Prediction: Trudeau suffers the same fate as Obama

[Rwede]

I predict that the fanfare around Justin's wasteful boasting in Paris will suffer the very same fate as B Hussein Obama's grand scheme.



Lawrence Solomon: It’s ‘game over’ for global warming activists

Lawrence Solomon | February 12, 2016 1:15 PM ET

Environmentalists’ faint hope that they can get international action on climate change gets fainter by the day. This week the United States Supreme Court added to their despair by kiboshing President Obama’s pledge, at December’s climate talks in Paris, to lead the world on climate change. “This could be the proverbial string which causes Paris to unravel,” The New York Times reported.

At the heart of Obama’s Paris pledge was his Clean Power Plan, an executive order hyped as “the first-ever carbon pollution standards for existing power plants.” The plan, rolled out with much fanfare prior to the Paris meetings to create a sense of momentum, was designed to shut down America’s fleet of coal-powered generating plants. The White House boasted its plan would help reduce CO2 emissions by 32 per cent by 2030 and lead to 30 per cent more renewable energy generation in 2030.

Except it was an empty boast based on an unconstitutional plan, said 29 states and state agencies, which successfully argued that the Obama plan needed congressional approval to proceed. The Supreme Court agreed to an immediate halt of Obama’s plan, sending it to a lower court and all but guaranteeing that, when Obama leaves office in 2017, the plan will remain in deep freeze.

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Obama’s climate change legacy will be remembered for two terms of hope without change.

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The presidential election season can only add to the environmentalists’ funk. With the Democrats fielding either an unpopular Hillary Clinton or an unelectable, socialist Bernie Sanders, the Republicans are widely believed to be favoured to win, landing a deathblow to climate change activism. With both Republican front-runners, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, considering global warming claims to be outright shams, funding for the climate change industry will dry up. Cruz promises to defund the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s premier global warming lobbyist, along with every other program promoting climate change alarmism. Trump likely would, too, given his belief that global warming policies hurt American business.

Even if a Democrat should win the presidency, the climate change industry has no hope for a comeback. Republicans will still hold the purse strings through their control over the legislature — that’s why Obama resorted to an executive order to impose his Clean Power Plan, in a faint hope of his own that he could further the agenda he so passionately believes in.

So much hope in that fount seven years ago; so little left today. For those environmentalists still clinging to climate change beliefs, hope does not spring eternal.


Full story here: http://business.financialpost.com/fp-co ... -activists

[FreeRights]

Got to give Obama kudos. He certainly did pretty much everything he could in two terms with a Republican house that was uninterested in working with him on these issues.

[logicalview]

I am all in favor of replacing coal fired plants with nuclear power, but not because of the man-made CO2 myth.

[Partmanpartfish]

You read it here first, kids. 'logicalview' believes it's a myth that burning coal produces CO2.

[logicalview]

You read it here first, kids. 'logicalview' believes it's a myth that burning coal produces CO2.

Well that's not what I meant, as obviously burning coal produces CO2. That's just science. What's not science but merely manufactured hysteria is that the CO2 that is created from the burning of that coal is somehow affecting the climate of the earth. Now if someone, somewhere, were actually able to produce some evidence supporting this claim...well...

[Partmanpartfish]

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[Rosemary1]

Well Trudeau doesn't have Republicans fighting him every inch of the way.

Surelth the building of the new Quebec green library that is latest beneficiary of a $2 b. grant will go a long way to reducing carbon emissions in Canada and the world. Yes?

[maryjane48]

NAFTA Countries Sign Deal On Green Energy - http://huff.to/1XnydpE

[logicalview]

you read it here first folks. All CO2 generated by man goes straight into the atmosphere. None of it is consumed by plants and trees and other flora and fauna. Zero. Zip. Unlike all of the CO2 generated by natural events like volcanoes. Because that CO2 is "good" CO2, while mankind generated CO2 is "bad" CO2. Nope, man generates a special kind of CO2 that no plants ever want to go near. 100% of all CO2 generated by man immediately begins "heat trapping", whatever the hell that even means. How much CO2 "heat traps" in the atmosphere? Who cares!!! That's not important. All you need to know is that mankind generated CO2 = bad = plane loads of cronies and boobs being flown to huge UN sponsored parties at your expense. Now be a good automaton and open your wallet. And never ever question. Even when the earth continues to fail to warm 18 years in a row.

[Partmanpartfish]

removed. try again.

[logicalview]

Well, well well. The US Supreme Court puts a giant road-block in front of the Church of Global Warming's evil agenda, and soon afterwards, one of the biggest opponents on the Supreme Court of the Man-made climate change fraud dies of "natural causes", opening up a spot for Obama to appoint a Church of Global Warming believer to turn the tide on the court back over to the apocalyptic People. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up folks.

What Scalia’s Death Means For Climate Change

Just days after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling clouded the future of a new United Nations climate pact, the passing of one of its justices has boosted the pact's chances of succeeding.

Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia died at a resort in Texas on Saturday. Scalia, 79, was the court’s conservative leader and his death means it is now more likely that key EPA rules that aim to curb climate pollution from the power industry will be upheld.

Here’s how the sudden shakeup of the court could affect global efforts to combat climate change.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/what ... ange-20033

[Rosemary1]

Seems the issue is that despite all the fanfare around the Climate Change conference each country still need to get the support back home for those agreements to get any traction. Obama has the republicans and supreme court to trip him up. Canada needs the provincial governments to be on board.

[Static]

Carbon tax is nothing but a tax grab. Waste of time.

[Omnitheo]

Carbon tax is nothing but a tax grab. Waste of time.

If you want to dump stuff at the garbage dump, do you not pay for the waste you are disposing of? Do you believe that you should just be allowed to throw garbage everywhere without consequence?

If a company wants to dump millions of tons of CO2 into our air, then yes, they should be paying for it. They are making our air dirtier, and unless you believe that Beijing is a great place to go for a breath of fresh air, then you are probably in agreement that the less pollution into the atmosphere the better.

Why should the government not charge them for these emissions? Why should companies not be incentivized to come up with cleaner or more efficient methods of production?

At the very least if they want to keep polluting full throttle, then they can pay for it and the government can make some revenue from which to better the nation with.

[Smurf]

What I oppose is that we the taxpayer including schools etc. pay this tax so the money can be dispersed to companies to supposedly clean up their act. I agree they should clean up their act but they should also pay for it as part of doing business. It should not be any of our responsibility as taxpayer. The whole system as it presently sits is a total disaster.