Posted on November 16, 2011 by Steve Milloy | 13 Comments
“I think it’s good for the world” — spoken like a true 12-year old.
Greenwire reports,
“I think it’s good for the world” — spoken like a true 12-year old.
Greenwire reports,
President Obama yesterday vowed to keep pursuing greenhouse gas emissions cuts despite the demise of congressional climate legislation, calling carbon cuts “good for the world” and “good for our economies” — even as he acknowledged that global progress would be a “tough slog.”
Addressing the press in Australia, where legislators passed a carbon tax earlier this month, Obama praised Prime Minister Julia Gillard for pursuing “a bold strategy” to trim industrial emissions that most scientists say are contributing to global warming. Though a broad climate bill failed to clear Congress last year, Obama predicted that other steps his advisers have taken — including stronger auto efficiency rules and low-emissions energy spending — would help the United States abide by carbon-cutting promises it made during global talks in 2009 and 2010.
“I think that’s good for the world,” Obama said. “I actually think, over the long term, it’s good for our economies, as well, because it’s my strong belief that industries, utilities, individual consumers — we’re all going to have to adapt how we use energy and how we think about carbon.”
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President Obama is visiting Australia this week, forcing him to address an issue he’s mostly avoided for the past year: cap and trade.
While the market-based emissions policy is widely considered dead in D.C., at least for now, Australia’s Senate recently passed its own pricing and trading plan to reduce industrial carbon dioxide emissions. Obama advocated cap and trade for the U.S. back when it still seemed viable in Congress, but he’s been mostly quiet about it — and about climate change in general — ever since the 2010 midterm elections.
During a joint press conference Wednesday with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, however, Obama reiterated his support for using market forces to rein in carbon emissions, and even argued that doing so is good for the economy as a whole.
“[A]s we move forward over the next several years, my hope is, is that the United States, as one of several countries with a big carbon footprint, can find further ways to reduce our carbon emissions,” Obama told reporters in Canberra, according to a White House transcript. “I think that’s good for the world. I actually think, over the long term, it’s good for our economies as well, because it’s my strong belief that industries, utilities, individual consumers — we’re all going to have to adapt how we use energy and how we think about carbon.”
Obama hasn’t said much about global warming in the last 12 months, but he’s not addressing it now just because of Australia’s tax on carbon pollution. The U.N. will hold its next major climate summit later this month in Durban, South Africa, and while it isn’t expected to produce a binding multilateral treaty, it does offer a venue for developed nations like the U.S. and Australia to cajole more compromises from developing nations, namely China and India.
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Up Sharply, Yet Temperatures Are Flat?
The U.S. Department of Energy has just published its estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions for the year 2010, concluding emissions rose by 6% from 2009 to 2010. This constitutes the largest rise yet recorded and means global emissions are rising faster than any of the scenarios advanced by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its 2007 report. Global warming activists are claiming the 2010 rise proves global warming is even worse than previously feared, but exactly the opposite is the case.
The new emissions data support the arguments of skeptics asserting carbon dioxide emissions do not impact global temperatures as much as IPCC computer models predict. In light of the 2010 data, global carbon dioxide emissions have risen by fully a third since the year 2001, yet global temperatures have not risen during the past decade.
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Up Sharply, Yet Temperatures Are Flat? - Forbes
Addressing the press in Australia, where legislators passed a carbon tax earlier this month, Obama praised Prime Minister Julia Gillard for pursuing “a bold strategy” to trim industrial emissions that most scientists say are contributing to global warming. Though a broad climate bill failed to clear Congress last year, Obama predicted that other steps his advisers have taken — including stronger auto efficiency rules and low-emissions energy spending — would help the United States abide by carbon-cutting promises it made during global talks in 2009 and 2010.
“I think that’s good for the world,” Obama said. “I actually think, over the long term, it’s good for our economies, as well, because it’s my strong belief that industries, utilities, individual consumers — we’re all going to have to adapt how we use energy and how we think about carbon.”
Obama praises Aussie carbon tax | JunkScience.com
Related:
Obama: Cutting CO2 Helps Economy
President Obama is visiting Australia this week, forcing him to address an issue he’s mostly avoided for the past year: cap and trade.
While the market-based emissions policy is widely considered dead in D.C., at least for now, Australia’s Senate recently passed its own pricing and trading plan to reduce industrial carbon dioxide emissions. Obama advocated cap and trade for the U.S. back when it still seemed viable in Congress, but he’s been mostly quiet about it — and about climate change in general — ever since the 2010 midterm elections.
During a joint press conference Wednesday with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, however, Obama reiterated his support for using market forces to rein in carbon emissions, and even argued that doing so is good for the economy as a whole.
“[A]s we move forward over the next several years, my hope is, is that the United States, as one of several countries with a big carbon footprint, can find further ways to reduce our carbon emissions,” Obama told reporters in Canberra, according to a White House transcript. “I think that’s good for the world. I actually think, over the long term, it’s good for our economies as well, because it’s my strong belief that industries, utilities, individual consumers — we’re all going to have to adapt how we use energy and how we think about carbon.”
Obama hasn’t said much about global warming in the last 12 months, but he’s not addressing it now just because of Australia’s tax on carbon pollution. The U.N. will hold its next major climate summit later this month in Durban, South Africa, and while it isn’t expected to produce a binding multilateral treaty, it does offer a venue for developed nations like the U.S. and Australia to cajole more compromises from developing nations, namely China and India.
Obama: Cutting CO2 Helps Economy - Forbes
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Up Sharply, Yet Temperatures Are Flat?
The U.S. Department of Energy has just published its estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions for the year 2010, concluding emissions rose by 6% from 2009 to 2010. This constitutes the largest rise yet recorded and means global emissions are rising faster than any of the scenarios advanced by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its 2007 report. Global warming activists are claiming the 2010 rise proves global warming is even worse than previously feared, but exactly the opposite is the case.
The new emissions data support the arguments of skeptics asserting carbon dioxide emissions do not impact global temperatures as much as IPCC computer models predict. In light of the 2010 data, global carbon dioxide emissions have risen by fully a third since the year 2001, yet global temperatures have not risen during the past decade.
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Up Sharply, Yet Temperatures Are Flat? - Forbes
