I made it back to a computer in time today to get a copy of the State of the Union address, here are the relevant passages about climate:
“Now, one of the biggest factors in bringing more jobs back is our commitment to American energy. The all-of-the-above energy strategy I announced a few years ago is working, and today, America is closer to energy independence than we’ve been in decades.
One of the reasons why is natural gas – if extracted safely, it’s the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change. Businesses plan to invest almost $100 billion in new factories that use natural gas. I’ll cut red tape to help states get those factories built, and this Congress can help by putting people to work building fueling stations that shift more cars and trucks from foreign oil to American natural gas. My administration will keep working with the industry to sustain production and job growth while strengthening protection of our air, our water, and our communities. And while we’re at it, I’ll use my authority to protect more of our pristine federal lands for future generations.
It’s not just oil and natural gas production that’s booming; we’re becoming a global leader in solar, too. Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar; every panel pounded into place by a worker whose job can’t be outsourced. Let’s continue that progress with a smarter tax policy that stops giving $4 billion a year to fossil fuel industries that don’t need it, so that we can invest more in fuels of the future that do.
And even as we’ve increased energy production, we’ve partnered with businesses, builders, and local communities to reduce the energy we consume. When we rescued our automakers, for example, we worked with them to set higher fuel efficiency standards for our cars. In the coming months, I’ll build on that success by setting new standards for our trucks, so we can keep driving down oil imports and what we pay at the pump.
Taken together, our energy policy is creating jobs and leading to a cleaner, safer planet. Over the past eight years, the United States has reduced our total carbon pollution more than any other nation on Earth. But we have to act with more urgency – because a changing climate is already harming western communities struggling with drought, and coastal cities dealing with floods. That’s why I directed my administration to work with states, utilities, and others to set new standards on the amount of carbon pollution our power plants are allowed to dump into the air. The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. And when our children’s children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us to be able to say yes, we did.”
Pamela Gray says:
January 28, 2014 at 7:19 pm
Our great-grandchildren will scoff at brainless idiots – us – in much the same way we scoff at 6000 year old earth believing idiots. And their great-grandchildren will so the same to our future off-spring. Humans do not get smarter. We will have the same mix of village idiots, sheeple, and independent folks in the future as we do now. Sigh.
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And you scoff at your own peril 🙂
Rob Ricket says: @ur momisugly January 28, 2014 at 7:33 pm
The “pea” in O’s litany of rhetorical nonsense is the 100 billion for new factories.
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Since Obama took office the actual unemployment rate went from ~ 12% to ~ 24% And from December 2007 to October 2011 the USA has lost 6.5 million jobs. So why would anyone in their right mind believe him?
“If Obama had a city, it would look like Detroit.”
Here are the real heroic doers that made and continue to make the shale revolution happen:
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/11/essential-ingredient-of-us-shale-boom-an-american-culture-that-never-gave-up-even-in-the-shadow-of-the-global-recession/
Just about all of it done on private land.
Ignore the putz on TV tonight. Pretender. Fake.
“The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way.”
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It just did happen “overnight” with innovation in our gas supplies.
Leave the “tough choices” to those qualified to make them.
Had this guy even watched the weather in his own country anytime this year – the coldest in a century. And no its not climate change when morons build on ocean and river flood plains. That’s call human idiocy. Drought? Yeah – if you build cities in dry climates you get exactly what you expect – drought. God – this guys leads a nation?
WestHighlander says: @ur momisugly January 28, 2014 at 7:42 pm
Here’s the true gist — ” Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar; every panel pounded into place by a worker whose job can’t be outsourced. ”
Of course that job of pounding a panel into place cant’t be outsoursed outside the US — but the ignorant, gullible illegal alien who does the job….
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Actually the American economy is so bad there is a net migration BACK TO MEXICO!
Illegal Immigrants Returning to Mexico in Record Numbers
(Did some one say something about deserting a sinking ship…)
Janice Moore says:
January 28, 2014 at 7:36 pm
“What Have You Done for Me Lately?”
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Ya know I can’t pass that up 😉
http://youtu.be/r9uizdKZAGE
Re: (said with a smile, ugh)
“… your own peril … .” (Steve B to Pamela Gray at 7:58pm)
What peril is that, exactly, Mr. B.?
FYI: Ms. Gray has a big, burly, boyfriend who adores her and who hunts for a hobby… .
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How’s everything, Pamela? I hope that this will be a truly happy Valentine’s Day for you. (Still smiling.)
“…with less of the carbon pollution…”
Diamonds are pollution? Why is Mr. Obama afraid to say “carbon dioxide?” Is he worried a grade school student will learn he thinks plant food is pollution?
And not one iota of the new gas and oil production is because of this giant Zero, it is in spite of him. What a loser.
A “one trick pony” act rapidly loses audience interest, no matter how flawless the performance may be. The pony never understands.
To really understand where Obama is coming from, you need to read this:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/09/16/130916fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all
It’s almost if is straight out of MC “State of Fear”
For Example:
“Steyer put on a pair of khakis, changed into a blue shirt, and read his script aloud. “I’m Tom Steyer, I evaluate investments and help grow companies,” he said.”
Obama is tainted by the rich and powerful utopian left. He tries to shake them off….but alas..he cannot.
OssQss! Heh, heh. I’m not surprised (great minds, heh, heh). I almost posted that one, too! (But, it’s a little ambivalent at the end… actually that’s perfect — to represent those wishy-washy libs)
Say, I sure hope you see this post: Thank you for your encouragement to us all (about 2 weeks ago) to “make it a good one” (a good day). That same afternoon, when I hit the uphill grade in my jog, I grimly repeated that and IT HELPED! (and I’ve used it since — a simple but profound and good truth!)
Carpe diem!
Janice, JANICE…we need to explain to Mr. B that there is NO THREAT from Pamela Grey’s “boyfriend”. After all he only hunts BIG GAME and not small varmits!
albertalad says: @ur momisugly January 28, 2014 at 8:04 pm
God – this guys leads a nation?
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Obummers last job was community organizer. He would not know real work if it bit him in the arse!
At one point a few years ago, he said something like the most meaningful job you could do was work for the government or words to that effect.
The guy has NO CLUE what actually runs an economy.
Ha, ha, ha, Mr. Hugoson. Good one.
Let’s see if Mr. B. comes up with anything that could count as a real “peril”.
(wasn’t that smile he gave Pamela creepy? ugh)
Another worthwhile link:
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/10/what-delicious-irony-the-oil-industry-including-arch-enemies-the-koch-brothers-are-boosting-obama/
The Obama Administration has done plenty to attempt to slow domestic energy production:
http://anotherslownewsday.wordpress.com/about/politics/american-energy-2/barack-obamas-energy-policies/
Personally I get a chuckle from all this – POTUS really is in a spot – if he keeps up the anti-humanity, faked-up “environmental” rhetoric, which of course he has to if just to keep the loyal leftists in line behind him, he risks the Great American Energy Train leaving the station without him; and after all, he wants to take credit for the renaissance in American energy that is fracking. You know he does. It has gotten too big to ignore, and things are moving fast. He needs to reposition without alienating the mindless robots that are his supporters and electoral base. So he says some faked-up crap; just like he always does. He’s just a PR man.
Man-Made Global Warming is so last century. We care on this blog a lot more about it than the public – look at the public polls. No one gives a hoot. They talk about warming, and everyone sees winter is doing just fine. They talk about flooding, and seaports around the world remain a top real-estate investment – Al Gore buys beachfront property. Laughable. That he can stand in front of a camera with a straight face and spew that nonsense is…. amazing.
@ur momisugly Gail Combs — Thank you for all those great links. Sure do appreciate how MUCH of your extensive research library you share with us, Wonder Woman.
Carpe diem!
You Betcha!
We only have so many opportunities to do so.
It is always a beautiful day when you wake up and see green grass and not roots 😊
Insert U2 Video here 😉
You folks must be “Mean Spirited Republicans”. How can you denigrate Obama’s wonderful achievement? Here is what he said:
” Over the past eight years, the United States has reduced our total carbon pollution more than any other nation on Earth. ”
Yes! Thanks to our glorious leader we did that while China, Russia, India & Brazil increased their “Carbon Pollution” at an accelerating rate. The economies of the BRIC countries prospered while ours went into decline with fewer jobs and more poverty. Hail Obama!
“…a smarter tax policy that stops giving $4 billion a year to fossil fuel industries that don’t need it…” I’m looking forward to seeing how he does this.
Unfortunately I lost the link when I upgraded computers, but of that “4 billion”, just over a billion goes to the national oil and gas reserves. Chop that and lose the election!
A little under 1 billion goes to agricultural subsidies. Chop that and lose the election!
A little under a billion goes for home heating subsidies so that all those people in the NE who can’t afford heating oil won’t be able to afford any at all. Chop that!
I can’t remember where the remaining “subsidy” is allocated, but it’s all just padding and pandering to his voting base.
Janice Moore says:
January 28, 2014 at 8:25 pm (replying to)
Yeah, yeah. Just trying to get on her good side so you don’t have to bring back all that gunpowder-loaded firewood you “borrowed” off her back porch the other day. ….
“we’re becoming a global leader in solar, too.”
Perhaps we’d be there already Solyndra didn’t go bankrupt.
While pounding in those fragile panels might not be outsourced, the labor needed is greatly reduced by advancing technology. And that trend is certain to increase because of costs mandated by some of his other programs.
My prayers are with my American friends tonite, with a President like that you certainly need them. Thank God PM Harper seems to have the courage to not bow to green tyranny.
“I’ll use my authority…”
Translation: I’ll continue to subvert the democratic process by bypassing congress. You, people, will get what I think is good for you. Suck it up.