The House of Representatives today passed H. R. 2042, the Ratepayer Protection Act, by a vote of 247 to 180. This vote strongly rebukes the Obama EPA’s power grab. It also provides strong support for the rider in the House’s Interior-EPA Appropriations bill that would also block the EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. Another key point that needs to be stressed in the media is that it shows that President Obama’s commitments to reduce emissions made to the forthcoming Paris Accord are opposed by a strong majority in the House and are therefore unlikely to be implemented.
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As I understand it the Fed/EPA goal is to reduce CO2 output from the power generation sector by 30%. Some say reduce coal fired CO2 by 30%. They are not the same.
30% reduction in power generation CO2 times 38% of US CO2 contribution times 19% global CO2 contribution = 2.27% reduction in global CO2. Whoopee!
Eliminating half of coal fired generation: 0.5 * 0.245 * 0.19 = 0.0233 or 2.33% of global CO2 burden. Double whoopee!!
Massive economic disruption for an inconsequential solution to a non-existent problem.
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html
(Generation produces 38% of US CO2.)
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html
(US produces 19% of global CO2.)
http://www.c2es.org/energy/source/coal
(Coal CO2 represents 24.5% of US GHGs.)
“Massive economic disruption for an inconsequential solution to a non-existent problem.”
Check !!
Massive economic disruption is just the point, not reduction of CO2.
And Obama will veto it.
Which the Congess Critters are well aware of but they can now tell their voters —- “We TRIED!”
Turning off the money hemoraging to CAGW via research grants and the EPA is the way to go.
If Obummer vetos shut down the darn government and keep it shut down. Congress can always pass an emergency budget (limited time) that takes care of the necesities and if Obummer vetos that too the Progressives will have egg on their face.
Vetoes can be overridden with enough votes.
They have less than 60% of the vote and they need 2/3s so no they can not override the veto.
And that is if every Republican went for it which ain’t gonna happen.
Regretfully, Steven, the biggest criminals may be members of the US National Academy of Sciences – a private, self-perpetuating group of once distinguished scholars – who review the budgets of federal research agencies for Congress and recommend which projects to fund.
The biggest criminals are not the scientists adjusting or hiding experimental data, or heads of federal research agencies who comply with recommendations from the US NAS, but the US NAS members who directed billions of dollars into the fraudulent AGW scam.
If we face global cooling, as seems more likely now than warming now that reality is starting to leak past the guardians of “consensus scientific knowledge”, we need to immediately ask radiation physicists and radiation oncologists to evaluate Galen Winsor’s video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ejCQrOTE-XA&feature=player_embedded
I suspect Galen is right, but the survival of humanity may depend on reliable information about nuclear radiation. Oliver
…and lurking in the backfield: TPPA and PTPA.
Yes, and do not forget Every Child Achieves Act of 2015
The cage door on the serf’s cage is closing rather rapidly now as their attention is directed elsewhere.
The Demise of Christchurch City New Zealand —
The city hit by an earthquake is now being completely torn down and a UN Agenda 21 City built in it’s place at major cost to the people of the city!
I am very very glad I am at the end of my life with no children. The brief experiment of free living humans is rapidly ending and our would be masters are working very very hard to place the serf collar back around our necks while convincing us it is for our own good. href=”https://markstoval.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/the-classic-liberals-and-their-mistake/#comment-3205″>link
WORSE the Elite actually believe it is best if THEY are incontrol and we are treated as nothing more than cattle (chattel)
”The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.” — Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
”Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” — Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies, Co-Author with Obama’s science czar of the textbooks: “Population Bomb”, “Ecoscience”
”The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization we have in the US. We have to stop these third World countries right where they are.” — Michael Oppenheimer Environmental Defense Fund
”Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.” — Professor Maurice King
“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family, tradition, national patriotism and religious dogmas…
…”The re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the certainties of old people, these are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy”. —- Brock Chisholm, first Director General of the World Health Organisation
”My three goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with its full complement of species, returning throughout the world.” — David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
”A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” —- Ted Turner, Founder of CNN and and the UN Foundation where the traitor and liar Ex-senator Timothy Wirth is now President.
”Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.” —- Sir John Houghton, First chairman of the IPCC
” Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.” —- David Brower, First Executive Director of the Sierra Club
Gail,
I share your frustration about the current totalitarian world government, but the best available scientific measurements and observations convince me (as they apparently did Max Planck) that a “conscious and intelligent Mind” guides the force of creation of every atom, life and planet in the solar system.
The force of creation is also the force of destruction and preservation.
In other words, I do not know how or when it will happen, but I am personally convinced Big Brother is going down !
But won’t the IRS enforce any decrees?
Just askin’
The alarmists really are clueless. They remind me of the expression on this cartoon which I got josh to draw this for me (to illustrate the “Caterillar theory of plate tectonics” – this is latest article: The Leaky Atmosphere Hypothesis – is global pressure a proxy for global temperature?
http://scottishsceptic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ISeeNoCaterpillar.png
I was also getting into the point that the earth does not have a constant pressure over geologic time yesterday but I used flying dinosaurs and the presence of huge dinosuars who needed a much higher oxgen partial presure to exist.
Also there is this chart:
http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/lappi/65_Myr_Climate_Change_Rev.jpg
Showing a gradual cooling of the earth over the eons. (some is due to the loss of internal heat) It is called the Faint Sun Paradox by those who can not explain it.
WUWT addressed the issue 3 years ago: So Dinosaurs Could Fly ! – Part I
A look at diminishing atmospheric pressure
From the article: A graph depicting an observed fall in global annual mean atmospheric pressure since 1916
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/clip_image001_thumb.png
Artists impression of Quetzalcoatlus with its 45’ wingspan
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/clip_image004_thumb.jpg
Gail, that link just takes me to the comments for this page. I did find the article on WUWT though and it is an interesting theory.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/02/so-dinosaurs-could-fly-part-i/
Sorry. Hubby was dragging me out the door when I was finishing up that comment.
China Powers Up
The express purpose of the infrastructure upgrade is to correct a geographic mismatch. Chinese manufacturing hubs such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou are on the country’s east coast, perfectly placed for easy shipping, while most of its coal mines are in the west and northwest. But even if the coal were burned in the west and northwest, there were no transmission lines to carry electricity over long distances without significant losses. Instead, domestic coal has been transported east over rail lines and by sea. But in recent years, opportunistic foreign coal producers have also brought seaborne imports into the country, with Chinese traders snapping them up when the price is lower than domestic coal. In total, imported coal makes up about 200 million tonnes of the 4 billion tonnes burned in China each year.
https://www.thefinancialist.com/china-powers-up/?utm_source=taboola&utm_term=rt-rtcom&utm_campaign=Global
China has also unfortunately been using trucks to transport the coal, leading to some epic traffic jams.
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Greatly increased coal production in Inner Mongolia was shipped to Beijing along this route because of the lack of railway capacity, which overloaded the highway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_110_traffic_jam
Trucks are commonly used in some cases for short hauling coal to power plants from nearby mines. As a driver I hate it. Had a windshield broken in my car in southern Indiana by a chunk of coal from an improperly tarped truck. But the shear quantity of coal a decent sized station uses just about demands rail, barge, or ships, to bring in the coal needed unless the source is very close. Some coal fired stations are set up to turn a whole filled rail car over and dump the coal into a pit where a belt conveyor takes it too the pile.
What the Chinese are doing is the equivalent to what the Allies tried to do in Europe during WW II using the Red Ball Express. It’s a very inefficient and ultimately losing proposition.