The carbon footprint of the U.S. is back to 1994 levels, thanks to the increased use of clean-burning natural gas in our electric power plants. This trend will only continue as more natural gas is discovered and more power plants are converted.
Why, then, would Obama prioritize global warming in his inauguration speech?
Bingo. I found the answer in an obscure comment made by some lame pundit on a late night Fox News re-broadcast. Stale news by every metric on the planet.
John Kerry made a remark in his nomination hearings for Secretary of State about using that office to fight global warming. Huh? The Department of State? Fighting Global Warming?
Who’s stupid idea was that?
It was Hillary Clinton’s idea, actually. In December of 2009 she promised some UN climate change conference in Copenhagen that the U.S. would pony up $100 billion a year to help poor countries fight global warming.
This, when the U.S. was smack dab in the midst of the worse economic downturn since the Great Depression? Promising $100 billion to dirt poor countries to “fight global warming.” Just what are they going to do with that money, use solar panels to air condition their mud brick huts?
John Kerry supports this whole notion. He’s actually quite enthusiastic about it. A billionaire, promising $100 billion of somebody else’s money to fund projects for his power-elite friend’s companies to build infrastructure in nations that still fight their wars with machetes?
The ominous part about all of this is that neither Clinton nor Kerry would voice these ambitions unless Barack Hussein Obama put the words in their mouths.
Clinton gave the idea passive approval. Now Obama has found a horseman who will do more than promise the $100 billion. He’ll deliver.
The United Nations has already floated an idea of a global “carbon tax” to be imposed on industrialized nations to pay for the damages caused by global warming.
Somehow China, who generates far more greenhouses emissions than the U.S. (and has a fraction of the forested area that we have to offset all our carbon emissions), is still a “third world nation” in the eyes of the UN. The second biggest economy in the world?
Obama’s laser focus on global warming, then, is not directed at the U.S. Just like all his fiery speeches during the campaign were directed at his 45%-no-federal-taxes base; this new agenda item is directed at the world.
Black man speaks with forked tongue.
Obama’s wealth redistribution agenda is well underway in the U.S. Now he’s going to redistribute our wealth around the whole world. I imagine Susan Rice’s replacement will be a real global warming fascist anxious to get the ball rolling in the UN.
Woe is me, will the war never end?
