Inside Story: Aired on Monday June 2, 2014
Hosted by Ray Suarez – Featuring Climate Depot’s Morano with Debate Opponents: Sue Tierney, Managing Director of the Analysis Institute in San Francisco; and Vicki Arroyo, Director of Georgetown Law’s Climate Center.
‘Inside Story’ Host Ray Suarez cautions at the beginning of the program: ‘We are not going to have an argument on whether it’s a right thing to do or a back and forth about global warming, whether it’s really happening and so on.’
Selected Excerpts from Morano:
Morano: This is a sad day for American history. We have a long history of rejecting climate plans. We signed UN treaties but failed to ratify them. We tried cap-and-trade in 2003, 2005, 2008, it passed the House in 2009 but failed in Senate in 2010. The American people could not be more clear that they don’t want this and Congress did not want it. Many politicians voted out after voting for cap-and-trade in 2009, many Republicans in particular.
Using executive orders, in a way, is strategically brilliant – bypassing Congress.
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Morano: They are demonizing carbon dioxide — it is scientifically horrible what they have done. Linking CO2 to storms and the President is implying that the goal of the reductions is going to alter future storms, hurricanes, floods and droughts. They are using the regulations as a justification. They are bastardizing science to make that claim…We don’t know what technology is going to be into the future, we don’t need a government bureaucracy dictating our energy future. It is a sad day in American history.
Host: Suarez: ‘The path is open we have been told what the finish line is, and everyone has been told ‘how you get there is your business. How is that the government dictating?’
Morano: They are saying ‘you can go to anyone hotel in the world, but you have to go to this hotel.’ Oh, you can take a back road or a highway, but what if you don’t want to go to that hotel? Our goal should be plentiful energy for Americans and everything that comes along with that, economic growth, jobs. The goal of focusing on a trace essential gas in the atmosphere as the big boogeyman and then altering all our policy to fit that — is wrong!
The CO2 cuts should not be our destination, our destination should be economic growth, jobs and energy abundance. We are the Saudi Arabia of coal. We are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas fracking.
I think this is good news for Putin, this is good news for China. They are laughing as we shoot ourselves in the foot with Hocus Pokus science — meaning that EPA regulations are somehow going to affect future floods, droughts, hurricanes. It won’t even affect global CO2 levels in the end given how much developing world is advancing.
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Morano: The important thing to remember. These types of regulations are announced as one thing and they will continue to evolve, to change and likely expand as you go through court cases — as you go through future administrations — if this is allowed to be implemented and if the next president goes through with it. Whatever we are talking about today won’t be relevant. They are going to change all of these goals, change all of these standards.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimated $50 billion dollars and a quarter million jobs lost because of EPA regulations. It’s hard to have an accurate number because we don’t know the future and each state has different energy mixes.
Ultimately this is centrally planned from the U.S. government, at a time when Spain and Europe is walking away from green jobs, at a time when Germany is becoming more dependent on coal fired power. At a time when Australia — which has shown great courage and basically walked away from all of this global warming CO2 emission reductions, laughed at the UN, walked out of UN climate conference in Poland which I attended in November 2013. So the U.S is committing itself to something the rest of the word is scratching its head about.
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Morano: It is not going to achieve anything for the climate, it won’t even achieve global CO2 reductions. It’s pure symbolism. And it’s not an insurance policy against global warming. If this were an insurance policy, the premium would cost more than any benefits you would ever get out of it.
This is now a centrally planned economy. The antithesis of innovation is to have a government – an un-elected bureaucracy like the EPA dictating energy policy and a president on record saying he wanted electricity prices to ‘necessarily skyrocket’. His science adviser John Holden is on record in 1975 saying that one of the hazards of a free society is energy that is too cheap and abundant. And he talked about it with some contempt about people using their car to drive out and buy a six pack of beer.
This is an administration that is driven by ideology on this, it is certainly not science, why would we turn over our innovation, creativity, business, and technology to the dictates and whims of the Environmental protection agency which can pretty much do whatever the Hell it wants to as we go forward here.
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Morano: Who could have foreseen the fracking revolution, that brought our emissions down, depending on the estimates, to mid-1990s levels. In the U.S. we are doing better than the Europeans who ratified the Kyoto protocol in many ways with our reductions through technology. We don’t’ need EPA regulations.
I would argue the only change of climate that we are going to see from these EPA regulations is the political climate as many Democrats — especially from coal producing states — are running very scared of this. And the White House has already said it’s OK if they don’t want to support this or they criticize this. They are sensitive to the politics to this.
But this could be devastating politically for them because the American public is not going to like un-elected bureaucratic taking over energy goals.
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Morano: This will evolve in 3 years, 5 years, from now. Once you give them expanded bureaucratic power — there is no limit. There is no limit of where future bureaucracies will go. It will be up to the whims and dictates of future bureaucrats.
End Morano’s partial transcript.
Watch Full 30 minute debate here.
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Marc Morano On EPA Action “Once You Give Them This Expanded Bureaucratic Power, There Is No Limit”
Marc Morano appeared on Al Jazeera America for a discussion round about whether the EPA bureaucratic power grab to regulate coal will have impacts on the economy and environment.
Watch video here: https://ajam.app.box.com
Morano compares CO2 reductions to an insurance policy, one where the premiums are far more costly than anything you’ll ever get out of it.
Ideology-driven policy
He also reminds that coal power plants are far more efficient and cleaner today then they used to be. Morano also warned that the underlying drive behind the Obama policy is to make energy far more expensive and that it is driven by ideology, and not science.
Democrats “running very scared”
On the political front, Morano adds that the only climate that is going to change is the political climate, with many Democrats “running very scared of this“, saying it “could be devastating for them politically because the American public is not going to like an unelected bureaucracy taking over energy goals…” On the EPA, Morano warns:
Once you give them this expanded bureaucratic power, there is no limit.”
The other two guests on the show were fans of the EPA, and seemed to be saying: C’mon, give big government the chance to have unlimited, unchecked regulatory power, and you’ll see that it can do something good. History certainly has heard it before. Do we really want to repeat that?
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Marc Morano is the executive editor and chief correspondent for ClimateDepot.com. He was the communications director for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the senior aide, speechwriter and climate researcher for Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla.
Q: What are your thoughts on the feasibility and economic impact of the new EPA rules?
Marc Morano: My take it on it would be, not only is it unnecessary — they imply that somehow this would limit hurricanes and droughts, when it would not have a global temperature impact — it would not even have an impact on global CO2. Our emissions are being dwarfed by the developing countries like India and China.
Q: What do you say to those who argue it will spark innovation?
In the U.S., emissions are down to ’90s levels due to natural gas breakthroughs. We’ve made bigger gains than European countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol. The natural gas fracking breakthrough could not have been imagined years ago. That was market innovation. The idea that we need central planning to achieve those same goals is absurd. The last thing we want to do is give people regulatory schemes that can misallocate resources. Why impose that on our economy when it cannot even lower global temperature and lessen storms?
I understand some of the environmental left is upset because there is too much flexibility and it is not as hard on companies as previous cap and trade proposals. But understand that whatever Washington does today will be different two years, three years from now. They can make everything sound nice and flexible now, but once implemented, it can expand and morph. They have expanded bureaucratic power of the unelected, and once they have it, it only grows from there.
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Simple guaranteed method to end the CO2 issue – all 50 states need to have their utilities make applications for construction 100 to 500 stand design nuclear plants coupled with a desalination plant – now we produce zero CO2 – reduce utility costs – and solve the fresh water problem as defined by the Clean Water Act.
In ten years the nuclear plant could all be operating if we stop lawsuits and fast track the approval reviews like France does. Find and locate geological proper sites and start construction in one year.
I am totally appalled that Ph.D’s. that have received my Experiment with
references to many other scientific reports and experiments that shows
that the greenhouse gas effect does not exist, can not understand that
CO2 or any other IR absorbing gas (IRag) do not cause the atmosphere to
“heat” A simple experiment that can be performed in less than 10 minute
shows that the greenhouse gas effect does not exist. . Yet the Cult of
AGW and the world of Luke Warm Skeptic like Dr. Judy Curry, Dr. Roy
Spencer etc. will not acknowledge that they want to keep receiving
government grants or the notoriety of testifying to Congress or the
newspaper about a concept that does not exists. Man-made global warming
is a political hoax that is making lots of people lots of money and lots
of notoriety no mater which side you are on.
While in college 50
years ago in one of the top three technical colleges in the country I
learned two things- 1) A hypotheses has to be proved by many repeatable
experiments to make it to the next step- a theory. This has not been
done with the Hypotheses of the greenhouse gas effect. Why not??? 2) My
Ph.D professor that taught Introduction to quantum physics showed that
Based on the Bohr model a gas does not “heat” adjacent molecules when
the molecule absorbs IR radiation. I have found a few hundred examples
that verify this.
As “heating” of CO2 in the atmospheres is a
primary feature of the supposed GHGE, this alone is enough to nullify
the Hypotheses. There is a very large number of true scientists and
engineers that know by their training that the greenhouse gas effect
does not exist. I’d estimate that there are between 1.5 and 2 million
true scientists and engineer or more that doe not believe in the Hoax.
The criminals that are the Cult of AGW should be charge with Crimes
against humanity.
Albert Einstein once said, “No amount of experimentation can ever
prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” Einstein’s words
express a foundational principle of science intoned by the logician, Karl
Popper: Falsifiability. In order to verify a hypothesis there must be a test by
which it can be proved false. A thousand observations may appear to verify a
hypothesis, but one critical failure could result in its demise. The history of
science is littered with such examples.
Part 1
1.
It appears that no one has asked the very critical question-Where
is the credible test/experiment that proves that the Greenhouse gas effect
exists? There is another important question that has not been asked is
“Where is the credible experiments that show that reducing the CO2 content
in the atmosphere will cause a decrease in atmospheric temperature?
Looking at the great quote from Albert Einstein above- If one
experiment shows that an important part of the Hypotheses of Greenhouse gas
effect cannot be proved or is disproved it is very likely that the Hypotheses
is false from beginning to end.
Here is an experiment that shows that at least 5 of the features
of the Hypotheses are false and here is a reference to another experiment that
shows that another feature is ass backward as presented by the CAGW
crowd.
The Greenhouse Effect Explored
Written by Carl Brehmer | 26 May 2012
Is “Water Vapor Feedback” Positive or Negative?
Exploiting the medium of Youtube Carl Brehmer is drawing wider
attention to a fascinating experiment he performed to test the climatic impacts
of water in our atmosphere.
Carl explains, “An essential element of the “greenhouse effect”
hypothesis is the positive “water vapor feedback” hypothesis. That is, if
something causes an increase in the temperature this will cause an increase in
the evaporation of water into water vapor.”
Another factor that even the meteorologists have not included in
there pretend thinking is “evaporative cooling that is occurring on at
least 99.95 % of the earth’s surface.
The Experiment that Failed and can save the World trillions.
Proving the “greenhouse gas effect” does not exist!
By Berthold Klein P.E 1-15-2012 Incorporation of comments of Dr.’s
Pierre Latour, Dr. Nasif Nahle and others.