Obama in Milan: Climate Change ‘Created by Man’ and ‘Can Be Solved by Man’
by CHARLIE SPIERING9 May 2017 Former President Barack Obama returned to his gospel of climate change alarmism, preaching to Italians in Milan about the impending doom facing the planet. “When it comes to climate change, the hour is almost upon us,” he warned, urging the world to “set aside our parochial differences” to create a […]
Worldwide: Over 1,200 laws aim to change weather — need more to limit downpours, seas, storms
Welcome to paleolithic politics: in this version, the witchdoctors are syndicated and with lap tops. OSLO (Reuters) – Nations around the world have adopted more than 1,200 laws to curb climate change… Patricia Espinosa, the U.N.’s climate change chief, … said the findings were “cause for optimism”… Because more laws are always good. Source: Worldwide: […]
Obama Climate Change Speech Earns $3.26 Million for Personal Foundation
Former president Barack Obama’s speech on climate change in Italy raised €3 million ($3.26m) in ticket sales for his personal foundation, according to a report from The Times. Having travelled to Milan in a private jet, Obama settled into a presidential suite at the Park Hyatt hotel, costing roughly €8,400 a night. Source: Obama Climate […]
African Nations Plan More Than 100 New Coal Power Plants
More than 100 coal power plants are in various stages of planning or development in 11 African countries outside of South Africa — more than eight times the region’s existing coal capacity. Africa’s embrace of coal is in part the result of its acute shortage of power. Source: African Nations Plan More Than 100 New […]
Trump Loses Senate Vote To Repeal Obama-Era Methane Rule Thanks To McCain
Would have saved taxpayers $1.8 billion Source: Trump Loses Senate Vote To Repeal Obama-Era Methane Rule Thanks To McCain
Trump Delays Decision on Paris Climate Accord Until After G7 Meeting
President to first meet with G-7 leaders in Italy before rendering final verdict President Donald Trump won’t make a decision on whether to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change until after he meets with G-7 leaders later this month, the White House’s top spokesman said Tuesday. Source: Trump Delays Decision on Paris Climate […]
3 Republicans Defect To Reject Bill To Repeal Obama-Era Methane Limits — Interior Dept. says it will scrap regs anyway
By Alexander C. Kaufman Republicans’ bid to roll back an Obama-era rule limiting methane emissions from drilling rigs on public lands narrowly lost in the Senate on Wednesday after three GOP senators voted against the repeal. In a 49-51 vote, the Senate preserved the rule, strengthened after last November’s election, that limited the amount of […]
Obama Kicks Off First Foreign Speech With An Astonishingly False Statement On Global Warming
By Michael Bastasch Former President Barack Obama told those gathered at an agricultural conference that man-made global warming was already impacting agriculture on a global scale, shrinking crop yields and raising food prices. “Our changing climate is already making it more difficult to produce food,” Obama said at the Seeds & Chips conference in Milan, […]
Trump administration’s delegation to UN climate meeting totals 7; France sends 42
By Chris Mooney Washington Post The United States government has sent just seven registered participants to a key United Nations meeting on the Paris climate agreement — a smaller delegation than Zimbabwe — underscoring the Trump administration’s deep ambivalence about the historic agreement. White House officials are expected to huddle on Tuesday to discuss the […]
Obama Uses Private Jet, 14 Car Convoy to Get to European Climate Change Speech
BY CONOR SWANBERG Former President Barack Obama traveled to Italy this week to make a speech on climate change at the “Seed & Chips: The Global Food Innovation Summit” in the city of Milan. It seems like Obama has taken a page out of Leonardo DiCaprio’s book of “do as I say, not as I do” […]