Project 21 Press Release

Washington, D.C. - As winter weather already grips portions of the United States, the need for cheap and efficient power for heat and light is essential. Deneen Borelli, a fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network, points out that the Obama Administration’s continued war on fossil fuels that is making the guarantee of a comfortable winter increasingly bleak for the nation’s poorest citizens.

“With millions of Americans unemployed and struggling to keep their homes warm, the need for government assistance will only increase. Heavy demand and higher prices due to the Obama Administration’s assault on the fossil fuels we rely upon are going to stretch charities to their limits and beyond,” noted Project 21’s Borelli. “It’s disgraceful that the first black president and the first black EPA administrator are advancing policies that will preferentially harm blacks who overwhelmingly supported Obama.”

In a speech in late November to the Aspen Institute, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson demonized the private sector and strongly defended the Obama Administration’s decision to regulate “greenhouse gas” emissions without having specific Congressional authority to regulate these emissions.

Twisting the results of an October Gallup poll in which five percent of those surveyed said the government should have no role in environmental protection, Jackson claimed: “When it came to protecting the environment… 95 percent of Americans said government should have a role in protecting the environment. Fifty percent of Americans said government should be the only protector of the environment, indicating a lack of trust, if you will, in the private sector, not because the private sector is bad… but because the private sector is motivated by profit, and oftentimes without regulatory restrictions.”

“By having the EPA regulate carbon emissions, Lisa Jackson is laying the foundation for the 2010 version of bread lines by supporting efforts that will raise energy costs,” noted Project 21’s Borelli. “It’s outrageous that Jackson’s policies will drive many low-income citizens to the government plantation.”

The Congressional Research Service predicts this winter will cost the average American household $986 just for heat. Already, people are scrambling to find ways to keep warm:

* In Cobb County, Georgia, hundreds of people waited outside in freezing temperatures to apply for county heating assistance—with two people having to be taken away by ambulance due to the cold. Applicant Deandre Marshall told WSB Radio that people in line were crying over the thought there would not be enough money for everyone, saying, “It’s almost like being in a soup line during the Great Depression.”

* By late November, over 8,000 households in St. Lawrence County, New York were approved for heating assistance, but county social services coordinator Linda Clark told North County Now that “everyone here is a little edgy” about the consistency of aid funding.

* John J. Drew, the president and CEO of Action for Boston Community Development said: “Washington’s inaction on fuel aid, rising energy prices, a ruthless economy and the predicted severe winter” create a “perfect storm of conditions that will leave seniors and low-income working families in grave danger.”

“Americans will suffer as a consequence of the Obama EPA’s anti-energy agenda. They will experience reduced living standards and have less disposable income because of higher energy costs,” noted Project 21’s Borelli. “The EPA’s plan to regulate carbon emissions would unfortunately result in still higher energy costs and more job losses. With unemployment officially hovering around ten percent, this is something our nation cannot afford.”

A 2009 poll of 800 black Americans conducted by Wilson Research Strategies for the National Center for Public Policy Research—the parent organization of Project 21—undercuts EPA administrator Jackson’s claim on broad public support. Among the key findings of the National Center poll:

* Fifty-six percent of blacks believed those in Washington setting climate policy fail to properly consider economic and quality of life concerns in the black community.

* Fifty-two percent of respondents don’t want to pay more for gasoline or electricity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Seventy-three percent are unwilling to pay more than 50 cents more for a gallon of gas, and 76 percent are unwilling to pay more than $50 more per year for electricity.

Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives since 1992, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research

By Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun

Professor Demetris Koutsoyiannis of the National Technical University of Athens is co-author of a study which demonstrates that the climate models which predict global warming cannot even hindcast to describe the climate we’ve been having.

He now responds to some of the more feral criticism from warmists on this blog:

“I wish to thank you for your posting about my colleagues and my paper (’A comparison of local and aggregated climate model outputs with observed data’ in this blog post.

Evidently, some people, including some of the readers and commentators of your blog, favour fanatic views over a dialogue between people having different opinions, which we practise in Hydrological Sciences Journal.”

See this post and comments here.

CFACT

Some people will sign anything that includes phrases like, “global effort,” “international community,” and “planetary.” Such was the case at COP 16, this year’s United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico.

This year, CFACT students created two mock-petitions to test U.N. Delegates. The first asked participants to help destabilize the United States economy, the second to ban water.

The first project, entitled “Petition to Set a Global Standard” sought to isolate and punish the United States of America for defying the international community, by refusing to bite, hook, line and sinker on the bait that is the Kyoto Protocol. The petition went so far as to encourage the United Nations to impose tariffs and trade restrictions on the U.S. in a scheme to destabilize the nation’s economy. Specifically, the scheme seeks to lower the U.S. GDP by 6% over a ten year period, unless the U.S. signs a U.N. treaty on global warming.

This would be an extremely radical move by the United Nations. Even so, radical left-wing environmentalists from around the world scrambled eagerly to sign.

The second project was as successful as the first. It was euphemistically entitled “Petition to Ban the Use of Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)” (translation water). It was designed to show that if official U.N. delegates could be duped by college students into banning water, that they could essentially fall for anything, including pseudo-scientific studies which claim to show that global warming is man-caused.

Despite the apparently not-so-obvious reference to H2O, almost every delegate that collegian students approached signed their petition to ban that all too dangerous substance, which contributes to the greenhouse effect, is the major substance in acid rain, and is fatal if inhaled.

Perhaps together, the footage associated with these two projects will illustrate to mainstream America the radical lengths many current U.N. delegates are willing to go to carry out an agenda no more ethical, plausible or practical than the banning water. See CFACt post here.

Anthony Watts showed how Penn and Teller had has similar success with banning water here.

Oh dear, some of these folks aren’t the brightest CFL’s in the room.

Readers may remember this famous Penn and Teller video from 2006 where they get well meaning (but non thinking) people to sign up to ban “dihydrogen monoxide” (DHMO), which is an “evil” chemical found in our lakes, rivers, oceans, and even our food!

Yeah, they signed up to ban water. Now watch the video from the Cancun climate conference, you’d think some of these folks would have enough science background (from their work in complex climate issues) to realize what they are signing, but sadly, no.