8/17/13, "Obama forges ahead with green energy agenda despite congressional opposition," Fox News, Doug McKelway
"Marc Morano,a global warming skeptic and publisher of the website ClimateDepot.com, applauds the administration's strategy, if not its purpose.
"The Obama administration is being strategically brilliant by doing this behind the scenes," he says.
"They're going to achieve everything that cap and trade, and UN treaties and even a carbon tax would achieve through the invisibility of federal regulations.""...via Free Republic
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Comment: I don't agree there's any 'congressional opposition' to speak of (cited in the headline), certainly not with Vichy GOP 'leadership.' If any 'opposition' exists, with few exceptions it takes the form of changing the subject when asked if they agree with the scientific consensus that global warming "paused" 15+ years ago and isn't this strange since global CO2 has continued to rise (with the exception of the US whose CO2 keeps plunging). Politico describes a GOP Senator trying to change the subject to jobs, but says this behavior is especially prescribed in the House, ie on orders from Boehner--he tells them not to discuss the science behind the multi-trillion dollar CO2 fraud, just change the subject to jobs. Politico describes GOP House Whip McCarthy doing this.
The predictions used to justify confiscation of billions more taxpayer dollars from Americans in a permanent part time depression economy haven't happened and couldn't have happened according to peer reviewed science. The single idea behind the multi-trillion CO2 terror industry is that CO2 causes temp. rise. This idea has been definitively disproved in a 30 year peer reviewed study. Even if man-caused CO2 terror existed, the US isn't causing it. China's CO2 is so high it negates efforts of all other countries who commit genocide against themselves and lower their CO2 for no reason.
Vichy GOP 'leadership' is thrilled to help Obama any way they can. He saved them from the Tea Party in 2012. Even if the GOP hadn't already merged with the democrats, they'd still owe Obama big time. If you wanted to disrespect the United States and its citizens, you couldn't do a better job than the Vichy GOP. I include Rupert Murdoch and Fox News with them. These guys have gotten away with a bigger con than even Obama.
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6/27/13, "GOP climate tack: Talk jobs, not science," Politico Pro, Darren Goode
"Republican leaders have a clear strategy for combating President Barack Obama’s climate agenda: Don’t talk about the science.
Just as top Republicans have called for their party to rebrand itself by avoiding rhetoric that alienates minorities, young voters and women, key GOP lawmakers are trying to stay out of the long-running debate about whether global warming is real — a discussion that has often included biblical references or claims that scientists are committing a giant hoax....
“I think you have to focus on the American economy,” said Sen. John Barrasso, the fourth-ranking Senate Republican, while responding Wednesday to a reporter’s question about climate science. “The costs of the regulations are real. And the benefits are unknown.”
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) similarly danced around a science question Wednesday during a question-and-answer session with reporters.
“Well, our argument with the president right now is he’s picking winners and losers, he’s harming innovation and there’s going to be a direct assault” on jobs, McCarthy said when asked whether Republicans want to debate climate science.
The jobs-centric rhetoric is no accident, GOP consultant Mike McKenna said — although he noted that many Republicans won’t go along with that approach.
“This is a strategy that leadership wants to take, leadership wants to take, especially in the House,” McKenna said. “Rank and file are perfectly willing to talk about
the underlying science.”
And so are Democrats like Obama, who are eager to paint Republicans as the anti-science party. “We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society,” the president said Tuesday during his climate policy address at Georgetown University.
A day later, Barrasso rebutted Obama by turning to jobs.
“He kind of talked about the Flat Earth Society,” the Wyoming senator said. “You know, we have a very flat economy and it’s because of the president’s unwillingness to help us create jobs in this country.”
Of course, not every Republican seems to have gotten the memo....
At a hearing last week, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) challenged Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on the idea that the globe is warming, with the lawmaker contending that “the temperature has stayed steady for 16 years now.”
“That’s in dispute,” countered Moniz, a nuclear physicist and a former energy lab director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Indeed, data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show an overall trend of rising temperatures. In January, NOAA reported that 2012 had been the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states, and that globally it was the 10th-warmest since record-keeping began in 1880.
In April, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) alluded to Genesis to make the point that not everyone believes climate change is man-made.
“I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change, and that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy,” he said.
Other Republicans are happy to distance themselves from that kind of talk.
“I’m not a denier when it comes to whether or not we’re seeing a changing climate,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who has nonetheless challenged the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, said Wednesday. “I believe that we are.”
The Republican divide was evident during the 2012 presidential primary, in which former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum denounced climate science as “bogus” and mocked warnings about the “dangers” of carbon dioxide pollution. “Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,” he said at an energy summit in March 2012....
The aftermath of 2012 has included even more introspection from Republicans about how to widen their appeal. At this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, for example, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush warned activists that “way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker … and the list goes on.” Democrats have been eager to use climate science as a wedge.
Organizing for Action — an advocacy group run by former Obama campaign staff — has started an effort to both advocate for Obama’s climate strategy as well as highlight members of Congress who question or deny climate science.
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has likewise used the science card against his Republican rival, state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who conducted a two-year investigation into state funding of former University of Virginia climate researcher Michael Mann.
And on Tuesday, after Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) accused Obama of waging a “war on coal,” Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) countered that Republicans were engaged in a “war on science” — although McConnell hadn’t mentioned the science at all and instead called Obama’s plan a “unilateral economic surrender.”
Of course, a parallel exists among some Obama’s supporters who are looking to downplay the economics of climate policy in favor of focusing on the environmental and health benefits. On Tuesday, POLITICO and other news outlets reported on a set of talking points issued by a coalition of Obama supporters who urged advocates not to “lead with straight economic arguments” when talking up the president’s climate strategy.
Other Obama backers aren’t afraid to make the economic argument by highlighting businesses that support his climate plan. Administration officials have also stressed the enormous costs that states and cities face because of storms, droughts, floods and other events that they have pinned on a changing climate exacerbated by greenhouse gas emissions.
Some Republicans have found a way to blend the science and jobs arguments.
On Monday, Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — including Barrasso — demanded that EPA provide more data on global temperatures and charged that Obama was making inaccurate statements. But they also pivoted back to the economy.
“To promote his global warming agenda, the president has stated that ‘temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even 10 years ago,’” wrote committee ranking member David Vitter (R-La.) and members including Barrasso and Inhofe. They added, “The American people deserve to know if the president has the facts straight, particularly as EPA presses ahead with zealous regulations that will drive up the price of electricity and make it harder for American workers to compete in the world economy.”
McKenna said Republicans can’t avoid science entirely, saying an opposition strategy focused solely on the economic impacts of regulations defies logic and is doomed to fail.
“If you really believe or accept that global warming is a legitimate, real, immediate threat, then there’s no amount of money you wouldn’t pay to avoid it,” he said. “But if it’s not, then you can talk about the economics all you want.”"
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Comment: GOP consultant McKenna's last quote in the article above sums up why CO2 terror is the perfect crime. McKenna says, "There's NO AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU WOULDN'T PAY TO AVOID IT." The sky's the limit and no one can complain. People are made to believe absolutely nothing else matters. Already suffering Americans say how can I say no, and surrender what little is left of their lives. The country has been robbed blind, stabbed in the back by the Bush crowd and the democrats. Many of them should be in jail.
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Obama helped the GOP defeat the Tea Party in 2012 in part by allowing the IRS to be used against them. The GOP owes Obama big time:
Obama re-election helped GOP House Speaker Boehner: NPR
12/8/12, "Once Boxed-In, Boehner May Finally Be Master Of The House," NPR, Frank James
"In a paradoxical way, Obama's re-election victory coupled with congressional Democrats adding to their numbers may have helped Boehner. Some of those wins came at the expense of the Tea Party, the conservative movement whose affiliated House members have been very willing to stand up to Boehner.
In recent weeks, Boehner...has gotten his entire leadership team to sign his tax-raising, fiscal-cliff counteroffer....
Despite complaints from conservative activists and bloggers, however, Boehner remains the most powerful Republican in Washington.".
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Change in global CO2 US v China, 2005 to 2011, energy related, US EIA (US Energy Dept.), WSJ, April 2013
"U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions have fallen dramatically in recent years, in large part because the country is making more electricity with natural gas instead of coal.
Energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that is widely believed to contribute to global warming, have fallen 12% between 2005 and 2012 and are at their lowest level since 1994, according to a recent estimate by the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the U.S. Energy Department."...
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6/10/13, 2012 US CO2 continues to drop. Chart from IEA report, China continues to rise. (Above chart is thru 2011) :
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UK Met Office notes pause in global warming since 1998:
1/18/13, “Climate change: scientists puzzle over halt in global warming,” Der Spiegel, by Axel Bojanowski (translation from German)
"The British Met Office forecast even more recently that the temperature interval could continue at a high level until the end of 2017 - despite the rapidly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases. Then global warming would pause 20 years."..."The exact reasons of the temperature standstill since 1998, are not yet understood, says climate researcher Doug Smith of the Met Office."...
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11/29/12, 134 scientists write to UN Sec. Gen. Ban Ki-Moon, asking him to desist from blaming climate disasters on global warming that hasn't happened:
"Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years."...“The NOAA “State of the Climate in 2008” report asserted that 15 years or more without any statistically-significant warming would indicate a discrepancy between observation and prediction. Sixteen years without warming have therefore now proven that the models are wrong by their creators’ own criterion.”…(2nd parag. fr. end of letter). …"Policy actions that aim to reduce CO2 emissions are unlikely to influence future climate. Policies need to focus on preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climatic events, however caused."...Special to Financial Post, 12/10/12
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BBC discussion suggests a pause in confiscation of taxpayer dollars in the face of dual problems, that temperatures have remained flat since 1998 while CO2 has increased. Money was diverted based on predicted outcomes that didn't happen which "peer reviewed literature regards as established yet unexplained:"
7/22/13, "Andrew Neil on Ed Davey climate change interview critics," BBC, Andrew Neil
Multi-billion dollar "spending decisions, paid for by consumers and taxpayers...might not have been taken (at least to the same degree or with the same haste) if global warming was not quite the imminent threat it has been depicted....The recent standstill in global temperatures is a puzzle. Experts do not know why it is occurring or how long it will last....There is no consensus. Extensive peer-reviewed literature regards it as established yet unexplained. It is widely accepted that the main climate models which inform government policy did not predict it."...(subhead, "Reputable evidence")
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First 7 months of 2013, 77% of jobs created were part-time:
"In July (2013) we are sad to report that America's conversion to a part-time worker society is not "tapering": according to the Household Survey, of the 266K jobs created (note this number differs from the establishment survey), only 35% of jobs, or 92K, were full time. The rest were... not."...
8/2/13, "Obamacare Full Frontal: Of 953,000 Jobs Created In 2013, 77%, Or 731,000 Are Part-Time," Zero Hedge, Durden
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Country Club Republicans have joined the Democrat Ruling Class:
2/20/13, "As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are Orphaned," Angelo Codevilla, Forbes
"At the outset of 2013 a substantial portion of America finds itself un-represented, while Republican leaders increasingly represent only themselves. By the law of supply and demand, millions of Americans, (arguably a majority) cannot remain without representation. Increasingly the top people in government, corporations, and the media collude and demand submission as did the royal courts of old. This marks these political orphans as a “country class.”"...
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1/12/2009, "Bush the pre-socializer: “I readily concede I chucked aside my free-market principles”," Michelle Malkin
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