BARACK
OBAMA
AND THE THREAT THAT ISN'T THERE
By: Phil Brennan
"Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't
there again today, Oh how I wish he'd go away." "Antigonish" by William
Hughes Mearns, 1899.
That bit of poesy pretty well sums up Barack Obama's fixation on the threat that isn't
there. He appears to have met Global Warming somewhere and it isn't there, and met it
again and it's still not there and Oh how he plans to make it go away - no matter what it
costs.
Anyone with the sense to go indoors when it rains - that's what my sainted father
defined as common sense - must realize that the planet is heading into the deep freeze and
has been for the last decade. To fail to understand that Global warming is a fiction, is
to close one's eyes to reality and the chill climate of the world around them.
As climate expert after climate expert comes forward to insist, global warming is a
gigantic hoax. Al Gore and his fellow hoaxers continue to see the threat that isn't there
and promise to make it go away by bankrupting the economy and sending all of us to the
poor house where we'll shiver in unheated rooms.
Back on December 2, I quoted what Christopher Booker wrote in Britain's Telegraph on
Nov. 28 concerning Obama's blind faith in a non-existent threat: "Far from the
science being 'beyond dispute,' we can only deduce ... That Mr. Obama has believed all he
was told by Al Gore's wondrously batty film 'An Inconvenient Truth' without bothering to
check the facts."
Booker went on to explain that Obama plans to introduce a "federal cap and trade
system," a massive "carbon tax" designed to reduce America's CO2 emissions
to their 1990 levels by 2020 and reduce them an additional 80 percent by 2050 a target
that could only be achieved by closing down a large part of the US economy.
"That's in addition to spending $15 billion a year to encourage 'clean energy'
sources, such as thousands more wind turbines despite the fact that wind energy "is
so hopelessly ineffective that the 10,000 turbines America already has, representing '18
gigawatts of installed capacity,' only generate 4.5 gigawatts of power, less than that
supplied by a single giant coal-fired power station.
"He speaks about allowing only "clean" coal-fired power plants, using
carbon capture" — burying the CO2 in holes in the ground — which would not
only double the price of electricity, but the technology for which hasn't even yet been
developed.
Booker concludes, "For 300 years science helped to turn Western civilization into
the richest and most comfortable the world has ever seen. Now it seems we have suddenly
been plunged into a new age of superstition, where scientific evidence no longer counts
for anything.
“The fact that America will soon be ruled by a man wholly under the spell of this
post-scientific hysteria may leave us in wondering despair."
Obama supports something called “a cap-and-trade system” in which polluters
would have to purchase permits for greenhouse gas emissions on a 100% auction basis.
According to Reuters “Under such a system, companies that exceed their CO2 limits
must buy more permits to pollute, while those that come in beneath their limits may sell
the permits on a market." |
