More bad news for the economy yesterday, as the incumbent announced he’s going to derail the coal mining industry in his one-man effort to curtail climate change. Further decreasing any potential obstructions to his goal immensely by implementing the annihilation though the EPA he controls, thereby bypassing Congress.
The reason the decision is so devastating to the fragile economy is that while he promotes alternative energy sources to offset fossil fuel curbs, there aren’t any that work now, and none on the foreseeable horizon either.
At the same time, he took the opportunity to state for the umpteenth time that he’d remain against the Keystone pipeline until completely satisfied it was safe. And yet, his own State Department, among many others studying the pipeline’s structure, declared it satisfactory to them all several months ago.
As a result of all these irrational postures, energy prices will rise significantly here, while the country’s competitive position versus other major nations -all of which believe global warming’s a farce- will suffer greatly as well. So, this is a triple-negative whammy.
Now, obviously, the incumbent’s decisions have little to do with climate at all but simply payback for the millions pumped into his campaign funds by global-warming activists and in thanks to ill-informed alarmists who piled on with them. Proof of those factors can easily be found by doing some basic research, which I’ve done several times in the past, and refreshed once more a few minutes ago.
Among many others, an article by Julia A. Seymour, of mrc NewsBusters via Drudge, provided several key items, such as: “Just since Jan. 1, 2013, ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news programs have aired 92 stories about “climate change” or “global warming.” Not a single one of those stories mentioned the “warming plateau” reported even by The New York Times on June 10. The Times wrote, “The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace.”
Ms. Seymour additionally noted that, “Sadly, the networks’ bias on climate change has been happening for decades. In 2007, BMI found that global warming proponents overwhelmingly outnumbered those with dissenting opinions. On average for every skeptic there were nearly 13 proponents featured. ABC did a slightly better job with a 7-to-1 ratio, while CBS's ratio was abysmal at nearly 38-to-1."
What I also found amusing was that the incumbent made his announcement during remarks at the Georgetown University commencement.
Without any specific focus on Georgetown itself, but instead toward education in general, I thought using that venue for huckstering an invalid premise to be quite appropriate.
Because not only are most campuses decidedly liberal in political thinking today, the quality of education, especially reading and comprehension, keep perpetually sinking at alarming rates.
Consequently, there’s a very significant probability that most of the audience not only had no clue as to what the incumbent was talking about, but had no intellectual basis for disagreement either. Which is exactly what political theatrics, rhetoric orchestration and statistical manipulation are all about.
That’s it for today folks.
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