Schwarzenegger Blasts Bush on Global Warming

ABC snooze with George Steponallofus ^ | 7/11/08

[Recovering_Democrat]

ABC News' Mary Bruce Reports: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif., spoke out against President Bush this morning attacking his administration for its failure to counter global warming emissions.

"This administration did not believe in global warming," Schwarzenegger told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview that will air Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

"They just didn't believe in it or they didn't believe that they should do anything about it, since China is not doing anything about it and since India is not willing to do the same thing, so why should we do the same thing?" Schwarzenegger said.

"We don't wait for other countries to do the same thing. That's what makes America number one... And I think we have a good opportunity to do the same thing, also, with fighting global warming," he said.

Schwarzenegger's comments came in reaction to the Environmental Protection Agency's recent decision not to take further action against global warming during the remainder of Bush's presidency. "Well, to be honest with you, if they would have done something this year, I would have thought it was bogus anyway," he said. When asked why, the California Governor said, "because you don't change global warming and you don't really have an effect by doing something six months before you leave office."

[Lancey Howard]

It was written in black and white in his Environmental Platform, published prior to the election.

Yes it was. It's hard to believe Arnold has been governor for nearly five years. If there is any difference between what the Schwarzenegger adminstration has done during the past five years versus what a Davis or Bustamante administration would have done, I don't know what it is - - except that the Republican legislature may have fought harder against a Democrat administration.

[CounterCounterCulture]

[calcowgirl]

If there is any difference between what the Schwarzenegger adminstration has done during the past five years versus what a Davis or Bustamante administration would have done, I don't know what it is - -

Arnold thinks BIG -- he offered the BIGGER (liberal) plan. Bigger government, bigger spending, bigger borrowing, bigger land grabs... etc.

...except that the Republican legislature may have fought harder against a Democrat administration.

True. It did help identify the truly spineless pubbies that went along with him, though--those who care more about keeping their job than doing the right thing.

Remember when Arnold always used the word "Fantastic"? Portraying himself as a conservative was a fantasy folks bought into. In reality, he's nothing but a slick hustler.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This from a governor who can’t see the reason for more fire trucks.

[CarrotAndStick]

India Issues Report Challenging Global Warming Fears

Vows Not To Reduce Emissions

July 9, 2008

 

 

The Washington Post reported on July 9 that India was “balking” at the U.S approach to addressing CO2 emissions. India joined four other nations to call for “much steeper reductions” for developed nations.  

Fact: India issued its National Action Plan on Climate Change in June 2008 disputing man-made global warming fears and declared the country of one billion people had no intention of stopping its energy growth or cutting back its CO2 emissions.  

 

An article in the Australian Herald on July 9 by Andrew Bolt, noted: “The plan's authors, the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, said India would rather save its people from poverty than global warming, and would not cut growth to cut gases.”

 

The report declared: “No firm link between the documented [climate] changes described below and warming due to anthropogenic climate change has yet been established.”

 

The report made clear that India has no plans to cut back energy usage. “It is obvious that India needs to substantially increase its per capita energy consumption to provide a minimally acceptable level of wellbeing to its people. […] India is determined that its per capita greenhouse gas emissions will at no point exceed that of developed countries."

 

The Australian Herald article noted that this declaration “means India won't stop its per capita emissions (now at 1.02 tonnes) from growing until they match those of countries such as the US (now 20 tonnes).”

 

The Australian Herald article continued: "What makes the Indian report so interesting is that unlike our (Australia’s) Ross Garnaut, who just accepted the word of those scientists wailing we faced doom, the Indian experts went to the trouble to check what the climate was actually doing and why. Their conclusion? They couldn't actually find anything bad in India that was caused by man-made warming. In fact, they couldn't find much change in the climate at all. Yes, India's surface temperature over a century had inched up by 0.4 degrees, but there had been no change in trends for large-scale droughts, floods, or rain: ‘The observed monsoon rainfall at the all-India level does not show any significant trend . . .’ It even dismissed the panic Al Gore helped to whip up about melting Himalayan glaciers: ‘While recession of some glaciers has occurred in some Himalayan regions in recent years, the trend is not consistent across the entire mountain chain. It is, accordingly, too early to establish long-term trends, or their causation, in respect of which there are several hypotheses.’" 

 

In addition, in January 2008, Indian engineer and economist Rajendra Pachauri, who is the UN IPCC Chairman, announced that he was going “to look into the apparent temperature plateau so far this century.” (LINK) [Note: Global temperatures have not risen since 1998, according to UN data. See: 'Global Warming Will Stop,' New Peer-Reviewed Study Says ]  

 

Sampling of Indian Scientists Who Question Man-Made Global Warming Fears: ( See also: U.S. Senate Minority Report: “Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007” )  

One of India's leading geologists, B.P. Radhakrishna, President of the Geological Society of India, expressed man-made global warming skepticism in 2007. "We appear to be overplaying this global warming issue as global warming is nothing new. It has happened in the past, not once but several times, giving rise to glacial-interglacial cycles. We appear to be now only in the middle of an interglacial cycle showing a trend toward warming as warming and cooling are global and have occurred on such a scale when humans had not appeared on the planet,” Radhakrishna wrote in an August 23, 2007 essay.  Radhakrishna said that there is doubt about “whether the steps that are proposed to be taken to reduce carbon emission will really bring down the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere and whether such attempts, even carried out on a global scale, will produce the desired effect. Warming of the climate, melting of glaciers, rise in sea levels and other marked changes in climate - these do not pose immediate threats and there is besides, no way of controlling such changes even if we want to. Exercises at mitigation of these likely disasters are, however, possible and mankind, in all likelihood, will gradually adjust itself to the changed conditions. This has happened before; men and animals have moved to greener pastures and adapted themselves to the changed situations," he added. (LINK)

VK Raina, India's leading Glaciologist, questioned the assertion that global warming was melting glaciers in India. "Claims of global warming causing glacial melt in the Himalayas are based on wrong assumptions," Raina told the Hindustan Times on February 11, 2007.  The paper continued, "Raina told the Hindustan Times that out of 9,575 glaciers in India, till date, research has been conducted only on about 50. Nearly 200 years data has shown that nothing abnormal has occurred in any of these glaciers. It is simple. The issue of glacial retreat is being sensationalized by a few individuals, the septuagenarian Raina claimed. Throwing a gauntlet to the alarmist, he said the issue should be debated threadbare before drawing a conclusion." (LINK) 

Related Links:    

Cooling Underway: Global Temperature Continues to Drop in May – June 4, 2008

 

'Global Warming Will Stop,' New Peer-Reviewed Study Says – April 30, 2008  

 

Global COOLING Currently Under Way – February 27, 2008  

 

U.S Army Chief Scientist Says Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change – June 3, 2008 

 

National Post: Global Cooling! 'Spotless Sun' prompts scientists to fear 'dramatic turn for the worse' – May 31, 2008 

 

U.S. Senate Minority Report: “Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007”  

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[q_an_a]

Maybe if Arnold had worked to do a little tree trimming during his first four years in office, he would not be fighting 20 forest fires every 90 days and polluting the west with his forest fire failures. Waste via lost lumber to fire and lost water to fire fighting. His enviroment friends have fought the Bush plan to clean up Calif. for 7 years. Too bad Arnold you have brought the problems on your state by ignoring the can do action you so talk about.

[Matchett-PI]

My post that you removed was a transcript of Rush reading an article over the airwaves. That is not the same as copying an article from the source you noted.

Please re-post my post. Thank you.

[444Flyer]

Thank you! That made my day! :) Let’s hope he takes Washington by storm (in his brilliant, quite mannered Tom sort of way).

[goldstategop]

Red Arnold in other words, thinks California should throttle its economy as an example to the rest of the world to follow suit. No one else is buying the hoax. Not India, China and the Third World. They can pollute to their hearts' content and we have to sacrifice our jobs, homes and standard of living for them. Well let's see how far California gets implementing the AB32 goals. I bet it won't get very far and in any event, the added regulatory mandates will raise costs significantly while doing little to actually address alleged global warming. And this while the state's government is out of money. Makes sense alright, if you think like Red Arnold does, that its other people's fault.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

Exactly. Other countries are going to do that and we have to live like in the Third World so they can get ahead at our expense? If the politicians were honest in saying GW was a massive wealth transfer scheme, which it really is, it would never have a chance.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[headstamp 2]

My apologies for my language. I'm just getting sick and tired of this environmentalist insanity in the face energy prices that are truly doing irreparable damage to our economy. I'm watching good, hard working, people get their businesses destroyed over it due to the sheer idiocy and ineptness of our political class. It's going to be a damned cold winter for a lot of people this year because of these idiots..

[Matchett-PI]

The “Reverend” Sir John Houghton, former head of the UK Meteorological Office, Publisher of Al Gore’s book on GW and Former Co-Chair of the IPCC, said this (with what some would call, "malice aforethought"):

“Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen”

“.. human induced global warming is a weapon of mass destruction at least as dangerous as chemical, nuclear or biological weapons that kills more people than terrorism.”

Personally, I think that Houghton, Algore, Hansen, et.al., should be arrested and brought up on charges for the horrible suffering and nightmares they have caused to little children and adults around the world as a direct result of their deliberate "scare-mongering".

Here's an example of it noted by Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun (it's merely the latest example out of many):

Climate Change Delusion Driving Boy to Kill Himself

Here's Rush talking about other examples:

Rush Limbaugh - Global Climate Change Delusion July 9, 2008

Excerpted TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: ... By the way, who else has visions of apocalyptic events? Algore has visions of apocalyptic events. Arnold Schwarzenegger has visions of apocalyptic events. James Hansen of NASA has visions of apocalyptic events. I would suggest, ladies and gentlemen, these people would also qualify to be referred as patients suffering climate change delusion. ...

Ladies and gentlemen, how many of you have young children in school all the way up to high school who come home every day and tell you of the latest fear that they have based on what they have been told by their deranged teachers in school? How many of you have tried to talk them out of it and your kids will not listen 'cause they heard it in school and 'cause they've seen Algore's movie and 'cause even on some of the Saturday morning cartoons or on MTV or whatever else rotgut they watch, this message is consistently pummeled into them. So now you've got a case of a 17-year-old kid who is afraid to drink water 'cause he thinks the world is going to run out if he does, and other people will die.

Here's another example. This clearly, to me, qualifies as global warming climate change delusion. I don't know where this is from. .. "Megan Schroeder rides her bike or walks to school to do her part to help the planet. She also likes the incentives that her school, Bear Creek Elementary, uses to reward kids who ditch mom or dad's car in favor of biking or walking. 'You get treats, too -- usually some kind of food. I won a bike at the awards ceremony,' said Megan, 8, of Boulder, Colo. 'Since I like animals, I want to save the environment.'" Hello, polar bear pictures. Hello fraudulent polar bear pictures. Hello, fraudulent penguin pictures. Hello fraudulent scare stories about caribou and oil pipelines.

...See, it's all wrapped up here. This is just an effort to totally control as much of individual life and decisions as possible, starting with these little skulls full of mush just waiting to absorb all kinds of rotgut drivel and bilge.

It's gotten to the point now where people are actually thinking that if they get in a car, they're destroying the planet, and if they walk, they're saving the planet. A bunch of people with meaningless lives who desperately want to matter, who desperately want to so-called contribute, and so they fall into these notions of doing silly things. We just saw, was this in New York City? That videotape? It was some city, and what was it called, a green cargo bike. It was a new way of transporting cargo in cities. It looked like a four-wheel bicycle with some guy chugging along pedaling and so forth. (interruption) It was a girl, fine, doesn't matter. Tight in the middle of all this traffic it's doing five miles an hour while cars are trying to get around it and doing their usual 30, 35, whatever the speed limit, whatever you can go in the city, whatever the speed limit will allow, and we're going back to rickshaws! They're taking us back to rickshaws. Don't say they're taking us back to the horse and buggy because they don't even allow those in New York and they're trying to stamp 'em out anyway 'cause of the horsies. (doing lib impression) "Yes, it's cruel to the horsies to have to pull all those fat people through Central Park on the heavy, ugly, hideous carriages. The fat people, they should be walking through Central Park. These poor horses are being abused, Mr. Limbaugh." So they don't even want to take us back to the horse and buggy -- I'm on the verge of profanity here -- better take a time-out. .......

I've got a graph here sent to me by my Official EIB Climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer. He has a graph that he prepares. It's tough to describe this on the radio. I'll send this graph up to Koko, Jr., because Koko, Sr., is on vacation. So I'll send this up to Koko, Jr. But it is a chart of the global average temperatures from NOAA and NASA satellites beginning in 2006. The chart runs all the way out through 2015. On the left side, the temperature departure from normal in Celsius degrees, Algore is predicting that by 2015, we will have increased the global average temperature by .8 degree Celsius. However, the actual temperatures, the global average temperatures since the middle of 2006 have fallen and in fact in June of this year, just a few short days ago, the readings for that month came out, and the global average temperature in June, in May, fell almost two-tenths of a degree Celsius. After a high in about mid-2006 of the global average temperature being .6 degrees Celsius above mean, or above the norm, it's fallen from .6 above to .2 below since 2006. It is cooling while we're pumping all these gases out there, it is cooling off around the world.

I have another chart here. By the way, these are actually graphs from many, many moons ago, on a science website that depict arctic ice. Do you know the amount of ice in the arctic this month versus this month 20 years ago is identical? There's not less ice now than there was then, and there's not more ice than there was then. They say it's all going to disappear, which is nonsense. Total, 100% hoax. Meanwhile, while all this is going on, while the Australian government is telling its citizens, "Pay more or die," which is about what we're being told here, in fact, this poor kid in Australia thinks if he drinks the world's going to die so he's killing himself by not drinking. They had to put him in a psycho ward. Your kid could be next, folks. ...

Now, in China, the ChiComs released their own global warming strategy a year ago..... Said Ma Kai, head of China's powerful State Council: 'China does not commit to any quantified emissions-reduction commitments ... our efforts to fight climate change must not come at the expense of economic growth.'" The ChiComs, of all people, get it! The ChiComs!

If anybody ought to be leading the charge on this, it would be socialist communists, but the ChiComs know full well the disaster that awaits anybody who buys into the delusion and the requirements to fulfill the delusion as advanced by Algore. .... Here's another instance. India. India has said that it will not stop its per capita emissions from growing "until they match those of countries such as the US." Right now the emissions per capita in India are 1.02 tons. We are at 20 tons. So the nation of India says, screw you, ....the Indian experts went to the trouble to check what the climate was actually doing and why. Their conclusion? They couldn't actually find anything bad in India that was caused by man-made warming: 'No firm link between the documented (climate) changes described below and warming due to anthropogenic climate change has yet been established.' In fact, they couldn't find much change in the climate at all." As their emissions are growing, they found no change in the climate in India whatsoever. And this is because there isn't any.

There isn't any change in the climate of the United States. There's no change in the climate of China, other than it's more polluted. There's no change in the climate of Australia. The temperature is going down worldwide. It's the forecasts of the apocalypse. Oh, yes. Going to happen ten years from now, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 years from now, they say. This is just the lull before the storm.

And don't forget, a bunch of these doomsayers actually admitted six months or so ago that ocean patterns in the Pacific were responsible for this cooling, and they were going to delay the onset of warming for nine years, but, boy, after those nine years, Katie, bar the door, batten down the hatches because we are gonna cook. Meanwhile, with all these emissions, somehow the earth is finding a way to cool things. I don't believe the emissions warm the planet in the first place. I don't buy any of it. But your kids are being sold this bill of goods, folks. They are eating it up. ...." ~ Rush Limbaugh

[truthguy]

I will be glad when this clown exists the stage. I cannot stand to even listen to his broken English any longer. I must say that I'm not disappointed with him. I knew he was going to be a joke from the start.
He never would have been elected governor if there wasn't a special recall election and the vote for alternative candidates was split among three running. This is how this clown slipped in. It was conservative talk radio that did the heavy lifting on the Gray Davis recall. Then Arnold refused to appear on any of these radio stations. He only participated in one debate and he made a fool of himself in that one. He never would have made it out of a Republican primary.
He has appointed every left wing jerk to positions in the California Bureaucracy that he could.
He has bought in on this global warming nonsense. He was supposed to be the “green governor” as some publications have called him. Only he used to drive a Hummer, lives in a Palatial Estate and flys back and forth between LA and Sacramento everyday in his Gulfstream. What a fraud. I'm told he is spending his own money for this so it is not on the taxpayer's dime. I will give him credit for this. But for him to critize Bush about so called "global warming" with his carbon footprint, well that really take the cake. Arnold is a jerk!

[Norman Bates]

I think Arnie said “no” to a run against Boxer. I’ve really grown disillusioned with him anyways. I have been willing to accomodate centrism because I understand it’s CA. But for crying our loud he’s really pushed IT passed its limits.

[SierraWasp]

Haven’t you been watching the outrageous judicial and executive appointments Arnoiled has been screwing us with already? OMG, it’s contemptable to say the least!!! I thought you knew!!!

[Drago]

Arnold is just joining McCain...

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/climate/2004-11-17-mccain-warming_x.htm

[Lijahsbubbe]

“Shove it, Arnold.” Well said.

I think it should be "shub it".

[SierraWasp]

"I have been willing to accomodate centrism because I understand it’s CA. But for crying our loud he’s really pushed IT passed its limits."

His first big bill signing was to slap a GovernMental land control CONservancy over 1/5th of CA's eastern geography bigger than the CA Coastal Commission!!!

To me, that's going immediately all the way to capitulation at the behest of Robert Kennedy, Jr., his EnvironMental advisor during the Recall campaign per his website!!!

I'm so tired of having RINO fatigue!!!

[Mr. K]

Geez how did we ever come to believe this guy was a republican?

Run as a DEMOCRAT NEXT TIME RINO

[sasquatch]

Arnold wants to address global warming in the manner he fixed the Kali budget. I say lets blow up the tent. Let him serve under O’Bama if he wants.