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Obama’s “Pro-Business” Commerce Secretary is an Environmentalist, Supports Cap-and-Trade

Ben — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:47:06 +0000

Matt Cover, CNSNews.com

John Bryson, nominated by President Barack Obama today to head the Department of Commerce, once said it was “incredibly important” that the United States pass cap and trade legislation and that America needed to become a global leader in combating man-made global warming.

“I regard it as incredibly important that the United States comes forth in this year with federal climate change legislation as a foundation for moving ahead,” Bryson told the UN International Energy Conference in late August 2009. “I think we in the U.S. have an obligation to assist in significant ways in providing leadership in this community of nations that you represent and addressing energy and climate change.”

…Bryson, a co-founder of the liberal environmentalist group Natural Resources Defense Council, was most recently a member of the United Nations’ Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change, a panel of scientific and industry experts tasked with providing advice on combating global warming.

(H/T: Doug Powers at MichelleMalkin.com.)

Obama Implements Global Warming Rules by Executive Order

Ben — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:18:21 +0000

Judicial Watch

All federal agencies and private companies that deal with the U.S. government must identify their vulnerabilities to the impacts of global warming and develop a climate change adaptation plan, as per an executive order quietly signed by President Obama.

The order was actually penned in the fall of 2009 but the president’s Climate Change Adaptation Task Force had to properly investigate the matter and come up with recommendations. Now that the task force has developed a detailed plan on climate proofing the government, yet another Obama advisory committee, the Council on Environmental Quality, has issued instructions on implementation.

Under the plan, every government agency must integrate climate change adaptation into their planning, operations, policies and programs. That means they must appoint a “climate change adaptation specialist,” participate in climate adaptation workshops and educate every employee throughout the year. All agencies must identify and analyze “climate vulnerabilities” by spring of 2012 and execute an adaptation plan by the fall of 2012.

The training will also be required at all private businesses that contract with the government, including those that provide any sort of maintenance or logistics.

Obama’s War on Free Speech Heats Up

Ben — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:51:21 +0000

Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson, FloydReports.com

Free speech has always been one of our most cherished rights. It has come under attack repeatedly by those who find it to be an inconvenient and unwanted obstacle to the attainment of their political goals. Sometimes, those in positions of power ignore the First Amendment and issue laws and regulations to silence their opponents. Other times, politicians or citizens work on an unofficial level, resorting to influence or intimidation to achieve censorship.

President John Adams signed the Sedition Act to criminalize “false, scandalous, and malicious writing” against the government or its officials. Americans didn’t like the federal government censoring expression or presuming to determine truth, so they canned Adams in the next election.

Abraham Lincoln jailed newspapermen whose comments on the Civil War were not to his liking.

In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act, effectively curtailing employers’ freedom to talk with their own employees about their company’s financial condition and the affordability of wages and benefits.

Both Roosevelt and Richard Nixon imposed various wage and price controls. Since prices are the language through which present value is communicated between potential buyers and sellers, they essentially banned a form of free economic speech.

The assault on free speech seems to have accelerated in recent years. Freelance censors on the Left have prevented dozens of conservatives from giving scheduled speeches on college campuses by shouts, chants, and even physical aggression.

A favorite tactic of….

Confessions of a Snow-Bound Global Warming Skeptic

Ben — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:27:10 +0000

Tom Purcell, FloydReports.com

It snowed again last week. A lot. Boy, am I sick of winter.

This is because winter seems to get darker, colder and longer as I get older. My winter colds seem to last longer and make me feel worse.

I got a cold over Christmas and variations of it — sore throat, hacking — are just now beginning to subside. I feel like somebody worked me over with a baseball bat.

Just as I thought this winter would never end, Mother Nature pulled a prank on me. She gave us a warm February day a little more than a week ago. The sun burst through the clouds — the snow melted in Washington. It was 60 degrees!

I jumped in my car and enjoyed a heavenly drive to Pittsburgh, where it was just as gorgeous. The next day also was sunny and warm there.

I was hoping the coldness and darkness of this lousy season had finally passed.

Then, alas, Pittsburgh got belted with a bunch of snow.

I was sitting in a coffee shop that day — the first day I wasn’t hacking constantly from the winter cold that wouldn’t go away.

I was so productive, I worked nonstop until 7 p.m. When I looked out the window, there it was.

Snow was coming down fast and thick. Cars were stuck all over the road. A bus had spun sideways and blocked traffic. It took me 30 minutes to drive one mile.

And so I read with interest a recent article in Scientific American, “Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?”

Scientists discussed this question at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington.

One scientist asked a panel of journalists why the media cover climate change as a controversy or debate, when, in fact, there’s a consensus among many scientific organizations that human activity is causing it.

In other words, the media are ginning up what should be a closed case and, therefore, are confusing the public….

Obama Admin: Global Warming a National Security Threat

Ben — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:02:02 +0000

Judicial Watch

Those Gs sure look like hammer-and-sickles....

Less than a year after a U.S. government report claimed global warming causes mental illness and cancer, intelligence and health officials assert that it will also create a national security threat by spreading disease among people and animals…

How will this all happen? Heat, humidity and rainfall caused by climate change will allow mosquitoes, ticks, and other parasites and carriers of tropical and subtropical disease to spread to areas where they didn’t previously exist. This will infect populations that haven’t built up resistance to them. These sorts of disease outbreaks can destabilize foreign countries and developing nations as well as the U.S. economy not to mention the military…

As evidence, a story published nationally this week reveals that malaria, cholera and other diseases that weren’t previously detected in Asia and Africa are “now being seen” in those parts. Experts attribute this to climate change, according to the lengthy piece that quotes a variety of U.S. government sources. Global warming is also being blamed for the return of Dengue fever to the U.S. in 2009 after a 75-year absence.

These serious threats are largely being ignored because of the “inattention paid to the health risks of climate change,” according to an Obama Administration official quoted in the story. Not only is there a gap in surveillance to determine whether “vectors are changing,” there are other “key uncertainties,” including how quickly climate change will occur and where the impacts will be most pronounced.This alarming information comes straight from the senior global health security adviser for the National Intelligence Council.

Just last April the government released a report saying that global warming is one of the “most visible environmental concerns of the 21st century” that could lead to a worldwide increase in mental illness and cancer. Scientists from several agencies—including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Environmental Health Science, the State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency—determined that “higher ambient temperatures” caused by global warming will increase cancer rates and catastrophic natural disasters as the world warms will create stress and anxiety that lead to mental illness…

Cartoon of the Day: Global Warming, Eh?

Ben — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:29:42 +0000

Obama's Envoy: We'll Slash Carbon Footprint "Even Without Domestic Legislation"

Ben — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:21:47 +0000

Dana Gatusso, National Policy Center Blog

As UN negotiators attempt to lower the expectations bar on the climate change talks that kicked off yesterday in Cancun, keep your eye on Todd Stern, the Obama administration’s special climate change envoy and the U.S. government’s representative at the talks. Already he is promising U.N. officials that the U.S. will cut carbon emissions even though Congress never approved legislation and the American people are against any such measures.

Desperate to avoid any repeats of the failure that was the Copenhagen summit last December, UN officials assert….

Green, Globalist Left Wants Obama to Shove Through Climate Treaty

Ben — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:06:29 +0000

David Sassoon, Solve Climate News

Though arguably the most powerful man on the planet, U.S. President Barack Obama heads to Copenhagen later this month wearing handcuffs. The failure of Congress to pass domestic climate legislation has meant the president has had to advance slowly, lest he get ahead of lawmakers in the Capitol. After all according to the Constitution, international treaties must be ratified by 67 “yes” votes in the Senate.

Also still fresh in everybody’s mind is the 95-0 vote the Senate cast in opposition to US participation in the Kyoto Protocol, though that vote happened more than a decade ago.

But a working paper just posted at the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University’s law school takes a fresh look at the legal basis of the president’s independent power to enter into internationally binding commitments related to climate change, and it finds that the president has broader powers than commonly recognized.

Obama’s Vehicle To Destroy The US Economy is Launched

NewsEditor — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:46:24 +0000

Dr Tim Ball, Canada Free Press

John Topping, who served as editor of portions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) First Assessment Report (FAR) concerning impacts of climate change, wrote an article titled, “Massachusetts v. EPA: A Turning Point for the US on Climate Change?”

He sees the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) loss as a victory because they can now control CO2, fossil fuels, and the US economy. Frighteningly, it’s based on completely falsified science and is totally unnecessary. It’s what President Obama really meant when he talked about change. In a pre-election interview he revealed his true intention, “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” EPA has launched the rocket with its economy-destroying warhead.

Obama Admin. unveils climate report in runup to Senate bill

NewsEditor — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:21:00 +0000

Reuters

Obama is digging in to push his Cap & Trade plan

The United States released a new draft report on climate change on Monday, one week before the expected unveiling of a compromise U.S. Senate bill that aims to curb heat-trapping greenhouse emissions.
The report, a draft of the Fifth U.S. Climate Action Report that will be sent to the United Nations, says bluntly: "Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced … Global temperature has increased over the past 50 years. This observed increase is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases."
Without action to stop them, climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions will rise over 8,000 megatonnes by mid-century, the draft said. By adopting measures detailed in a bill passed last year by the U.S. House of Representatives, these emissions will drop beneath 2,000 megatonnes. They’re now about 6,500 megatonnes. The United Nations measures greenhouse gas emissions in megatonnes, or million metric tons.

The effects of climate change are already evident, the draft said: warming air and oceans, vanishing mountain glaciers, thawing permafrost, signs of instability in the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica and rising sea levels.