These are some of the quotes from the news that made my day. Continue reading
Climate Change
Roped in by a headline writer
“The GOP Has Its Own Nanny State Dream,” read the headline over a guest editorial by Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post. Obviously, the far-fetched headline caught my attention. Continue reading
Liberal newspaper gives millennials weak advice on issues to support
While perusing the e-edition of my Michigan hometown newspaper, I came across a guest editorial, “Five reasons millennials must vote in November,” from the Sacramento Bee that caught my attention. Continue reading
Obama wants shareholders to bite the hand that feeds them in effort to push his climate change agenda
On Wednesday, I wrote about auto manufacturers having second thoughts about the EPA’s 2025 fuel efficiency standard they signed-on to in 2011, and the result of getting in bed with big government. They are forecasting difficulty in selling their cars – expected to cost some $6,000 more – in a market where low fuel prices prevail.
Now President Obama and his EPA have their sights set on the fossil fuel industry itself, making it even more difficult for auto makers to sell their cars. Continue reading
The ‘not I’ business community needs to step up
Regular readers of this blog will recall my frequent criticism of businesses that get in bed with big government. We’ve seen it with automobile manufacturers and café standards. We saw pharmaceuticals and various health entities support ObamaCare. And we’ve witnessed energy firms jump on the climate change train. Continue reading
European regulators waking up to financial effects of reducing carbon emissions
While President Obama supports the warming of global temperature scare being foisted upon us by environmentalists, the European financial sector has begun looking at the risks associated with the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. Continue reading
Views on the climate change snow job
Earlier this week, I began writing another piece on the continued effort to convince us that we, and the carbon dioxide we emit, are the cause of global warming and ultimately the weather disasters around the world.
A full page in the Jan. 24, 2016 USA Today devoted to how weather made news world-wide in 2015 was the impetus. I saw it as another liberal snow job to promote the reduction of carbon emissions, which “they” would have us believe causes extremes in weather – hurricanes, cyclones, record heat, floods and drought.
As I began to draft this piece critical of the USA Today scare tactic, an article in the Jan 25, 2016 Wall Street Journal, “The Climate Snow Job,” came to my attention. “The notion that world-wide weather is becoming more extreme is just that,” wrote Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist and Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Click here, to read his interesting column.
I stored this piece in “Drafts” while I concentrated on more topical news – Iran, ISIS, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Continue reading
Obama continues war on coal industry
(Cartoon courtesy of Michael Ramirez, IBD)
In recent posts I have written about President Obama’s seven-year hatred of the coal industry despite the fact that coal has supplied us with the cheapest energy and still produces about a third of America’s energy.
Further evidence of his 2008 threat to bankrupt coal companies was revealed this week when Arch Coal filed for Chapter 11 protection, following the earlier filings of Patriot Coal, Walter Energy and Alpha Natural Resources. The actions of Obama and his compliant EPA have killed some 40,000 lower and middle class jobs during his tenure. Continue reading
IBD sees ISIS as the real enemy too
After posting my thoughts here that we now have a plan to reduce carbon emissions over the next 50 years, but lack a plan to destroy ISIS today, I was pleased to see the Investor’s Business Daily editorial position, Leaders 
Fight Phony Climate Enemy – Solving Real Problems Too Hard. “What better enemy for them to tackle than one that can’t be seen, whose damage can’ be quantified, and which can’t fight back?” IBD states.
“They should get serious about eradicating terrorism. Climate change has harmed no one, but terrorists continue to slaughter in large numbers – nearly 33,000 people were killed just last year in terrorist attacks,” according to the IBD editorial. Continue reading
John Kerry, negotiator extraordinaire
There he was this weekend, Secretary of State John Kerry, touting the Paris agreement on global emissions reduction he negotiated for the United States; the same John Kerry who negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran.
Master negotiator John Kerry touted his Paris agreement on carbon emissions reduction this weekend. (nypost.com)
Understandably, Kerry spent most of his time defending the lack of any provision for enforcing the “pledged” reductions by the 185 countries, saying that “If there had been a penalty, we wouldn’t have gotten agreement. So it has to be voluntary. We got the best deal we could.” Continue reading