Obama Still Cool?
Bensblurb # 548 5/14/10
Obama the cool (?) guy:
Except when he gets really, really mad. Like when he goes to New York and blames Wall Street for financial woes, like when he lights into oil companies for the Gulf disaster. But his own bureaucrats? Well, they are hard working but he’s going to reorganize the oil permitting and regulatory offices anyhow to make them even more effective.
Too bad he doesn’t show a little anger at Iran, which is harboring countless Al Queda terrorists. Too bad he doesn’t show a little anger at his clownish Attorney General, who has made himself demonstrably ignorant in answering questions about Arizona’s new illegal alien law--or in steadfastly refusing to call radical Islamists what they are...Too bad budget boss Orszag has refuted Obama’s supposedly inviolable pledge—repeatedly uttered during the 2008 campaign and since the inauguration—that he would never raise taxes on middle-class citizens who earn $250,000 a year or less. Orszag threw that pledge out the window. He described it, not as a pledge, but a “preference.”...Too bad he’s mum over the outrageous plans by Muslims to erect an edifice next to NYC’s Twin Towers 9/11 hole.
And too bad he’s allowing EPA to attempt to regulate CO2 as a global-warming gas while the Senate again gets bogged in Cap and Tax energy legislation. What a week.
But look on the bright side--just over two and a half more years for Obama. Keep counting.
The air we breathe out:
* Lawmakers should stop perpetuating the hope that technology can help make huge cuts in the United States’ carbon dioxide emissions...Capturing carbon dioxide from the flue gas of a coal-fired electric generation plant is an energy-intensive process. Analysts estimate that capturing the carbon dioxide cuts the output of a typical plant by as much as 28 percent...Given that the global energy sector is already straining to meet booming demand for electricity, it’s hard to believe that the United States, or any other country that relies on coal-fired generation, will agree to reduce the output of its coal-fired plants by almost a third in order to attempt carbon capture and sequestration.--Robert Bryce, Manhattan Institute.
* As last year's "Climategate" scandal showed, scientists disregarded the scientific method in order to promote an ideologically favored hypothesis. In ignoring the scandal and pushing ahead with its "climate" agenda, the Obama administration has shown that it is more interested in ideology than science.--James Taranto, WSJ
* And here’s Fred Singer, retired climate physicist at University of Virginia: Certainly, the remedies invoked to "fight" [global warming] are a cruel hoax -- mainly a tax burden on low-income households who will pay more for electricity, food, transportation, and other necessities of life...By the 1970's, H.H. Lamb, the pioneer of modern climate research, compiled extensive physical evidence showing that climate change is normal and that during the last 10,000 years there were periods colder than today and warmer than today. The first two assessment reports of the UN’s IPCC included charts showing temperature change for the last 1,000 years that included the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. The Summary for Policymakers of the 2001 Third Assessment Report eliminated these temperature changes and substituted Mann's now infamous "hockey stick" graph produced by statistical techniques that purport to show that temperatures were relatively stable for about 900 years then shot up in the 20th Century. The results of a computer model trumps physical evidence.
--Ben Blankenship
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Obama the cool (?) guy:
Except when he gets really, really mad. Like when he goes to New York and blames Wall Street for financial woes, like when he lights into oil companies for the Gulf disaster. But his own bureaucrats? Well, they are hard working but he’s going to reorganize the oil permitting and regulatory offices anyhow to make them even more effective.
Too bad he doesn’t show a little anger at Iran, which is harboring countless Al Queda terrorists. Too bad he doesn’t show a little anger at his clownish Attorney General, who has made himself demonstrably ignorant in answering questions about Arizona’s new illegal alien law--or in steadfastly refusing to call radical Islamists what they are...Too bad budget boss Orszag has refuted Obama’s supposedly inviolable pledge—repeatedly uttered during the 2008 campaign and since the inauguration—that he would never raise taxes on middle-class citizens who earn $250,000 a year or less. Orszag threw that pledge out the window. He described it, not as a pledge, but a “preference.”...Too bad he’s mum over the outrageous plans by Muslims to erect an edifice next to NYC’s Twin Towers 9/11 hole.
And too bad he’s allowing EPA to attempt to regulate CO2 as a global-warming gas while the Senate again gets bogged in Cap and Tax energy legislation. What a week.
But look on the bright side--just over two and a half more years for Obama. Keep counting.
The air we breathe out:
* Lawmakers should stop perpetuating the hope that technology can help make huge cuts in the United States’ carbon dioxide emissions...Capturing carbon dioxide from the flue gas of a coal-fired electric generation plant is an energy-intensive process. Analysts estimate that capturing the carbon dioxide cuts the output of a typical plant by as much as 28 percent...Given that the global energy sector is already straining to meet booming demand for electricity, it’s hard to believe that the United States, or any other country that relies on coal-fired generation, will agree to reduce the output of its coal-fired plants by almost a third in order to attempt carbon capture and sequestration.--Robert Bryce, Manhattan Institute.
* As last year's "Climategate" scandal showed, scientists disregarded the scientific method in order to promote an ideologically favored hypothesis. In ignoring the scandal and pushing ahead with its "climate" agenda, the Obama administration has shown that it is more interested in ideology than science.--James Taranto, WSJ
* And here’s Fred Singer, retired climate physicist at University of Virginia: Certainly, the remedies invoked to "fight" [global warming] are a cruel hoax -- mainly a tax burden on low-income households who will pay more for electricity, food, transportation, and other necessities of life...By the 1970's, H.H. Lamb, the pioneer of modern climate research, compiled extensive physical evidence showing that climate change is normal and that during the last 10,000 years there were periods colder than today and warmer than today. The first two assessment reports of the UN’s IPCC included charts showing temperature change for the last 1,000 years that included the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. The Summary for Policymakers of the 2001 Third Assessment Report eliminated these temperature changes and substituted Mann's now infamous "hockey stick" graph produced by statistical techniques that purport to show that temperatures were relatively stable for about 900 years then shot up in the 20th Century. The results of a computer model trumps physical evidence.
--Ben Blankenship
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posted by Ben Blankenship at
6:56 PM
