Flashback 2011: Obama on raising gas taxes: ‘It hurts’ families and businesses
Flashback: Obama on raising gas taxes: ‘It hurts’ families and businesses
From his March 30, 2011 address on energy security. Full address below. ### The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate ReleaseMarch 30, 2011 Remarks by the President on America’s Energy Security Georgetown University Washington, D.C. THE PRESIDENT: . . .
— gReader Pro…
President Obama Proposes $10 per Barrel Carbon Tax
President Obama Proposes $10 per Barrel Carbon Tax
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/02/04/president-obama-proposes-10-per-barrel-carbon-tax/
Guest essay by Eric Worrall President Obama has proposed a $10 per barrel carbon tax to fund renewable energy, and to “encourage” people to stop using oil. From the Whitehouse Statement; For too long, bipartisan support for innovative and expansive transportation investment has not been accompanied by a long-term plan for paying for it. We…
— gReader Pro…
‘Global warming’ could be causing dogs to become depressed, say pet behaviourists
Leading pet behaviourists told The Independent that the number of depressed and unsettled dogs they have seen in recent months is unprecedented.
And they suggested that the spate of wet winters could be at the root of the problem, as owners cut down on the daily walks that are crucial to keeping dogs’ spirits up.
“I’ve been working with dogs for more than 20 years and I can’t remember a time when they’ve been this bored. I tend to see boredom in bursts but I’m seeing it chronically this winter,” said Carolyn Menteith, a dog behaviourist who was named Britain’s Instructor of the Year in 2015.
“They are just really, really, bored. People are quite happy to get their dogs out in frosty, hard weather but not when it’s muddy and horrible.”
…
She – like many scientists and meteorologists – puts this down to climate change and expects to see more bored dogs in the future as global warming unleashes increasingly frequent and intense bouts of winter rainfall.…
Glacial Inception Delayed By Humans?
…LA Times: Climate change and pets: More fleas, more heartworm
Climate change doesn’t just affect habitats for wildlife. It’s also affecting cats and dogs.
Fleas and ticks are getting smaller, but there are more of them, they eat more often, and they’re causing problems in what used to be the colder months.
Heartworm is spread by mosquitoes, but those mosquitoes — which used to be found only in certain regions — are now carrying the disease all over the United States.
Increased temperatures have turned kitten season into a year-long event instead of a spring ritual. The weather is even disrupting hibernation for a California woman’s pet tortoises.
NASA recently declared that 2015 was the hottest year on Earth in 136 years of record-keeping with an average temperature of 58.62 degrees.
For pet-owners, those changes may mean rethinking preventive care like giving dogs flea and tick repellent and heartworm pills.…
Warmist Naomi Klein claims Sen. Inhofe missed skeptic event due to ‘climate change illness’
…Warmist Naomi Klein: ‘There are no non-radical options left before us’
Klein: ‘You know, I have to give credit to John Kerry in terms of the fact that he’s been out front making the connection between the civil war in Syria and climate change, that before the outbreak of civil war, Syria experienced the worst drought in its history and that led to an internal migration of between 1.5 and 2 million people, and when you have that kind of massive internal migration, it exacerbates tension in an already tense place.’
‘We find ourselves in this moment where there are no non-radical options left before us. Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don’t change course, if we don’t change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world. And that is what climate scientists are telling us when they say business as usual leads to three to four degrees Celsius of warming. That’s the road we are on. We can get off that road, but we’re now so far along it, we’ve put off the crucial policies for so long, that now we can’t do it gradually. We have to swerve, right? And swerving requires such a radical departure from the kind of political and economic system we have right now that we pretty much have to change everything.’
…
Aussie science group CSIRO wipes out climate division — 350 scientists to go — since it’s ‘beyond debate’ who needs em?
…Climate Scientist Destroys WaPo Global Warming Alarmists
The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang (CWG) blog attempted to link the recent East Coast blizzard to global warming Wednesday, only to be shot down by veteran climate scientist Chip Knappenberger.
“To me some folks at Capital Weather Gang are overly eager to link human-caused climate change to extreme weather events,” Knappenberger, a climate scientist at the libertarian Cato Institute, told The Daily Caller Caller News Foundation. “There is a lot of scientific research out there on the complexities of extreme weather events and undoubtedly there is much more still to come. In fact, the breadth of extreme weather literature is so large that, through careful selection, you can pretty much build any story you want to when it comes to how any particular type of event may (or may not) have been influenced by greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.”
CWG reported Wednesday that seven of the top ten snowstorms in the Washington, D.C.-area have occurred since 1979. The Gang used this fact to go ahead and argue the “tempo of big storms for the city has increased” due to global warming. The Post concluded that “the planet may be changing in multiple ways to help intensify the most severe East Coast snowstorms, even as the climate warms and becomes less hospitable for snow.”
Knappenberger disagreed and pummeled CWG with a blizzard of tweets detailing why the argument was overblown.
“The literature on most extreme weather types indicates that while enhanced atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases may play some role in the evolution of the development, intensity, track, etc. of the event, that the impact is both uncertain and dwarfed by natural variability,” Knappenberger continued
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/04/climate-scientist-destroys-wapo-global-warming-alarmists/#ixzz3zDggZk8C…