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Obama's dangerous climate schemeObama’s dangerous climate schemesSo 150 world leaders are gathered in Paris this week to come to some sort of agreement on how to deal with so-called climate change. President Barack Obama will be leading the crusade for lower carbon emissions and promising all sorts of U.S. aid to any country that will go along with him. If our president has his way, you can be sure of three things:
In an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal last week, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) pointed out the hypocrisy of Obama’s previous negotiations:
China currently pumps out 23 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. It is the world’s greatest polluter. The air in China’s major cities is pretty much unbreathable now. Yet Obama’s negotiators have agreed to let the country’s emissions increase for another 15 years! Imagine how much worse the situation will get by 2030. Pollution is also expected to grow much worse in India. Thanks to its backward economy, the country now creates only an estimated 6 percent of the world’s emissions. But that number is expected to triple over the next 15 years. Here in the U.S., emissions have been declining for more than a decade. While we produced an estimated 24 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions in 2000, today that number has declined to 13 percent. And it continues to fall. Still, none of this matters to Barack Obama, who is committed to a vast leveling of the world. And of course he thinks the U.S. should pay for all of his grand schemes. It’s no surprise that other countries will support just about any scheme that transfers money from us to them. Heck, if your plan is to rob Peter to pay Paul, you can be pretty sure you’ll get the support of Paul. So of course much of the world will praise Obama’s “leadership.” So will the left in this country. Congress has the power to stop him. We’ll soon find out if it will. Until next time, keep some powder dry. –Chip Wood |
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