Thursday, November 13, 2014

Administration Official: We’re Ready to Ram Carbon Emissions Deal Through


Administration Official: We’re Ready to Ram Carbon Emissions Deal Through
by Rich Tucker 12 Nov 2014, 10:55 AM PDT
Leading liberal thinkers such as Thomas Friedman often lament that the U.S. can’t be “China for a day,” with a single day set aside for a dictatorial government to avoid the messiness of democracy and simply impose the radical policies they think are necessary. Perhaps President Obama was inspired, then, by his trip to China. 

Under an agreement signed Wednesday in Beijing, “the United States would cut its 2005 level of carbon emissions by 26-28% before the year 2025. China would peak its carbon emissions by 2030 and will also aim to get 20% of its energy from zero-carbon emission sources by the same year,” CNN reports.
                                  
It’s the first time China has agreed to reduce CO2 emissions, and the deal may be easier to implement there than here. 

Yet the Obama administration is already anticipating that Republicans in the newly-elected Congress may try to oppose this deal. So on this issue, as on immigration, they’re getting ready to act on their own.

“Congress may try to stop us, but we believe that with control of Congress changing hands we can proceed with the authority we already have,” an unnamed administration official told CNN. After all, this person added, opposing CO2 reductions “is really the crusade of a narrow group of people who are politically motivated and have made this a cause celebre, but we believe we will be successful.” 

Even without congressional action, emissions in the U.S. have been plunging in recent years, but that’s not necessarily good news. Countries in recession use less energy, and -- in large part because of the global economic slowdown -- the International Energy Agency reports that total U.S. CO2 emissions have fallen by 7.7 percent since 2006. That’s change we can believe in, but not change for the better.

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World Bank's Carbon Finance Unit is a division of the World Bank.
                                              
Note: Andrew Steer was a special envoy for climate change at the World Bank.
Jim Yong Kim is the president of the World Bank, and was a guest at George Soros’s 2013 wedding.
George Soros was married in 2013, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Climate Reality Project, the Aspen Institute (think tank), the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Joseph E. Stiglitz was a director at the Climate Reality Project, and a chief economist & SVP for the World Bank.
Albert A. Gore Jr. is the chairman for the Climate Reality Project, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and was a donor for The Climate Project.
The Climate Project is a merged organization with the Climate Reality Project.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers was a donor for The Climate Project.
L. John Doerr is a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Michael K. Powell is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and his father is Colin L. Powell.
Colin L. Powell is Michael K. Powell’s father, and a strategic adviser for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Bill Joy is a partner emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Robert S. McNamara was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the president of the World Bank.
Arjun Gupta is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Natural Resources Defense Council is a member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, and a partner with the Reality Coalition.      
Reality Coalition opposes coal use in the Clean coal debate.
Ann B. Friedman is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and married to Thomas L. Friedman.
Walter Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Ted Turner is the founder of CNN, and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States in war)
Jon M. Huntsman Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was the China U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama administration.
Moises Naim is a senior associate, International Economics Program for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was an executive director for the World Bank.
World Bank's Carbon Finance Unit is a division of the World Bank.













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