9/5/12, "Gary, Indiana Joins Urgent Call for Climate Change Action," Center for Biological Diversity, press release
"In the wake of one of the hottest summers in U.S. history, Gary, Ind., has joined 35 other cities in supporting the use of the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution to fight the risk of catastrophic climate change.
In passing a resolution Tuesday night, Gary became the 36th city to join the Center for Biological Diversity’s national Clean Air Cities campaign, which urges President Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency to take action on global warming. Gary is the first city in Indiana to approve the resolution, which was introduced by councilmember Mary Brown."...
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For those unaware of the good news, US CO2 emissions have dropped steadily since at least 2006 and are going lower. This has been acknowledged even in 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.
At least some of the news has reached Pres. Obama because he made a passing reference to it on Aug. 28 without acknowledging its stunning meaning or that the findings referred specifically to CO2. He only used the term 'greenhouse gases,' and moved on allowing California's cap and trade profiteers to breath easy:
8/28/12, at Iowa State: "We’re on track to emit fewer greenhouse gases this year than we have in nearly 20 years. You can keep those trends going."
Even the NY Times noted Obama avoided connecting the meaning of these scientific findings to ordinary Americans on whose backs they were obtained. (Links listed below this post mention various reasons including greater reliance on natural gas and the economic recession).
The NY Times says:
8/28, "He did not note the role of the recession, with its attendant drop in manufacturing and car and truck trips."
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People invested in CO2 endangerment whether financially or emotionally have been caught by surprise. No one expected the US to turn around it's CO2 emissions as fast and as continuously as it has (whether they needed to be turned around or not). With trillions at stake in the CO2 industry, Obama and the media can't afford to tell the truth about it at least until after he's re-elected. But obviously it's over.
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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"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:
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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."...
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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."
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
"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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CO2 alarmist 'glory days' are over in the US. Congratulations to the greens, you won, best of luck in your future endeavors:
- 7/28/12, "The Energy Revolution 4: Hot Planet?," Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
"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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1/25/2009, "Global warming industry becomes too big to fail," Timothy Carney, Washington Examiner
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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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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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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.'
- 2/1/2011, "Austria Asks Sweden to Return Carbon Permits Worth $3.9 Million," Bloomberg, by Johan Carlstrom and Mathew Carr
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8/10/11, "U.S. Army Creates Renewables Office: Billions to Be Spent," GreenTechMedia.com
1/21/11, "Analysis: U.S. government a tenuous beachhead for biofuel firms," Reuters
"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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"Only 12% (of net US petroleum imports) came from Saudi Arabia last year, down from nearly 19% in 1993."...
- 12/16/11, "Oil boomlet sweeps U.S. as exports and production rise," USA Today, Wendy Koch
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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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"Secrecy and greed are polluting the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the nation’s first
- mandatory cap-and-trade system.
- $729 million in carbon dioxide permits since 2008.
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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If US temperatures go up for a day, a month or 6 months, US human-caused CO2 is not, can't possibly be the reason.
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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.
- except it has one delicious new wrinkle:
If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices
- will be government-mandated.
- Goldman won't even have to rig the game.
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8/23/11, "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."...==========================
9/3/12, "California Ramps up Policy That's Taboo on Campaign Trail," Bloomberg, Eric Roston
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2/15/2011, "Trillions of dollars at stake from climate change over next 20 years ," mercer.com
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8/28/12, "Remarks by President Obama at Campaign Event -- Ames, Iowa," enewspf.com (Iowa State)
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8/28/12, "On Our Radar: Green Tuesday at the White House," NY Times Green blogvia Tom Nelson
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