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The US population of close to 320,000,000 emits as much CO2 through respiration as 32 coal or 64 nat gas plants.
See more on CO2 here.
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The economic devastation is real. The environmental benefits are not.
President Obama’s former Assistant Energy Secretary Charles McConnell agrees.
Watch McConnell’s devastating testimony before Congress at CFACT.org.
McConnell told Congress that, “The Clean Power Plan (CPP) has been falsely sold as impactful environmental regulation when it is really an attempt by our primary federal environmental regulator to take over state and federal regulation of energy.”
“What is also clear, scientifically and technically, is that EPA’s plan will not significantly impact global emissions.”
“Consider that all of the U.S. annual emissions in 2025 will be offset by three weeks of Chinese emissions. Three weeks. So it is dramatically uneventful. Is this impactful climate regulation? I think not.”
UN and U.S. climate policy is incredibly expensive. The policies may be effective at redistributing wealth, but will have little or no impact on world temperature.
We can’t afford politically correct climate and energy policies.
Charles McConnell succinctly and forcefully made the case for factual correctness instead.
Our emotional friends on the Green-Left aren’t going to like it.
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Senators to Loretta Lynch: No, You Cannot Punish Climate Change “Deniers”
Katie Pavlich Posted: May 26, 2016 1:00 PM
Two months ago Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted during congressional testimony that Justice Department attorneys were looking into punishment for the fossil fuel industry and certain individuals, including academics and researchers. Their crime? Rejection or denial of climate change and therefore being opposed to President Obama’s agenda on the issue.
Today, five Republican Senators have sent a letter to Lynch reminding her that in America, we don’t have thought police and the Justice Department doesn’t have the power or authority to punish an entire industry because the people in it they think differently than the progressives in charge of the government.
“We write today to demand that the Department of Justice immediately cease its ongoing use of law enforcement resources to stifle private debate on one of the most controversial public issues of our time --- climate change,” the letter states. “As you well know, initiating criminal prosecution for a private entity’s opinions on climate change is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and an abuse of power that rises to the level of prosecutorial misconduct.”
The letter also notes that Democrat Attorney Generals around the country have been issuing subpoenas to private companies, scientists and academic researchers demanding any and all documents referring to “climate change, greenhouse gases, carbon tax, or climate science.”
“These actions provide disturbing confirmation that government officials at all levels are threatening to wield the sword of law enforcement to silence debate on climate change,” the letter states.
The Senators have asked the Department to end all investigations and inquiries into climate changes “deniers” within 14 days.
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2015 Updated NOAA Tide Gauge Data Shows No Coastal Sea Level Rise Acceleration