Bonnie Erbe

Obama Makes a Rare Strong Stand on Global Warming, Without Result

July 9, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

President Obama is probably the most cautious president in recent U.S. history, so for him to take a tough stand is rare—he's too afraid of alienating someone. But he apparently did so today in Italy at the climate change summit of the G8 countries and the 9 most quickly emerging economic powers:

U.S. President Barack Obama has hailed what he said was an "historic consensus" on battling climate change between the leaders of the world's 17 leading economic powers.

"We also agree that developed countries, like my own, have a historic responsibility to take the lead. We have the much larger carbon footprint per capita," Mr. Obama said at an expanded G8 summit."And I know that in the past the United States has sometimes fallen short of meeting our responsibilities, so let me be clear, those days are over."

Still, there's no evidence that any of the leaders' discussions address the primary driver of climate change: population growth and the development it produces. President Obama cannot go near that issue, as the United States is one of the quickest-growing nations in the world, in terms of our rate of population growth. Our population has nearly doubled in my lifetime and our rate of increase is gaining, not winding down—-that due largely to mass immigration.

Nor, according to the AP, have leaders resolved an ongoing discussion about who's more at fault for global warming—-northern or southern nations:

Yet when Obama thrusts himself foursquare into this discussion, he will run smack into the same old problem: Neither the wealthy nor the countries in search of their own footing think the other side is doing enough. And only when the pollution emitters work together on a binding plan will a climate strategy work, experts say.

Even victory came with a setback on Wednesday. The Group of Eight set a goal of cutting all greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, but developing nations refused to go along.

Strong statements are great, but true action is even better.

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global warming,
energy policy and climate change,
Barack Obama

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Below I almost forgot to mention that the news media’s dishonest reporting of the fraudulent global warming theory has precedent. I apologize for my oversight. Through the reporting of Walter Duranty, the New York Times helped cover up Stalin’s genocide, and helped to spread the belief that communism was creating a workers paradise. Because of this, there are now Ukrainians trying to get his Pulitzer Prize revoked posthumously:

http://www.ukemonde.com/duranty/index.html

Our news media also doesn’t like to mention these acts of genocide in order to continue denying that Saddam Hussein had and repeatedly used chemical weapons:

http://www.gendercide.org/genocideinkurdistan.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Anfal_Campaign

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/aug/22/iraq.warcrimes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4555000.stm

I became aware of this atrocity immediately after it happened by reading about it in USN&WR, where it was documented vividly in full color. So I never believed anyone denying Hussein’s possession of WMD, as the world had already witnessed such use of WMD by his government.

Barry of CA 1:47PM July 13, 2009

In 1988 James Hansen testified before congress to scare us about global warming. See his failed predictions on page 7 of this PDF from NASA’s website as published back then:

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_etal.pdf

All satellite data, including this from the University of Alabama at Huntsville proves that he was wrong. The predicted warming never occurred:

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/HANSEN_AND_CONGRESS.jpg

2008 was 0.3 degrees colder than 1988, not 0.7 degrees warmer, as Hanson predicted. Had he predicted what actually happened, no one would have seen the need to waste hundreds of billions of dollars. Now the politicians are threatening to burden the economy with their Cap-and-Trade scheme, which amounts to a massive tax increase on all conventional energy usage, to be paid for by you every time you buy something manufactured or transported using energy, which includes nearly everything buy, and your utility bill. It’s ironic how they claim to be protecting the children from doomsday, when they are really impoverishing your children’s future with this additional burden. Here is more background on this deliberate hoax from 1988:

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/hansens_anniversary_testimony/

We are being forced to pay for less reliable, uneconomical sources of energy while being told they are viable alternatives, which is not true. All of the so-called ‘alternative’ sources of energy, including wind and solar, equal less than one percent of mankind’s needs, and do not ever produce enough electricity to pay for themselves, without subsidies. Meanwhile, our far more economical access to hydrocarbon energy and nuclear energy is being throttled for no good reason.

Real scientists (not patronage-money grant seekers) never accepted this theory:

31,478 scientists signed a petition opposing the man-made global warming theory. Their reasoning is outlined in a peer reviewed journal article detailing the evidence that disproved the theory. Please follow this link:

http://www.petitionproject.org/

"The reason why Dr Mörner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on "going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world".

When running the International Commission on Sea Level Change, he launched a special project on the Maldives, whose leaders have for 20 years been calling for vast sums of international aid to stave off disaster. Six times he and his expert team visited the islands, to confirm that the sea has not risen for half a century. Before announcing his findings, he offered to show the inhabitants a film explaining why they had nothing to worry about. The government refused to let it be shown."

http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=3116

Context:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheBigLieMan-madeGlobalWarming

Barry of CA 12:40PM July 13, 2009

When speaking of healthcare, the environment, the economy, or our rights enumerated under the Bill of Rights, the unspoken agenda of the Left, and the Obama administration in particular, is really to expand governments role in the economy. It does not matter if you call it Socialism, Communism, Fascism or any other ‘ism, because they dare not speak it’s name anyway. Popular causes for economic benefits from government are not ends in themselves but means to an end. Healthcare, the environment, the economy, and our rights just create the opportunity for the Left-wing political demagoguery designed to get you to trade your rights for false promises. The people who actually provide you with these things you want, cannot and will not work for nothing. We must pay them for what we want from them. The government cannot force them to give you more of want you want. It can only stop them from being able to provide you with it.

History provides some tragic examples of peoples’ pursuit of their Utopian dream, which is really just a fantasy world where you would get everything you want through little or no personal effort. For example, in pursuit of other utopian dreams, communists of the 1930s decided collectivization of farms would better serve their interests. Whereas Hugo Chavez seized the petroleum industry and its oil fields, Obama seized banks and automobile companies, Stalin and Mao seized farmland. Lacking experience in farming 7 to 10 million Ukrainians starved to death and then later 20 to 43 million Chinese starved to death:

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm

http://www.ukrainegenocide.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

http://www.religioustolerance.org/genocide4.htm

Pol Pot imitated them both:

http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/AboutGen89BlueScarvesandYellowStars.pdf

You would think people would become disillusioned with their pursuit of Utopia, yet the illusion lives on. If you think it can’t happen here, then it might. If you thought forced internment couldn’t happen here, you would be wrong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9066

Barry of CA 12:39PM July 13, 2009

Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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