6/11/13, "Robert Redford to Obama: Time to act on climate change," cbsnews.com, Lucy Madison
"Robert Redford is calling on the president to take more conclusive action, unleashing an ad blitz challenging Mr. Obama to act on the "courage of his convictions" and exercise his presidential authority."...
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1900-2012, no increase in US hurricane losses:
"There is also no trend in hurricane frequency or intensity at landfall in the United States over the same period" (1900-2012):
12/31/2012, "Updated: Normalized Hurricane Losses 1900-2012," Roger Pielke, Jr.
"The graph above shows an updated estimate of the 1900 to 2012 normalized hurricane losses for the United States. The normalization methodology is described in Pielke et al. 2008 (here in PDF) and the data presented in the graph comes from the ICAT Damage Estimator, which extends the analysis of Pielke at al. through 2011.
Today Willis Re released a report (here in PDF) on the state of the reinsurance industry, and presents an estimated $20-25 billion in insured losses for Sandy. As is conventionally done, to arrive at total losses for 2012 I have doubled the $25B figure to arrive at an estimated $50 billion total loss for Sandy. Please note that the final loss estimate, apples-to-apples with the normalized loss database (kept by NOAA/NHC) may wind up being higher or lower. In addition, I have added in 3 placeholders of $5 billion in losses for the 3 other storms (besides Sandy) which made landfall as post-tropical cyclones of hurricane strength in 1904, 1924 and 1925 -- the losses from these four storms are depicted in grey in the graph above). In 2013 we will develop a rigorous basis for estimating these losses, which I'd guess have a good chance of winding up larger than the placeholders I have entered for now.
In case you are curious there is no trend in the normalized data, which makes sense as there is also no trend in hurricane frequency or intensity at landfall in the United States over the same period, and the lack of trend is insensitive to the removal of the 4 post-tropical cyclones."...
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US 2012 weather extremes due to natural causes, not global warming per NOAA
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4/12/13, "Study Reveals Global Warming Not To Blame For Last Year’s Crippling Drought," stlouis.cbslocal.com with AP
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"A new federal study reveals that global warming is not to blame for last year’s extreme drought that crippled the central Great Plains. The study conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Drought Task Force places the blame on natural variations."...
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Mr. Redford claims US climate disasters and extremes are caused by US human CO2, but the scientific consensus says global warming hasn't happened in 15 or more years. The "warming plateau" has also been acknowledged by the NY Times. Scientists point out global warming that's not happening can't be causing bad weather. Mr. Redford says in his editorial that, "We've got to stop making climate change worse." As it happens the US leads the world in CO2 reduction, but our efforts are immediately negated globally by China's high CO2 emissions. Global CO2 has continued to rise while temperatures haven't. Even if global warming existed and CO2 caused it, the US wouldn't be "making climate change worse" as Mr. Redford asserts.
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Latest global CO2 emissions:
6/10/13, "US Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall as Global Emissions Rise," Cato.org, Paul C. 'Chip' Knappenberger
"Notice that the U.S. is far and away the leader in reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, while China primarily is responsible for pushing global CO2 emissions higher. In fact, CO2 emissions growth in China more than offsets all the CO2 savings that we have achieved in the U.S."
Chart from IEA report, p. 2
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1/18/13, UK Met Office says no warming since 1998:
1/18/13, “Climate change: scientists puzzle over halt in global warming,” Der Spiegel, by Axel Bojanowski (translation from German). Chart by UK Met Office, via Der Spiegel
.Der Spiegel (chart above, UK Met Office)
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Further reducing Redford's claim that the US keeps "making climate change worse," a May 2013 CBO report commissioned by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Ca.) states US on its own has little effect on global climate:
p. 14: "Acting on its own, the United States could have only a modest effect on the amount of warming."
May 2013 CBO report,"Effects of a Carbon Tax on the Economy and the Environment"
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The May 2013 Waxman commissioned report also says further US CO2 reductions will be meaningless, that global emissions won't improve without significant reductions from countries like China and India (page 14, left column), and that any further US CO2 reductions:
p. 14, "would be offset by increases in emissions overseas—."...
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It's not about climate:
"It makes little sense for advanced countries to take on policies that hurt their own economic growth if environmental benefits are unattainable. Western countries are digging ditches, only to see them filled up by emerging countries following up from behind."...
5/8/13, "Jack Mintz: Canada unfairly Gored," Financial Post opinion
"Carbon emissions coming from the emerging countries swamp trends from advanced countries in North America and Europe. China alone has increased carbon emissions by almost 60% from 2005 to 2011....
Despite the efforts in the advanced countries to reduce GHG emissions, their efforts are swamped by the huge increase of such emissions in emerging economies."...
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11/29/12, 134 scientists write to UN Sec. Gen., ask him to desist from blaming climate disasters on global warming that hasn't happened: "Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years."
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2/21/13, “IPCC Head Pachauri Acknowledges Global Warming Standstill,” The Australian, Graham Lloyd
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6/11/13, "What to make of a warming plateau," NY Times, Justin Gillis
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Genocide defined in international law, Article II: "(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;"
4/8/13, "Carbon-Dioxide Emissions Falling, But Is That Enough?," Dan Lashoff, NRDC, livescience.com
"The council (Council of Economic Advisors) concluded that 52 percent of the (US CO2) reduction was due to the recession, 40 percent was due to cleaner fuels and 8 percent was due to accelerated improvements in energy efficiency."...
[Ed. note: NRDC notes 52% of US 2012 CO2 reduction is attributed to economic recession--but it means nothing to them. They move right along saying more is needed. Depraved indifference to humanity. Depraved indifference to all animal life. For something that doesn't exist.]
Merriam Webster definition of genocide: "The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group."
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8/16/12, "Power companies plan to retire 175 coal-fired plants over the next five years [by 2017]. That could bring coal's CO2 emissions down to 1980 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."...
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Robert Redford is unaware of massive executive orders Obama has made in the name of climate. He calls on the president to take more conclusive action to save the planet from global warming, says Obama "demonstrated leadership by calling out Congress, saying if it doesn't act soon, he will take executive action to reduce pollution."...Aside from NRDC's own report of US "surprising" CO2 ("pollution"?) drop, presidents don't need Congress anymore to get what they want. Obama 'climate' rulings just in 2012 and 2013:
$18.5 billion worth of climate regulations were issued in 2012 alone. Without congress. "The vast majority of “laws” governing the
United States are not passed by Congress but are issued as regulations.""In 2011, the US Congress passed a total of 81 new “laws” while government agencies issued 3,807 new regulations." So you see, congress is irrelevant.
More Obama executive action: 6/12/13, "Obama Quietly Raises ‘Carbon Price’ as Costs to Climate Increase," "Buried in a little-noticed rule on microwave ovens is a change in the U.S. government’s accounting for carbon emissions that could have wide-ranging implications for everything from power plants to the Keystone XL pipeline. The increase of the so-called social cost of carbon, to $38 a metric ton in 2015 from $23.80, adjusts the calculation the government uses to weigh costs and benefits of proposed regulations. The figure is meant to approximate losses from global warming such as flood damage and diminished crops."
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Mr. Redford, the GOP won't stop Obama because they owe him big time for helping them defeat the Tea Party in 2012. He saved their lives.
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7/22/12, "The Cost Of Government Regulation: $1.75 Trillion," Zero Hedge
"In the US, the federal government lists its regulations in what is called the Code of Federal Regulations. These rules of the economic “game” cover 169,000 pages and more than ten new ones are added every day, seven days a week and 365 days a year. In 2011, the US Congress passed a total of 81 new “laws” while government agencies issued 3,807 new regulations."
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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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5/31/13, "Science in the Service of Ideology: The National Climate Assessment," Norman Rogers, American Thinker
"(Incidentally, the phrase "extreme weather" did not begin to appear frequently in New York Times articles until around 2010, when it was starting to become clear that global warming had really stopped, at which point the global warming story was changed to the extreme weather story.)"...
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Redford denies decades of US climate action:
Global Warming ‘action’ was mandated and institutionalized in US government in 1990 by George Bush the 1st in the “U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990.” CO2 reduction is mentioned near the end in Sec. 204, item 4.
Devoting 13 federal agencies to ‘climate’ matters is hardly lagging in “action.”
Trillions have been taken from US taxpayers for climate endeavors via agency budget allocations, tax subsidies, diversion of US military to climate or green projects, countless federal regulations, vast sums shipped out in no strings foreign aid for ‘climate’ capacity building, etc.
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 government hasn’t become business partners with the ‘climate’ industry.
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Ed. note: Mr. Redford and his millionaire and billionaire friends are free to spend their own money legally improving the vast amounts of climate they own, as they belch carbon flying into and out of their properties and business interests.
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More on Redford's fantasy that Obama doesn't take executive climate "action;"
Obama's 'climate action' in Nov. 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, whose country is 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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