ClimateGate celebrity Michael Mann appears at Pennsylvania news conference to promote bill for more tax breaks for solar co. Mann knows US CO2 has plunged, is going lower, that experts say US energy policy will change to reflect reduced CO2 danger. Penn. taxpayers have already paid fortunes, why more now when no CO2 danger?

1/15/13, "Climate Scientist Backs Bill to Curb Emissions," NY Times Green Blog, J. Hurdle

"Michael E. Mann, a prominent climatologist at Penn State, has thrown his support behind an effort to get Pennsylvania to do more to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions.

Dr. Mann appeared Monday at news conference organized by a state representative, Greg Vitali, to promote two bills that would provide  

subsidies for solar installations and increase the amount of electricity that the state’s electric power utilities must generate from renewable sources of energy....

Appearing with Representative Vitali, Dr. Mann criticized those who would deny climate change and mankind’s responsibility for it, even in the face of recent weather extremes."...via Tom Nelson

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Michael Mann is quoted in article about US CO2 drop to 1992 levels:

• 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, 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….
 

In a little-noticed technical report, the U.S. Energy Information Agency, a part of the Energy Department, said this month that energy related U.S. CO2 emissions for the first four months of this year fell to about 1992 levels. Energy emissions make up about 98 percent of the total.

The Associated Press contacted environmental experts, scientists and utility companies and learned that

 

virtually everyone believes the shift could have major long-term implications for U.S. energy policy.”…

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6/26/12, “The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Pollution Forecast – Part 2,” switchboard.nrdc.org, Dan Lashof

“While there has been some press coverage of these facts (see here and here) I continue to find that most people are surprised to learn about this progress….




(above chart from NRDC article)

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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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12/7/12, “Surprise Side Effect Of Shale Gas Boom: A Plunge In U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” Forbes, guest article by Julie M. Carey, an energy economist with Navigant Economics
 

 

“In order to determine where [catastrophic man-caused] climate change fits into the priority ranking of our nation’s most important agenda items, it seems worthwhile to step back and take stock of the quiet but tremendous progress that the U.S. has already made in reducing carbon [dioxide] emissions.”…

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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

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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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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.”

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US ‘climate action’ in November 2012 included giving $6 billion US taxpayer dollars for ‘clean energy’ to the Sultan of Brunei who owns 5000+ cars and to the Pres. of Indonesia, a country so corrupt even the World Bank says crime adds 20% to costs. Below, one of the Sultan of Brunei’s cars:
 

 

7/24/12, “The Sultan’s Cars,” wheel to wheel blog.

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1/11/11, "Big Money in Climate Change: Who Gives, Who Gets,
" Al Fin

 












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In 2011 alone the US spent “$10.6 million (taxpayer dollars) a day to study, combat, and educate about climate change." 1/5/11 




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