ALL BASED ON FALSE, ‘MADE-UP
FACTS AND FIGURES’
No ‘incredibly small’ wars
against energy by Obama
Townhall Finance – Marita Noon
– 9/22/2013
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EPA; Wrong predictions that
cost the taxpayers billions of tax dollars, closed plants and lost jobs
IPCC: Predictions of climate warming are way off
base – Park Foundation made contributions looking to advance their particular
cause.
COAL: Plants closed, jobs eliminated – “Too many
people have too much invested in perpetuating this fiction.”
Think: Someone with an agenda makes contributions to
“researchers” with a proposed conclusion.
The “researchers” manipulate data to reach the desired conclusion. Public policy is manipulated by campaign
contributions to elected officials who make nominations to federal agencies to
implement the desired “public policy” which is based on bias and not fact.
The unusual collaboration of
the University of Texas (UT) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) conducted
a first-ever detailed examination—more than 500 wells were analyzed—of
individual drilling sites to determine the total amount of escaped methane from
shale gas operations. The study
was released on September 16 by the National Academy of Sciences. The New York
Times story
on the study opens with: “Drilling for shale gas through hydraulic fracturing,
or fracking, appears to cause smaller leaks of the greenhouse gas methane than
the federal government had estimated.” It reports: “Previous E.P.A. estimates
relied on engineering calculations, and other studies gathered data via
aircraft flights over drilling sites.”
Why does this matter?
Because environmental groups have used previous methane-leak estimates to claim
that leaks offset the environmental benefits of the clean-burning natural gas
the wells produce. Such claims are used to bolster fracking opposition. A September
17 press
release from the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
states: “methane leakage from shale gas development is not releasing nearly as
much methane as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had predicted. EPA’s
grossly exaggerated estimates have been widely used by critics and far-left
environmentalists to discredit the benefits of hydraulic fracturing.”
Reporter Mark Green posted
an overview
of a September 12 briefing he attended, regarding a peer-reviewed study done on
hydraulic fracturing’s impacts. The study,
Green says, is “hailed by the author as the first comprehensive look at the
environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing.” The study was conducted at the
1000-acre Inglewood oil field in the heart of Los Angeles and
concludes: “energy development using fracking and horizontal drilling
technologies is safe, doesn’t threaten water supplies or cause earthquakes.”
The study specifically examined groundwater, seismic activity, well integrity,
and air emissions.
Climate Change News
The UN Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is scheduled to release its fifth Assessment
Report (AR5) on September 27. But leaked copies indicate that it will “dial
back on the alarm.” On September 16, the Financial Post published a graph
from AR5 (figure 1.4, chapter 1). “The IPCC graph shows that climate models
predicted temperatures should have responded by rising somewhere between about
0.2 and 0.9 degrees C over the same period. But the actual temperature change
was only about 0.1 degrees, and was within the margin of error around zero. In
other words, models significantly over-predicted the warming effect of CO2
emissions for the past 22 years.”
Adding to the “feeling in
the air,” on September 17, the Heartland Institute, in cooperation with the
Science & Environmental Policy Project, and the Center for the Study of
Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, released the Nongovernmental International
Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) 2013 Report: Climate Change Reconsidered II—which
focuses on facts rather than fear and cites dozens of peer-reviewed papers. The
NIPCC report is 1200 pages long and was prepared by 50 climatologists and other
scientists from 15 countries (an Executive
Summary and a Summary
for Policymakers is available). The goal of the NIPCC report, according to
Jim Lakely, Director of Communications for the Heartland Institute, “is to
inform the public, scientific community, and media that the upcoming IPCC
report doesn’t have all the science to make informed judgments.”
In his review
of the NIPCC report, Paul Driessen states: “The NIPCC authors conclude that existing
climate models ‘are unable to make accurate projections of climate even ten
years ahead, let alone the 100-year period that has been adopted by policy
planners. The output of such models should therefore not be used to guide
public policy formulation, until they have been validated [by comparison to
actual observations] and shown to have predictive value.’”
But why? Let’s go back to
the Cal Thomas quote: “Too many
people have too much invested in perpetuating this fiction.”
More than fifty such “investments” of taxpayer money
(given to Obama donors and friends of other high-ranking Democrats) have now
gone bankrupt or are circling the drain.
READER COMMENT:
You should keep in mind that the Saudi King that owns
Obama's genitals controls what he wants for USA Oil Independence, to "Stop the
USA from Becoming Independent and selling Oil and Gas to other nations. The 50
Trillion dollars invested by the Oil Rich Sheiks in the Middle East would lose
control of the World of Oil and Money if the USA became independent. And the
Muslim Kings of Earth would not be able to Promote the
Religion/Government/UnCivilized nature of Islam to control the Whole World. And
they own our Congress people and Judges and the Whole Executive Branch under
Barack Obama and His Muslim Brotherhood.
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