Hope on Ice: The White House Gets Real on Climate Change

Wall Street Journal Blog ^ | March 4, 2009 | by Russell Gold

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Many environmentalists preach the immediate need for urgent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid … well, very, very bad, irreversible climate change.

Todd Stern, the Obama administration’s new top climate-change negotiator, wants to tamp down on the expectations. He talks tough and is all for the shift to a low-carbon economy, but he’s not an ideologue. And he may well be reflecting the White House’s pragmatism in the face of numerous challenges.

In a speech that Stephen Power reported in the Wall Street Journal , Mr. Stern said the road map of greenhouse-gas emission reductions laid out at a 2007 summit in Bali was simply too ambitious. “We need to be very mindful of what the dictates of science are, and of the art of the possible,” he said. The Bali targets – a 25% to 40% cut by industrialized nations by 2020 – were simply too ambitious. “It’s not possible to get that kind of number. It’s not going to happen,” he said. [snip]

But lest environmentalists grow despondent, Mr. Stern threw a few bones to the greens who backed the Obama candidacy, but are still concerned the Obama administration will move too slowly.

He said the White House was eager to pass legislation this year to cap U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions for the first time. He also said that the administration will demand developing countries agree to “substantial reductions” in emissions.

[Tarpon]

Hoax is freezing in the snow.

Pay more in taxes to the government so government scientists can pretend to control the weather. Don’t worry, it will soon be so cold, the ice growing so fast, the snow piled so deep that soon, Al Gore will be the only one left on the planet who doesn’t know Al Gore is an idiot.

What we better focus on is the decrease in food crops the quite sun will bring.

[Tex Pete]

Were they serious on “climate change” when Obama took his two 747s and limo-carrying cargo plane the 117 air miles from Andrews AFB to Williamsburg, VA? A 37 minute flight?

Is that like getting serious about earmarks immediately after signing a spending bill with 9,000 earmarks?

[Bulwinkle]

Hope on Ice????

Arctic ice doing well compared to recent years:
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

Great Lakes Ice? whopper ice:

Weekly Ice Cover compared to average
http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/Ice_Can/GL/CVCSWCTGL.gif

Historical Date Ice Coverage
http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/Ice_Can/GL/CVCHDCTGL.gif

[lilylangtree]

Unbelievable!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Thank you!

[Reeses]

This recession has reduced world CO2 emissions dramatically. The original Kyoto Protocol targets have been surpassed. They want more blood? Maybe this isn't about CO2.

[A. Rational Human]

They want the total collapse of the American economy and the total confiscation of all the wealth that is left. Following that will be the collapse of modern technological civilization.

You cannot maintain a high technology civilization based upon poverty and slavery. Yet that is exactly where we are heading.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[libstripper]

You cannot maintain a high technology civilization based upon poverty and slavery. Yet that is exactly where we are heading.

That's exactly what the virulent communist, the Anmerica and American hating Hussein Obama wants to do to us. All anybody needed to do was listen to the Reverend Wright.