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February 18, 2014 Mass Destruction of Science

Charles Battig
Perhaps given the chance to avert public eyes from his lackluster results with containing the deteriorating situation in Syria, nuclear talks with Iran, and the Middle East peace process, Secretary of State Kerry has chosen to flaunt his lack of scientific understanding as a needed diversion.

Kerry described those who do not accept that human activity causes global warming as "shoddy scientists" and "extreme ideologues," and said big companies and special interests should not be allowed to "hijack" the climate debate. "Climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction."

These sound-bite alarmism utterances from an ideologue lacking scientific training himself, shoddy or otherwise, are consistent with a special-interest politician always alert to the political climate. By unilaterally labeling a fundamental, natural feature of Earth itself a "weapon of mass destruction," Kerry has now redefined "original sin" as being the result of excess man-made carbon dioxide. He has removed the path of redemption from the hands of traditional religion and proclaimed salvation in government-imposed "global warming pollution reduction." The failed 2010 Kerry/Lieberman "American Power Act" apparently lives on in Kerry's psyche.

Let Kerry produce the impartial evidence that would quantify how much human activity has caused how much global warming (or cooling). The inherently chaotic nature of climate has defied attempts of climate modelers to accurately predict the future climate. What is "normal climate" is heavily dependent on the time period and geographic place chosen. The scientific record shows no global warming for the past 16 years, even as atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased about 9 percent. True "weapons of mass destruction" have reliable on-off switches, well-calculated destructive impacts, and specific targets.

"Climate change" has been coopted by the progressive/liberal movement as something akin to the "universal solvent." It is the term used to explain any untoward event anywhere, and direct blame to all of mankind...but with the exception of the ruling class. It is the term that brings visions of guaranteed profits to the corporate cronyist, endless government research grants to compliant scientists, and elitist political control of the populace, whose function is reduced to paying for the scam.
Charles Battig, M.D., Piedmont Chapter president, VA-Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment (VA-SEEE). His website is www.climateis.wordpress.com


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WND EXCLUSIVE

Al Gore: Critics are 'immoral, unethical and despicable'

Climate crusader rants: 'The future of civilization is at stake'

Published: 16 hours ago

Al Gore, known for wild rants about global warming, including one where his foul language earned him the description “mentally unstable,” is at it again.


Only this time he’s complaining about those who put up “barriers” to his agenda that critics say includes cracking down on carbon emissions, buying and selling credits for that activity and putting the American coal industry out of business.
“The ‘barriers’ to doing something about climate change are business and political interests that profit off of fossil fuels – ‘dirty energy that causes dirty weather,’” he said, according to an online report about a recent speech he made.
“He compared fake science from polluters stating that humans are not to blame for the climate to tobacco companies that used to hire actors to play doctors who denied cigarettes were dangerous,” the report said.
“That’s immoral, unethical and despicable,” he said of both.
Gore spoke recently to a crowd at the Stan Sheriff Center at the University of Hawaii.
Speaking largely to supporters and fans, Gore said climate change, the newest evolution of what started out as global warming, is getting worse.
The Civilbeat blog that reported on his visit to the island state said, “Gore’s talk was an updated version of the one he’s been giving for years and that he first laid out in his 1992 book ‘Earth In the Balance.’ The planet is in trouble because humankind burns too much coal and oil, which is trapping greenhouse gases and raising temperatures.”
Gore blamed that for “famine, drought, floods, refugees, species extinction, to name just a few.”
Gore claimed that the number of hotter days over the past 80 years has been growing “alarmingly disproportionate to the number of cooler days and days with average temperatures,” the report said.
“The way we have to respond to this is going to require a set of changes that are beyond our routine,” he said, his voice growing to a shout. “I know that we are capable of that. Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.”
The 66-year-old Gore was vice president under Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. His 1988 and 2000 presidential bids failed.
WND reported earlier on an earlier Gore rant that prompted Brian Sussman, author of “Eco-Tyranny,” to conclude, “He’s clearly becoming mentally unstable.”
Sussman, a weather expert turned journalist, cited an August 2011 speech Gore gave in Colorado to a gathering of elites at the Aspen Institute, an address that turned into a wild rant filled with repeated obscenities.
During his address, Gore claimed special interest groups “pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’
“Bullsh–!”
“‘It may be sun spots.’
“Bullsh–!”
“‘It’s not getting warmer.’
“Bullsh–!”
“It was a gorebasm in which Al totally lost it,” Sussman said, explaining that gorebasms are Al’s pejorative statements directed toward deniers and skeptics of climate change.
“Listening to audiotape of the speech makes it abundantly evident even the Aspen audience was uncomfortable witnessing the ravings of a madman.”
In case someone had been present with a view contrary to his, Gore then intimidated the crowd, blustering:
“The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism” tears the cover off the left’s manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes, showing incontrovertible evidence “catastrophic man-made global warming” is not actual science
“When you go and talk to any audience about climate, you hear them washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again. They have polluted the sh–. There’s no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate even though the very existence of our civilization is threatened. People have no idea!”
Gore continued: “It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the G– damn word ‘climate!’”
An audio clip of Gore’s obscenity-packed address can be heard here: (WARNING: Profane and obscene language is used).

WND also reported that Marc Morano, editor of ClimateDepot.com, confirmed the chairman of a U.N. panel on climate, Rajendra K. Pachauri, admitted in an interview last September with the London Guardian that the purpose of the periodic U.N. climate report was to make the case that “action is needed on climate change.”
“Top United Nations officials apparently knew years in advance exactly what this new U.N. climate report was going to say,” Morano said. “The U.N. IPCC is guilty of nothing short of making the science fit their political agenda.”
At a press conference in Yokohama, Japan, March 25, Pachauri released the U.N. panel’s fifth climate assessment, which concludes a continued rise in carbon dioxide levels in the earth’s atmosphere threatens the fundamental systems that support human civilization, to the extent “no one will be untouched.”
There also was the recent allegation by an independent data analyst whose work has been published by Principia Scientific that global warming activists were manipulating data.
In this case, lowering the historical temperatures for years prior to 2000. Which makes the temperatures after that look like they’ve risen. Which makes it look like global warming.

“A newly uncovered and monumental calculating error in official U.S. government climate data shows beyond doubt that climate scientists unjustifiably added a whopping one degree of phantom warming to the official ‘raw’ temperature record,” the report says.
It comes from the discovery by independent data analyst Steven Goddard, who did a study of the official U.S. temperature records used by NASA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and others.
He found that for the records, when global temperatures plummeted in 1999, on the official U.S. chart, they didn’t.
Essentially, he said, the charge was revised downward by one degree for readings before 2000. But they “left post-2000 temperatures more or less intact.”
Also weighing in was well-known scientist Art Robinson, who spearheaded The Petition Project, which to date has gathered the signatures of 31,487 scientists who agree that there is “no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”
“This kind of shenanigan has been going on for decades,” he told WND.
WND reported only weeks ago that Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., author of “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future,” says not only has he seen through the “hoax,” but so have his fellow lawmakers.
In that recent interview with Aaron Klein of “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” the host asked Inhofe – in light of Al Gore and other global warming alarmists’ failed predictions – how progressives continue to “get away” with pushing their “green schemes” in the name of climate change.
“They don’t get away with it in the eyes of the American people,” Inhofe answered. “I find fewer and fewer members of the United States Senate that are sympathetic to this whole cause.”
Hear the entire interview below:

video at link below

Just before the end of 2013 came a really bad week for global warming.
Cairo saw its first snow in 100 years. Oregon, like several other states, reached its coldest temperature in 40 years. Chicago saw its coldest days ever, and – as if to add finality to the trend – Antarctica reached the coldest temperature ever recorded anywhere on earth.
Ironically, just a few years ago, believers in anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming – since renamed “climate change” – claimed cold weather and snow would soon be just a memory.
“Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past,” announced the headline in Britain’s newspaper the Independent at the turn of the millennium. The report quoted David Viner, senior research scientist at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, long considered an authoritative resource for global warming research, as saying snow would soon be “a very rare and exciting event” in Britain.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
However, the authoritative reputation of East Anglia was seriously downgraded in 2009 when leaked emails proved researchers there were engaged in a major scheme to manipulate and suppress evidence against global warming, misconduct London’s Telegraph newspaper called “the worst scientific scandal of our generation.”

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Just like a bad penny this guy always turns up and it is still all "crap and traitor"

Obama To Sign Crippling Executive Order

President Obama plans to announce on Monday that he will be using his pen to sign an executive order that would put in place strict regulations on energy producers and have a potentially crippling effect on the economy.
Drafted by the Environmental Protection Agency, the regulations would require coal-fired plants to reduce carbon emissions by up to 20% while also forcing the industry to pay for its emissions through a cap-and-trade system.
The move has the potential to shut down hundreds of coal-fired plants across the nation as well as send energy prices soaring as the cost of producing energy is driven up. People familiar with the regulations say that it will set a national limit on carbon emissions from coal-fired plants as well as allowing each state to come up with its own plan to reduce emissions based on several options such as adding wind turbines, solar power, and other energy efficient technologies or joining other state cap-and-trade programs that specifically tax carbon emissions.
Republicans say that the regulations would effectively be back-dooring Congress since a similar plan failed to pass in 2010.
According to the New York Times:
“Cap and trade was born in 1990 during the administration of President George Bush as a centerpiece of amendments to the 1970 Clean Air Act. Conceived as a business-friendly way to cut pollution without heavy-handed regulation, the idea was that the cap would ratchet down each year, allowing less pollution while market forces drive up the price of permits, creating an incentive for industries to invest in lower-polluting sources of energy. In 2006 in California, Mr. Schwarzenegger signed a pioneering state cap-and-trade law. As the Republican presidential nominee in 2008, Senator John McCain of Arizona pledged to put in effect a nationwide cap-and-trade law.”
H/T: Mr. Conservative

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Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:15
Obama Plotting to Bypass Congress on UN Climate Regime

Written by Alex Newman



The Obama administration, conspiring with the United Nations and various foreign governments, is plotting to foist a draconian “global-warming” regime on the American people — without ratification by a two-thirds majority of the U.S. Senate, as required by the Constitution for all treaties. The radical strategy primarily involves semantics and legal quackery: Instead of calling the controversial scheme a “treaty,” the White House is pursuing what it calls an international “accord.” If Congress does not step in to stop it, the global plot would ration emissions of carbon dioxide and energy while redistributing potentially trillions of dollars from Western taxpayers to Third World regimes. Globalists and alarmists hope to conclude the UN deal at a “climate” summit in Paris next year.

The reasoning behind the lawless machinations is fairly simple: Obama, the UN, and foreign governments milking the climate alarmism all know the U.S. Senate will never ratify a global-warming regime. Having already failed to get a domestic cap-and-trade scheme through even a Democrat-controlled Congress, Obama has also turned to “executive actions” in his unconstitutional bid to limit emissions of essential-to-life carbon dioxide domestically. Using the Environmental Protection Agency, the administration simply decreed that CO₂ — exhaled by humans and required for plant life — is “pollution.” By contrast, scientists and experts not feeding at the global-warming industry trough refer to carbon dioxide as “the gas of life.”

According to the New York Times, which first reported the latest administration scheme to bypass Congress, Obama’s “climate negotiators” are working with foreign powers and the UN to adopt a “politically binding” carbon regime. Critics of the lawless plan say lawmakers will have to act to rein in the administration, possibly by defunding the “climate” scheming undertaken by the White House and the UN. If Congress fails in its duty, though, the UN climate regime will seek to coerce governments around the world into seizing unprecedented powers over their populations and economies under the guise of limiting CO₂. Americans and Europeans, meanwhile, would be fleeced to prop up largely autocratic regimes around the world under the bogus pretext of fighting “climate change.”

As opposition grows to the president’s “pen and phone” schemes to bypass Congress and the Constitution, Obama’s swarms of climate bureaucrats are already pushing the radical plan in the press. “If you want a deal that includes all the major emitters, including the U.S., you cannot realistically pursue a legally binding treaty at this time,” observed Paul Bledsoe, described by the Times as “a top climate change official in the Clinton administration who works closely with the Obama White House on international climate change policy.” In other words, the Constitution, the legislative branch, the American people, and checks and balances will all be trampled to advance the UN climate regime. If the Constitution were followed, the administration knows it will fail.

Around the world, foreign governments and bureaucrats — who, unlike Obama and all members of Congress, did not take a solemn oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution — are fully on-board with the plot to crush even the appearance of constitutional governance in the United States. “There is an implicit understanding that this not require ratification by the Senate,” said Laurence Tubiana, the “climate ambassador” to the UN for the imploding Socialist French government. “There’s a strong understanding of the difficulties of the U.S. situation, and a willingness to work with the U.S. to get out of this impasse.” By “difficulties,” of course, the climate bureaucrat from France was referring to America’s system of constitutional self-government. The UN climate czar previously said the mass-murdering Communist Chinese system was better suited to fighting “global warming” than the U.S. Constitution.

Even if the climate regime were to be ratified by the Senate — the chances of that happening appear to range from slim to none, especially because most Americans reject the discredited man-made global-warming theories pushed by the UN and Obama — the federal government has no constitutional authority to foist such a scheme on the American people in the first place. Big Government-mongers like to pretend that any treaty approved by two-thirds of senators becomes the “law of the land.” In reality, though, the U.S. government cannot expand its powers beyond those delegated to it in the Constitution simply by ratifying a treaty.

From the earliest days of the American constitutional Republic, that was common knowledge. “I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty-making power as boundless,” noted Thomas Jefferson, one of the most important Founding Fathers behind the U.S. Constitution, in 1803. “If it is, then we have no Constitution.” More recently, the Supreme Court ruled in the landmark 1957 Reid v. Covert case that “no agreement with a foreign nation can confer power on the Congress, or on any other branch of Government, which is free from the restraints of the Constitution.” If Obama was indeed a “constitutional law professor,” as he claimed, he would know that, meaning he is deliberately violating the oath he took with his hand on the Bible.

The scam being cooked up by Obama and his allies would also include “voluntary pledges” combined with “legally binding” elements from a 1992 treaty, the Times reported. “Countries would be legally required to enact domestic climate change policies,” the paper added. Of course, by “countries,” the Times was referring to UN member regimes, most of which are autocratic and many of which do not have even a shred of legitimacy (think Mugabe, Castro, Kim Jong-un, and others). “There’s some legal and political magic to this,” Natural Resources Defense Council “global climate negotiations expert” Jake Schmidt was quoted as admitting.

Ahead of the Paris summit where the administration hopes to ink the deal to impose a global climate regime on humanity, global-warming “dignitaries” plan to meet in New York next month to discuss the plan. In December, the UN global-warming circus will fly at taxpayer expense to Lima, Peru, to finalize the draft agreement. Then, if all goes according to plan, governments and dictators from around the world will meet in the French capital next September to put their signatures on the document, which they believe will bind the populations they rule into submitting to the UN carbon regime.

However, there are already signs that Republican lawmakers may put up some resistance, and with the GOP widely expected to take control of the Senate, Obama’s climate scheming may be doomed well before the Paris conference begins. “Unfortunately, this would be just another of many examples of the Obama administration’s tendency to abide by laws that it likes and to disregard laws it doesn’t like — and to ignore the elected representatives of the people when they don’t agree,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the top Republican in the Senate. Specific action plans have not been laid out, but the GOP-controlled House could simply cut off funds for the administration’s unlawful plot.

Another top Republican and a firm opponent of the “pseudo-science” underpinning the UN’s warming theories offered an even stronger rebuke to the White House plot. In a statement released Wednesday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Obama’s latest scheme shows the president has “given up on his dream of enacting an internationally binding global warming treaty.” The Senate will not ratify it, he noted again, a consistent and accurate message he has delivered over and over to the UN and its member regimes. Even on the domestic front, lawmakers plan to keep battling the unconstitutional machinations.

“We will continue to fight the president's economy crushing domestic greenhouse gas regulations,” added Sen. Inhofe, perhaps the leading climate realist in Washington and persistent thorn in the side of UN alarmists. “U.S. economic competitiveness is hanging in the balance, and additional U.S. restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions will only hurt the United States as other nations like Australia either scrap or water down their unsuccessful green dream policies.” He was referring to the devastating blow to climate deception and hysteria delivered by Australia recently, when it voted to repeal carbon taxes after previously vowing not to accept any more UN “socialism masquerading as environmentalism.”

As The New American reported recently, virtually every falsifiable climate prediction made by the UN, Obama, and the legions of taxpayer-funded alarmists has been proven spectacularly wrong. In fact, 73 out of 73 UN “climate models” predicted warming, yet there has been none for at least 17 or 18 years — maybe more, depending on the data set used. The globalists, carbon taxers, and pseudo-environmentalists know their window to impose a devastating global carbon regime on humanity is on the verge of being slammed shut forever. Obama’s latest plot represents a desperate, kooky, last-ditch effort to shackle the world. Americans and their elected representatives must ensure that it fails.

Alex Newman, a foreign correspondent for The New American, is currently based in Europe. He can be reached at anewman@thenewamerican.com. Follow him on Twitter @ALEXNEWMAN_JOU.
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John Kerry Uses Mockery To Deal With Lack of Evidence Of Global Warming (Postscript)

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Mark Horne

It is always a wonderful opportunity when the Secretary of State for the Galactic Empire the United States of America goes to some small country whose economy is the fraction of the size of ours, because then he is surrounded by people who are dying to gain his good graces and he can say whatever he wants. It is better than having canned applause. In this case, the captive audience was in Indonesia and the text of John Kerry’s sermon was the idiotic heresy of denying global warming.

Anyone can look up John Kerry’s education and see he has no training at all in climate science. He has no idea what he is talking about. He is completely incapable, for example, of even holding a conversation with Richard Lindzen, the MIT climatologist.
In other words, you have every bit as much right to your opinion as he has to his opinion. The only difference is that he has the power to censor your opinion and all the scientists from any debate and that is exactly what he intends to do.
If Kerry has no education in climate science, what is his education? In a word: Liberalism. From Wikipedia:
In 1962, Kerry entered Yale University, majoring in political science and residing in Jonathan Edwards College. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966. Kerry played on the soccer, hockey, lacrosse, and fencing teams; in addition, he took flying lessons.
In his sophomore year, Kerry became the Chairman of the Liberal Party of the Yale Political Union, and a year later he served as President of the Union. Amongst his influential teachers in this period was Professor H. Bradford Westerfield, who was himself a former President of the Political Union. His involvement with the Political Union gave him an opportunity to be involved with important issues of the day, such as the civil rights movement and Kennedy's New Frontier program. He also became a member of the secretive Skull and Bones Society. He also traveled to Switzerland through AIESEC Yale.

Under the guidance of the speaking coach and history professor Rollin Osterweis, Kerry won many debates against other college students from across the nation. In March 1965, as the Vietnam War escalated, he won the Ten Eyck prize as the best orator in the junior class for a speech that was critical of U.S. foreign policy. In the speech he said, "It is the specter of Western imperialism that causes more fear among Africans and Asians than communism and thus, it is self-defeating."
So we have here someone who was rather busy in college and, as I already mentioned, did not have time to do intensive study of climate science. It wasn’t his interest. Liberal politics was his interest.
And it is liberal politics that is driving Kerry’s agenda now.
Of course, it would be a disaster for Indonesia or any other developing economy to suddenly have to curtail their CO2 emissions, or to pay a tax for those emissions. It would be far more destructive than any “specter of Western imperialism” that Kerry imagined in his youth. The global warming scam is a rationalization for US aggression.
The good news is that the truth is winning. The fact that Kerry is forced to resort to mockery and baseless smears shows he knows he is losing.

Postscript: I was so angry at Kerry's words that I didn't even think about the so-called "carbon footprint" involved in his climate change international tour. See here for more details and my opinion of what it means.

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Al Gore: Extreme Weather Events 100 Times More Common than 30 Years Ago Due to Global Warming : Freedom Outpost http://ow.ly/wbgeg




Al Gore: Extreme Weather Events 100 Times More Common than 30 Years Ago Due to Global Warming

Michael Bastasch 15 hours ago

Former Vice President Al Gore made some amazing claims about global warming. The failed presidential candidate told Politico Magazine that extreme weather events are 100 times more common today than they were 30 years ago due to global warming.
But Gore’s claims actually run counter to mounting scientific evidence that global warming is not making the weather more “extreme.”

“The game changer for the first question is the extreme weather events related to climate that are now 100 times more common than they were just 30 years ago,” Gore told Politico. “This is having a huge impact. And they’re getting more frequent. More common. Bigger. More destructive. And people are looking at their hole cards.”

“The extreme weather events and the knock-on effects with the stronger ocean-based storms, the bigger downpours, more floods, mudslides, the saturation of that hillside in Snohomish County, for example – these things are way more common now, because the extremes are more extreme and they are more frequent,” Gore added.

Gore’s claims, however, are not even in line with evidence presented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — a group often cited by Gore as evidence that global warming could be catastrophic.

The IPCC found that there “is limited evidence of changes in extremes associated with other climate variables since the mid-20th century” and current data shows “no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century. … No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin.”

The IPCC also said “there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale” adding “that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century due to lack of direct observations, geographical inconsistencies in the trends.”
Extreme weather has been a major talking point for environmentalists and Democrats who want to show evidence that the planet is warming. Last year, politicians jumped on the devastating typhoon that hit the Philippines, saying it was more evidence that human activity was making the weather worse.
“This is all over the world,” Gore said. “In the Philippines, there were four million homeless refugees and still are. That’s twice as many as the Indian Ocean tsunami. The Philippines has always been hit hard by typhoons, but this is something different and the warmer ocean is connected to it. And all over the world, people are saying, ‘Whoa, this is getting pretty crazy.’”

But the IPCC isn’t the only body to counter Gore’s claims. University of Colorado scientist Roger Pielke, Jr. has also presented evidence that weather has not gotten more extreme.

“It is misleading, and just plain incorrect, to claim that disasters associated with hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or droughts have increased on climate timescales either in the United States or globally,” Dr. Pielke told the Senate last summer. “It is further incorrect to associate the increasing costs of disasters with the emission of greenhouse gases.”

“Hurricanes have not increased in the U.S. in frequency, intensity or normalized damage since at least 1900,” Pielke added. “The same holds for tropical cyclones globally since at least 1970.”

So far this year, the United States has experienced a record-low number of tornadoes, according to Pielke, and the number of deaths and the amount of property damage from tornadoes has decreased dramatically in the past six decades.

“The average annual U.S. property losses caused by tornadoes, from 1950 to 2013, is $5.9 billion in today’s dollars,” Pielke wrote in the Wall Street Journal. “However, for the first half of the data set (1950-81), the annual average loss was $7.6 billion, and in the second half (1982-2013), it was $4.1 billion—a drop of almost 50%.”

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Obama to Take Action to Slash Coal Pollution


By CORAL DAVENPORT JUNE 1, 2014


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Coal-fired power plants, like this one near St. Marys, Kan., are at the center of the debate on climate change. Credit Charlie Riedel/Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday will announce one of the strongest actions ever taken by the United States government to fight climate change, a proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s power plants 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, according to people briefed on the plan who spoke anonymously because they had been asked not to reveal details.

The regulation takes aim at the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States, the nation’s more than 600 coal-fired power plants. If it withstands an expected onslaught of legal and legislative attacks, experts say that it could close hundreds of the plants and also lead, over the course of decades, to systemic changes in the American electricity industry, including transformations in how power is generated and used.
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It is also likely to stand as President Obama’s last chance to substantially shape domestic policy and as a defining element of his legacy. The president, who failed to push a sweeping climate change bill through Congress in his first term, is now acting on his own by using his executive authority under the 1970 Clean Air Act to issue the regulation.

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Coal-fired plants like the Morgantown Generating Station in Newburg, Md., in the background, would be affected by the rule. Credit Mark Wilson/Getty Images Under the rule, states will be given a wide menu of policy options to achieve the pollution cuts. Rather than immediately shutting down coal plants, states would be allowed to reduce emissions by making changes across their electricity systems — by installing new wind and solar generation or energy-efficiency technology, and by starting or joining state and regional “cap and trade” programs, in which states agree to cap carbon pollution and buy and sell permits to pollute.
E.P.A. officials have said they hope the flexible approach will allow states to comply with the regulation more easily and cost-effectively, by adopting policies best tailored to regional economies and energy mixes. But industry groups planning to sue to block or delay the rule have said that approach makes the rule more legally vulnerable.
The details of the proposed regulation were first reported Sunday afternoon by The Wall Street Journal online.
Because burning coal is the largest source of the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists blame for trapping heat in the atmosphere and dangerously warming the planet, the rule is expected to have a powerful environmental impact. It comes on top of a regulation Mr. Obama issued in his first term that sharply increased the required fuel economy of vehicles, the second-largest source of carbon pollution in the United States.
Experts said that the new regulation would set the United States on track to meet its target set forth in a United Nations accord in 2009, when Mr. Obama pledged that the United States would cut its greenhouse gas pollution 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, and 83 percent by 2050.
On Sunday, environmental advocates praised the proposed rule for its breadth and reach while the coal industry attacked it as a symbol of executive overreach that could wreak economic havoc. Republican campaigns plan to use the rule to attack incumbent Democrats in this fall’s midterm elections.
“This momentous announcement raises the bar for controlling carbon emissions in the United States,” said Andrew Steer, president of the World Resources Institute, a Washington research organization, adding, “These new standards send a powerful message around the world.”

Scott Segal, a lawyer with the firm Bracewell & Giuliani, which represents coal companies and plans to sue over the rule, wrote in an email, “Clearly, it is designed to materially damage the ability of conventional energy sources to provide reliable and affordable power, which in turn can inflict serious damage on everything from household budgets to industrial jobs.”
Last week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a report warning that the rule could lower the gross domestic product by $50 billion annually.
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The proposal to be unveiled Monday will be a draft, open to public comment, and is certain to set off a wave of lobbying from states, industry groups and environmentalists seeking to shape the final version of the rule. While there is no legal deadline for finalizing the regulation, Mr. Obama has directed the E.P.A. to issue the rule by June 2015 so that the administration can begin putting the program in place before he leaves office.

Nations around the world are closely scrutinizing the climate change rule and its prospects.

The timing of the rule signals that Mr. Obama may be more interested in achieving a legacy-making global deal on climate change than in short-term political concerns. While the rule could make things politically difficult for incumbent Democrats from coal states in November, it could make things easier for American climate change negotiators this fall at the United Nations General Assembly, where governments are expected to hold side meetings intended to forge a global climate change treaty that negotiators hope to have signed by 2015.

Over the long term, the United States has been the world’s largest emitter of carbon pollution, but today China is the largest, with India and other developing Asian countries poised to see an explosion in their carbon pollution in the coming years as millions of people join the middle class and begin enjoying cheap coal-fired electricity.

But China and India have resisted American pressure to cut their own carbon pollution because, they have said, the United States has no moral authority to push other nations to cut pollution when it fails to do so at home.

State Department climate negotiators hope that by bringing the new E.P.A. rule to the table, they will be able to demonstrate significant action and have fresh leverage to broker a deal.

“I fully expect action by the United States to spur others in taking concrete action,” Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, said.

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Mark Udall’s Wife Partners with Leonardo DiCaprio to Call for Carbon Tax

Leonardo DiCaprio begins series of anti-oil, anti-fracking videos


Leonardo Dicaprio and Al Gore together for Earth Day in 2007 / AP

BY: Elizabeth Harrington
August 28, 2014 9:00 am

Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Udall’s (Colo.) wife called for a carbon tax while appearing in a new anti-oil video produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.
“People are ready for conversation,” says Maggie Fox, Udall’s wife and former president of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, in the Green World Rising video, entitled, “Carbon.”
“They’re ready to understand that carbon pollution is causing this challenge and that there is a simple solution: put a price on carbon pollution,” she says.
DiCaprio is releasing a series of environmentalist videos on climate change, the first focusing on gathering support for a cap and trade system. A dark animated robot represents the oil and gas industry, and is shown grabbing money from the ground, producing nothing but black smoke into the atmosphere.
The video states that there is a “moral reason” for a carbon tax, and features Fox; self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.); Joseph Romm, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress; Eamon Ryan, the leader of the Irish Green Party, and others.
DiCaprio, who flies “around the world doing good for the environment,” narrates the video. He calls fossil fuels, black oil, coal, and gas an “ancient menace,” and attacks the oil and gas industry.
“They drill, they extract, making trillions of dollars,” he says. “They frack, they mine, earning astronomical profits. We need to keep this carbon in the ground.”
The video ends with the message: “Your community can defeat the carbon monster.”
Fox recently stepped down as president and CEO of the Climate Reality Project, which was founded by former Vice President and environmentalist activist Al Gore. In a statement announcing her departure, Gore said Fox joined the Climate Reality Project to “guide” the failed cap and trade push in Congress in 2009.
Gore said Fox led the organization’s efforts to “combat the climate denial cottage-industry.” He said Fox joined him at a training event in South Africa for “Climate Reality Leaders” this March, where they called for a “market price on carbon and a political price on denial.”
“Faced with the realization that the well-funded and pervasive climate denial industry was winning the broader cultural battle, The Climate Reality Project took up the mantle to dispel doubt and spread the immediate reality of climate change with innovative organizing and communication initiatives designed to transform the cultural conversation,” Fox said, when describing their work.
Sen. Udall’s campaign did not return request for comment on whether he agrees with his wife’s position, and the video’s anti-fracking and anti-oil stance. On his Senate website, Udall says he supports putting a “common-sense price on carbon.”
In the video, Fox, who worked for the environmentalist Sierra Club for 20 years, claims that the United States spends $110 billion dollars on “climate change events” a year, in her argument to tax carbon emissions.
“In the 50s in London—based on the Industrial Revolution—there was so much pollution, as you see in Beijing and around China today, that you actually couldn’t see six straight feet in front of you,” she says. “They put a price on pollution and it changed.”
“What Maggie Fox endorses—and what is touted in the video—is a job-killing, zero benefit to the environment carbon tax that Australia just repealed this year because it did not work,” said Michael Sandoval, an energy policy analyst with the Colorado-based Independence Institute. “Increasing energy prices with a costly tax on carbon might satisfy the wishes of eco-extremists like Fox, but it only attacks small businesses, endangers low income residents, and reduces the number of good paying jobs in the economy.”
Green World Rising proposes taxing carbon dioxide emissions at $100 per ton, or more, as necessary for “saving humanity from global warming-induced extinction.”
“The concept of a carbon tax is simple: make it expensive to pollute carbon,” DiCaprio’s website states. “Once a carbon tax is implemented, polluters would have to pay a tax for every ton of CO2 or other greenhouse gas they pollute. That tax can range anywhere from $20 per ton of CO2 all the way up to $100 or even higher.”
Both DiCaprio and Gore’s environmental advocacy has been criticized as hypocritical, given their lavish lifestyles and large carbon footprints. DiCaprio throws parties on the 482-foot yacht owned by the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, which generates its wealth from oil. Gore has racked up $30,000 electricity bills.
The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation financed the production of the video, which had footage provided by Greenpeace. RT America is also listed in the credits as contributing to the video’s production.

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