While the Goreacle was bloviating about “24 hours of climate reality“, Obama quietly slipped in the real reality – CO2 regulation is put on hold and Gore’s quest to regain his climate mojo has been made even more irrelevant.
Obama Delays CO2 Regulations Indefinitely
The Environmental Protection Agency is again delaying a plan to curb greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, saying it needs more time to propose the rule. The move comes amid intense pushback from business groups and Republican lawmakers who complain a recent slate of EPA proposals are chilling business investment and hindering the economic recovery. “I am very pleased by today’s announcement that one of EPA’s most economically damaging rules will be delayed,” Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe said in a statement, adding that Republicans would work to block other EPA rules from coming into effect. —The Wall Street Journal, 15 September 2011
A $38.6 billion loan guarantee program that the Obama administration promised would create or save 65,000 jobs has created just a few thousand jobs two years after it began. The program has directly created 3,545 new, permanent jobs after giving out almost half the allocated amount, according to Energy Department tallies. —Carol Leonnig and Steven Mufson, The Washington Post, 15 September 2011
The feds’ probe into the collapse of a green-tech firm favored by the White House could spell trouble for Team Obama in 2012. –Edward Morrisey, The Week, 13 September 2011
Last winter over three quarters of people rationed their energy use because of cost, while over 14 million households went without heating at some point to keep their energy costs down. The total amount of people pushed into fuel poverty now stands at an estimated 6.87 million. —My Finances News, 15 September 2011
Government climate change targets will put £500 on the average family’s fuel bill within four years, a study warns today. The report warns that the political elite’s obsession with renewable energy will damage Britain’s competitiveness without necessarily doing anything to tackle climate change. –Jason Groves, Daily Mail, 15 September 2011
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Thanks to Dr. Benny Peiser at The Global Warming Policy Foundation
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The Greenie Libtards are hating on Obama now. How does the saying go, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”? The more they hate him, the better he looks. Plus, the Republican candidates aren’t exactly appealing. Perry is the only “skeptic” among the bunch, and well, there just isn’t anything good about him that I’ve seen.
The local green radicals are in a fury about this. Pelosi even got in the act, suggesting a law suit. In SF SUVs have been getting vandalized quite a bit more since the change in policy.
What were they saying earlier this year?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/12/us-epa-carbon-texas-idUSTRE70B75H20110112
Congratulation skeptics!
http://bit.ly/qAXJ60
A signature of persistent natural thermohaline circulation cycles in observed climate
Knight et al, 2005
http://bit.ly/nfQr92
This means that the IPCC’s projection of 0.2 deg C per decade warming is wrong.
http://bit.ly/b9eKXz
And the oscillating pattern in the global mean temperature shown in the graph below is due to oceanic thermohaline circulation (THC).
http://bit.ly/ePQnJj
As a result, based on the data so far, the global warming rate is only 0.06 deg C per decade (not 0.2 deg C per decade of the IPCC)!
http://bit.ly/oI8dws
The current statutes that enable the EPA specifically bar the EPA from considering the economic impact of their actions. (Talk about dumb ideas!) What is needed is legislation specifically requiring that the EPA prepare an Economic Impact Report and make it available for public review and comment (minimum of 90 days but preferable 120-180 days). All data, codes, models, etc. required to be archived and copntemporaneously made available to the public. Also include language allowing interested parties the right to litigate.
Half of $38.6 Billion is $19.3 Billion, divide in the 3545 jobs created & that is approximately $5.4 MILLION per job….
When will this insanity stop?
How is increasing numbers of people suffering under fuel poverty good news? This has been my concern all along. Why should a handful of rich elitists have the priviledge of heating their homes all winter on a whim, while the rest of us freeze in the dark?
Obama might have backed off on this, but his minions are still doing their best to wipe out small businesses. My sister has a nice little deal going with a company that sells herbal products. This move by the FDA would wipe that out: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/new-law-could-empty-vitamins-aisle-2554533/
Common sense raising its ugly head?
In Europe and North America, there are tens of thousands of expensive bureaucrats who spend their lives dreaming up new pointless rules and regulations designed to help cripple western world economies. These rules and regulations are then rubber stamped by green-obsessed politicians with no thought for the consequences of their actions.
Extracting ourselves from the present global economic and financial mess is just being made that much more difficult and expensive by the EPA, Gore, Cameron and their ilk – all safely insulated from the realities of having to live in the real world.
” My sister has a nice little deal going with a company that sells herbal products. This move by the FDA would wipe that out: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/new-law-could-empty-vitamins-aisle-2554533/”
If this article is true why is there nothing about this on General Nutrition or Spring Valley vitamins sites? They would be the first let everyone know about such legislation. When this was tried before there was such an outcry the FDA backed off. The FDA wanted to make vitamins available from doctors by prescription only,
Just guess’in, but his daddy did not spank him when the boy lied. His daddy did give the boy a $1000 -‘here, you and Timmy go have a hamburger’.
Scientific community has out in the pasture, waiting to be herded to the milk bar, two-too many generations. Sole rulers. Often, these men are political aristocrats who want extra powers, sometimes relying on a group of wealthy nouveaux riches.
As long as a politician and a scientist collaborate for personal gain, there will be no objective science.
Can anyone verify this….is it true? EPA declares hay a pollutant…..
http://www.naturalnews.com/033537_hay_pollutant.html
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/latest/Hay-gate-Part-II-129146128.html
Makes it a bit clearer.
Not good enough. These regs. need to be put to sleep with finality and clarity so that cheap energy can be made available to poorer Americans chosing between food and heating/cooling. New coal plants will continue to be delayed until a new adminsitration augers a return to sanity. natural gas industries are also impacted by other regulations whose prudent execution will also require an EPA under different leadership.
How come is this in the “Al Gore is an idiot” category? It’s an EPA story! I was showing someone WUWT last week and went to show her how all the Al Gore posts were categorized thusly and was surprised to see several recent posts weren’t? Were you going soft, or just busy with the Goreathon?
I’m very tired, the Goreathon took a lot of effort. I’ll fix the other ones. This was included because of the photo and first paragraph, point being Gore was campaigning while all this happened. Goreathon was about his relevancy, nothing else.
While I feel it appropriate to breathe a sigh of relief, I do not for one minute believe this is over.
The EPA has simply decided to leave us on the brink of the carbon regulation precipice until after the next election. The green carpetbaggers will be silent for a while, but will pump their money into Obama’s re-election campaign knowing that their investment depends on four more years of Obama.
I know what I will do come November 2012, but what will you do? I expect a really nasty ride.
polistra says:
September 16, 2011 at 5:29 pm
@Mac the Knife:
““Sooooooo….. the EPA is reduced to being a show poodle, that ‘heels’ when the Obama administration jerks their leash?? This is the same way Hugo Chavez operates in Venezuela…..”
NO. EXACTLY WRONG. ”
HEY THERE POLISTRA!
I’m enjoying seeing the EPA being jerked around like a show poodle! Obama has used EPA as a political attack dog in his 1st 3 years in office, to implement his socialist agenda through ‘green’ environmental regulations. Now, he publicly yanks their leash and makes them ‘heel’ on this issue, to again serve his political agenda. In a transparent and lame attempt to look like a moderate, he’s desperate to find anything that will stimulate the economy and prevent his pending landslide failure in the upcoming 2012 election. This IS the same way Hugo Chavez operates in Venezuela…..
Failing to stimulate the economy in any meaningful fashion, beware the Obama administration repeated and continuing attempts to ‘wag the dog’. They are getting desperate…..
Another victory for the enemies of reason. Enjoy your fun while it lasts. Your days are numbered.