Warning Signs: Promises Made, Promises to Fear

In his inaugural speech, President Obama made one brief comment about the need to “roll back the specter of a warming planet.” The planet is cooling, not warming. Spending a dime on “global warming” is a waste. Instituting programs to reduce the generation of carbon dioxide based on the false assertion that it causes “global warming” will endanger our already damaged economy.

Telling Americans that “We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factors” borders on a terrible ignorance about the inefficiency of solar and wind energy---barely one percent of all electricity used in the nation---demonstrated by the need to subsidize and require both to ensure their use, and a lack of reality regarding the enormous reserves of coal, natural gas, and oil this nation possesses, but refuses to access and use.

Imperial Tobacco shows off their concern over CO2

In total we have reduced CO2 emissions by 21% since FY 2001. We have done this by nearly tripling the amount of green electricity we purchase – in FY 2006 we saved 28,449 tonnes of CO2 this way – and by reducing fuel combustion by 15%. Our CO2 emissions per millions of cigarette equivalents have dropped by 25% since FY 2001.

Follow Up On Today’s AP Article By Seth Bornenstein Entitled “Study: Antarctica Joins Rest Of Globe In Warming”

However, even a cursory view of Figure 2 shows that since the late 1990s, the region has been cooling in their analysis in this region. The paper would be more balanced if they presented this result, even if they cannot explain why.