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Monday, September 22, 2014

Obama Prepares ‘Climate Change Push At UN Summit’ | McConnell: ‘Obama's Energy Policy ... Ideological Crusade’

Editorial Cartoon By William Warren
Editor's Note: "Today in Washington, D.C." articles will not be posted daily until Congress returns on November 12, 2014. Intermittent articles may be shared.
Today in Washington, D.C. - Sept 22, 2014
The Senate is scheduled to hold a pro forma session at 4 PM today. The House and Senate will return for legislative business on November 12th.

AFP reports today, “President Barack Obama will seek to galvanize international support in the fight against climate change on Tuesday when he addresses the United Nations, with time running out on his hopes of leaving a lasting environmental legacy. Obama has warned that failure to act on climate change would be a ‘betrayal’ of future generations, but faced with a Congress reluctant to even limit greenhouse gas emissions -- let alone ratify an international agreement -- his options appear limited. . . . In June, Obama unveiled new standards aimed at achieving a drastic reduction in carbon emissions from all existing power plants -- a 30 percent reduction of 2005 levels by 2030.”

But those regulations are doing little to address climate concerns while they devastate the economies of places like Eastern Kentucky, as Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell writes in the Washington Examiner today. “Not unlike its approach to Obamacare, the administration has used a regulatory sledgehammer when a mere scalpel would have done the job. Here’s why: For those in the Obama administration, it is less about balancing environmental concerns with economic growth than it is about crushing forms of energy they don’t like — like coal. Thanks in no small part to this administration’s endless regulations and threats, Eastern Kentucky is today suffering through an economic depression. Thousands of jobs have been lost, and thousands more are in jeopardy. . . . The great tragedy in all this is that the administration’s job-killing regulations won’t do much of anything to meaningfully improve the environment or to curb global carbon emissions, since our overseas competitors will inevitably provide whatever coal we can’t.”

And, as The Hill notes, “A number of world leaders will be absent from the event, however, notably Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.” Of course, China and India happen to be “the No. 1 and No. 3 emitters of greenhouse gases in the world,” according to The Hill.

AFP points out another problem with the president’s plans, writing, “[T]he White House has delayed addressing the difficult debate surrounding the legal nature of the agreement that 195 nations in the UN Convention on Climate Change will hope to reach in Paris at the end of next year. The US Constitution states that all legally binding treaties must be ratified by two thirds of the US Senate, an unthinkable prospect in the current political climate. Memories of the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated and signed in 1997 but never ratified by the United States, also loom large. . . . Obama's climate team is reportedly working to put together a ‘politically binding’ deal which would combine voluntary pledges with legally binding conditions from already existing treaties. Any such pact would avoid the need to seek ratification from the US Senate. ‘Unfortunately, this would be just another of many examples of the Obama administration’s tendency to abide by laws that it likes and to disregard laws it doesn't like -- and to ignore the elected representatives of the people when they don’t agree,’ US Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in response to reports outlining the administration's strategy.”

Once again, the president is proposing to circumvent the Constitution because it’s inconvenient for the achievement of his ideological goals.

Leader McConnell concludes his op-ed, “As usual, the Obama administration is presenting us with a false choice. The question isn’t whether we should protect the environment or help the economy. It’s whether we should continue to cling to an ideologically driven energy strategy or switch to a smarter, balanced approach that includes coal and nuclear, natural gas and biofuels, better technology and more home-grown North American energy. An all-of-the-above approach — rather than an all-but-coal approach — is the key to creating more jobs, keeping energy bills low, protecting our planet and promoting public health, all at once. It’s also the kind of strategy the American people expect. And it’s one we can get to work on in a bipartisan way once the Obama administration drops its my-way-or-the-highway mindset and its ineffective, politically driven regulatory agenda that threatens to do so much harm for so little environmental benefit.”

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Curtis Wilson said...

It doesn't seem to bother them that there has been exactly ZERO temp change over the past 15 years. They go right on wailing about how the end is nigh.

9/23/2014  
Blogger Bill Smith said...

However, when the end is nigh (as set forth in the scriptures), and the earth and lost mankind reaps the wrath of God on the Earth, the nay Sayers may well utter their last words as, "See I was right, it's all caused by "Global Warming." The is no changing stupid.

9/23/2014  
Anonymous Maria Jarvis Mitchell said...

THE UN has the world teetering on the brink of self destruction from wars and rumors of wars .... & TERRORISM ...
But ... What they plan on discussing is the .....
CLIMATE ... Remember when people talked about the weather JUST TO PASS THE TIME BECAUSE THEY WERE INSECURE AND HAD NOTHING ELSE TO TALK ABOUT.

9/23/2014  
Anonymous Janice Roberts said...

Times haven't changed, Maria - they still talk about the weather while figuring out ways to screw us over with all of the IMPORTANT things they should be talking about!

9/23/2014  

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