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."...
2/11/13, "Terence Corcoran: The price of Keystone may be a carbon tax," FinancialPost.com, via Drudge
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Standing in line at the US ‘Going out of Business’ sale are Nature Magazine types who advise Obama how he can get $12 billion more from US taxpayers which will then be funneled to ‘climate’ businesses Nature favors in the ‘scientific community:’
Jan. 29, 2013, “Change for good. The United States must boost energy spending to make its mark on the climate debate.” Nature Magazine Editorial
“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.”…
- Nature zeros in on the US taxpayer:
- Nature gives Obama sales tips on how to get extra US taxpayer cash to funnel to ‘climate’ R&D. They say US CO2 drop is a plus for Obama and note the drop is “thanks to the economic crisis:”
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:”
- Nature cares so much about the community that it says $4 billion US taxpayer dollars aren’t enough. They say “everybody recognizes” this. They say $16 billion or better yet $30 billion YEARLY via a “carbon tax.”
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:”
- Nature says if Obama gets the extra US taxpayer cash he might be able to get US CO2 levels close to his pledge at Copenhagen.
- Apparently Nature hasn’t heard: “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.
- Note to Nature: The US “international black carbon initiative” was enacted by Hillary Clinton in 2012.
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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4/21/12, “Why [CO2] Emissions Are Declining in the U.S. But Not in Europe,” by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, newgeography.com
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“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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“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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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."...
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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.”
Nature should know climate “action” was mandated by US government over 2 decades ago. CO2 terror wasn’t fixed in popular culture in 1990 but US politicians had big plans for it whether “action” was needed or not:
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 is mentioned near the end.
Devoting 13 federal agencies to ‘climate’ matters is hardly lagging in “action.”
Trillions have been taken from US taxpayers for climate endeavors via agency budget allocations, tax subsidies, diversion of US military to climate or green projects, countless federal regulations, vast sums shipped out in no strings foreign aid for ‘climate’ capacity building, etc.
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 government hasn’t become business partners with the ‘climate’ industry.
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“Not so funny story: 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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Nature doesn’t mention that nothing the US does including committing mass suicide will “save” the planet because 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
“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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11/28/12, “Toxic effect of China environmental nondisclosure,” MarketWatch, via Caixlin online
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12/13/10, “Perverse’ CO2 Payments Send Flood of Money to China,” by Mark Schapiro, Yale Environment 360
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1/16/13, “China’s Green Leap Backward,” The Nation, Lucia Green-Weiskel
Above, August, 2007: “China’s industrial growth depends on coal, plentiful but polluting, from mines like this one in Shenmu, Shaanxi Province, behind a village store,” NY Times. via Tom Nelson
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