Obama Leads But No One Follows In Climate Change Fight

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 11/06/2015

[george76]

Energy: The resident wants to decarbonize the planet by killing fossil-fuel production and its high-paying jobs. Almost no other nation is following his lead despite the promises that will be made at the Paris climate summit.

Last week we learned in a Reuters report that Asia will build 500 coal-burning electric generation plants this year alone. An additional 1,000 are planned in China, India, Japan, Indonesia and other countries. The latest projections are that 40% of the added power generation in Southeast Asia by 2040 will be coal-fired.

Does this sound like a continent that's taking the alarm bells of catastrophic global warming seriously? So America shuts down its coal plants, while the rest of the world builds them.

If that isn't bad enough news for the climate change lobby, the Times of London reports the world can "nearly double the available supplies of oil and gas in the next 35 years." And oil giant BP has issued a report that concludes: "This impending glut of hydrocarbons has demolished fears that the world is running out of oil."

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When the Paris meetings end, expect happy talk from the leaders of the world that nations have made iron-clad commitments to move away from fossil fuels.

Alas, the only person on the planet who's still naive enough to believe the fantasy is Barack Obama.

And he calls us deniers

[Popman]

Actually much of the need for air conditioning could be avoided by building dwellings differently

I live in Tampa, Florida so no matter what materials, design specs that home I live in is constructed with, having no AC is brutal from April to October...

One of the main reasons Florida was lightly populated before the advent of AC and became a winter vacation state is the summers are simply too hot and humid....

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

If the AC goes away come on down and join us in Hell. :-)

The great untold technology story of the 20th century is air conditioning. It's responsible for the great southern migration of the last 60 years.

Strange that it never receives any attention.

[Safetgiver]

One of the main reasons Florida was lightly populated before the advent of AC and became a winter vacation state is the summers are simply too hot and humid.... Read an interesting article that it was NOT Sam Colt that tamed the West, but the Carrier brothers. Very enlightening.

[savedbygrace]

“If nobody’s following, you are not leading. You just wandered off.”

[Liz]

Everything the WH ding-a-ling (and his wife) pontificate about are actually sub rosa fund-raisers for their two tax-free foundations (TWO THAT WE KNOW OF). "Compassionate" money-hungry Michele recently went to the UK talking about "teaching girls." Today she's in fabulously wealthy Quatar w/ Obama's gift of $73 million of our tax dollars to "teach Muslim girls."

THE CLINTON MO Few months back, a teary-eyed Chelsea talked about the dwindling elephant herds. BOOM elephants became a fund-raiser for the Clinton Foundation. Have some fun---peruse the Clintons phony fund-raising projects.

CLINTON FOUNDATION---GLOBAL INITIATIVE web site
276 useless web PAGES of obscure "mini-charities"---
the MO to keep the Clinton wealth rolling in.

1271 Avenue of the Americas 42nd Floor
New York, NY 10020
212-348-8882

WEB SITE http://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative

NOTE The do-gooder Clintons calculatedly morphed into the tear-jerking "The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Family Foundation" for even more fund-raising capabilities w/ a friendly "family" aura. Chelsea cashed-in bigtime and is now being primed for holding govt office---the power-mad Clintons eternal govt grab.

"Smile everybody. Another $100 million came in today."

[RipSawyer]

Yeah, Eastern South Carolina is not that different from Florida and you can’t build anything that totally solves the problem for sure but there are ways to build that make it far less miserable than a modern home is when the a/c breaks down. People knew these things thousands of years ago but once a/c came around it didn’t seem worth the bother. Even the old wood frame houses that used to be built on many farms made it far more bearable than today’s houses are without a/c. They had high ceilings, a “breezeway” oriented East to West which was a hallway with a door on each end, in the summer the screen door was closed to keep out insects and the main door left open. Other rooms opened off the breezeway and windows were left open in hot weather with screens over them. The roof overhang was sufficient to shade the windows from direct sun and the layout allowed any breeze that blew to pass down the breezeway and pull air in through the windows. There were porches on the East and North side and maybe the South side as well. The kitchen was often in a separate building to keep the heat away from the rest of the house and to prevent kitchen fires from burning the entire house down.

A house with eight foot ceilings, insulated walls, little or no roof overhang, no porches and no shade trees that are large enough to really help is a death trap without a/c, you are much better off on the ground outside under a shade tree if you can keep the bugs off. Modern conveniences are great until a disaster happens and then, until they are restored, people may be vastly worse off than if they had never had them. People sometimes comment on how no one uses a front porch the way that they used to, the real reason people used to sit on the porch so much was that it was cooler than being in the house, especially when there was a sudden rain, you could go out on the porch and it was like going from a sauna into a refrigerator when a downpour started.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Good point. :-)

[DiogenesLamp]

I have no doubt that much Democrat pretend Angst for various issues is to feather their own nests and those of their supporters.

Note all the "Solar Energy" companies sucking on the tax payers tit are all Left Wing Democrat companies?

It's not just the Clintons, it' all of them.

[stephenjohnbanker]

From what I have read about Chelsea, she is as evil as her parents