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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Public Regulations Commission Case No. 13-00390-UT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By James Crawford<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">October
2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A losing battle in Obama’s war on coal involving the
San Juan Generating Station is occurring right here in New Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM),
the majority owner of San Juan, is being coerced by the government through the
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its confederates in the
radical environmental community to abandon at least half of the coal fired
units at San Juan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most radical
elements want to see the whole station abandoned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Obama predicted our electric rates will
necessarily skyrocket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC)
will be holding a hearing on the proposed shuttering of two of the four coal
fired units at San Juan beginning January 5, 2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following is a summary of events leading up
to the present time to give a little background and perspective on the upcoming
hearing.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">San
Juan Generating Station</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">San Juan is a four unit coal fired electric
generating station near Farmington, NM that produces 1,683 mega-watts (MW) of
electricity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PNM is the majority owner
and plant operator and takes 783 MW for NM customers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other owners include City of Farmington,
Tucson Electric Power, Los Alamos County, Utah Associated Municipal Power
Systems, Tri-state Generation and Transmission Association, Southern California
Public Power Authority, City of Anaheim, and MSR Public Power Agency in California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">California has banned importation of any electricity
from coal fired generators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore,
Southern California Public Power Authority, the City of Anaheim, and the MSR
Public Power Agency have bowed out from taking any electricity from San Juan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tri-state Generation and Transmission has
also decided to abandon their share from San Juan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The coal needed to fuel the San Juan units comes
from an adjacent coal mine operated by the San Juan Coal Company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PNM’s current contract for coal expires in 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Because of EPA dictates, PNM and the other owners
have proposed closing down San Juan units 2 and 3 which generate 836 MW of
electricity with PNM’s share being 418 MW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The present issue is about how PNM will replace the 418 MW of lost power
for NM customers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Proposal</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">PNM’s proposal to replace the lost electricity and
account for increased demand is to take an additional 132 MW from San Juan obtained
from the shares of the owners vacating San Juan; use an additional 134 MW from
Palo Verde Nuclear plant in AZ that PNM already owns but has been selling on
the wholesale market; building a 177 MW natural gas peaking plant; and adding
an already planned 40 MW of solar; and potentially consider an additional 50 MW
of solar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Environmentalists are objecting to PNM taking any
additional power from San Juan or Palo Verde. Environmentalists are objecting
to PNM executing a new long term contract for coal from the coal mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They advocate closing all 4 units at San Juan
and using no nuclear power, claiming all the power from San Juan can be
replaced with renewable energy sources.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">EPA
The Villain</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This whole issue arose from EPA’s excessive police
brutality using the Regional Visibility Rules under the Federal Clean Air
Act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is important to keep in mind
that this case was originally about visibility in wilderness areas and national
parks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, most of the opposition
to PNM’s plan has nothing to do with visibility and visibility will not be
significantly affected by the outcome. The opposition parties only care about
eliminating coal and nuclear and substituting renewable energy sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">States are required to do EPA<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">’</span>s dirty work and enforce EPA rules through State
Implementation Plans (SIP).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The state
has to develop a SIP to implement EPA rules but the SIP must also be approved
by the EPA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The New Mexico Environmental
Department (NMED) started this process long ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NMED
submitted its first SIP way back in 2003 but it was never approved by EPA
because of the ever evolving EPA regulations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NMED submitted another revised SIP in 2010 but had to withdraw it before
EPA approval again because of changing EPA requirements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">NMED completed a new revised SIP in February of 2011
and the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) held hearings and
approved the latest SIP in June of 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The revised SIP was submitted to EPA for approval.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Coincidently, EPA ruled that the SIP was invalid
since it was not approved by 2009 as required by EPA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EPA further decreed that because of sue and
settle cases brought by Wild Earth Guardians and others, EPA was under court
order to implement a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) by January, 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, EPA did not issue the final order
implementing the FIP until September, 2011 which was well after the SIP had
been submitted to EPA but which was not even considered by them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, San Juan was going to be subject
to the dictates in the FIP without any due consideration of the SIP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">PNM had completed an extensive emissions remodeling
of San Juan units by 2009 that cost $320 million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pollutions controls brought San Juan to
an industry leader in mercury reduction and was used as an EPA model for other
plants to follow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All other emissions were
significantly reduced as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Reductions in nitrous oxides (NOx) were significant and were marginally above
EPA standards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consequently a small
incremental NOx reduction was all that was needed to bring San Juan into
compliance with EPA standards. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The February 2011 SIP, called for installing
selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) emission controls on all four units at
San Juan for a cost of about $80 million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Emissions would then fall within EPA guidelines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The incremental reduction in NOx would not
result in any detectable change in visibility to the human eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However, the mandated FIP by EPA required
installation of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emission controls on all
four units at San Juan for an estimated cost of almost $1 billion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EPA rules require a Best Available Reduction
Technology (BART) analysis for plants with emission levels like San Juan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PNM and NMED’s BART analysis concluded that
the proposed SNCR retrofit would meet EPA requirements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EPA disagreed and ruled that SCR was better
therefore making it “best technology”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>EPA dictated that SCR must be used on the four units at San Juan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If SCR is so much better, one would think it
would produce a significant improvement in visibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alas, once again any improvement in
visibility would not be detectable by the human eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Neither proposal would result in noticeable change
in visibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is apparent the issue
never has been really about visibility but about the war on coal and global
warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PNM has been faced with the
choice of spending up to a billion dollars or closing down two perfectly good
reliable generators for no detectable change in visibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visibility has just been a surrogate to close
down coal fired generation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After the rejection of the 2011 SIP, PNM and the
state filed suit against EPA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a
couple years of legal wrangling, PNM, NMED, and EPA came up with a “tentative”
agreement to end the legal dispute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
agreement was to close down units 2 and 3 at San Juan and install the less
expensive SNCR controls on remaining units 1 and 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NMED again revised the SIP to reflect the
tentative agreement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The revised SIP
was approved by the EIB in September of 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The tentative agreement and revised SIP is the basis of the upcoming PRC
hearing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The EPA did approve the revised SIP in September
2014 just as the filings for the PRC hearing were well underway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PRC approval is the last step in the approval
process so long as the EPA approval stands up without legal challenge by
environmental groups which is yet to be seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">EPA’s most effective emission control measure is
eliminating the source.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will still
be no noticeable change in visibility!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Environmentalists
Rule</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Environmental groups were not happy with PNM’s
original proposal to replace the lost electricity from shuttering San Juan
units 2 and 3 and filed a series of legal blockades before the October 6 PRC
hearing was to start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the week
before the hearing was to begin, PNM, PRC, and environmental groups entered
into secret negotiations to overcome environmentalist objections to the
original plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The environmental groups got their way and PNM
agreed to charge half of the stranded assets in units 2 and 3 to shareholders
and the other half to rate payers, charge a lower price for power from Palo
Verde, and consider an additional 50 MW of solar generation than previously
planned. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The environmental crowd is proud that the stipulated
agreement will only cost the rate payers 7% more on their monthly bills instead
of the 10% that would have been added before the agreement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, all parties have lost sight that
this case is supposedly about visibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If the 2011 SIP had been implemented, visibility requirements would have
been met with 0% rate increase caused by stranded assets and nuclear power
costs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Not all of the environmental groups signed on to the
secret stipulated agreement and even those that did reserved the right to oppose
the coal contract PNM is presently negotiating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So some of the environmental groups agree but still may disagree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The others are in total opposition and will
not be happy until all of San Juan is shuttered and no nuclear is brought into
the state and only renewable energy is used to replace San Juan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The final plan will emerge after the PRC hearing and
the commission makes a decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A big question is what the opposition groups will do
if PRC approves the plan the way it now exists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even though EPA has approved the plan, EPA could very well be sued by
dissatisfied environmental groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
could end up with another sue and settle case over failure to use BART i.e. SCR
on units 1 and 4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The full text of the stipulated agreement can be
found at this link: <a href="http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/PNM/3542627798x0x784467/c35eb558-d080-4e65-9b0d-9cf8d4c74ec6/13-00390-UT%20Stipulation%2010-1-14.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/PNM/3542627798x0x784467/c35eb558-d080-4e65-9b0d-9cf8d4c74ec6/13-00390-UT%20Stipulation%2010-1-14.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
PRC Hearing</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The secret stipulated agreement invalidated most of
the pre-filed testimony that was to be heard by PRC starting October 6, 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consequently the whole hearing process had to
be rescheduled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Testimony in support of the stipulated agreement is
due October 31, 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Testimony in opposition to the stipulated agreement
is due November 25, 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rebuttal testimony is due December 19, 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The public hearing will begin at 0930 on January 5,
2015 and run through January 16 if needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Public oral comments will be accepted at the first
day of the hearing and on other days at the discretion of the hearing officer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Public written comments will be accepted up until
the commission makes a final decision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ordinary citizen rate payers are encouraged to weigh
in on the proposal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The environmentalist
groups are already well organized and petitioning the PRC to rule against PNM’s
plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moveon.org, the Sierra Club, and
Conservation Voters of NM have already amassed thousands of signatures in
opposition and are pressing for shuttering more of San Juan and substituting
renewable energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The best solution for us rate payers is to keep
operating all 4 units at San Juan after installation of SNCR emission controls
on all 4 units.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately that horse
has already left the gate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our best
hope now is to support PNM’s proposed plan and oppose any further erosion of
the inexpensive, reliable electricity from San Juan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The butterflies and fairy dust myth of being
able to replace all of San Juan with intermittent, expensive, and unreliable
renewable energy needs to be resisted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Written comments must have the case number on them
to identify the correct case since PRC conducts a number of hearings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The case number for this case is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Case No. 13-00390-UT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mailing address is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Public Regulation
Commission</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1120 Paseo De Peralta</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">PERA Building</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">PO Box 1269</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Santa Fe, NM 87504<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Oral comments can be presented at the hearing
beginning January 5 at the PERA Building, 1120 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe.<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-7238984263462761042014-08-25T10:12:00.001-06:002014-08-25T10:31:29.065-06:00Big Green foundation billions colluding with the EPA - exposed!<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Most of EGA's foundation members have similar million-dollar dirty little secrets, but their...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">America’s environmental agenda is set by elite foundations that decide which activists get the money. And they form “affinity groups” to collude with President Obama’s bureaucracy, which funnels tax dollars to Democratic advocates to enforce that agenda.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Meet the conservation cash cartel of the uber-rich: the Environmental Grantmakers Association, a veteran organization (founded 1985) of more than 200 ultra-wealthy foundations caught in the spotlight of a new 92-page report exposing Big Green wealth eating away America’s industrial strength.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1114409307457717109" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is the same EGA that emerged during the Senate confirmation hearings for<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/rhea-suh" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Rhea Sun Suh</a>, the Interior Department’s new head of national parks and the Fish and Wildlife Service — a veteran EGA member who invited colleagues to come visit her any time.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Suh once worked for the Packard Foundation on programs to block <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/oil" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">oil</a> and <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/natural-gas" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">gas</a>production in the West. Ironically, Packard’s investment portfolio — the profits from which the foundation pays its anti-oil and gas grants — holds more than $350,000 in <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/exxonmobil" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">ExxonMobil</a> shares, and millions in dozens of other lesser-known fossil fuel securities.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Most of EGA’s foundation members have similar million-dollar dirty little secrets, but their tax-exempt activist recipients are not morally conflicted by taking fossil fuel cash and keeping it a secret as long as it furthers their corrosive goals.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The convoluted ethics that Greenpeace, for example, concocts in order to show how its oil-soaked funding — when exposed — is purified by the intent of the giver are classic unintentional self-parody.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The new report is titled “The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/epa" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">EPA</a>,” and was produced by the Republican staff of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee under the direction of Sen. <a href="http://washingonexaminer.com/section/david-vitters" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">David Vitter</a> of Louisiana, the committee's ranking minority member.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Its executive summary states, “an elite group of left-wing millionaires and billionaires, which this report refers to as the 'Billionaire’s Club,' directs and controls the far-left environmental movement, which in turn controls major policy decisions and lobbies on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Having researched over $80 billion in green grants during the past few decades, I was impressed by the scope and detail of the oversight team’s work, and asked Vitter how he felt about it.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“This report really gets to the core of tracking the money and exposing the collusion," Vitter told me. "The complicated, layered system is intended to create a lack of <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/transparency" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">transparency</a>. There is an unbelievable amount of money behind the environmental movement and far too much collusion between far-left environmental groups and the Obama EPA."</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The collusion is like something out of a bad spy movie. Vitter’s oversight team uncovered a June 2009 deal in which the Rockefeller Family Fund offered then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to pay for a plant inside the President’s Council on Environmental Quality to “stake the EPA’s claim there,” and then slip the shill into a pre-arranged EPA job, giving the agency a White House insider on staff — and, not coincidentally, tightening the Rockefeller power grip over the EPA.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jackson wrote her chief of staff Diane Thompson, “I think it’s a fine idea and can only help EPA in the long run” — using her fake Richard Windsor email account – and Thompson replied, “My thoughts exactly. The more inside connections the better.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Rockefeller shill was Shalini Vajjhala, who agreed to leave her minor position at Resources for the Future, a Washington think tank, for a two-month stint at the CEQ (with the pretentious title of "deputy associate director for energy and climate"). Then the EPA slipped her in as deputy assistant administrator of the Office of International & Tribal Affairs. Vajjhala remained until her 2011 appointment as EPA’s special representative leading a presidential U.S.-<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/brazil" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Brazil</a> initiative.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">After Vajjhala cycled through the White House and EPA, she got her personal reward in 2012: approval to found and manage a new investment portfolio supported by the Rockefeller Foundation (the original 1913 John D. Rockefeller philanthropy, not the fourth generation’s Family Fund — there are many Rockefeller tentacles). Vajjhala now contributes to the Huffington Post, funded in part by the Park Foundation.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">EGA foundations are metastasizing into hundreds of far-left funds. The report drills into the Sea Change Foundation, “a private <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/california" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">California</a> foundation, which relies on funding from undisclosed donors and funnels tens of millions of dollars to other foundations and prominent environmental activists who strive to control both policy and politics.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is an incredible seedbed of Sea Change front groups: Bill Gates’ foundation gave Sea Change Capital Partners $2.5 million; eBay’s Omidyar Network Fund gave the same partners $2 million; David Rockefeller’s personal foundation gave to the Center for Sea Change. Walmart’s foundation gave $500,000 to Strategies for the Global Foundation Sea Change, an international tentacle into the White House.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">But it’s not just the environment. The Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit that tracks <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/gun-control" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">gun control</a> activists, reported, "On January 8th, 2013, the Obama Administration met with 23 large foundations to organize a push for national gun control. They included such organizations as the Open Society Institute, the McCormick Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation” and the MacArthur Foundation.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Foundations appear to be colluding with almost every department of the Obama administration. And it’s not just the Big Green donors. It’s time for <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/congress" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Congress</a> to hear testimony from a sampling of manipulative foundation program directors and investment managers explaining themselves to those whose lives they influence.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-37115587853256040662014-08-25T10:11:00.000-06:002014-08-25T10:11:26.663-06:00When it comes to attacking climate scientists, the alarmist Left has the market cornered<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 6pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">When it comes to attacking climate scientists, the alarmist Left has the market cornered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Left-leaning environmentalists, media and academics have long railed against the alleged conservative “war on science.” They augment this vitriol with substantial money, books, documentaries and conference sessions devoted to “protecting” global warming alarmists from supposed “harassment” by climate chaos skeptics, whom they accuse of wanting to conduct “fishing expeditions” of alarmist emails and “rifle” their file cabinets in search of juicy material (which might expose collusion or manipulated science).<o:p></o:p></div>
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A primary target of this “unjustified harassment” has been Penn State University professor Dr. Michael Mann, creator of the infamous “hockey stick” temperature graph that purported to show a sudden spike in average planetary temperatures in recent decades, following centuries of supposedly stable climate. But at a recent AGU meeting a number of other “persecuted” scientists were trotted out to tell their story of how they have been “attacked” or had their research, policy demands or integrity questioned. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To fight back against this “harassment,” the American Geophysical Union actually created a “Climate Science Legal Defense Fund,” to pay mounting legal bills that these scientists have incurred. The AGU does not want any “prying eyes” to gain access to their emails or other information. These scientists and the AGU see themselves as “Freedom Fighters” in this “war on science.” It’s a bizarre war.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While proclaiming victimhood, they detest and vilify any experts who express doubts that we face an imminent climate Armageddon. They refuse to debate any such skeptics, or permit “nonbelievers” to participate in conferences where endless panels insist that every imaginable and imagined ecological problem is due to fossil fuels. They use hysteria and hyperbole to advance claims that slashing fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions will enable us to control Earth’s climate – and that references to computer model predictions and “extreme weather events” justify skyrocketing energy costs, millions of lost jobs, and severe damage to people’s livelihoods, living standards, health and welfare.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Reality is vastly different from what these alarmist, environmentalist, academic, media and political elites attempt to convey.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2009, before Mann’s problems began, <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2014/07/05/holding-greenpeace-accountable-n1859007" style="color: purple;">Greenpeace</a> started attacking scientists it calls “climate deniers,” focusing its venom on seven scientists at four institutions, including the University of Virginia and University of Delaware. This <a href="http://junkscience.com/2014/07/15/paul-driessen-helps-you-to-understand-why-i-detest-greenpeace/" style="color: purple;">anti-humanity group</a> claimed its effort would “bring greater transparency to the climate science discussion” through “educational and other charitable public interest activities.” (If you believe that, send your bank account number to those Nigerians with millions in unclaimed cash.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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UVA administrators quickly agreed to turn over all archived records belonging to Dr. Patrick Michaels, a prominent climate chaos skeptic who had recently retired from the university. They did not seem to mind that no press coverage ensued, and certainly none that was critical of these Spanish Inquisition tactics.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However, when the American Tradition Institute later filed a similar FOIA request for <i>Dr. Mann’s</i> records, UVA marshaled the troops and launched a media circus, saying conservatives were harassing a leading climate scientist. The AGU, American Meteorological Society and American Association of University Professors (the nation’s college faculty union) rushed forward to lend their support. All the while, in a remarkable display of hypocrisy and double standards, UVA and these organizations continued to insist it was proper and ethical to turn all of Dr. Michaels’ material over to Greenpeace.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile, although it had started out similarly, the scenario played out quite differently at the University of Delaware. Greenpeace targeted Dr. David Legates, demanding access to records related to his role as the Delaware State Climatologist. The University not only agreed to this. It went further, and demanded that Legates produce <i>all</i> his records – regardless of whether they pertained to his role as State Climatologist, his position on the university faculty, or his outside speaking and writing activities, even though he had received no state money for any of this work. Everything was fair game.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But when the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a FOIA request for documents belonging to several U of Delaware faculty members who had contributed to the IPCC, the university told CEI the state’s FOIA Law did not apply. (The hypocrisy and double standards disease is contagious.) Although one faculty contributor clearly had received state money for his climate change work, University Vice-President and General Counsel Lawrence White claimed none of the individuals had received state funds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When Legates approached White to inquire about the disparate treatment, White said Legates did not understand the law. State law did not require that White produce anything, White insisted, but also did not preclude him from doing so. Under threat of termination for failure to respond to the demands of a senior university official, Legates was required to allow White to inspect his emails and hardcopy files.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Legates subsequently sought outside legal advice. At this, his academic dean told him he had now gone too far. “This puts you at odds with the University,” she told him, “and the College will no longer support anything you do.” This remarkable threat was promptly implemented. Legates was terminated as the State Climatologist, removed from a state weather network he had been instrumental in organizing and operating, and banished from serving on any faculty committees.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Legates appealed to the AAUP – the same union that had staunchly supported Mann at UVA. Although the local AAUP president had written extensively on the need to protect academic freedom, she told Legates that FOIA issues and actions taken by the University of Delaware’s vice-president and dean “would not fall within the scope of the AAUP.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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What about the precedent of the AAUP and other professional organizations supporting Dr. Mann so quickly and vigorously? Where was the legal defense fund to pay Legates’ legal bills? Fuggedaboutit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the end, it was shown that nothing White examined in Legates’ files originated from state funds. The State Climate Office had received no money while Legates was there, and the university funded <i>none </i>of Legates’ climate change research though state funds. This is important because, unlike in Virginia, Delaware’s FOIA law says that regarding university faculty, only state-funded work is subject to FOIA.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That means White used his position to bully and attack Legates for his scientific views – pure and simple. Moreover, a 1991 federal arbitration case had ruled that the University of Delaware had violated another faculty member’s academic freedom when it examined the content of her research. But now, more than twenty years later, U Del was at it again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Obviously, academic freedom means nothing when one’s views differ from the liberal faculty majority – or when they contrast with views and “science” that garners the university millions of dollars a year from government, foundation, corporate and other sources, to advance the alarmist climate change agenda. All these institutions are <a href="http://www.cfact.org/2013/11/25/a-climate-of-fear-cash-and-correctitude/" style="color: purple;">intolerant of research</a> by scientists like Legates, because they fear losing grant money if they permit contrarian views, discussions, debates or anything that questions the climate chaos “consensus.” At this point, academic freedom and free speech obviously apply only to advance selected political agendas, and campus “diversity” exists in everything but opinions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Climate alarmists have been implicated in the ClimateGate scandal, for conspiring to prevent their adversaries from receiving grants, publishing scientific papers, and advancing their careers. Yet they are staunchly supported by their universities, professional organizations, union – and groups like Greenpeace.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile, climate disaster skeptics are vilified and harassed by these same groups, who pretend they are fighting to “let scientists conduct research without the threat of politically motivated attacks.” Far worse, we taxpayers are paying the tab for the junk science – and then getting stuck with regulations, soaring energy bills, lost jobs and reduced living standards … based on that bogus science.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Right now, the climate alarmists appear to be winning their war on honest science. But storm clouds are gathering, and a powerful counteroffensive is heading their way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (<a href="http://www.cfact.org/" style="color: purple;">www.CFACT.org</a>) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death.</span></div>
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By <span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/author/ron-arnold" target="_blank">Ron Arnold</a></span> | July 15, 2014 | 5:00 pm</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Heartland Institute's Ninth International Conference on</span><a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/climate-change" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" target="_blank"> <span style="color: purple;">Climate Change</span></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">, with its 64 speakers from 12 countries, marked a turning point in the climate wars between alarmists and skeptics: A lot more first-timers than dogged veterans showed up for the three-day science marathon, July 7-9.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Held this year in a vast <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/las-vegas" target="_blank">Las Vegas</a> convention center, what was usually a <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/new-york-city" target="_blank">New York</a> or <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/chicago" target="_blank">Chicago</a> gathering of scorned, independent-minded scientists -- many of whom suffered grievously for refusing the dictates of "believe-us-or-else" climate despots -- turned into a new kind of festival with about 650 attendees.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I saw 80 percent of the plenary session audience enthusiastically cheer with raised hands as first-timers. Chatting with a few revealed a remarkably civic-minded crowd of nonscientists at a science conference.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The hope and joy were palpable: animated conversations, busy exchanges of business cards and scribbling of contact information on paper napkins from the coffee service during breaks. I sensed a network of newly minted activists emerging before my eyes.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">That was America’s first discernible signal that a movement of social change is coalescing around climate realism to disrupt the entrenched climate establishment with assurance, conviction and determination to topple its regime.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Face it, the climate change movement has peaked with nowhere more to go. It's today's power elite, it rules the <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/white-house" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">White House</a>, it owns the <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/senate" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Senate</a>, it reigns as the global establishment's ideology and the orthodoxy of authority. It's the vibrant revolution of the morning that fossilized by evening and night must now fall. A new rebel alliance must speed the parting guest.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Heartland’s plenary sessions served up over a dozen impressive rallying speeches and 10 inspiring award presentations, but — not to slight their vigor and dignity — I concentrated on the 21 breakout panel sessions, including presentations by nonprofit allies such as the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">One was titled, “Global Warming as a Social Movement.” The organizers must have been prescient, since the conference itself was becoming the “network forming event” of an incipient climate realist social movement.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">An outstanding presentation by Paul Driessen, author of <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/" style="color: purple;" target="_blank"><i>Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death</i>,</a> unfolded a searing indictment of global Big Green, with its “inhumane and deadly climate claims that limit energy access and living standards for the world's poor.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I gave a presentation on “<a href="http://www.cfact.org/2014/07/08/dark-money/" style="color: purple;">Who benefits from alarmism</a>?” documenting rewards of money and ego strokes. After examining activist foundation donors who set the environmental agenda by choosing who gets the cash, I explored movement dynamics, based on the work of Luther Gerlach, retired anthropology professor and the field’s leading researcher. His insight that “all movements are in conflict with the established order” fits alarmist beginnings, but his explanation of today's rabid hard-core elite alarmists was an “aha!” moment.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“People are changed, even transformed by the experience of commitment,” wrote Gerlach, “redefining needs, desires, or discontents in terms of the ideology of the movement.” It involves “re-education through group interaction,” and “group support for changed cognitive and behavioral patterns.” It’s like brainwashing.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Gerlach cited psychologist Abraham Maslow, who found that ideological commitment “can be so profound and shaking an experience that it can change the person’s character forever after.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Picture Obama’s bureaucrats or United Nations scientists or Greenpeace recruits growing ever more extreme to prove their devotion, like addicts always needing a bigger ideological fix – climate change junkies.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Maslow was famous for his 1954 “needs hierarchy” that tracked personality development first from seeking basic material needs (food, shelter, survival), then personal needs – love, a sense of belonging, social acceptance and self actualization.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">But Maslow later found that non-material needs topped that hierarchy with the needs for knowledge, to understand, to find inspiration and beauty (key needs of environmentalists).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">As we advance to the top, “We tend to take for granted the blessings we already have, especially if we don’t have to work or struggle for them,” wrote Maslow in 1970. Particularly for those who undergo ideological commitment, “the food, the security, the freedom that have never been lacking or yearned for, tend not only to be unnoticed but also even to be devalued or mocked or destroyed.” Such blindness fits climate alarmists perfectly.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Maslow called that pathology “postgratification forgetting and devaluation,” and predicted that such sightlessness and contempt of basic needs would infect huge populations if they obtained the means to gratify the top needs.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Think Greenpeace’s brag, “We take no corporate donations.” Reality: Greenpeace, USA got $32.7 million and its Greenpeace Fund got $12.8 million in foundation grants since 2001. Foundations pay from an investment portfolio dominated by corporate securities. The Packard Foundation’s $2.7 million grants to Greenpeace alone were made possible in part by $350,000 of ExxonMobil stock – and millions in Packard's dividends and capital gains come from dozens more fossil fuel corporations. Blind, contemptuous Greenpeace can't escape corporate money flows.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Heartland’s climate change conference attracted those resistant to ideology, following truth wherever it takes them, wary of groupthink and rejecting absolutism, unwilling to surrender their integrity to corrupt overlords despite personal suffering.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Thank you, Heartland, Joe Bast, the crew, and everyone who showed up. Being there was a “peak experience.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>RON ARNOLD, a Washington Examiner columnist, is executive vice president of the <a href="http://www.cdfe.org/" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>.</i></div>
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House panel hopes to air inconvenient truths about EPA's 'war on coal'<br />
<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/house-panel-hopes-to-air-inconvenient-truths-about-epas-war-on-coal/article/2549851">http://washingtonexaminer.com/house-panel-hopes-to-air-inconvenient-truths-about-epas-war-on-coal/article/2549851</a><br />
By Ron Arnold | June 17, 2014 | 5:03 pm<br />
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<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/barack-obama" target="_blank">President Obama</a> wants to stake his legacy on fighting global warming even if he has to fake it, which he does.<br />
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That inconvenient truth will get a hearing Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and it won't be pretty. The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, led by Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., will convene the “Standing up for Jobs and Affordable Energy” hearing, an appropriate nickname for the expected slice-and-dice of “EPA's Proposed Carbon Dioxide Regulations for <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/power-plants" target="_blank">power plants</a>.”<br />
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In early June President Obama's heavy-handed <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/epa" target="_blank">Environmental Protection Agency</a> unveiled a radical plan to destroy existing U.S. <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/coal" target="_blank">coal</a>-fired power plants by imposing a deliberately impossible carbon dioxide emission limit -- reduction of 30 percent by 2030.<br />
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Upon examination, the rule offers no real benefit to anyone — beyond EPA’s armed enforcers — and costs to everyone, which prompted the subcommittee hearing.<br />
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Whitfield set the hearing’s tone in a news release: “Under the guise of regulating power plants, President Obama’s agency is seeking to expand its regulatory reach over the entire electricity sector.<br />
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“Committee members are concerned over EPA’s unprecedented reach, and the potential of this plan to increase electricity prices, eliminate U.S. jobs, and threaten grid reliability, with no meaningful effect on future climate patterns.”<br />
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The panel will examine only one witness: Janet McCabe, the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation.<br />
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Whitfield is deeply committed to oversight of this rule. In an email exchange, he told me, “This is a very important hearing, as it will be the first time President Obama's radical EPA comes to the Hill to defend the agency's latest proposed rule designed to shut-down coal-fired power plants -- a rule the administration is pushing through without Congress' direction or approval, despite its potential to completely disrupt our energy sector and cripple our <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/economy" target="_blank">economy</a>.”<br />
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I asked about some of the highly controversial legal and policy issues surrounding this proposal. Whitfield said, “We have questions for Ms. McCabe about her agency’s authority and overreach in writing this proposed rule and how EPA’s actions will impact Americans and their jobs and pocketbooks."<br />
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The record of EPA's testimony before Congress invites cynicism, for it is without honor or conscience, not to mention the absence of facts. McCabe, as did her predecessor<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/gina-mccarthy" target="_blank"> Gina McCarthy</a> - now EPA boss - will predictably deflect tough questions because the truth would outrage most Americans and deny Obama his nightmare legacy. We can expect mischaracterization, obfuscation and flat-out lies.<br />
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Whitfield appears unlikely to put up with that. He said, “As I have promised repeatedly, Obama’s assault on affordable electricity will not go unchecked.”<br />
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McCabe faces a tough sell with this proposed rule: Everything EPA has said about its benefits has been ignominiously debunked, some from unlikely quarters. For example, the EPA's claim that the rule will create $30 billion in climate benefits by 2030 has been deflated by the liberal <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/brookings-institution" target="_blank">Brookings Institution.</a><br />
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In their report, “Determining the Proper Scope of Climate Change Benefits,” Brookings fellow Ted Gayer and Vanderbilt University economist Kip Viscusi revealed that the EPA cleverly selected an “apples and oranges” methodology that overstates the benefits so the regulation looks more attractive.<br />
The "apples" are $30 billion in benefits worldwide and the "oranges" are the American taxpayers who pay the whole world’s bill.<br />
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It's something like asking <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/new-york-city" target="_blank">New York City</a> to pay the water bill for every toilet flush in<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/china" target="_blank"> China</a> - and pleading America's public health and welfare to convince New Yorkers to pay up.<br />
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We can thank the Obama administration's shameful Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon for developing those "worldwide guidelines" in 2010 to deliberately swindle the American people. Even Democratic <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/bill-clinton" target="_blank">President Bill Clinton</a> wouldn't allow that, issuing Executive Order 12866 in 1993 requiring regulations to benefit the U.S. citizenry only, not the world.<br />
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To see through Obama’s slimy stratagem, the Brookings scholars did an “apples and apples” comparison on his proposed anti-coal rule, and found the domestic benefit amount is only about $2.1 billion at the lowest, ranging up to an optimistic $6.9 billion at the top. But the estimated compliance cost is $7.3 billion.<br />
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Get it? In the best of all possible Obama worlds, American taxpayers are down nearly half a billion bucks and missing 40 percent of their electricity.<br />
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The Brookings report concluded that estimated climate benefits are “largely conjecture and certainly overstated.” And we’re expecting McCabe to tell the truth about that under oath?<br />
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I hope Whitfield gets around to asking McCabe about how much the once-respected-but-now-turned-shill American Lung Association loves the EPA. The ALA ought to love the Obama administration a lot: ALA's 591 federal grants amount to $43,016,875, according to <a href="http://usaspending.gov/">USASpending.gov</a>. As a cogent post on <a href="http://junkscience.com/">JunkScience.com</a> said, “EPA owns the American Lung Association.”<br />
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But not entirely: Big Green foundations own a substantial chunk too: The Foundation Search database posts 2,806 grants to ALA totaling more than $76 million, with millions coming from Environmental Grantmakers Association members, tagged with purpose statements like pushing EPA to hit coal-fired power plants, do media advocacy and grassroots organizing.<br />
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Come to the American Lung Association for all your propaganda needs.<br />
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Thursday's McCabe testimony comes on the heels of collapsed U.N. negotiations to repair failing global carbon markets, the<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/imf" target="_blank"> International Monetary Fund's</a> slashed forecast of U.S. economic growth to a shocking 2 percent, and the headline-grabbing opposition of <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/canada" target="_blank">Canadian</a> Prime Minister Stephen Harper and <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/australian" target="_blank">Australian</a> leader Tony Abbott to "climate measures that would destroy their economies,” which our Climate Cultist in Chief Obama seems insanely eager to embrace.<br />
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Memo to McCabe: the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.<br />
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RON ARNOLD, a Washington Examiner columnist, is executive vice president of the <a href="http://www.cdfe.org/" target="_blank">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>.Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-14902927040422034762014-02-04T10:11:00.000-07:002014-02-04T10:11:34.000-07:00Multiple federal agencies have said the Keystone Pipeline poses no environmental risks. It's time for Obama to say yes to jobs and improved economic conditions.<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Verdict On Keystone XL Is In </span></b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">By Diana Furchtgott-Roth<br /><br /><a href="http://realclearmarkets.com/" style="color: purple;">RealClearMarkets.com</a><br />February 4, 2014</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">With the State Department's announcement that the Keystone XL pipeline poses no environmental risks, the verdict is now in, and the pipeline should be approved.<br /><br />The Keystone XL pipeline would allow oil to be transported from Alberta, Canada, to U.S. refiners near the Gulf of Mexico. President Obama's decision to delay approval for the construction of TransCanada's proposed pipeline was based, in part, on concerns over the safety and reliability of oil pipelines. Mr. Obama had called for a full assessment of "the pipeline's impact, especially the health and safety of the American people."<br /><br />Coincidentally, the State Department's report follows recommendations issued by the National Transportation Safety Board last month regarding crude oil transportation over railroads. The Board stated that rail transport of oil needed to be made safer. In response to the recent derailment in Quebec, Canada, the NTSB addressed the need for "hazardous materials route analysis and selection, oil spill prevention and response plans, and identification and classification of hazardous materials in railroad freight transportation."<br /><br />Current regulations regarding comprehensive response plans for oil spills do not apply to most tank cars. The regulations requiring comprehensive plans, as set out by the Transportation Department in enforcing the Clean Water Act, only apply to shipments exceeding 42,000 gallons. Tank cars carrying less than 42,000 gallons are only required to submit a basic response plan. The 2014 NTSB recommendation states that due to the increase in crude oil transportation and the widespread use of unit trains carrying multiple tank cars, the potential for accidents involving large releases of oil and other hazardous materials is much higher than when the regulation was initially developed.<br /><br />The pipeline would give the United States a safe and efficient supply of oil from Canada, our friend and trading partner.<br /><br />Ever since Richard Nixon, presidents have been (irrationally) talking about energy independence. Irrationally, because no country wants to be independent in any product that is cheaper to purchase elsewhere. For the sake of independence, Congress funded expensive wind and solar power that are driving up prices of electricity. Advocates of energy independence should prefer that Canadian oil come to the United States rather than be shipped to China.<br /><br />In June 2013 the National Academy of Sciences released a study entitled "Effects of Diluted Bitumen on Crude Oil Transmission Pipelines" that was required as part of the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Jobs Creation Act of 2011. The report found no evidence that diluted bitumen, the type of crude oil that would flow through the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, would contribute to pipeline failures or corrosion.<br /><br />The year 2013 saw a series of rail accidents involving crude oil. For example, in March, trains derailed in Minnesota, spilling 30,000 gallons, in June, it was Calgary's turn and in November, a train carrying 2.7 million gallons derailed in Alabama.<br /><br />Pipelines are far safer than road and rail, and it would be in the interests of the United States and Canada to create a new generation of pipelines to take oil and gas from newly-discovered sources of production to where it needs to be refined and sold to consumers.<br /><br />Petroleum production in North America is now nearly 18 million barrels a day, and could climb to 27 million barrels a day by 2020. Whether it is produced in Canada, Alaska, North Dakota, or the Gulf of Mexico, it will be used all over the continent. The question of how to transport oil safely and reliably is not a transitory one linked only to Keystone XL or other pipeline controversies of the day.<br /><br />Pipelines have been used to transport Canadian natural gas and oil, both across Canada and into the United States, for over a century. Canada's first pipeline began in 1853, with the development of a 16-mile cast-iron pipeline that moved natural gas to Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, for street lights.<br /><br />The United States has a much larger pipeline network. About 2.6 million miles of interstate pipeline crisscross America, carrying crude oil, petroleum products, and natural gas. In the United States these pipelines are primarily regulated by the Department of Transportation.<br /><br />As the major alternative means of fuel shipment, transport of crude oil by rail has been increasing as limitations on pipeline capacity both in Canada and the United States have become manifest.<br /><br />RBC Capital Markets estimates that 115,000 barrels of oil per day were shipped by rail to the United States in 2013, with a trend toward 300,000 barrels per day by 2015. For perspective, the Keystone XL pipeline, if approved, would carry 830,000 barrels per day.<br /><br />Future growth of oil by rail depends heavily on whether or not large pipelines are built.<br /><br />If safety and environmental damages in the transportation of oil and gas were proportionate to the volume of shipments, one would expect the vast majority of damages to occur on pipelines. But a review of statistics published by Canada's National Energy Board as well as the U.S. Department of Transportation clearly shows that, in addition to enjoying a substantial cost advantage, pipelines result in fewer spillage incidents and personal injuries than road and rail.<br /><br />This superior safety and environmental performance of pipelines is hardly surprising: the genius of this technology is that the "shipping container" is static while the commodity it is transporting moves. Moreover, that container is typically buried, with about three feet of earth over the top of it. By contrast, in every other means of oil transportation, both the container and the commodity are moving over the surface, often in close proximity to other large containers moving in the opposite direction, and the empty container has then to return to its point of origin to load another consignment.<br /><br />Rising oil and natural gas production in both the United States and Canada is outpacing the transportation capacity of our pipeline infrastructure. Now that the State Department has declared Keystone XL safe, it is time for President Obama to place a call to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.<br /><br /><em>Diana Furchtgott-Roth is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.</em></span></div>
Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-55638991057086689102014-01-09T16:11:00.000-07:002014-01-10T14:45:57.624-07:00Why do global alarmists think they are talking about "science?" This article by CARE favorite Paul Driessen shows the absurdity of alarmists' punditry.<style>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Risking lives to promote climate change hype </span></b></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet
another global warming expedition gets trapped in icebound ideology </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul
Driessen </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Will global warming
alarmists ever set aside their hypotheses, hyperbole, models and ideologies
long enough to acknowledge what is actually happening in the real world outside
their windows? Will they at least do so before setting off on another misguided
adventure? Before persuading like-minded or naïve people to join them? Before
forcing others to risk life and limb to transport – and rescue – them? If
history is any guide, the answer is: Not likely. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The absurd
misadventures of University of New South Wales climate professor Chris Turney is
but the latest example. He and 51 co-believers set out on the (diesel-powered)
Russian charter ship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Akademik Shokalskiy</i>
to prove manmade global warming is destroying the East Antarctic ice sheet. Perhaps
they’d been reading Dr. Turney’s website, which claims “an increasing body of
evidence” shows “melting and collapse” across the area. (It is, after all,
summer in Antarctica, albeit a rather cold, icy one thus far.) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instead of finding open water, they <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/editorials/stuck-on-a-ship-of-cold-fools/story-e6frg71x-1226793309195">wound
up trapped</a> in record volumes of unforgiving ice, from Christmas Eve until
January 2 – ensnared by Mother Nature’s sense of humor and their own hubris.
The 52 climate tourists were finally rescued by a helicopter sent from Chinese
icebreaker <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Xue Long</i>, which itself became
locked in the ice. The misadventurers were transferred to Australian icebreaker
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aurora Australis</i>, but the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shokalskiy</i> remains entombed, awaiting
the arrival of US Coast Guard icebreaker <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Polar
Star</i>. (Meanwhile, Turney hopes to get more grants to study manmade global
warming, to help him make more money from his Carbonscape company, which makes
“green” products from CO2 recovered from the atmosphere.) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As to his expertise, Dr. Turney couldn’t even gauge the ice
conditions the 74 crewmen and passengers were about to sail into. And yet we
are supposed to believe his alarmist forecasts about Earth’s climate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NASA reports that Antarctic sea ice is now the largest expanse since scientists began measuring its extent in 1979: 19.5 million square kilometers (4,806,000,000 acres) – 2.1 times the size of the entire United States. Another report says ocean melting of western Antarctica’s huge Pine Island Glacier ice shelf is at the lowest level ever recorded, and less than half of what it was in 2010. Reminding us of Monty Python’s pet store clerk, Turney nonetheless insists that the sea ice is actually melting, and his communications director says the record sea ice is due to … global warming! (As they say, fiction has to make sense.)</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Equally
amazing, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shokalskiy</i> was
apparently not equipped with adequate wind and weather monitoring and forecasting
capabilities. The expedition had to <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/31/wuwt-and-weatherbell-help-kusi-tv-with-a-weather-forecasting-request-from-ice-trapped-ship-in-antarctica-akademik-shokalskiy/#more-100200">contact
climate realists</a> John Coleman, Anthony Watts and Joe Daleo for information
that would allow them to plan their helicopter rescue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">All
of this raises serious questions that most media have ignored. </span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How
could Turney put so many <a href="http://notrickszone.com/2013/12/31/expedition-on-the-cheap-did-organizers-recklessly-negligently-put-lives-and-property-at-risk/">lives
and vessels at risk</a> – people he persuaded to join this expedition, the ship
and crew they hired, the ships and helicopter and crews that came to their
rescue? How did he talk the Russian captain into sailing into these dangerous
waters? <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/rescue-of-icedin-ship-could-cost-owners-a-packet-20131229-301t1.html">Who
will pay</a> for the rescue ships and their fuel and crews? What if one of the
ships sinks – or someone dies? What is Tourney’s personal liability? </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">This
may be the most glaring example of climate foolishness. But it is hardly the first.
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">In
2007, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen set off across the Arctic in the dead of
winter, “to raise awareness about global warming,” by showcasing the wide
expanses of open water they were certain they would encounter. Instead,
temperatures inside their tent plummeted to -58 F (-50 C), while outside the
nighttime air plunged to -103 F (-75 C). Facing frostbite, amputated fingers
and toes or even death, the two were airlifted out a bare 18 miles into their
530-mile expedition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The
next winter it was British swimmer and ecologist Lewis Gordon Pugh, who planned
to breast-stroke across open Arctic seas. Same story. Then fellow Brit Pen
Hadow tried, and failed. In 2010 Aussie Tom Smitheringale set off to
demonstrate “the effect that global warming is having on the polar ice caps.”
He was rescued and flown out, after coming “very close to the grave,” he
confessed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Hopefully,
all these rescue helicopters were solar-powered. Hardcore climate disaster
adventurers should not be relegated to choppers fueled by evil fossil fuels.
They may be guilty of believing their own alarmist press releases – but losing
digits or ideological purity is a high price to pay. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">All these intrepid explorers tried to put the best
spin on their failures. “One of the things we see with global warming is
unpredictability,” Bancroft-Arnesen expedition coordinator Anne Atwood insisted.
“But global warming is real, and with it can come extreme unpredictable changes
in temperature,” added Arnesen. “Global warming can mean colder. It can mean
wetter. It can mean drier. That’s what we’re talking about,” Greenpeace
activist Stephen Guilbeault chimed in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s
been said insanity is hitting your thumb repeatedly with a hammer, expecting it
won’t hurt the next time. It’s also believing hype, models and delusions,
instead of real world observations. Or thinking taxpayers are happy to pay for all
the junk science behind claims that the world faces dangerous manmade global
warming. Or that they are delighted that the EPA and IPCC are increasingly
regulating </span>our lives, livelihoods, liberties, living standards and life
spans, in the name of preventing climate change. <span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The
fact is, Antarctic ice shelves have broken up many times over the millennia.
Arctic ice has rebounded since its latest low ebb around September 2007. Despite
steadily rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, average global temperatures
have been stable or declining since 1997. Seas are rising at barely seven
inches per century. And periods of warmer or colder global and polar climates
are nothing new. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Vikings
built homes, grew crops and raised cattle in Greenland between 950 and 1300,
before they were frozen out by the Little Ice Age and encroaching pack ice and glaciers.
Many warm periods followed, marked by open seas and minimal southward extent of
Arctic sea ice, as noted in ships’ logs and discussed in scientific papers by
Torgny Vinje and other experts. But warm periods of 1690-1710, 1750-1780 and
1918-1940, for instance, were often preceded and followed by colder temperatures,
severe ice conditions and maximum southward ice packs, as during 1630-1660 and
1790-1830. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Not only in the summer, but in the winter the ocean
[in the Bering Sea region] was free of ice, sometimes with a wide strip of
water up to at least 200 miles away from the shore,” Swedish explorer Oscar
Nordkvist reported in 1822, in a document rediscovered by astrophysicist Willie
Soon. </span></div>
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Barrow Strait,” <a href="http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activities/sailing/Break-On-Through.html"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Francis McClintock</span></a>, captain of the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fox</i>, wrote in 1860. “I was here at
this time in 1854 – still frozen up – and doubts were entertained as to the
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">1918-1940
warming also resulted in Atlantic cod increasing in population and expanding
their range some 800 miles, to the Upernavik area of Greenland, fisheries
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Climate
change is certainly real. It’s been real throughout Earth and human history –
including the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods, Little Ice Age and Dust Bowl,
and through countless other cycles of warming and cooling, flood and drought,
storm and calm, open polar seas and impassable ice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Humans
clearly influence weather and climate on a local scale – through heat and
emissions from cities and cars, our clearing of forests and grasslands, our
diversion of rivers. But that is not the issue. Nor is it enough to say – as President
Obama has – that the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">climate is
changing and mankind is contributing to it</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The
fundamental issue is this: Are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">humans</i>
causing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">imminent,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unprecedented, global</i> climate change <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">disasters</i>? And can we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prevent</i> those alleged disasters, by
drastically curtailing hydrocarbon use, slashing living standards, and imposing
government control over industries and people’s lives? If you look at actual
evidence – instead of computer model forecasts and “scenarios” – the answer is
clearly: No. </span></div>
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analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (<a href="http://www.cfact.org/">www.CFACT.org</a>) and author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death</i>.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Environmentalists want a Utopian world where they don’t use anything and deprive everyone else of affordable energy so they can’t use anything.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That barbed sentiment comes from a veteran of the Big Green power wars during President Ronald <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/ronald-reagan" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Reagan</a>'s administration: William Perry Pendley.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">He's better known these days as Mountain States Legal Foundation's outspoken and ground-breaking president - his landmark<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/supreme-court" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Supreme Court</a> win in the Adarand v. Pena civil rights case was called a “legal earthquake” by Time magazine.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Pendley earned his stripes not only as a reconnaissance navigator in the U.S. <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/marine-corps" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Marine Corps</a>' Phantom II jet fighters, but also in the Department of the Interior as deputy assistant secretary of energy and minerals during the Reagan years.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It appears that managing a bureaucracy was the tougher of the two jobs from his new account, “Sagebrush Rebel: Reagan’s Battle with Environmental Extremists and why it Matters Today.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I asked Pendley his thoughts on something that matters today: the recent demise of the <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/interior" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Interior</a> Department's little-known agency, the Minerals Management Service, which he helped create.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The MMS was dismantled at the direction of President Obama's appointee, Rhea Suh, profiled <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2538284" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">in this space previously</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“It came as no surprise,” Pendley told me, “It's the same power play as Obama's war on <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/coal" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">coal</a> - to make energy so expensive that no one can use it.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Why was the MMS such a prime target? “The MMS made the federal outer continental shelf oil and gas program efficient, so OCS oil and gas was less expensive to produce – the opposite of Obama’s goal – and that made it a target," he said.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Before President Reagan,” Pendley explained, “the OCS drilling program's pre-leasing activity was run by the Bureau of Land Management and its post-leasing efforts by the Conservation Division of the U.S. Geological Survey.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Reagan’s first Interior Secretary, James Watt, Pendley recalled, “took all OCS activity and created the Minerals Management Service to house it, ending a long-running, often acrimonious and inefficient turf battle between the two old-line Interior bureaus.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Then, drilling companies had a one-stop shop to get permits and to pay royalty fees.” As a result, two Alaska sales soon yielded $2.9 billion in bonus bids.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The MMS made money for the Treasury in the hard-to-understand world of oil and gas and boosted energy products for Americans for nearly three decades.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/24/AR2010082406754.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> sneered in disgust that, “MMS grew to become one of the government's largest revenue collectors, after the Internal Revenue Service.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Pendley said, “Getting rid of the Minerals Management Service for Obama was just a matter of finding the right justification, and BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster was it.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">An explosion killed 11 workers, 87 days of uncontrolled gushing did immense natural and human damage, and BP has paid $42.4 billion in criminal and civil penalties so far. All that is horrendous enough, but politics never lets a good crisis go to waste.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Pendley noted that Obama immediately created by executive order a supposedly bipartisan panel run by two Democrats (the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling) to “assess the disaster.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Translated from Obamababble, what that really meant was “find reasons to stop offshore oil and gas production and regulate the industry out of existence.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The panel’s report was a political joke, concluding that the isolated, unique BP disaster, “absent significant reform in both industry practices and government policies, might well recur.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thus, the efficient, thrifty, productive MMS was proclaimed the scapegoat and took the fall for BP’s culpability, hacked into three pieces with no job but to end the industry they regulate.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"They want a utopian world where they don’t use anything and deprive everyone else of affordable energy so they can’t use anything.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">William Perry Pendley represents the profound institutional memory of a free people who will need it to rebuild after these dark times are swept away in a roar of joy.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>RON ARNOLD, a Washington Examiner columnist, is executive vice president of the <a href="http://www.cdfe.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>.</i></div>
Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-41593507067603625802013-10-29T19:52:00.001-06:002013-10-29T19:52:39.494-06:00Rabid environmentalists use lies and deception. Are the readers of this surprised? This time they got caught out! Read on and stay tuned for part 2.<h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Massive storms dumped “biblical rainfall amounts” across nearly 2,000 square miles of <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/colorado" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Colorado</a> last month, according to the National Weather Service.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Their basic strategy was to pose as "mom-and-pop victims with no money to stop this spilling, but Big Bad Oil is putting zillions into the campaign.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">In fact, the opposite was true. In a Denver Post report, for example, spokesmen for the Washington-based Clean Water Action and Earthworks groups blasted oil and gas drillers for allegedly being responsible for 45,000 gallons of flood-caused oil spills.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Shane Davis, former oil & gas research manager for the Sierra Club's Rocky Mountain chapter, guided <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/cnn" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">CNN</a>, CBS and NPR on media tours in a small plane belonging to EcoFlight, an aerial snooper for great Images of anything resembling environmental damage. The media got horrifying Images of stained water demolishing all in its path.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Davis is something of a fracking-obsessed one-man army: he coined the term “fractivist,” is regional campaign director of Gasland – Josh Fox’s anti-fracking movie crusade – and works closely with Colorado’s local anti-drilling ballot initiatives.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Noted Colorado author Laura Pritchett wrote an impassioned diatribe, “Fracking Fluids in the Flood,” that was featured in OnEarth, an online publication of the New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council. That insured the Colorado ballot issues reached a national made-for-mobilization audience.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Alliance for Sustainable Colorado held a post-flood benefit – for itself – with singer-guitarist Bonnie Raitt. For a donation of just $2,500, you got dinner, concert, and a backstage photo opportunity with Raitt.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Umbrella group Frack Free Colorado boasted members that most never heard of, including Water Defense, Food and Water Watch, Erie Rising, eTown, The Mother's Project, Angel Organic, Fractivist, and Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">They “coordinated the delivery of thousands of post cards, e-mails, phone calls and public testimony to the Boulder County commissioners,” but their effort doesn’t show up on campaign finance records.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Get used to that, because this campaign isn’t about the few measly bucks from local moms and pops that get into the record.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Take that obscure group known as Water Defense. It consists of New York C-List actor Mark Ruffalo and a few friends. It's not even recognized by the IRS.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">But Water Defense does have a “fiscal sponsor” - IRS jargon for “money funnel” - the New York-based Sustainable Markets Foundation, which also funnels funding for Bill McKibben's anti-fracking <a href="http://www.350.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">350.org</a>, which also has joint anti-fossil fuel presentations with hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Sustainable Markets Foundation got $8.5 million from more than 30 Big Green foundations interested in stopping fossil fuel development and uses — i.e. powering your car, heating your home, recharging your laptop — thus giving Water Defense a high-clout network.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Food and Water Watch? That' s another Washington-based Big Green outfit that got $34 million from more than 25 Big Green foundations, including $11 million in 2011. This is beginning to look not very local.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">No, the locals don’t get the money, they get the benefits of distant big money for activists to do more than a local little money could ever accomplish.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">But something happened this time around. During flood recovery, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment sampled water from eight rivers and found "no evidence of pollutants from oil and gas spills in rivers and streams affected by flooding."</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then why was the water stained brown in those aerial photos CNN and the Denver Post published? Matthew Allen of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said, “The total reported amount of oil spills is small compared to the solid waste.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It was human feces, “20 million gallons, just so we're clear, of raw sewage,” said Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. In fact, the statewide 45,000 gallons of spilled oil would just wet the bottom of an Olympic-size swimming pool's 660,000 gallons.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Denver Post was outraged. Editorial page editor Vincent Carroll wrote, “the shameless use of Colorado's floods to attack drilling,” a long piece ripping the unethical tactics of the fracktivists.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">But who paid for all that unethical fractivism? Find out tomorrow in this same space in part two.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>RON ARNOLD, a Washington Examiner columnist, is executive vice president of the <a href="http://www.cdfe.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Global government policies to reduce carbon emissions will not prevent a hydrocarbon world. That’s what the World Energy Congress heard this week from energy research experts Wood Mackenzie.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The firm's president of global markets, William Durbin, said that <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/coal" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">coal</a> will surpass oil as the dominant fuel later this decade because of aggressive economic expansion in China and India using the cheapest and most plentiful energy resource.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As King Coal rises in Asia - with little or no emissions control - President Obama's <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/environmental-protection-agency" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Environmental Protection Agency</a> is creating a fool's paradise by destroying the world's cleanest, most controlled coal industry with fatal regulations.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">That does not play well on America's Indian reservations where the “Great White Father in Washington” virtually prohibits development of its vast coal reserves, much of it the cleaner, low-sulfur anthracite.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“Indian reservations contain almost 30 percent of the nation's coal reserves west of the Mississippi, as well as significant deposits of oil, natural gas and uranium,” wrote Terry Anderson and Shawn Regan in the Wall Street Journal last week.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“The Council of Energy Resource Tribes, a tribal energy consortium, estimates the value of these resources at nearly $1.5 trillion,” Anderson and Regan wrote.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I spoke to Anderson by phone – he’s president of the Montana-based Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), holds a PhD in economics, is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University), has authored 37 books, and has more experience promoting Native American property rights than most anybody outside of tribal lawyers.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Anderson’s take on Obama’s coal war: “It’s locking Native Americans in a poverty trap. Indian incomes are about a third of those for all U.S. citizens, and unemployment rates are four times the national average.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In answer, Anderson sent me an oil drilling map of areas surrounding the Crow and the Fort Berthold Reservations. Each map was full of dots representing drill sites, except inside reservation boundaries where they were scant, yet the oil field invisibly extended inside. Why?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Anderson said “The Bureau of Indian Affairs severely restricts Indians' right to control their own land and, as a result, has left energy resources on reservations virtually moribund. Indians are being made to starve in the midst of their own plenty.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">They’re getting fed up. Ron Crossguns of the Blackfeet tribe's oil and gas department said in an interview, "It's our right. We say yes or no. I don't think the outside world should come out here and dictate to us what we should do with our properties."</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You can feel the smoldering anger, but Crossguns also has a wicked sense of humor: A greenie reporter badgered him on and on about oil drilling south of Chief Mountain (Nínaiistáko in Blackfeet) because it’s considered a sacred place, site of ceremonies for centuries.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Crossguns replied to her, “I took a medicine man, a holy man, with me to scout the place and when we got there I asked if it had religious significance to our tribe, our culture. He looked at me and said, ‘What’s sacred is between you and God.’ Then he pointed to the mountain and said, ‘It’s a rock. A big rock.’”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The story is true, but Crossguns relishes telling about the flustered greenie.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Indians want their land back. They want the right to develop it if they so choose. And it looks like they’re planning to do something about it.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Did I sense a revolution brewing? Anderson said, “Maybe not a revolution. But a change? Yes, definitely.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Well, a little rebellion now and then is a good thing. I have that on good authority.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">RON ARNOLD, a Washington Examiner columnist, is executive vice president of the <a href="http://www.cdfe.org/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>.</span></i></div>
Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-28493883530866296572013-07-30T15:09:00.001-06:002013-07-30T15:09:56.395-06:00Shouldn't scientists use science as fact, instead of climate alarmism?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">by dennis T. avery<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Churchville, VA—Senator Boxer recently held a hearing entitled,
“Climate Change: It’s Happening Now.” To honor historic truth, the title “It’s
Happening Again” would have suited better.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Heidi Cullen, formerly the alarmist voice at the Weather
Channel, was one of Boxer’s key witnesses. In her testimony, Dr. Cullen said
that “heavy downpours” have increased by 73 percent over recent decades due to
global warming. The U.S. Geological Survey data show no such increase over the
past 60 years, though there may have been some increase in rainfall
variability. She once was too good a scientist to make a misstatement such as
that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In fact, her side has not been able to give her much alarmist
ammunition beyond the never-verified and now-failing computer models. At one
point, Senator Vitter (R-LA) asked the panel of experts “Can any witnesses say
they agree with Obama’s statement that warming has accelerated during the past
10 years?” After a deafening silence, Dr. Cullen said our focus should be on
longer time-periods, rather than the ten years mentioned by Obama. When
pressed, however, she admitted that global warming has slowed, not accelerated.
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Dr. Cullen knows about longer climate cycling. She is an
expert on the long, natural 1,500-year climate cycle that gave us the Little
Ice Age, the Medieval Warming, and more than 600 previous warming/cooling
cycles over the past 1 million years. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In fact, Dr. Cullen studied the sediments that accumulated
downwind of Akkadia, in the Persian Gulf. She discovered that the first impact
of a “little ice age” on the Akkadian Empire (in today’s Iraq) at 2200 BC was a
300-year drought! The drought caused mass starvation and abandoned towns; then
for another 200 years, shepherds wandered the semi-arid wasteland. Eventually,
a return of global warming brought back stable and favorable cropping
conditions to Iraq, new immigrants recreated the irrigated farming that had
supported the Akkadians, and the urbanization of human cultures resumed. (This
has happened seven times in the last 6000 years.)<i> </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Her science career was looking good; but, she chose to become
a TV star and author of a book entitled <i>The Weather of the Future</i>. The
book, unfortunately, abandons everything she learned about the documented
1,500-year climate cycle. If Dr. Cullen had remained true to her scientific
training and experience, she would have told us that the global climate is
constantly cycling, but within natural parameters. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Modern Warming has followed the long and intensely cold
Little Ice Age. We cannot predict how long the Modern Warming will last, but it
is virtually certain to last another 200–400 years, with a maximum temperature
about the same as the highly beneficial Medieval and Roman Warmings. Then,
inevitably, the warming will shift abruptly into another “little ice age,” or
even into a full Ice Age. What will the successors of Dr. Cullen have us do
then?<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the short term, the weather will obey the dictates of the
Pacific Ocean, our biggest heat sink. The Pacific’s 60-year warm/cool cycle,
superimposed on the 1,500-year cycle, currently predicts continued global
cooling—until long after the current crop of politicians has retired or been
defeated. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Cullen tried becoming famous with honest science, and
hardly anyone noticed her. Now, her current celebrity is likely to fade with the
declining temperatures.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Dennis T. Avery, a senior
fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is an environmental
economist. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is
co-author, with S. Fred Singer,</i> <i>of</i>
Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years. <i>Readers may write to him at PO Box 202 Churchville, VA 2442; email to cgfi@mgwnet.com.
Visit our website at www. cgfi.org<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-26489625570490101402013-07-22T14:22:00.000-06:002013-07-22T14:22:11.262-06:00What is it about data and scientific fact that "climate experts" don't understand? They continue to push alarmism, when it is constantly being disproved.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Savannah
residents are long accustomed to their climate and, thanks to air conditioning
and other modern technologies, are better able to deal with the heat and
humidity. Nevertheless, the impact on Delaware will be disastrous, Dr.
Katherine Hayhoe claims. Nonsense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her
forthcoming report promises to be no different from other proclamations that persistently
predict dire consequences from climate change – and then present taxpayers with
a hefty bill. In this scenario, the State’s Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control (DNREC) paid $46,000 for her report, presumably to
suggest that “independent scholars” support the state’s positions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
preliminary release of her report reads like the script from a bad disaster
movie – think <i>The Day After Tomorrow</i>
and <i>An Inconvenient Truth. </i>Like them,
it also plays fast and loose with the facts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
fails to mention the extreme cold that many places around the globe experienced
recently. Europe and Russia in
particular suffered through bitter cold the past two winters. The report likewise
ignores the fact that average global temperatures have not risen at all over
the last sixteen years; in fact, Earth has actually <i>cooled</i> slightly during the past decade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
its really scary worst-case scenario, Dr. Hayhoe says Delaware’s temperatures
will rise astronomically in coming decades: with more than two full months of endless
days above 95°F and a hundred-fold increase in days with temperatures at or
above 100°F by 2100. “Trends to more
extreme highs and fewer extreme lows already are apparent,” Dr. Hayhoe asserts.
Except they are not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Data
from 970 weather stations across the United States reveal that more record
daily maximum air temperatures were set in the 1930s than in any recent decade,
and no increase in frequency of higher temperatures has been observed since
1955. The Delaware State Climatologist examined New Castle County Airport records
in Wilmington and found no long-term trend in either the total number of days
or the number of consecutive days with maximum air temperature above 90°F. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
same can be said for days where temperatures remain below freezing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Globally,
daytime high temperatures do not show significant warming – and most of the
warming that has been observed is confined to nighttime low temperatures.
Nighttime lows are driven by turbulence (or lack thereof) near the surface, not
by the accumulation of energy related to CO<sub>2</sub> warming of the deep
atmosphere. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By
contrast, maximum daily temperature is a measure of the energy content of the
deep atmosphere, and is thus a much better measure of the warming due to
greenhouse gases. The lack of a signal in maximum temperature suggests that the
rate of warming due to CO<sub>2</sub> is relatively small – and certainly much
smaller than climate models suggest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
for precipitation, Dr. Hayhoe claims that both floods and droughts will
increase, with “more rain arriving as heavy downpours, and more dry periods in between.” This assertion was dispelled in a recent
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on extreme events, released
last summer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
IPCC report concluded that “in some regions droughts have become less frequent,
less intense or shorter; for example in central North America.” Similarly, the
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has produced plots that
show which parts of the United States are classified as moderate to extreme for
dryness and wetness. While both conditions show considerable variability,
neither exhibits a significant trend. NOAA also concludes that snowfall records
show no long-term trend, and recent record snowfalls are the result of natural
variability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why
should Delaware’s or the nation’s future be any different than the past fifty
years of increasing carbon dioxide concentrations? Dr. Hayhoe’s bases her extreme scenarios on
climate models – the same models that have predicted major temperature trends
that have not materialized; greatly exaggerated short-term trends in rainfall, droughts
and violent storms; and failed to predict the lack of warming since 1998. So why should we believe them now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
real reason behind this report is to provide the State with the justification
to enact draconian measures to control Delawareans’ energy use and provide
major subsidies for “alternative” and “renewable” energy projects. Delaware Secretary of the Environment and
Energy Collin O’Mara says, “We need to make sure we have good science driving
our decision-making in the years to come.” Apparently, $46,000 has bought the
State precisely the “science” he wanted to hear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O’Mara
came to Delaware in 2009, as part of Governor Markell’s administration. Billed as “the youngest state cabinet
official in the nation,” O’Mara is a self-proclaimed climate-change and energy
“entrepreneur.” During his tenure in Delaware, he has spearheaded the
administration’s efforts on “climate change mitigation,” renewable energy
subsidies and “sustainable development.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During
the last 4-1/2 years, the Markell Administration has “invested” in Fisker
Automotive, leaving the State’s citizens on the hook to pay for an automobile
assembly plant that has created zero new jobs and produced zero cars. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bloom
Energy, which hails from the same town as O’Mara (San Jose, CA), has also been
the happy beneficiary of enormous State subsidies and exceptions from
environmental regulations. Delaware now labels natural gas as a renewable
resource, for example – but only if it is burned in a Bloom fuel cell. This
enables the State to funnel taxpayer and ratepayer money from renewable energy
credits to Bloom. To top it off, if the State ever decides to renege on the
deal, the legislation requires that the State immediately pay Bloom twenty
years worth of profits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O’Mara
has also been busy with rule-making by executive fiat. Without any public
discussion or debate, and without any vote by the State legislature, O’Mara
signed into law new “green” energy standards that make the First State’s
emission rules even more stringent than Federal regulations, via a clever
process known as <i>prospective
incorporation</i>. Through this, <i>all</i>
provisions from the California Code of Regulations are automatically “updated,”
to ensure that Delaware’s Code is consistent with California’s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That
means any changes to the California Code implemented by the most
environmentally dogmatic, job-killing and bankrupt state in the Union are
immediately and completely binding via Delaware regulations. With no presentation to the people, no discussion
or vote by the General Assembly, and not even any case-by-case intervention by Delaware’s
executive branch, California regulations are automatically the law in Delaware.
With the stroke of the pen, Delaware has surrendered its sovereignty to California.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Armed
with this new “scientific” report, what draconian measures might Mr. O’Mara and
the Markell Administration have in store for the citizens of Delaware? Time alone
will tell. However, given their track record thus far, Delawareans are going to
get burned – and not by global warming. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even
worse, the same sneaky shenanigans are being played out in other states, in
Washington, and all over the world, through the UN, EU and environmentalist
pressure groups – in the name of saving the planet from computer model and
horror movie disasters. These are bigger power grabs than anything King George
III tried. We the People need to take notice, and take action. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul
</span><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee
For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and author of </span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eco-Imperialism: Green power, black death</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> (Merril Press, 2012). </span></em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">David Legates is a Professor of
Climatology at the University of Delaware and has studied climate change for
thirty years. </span><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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of mean global temperature for the lower Troposphere by 44 climate models. The
dark black line is the 44-computer-model average, which is what the UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) uses as its best estimate of
predicted “catastrophic manmade global warming.” The two brightly colored lines
represent the actual satellite temperature records measured by the University
of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH – blue) and Remote Sensing System (RSS – red). These
two lines demonstrate that actual planetary temperatures are far below what
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</span><!--EndFragment--> Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-18567599393320008932013-07-16T16:32:00.001-06:002013-07-16T16:32:51.138-06:00The question continues: Why is Obama trying to stall economic activity through regulations that will only raise energy prices and discourage investment? <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As Global Warming Stalls, Activists Talk 'Climate Change' </span></b></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">By Diana Furchtgott-Roth<br /><br /><a href="http://realclearmarkets.com/" style="color: blue;">RealClearMarkets.com</a><br />July 16, 2013</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">With an apparent stall in global warming, the focus among environmentalists has switched to "climate change," perhaps to justify President Obama's new environmental regulatory initiatives.<br /><br />On Thursday the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works holds a hearing entitled "Climate Change: It's Happening Now."<br /><br />And last week the Department of Energy issued a report called U.S. Energy Sector Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Extreme Weather. The report projects increases in storm and flood frequency.<br /><br />However, a review of the data over the past 100 years does not show a steady increase in major storms such as hurricanes, or a steady increase in the number of floods, even though global greenhouse gas emissions increased.<br /><br />The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the number of hurricanes over the past 100 years has been volatile, with no clear trend. There were seven floods reported by the NOAA's Mid-Atlantic River Forecast Center in 2012, the precise number reported in 1912.<br /><br />In between, some years have shown higher numbers, others have shown lower numbers. The only trend is that data have been volatile.<br /><br />Since 2003 global temperatures appear to have reached a plateau. With rising greenhouse gas emissions from Asia and other emerging economies, many predicted that temperatures would continue to rise. Why they have not done so is a puzzle.<br /><br />U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have been declining since 2007, and fell by 1.6 percent between 2010 and 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this year.<br /><br />The Energy Department report offers ammunition to President Obama's possibly extra-legal plans to use his executive power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.<br /><br />Despite the 111th Congress's decision in 2009-2010 not to pass cap-and-trade legislation, when Democrats had veto-proof majorities in the House and Senate, on June 25, in a speech at Georgetown University, Obama called for similar regulatory measures to reduce greenhouse gases. His wish list includes:<br /><br />• Reduction of greenhouse emissions from existing power plants, as well as future plants;<br />• Increases in efficiency standards for appliances;<br />• Placement of wind farms and solar power plants on federal lands;<br />• Installation of three gigawatts of renewable power on bases; and<br />• Production of 20 percent of the federal government's energy from renewable sources over the next 7 years.<br /><br /><br />The cost of the legislation was a major reason for the failure of the Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Lieberman "cap-and-trade" bills, which would have capped emissions and encouraged firms to buy and sell rights to pollute. The revenues from the bills, about $646 billion over 8 years, would have at that time been the largest tax increase in history.<br /><br />The bill would have required EPA to shrink greenhouse gas allowances steadily to 2050. When any year's emissions exceeded a firm's cap, the firm would have to purchase allowances from the government or other companies. That is a tax under another name, driving up costs that would be passed on to consumers in the form of higher energy bills.<br /><br />The price increases in cap-and-trade systems disproportionately affect low-income Americans, who spend a higher share of their income on energy. Data from the Labor Department show those in the lowest fifth of the income distribution spend an average of 24 percent of income on energy, compared to 10 percent of income for those in the middle fifth, and 4 percent of income for those in the top fifth.<br /><br />Even if rising greenhouse gas emissions are affecting the climate, actions by the United States, whose global share of greenhouse gases is 17 percent, will not be helpful in the absence of changes by China and India.<br /><br />Other countries are increasing emissions. China, India, and Germany are expanding coal consumption, according to the International Energy Agency. Global coal use will rise by 1.2 billion tons in five years. "By 2017," according to a December 2012 International Energy Agency report, "coal will come close to surpassing oil as the world's top energy source." Obama's planned reductions in U.S. emissions, with associated costs, will just be a drop in the global bucket.<br /><br />With the slowdown in many measures of global warming over the past decade, climate change is playing second fiddle to jobs in the public eye. Americans know that no reduction in global warming will occur if America reduces greenhouse gases without similar action by China and India, and these countries have not agreed to comparable steps.<br /><br />The president's climate change measures will reduce economic growth by raising energy prices. As well as reducing jobs in the mining industry—over 100 coal-fired power plants have closed since the beginning of 2010—it will also discourage energy-intensive manufacturing.<br /><br />Manufacturers are returning to America due to low-cost energy, and the president's proposals could drive them away and discourage others. The new French Vallourec Star pipe mill in eastern Ohio is making tubes for the electric pipe industry. Other companies making similar investments are Luxembourg's Tenaris and China's Tanjin Pipe. Royal Dutch Shell is building a $4 billion ethane cracker plant in Pennsylvania, and is planning on hiring 5,000 construction workers.<br /><br />Since 2009, the German chemical company BASF has invested more than $5.7 billion into North America, including a formic acid plant under construction in Louisiana. BASF officials say that energy prices in America are lower than in Europe, where fracking is discouraged.<br /><br />Other European countries planning to invest in America due to low energy prices include Austrian steelmaker Voestalpine (an iron-ore processing plant in Texas), and South Africa-based Sasol (a natural gas to diesel conversion plant in Louisiana).<br /><br />Imposing cap-and-trade by regulation will drive away such companies and slow America's economy, without significantly affecting global temperatures.<br /><br /><em>Diana Furchtgott-Roth is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.</em></span></div>
Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-11067095307667087352013-06-27T13:07:00.000-06:002013-06-27T13:07:51.822-06:00POTUS and his EPA continue to believe climate alarmists and continue to put people out of work, while raising the price of energy. Read CARE favorite Driessen's take on the issue
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Climate alarmism’s 10,000 commandments </span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">EPA fiats threaten American lives,
livelihoods, living standards and life spans <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Paul Driessen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The
United States will “do more,” before it’s “too late” to prevent “dangerous”
global warming, President Obama told Berliners last week. If Congress won’t
act, he will, by regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants,
increasing subsidies and reduce environmental overview for wind and solar
projects on federal lands, and issuing other rules that will adversely affect
economic growth and job creation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Indeed,
his Environmental Protection Agency is already devising new rules that will
sharply curtail carbon dioxide emissions, by regulating thousands of facilities
that use hydrocarbon energy – and thus ultimately almost everything Americans
make, grow, ship, eat and do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">However,
the manmade global warming “disasters” exist only in computer models and
assertions by scientists who are addicted to billions in government Climate
Armageddon grants. Moreover, the “preventative measures” are far worse than the
disasters EPA claims to be preventing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Even
the most diehard alarmists have finally recognized that average global
temperatures have hardly budged since 1997, even as atmospheric levels of plant-fertilizing
CO<sub>2</sub> climbed steadily. For many areas, the past winter was among the
coldest in decades; the USA and Britain </span><span style="color: #202020; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">just recorded one of their
</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">coldest springs on record; and satellite
data show that Earth has actually cooled slightly since 2002. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The
frequency and severity of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts are no
different from observed trends and cycles over the past century. 2012 set
records for the fewest strong tornadoes since 1954 and the number of years with
no category 3 or higher hurricane making US landfall. (The vicious tornadoes of
recent weeks underscore how quickly the weather can swing back to normal
patterns.) Arctic sea ice is within a few percentage points of “normal” levels
for the past fifty years, and the rate of sea level rise is not accelerating. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">These
facts completely contradict computer model predictions and alarmist claims.
Moreover, as Climategate and numerous studies have shown, the “science” behind
EPA’s ruling that carbon dioxide “endangers” human health and welfare is
conjectural, manufactured, manipulated and even fraudulent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">EPA
is supposed to protect our environment, health and welfare. Instead, it
“safeguards” us from exaggerated or illusory risks – by issuing mountains of
costly, intrusive regulations that endanger our health, wellbeing and wildlife far
more than any reasonably foreseeable effects from climate change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">This
accumulation of anti-hydrocarbon restrictions and penalties is putting EPA in
control of nearly every aspect of our lives. Fuel, compliance and business costs
will soar. Companies will be forced to outsource work to other countries,
reduce work forces, shift people to part-time status, or close their doors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Poor
and minority families will be unable to heat and cool their homes properly, pay
their rent or mortgage, buy clothing and medicine, take vacations, pay their
bills, give to charity, and save for college and retirement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">With
twelve million Americans already out of work, and another eight million working
multiple lower-paying, part-time jobs, EPA’s global warming and 1,920 other
rules over the past four years translate into unprecedented sleep deprivation,
lower economic and educational status, and soaring anxiety and stress. That will
mean greater risk of strokes and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">heart attacks;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> higher incidences of depression, alcohol, drug,
spousal and child abuse; more suicides; and declining overall life expectancy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">EPA’s
new 54.5 mpg fuel efficiency standards will force more people into smaller,
lighter, less safe cars – causing thousands of needless additional serious
injuries and deaths every year – in the name of preventing illusory climate and
oil and gas depletion crises. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Federal
regulators use the same phony climate change and energy depletion arguments to
justify letting wind turbine operators slaughter millions of birds and bats
every year – including bald and golden eagles, hawks, condors and whooping
cranes. They continue to promote and subsidize $50-per-gallon biofuels, to
replace oil and natural gas that the world still has in abundance – thanks to
new exploration, drilling and production technologies. This focus on biofuels
also means more rainforests and other wildlife habitats are being cut down in
the name of “renewable” energy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">EPA
and President Obama never consider any of this, in calculating the supposed
“benefits” of their onerous regulations. They refuse to recognize that their
hysterical claims of climate cataclysms are increasingly indefensible. They
ignore the damage that their heavy-handed rules impose on our health, welfare
and environmental quality. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">EPA finds, punishes and even
targets anyone who violates any of its ten thousand commandments, even
inadvertently. The agency’s climate change actions, however, are not
inadvertent. They are deliberate, and their effects are harmful and far reaching.
They will affect every American and 100% of our economy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">And
yet, these increasingly powerful bureaucrats – who seek and acquire ever more
control over our lives – remain faceless, nameless, unelected and
unaccountable. They operate largely behind closed doors, issuing regulations
and arranging sweetheart “sue and settle” legal actions with radical
environmentalist groups, to advance ideological agendas, without regard for their
impacts on our lives, livelihoods, living standards, health, welfare and
environment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">They
know that, for them, there is rarely any real transparency, accountability or
consequences – even for gross stupidity, major screw-ups, flagrant abuses or
deliberate harm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">We
need to save our environment from environmentalists and EPA – and safeguard our
liberties, living standards and lives against the arrogance of too-powerful
politicians and bureaucrats. How we achieve this, while protecting our lives
and environment from <i>real</i> risks, is
one of the greatest challenges we face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">________________
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Paul Driessen is senior policy
advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and author of <i>Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death</i>.
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">©
Paul Driessen * June 20, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Published
in the <i>Washington Times</i>, Monday, June
24, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/24/climate-alarmisms-10000-commandments/">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/24/climate-alarmisms-10000-commandments/</a>
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<!--EndFragment-->Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-43276818593726824122013-06-25T12:14:00.000-06:002013-06-25T12:14:15.877-06:00Surprise? Probably not surprising that POTUS wants to further drive America's economy into the ground. Good economy=jobs, not presidential overrides of Congressional action.<br />
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Obama's New Environmental Regulations Would Weaken The Economy Further </span></b></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">By Diana Furchtgott-Roth<br /><br />RealClearMarkets.com<br />June 25, 2013</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is considering tapering off monetary accommodation, and European and Chinese economies are weakening. American stock markets are on the skids. The American economy shows many signs of fatigue.<br /><br />So what should President Obama do? Surely, he should take steps to help the economy, such as by loosening costly regulations that keep Americans from working and firms from expanding.<br /><br />But reportedly Obama will do the opposite in a speech at Georgetown University on Tuesday. He will override Congress and use his executive powers to write new rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions even more than currently required. Current rules have cost many Americans their jobs and all Americans pay more for energy and related products than they should. Obama's tougher rules will spread pain across America: job losses for many of us Americans and higher prices for all of us.<br /><br />In a video posted on the White House Web site over the weekend, Obama once more laid out the industrial policy argument: Scientists will design new fuels, and farmers will grow them (cut to views of cornfields). Engineers will invent new sources of energy, businesses will produce and sell them (cut to electric cars), and workers will build new technologies (views of windmills).<br /><br />White House sources say that the president will use his executive powers to reduce greenhouse emissions from existing power plants, rather than future plants. He also plans to increase efficiency standards for appliances and authorize wind farms and solar power plants on federal lands.<br /><br />No matter that by some measures global temperatures have not risen for the past 15 years, and wind turbines and solar panels are imported from abroad, manufactured in China using electricity made by coal. The nation's gasoline supply cannot absorb rising quantities of ethanol mandated by Congress because fuel consumption is declining. Cellulosic ethanol, required by law to be purchased by petroleum refiners and importers, is not produced in commercial quantities.<br /><br />Greenhouse gas emissions have been declining since 2007, and fell by 1.6 percent between 2010 and 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this year. Required use of alternative energy technology might reduce greenhouse gas emissions further, but the new technologies make fuel and electricity more expensive, reducing economic growth.<br /><br />The message that government can create jobs by requiring more costly technology is a siren song, seductive but empty. Yes, some Americans might be employed building the technology, but others lose jobs due to more expensive energy.<br /><br />The Bureau of Labor Statistics gave up its green jobs survey this year after the 2011 count was embarrassingly low, 3.4 million jobs, despite $500 million in the stimulus bill for green jobs. By the end of 2011, combined expenditures of the Energy Training Partnership, Pathways out of Poverty, and State Energy Sector Partnership green jobs stimulus programs totaled $257.3 million. However, only 5,400 new jobs through the programs were retained at least 6 months, yielding a cost of $47,754 per job.<br /><br />By reducing emissions through executive order, the president is stepping carefully between the blues and the greens which comprise part of the Democratic Party's fragile coalition. Blue-collar workers want jobs and economic growth, and environmentalists, who do not care about growth, want conservation and lower emissions. These goals are fundamentally at odds.<br /><br />Most obviously, increased regulation of carbon will reduce jobs in the mining industry, harming the 74,577 members of the United Mine Workers of America. Over 100 coal-fired power plants have closed since the beginning of 2010.<br /><br />The Democrats' blue collar supporters are one reason why legislation to regulate emissions, known as "cap-and-trade" because it would have capped emissions and encouraged firms to buy and sell rights to pollute, failed to pass the Democratic 111th Congress in 2009-2010, the first two years of Obama's term.<br /><br />The bill would have required EPA to shrink greenhouse gas allowances steadily to 2050. When any year's emissions would have exceeded a firm's cap, the firm would have to purchase allowances from the government or other companies. That is a tax under another name, driving up costs that would be passed on to consumers.<br /><br />The revenues from the Kerry-Lieberman and Waxman-Markey bills, about $646 billion over 8 years, were too large for a Democratic Congress to support, even with Obama's backing.<br /><br />The president has blocked the Keystone XL pipeline, angering the blues, such as the Laborers International Union of North America. Not only would constructing the pipeline create construction jobs, but employment in Gulf refineries would expand to process oil from Canada.<br /><br />LIUNA president Terry O'Sullivan said earlier this year, "I urge the State Department and the White House to move with all haste in completing the next steps in the authorization process. The Keystone pipeline will unlock thousands of good jobs for American workers and any further delay beyond the State Department's current schedule will only result in prolonged economic insecurity for thousands of Laborers who would otherwise be working."<br /><br />According to White House sources, Obama does not appear to have plans to approve Keystone in his Tuesday speech. The president is making his announcement as some manufacturers are returning to America due to low-cost energy. The new French Vallourec Star pipe mill in eastern Ohio is making tubes for the electric pipe industry. Other companies making similar investments are Luxembourg's Tenaris and China's Tanjin Pipe. Royal Dutch Shell is building a $4 billion ethane cracker plant in Pennsylvania, and is planning on hiring 5,000 construction workers.<br /><br />If these companies run into difficulties, their investors and shareholders will bear the losses. But when the government picks investments in risky new technology, taxpayers and the federal budget lose if the projects fail. Of the 33 energy loan guarantees made since 2009 under the Energy Department's programs, 30, or over 90 percent, have shown signs of trouble, ranging from missed production goals to bankruptcy filings.<br /><br />Companies which received loans or grants from the Energy Department during the Obama administration then filed for bankruptcy include Solyndra, Abound Solar, A123, Ener1, Evergreen Solar, Solar Trust of America, Energy Conversion Devices, and Beacon Power. Grant recipients Ecototality, SunPower, and Smith Electric have reported losses.<br /><br />The Inspector General of the Energy Department, Gregory Friedman, found that employees of LG Chem, a battery manufacturer in Holland, Michigan, "spent time volunteering at local non-profit organizations, playing games and watching movies during regular working hours." LG Chem, meanwhile, sold batteries made in South Korea to U.S. firms rather than producing the batteries in Michigan.<br /><br />The percentage of Americans who are employed or looking for work stands at 63.4 percent, the same as 1981 levels. With more Americans looking for work, the unemployment rate would be higher than its current level of 7.6 percent.<br /><br />Raising the cost of energy at any time is poor economic policy, but especially when economic growth is slow. After four years of economic "recovery," the United States is stumbling along at 2 percent GDP growth, with 2.4 million fewer nonfarm payroll jobs than in December, 2007, at the start of the recession. Now is not the time for Obama to overrule Congress and slow the economy further.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Diana Furchtgott-Roth is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.</span></em></span></div>
Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-32284183779159898562013-06-15T13:44:00.001-06:002013-06-15T13:44:40.259-06:00Both Sides of Climate Debate meet and hear each other. Wonder if the alarmists LISTENED to the scientists?
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<b>A Climate Debate: Both Sides Showed Up!<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Churchville, VA—I just took part in a remarkable event: a
public debate over manmade global warming in which both sides appeared—and the
Associated Press reported on it! I have
been invited to many of these events over the past six years, but the warmists
always canceled when they found a skeptic was part of the deal. <o:p></o:p></div>
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John Christy, from the University of Alabama/Huntsville,
opened the debate. He graphed the climate models’ projections of huge
warming—made just before the non-warming of the past 16 years. As usual, he
gave a great presentation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mark Morano of the Climate Depot website spoke about the
politics of the man-made warming campaign, and economist Myron Ebell talked
about green energy’s horrendous and mounting costs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On the warming side, Dr. Scott Denning of Colorado State
University insisted that CO<sub>2 </sub>emitted heat, and more CO<sub>2 </sub>meant
a warmer planet. He was corrected by Dr. Tom Sheehan, an MIT-trained physicist.
Sheehan said CO<sub>2</sub> does not <i>give off</i> heat, it merely absorbs
heat and then diffuses it again. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. James Hurrell of The National Center for Atmospheric
Research said we should all respect the science that is telling us a huge
warming is on the way, but he couldn’t tell us when the modeling would finally
prove accurate. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Annie Petunk of the Environmental Defense Fund waxed
eloquent about her girlhood in Appalachia, but said nothing about the EDF’s
efforts to eliminate West Virginia’s coal industry. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I showed the highly variable temperature record of the past
10,000 years, with an abrupt warming or
cooling shift every 700 years or so. I warned that the abrupt climate impacts
on people had been far greater than we would have expected from a temperature
shift of only 2–4 degrees C. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The 2–4 C drop, along with accompanying shorter grower
seasons is literally a killer and is the pattern that goes back at least 1
million years. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nor is today’s weather “more extreme.” During the “little
ice ages,” today’s Iraq typically got 300-year droughts, which starved
virtually its entire population. Egypt suffered six periods when centuries of
inadequate Nile floods caused famines so severe that people ate their children.
Farther north, the “little ice ages” in Europe and Northern China drowned the
crops with violent rains and heavy flooding. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Hurrell said he agreed that the past warmings and
“little ices ages” were real. He insisted, however, that today’s warming—coming
right after the 550-year Little Ice Age—was “different.” He noted that higher
temperatures had already produced more and heavier rainfall, and more drying of
the soil surface. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I pointed out that Dr Phil Jones, the guru of the whole
warmist movement, recently told BBC the warming from 1976–1998 “could not be
statistically distinguished” from the earlier warming periods at 1915–1940 and
1860–1880. Those warmings also featured heavier rainfalls and drier soil
temperatures. (The hotter years of the 1930s, in fact. produced the Dust Bowl!)
<o:p></o:p></div>
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The “scientific consensus” can no longer be defended simply
by “votes” from modelers and environmental activists. The costs of energy and
job loss are becoming too great too fast—even for the Europeans who led the
scare. Europe is now abandoning its
green investors, even as Europe’s industries plan investments in the U.S. where
they can benefit from low-cost shale gas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Dennis T. Avery, a senior
fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is an environmental
economist. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is
co-author, with S. Fred Singer,</i> <i>of</i>
Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years. <i>Readers may write to him at PO Box 202 Churchville, VA 2442; email to cgfi@mgwnet.com.
Visit our website at www. cgfi.org<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-12457674696606978372013-05-11T21:02:00.001-06:002013-05-11T21:02:32.480-06:00Could the Sun be in charge of climate changes, not our measly CO2 contributions?
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; text-transform: uppercase;">A Climate Cycle Delivered Our
Cold Spring</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-transform: uppercase;">by dennis t. avery<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Churchville, VA: Lots of us are commenting on the U.S.
having the second coldest spring in the official thermometer record (starting
ca. 1860) and the coldest since 1975. Remember, too, that in 1975 major news
magazines were predicting a sudden return to the next Ice Age! This cold spring
highlights another climate cycle that has nothing to do with CO<sub>2</sub>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The cycle that link the two coldest springs is the 60-year
Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Both of these cold springs occurred during a cold
phase in the Pacific, which is the planet’s largest heat sink. When the sun is
very warm, the Pacific absorbs much of that heat. When the sun is less warm,
the Pacific gradually cools. Scientists don’t yet understand clearly why the
sun varies in total activity. We do understand, however, that this is the
reason global temperatures move up and down in spurts of about 30 years. The
PDO is a relatively short cycle superimposed on the longer 1,500-year
Dansgaard-Oeschger cycle and the 100,000-year Ice Age cycle. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The PDO wasn’t discovered until 1996. Fish experts began to
realize that something was periodically shifting the salmon’s ocean food
(plankton and tiny crustaceans) north and south—from the Columbia River region
to the Gulf of Alaska and back. It happened about every 30 years. The salmon’s
food likes warmth better than cold, so when the Pacific is cooler, the salmon
and their food supply thrive farther south.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fish catch records show the PDO was cool from 1890–1924,
warm from 1925–46, cool again from 1940–1976, and warm again from 1976 to about
2007. NASA’s Jason satellite confirmed in 2008 that the PDO had shifted cool
again in 2007. That means the cold springs are likely to remain a feature of
our weather until about 2037. <o:p></o:p></div>
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By the way, the salmon catches are erratically recovering in
the Pacific Northwest. Last year Oregon’s best run was Chinook salmon, with a
total catch of 380,000 compared to just 35,000 in 2008 as the cycle was just
beginning to turn cold. By the time the 1976 cooling was winding down Oregon
was catching more than 1 million Chinook per year. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Last week, Germany’s Green Radio (sponsored by its Federal
Department of the Environment) interviewed an expert identified as Henrik
Kirchof about the world’s interrupted global warming. He said, “A big role may
be played by the oceans . . . if the surface water temperatures increased
sharply until 15 years ago but now have stagnated, then it means that the ocean
is absorbing more heat than it did before. You can suspect this, it’s very
plausible, but you cannot prove it because of [measurement problems].”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sorry, Dr. Kirchof, but there’s another possibility—that the
oceans are receiving less heat from a “quiet “ sun during a long and cool
sunspot cycle. What if the sun is in charge of our climate after all? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Be grateful for our moderate warming. When it stops warming,
history tells us the climate will get far colder and more violent. In history, Europe’s
population nearly tripled during the warm phases when food was plentiful, then
shrank radically as starvation and food wars arrived with the cold. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We should expect some additional global warming after this PDO
ends, as occurred from 1976–1998, but nothing as dangerous as the computers
models claim. Unless our paltry increase in human-emitted CO<sub>2</sub> emissions
have somehow rearranged the whole universe, the sun will continue to be the
controlling factor in our climate. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Dennis T. Avery, a senior
fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is an environmental
economist. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is
co-author, with S. Fred Singer,</i> <i>of</i>
Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years. <i>Readers may write to him at PO Box 202 Churchville, VA 2442; email to cgfi@mgwnet.com.
Visit our website at www. cgfi.org<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-67000781235153966282013-04-24T13:30:00.001-06:002013-04-24T13:30:58.482-06:00Why this author wishes he were wrong. Read and remember and tell your friends all the right reasons for the Keystone XL Pipeline!!
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">How I Wish I Was Wrong
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">By Jay Lehr, Ph.D</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Science Director</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The Heartland
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Most people do not
realize that major oil pipelines extending 2,151 miles from the Canadian Tar
Sands have already been completed and are operational from Hardisty, Alberta,
east through Saskatchewan and Manitoba and south through eastern North and
South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas and then on to refineries in southern
Illinois and central Oklahoma carrying 590,000 barrels of oil each day.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">If they did, they would
certainly wonder what is the uproar about adding the capacity of an additional
830,000 barrels a day through new pipelines from Hardisty, Alberta, through
eastern Montana and southwestern North Dakota where it would pick up United
States oil from the now famous Bakken Fields then move further east through
South Dakota and Nebraska to Steele City, Nebraska, where the existing
pipeline travels on to Cushing , Oklahoma, and then continue it about 500 more
miles to the Gulf Coast of Texas where so many refineries are located.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Canadian oil is cleaner
than most we get from Venezuela and the Persian Gulf. If we do not get
the Canadian oil, it will not slow development of the tar sands, which is a
supposed goal of the environmental activist, as Canada will simply build a
pipeline to Vancouver and sell the oil to Asian countries.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Marita Noon, Executive
Director of Energy Makes America Great, Inc., blogging on March 4 quoted the
Heritage Foundation as follows: “the project will create some 179,000 jobs on
American soil, and continue good trade relations with a close ally."
What is not to like? Well plenty. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Prominent environmental
activist Paul Ehlich is famous for having said 30 years ago that having cheap
energy was the equivalent of putting a machine gun in the hands of an idiot
child. That, I am afraid, is exactly what our alphabet soup of
environmental activists groups believe, which is certainly why they support
wind and solar energy with all their energy and funds because they know it will
never be cheap. In fact they know it will never be even economically feasible.
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Now they are panicked
over the game-changing ability to develop heretofore uneconomical shale gas
with the advent of horizontal drilling and hydro-fracking, the latter
technology having been used for 60 years in conventional oil drilling, without
any environmental damage whatsoever.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">For years now our
government has ordered up environmental impact studies on the Keystone XL
Pipeline, and when a study concluded that there were not serious problems, they
ordered up a new study. There have been four in all, the latest from the
State Department of all agencies, which again concluded that there would be no
major environmental impact to limit the pipeline's construction. Now the
State Department is interested in public feedback despite the fact there have
been tens of thousands of public comments already.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">In mid-March 17
Democrats voted with 45 Republicans in the Senate for a budget amendment
supporting the pipeline, which was up from 11 Democrats voting for a similar
amendment last year. That is good news as is a recent Fox News Poll
reported on in the Wall Street Journal on March 27 that 70% of registered
voters support construction of the pipeline.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Add to that the
conflicted unions, which while voting Obama into office are four square in
favor of the pipeline for the jobs it will bring. So how can the pipeline
lose? Easily is the answer.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Recently the
environmental activists staged a demonstration in Washington to convince the
President not to give in. Few showed up and some were even arrested, but
it was not a loss as environment expert Daryl Hannah, best known for her role
as a mermaid, stated that the State Department report was “totally wrong, flat
out totally wrong”. Can the President challenge that? I think
not. His office is a wholly owned subsidiary of the green movement, which
has financed billions and billions (as Carl
Sagan used to say when referring
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">But there could still
be a happy ending for most of us. It is called “the railroad."
Remember the old, nearly or really bankrupt railroads of the 1970s? Well,
they are back and stronger than ever. Currently they have saved North
Dakota from overflowing with a glut of oil by filling miles and miles of tank
cars on Warren Buffet’s Burlington Northern Line with 500,000 barrels of oil
each day and carrying it to refineries on the west coast of the United States.
By year's end, their capacity will rise to 700,000 barrels a day. They are
capable of building new track connecting the Dakotas with our Gulf Coast,
unless Obama figures that this would be an environmental hazard as well.
Stay Tuned.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Ottawa, Canada, April 22, 2013:</i> "Earth Day participants must distance themselves from the climate scare or risk the event degenerating into irrelevance,” said <a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=393" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Tom Harris</span></a>, executive director of the Ottawa-based <a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">International Climate Science Coalition</span></a> (ICSC). Noting the intense climate focus in this year’s <a href="http://www.earthday.org/2013/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Earth Day Network advertising</span></a>, Harris warned, “As the hypothesis that humanity’s carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions are causing dangerous global warming falls into disrepute, all those associated with the climate alarm will also lose credibility.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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ICSC Science Advisory Board member, <a href="http://www.drtimball.com/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Dr. Tim Ball</a>, former University of Winnipeg climatology professor, explained, “All sensible people are environmentalists. We all want clean air, land and water and to protect species at risk to the degree possible considering the many other important demands on society.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“But controlling global climate through restricting emissions is unscientific nonsense,” Ball continued. “The greenhouse gas most under attack by climate campaigners, CO<sub>2</sub>, is a benefit to the environment, its rise resulting in more crop yield and a densification of forests.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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ICSC Chief Science Advisor <a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=394" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Dr. Bob Carter</span></a>, of James Cook University in Australia pointed out that, “The global temperature statistic has not risen since 1997 despite an increase in emissions of 8%. This nullifies the main argument presented by climate campaigners.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Climate changes all the time, and it is important that civil hazard organisations are prepared for its extremes,” said Carter. “But as demonstrated by the <a href="http://nipccreport.org/" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change</span></a>, of which I am a contributing author, there are thousands of scientists and peer-reviewed science papers that refute the hypothesis that human emissions of CO<sub>2</sub> are causing dangerous warming.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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ICSC Energy Issues Advisor power consultant <a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=395" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Bryan Leyland</span></a> of New Zealand added, “Yet hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent subsidizing wind, solar and wave power in an effort to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. None of these new renewable energy technologies can provide electricity when needed during times of peak demand. All of them are at the mercy of the wind, sun, tides and waves. In addition, the capacity factor—the ratio of the average output to the maximum output—varies between 10% and seldom exceeds 40%. So, for instance, 1000 Megawatt (MW) coal or nuclear power stations each generate the same amount of energy as several thousand MW of renewable energy. Regardless, independent research shows that they do little to reduce emissions of CO<sub>2</sub>, a gas that promotes plant growth and, as we now know, has no measurable effect on the climate.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ball provides a sample of how climate alarmism has resulted in the misappropriation of funds worldwide: “Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent <a href="http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=6F2DE1CA-1&news=0C94A113-8278-44AB-BB46-F4513BF7404A" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">said last month</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">that ‘Canada has invested more than $10 billion since 2006 to reduce greenhouse gases, to improve energy efficiency, to develop green infrastructure.’ But, overall energy efficiency has actually declined<i> </i></span>as politicians like Kent have forced so-called “green” alternate energy sources on society to appease climate campaigners. Had the $10 billion been spent on reducing pollution and improving and expanding existing energy sources such as coal-fired electricity generation, both the economy and the environment would be in far better shape.”<i> </i> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The ICSC is a non-partisan group of scientists, economists and energy and policy experts who are working to promote better understanding of climate science and related policy worldwide. We aim to help create an environment in which a more rational, open discussion about climate issues emerges, thereby moving the debate away from implementation of costly and ineffectual “climate control” measures. Instead, ICSC encourages effective planning for, and adaptation to, inevitable natural climate variability, and continuing scientific research into the causes and impacts of climate change. </span></em><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #870000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Most Americans want Keystone, but does
Obama care?</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 32.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Pew Research Center's new poll encouraged the gas
price-conscious with its headline, "Keystone XL Pipeline Draws Broad
Support," and a score box showing 63 percent supporting and only 23
percent opposing the pipeline that would transport oil from Canada's Alberta
oil sands through the Plains states to refineries in Texas.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">However, the report quickly deflated that optimism
with a terse note identifying the minority: "except among liberals."
We have seen time and again that the liberal 23 percent can be a majority to
executive-order-wielding President Obama.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">As his administration approaches a decision, lame-duck
politics says he could go either way -- even with his own State Department's
favorable environmental impact report on the XL's construction permit.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">And even with Alberta Premier Alison Redford saying
that an Obama rejection would damage U.S.-Canada relations. "Canada relies
on the U.S. for 97 percent of its energy exports," Redford said, and
"sees the new pipeline as critical to its economic well-being."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">What is Obama likely to do? A substantial majority of
Republicans (82 percent) favor the pipeline, so revenge is not an unthinkable
motive for a possible rejection.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">However, 70 percent of independents and 54 percent of
Democrats also favor the XL. Fogging the crystal ball is the ideological split
among Democrats: 60 percent of the party's conservatives and moderates support
building the pipeline, compared to just 42 percent of liberal Democrats. That
considerably flattens Obama's heavy-lifting slope toward a potential rejection,
but doesn't level it.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Obama's decision may hinge on pleasing his base of
global-warming advocates; this whole Keystone XL controversy was carefully
conceived and organized as a "globally significant response" to
global warming by shutting down Alberta's oil sands.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">It was generated by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
using earmarked grants to recruit "a network of leading US and Canadian
NGOs" with a "coordinated campaign structure" to act as its
public face, according to a leaked PowerPoint presentation.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">The Rockefeller funding for the campaign against
Canadian energy exports was exposed in October 2010 by Vivian Krause in
Toronto's Financial Post. Later that fall, Krause testified before a Canadian
House of Commons committee, prompting an audit of the Canadian arm of the Tides
Foundation by the Canada Revenue Agency (Canada's equivalent to the IRS). By
Krause's calculations, Tides, a co-funder of the Rockefeller campaign, has
distributed $19 million to anti-Keystone groups since 2008.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I spoke to Krause by telephone and asked why the
Rockefeller presence behind the anti-XL campaign was virtually invisible. She
told me that it has been done quietly, but not secretly.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">"The strategy is articulated in discussion
papers, but who reads them?" she said. "The grants have been
disclosed in online databases for years, but nobody bothered to add them up and
connect the dots."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Nobody except Vivian Krause, that is. Her Twitter
account says, "I follow the money & the science behind enviro
campaigns." Her research and writing are impressive.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Her blog profile states, "I work from my dining
room table, using Google on my own nickel. Not part of any political party, any
industry, or any campaign." Her work deserves more attention in the United
States.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Krause's discovery and expose of the Rockefeller
millions behind the anti-Keystone XL campaign could become a factor in Obama's
pipeline construction decision.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">It has already created Canadian suspicion of
environmental groups dancing on the strings of U.S. foundation money. It's not
the money itself Canadians fear, it's the power over national energy policy
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying on our backs and hugging the elusive phantom of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and foot?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don’t know about you, good reader, but I am tired. I am tired of talking and hearing about politics. I am tired of talking heads on “expert” panels telling me what “most Americans” truly want, or truly believe in, when those same experts clearly have no idea what I think or what anybody I know thinks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am tired of losing. I am tired of losing elections, my income through taxes, my country through a trampling of the Constitution, my culture to hedonism, my children’s future through liberalism – and my once energized political campaigners to depression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">When I am honest with myself, since the election there have been times when I’ve had to force myself to write my columns. I wonder if anybody is listening, or if anyone cares about what is happening. Even among those loyal Americans who are reading this and that care very deeply, even among my fellow conservatives, I sense an overall feeling of burnout and defeatism. I know it is there because I’ve struggled with it myself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">But the message I want to share with each of you today, and the message I think Patrick Henry was communicating back in his era was this: Get over it!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Remember, I am talking to the man in the mirror as much as I am talking to anyone. But do any of us really have anything to be “burnt out” about? When we compare the challenges and sacrifices that we face to those faced by our founding fathers, the soldiers at Valley Forge, the prisoners on the Bataan Death March, or the paratroops and Army troops who shivered and died during the Battle of the Bulge – we begin to feel very soft and very silly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">I recently had a chance to talk to a man whose father flew fifty combat missions as a waste gunner in WWII. His father NEVER talked about the war. When he tried to talk about it, he got so emotional that he couldn’t finish the story. This man told me that one day his father did share one of his most difficult experiences. He had completed the milestone of his fiftieth air combat mission, and therefore the war was over for him. He didn’t have to go up again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">He could have caught a flight back to the US, but he chose to wait for his best friend, who was on his 49th mission. When his friend was leaving for number 50, the two agreed that they would celebrate and then fly back home together. His friend’s plane came back to base terribly damaged. When it landed the father knew in an instant that his friend was dead. He had to fly home alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">“You don’t know,” the father wagged a finger at my friend that day. “You don’t know what we went through. I can’t describe it in words. You don’t know what we went through, so that you could be free and have the quality of life that you have now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">So what should our generation do? Should we throw up our hands and quit trying to change the government through the legal and peaceful means that were won and preserved for us? Should we dig bomb shelters and buy survival food, and then turn on “American Idol” – and tune out of the public discourse, as we wait for the whole American system to collapse?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">I know many of us are discouraged. I know the “mainstream media” force us to compete in a heavily rigged game. I know that we have been, and continue to be, blindsided by the ferocity with which our protections against an intrusive state are being bulldozed, and the way our values have suddenly become passé. Still, we barely know what tough times are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">We have yet to absorb anything like the blows that our ancestors took, while never wavering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">If we learned nothing else at the Conservative Political Action Committee events, we should have learned this: The heart is there. The fight is there in the people. Our fellow political soldiers have not given up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is therefore incumbent upon every one of us to fan those sparks to a flame. We have to be our own media. Rush, Beck and Hannity, et cetera are not enough. We must inform our own neighbors. We must cajole the non-participants in our own communities into full engagement and participation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">We have to fight, and then falter, and then get up and fight some more. With or without this or that minority group or special interest group’s vote, there are more than enough people in this country to defeat the nation-collapsing progressive agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ninety three million eligible voters did not vote in 2012. We must make it our mission to bring those voters to the polls in 2014 and 2016 as conservative voters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Patrick Henry’s challenge to his countrymen is all the more fitting now. This is no time to let up, no time to give up, and no time to surrender.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pathetic and desperate. There’s no other way to describe the new “we hate-industry” movie, <i>Greedy Lying Bastards</i>. Producers spent nearly $2 million to complain about climate skeptic money, in yet another Big Green attack on anyone who disagrees with the climate fanatic industry, which is itself a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise that seeks to impose anti-energy policies in the name of preventing climate change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">As to content, the <i>Bastards</i> movie is pretty much the same tired parade of the Left’s favorite whipping boys: the Koch brothers, ExxonMobil and other “black hats” are to blame for global warming, think tanks of similar views are mere stooges, out for the money – and other intolerant, insulting, odious characterizations. The movie’s tagline, “They are</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> destroying our world. Now is the time to stop them,” is so easy to turn around on the accusers that you wonder why they used it.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The cost of jet fuel that <i>Bastards</i> burned zooming to American filming locations – and to four countries in Europe, two in Africa, one in South America and the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu – didn’t faze the producers or the funders. Neither did their enormous CO2 footprint. Nor did the fact that Big Green is fed with vastly larger sums from foundations, governments and ideological individuals than the entire gamut of “dangerous manmade global warming” skeptics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Its context, though, makes this film altogether different from most industry-bashing movies. <i>Bastards</i> writer and director Craig Rosebraugh was formerly the mouthpiece for the eco-terrorist network Earth Liberation Front. He gave the media “communiqués” from nameless criminals, including a cell of now-convicted felons who firebombed a university horticulture center. The zealots incinerated </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">a priceless collection of endangered-plant species, because they erroneously believed scientists there were breeding genetically modified trees.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">An appropriate tagline for that exploit – and Rosebraugh’s <i>Bastards</i> – should be “Green radicals are</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> destroying our civilization. Now is the time to stop them.”</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just before <i>Bastards</i> premiered, Greenpeace published a hit piece headlined, “Donors Trust laundering climate denial funding:<b> </b>The shadow operation has laundered $146 million in climate-denial funding.” A few days after that, New York-based media producer Democracy Now! broadcast a story called <b>“</b>The ATM for climate denial: Secretive Donors Trust funds vast network of global warming skeptics.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">This flank of the attack surge began with a PBS Frontline broadcast last October, followed by inquires by <i>The Nation</i> (November), the Center for Public Integrity (December), and <i>Mother Jones</i> (January), all resulting in February articles. The appearance of pre-arrangement, of course, is merely the old journalism fact of life, that the liberal media feed each other, and not necessarily collusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">What did Donors Trust do to deserve this four-pronged (so far) attack? Nothing. That is, nothing beyond disagreeing with climate jihadists (or whatever the appropriate counterpart to “climate deniers” may be). I spoke with Donors president and CEO Whitney Ball, who told me that all the “shadow” and “secrecy” and “black box” and “dark money” accusations in these attacks could apply to every 501(c)(3) public charity, not just Donors Trust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">By Internal Revenue Code rules, the identity of these donors is not available for public inspection, no matter which group is involved. But the general reader doesn’t know that – so it sounds nefarious. If you’re dubious, contact Greenpeace or any of those other groups, and ask for their individual donor list. You won’t get it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Donors Trust, is a “donor-advised fund,” established to promote liberty and help like-minded donors preserve their charitable intent. When donors make a gift to a donor-advised fund, they surrender all legal control over the gift to a steward 501(c)(3), but they may recommend recipients. Thus, “donor <i>advised</i>.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">In return, donors receive an immediate tax deduction and guaranteed anonymity. The anonymity protects donors from recipients eager for more grants. Being a secret donor is a good way to stay off junk mail lists and not have to worry about fundraiser phone calls during dinner time. And when it comes to donors who give to any 501(c)(3)s, <i>all</i> of them are secret, liberal and conservative alike.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Donors Trust also has its own rules. If a donor requests a liberty-oriented recipient with no more than 25% of its revenue from government sources, Donors Trust generally approves, though it is not legally obliged to do so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Greenpeace engages in the same practices it labels as “laundering” when its critics are involved: receiving grant money from donors such as the Packard Foundation ($1.5 million in 2011; total from all foundations, $18.1 million), and then granting it to other non-profits. In 2011, for example, Greenpeace gave $4 million to US groups and $5.6 million to European groups, according to their IRS Form 990. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The attacks against Donors Trust try to make donor-advised funds sound alien, unusual, and dangerous. However, they are so common that Fidelity, Vanguard and Schwab all run one. IRS Form 990 even devotes a page to reporting on DAFs and asks every non-profit if it maintains DAFs. (It’s in Schedule D, Part 1, for the curious.) Tides Foundation, for example, houses hundreds of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ms. Ball asked, “How is it that the Tides Foundation, which funds environmental causes and does not publish donor lists, is never characterized in the same way by reporters?” Goldenberg replied: “There’s something really different here.” Donors Trust grantees “spread information that is factually incorrect, that is untrue…. You can’t draw this equivalence here.” In contrast, DT’s organizations, Goldenberg insisted, “were funded for the express purpose of spreading disinformation.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyone who sees the <i>Bastards</i> movie credits might think the film was “funded for the express purpose of spreading disinformation.” Consider the sources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Bastards movie boasts a “Thanks to” list of 117 contributors, including </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Denis Hayes of the Bullitt Foundation, EarthJustice (formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund), Greenpeace USA, Natural Resources Defense Council, Noam Chomsky, Richard Feely of the <em><span style="font-style: normal;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Laboratory</span>, </em>Vladimir Romanovsky, of the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, and Russell Train, who was the second administrator of the increasingly alarmist Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">All have career or financial vested interests in the climate change scare and would be harmed by any public doubt about their theories and political agendas. Well-funded climate skeptics are a direct threat to their incomes, career prospects, political success and reputations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, just for your information, a massive database of IRS Form 990s shows that total US foundation support for environmental causes over the past decade or so<b> </b>is<b> </b>331,256 grants totaling $19.3 <i>billion</i>, with a “b.” The portion specifically devoted to global warming or climate change is <i>$797 million</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">And the <i>Greedy Lying Bastards</i> producers are complaining about a couple million to manmade climate cataclysm skeptics. The film’s pathetic efforts underscore how desperate climate alarmists have become. There goes 30,000 feet of good (hydrocarbon-based) film stock, all shot to hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ron Arnold is executive director of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. Portions of this report <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/ron-arnold-eco-terror-advocate-bashes-climate-deniers-on-film/article/2524347?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2003/15/2013&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest" style="color: blue;">originally appeared</a> in the <i>Washington Examiner</i>, which is investigating <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/mark-tapscott-a-little-sunshine-for-bill-mckibben-and-the-anti-keystone-crowd/article/2524338?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2003/15/2013&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion" style="color: blue;">environmentalist funding</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In a burst of common sense, a governmental agency cuts wasteful programs, instead of across-the-board cuts. How revolutionary!!!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal;">To Navigate $8M Sequester, BLS Cuts Green Jobs</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In a triumph of common sense, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is responding to the sequester by eliminating its count of green jobs, an $8 million annual waste of taxpayer funds.<br /><br />BLS press spokesman Gary Steinberg told me, "Permanent across-the-board cuts generally do not work for the BLS, as this approach jeopardizes the quality of all BLS data. Instead, the BLS strategic approach is to reduce or eliminate selected product lines or programs, rather than reduce the quality of all programs by spreading the cut equally."<br /><br />In addition, BLS is ending its comparisons of international statistics (savings: $2 million), and its count of mass layoffs (savings: $1.7 million). The three programs scheduled for elimination cost $12 million, 2 percent of BLS's $613 million budget.<br /><br />More government agencies should use the BLS approach of setting priorities rather than using across-the-board cuts. Mr. Steinberg explained that while the programs targeted for elimination produce important information, the data from BLS's principal federal economic indicators, such as the employment situation and the inflation indices, are more critical for monitoring and understanding trends in the U.S. economy.<br /><br />There is no reason for BLS to collect data on firms' layoffs. Data are widely available in the press, few users access them, and their elimination has been suggested for over five years. Data on international comparisons are published by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and their elimination was proposed in the fiscal year 2011 budget.<br /><br />The most egregious misuse of taxpayer funds is the green jobs survey, issued for the first time last March.<br /><br />The Bureau of Labor Statistics is responsible for the federal definition of green jobs under Title X of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, signed into law by President George W. Bush. Title X was originally a stand-alone bill, the Green Jobs Act, sponsored by then-Representative Hilda Solis, a California Democrat. Solis became Secretary of Labor in 2009, and was charged with implementing her legislation.<br /><br />Ms. Solis resigned in January. Perhaps that is why BLS is discontinuing the survey.<br /><br />In his 2008 campaign, President Obama called for the creation of 5 million green jobs over the next decade. His administration then proceeded to give out grants and guaranteed loans for green energy projects to try to make his dream into reality.<br /><br />Last year BLS tallied 3.1 million green jobs in the U.S. economy. When people hear of green jobs, they think workers are making wind and solar power, and electric cars and batteries. But most were jobs that had always existed, but were colored green for the purpose of the BLS survey.<br /><br />For instance, BLS counts plumbers who install "Lo-Flo" toilets as having green jobs, but not plumbers who put in regular fixtures.<br /><br />Farmers who grow corn for ethanol have green jobs, so do farmers who grow both corn for ethanol and corn for people or animals to eat. But if the farmer grows corn only for eating (either by people or animals), that farmer doesn't have a green job.<br /><br />A green job must meet one of five BLS definitions, including "environmental compliance, education, training and public awareness." As I write this column, my job is counted as green, but if I were writing about Chairman Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve's excess production of greenbacks, my job would not be green.<br /><br />Similarly, those who manufacture paper cups with environmental logos are counted by BLS as having green jobs, but if the cups did not have such a message, the jobs would not be green.<br /><br />The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided the Labor Department with $500 million for grants in research and training for green jobs. The funds were awarded to state workforce agencies, community colleges, and nonprofits.<br /><br />They were used to train workers in green industries such as hybrid- and electric-car auto mechanics, weatherization of buildings, and solar panel installation.<br /><br />However, the grants have a low success rate, concluded the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Labor in a <a href="x-msg://123/%20http:/www.oig.dol.gov/public/reports/oa/2013/18-13-001-03-390.pdf" style="color: blue;">report</a> on the $500 million program, published in October.<br /><br />Assistant Inspector General Elliot Lewis wrote that 113,000 people had participated in the green jobs training programs, and $329 million had been spent, by June 30, 2012. Of these participants, 72 percent had completed training; 27 percent of participants entered a new job; 22 percent of participants got a job relating to their training; and 10 percent kept their new jobs for at least six months. However, six months had not yet elapsed for all participants who had entered new jobs.<br /><br />That's a cost of about $28,000 for each job retained for six months or more.<br /><br />A report last month by the Gregory Friedman, Inspector General of the Energy Department, found <a href="http://newsletter.hudson-institute.org/js/t/9356869/3487077" style="color: blue;">here</a>, describes the misuse of a $150 million grant awarded to LG Chem, a South Korean-owned battery manufacturer in Holland, Michigan. LG Chem was supposed to create 440 jobs and make enough batteries to run 60,000 electric cars by December 2013.<br /><br />According to Mr. Friedman, "we confirmed that employees spent time volunteering at local non-profit organizations, playing games and watching movies during regular working hours." LG Chem, meanwhile, filled U.S. demand with batteries made in South Korea. That's money from Uncle Sam for green jobs in Asia.<br /><br />The Pentagon should learn from BLS and eliminate its $510 million, three-year program to develop new biofuels for ships and tanks. These biofuels cost $27 per gallon, rather than $3.80 per gallon for conventional fuel. With the Pentagon facing a $43 billion sequester this year, in addition to previous cuts of $260 billion over five years, this is not the time for a $510 million experimental program.<br /><br />Mr. Obama has repeatedly told the public, most recently in his State of the Union Address, that renewable energy will create "tens of thousands of good, American jobs." And that the federal government must invest in renewable energy to make them exist.<br /><br />Yet Labor Department data show that relatively few green trained workers got jobs in renewable electric power (14 percent), the manufacture of sustainable products (5 percent), energy efficiency assessment (8 percent), energy efficient vehicles (1 percent), deconstruction and materials use (2 percent), or biofuels (1 percent).<br /><br />February's jobs numbers will be released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. No one except Mr. Obama will care whether the new jobs are green. Kudos to BLS for cutting the green survey.<br /><br /><em>Diana Furchtgott-Roth is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.</em></span></div>
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Want to go back to outhouses and walk-ups? Keep being green—It's going to happen sooner rather than later!</h2>
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<b>Britain Narrowly Escapes "Green" Blackout</b><br />
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By Dennis T. Avery<br />
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For years, many of us have warned the “green energy” craze would throw First World countries into blackouts, factory knockouts, more deaths among the elderly and all manner of avoidable tragedies. It nearly happened to Britain in January, as bitterly cold weather put a massive strain on Britain’s creaking power plants. <br />
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London’s Sunday Express says 1 million homes narrowly escaped blackout last month as the island suffered its fifth harsh winter in a row. Blackout was only avoided because of an oil-fired power station, which is, itself, due to be closed before next winter. Only now, after 30 years of cheerleading, are British media finally waking up to the awful future they have been demanding. <br />
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The basic problem: Britain feels it put man-made warming on the world map with its Met office and East Anglia University computers. They became determined to lead the world’s “green energy” revolution. However, Britain’s wind turbines, despite decades and billions in subsidized investment, today provide only 7 percent of its electricity. And the turbines must be backed by fossil fuel powered plants, in “spinning reserve,” equal to at least 80 percent of their installed capacity. <br />
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1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A whole fleet of Britain’s older coal and oil-fired power stations are being phased out under an EU commandment driven by CO2 hysteria. <br />
2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>They have scheduled another 10 percent of the generating capacity for phase-out next year. <br />
3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Met Office has finally admitted there’s been none of the predicted man-made warming for 16 years! <br />
4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UK coal power is fading just as the North Sea gas, which has powered the UK’s newer stations, is running out. <br />
5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>British leaders had been counting on a big new set of new nuclear power plants, but the advent of fracking and cheap shale gas has frightened investors about the billions of investment dollars they might never get back. <br />
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After my New York Times best-seller, Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years, came out in 2007, I wrote that the man-made warming frenzy would implode—but would meanwhile cost trillions in misdirected global investment dollars. The warmists since have been giving ground oh-so-slowly as the non-recoverable costs of the renewable fuels “investments” continue to mount. <br />
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The German industries that have powered the EU’s economic engine now threaten to leave Europe unless they can get energy as cheaply as India, China—and the U.S. (America’s shale gas revolution has pegged its natural gas prices at about one-third of Europe’s.) <br />
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Reuters reports German renewable energy subsidies may cost its consumers an extra $1.34 trillion over the next 20 years (about $6,400 per family)—but won’t provide much dependable power!<br />
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Elsewhere, Spain is being sued by green investors after it cut back unsustainable solar and wind subsidies over the past two years, and the Bulgarian government has resigned after consumer protests against high EU-mandated electricity costs.<br />
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In the U.S., James Hanson’s NASA continues to “adjust” the temperature records from the 1930s to mask the reality that they were higher than recent “record highs.” Our next big cost will be the dismantling of U.S. coal power. Obama has ordered his EPA to cut back electricity, starting with the coal-fired plants and working up to the natural gas from “fracking.” In case you might have forgotten, the President has not revised his basic goals, which include our having less energy available and only at prices “which will necessarily skyrocket.” <br />
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No one yet admits that the “Greenpeace Plan” would kick us back to the days of inner city walk-up apartments, with privys to match. <br />
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Dennis T. Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is an environmental economist. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer, of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years. Readers may write to him at PO Box 202 Churchville, VA 2442; email to cgfi@mgwnet.com. Visit our website at www. cgfi.org<br />
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Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13687327806444568148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1114409307457717109.post-44808381758594493552013-02-14T17:16:00.001-07:002013-02-14T17:20:07.369-07:00And we're all going to down with this ship if someone doesn't fight back!<br />
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Scuttling the Ship of State to appease climate activists</h2>
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Imagine you are travelling on the safest, most powerful ocean liner
in the world. One day, the captain announces, “We are approaching a
severe storm so we’re scuttling the ship. Man the lifeboats!”<br />
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A deck-hand explains to the incredulous
passengers, “The Captain believes that big vessels like ours are causing
an increase in ocean storms. So we must sink the ship!”<br />
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Hours later, the crew assure frightened passengers huddled in
lifeboats, “A smaller ship is due in a few days. We’ll be fine as long
as a real storm doesn’t blow up.”<br />
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In his State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama
demonstrated that, like scuttling the best ship in the fleet to control
the weather, he too is risking America’s prosperity with irrational
climate and energy policies.<br />
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If it were actually true that “Heat waves, droughts, wildfires,
floods – all are now more frequent and intense”, as the President said
in his address, then he should be boosting the most affordable and
reliable energy sources to prepare for and cope with these hazards.
After all, we would need more electricity to handle greater demands for
air conditioning and heating. More power would be required to irrigate
lands, build dikes, strengthen public infrastructure and relocate
populations living on flood plains or at risk from tornadoes and
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Yet, in discussing his solution to these
dangers, Obama promoted wind and solar power, the least reliable and
most expensive sources. He said nothing about the most reliable and
cheapest energy source available—coal, from which comes half of all
America’s electricity.<br />
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The President presents the transition to wind and solar as drivers of
strong economic growth. This is a serious mistake. Even though wind and
solar power have had decades to mature, energy from these sources still
costs between three and ten times that from coal, oil, natural gas and
nuclear. While Obama was right to say that, “Last year, wind energy
added nearly half of all new power capacity in America”, this only
happened because the American government funneled vast amounts of money
into subsidies for the field. The U.S. Energy Information Administration
shows that for 2010, non-hydroelectric renewable electricity generation
was still only 3.6% of all generation even though it received 53.5% of
all federal financial support for the electric power sector.<br />
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No industrialized society can successfully replace dependable
coal-fired electricity generation stations with intermittent and diffuse
sources such as wind and solar. We need massive quantities of reliable,
high quality power to run steel mills, Internet servers and our
transportation system, even when the wind drops or a cloud passes in
front of the sun. Obama’s conclusion, “So let’s generate even more [wind
power]”, begs common sense.<br />
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Obama also promoted natural gas in his address. Given the vast
reserves that modern fracking technology is making available, this is
sensible. But it is a mistake to use natural gas to replace coal as the
country’s main base load electricity source. Natural gas should be saved
for domestic cooking and heating, transportation, fertilizer production
and for peaking power when electricity demand rises suddenly. And, if
gas resources turn out to be less plentiful than forecast, America will
need its coal-fired stations to avoid freezing in the dark.<br />
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Obama’s drive to dismantle coal is not about providing energy and
economic security for the country. After all, the United States is the
Saudi Arabia of coal with enough reserves to last for centuries. The
President is basing national energy policy on the improbable hypothesis
that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion is a
major cause of dangerous climate change. Although coal combustion does
emit more CO2 than most other sources, Obama was wrong to refer to CO2
as “dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet.” CO2 is not a
pollutant. It is essential to life on Earth and its increasing
concentration has led to greater agricultural productivity. And the idea
that the rise in CO2 is causing a climate crisis is falling into
disrepute as the world fails to warm as alarmists predicted.<br />
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Obama was also wrong to imply that “the overwhelming judgment of
science” supports man-made climate catastrophe theories. It has never
been demonstrated that there is any consensus about the causes of
climate change among scientists who specialize in this research. Polls
that have attempted to make this connection either asked the wrong
questions or are so methodologically flawed that they cannot be taken
seriously.<br />
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Even if there were a climate crisis of our making, Obama’s expensive
energy policies would have little climatic impact as long as China,
which derives 80% of its electricity from coal and is planning to build
500 coal‐fired plants over the next ten years, continues on its current
path. To say they are “going all-in on clean energy”, as the President
did in his address, is simply a mistake.<br />
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Obama warned Congress that if it doesn’t enable climate legislation
soon, he will direct his Cabinet to devise “executive actions” that he
could use to force strong climate policy on the country. If he fulfils
this threat, his legacy will be one of mass unemployment and millions of
Americans joining the billions throughout the world already mired in
energy poverty. And climate will continue to change as it always has
with the impact of America’s sacrifice being too small to even be
measured.<br />
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