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In a long-hidden interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Democrat Presidential Candidate Barack Obama promised to "bankrupt" anyone wanting to
build a coal plant in the United States. In the interview, conducted in January, Obama, in an unexpected burst of candor, admits that if his cap
and trade carbon policy is
put in place:
"If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can;
it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be
charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted." (to hear his confession, and to see how important coal is to the US economy,
click here).
In the same interview, he said that he'll make energy costs "
skyrocket." This confession comes on the heels of (well, actually 8 months prior to) Joe Biden's startling
exchange on the campaign trail (which you can watch
here) wherein he said, "We're not supporting clean coal. No coal plants here in America."
Let's not lose sight of the significance of these statements. Senators Biden and Obama are openly declaring their intentions to effectively
shut down an entire industry, one that employs a great number of Americans, based on
demonstrably faulty
science that only
18% of
Americans believe. To have this position, as they seem to, is to in a sense reject reality; the reality that the science on this issue is
far from settled, and the reality that there are real people and families whose livelihoods depend upon these industries.
This is a common symptom of the radical green ideology. They advocate for new, drastic, draconian economic policies when the reality of an
impending economic recession demands the opposite. They warn of apocalyptic, world shaking climate change when reality has clearly demonstrated
otherwise, and their own projections are much more moderate. It is a demand for change at any price, without even considering that the real
price when it comes to American workers and their families may be much too high.
This Week's Headlines
Most Egregious Claim of the Week
Often, this spot in the newsletter is dedicated to latest in a long line of doomsday predictions from a variety of sources. Well, we had
another one this week, this time from Stephen Chu, who says that we can expect "disasters in orders of magnitude different from anything we've
experienced thus far," and that cities like Tokyo, Mumbai, Buenos Aires, New York, and London will need to be protected from rising seas
and violent weather behind sea walls.
One of the frequent responses of the radical green agenda, when confronted with the fact that are many many prestigious scientists reject the
"consensus" on global warming, is to say that these scientists are not climatologists, so they should be ignored. Well, let's take a look at Mr.
Chu's
biography, shall we?
Stephen Chu, born 1948 in St. Louis,
Missouri, is an American experimental physicist. He is known for his
research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms, which won
him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. His current research is concerned primarily with the study of biological
systems at the single molecule level. He is currently Professor of Physics
and Molecular and Cellular Biology of University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Oh, so he's not a climatologist at all? In the
words of Tom Nelson, whose
blog is an indispensable resource for this newsletter and anyone interested in this issue:
"If alarmist Chu and climate realist
Freeman Dyson are both physicists, I wonder why we're supposed to
believe that Chu is "one of the world's leading climate and energy
experts", while we're supposed to ignore Dyson because he's not a
climatologist."
But reality doesn't mean anything to the radical greens, remember?
