Posted by
Catmman on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:32:28 AM
Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States and throughout the world.
"My presidency will mark a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change," Obama said in a video message to governors and others attending a Los Angeles summit on the issue. (AP)
Simply calling something an "urgent challenge" doesn't make it so, except in the liberal world of virtual climate change. From
Junk Science:
Leadership? Where to? Over a cliff? How did we let a bunch of gibbering loons stampede the mob with nonsense claims of planet cooking with trivial increases in an essential trace gas? Get a grip people! You don't live in a computer-generated virtual world so you are in absolutely no danger from virtual planet cooking.
More on the problems with
Obama's climate "leadership":
Temperatures have declined for 7 years and sea levels have paused in their rise. 5 of the last 7 decades since WWII and post war boom have shown cooling, not exactly an endorsement for the greenhouse gas warming theory. Climate models are failing even the ones from the IPCC from 2007 above.
The following detailed study by SPPI shows how futile any such ultra costly emissions plans are for states and the United States and for many foreign countries. They produce very little or no gain for great economic pain as many countries have already found out.
Obama is not taking heed of the devastating economic impact of cap and trade on EU, UK, Canada and New Zealand, where countries are abandoning their emission goals and or kicking out the ruling parties. Obama is on the right track partially with the energy plans. We need to exploit our energy resources including nucleer, clean coal, but wind and solar will only be single digit answers anytime soon. We need all of us to conserve energy. We need the ability to drill offshore and tap our in ground resources of fossil fuel - clean burning natural gas and oil. Let’s hope market forces and public pressure drive an “all of the above solution” although I think it may take brownouts and blackouts before the politicos tell the enviros to back off their untenable positions.