In Light of Decreased Global Temperatures, It’s Time to Take a Look at the Global Warming Spending Racket
…Climate Depot’s Morano & Apollo 7 Astronaut Walt Cunningham featured at ‘a UN-sanctioned press conference’ at UN Climate Summit in Warsaw, Poland: Skeptics Met By Hostile UN Crowd, told their skeptical views are ‘bullshit’ asked ‘How do you sleep at night?’ – Morano congratulates Australia for pulling out of UN climate talks
Via warmist website DeSmogblog.com: http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/11/19/climate-denial-group-cfact-congratulates-australia-during-warsaw-cop19-talks
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…Paper: ‘Why Would Anyone Want to Be the Next Al Gore?’ – ‘Climate change is about as dead a political platform as you can find these days’
…Inconvenient truth: Fracking has cut CO2 emissions 4 times faster than Obama’s failed cap & trade legislation
…WSJ: U.S. carbon emissions fell in 2012, thanks to the oil and gas industry
WSJ: U.S. carbon emissions fell in 2012, thanks to the oil and gas industry
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/10/wsj-us-carbon-emissions-fell-in-2012.html
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U.S. carbon emissions fell in 2012, thanks to the oil and gas industry.WSJ.COM 10/29/13: One of President Obama’s steadfast second-term priorities is his regulatory “climate action plan.” If the point is to reduce carbon emissions, the evidence suggests he’d accomplish more counting on capitalism.The federal Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported last week, to too little media fanfare, that U.S. energy-related carbon-dioxide emissions declined 3.8% in 2012, bringing C02 emissions to their lowest level since 1994. The only year since 1990 with a steeper decline was 2009 amid an economic recession. The 2012 decline occurred even as the economy grew 2.8%.Much of the 2012 decline was due to a warm first quarter that reduced the use of heating fuels, as well as fewer transportation emissions, as Americans drove less and overall vehicle miles were flat compared to 2011.More notable is that 2012 saw the largest drop in the overall “carbon intensity” of the economy since the feds began keeping records in 1949. The EIA reports that the boom in natural-gas production “substantially reduced the carbon intensity of electricity generation in 2012.” The switch to natural gas, mainly from coal, was so substantial that the resulting CO2-emissions decreases offset what was an “overall decline” last year in renewable power generation.The EIA report also cited such Administration policies as mandates for more fuel-efficient cars as contributing to the carbon decline. But those mandates played a token role in the overall reduction, though they have cost consumers in higher costs for vehicles.If you’re scoring at home, this means that the innovation of the private oil and gas industry in extracting natural gas from oil shale has done more to reduce CO2 emissions than have all of the Obama Administration’s subsidies, mandates and crony-capitalist schemes for renewable energy.Mr. Obama should say a prayer of thanks every day for the fracking and horizontal drilling revolutions, which have so far managed to avoid the crippling grasp of Washington regulators. If Mr. Obama is looking for a slogan for his “climate action plan,” here’s an idea: Keep on frackin’.
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Supreme Court could derail Obama climate agenda
Supreme Court could derail Obama climate agenda | The Daily Caller
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/24/supreme-court-could-derail-obama-climate-agenda/…
Analysis: Thanks to Natural Gas and Climate Change, U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Continue Downward Trend
Thanks to Natural Gas and Climate Change, U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Continue Downward Trend
Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger
Global Science Report is a feature from the Center for the Study of Science, where we highlight one or two important new items in the scientific literature or the popular media. For broader and more technical perspectives, consult our monthly “Current Wisdom.”
Carbon dioxide emissions in the United States from the production and consumption of energy have been on the decline since about 2005, after generally being on the rise ever since our country was first founded.
The decline in emissions between 2012 and 2011 was 3.8 percent, which, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) was the largest decline in a non-recession year since 1990 and the first time that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell while the per capita economic output increased by more than 2 percent. In other words, we are producingmore while emitting less carbon dioxide.
The big player in 2012 was the continued switch from coal to natural gas for electrical generation. It is generally accepted that gas-fired generation results in about half as much carbon dioxide emissions per kilowatt-hour as coal-fired.
While some would glibly say this is a result of increased regulation of greenhouse gases, it’s much more just good-old economics and the profit motive that are responsible. Hydraulic fracturing, horizontal drilling, and inherently less expensive physical plants mean it is cheaper to produce electrical power from gas than from coal. In fact, as the figure below shows, there’s been pretty much a one-for-one switch between the two sources, with coal-fired down by 215 billion kilowatt-hours (kwh) and gas up by 212.
Despite the fact that “renewable” electricity generation declined in 2012, carbon dioxide emissions per kwh still went down, by 3.5 percent, thanks to the overwhelming effect of natural gas substitution.
In 2012, the CO2 reductions from the combination of a more energy-efficient economy and a lower carbon-intensity energy supply were larger than the combined increase in gross domestic output and growth in population.
One signature of greenhouse-effect driven climate change is that winters (and especially the lowest temperatures of winter) should warm preferentially to summers. According to the EIA, “much more energy is needed for space heating than for air conditioning” and the very warm winter of 2012 saved much more energy than was cost by the warmer-than-average summer. …
New report: In 2012, U.S. CO2 emissions from energy consumption dropped to their lowest point since 1994
New report: In 2012, U.S. CO2 emissions from energy consumption dropped to their lowest point since 1994. http://t.co/B7XHk24840
Geologist E. Kirsten Peters new book: ‘The Whole Story of Climate’ – ‘While the typical American has the impression that climate would be stable if it weren’t for industrialization and the production of greenhouse gases from smokestacks and cars, geologic history in fact reveals a ceaselessly changing climate running back into the time thousands of years before the modern economy’
E. Kirsten Peters | The Whole Story of Climate
http://climatewholestory.com/e-kirsten-peters/
‘It is past time to start new conversations not predicated on the framework of somehow holding climate static through the sacrifices of carbon taxes or caps.’…