Obama to annex up to 1 million acres because of global warming, says need to protect wildlife from mining, oil production, farming, and ranching-LA Times

This plan shows a complete denial of the federal government's own recent scientific data that US CO2 has dropped for many years and is heading lower. The drop is so significant that scientists expected US energy policy to change to reflect reduced concern for US CO2. As to global CO2, US CO2 could go to zero and it would have little to no effect on the planet because China's already high emissions are heading higher. 1000 new coal plants are planned with 800 going to China and India. Some attribute US leading the world in reduction of CO2 emissions to over two decades of spending and mandates and devotion of 13 federal agencies to CO2 and the environment. Those who care about the environment and wildlife should rejoice at their achievement instead of denying it. They won! Some might even thank millions of American taxpayers for their decades of sacrifice. Those who started the 'climate' industry didn't expect US CO2 to drop as quickly and steadily as it has so billions have been bet on the opposite outcome, ie that US CO2 would continue upward. Obama knows US CO2 has dropped but he can only mention it in passing because it means the end of the CO2 "scare" industry. Certainly the GOP isn't going to say anything meaningful about this. And the media just does government PR as evidenced by this LA Times article:

3/27/13, "Federal plan aims to help wildlife adapt to climate change," LA Times, N. Banerjee

"The Obama administration Tuesday announced a nationwide plan to help wildlife adapt to threats from climate change.

Developed along with state and tribal authorities, the strategy seeks to preserve species as global warming alters their historical habitats and, in many cases, forces them to migrate across state and tribal borders.

Over the next five years, the plan establishes priorities for what will probably be a decades-long effort. One key proposal is to create wildlife "corridors" that would let animals and plants move to new habitats. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel M. Ashe said such routes could be made through easements and could total "much more than 1 million acres." The plan does not provide an estimate of the cost.

The effects of climate change are already apparent, the plan notes. Oyster larvae are struggling off the Northwest coast. In the Atlantic, fish are migrating north and into deeper waters. Geese and ducks do not fly as far south. In the West, bark beetles destroy pines because winters are not cold enough to kill infestations.
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The plan, called the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, does not prioritize species to target, although "the polar bear is the poster child" of wildlife threatened by global warming, Ashe said.

But efforts have already begun to protect wildlife. The lesser prairie chicken in the Great Plains, for instance, also faces threats from mining, oil production, farming and ranching. Climate change models estimate that the chicken's habitat could undergo a 5-degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature and a drop in precipitation by 2060.
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The federal government already pays ranchers and farmers to remove land from production to create wildlife refuges. If native prairie were restored to 10% of that land, according to one analysis, that could offset the prairie chicken's projected population decline.
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Recently, some state-level efforts to adapt to global warming have been stymied by politicians who reject climate science. In North Carolina, for instance, planning to build infrastructure along the coast that could withstand storm surges worsened by sea-level rise has been delayed. State politicians dismissed scientific models that predicted the rise by the end of the century.

But efforts to help wildlife adapt have not provoked a backlash so far, state and administration officials said in a conference call.
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"With coastal communities, there are challenges with coral populations, with changing dynamics in fish population," said Eric Schwaab, assistant administrator for fisheries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "So people are less focused on why and more focused on what's next."" via Lucianne

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Ed. note: "Climate models" and  "scientific models" are cited in this article as if they're proof of something. One is left to believe state governments are criminals for apparently having knowledge that US CO2 is no longer a danger (assuming it ever was) and not turning their citizens over to so-called "models" by persons unaccountable to them, the taxpayers, or soldiers who died so their state might stay free. The author decided to deny science and side with all powerful government against the people. Again, US CO2 could go to zero, US humanity could be vacated and it wouldn't help global CO2. Even assuming CO2 causes sea levels to rise, we can do nothing about it. We have no control over China's CO2. But the LA Times won't say so. The article was short so space wasn't available to explain the full story of what actually has happened in the states mentioned. The author could have refrained from twice mentioning "models" knowing they couldn't be explained in this space but instead chose to do PR for government and billionaires in the CO2 terror industry. The author closes with a quote from a federal government bureaucrat suggesting some officials ask no questions and simply proceed on a massive plan to confiscate one million acres of US land that many fought and died for along with confiscating millions of hard earned taxpayer dollars to pay for this new bureaucracy about a vicious lie.

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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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 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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 1/15/11, “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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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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2/26/13, "Tough Truths from China on CO2 and Climate," Andrew Revkin, NY Times, Dot Earth

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1/12/13, "Greens Misread the Climate Tea Leaves," Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia

"The gravest danger to Earth these days isn’t climate skepticism; it’s the broken, Malthusian and statist green policy imagination. Wedded to grandiose and unworkable “solutions”, greens feel they must push the panic button at every opportunity to stampede the world into embracing an unworkable and unsustainable policy agenda.

It won’t work. The Al Gore path (alarmism, hypocrisy, dumb policy solutions, green pig lipsticking or corporate subsidies disguised as green breakthroughs) will not bend the curve. Until the green movement internalizes this lesson and moves on, it will waste its energy on foolishness like the failed Kyoto Protocol and ethanol subsidies and greens will have little constructive impact on a planet they claim to love."

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"Source: Energy Information Administration, International Data Base, http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=1&pid=7&aid=1 and http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=1&pid=1&aid=2"

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1/29/13, "China Uses Nearly as Much Coal as Rest of World Combined, EIA Says," Wall St. Journal, Cassandra Sweet 


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Coal mining "more lucrative for Zetas than selling drugs."
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1/4/13, "Mexican Cartels Go Underground—to Mine Coal," TheFix.com

"The infamous Zetas are diversifying, by muscling in on a business that can be "more lucrative than selling drugs.""

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6/26/12, “The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Pollution Forecast – Part 2,” switchboard.nrdc.org, Dan Lashof
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.“Back in February I posted about a surprising development: Despite the failure of comprehensive climate and energy legislation in 2010, U.S. carbon pollution emissions and projections of future carbon pollution have been coming down ever since....

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….


 

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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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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
 

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1/31/13, "The Growing Irrelevance of U.S. Climate Policy," Marlo Lewis, GlobalWarming.org

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Ed. note: Civilized people care about clean air, clean water, and preserving our environment. That's something entirely different than claiming human CO2 is destroying the planet. There are real problems in the world that could use attention. A generation has allowed itself to be hijacked in service of non-existent CO2 terror. Many have suffered and many have died.

  









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