Beware! Media Will Support Obama's Climate Lies
By Alan Caruba
In the
same way the U.S. media has long supported and disseminated all the lies about
global warming—now called climate change—you can expect extensive support
President Obama’s Tuesday speech based this hoax.
Call it
the audacity of deceit. At the heart of the President’s speech is his reference
to “carbon pollution.” It has no scientific basis. You will not read that in
Wednesday’s newspapers, nor hear it on radio and television unless you are
tuned to conservative media.
The claim
that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a pollutant is absurd insofar as it is, next to
oxygen, the second most vital gas for life on planet Earth. It is responsible
for the growth of all vegetation, including crops vital to feeding humanity and
the livestock on which they depend as a food source.
If you
want to learn the truth about CO2, you can visit:
You
can be certain that no journalist will visit these websites because the
last thing they are interested in learning or reporting is the truth. In this regard, they
will saturate the print and broadcast media with accolades about the
President’s climate policies.
His
policies are better understood as anti-energy policies and you would be well
advised to keep in mind that all nations are totally dependent on access to
sufficient, indeed, abundant energy to function. Poor nations are energy-poor.
Since the
first days of the global warming scare campaign in the late 1980s, the media
have repeated every lie until 2009 when the posting of thousands of emails
between the core conspirators working for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change were found to be deliberately distorting and publishing false
climate data.
Even
“climategate” has not deterred the media from continuing to publish falsehoods,
repeating the way Greens attribute every natural phenomenon from hurricanes to
tornadoes, droughts and forest fires, to “climate change.”
As
promised during his 2008 campaign, the President made good on his war on coal
which, as he said, would necessarily “skyrocket” the cost of electricity. His
speech outlined further efforts to deter the construction of any new coal-fired
plants while forcing others to shut down. Prior to his first term, coal
produced fifty percent of all the
electricity generated and this has now begun to drop. There is no
indication that Obama cares about the cost of everyone’s electrical bill, particularly
at a time of economic stagnation.
The media
have also been the cheerleaders for the so-called “renewable energy”, wind and
solar power, which would not exist without government subsidies, tax exemptions,
and mandates for its use. As Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow of the Competitive Enterprise
Institute, notes, “Accelerating renewable energy development on federal lands
will likely lead to more bat and avian mortality and a further retreat from
honest enforcement of the Endangered Species Act.” The Obama administration has
never fined or prosecuted a wind far for killing a protected bird species
Obama
intends to do this at the same time that a vast, new abundance of natural gas
has been discovered and is being extracted; another major source of electricity
generation in the nation. Between coal, natural gas, and oil, America could be
energy independent and reap the benefits of exporting these energy reserves as
well. Obama’s speech offers the opposite of this bounty and path out of the
current stagnation of the economy.
You can
depend upon the liberal press quoting liberals such as Carol Browner, a former
EPA director and now a “distinguished senior fellow” the Center for American
Progress. “The President’s plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants is
the latest in a series of steady and responsible steps he has taken to address
climate change that threatens the health of our kids and the planet.”
Like the
President’s speech, this is pure Leftist bilge without a scintilla of common
sense or science. Interpreting natural events from volcano eruptions to floods
as “climate change” is comparable to pagan religions that think “the gods must
be angry.”
Beware of
Obama’s lies and policies and beware of the media coverage that will ignore the
falsehoods and the outcomes.
© Alan
Caruba, 2013
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