Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts

Monday, March 30, 2015

Climate Change Commander-In-Chief

March 30, 2015 Environment , Federal Carbon Emissions 0 Comments
Obama Cuts Federal Carbon Emissions 

Mar. 29, 2015, HeraldOnline.com

President Barack Obama has signed another executive order mandating the reduction of carbon emissions. But critics of the president’s unilateral decisions on the environmental front will have a hard time finding a downside to this order.

The order, signed March 19, dictates that the federal government will cut its greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent over the next decade from 2008 levels and increase the share of renewable energy in the federal government’s electricity supply to 30 percent during the same period. Simultaneously, major firms that have contracts with the federal government, including Honeywell, IBM, General Electric and others, have pledged to reduce their own carbon footprint by 5 million metric tons compared to 2008 over the coming decade.

The White House asserts that it has the authority to issue executive orders such as this and to act without the express approval of Congress. But critics have challenged that contention.

Read more here:  www.heraldonline.com

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

He did a 180 on "climate change"

December 21, 2014 Climate Change , Energy 0 Comments
"Confessions Of A Greenpeace Drop out" (VIDEO)



HeartlandTube, Jul. 22, 2014, YouTube

Patrick Moore, founding member and former president of Greenpeace, delivers keynote address, "Confessions of a Greenpeace Drop out" at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on July 8, 2014.

Watch it: www.youtube.com

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

May Make The Environment Worse!

December 17, 2014 AP , Electric Vehicle 0 Comments
Study: Your All-Electric Car May Not Be So Green

Seth Borenstein, Dec. 15, 2014, AP

The key is where the source of the electricity all-electric cars. If it comes from coal, the electric cars produce 3.6 times more soot and smog deaths than gas, because of the pollution made in generating the electricity, according to the study that is published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They also are significantly worse at heat-trapping carbon dioxide that worsens global warming, it found.

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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Hummm--By A LOT!

November 30, 2014 Environment , Environmental Protection Agency 0 Comments
Just How Badly Did The EPA Underestimate The Cost Of Their New Regulations?

Jazz Shaw, Nov. 29, 2014, Hot Air

When Barack Obama’s EPA announced their new carbon restrictions for power plants, they were quick to try to undercut arguments from coal state politicians who predicted staggering costs which would be passed on to consumers. While their own, initial estimates were not accepted by anyone of repute, they had outlets like NPR going out and saying that compliance with the crushing regulations would actually wind up producing a net cost benefit of as much as $67B.

Read more: www.hotair.com


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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Maybe he should move

November 12, 2014 Biodiversity , Earth 0 Comments
Humans Are Turning The Earth Into A 'Lonely And Very Dangerous Planet,' Ecologist Warns
Steve Connor, Nov. 10, 2014, The Independent

Professor Ed Wilson, an authority on biodiversity at Harvard University, said that the extinction rate of species is running at between 100 and 1,000 times higher than in pre-human times and that we are on course to lose half of all animals and plants by the end of the century.

“We’re making a lonely planet. More than that, if we continue to destroy the biosphere it becomes a very dangerous planet,” professor Wilson told i on a recent visit to Britain.

“If you wiped out enough species, all of those say in South America, then that may be a tipping point where you get enough changes globally to begin a downward spiral,” professor Wilson said.

Read more: www.independent.co.uk


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Monday, October 27, 2014

Income re-distribution

October 27, 2014 Environment , Income Re-distribution 0 Comments
It’s Rarely About The Environment Anymore

By Paul Driessen, Oct. 25, 2014, Townhall.com

Back in 1970, when I got involved in the first Earth Day and nascent environmental movement, we had real pollution problems. But over time, new laws, regulations, attitudes and technologies cleaned up our air, water and sloppy industry practices. By contrast, today’s battles are rarely about the environment.

As Ron Arnold and I detail in our new book, Cracking Big Green: To save the world from the save-the-Earth money machine, today’s eco-battles pit a $13.4-billion-per-year U.S. environmentalist industry against the reliable, affordable, 82 percent fossil fuel energy that makes our jobs, living standards, health, welfare and environmental quality possible. A new Senate Minority Staff Report chronicles how today’s battles pit poor, minority and blue-collar families against a far-left “Billionaires Club” and the radical environmentalist groups it supports and directs, in collusion with federal, state and local bureaucrats, politicians and judges – and with thousands of corporate bosses and alarmist scientists who profit mightily from the arrangements.

These ideologues run masterful, well-funded, highly coordinated campaigns that have targeted, not just coal, but all hydrocarbon energy, as well as nuclear and even hydroelectric power. They fully support the Obama agenda, largely because they helped create that agenda.

Read the full story:  www.townhall.com

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Sunday, May 25, 2014

The New 97% Consensus! Gallup Poll: 97% Of Americans Agree: Environment Is The Least Of Their Concern

May 25, 2014 Climate Change , Environment 0 Comments
By Marc Morano, May 25, 2014, Climatedepot.com

97% Of Americans Agree: Environment Is The Least Of Their Concern

Only 3% of Americans consider the environment the most important problem facing the country.

Twenty percent of Americans name unemployment or jobs as the most important problem facing the country in May, up from 14% who mentioned these issues in April. Dysfunctional government (19%) and the economy in general (17%) also rank among the top problems.

These three issues — jobs, economy, and government — have been at the top of the “most important problem” list since the beginning of the year. Mentions of government and politicians rose sharply to 33% in October amid the partial government shutdown, but have dipped back down.

Mentions of the environment as the most important problem have ticked up to 3% in May from an average of 1% over the past six months. The increase may be related to recent news coverage highlighting the negative effects of global warming and climate change on the environment.

Democrats Say Unemployment Is Top Problem, Republicans Say the Economy
Democrats are most likely to name jobs or unemployment as the country’s most important problem, whereas Republicans’ top response is the economy more generally. Democrats, Republicans, and independents are about equally likely to cite dissatisfaction with government. The federal budget deficit is a much larger concern among Republicans (16%) than among independents (7%) and Democrats (3%).


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