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WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has begun an aggressive campaign to block President Obama’s climate change agenda in statehouses and courtrooms across the country, arenas far beyond Mr. McConnell’s official reach and authority.

The campaign of Mr. McConnell, the Senate majority leader, is aimed at stopping a set of Environmental Protection Agency regulations requiring states to reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

To make his case, Mr. McConnell is also relying on a network of powerful allies with national influence and roots in Kentucky or the coal industry. Within that network is Laurence H. Tribe, a highly regarded scholar of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and a former mentor of Mr. Obama’s.

Mr. Tribe  likened Mr. Obama’s climate change rules to “burning the Constitution.”

McConnell Urges States to Help Thwart Obama’s ‘War on Coal’ – NYTimes.com

Eric Holthaus blames damage from a cyclone on global warming

Just like 1898 and 1780.

Published: November 13, 1898

THE WEST INDIAN STORM
Results in the Island of St. Vincent Worse Than Reported.

WHOLE COUNTRY SWEPT BARE
Distress of the People Described as • Exceeding That Caused by the Great Famine in India.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 2.—The results of calm investigation have proved conclusively that so far from being exaggerated the first reports of the destruction wrought by the cyclone at St. Vincent were rather short of the actual facts. The island was literally swept absolutely bare of vegetation, the experience of 1780 being repeated, but the full extent of the devastation was not at first realized, owing to the difficulty of communication through the destruction of the roads and the coastal shipping.

The Governor of the Windward Islands has now sent out an appeal to the neighboring islands stating the facts, and asking that roots, slips, and seeds of potatoes, cassava, yams, peas, and ‘other economic plants be forwarded as soon as possible to enable cultivation to be restored. His Excellency declares in a brief but significant descriptive paragraph that the whole aspect of the landscape has been changed. Instead of the pervading green common to all tropical prospects, it is now a uniform dirty brown color, only relieved by long white poles—the decapitated columns of palm and cocoanut trees. Nothing in the way of vegetation escaped the sweep of the wind and the subsequent scouring out by the deluge of water, and the island is practically a desert.

Perhaps the most Impressive feature, the Governor adds, is the absolute stillness that prevails not only through the absence of the familiar rustle of vegetation as the trade wind sweeps over it, but-also because of the absence of animal and even insect life. Birds, lizards, beetles, snakes, and, in fact, every form of animal life, seems to have been blown away or drowned out.

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THE WEST INDIAN STORM – Results in the Island of St. Vincent Worse Than Reported. WHOLE COUNTRY SWEPT BARE Distress of the People Described as Exceeding That Caused by the Great Famine in India. – View Article – NYTimes.com

Is Eric shameless, ignorant, or both?

Two years after announcing “Unwavering support for Israel” – Obama announces that he was lying all along

March 20, 2013 ·

OBAMA VOWS UNWAVERING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL

JERUSALEM (AP) — Vowing eternal support for America’s top Mideast ally, U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday assured Israel of his personal commitment to its security and delivered a blunt warning to its foes that the United States has the Jewish state’s back.

Arriving in Israel on his first trip to the country as president, Obama told the Israeli people at an extravagant welcoming ceremony that “peace must come to the Holy Land” and that goal would not be achieved at Israel’s expense. U.S. backing for Israel will be a constant as the Middle East roils with revolution and Iran continues work on its nuclear program, he said.

“The United States is proud to stand with you as your strongest ally and your greatest friend,” Obama said, accepting profuse thanks from Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the tarmac at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport.

“Across this region the winds of change bring both promise and peril,” he said, calling his visit “an opportunity to reaffirm the unbreakable bonds between our nations, to restate America’s unwavering commitment to Israel’s security, and to speak directly to the people of Israel and to your neighbors.”

Seeking to alter a perception among many Israelis that his government has been less supportive of Israel than previous U.S. administrations, Obama declared the U.S.-Israeli alliance “eternal.”

“It is forever,” he said to applause as Israeli and U.S. flags fluttered in a steady breeze under clear, sunny skies

OBAMA VOWS UNWAVERING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL… – 

Florida is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, as 80% of the state’s residents live or work near the coasts and hurricane damage has caused billions of dollars in damage since 2005.

Florida employee ‘punished for using phrase climate change’ | Environment | The Guardian

Florida hasn’t been hit by  a hurricane since 2005. The longest hurricane-free period on record for the state.

1. Obama gets obliterated in the US elections, and declares war against the US voters.
2. Obama gets obliterated in the Israeli elections, and declares war against the Israeli voters.

Obama runs as a “Democrat” because he hates democracy.

President Obama wants the UN to impose a two state solution on Israel.

The UN tried that in 1948, and the Arabs responded by trying to “drive the Jews into the sea.”

But it wasn’t their only brilliant two state solution from 1948

The earliest Atlantic hurricane on record occurred in March, 1908. According to Gavin, that was one of the coldest years on record.

Climate experts and politicians tell us that they can reduce hurricane damage by stealing your money.

The daily dose of NCDC lies continues.

Winter was world record warmest – CBS News

NCDC accomplished this by making up fake data for more than 50% of the land surface. They had almost no data from Antarctica, Greenland or Africa, and simply made up an imaginary surface temperature.

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Satellites have much better coverage, and show that this past winter was only sixth warmest, nowhere near as warm as 1998, and on a decade long cooling trend.