Obama Wants to Waste a Billion on "Climate Change"
By Alan
Caruba
Barack
Obama will be remembered for many things during his two terms in office, but
high on the list, right after lying to everyone about everything, will be his
determination to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on every Green scheme from
solar and wind energy to electric cars, and now on “climate change.”
He is
calling for a billion-dollar climate change fund in his forthcoming budget, due
out next month. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, the fund “would be
spent on researching the projected effects of climate change and helping
Americans prepare for them, including with new technology and infrastructure,
according to the White House.
We don’t
need any research and we don’t need any new technology. The National Weather
Service has hugely expensive computers that enable it to predict what the
weather will be anywhere in the U.S. with some measure of accuracy for up to
three or four days. After that, it gets fuzzy. What will the weather be next
week? Well, maybe a bit warmer or a bit colder.
As for the
effects of weather events, we have centuries of knowledge regarding this. We
know what happens after a blizzard or a hurricane, a drought or a flood.
When a
huge storm like Sandy hit the East Coast, we had FEMA that was supposed to come
in and help the victims. The federal government also came up with a couple of
million for the States most affected, but it is still a problem that local
first responders and utilities have to address most directly.
Obama was
out in California to show his concern for the drought-stricken farmers and the
administration is speeding delivery of $100 million of aid to livestock
farmers, $15 million for areas hit hardest, and $60 million for California food
banks to help the poor. Rep. Kevin McCarthy(R-CA) pointed out that the drought
has been “exacerbated by federal and state regulations” including an
environmental rule that placed “the well-being of fish…ahead of the well-being”
of communities.
Like Rep.
McCarthy, those on the scene point out that the drought is in part the result
of the failure to restore the water flow from California’s water-heavy north to
farmers in the central and south. House Bill 3964 does that, but only if the
Senate will stop holding it up. Rep. McCarthy is joined by Rep. Devin Nunes
explaining that California’s system of aqueducts and storage tanks was designed
long ago to take advantage of rain and mountain runoff from wet years and store
it for use in dry years.
As
Investors.com pointed out, “Environmental special interests managed to
dismantle the system by diverting water meant for farms to pet projects, such as
saving delta smelt, a baitfish. That move forced the flushing of three million
acre-feet of water originally slated for the Central Valley into the ocean over
the past five years.”
Obama made
no mention of that, but it is an example of how, in the name of climate change
billions are wasted or lost, such as when the outcry over Spotted Owls caused a
vast portion of the Northwest’s timber industry was decimated by the false
claim that they were “endangered.”
All this
traces back to the founding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological
Organization and the United Nations Environmental Program. The IPCC was given a
formal blessing by the UN General Assembly through Resolution 43/53.
And what
has the IPCC done? It has championed the utterly false claim that carbon
dioxide (CO2) is responsible for warming the Earth and that all the industries
and other human activities that create CO2 emissions had to reduce them in
order to save the Earth. In 2007 the IPCC and Al Gore would share a Nobel Peace
Prize. As an organization and as an individual these two have proved to be the
among the greatest liars on planet Earth.
Dr. Craig
D. Idso, PhD, is the founder and chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon
Dioxide and Global Change. He is an advisor to The Heartland Institute and,
with Dr. Robert M. Carter and Dr. S. Fred Singer, authored the 2011 study,
“Climate Change Reconsidered”, for the entertainingly named NIPCC—Not the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change. Published by The Heartland Institute, a free market think tank that has
led the effort to expose the IPCC since 2009, sponsoring eight international
conferences, the report was updated in 2013 and a new update is due in March.
Writing in
The Hill on January 30, Dr. Idso said “the President’s concerns for the planet
are based upon flawed and speculative science; and his policy prescription is a
recipe for failure” noting that “literally thousands of scientific studies have
produced findings that run counter to his view of future climate.”
“As just
one example, and a damning one at that, all of the computer models upon which
his vision is based failed to predict the current plateau (the cooling cycle)
in global temperature that has continued for the past 16 years. That the Earth
has not warmed significantly during this period, despite an 8 percent increase
in atmospheric CO2, is a major indictment of the model’s credibility in
predicting future climate, as well as the President’s assertion that debate on
this topic is ‘settled’.”
“The
taxation or regulation of CO2 emissions is an unnecessary and detrimental
policy option that should be shunned,” said Dr. Idso. Unfortunately for
Americans, that is precisely the policy being driven by Obama’s Environmental
Protection Agency, along with the Department of the Interior and other elements
of the government.
So the
trip to California with its promise of more million spent when, in fact, the
Green policies of that State have caused the loss of the Central lands that
produce a major portion of the nation’s food stocks, reveals how utterly
corrupt Obama’s climate-related policies have been since he took office in
2009.
Billions
of taxpayer dollars have been squandered by the crony capitalism that is the
driving force behind the IPCC’s and U.S. demands for the reduction of CO2
emissions.
There is
climate change and it has been going on for 4.5 billion years on planet Earth.
It has everything to do with the Sun, the oceans, volcanic activity and other
natural factors. It has nothing to do with the planet’s human population.
What is
profoundly disturbing is the deliberate political agenda behind the President’s
lies and Secretary of State John Kerry’s irrational belief that climate change
is the world’s “most fearsome” weapon of mass destruction.
© Alan
Caruba, 2014
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