From Eco-Business, Matthews: "
Republican confusion is
dangerous, it threatens our very survival. As such, engaging Republican supporters must be a priority. While there are many who are
so entrenched,
they will refuse any reasonable discussion, there are others who will respond to reason.
These individuals must be the focus of environmental advocacy."...Mr. Matthews,
US CO2 has dropped and is going lower. You're exactly what you accuse others of being which is
"dangerous." You should be congratulating yourself
for winning the battle to lower
US CO2 instead of
accusing Republicans (or anyone) of
intent to commit mass murder:8/20/12,
"Building support for action on climate change before we reach tipping points," Eco-Business, Richard Matthews
US CO2 has dropped since at least 2006 and is going
lower. Unfortunately
Mr. Matthews denies climate science
and other facts and demands 'action' against CO2.
Massive 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). Devoting 13 federal agencies to 'climate' matters and paying half of
UN IPCC expenses is hardly lagging in action! Even the
US military now spends billions on
green endeavors. Government has
partnered with the 'climate' industry by funneling
trillions from US taxpayers to climate endeavors via agency
budget allocations, tax
subsidies, countless
federal regulations, and vast sums given in
foreign aid to save the 'climate.' The US
economy has obediently weakened itself so it's now a fuel exporter.People are
starving because
climate 'action' has moved
human beings to the back of the bus, to carry on with
your civil rights reference to Dr. King.Other countries' CO2 hasn't dropped despite
hundreds of billions spent on cap and trade and extra taxes. US CO2 is now a moot issue. Perhaps this situation adversely affects persons with
'climate' investments
such as Mr. Matthews. Perhaps US CO2 vanished
more quickly and surely than
'investors' anticipated. (Assuming CO2 was ever a danger to begin with).
Mr. Matthews,
it's over. Instead of admitting it you try to convince others that Republicans are
mass murderers who threaten humanity.
Persons who continue to sell
US CO2 terror are either ignorant, fraudulent, or need to check into a mental hospital. The rest of us care very much about our environment and will continue our stewardship without allowing our country
to be hijacked by
unelected 'green' profiteers.=================================
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."...
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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 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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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, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.
Many of the world's leading climate scientists didn't see the drop coming, in large part because it happened as a result of market forces rather than direct government action against carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere.
Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, said the shift away from coal
is reason for "cautious optimism" about potential ways to deal with climate change."...
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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....Others take the U.S. success in reducing its energy sector emissions as a sign that its fragmented, state-based, regulatory approach has worked better than Europe's market-based cap-and-trade approach."
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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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4/20/10, "Buying Carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming," by Doug Struck, CS Monitor
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11/23/11, "Europe's $287 billion carbon 'waste': UBS report," The Australian, by Sid Maher
"SWISS banking giant UBS says the European Union's emissions trading scheme has cost the continent's consumers $287 billion for "almost zero impact" on cutting carbon emissions."...EU CO2 trading provided "windfall profits" to participants paid for by "electricity customers.""
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4/23/12, "'I made a mistake': Gaia theory scientist James Lovelock admits he was 'alarmist' about the impact of climate change," UK Daily Mail, L. Warren
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7/16/10, "Carbon Trading Used as Money-Laundering Front," Jakarta Globe
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10/8/10, "Murder on the Carbon Express: Interpol Takes On Emissions Fraud," Mother Jones, M. Schapiro
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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, such couldn't possibly be due to US carbon dioxide emissions:
4/14/11,
"Biggest Drop in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions," World Climate Report
"
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 time frame."
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1/25/2009, "Global warming industry becomes too big to fail," Timothy Carney, Washington Examiner
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The Alarming Cost Of Climate Change Hysteria," Forbes, Larry Bell
"The Small Business Administration estimates that compliance with such regulations costs the U.S. economy more than $1.75 trillion per year — about 12%-14% of GDP, and half of the $3.456 trillion Washington is currently spending. The Competitive Enterprise Institute believes the annual cost is closer to $1.8 trillion when an estimated $55.4 billion regulatory administration and policing budget is included."...
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A few examples of climate cash sought in 2011:
1/11/11, "Big Money in Climate Change: Who Gives, Who Gets," Al Fin
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"
Organized crime may be responsible for theft of European Union emission allowances this month, and national authorities are
working with Europol...a top EU climate official said."
Sweden admits it has Austria's stolen 'carbon credits' but says it might just be 'a coincidence.'
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8/10/11, "U.S. Army Creates Renewables Office: Billions to Be Spent," GreenTechMedia.com
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The U.S. military has emerged as a key ally for fledgling producers of non-food-based biofuels."...
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3/26/12,
"Obama Requests $770 Million to Fight Global Warming Overseas," CNS News, Matt Cover
"The Obama administration has requested $770 million in federal funds to combat the effects of global warming in developing countries, a new congressional report details, continuing its policy of using foreign aid to combat the effects of global warming in the developing world.
The figure, from a recent report from the
Congressional Research Service (CRS), shows that
despite another year of $1 trillion deficits, the Obama administration
continues to pursue its policy of
using foreign aid funds for anti-global warming measures – known as the
Global Climate Change Initiative (GCCI). According to CRS, the government has spent a total of $2.5 billion on GCCI since 2010 on overseas anti-global warming efforts in Latin America, Asia, and Africa."...
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11/30/11, "U.S. Nears Milestone: Net Fuel Exporter," Wall St. Journal, by L. Pleven, R. Gold
"U.S. exports of gasoline, diesel and other oil-based fuels are soaring, putting the nation on track to be a net exporter of petroleum products in 2011
for the first time in 62 years.
A combination of booming demand from emerging markets and faltering domestic activity means the U.S. is exporting more fuel than it imports,
- upending the historical norm.
According to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Tuesday, the U.S. sent abroad 753.4 million barrels of everything from gasoline to jet fuel in the first nine months of this year, while it imported 689.4 million barrels."...
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7/28/10, "The secrets 10 states and Wall Street don't want you to know," by Mark Lagerkvist, NJ Watchdog
- mandatory cap-and-trade system.
Under the RGGI scheme, the smell of profiteering is powerful. New Jersey and nine other Northeast states have sold The bidders at RGGI auctions include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase and other Wall Street heavyweights."...----------------------------------------------------
Global Warming "action" was institutionalized in US government in 1990 by George Bush the 1st. 13 federal agencies are tasked with climate "action," $68 billion has been spent on 'climate' just in the past 4 yrs.
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CO2 alarmist 'glory days' are over in the US. Congratulations to the greens, you won, best of luck in your future endeavors:
"But there is one group (other than the Russians and the Gulf Arabs and the Iranians) that isn’t sharing in the general joy: the greens. For them, the spectacle of a looming world energy crisis was good news. It justified huge subsidies for solar and wind power (and thereby guaranteed huge fortunes for clever green-oriented investors). ...But those glory days are over now, and the smarter environmentalists are bowing to the inevitable."...
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The financial survival of the UK monarchy is dependent on the world believing in catastrophic man made global warming. Much of the monarchy's income will derive from lease payments for offshore wind turbines:
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10/24/10, "'
It is wholly inappropriate that the Palace should have such a direct interest in a subject like windfarms, given Prince Charles's obsession with renewable energy. It raises the question as to whether he is seeking to increase his own
each time he makes a favourable reference to wind power.'"
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1/30/2012, "
Americans on pace to have driven 40 billion fewer miles in 2011 vs. 2010," GasBuddy (Fed. Hwy. Admin. data)
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7/5/2008, "30 billion fewer miles driven, and counting," McClatchy via Seattle Times
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7/02/09, "
The Great American Bubble Machine: How Goldman Sachs has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression," Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi
"
A groundbreaking new commodities bubble,
- called cap-and-trade."...
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Peter Gleick tells the US Senate that
industry caused AGW and the US must
sacrifice its economy:
2/7/2007, "Washington’s Attacks on Science “Pervasive,” Gleick Provides Testimony to Senate Hearing," Pacific Institute Press Release
"“In the long run, the truth of whether the earth is round (mostly), goes around the sun (so the best evidence shows), or is warming due to industrial activity (considered ‘very likely’ i.e., more than 90% certainty) will be demonstrated on the global stage,” Gleick wrote. “Short-term political or economic advantage must be trumped by our collective responsibilities to protect public health, the environment, and our national security."...
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1/3/12, "U.S. Taxpayers Cover Nearly Half the Cost of U.N.’s Global Warming Panel," CNS News, E. Harrington
via Tom Nelson