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Obama’s Climate Fiasco Drives Aussies Closer To India & China
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Barack Obama defied the advice of his embassy in Canberra to deliver a stinging attack on the Abbott government’s climate policies in Brisbane last weekend. The US embassy, under the leadership of ambassador John Berry, advised the President, through his senior staff, not to couch his climate change comments in a way that would be seen as disobliging to the Abbott government, sources have revealed. Historians of the US-Australia relationship are unable to nominate a case of a visiting president making such a hostile speech for the host government. — Greg Sheridan, The Australian, 23 November 2014
The United States embassy in Canberra advised President Barack Obama not to make the provocative, anti-Abbott speech on climate change which he made at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. That the President acted against the advice of his own embassy reveals a deeply divided and in part dysfunctional Obama administration, unable to reconcile its foreign policy objectives and its domestic imperatives. Obama’s self-indulgent folly was in striking contrast to the masterful performances of China’s President Xi Jinping and India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Xi and Modi have both achieved almost everything they wanted from Asia’s season of summits. Obama has achieved almost nothing. –Greg Sheridan, The Australian, 22 November 2014
Germany is the biggest proponent of the green electricity revolution, but this new plant won’t be powered by the sun, wind or woodchips — it will burn dirty old coal. Built by German energy giant RWE at a cost of €2bn (£1.6bn), the plant is no aberration. This year the company, which owns Npower in Britain, and its rivals have poured billions of euros into a fleet of new coal-fired plants, the most polluting form of power generation. When finished they will be capable of supplying more than 8m households. Last year, German carbon dioxide emissions actually rose 1.2%, partly due to the resurgence of coal. –Danny Fortson, The Sunday Times, 23 November 2014
Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human race to cut CO2 emissions to the levels demanded by climate activists. Whatever the future holds, it is not a renewables-powered civilisation: such a thing is impossible. Koningstein and Fork write: “At the start of RE<C, we had shared the attitude of many stalwart environmentalists: We felt that with steady improvements to today’s renewable energy technologies, our society could stave off catastrophic climate change. We now know that to be a false hope … Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach.”– Lewis Page, The Register, 21 November 2014
Thanks to Dr. Benny Peiser of the GWPF for this roundup
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@RACookPE1978 November 23, 2014 at 8:32 am
See http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.asp for some facts rather than innuendo. That’s not to say Obama isn’t a Chicago machine ward heeler in an empty suit.
How anyone could believe that Obama could play politics in the Chicago sewer and not end up stinking was beyond me.
We had a convention in Chicago a couple years ago, and I checked the homicide map. There weren’t any murders within 2.1 miles of our convention site.
Last week Australia and China signed a free trade agreement. The agreement included the elimination of a 6 percent Chinese import tariff on power-station coal over two years. The 3 percent tariff on steel-making coal will be removed on the first day.
While Obama criticizes the Australian administration and a signed a carbon emissions agreement where we cut first, and China cuts much later, China the world’s biggest coal consumer will help miners in Australia struggling amid a global glut.
Have no fear, the bond between Australia and America will easily survive the ObamaNation. pg
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Lots can be said here. Some has already been said. So this is just a reminder.
As far as I know, there are 3 sources of clean coal. One is in a part of Africa that would be, at present, impractical to develop. Another is in Indonesia (maybe Malaysia?) that is or was controlled by the Lippo group. The last known is in Utah. Clinton declared that area a National Something-or-other that put mining it off base.
The Lippo group were big supporters of Clinton.
Now Hillery want’s to be President.
The war on “Carbon” has never been about the environment.
PS What I meant by “clean coal” is, if I remember correctly, was very, very low sulfur coal.
Obama was simply appeasing his One World Government Masters.. IF we in the US follow and throw out the green liars as the Australians did the OWG crowd would get mighty nervous about their life expectancy. We need to throw out the like of Obama fast and get some sanity and keep our nation from the socialist likes of his kind. The last Election was a resounding NO to the enviro wackos but Obama has an agenda. It was never about Climate and it has always been about control,,,
Obama the orphan? Or is it America the orphan?
In any case, Obama desperately needs to increase private capital capture and redistribution to compensate for his liberal fiscal policies. Forcing inefficient and costly methods of energy production is critical to realizing his dream of changing the world order. Notably, assassination of leaders in effectively neutral nations and replacement or isolation of leaders in allied or friendly nations.
Reblogged this on SiriusCoffee and commented:
You want a carbon neutral energy source for the future? Nuclear is the only viable one.
The stinging rebuke came from the American Nation who delivered a stinging attack on the President’s party in both houses. Does he not learn from this?
Mr Abbott on the other hand took climate change to an election and won a majority. Does he not know this?
Firey you are ABSOLUTELY correct. Obviously the American Embassy knew better. When Al Gore came to Australia a few months ago he sided with Clive Palmer of the PUP party, and Clive got a bit of publicity out of it, saying he would vote for an ETS scheme. He did not of course. I would say that your President was hoping to push green energy to compete with the Chinese manufacturing. With the Russian battleships patrolling the international waters, a typical Russian sabre rattling affair, yet Putin said he got a surprisingly warm welcome in Australia, another macho personality, who doesn’t like to be out shone by the Americans. But I think that Obama could see that Australia was not going to bend over backwards to side with him, and why should we. Sorry folks, we know this climate change is a load of cod’s whollop, as Maurice Newman took great claims to explain this before the G20. If Obama wants to still believe it, well considering some of the arch climate change sooth sayers are American, like Mann, and Gore, his one way of supporting them was to rubbish our PM’s opinion and action on this issue. Didn’t work Barry. If they can con you well it says a lot about your dealings with foreign governments. So back to the table eh?
As an American I am sorry about our Obamanation of a President and his destructive politics, policies and science.
As Mark Steyn has noted, Obama has form for alienating allies and sucking up to enemies. This is just another example.
The relationship with Australia is strong enough to survive his Presidency. But please, please don’t elect another one like him! Even the strongest friendships have limits.
Under authority given Congress by the 25th Amendment to the Constitution (ref. Wikipedia.org) Congress can remove Mr. Obama from the Office of President.
Congress can make a determination that Mr. Obama is incompetent and mentally unable to serve the Office of President, then order his forceful removal from Office and detainment by a medical care facility as his willful actions are an endangerment to himself, the citizens of the United States of America and the National Security and wellbeing of the United States of America.
I can understand his thinking. Australian Governments (of all political flavours) have sucked up to the US since Curtin. They seem to think Canberra is a branch office of Washington. (Regardless of whether the Australian people agree with this attitude or not.) So why should he expect them to do anything other than take it?
Is Abbott going to cancel the order for F35s and buy Russian, Swedish, or French planes that will be cheaper and actually work? Refuse to support the US in its wars? Close Pine Gap? Close the Darwin base? Hardly likely.
No-one outside Australia will notice popeyed Julie Bishop complaining. Obama can shrug that off.
Abbott has ruled out sending any more troops to Iraq … he has only sent troops at the request of Iraq to assist it in defending its nation. He will not send troops or support on the request of Obama.
“Popeyed” Julia made our displeasure known in her address to the UN security council last week … and received an ovation from the delegates.
Abbott has signaled that Australia will join the Chinese/Asian infrastructure bank contrary to the advice of the twerp Obama.
Contrast the swooning ju-LIAR Gillard, ex-PM, in the presence of her socialist idol, Obama … video needed an “R” rating!
What is wrong with people in OZ not wanting to give their money away to kingdoms and dictatorships a world away? It’ll be fun, and I am sure that the money will be spent on the people just like it was in the ‘oil for food’ program, or payments made to resist imperial occupation.
I do find it somewhat sad that President Obama, a man with such obvious talent and who’s presidency started with such optimism and hope, will be remembered for not actually having achieved much and for taking a position that declared CO2 as a pollutant. History will not be kind I fear, and this should serve as a warning to other leaders of the folly of jumping on ideological bandwagons.
That “obvious talent” wasn’t what the People expected. What exactly is the community organizer’s talent? We can rule out golf.
Weird too that none of his fellow students remember anything about him at Harvard … if he was that smart and talented, he’d surely be remembered for something.
See my post above. Assuming President Obama was one of the top two out of 10 black students admitted to Harvard in the 1987-1988 year, his LSAT put him in the top 4% of all Americans, and in the bottom 20% of all Harvard students that year.
The Emperor has no clothes. Everyone can see that he is naked, but the majority are still afraid to acknowledge it. Like the Emperor’s ministers in the story, they’re fearful of being accused by their peers of being “unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent.”
Did Mr. Obama not say that he would pursue evidence based policy? I admire that. I do wish he would make good on that promise.
America has had good and bad presidents. But so what? To Obama’s critics: if you think that there is anything unusually bad about him, and the sky is going to fall, you’re just different kinds of alarmists. America has survived some rather ordinary presidencies. I’m sure it will survive this one.
And what’s a thread like this one without giving one’s political opinion?
Reagan was charismatic and seemed to enjoy himself (Obama started this way). GHWB was professional but for some reason could not hold onto a second term despite a huge spike in his popularity. Clinton was presidential material, but was lucky to be able to coast along with the happy ’90s vibe (I think many of you understand how great the ’90s were). GWB was not presidential material – the job did not suit him. He had to throw around his country’s military strength to look like he had a vision. Obama could have been rather good, but dropped the ball. I don’t understand his odd love affair for illegal immigration – was he not a lawyer? Hello?
None of these men were as great as Roosevelt or Eisenhower, though. Nevermind Churchill, my pick for the 20th century’s greatest man. But who is?
Our partnership with USA is strong enough to survive this pumped up, lily livered liar. Sorry about that, I just had to get it off my chest..
A small, bitter man, we can be glad that Obama can’t distinguish between spouting ugly venom and leadership. He has only ever been a “community organizer” and old habits die hard. This is, in general, the fatal flaw of much of the left: they can only ever be negative, childishly demanding, spiteful and mean. Given the reins of “power” (how I detest that term), they flail and thrash around looking for an enemy and are ultimately the authors of their own undoing. Were Obama a leader, he would be far more troublesome. But he’s not; he’s a spoiled child and now he’s going to throw his toys around.
Let him do so — he’s going to be the lynch pin of a generation-long pivot to a general rejection of the statists and their particular brand of divisive negativity. The institutional left is slowly, reluctantly, awakening to the reality that their messiah will have been a catastrophe, more for them than for the country they revile so much and upon which they had hoped Obama would inflict fatal wounds. Watch for them to turn on Obama more and more as they try to salvage what’s left of what they saw as the culmination of the “revolution”. It’s too late; the mask has been lifted; the left thought their hour had come, but they misjudged. People have awoken to the deception, and the shimmering mirage of utopia-through-government is dissipating, as does any fool’s paradise, into the unyielding pavement of reality.
Obama is a disgrace for what he did. He tried to embarrass the Australian government over its policy on climate in a most disrespectful way … dabbling in Australian politics, when he was advised not to do so.
Australia is one of America’s closest allies, hosting such facilities as ‘North West Cape’ in Western Australia, and the infamous ‘Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap” (a US spy facility) near Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, and the US Marines in Darwin, in the Northern Territory.
Obama was more interested in engaging in political grandstanding with a Chinese communist leader than being diplomatic and courteous with a traditional western ally. What a bloody disgrace Obama is!
It also shows just how far in left field this radicalized president has stayed. He would abuse allies for a donor-based agenda topic.