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8/31/12,
"Healthy Ridicule," WSJ, James Taranto
"Here was our favorite line from
Mitt Romney's convention speech: "President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family."
We liked it even better when we saw that the New York Times's Nicholas Kristof had tweeted: "Seriously, Romney's speech esp troubled me by mocking rising seas/climate change. The dismissiveness was appalling." Gaia is a jealous Goddess, and She will not be mocked!
It actually hadn't occurred to us that the Romney line was a repudiation of global warmism. If so, that's lagniappe. What we enjoyed was the deft way in which Romney punctured Obama's self-aggrandizement--by quoting his most immodest promise ever, pausing for effect, then making an almost comically modest promise of his own.
Previewing Romney's speech last week, Peggy Noonan advised him to use humor: "President Obama can't stand to be made fun of. His pride won't allow it, his amour propre cannot countenance a joke at his own expense. If Mr. Romney lands a few very funny lines about the president's leadership,
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For Mr. Kristof and others unaware of the good news, US CO2 emissions have dropped steadily since at least 2006 and are going lower! This has been acknowledged in Kristof's own NY Times at least once. Other countries' CO2 hasn't dropped despite hundreds of billions spent on cap and trade and extra taxes.
This isn't to say the US hasn't become
partners with the 'climate' industry.
Trillions have been taken from US taxpayers for climate expenses via outright 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 'climate' endeavors, etc.
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." (He mentions CO2 near the end). The US
even exports fuel now!
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From Mr. Kristof's own NY Times:
7/15/12, "
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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US CO2 has dropped steeply 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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6/4/12, "Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006," Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage-------------------------------------
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."...======================
6/22/12, "
U.S. cuts greenhouse gases despite do-nothing Congress," CNN, Steve Hargreaves
"Even factoring in a stronger economy, forecasters see greenhouse gas emissions continuing to fall."...
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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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11/23/11,
"Europe's $287 billion carbon 'waste': UBS report," The Australian, by Sid Maher
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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, they couldn't possibly be related to US carbon dioxide emissions:
4/14/11,
"Biggest Drop in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions," World Climate Report
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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 timeframe."
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1/25/2009, "Global warming industry becomes too big to fail," Timothy Carney, Washington Examiner---------------------------------------------------------
8/23/11, "The Alarming Cost Of Climate Change Hysteria," Forbes, Larry Bell
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7/28/12, "For people who base their claim to world leadership on their superior understanding of the dynamics of complex systems,
greens prove over and over again that they are surprisingly
naive and crude in their ability to model and
to shape the behavior of the political and economic systems they seek to control. If their understanding of the future of the earth’s climate is anything like as
wish-driven, fact-averse and intellectually crude as their approach to international affairs, democratic politics and the energy market, the greens are in trouble indeed....
Perhaps,
and I know this is a heretical thought,
but perhaps Gaia is smarter than the greens."
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