Obama Onto Big Carbon Emitters!

[icyfroth]

Obama Lays Out Climate Change Plan

US President Barack Obama has laid out a broad new plan to fight climate change, using executive powers to get around "flat earth" science deniers who have blocked action in Congress.

Obama called for new restrictions on existing and new power plants to curb carbon emissions, pledged to push new generation clean energy sources and to lead a fresh global effort to stem global warming.

Officials say the plan will allow the US to meet a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020, a pledge Obama made at the inconclusive Copenhagen summit in 2009.

Obama argued that Americans were already paying the "price of inaction" against climate change, describing 2012 as the warmest year in human history, which parched farmlands in the US heartland.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/17748756/us-uniquely-poised-to-fight-warming-obama/

Obama said he had no patience for climate change deniers, including many in Congress, who dispute the science holding that carbon dioxide emissions contribute to a dangerously warming planet.

"We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society," he said.

"Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it is not going to protect you from the coming storm."

Obama's plan is based on a three-pronged approach: cutting carbon pollution in the US, mitigating the impact of climate change, and seeking international action to address it.

Obama committed to withdrawing support for coal-fired power plants abroad and offered to discuss new initiatives with big emitters like India and China.

Umm aah!

"Flat Earth Society"!

"Sticking your head in the sand"!

*giggle*

[monman12]

POD: "How odd John, the consumption of Coca Cola also matches the those graphs

THAT'S IT consumption is the cause"

Whilst your time line is askew POD, your inadvertent comment has a degree of scientific plausibility in that with increasing population, and assuming the same ratio of Coca Cola drinkers to non drinkers,  it will result in a similar locus/trend,  i.e. consumption is proportional to world population.

Now explain your thoughts apropos the "Hockey Stick graph, which you have mentioned elsewhere.

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Here Poddy......your turn........

It's moments like these you need Minties.........

In fact.....you might need....

The forum Alarmists seem to going backwards.......:^O

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Just one more.....

At least Alarmists are declining in numbers...:-D