested in a recent editorial in Nature, the science journal. The editorial was big news in Canada, thanks to its endorsement of Keystone and Canada’s oil sands. “Regarding the Keystone pipeline,” said Nature, “the administration should face down critics of the project, ensure environmental standards are met and then approve it.”...
What Nature was really proposing, however, was that Mr. Obama use Keystone as cover for a range of other policies. “By approving Keystone, Obama can bolster his credibility within industry and among conservatives.” While conservatives are lulled, Nature proposed new regulations, crackdown on the coal industry, and a carbon tax."...
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Nature Magazine notes US CO2 has dropped "thanks to the economic crisis," then gives tips to Obama on how to get $12 billion more from US taxpayers to be funneled to ‘climate’ businesses Nature favors-they even cite a Boston company by name (parag. 7):
Jan. 29, 2013, “Change for good. The United States must boost energy spending to make its mark on the climate debate.” Nature Magazine Editorial
(parag. 1): “Environmentalists lauded US President Barack Obama when he raised the issue of global warming in his second inaugural address on 21 January….Obama kept it simple, short and vague, discussing climate change as a moral imperative while declaring clean energy a battleground for innovation....But if Obama truly wants to leave his mark on the climate debate, he will need to break out of the mould and lay the foundation for something larger.”…
[Nature notes US CO2 drop “thanks to the economic crisis:” and that this "plays into Obama's hands" when such makes the case for the exact opposite. We're in a depression that can only be improved by immediate private sector GDP growth sustained for many years yet Nature wants the opposite. They say this is a time to take more from us, encourage more suffering and premature death]:
(continuing, Nature, parag. 5): “And the fact that US emissions are apparently dropping,
thanks to the economic crisis
and the ongoing shift from coal to gas for electricity generation as well as state and federal policies,
further plays into his hands.
But all will be for naught
unless the president can build on these trends
and somehow reset the climate discussion.”...
[Nature says this “reset” should be billions more US taxpayer cash for “R&D:”]
(continuing, Nature, parag. 6): “The foundation for this re-engagement could be a good old-fashioned strategic research and development (R&D) programme for clean energy.”…
[Obama "clean energy" expenditures: US ‘climate action’ in November 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, a country so corrupt even the World Bank says crime adds 20% to costs. Below, one of the Sultan of Brunei’s cars:
(continuing, Nature, parag. 1): “But if Obama truly wants to leave his mark on the climate debate, he will need to break out of the mould and lay the foundation for something larger.”…
[Nature on behalf of unelected global slave owners says $4 billion US taxpayer dollars aren’t enough, that “everybody recognizes” this, and US slaves should give $16 billion or better yet $30 billion YEARLY via a “carbon tax.”]
(continuing, Nature, parag. 6): “The United States’ current US$4-billion energy-research portfolio
is not up to the task,
and almost
everybody recognizes as much.
In 2010, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recommended boosting the federal energy-innovation budget
to $16 billion.
The Brookings Institution, a Washington DC think tank,
has argued that even a small carbon tax
could provide up to $30 billion annually for energy research.”…
[Nature says the scientific “community” has weighed in on what US taxpayers should give, and that “extra money will be needed.” Nature even names a specific company in Boston who could help with the “R&D:”]
(continuing, Nature, parag. 7)): “These ideas have been floating around in the scientific community for some time. Some extra money will be needed but organizations such as the Clean Air Task Force, based in Boston, Massachusetts, are looking at ways to better direct energy subsidies and use existing government spending to drive new markets for advanced technologies.”…
[Nature next says extra US taxpayer cash might enable Obama to get US CO2 levels close to his pledge at Copenhagen. Nature isn't up on science: “US CO2 emissions are falling even faster than what President Obama pledged in the global Copenhagen Accord.…The average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964 --over half a century ago.”…The US leads the world in CO2 reduction, and its emissions are headed even lower.]
(continuing, Nature, last parag.): “The Obama administration might be able to put the United States on track to meet its Copenhagen commitment to reduce emissions to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020. It can seek immediate climate benefits by pushing international initiatives that reduce emissions of black carbon”…
[Note to Nature: The US “international black carbon initiative” was enacted by Hillary Clinton in 2012: 6/2/12, "Remarks by Secretary of State Clinton With Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, enewspf.com]
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“Communitarian chronicles:
Look at how easy it is to become a communitarian—as long as it’s YOUR community rule that gets enforced.”…
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The US could commit mass suicide and it wouldn't “save” the planet as Nature profiteers claim. China will never change, has no desire to change, isn’t set up for enforcing change, and is making a fortune demonizing the US.
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11/19/12, “More than 1,000 New Coal Plants Planned Worldwide,” Damian Carrington, UK Guardian
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“India is planning 455 new plants compared to 363 in China, which is seeing a slowdown in its coal investments after a vast building program in the past decade.”…
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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.…
Here is the biggest shocker of all: the average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964 -- over half a century ago. …Coal is the number two source of CO2 for Americans. Today the average American burns an amount similar to what they did in 1955, and even less than they did in the 1940s. …It is exactly America’s historical role of biggest and dirtiest that makes their sharp decline in CO2 pollution so noteworthy and potentially game changing at the global level.”...
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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.”
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