Climate change .. the SCAM.

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Loosing the Solar Tax Credit... 0zombies must Cry! http://cleantechnica.com/2015/09/09/...-can-win-lose/

[DSK]

Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

Home owner's insurance covers damage. Maintenance would be keeping the units clean. There are no moving parts. The inverter box may be sealed. Useful service life is between 10 and 20 years. I don't know what factors are determined to increase life, In Texas you recover your investment in @ 5 years

Heck, if everything you say is true, I could get a Tesla battery system and by generating my own power, I could go off the grid.

Go buy storable food, freezers, refrigerators, extra ammo and I'm ready for anything!

Thanks Munchmasterman!!!

[CuteOldGuy]

Many people are living successfully off the grid. I admire them. If I were younger, I'd join them.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Many people are living successfully off the grid. I admire them. If I were younger, I'd join them.

yes, they are using solar power do this.

[I B Hankering]

Off the grid living deemed illegal in Florida.

Cape woman living "off the grid" challenged by city

Posted: Feb 21, 2014 4:58 PM CST
Updated: Feb 25, 2014 6:27 PM CST


CAPE CORAL, FL -
A Cape Coral woman refuses to use city power and water. But now, she has a month to "plug in" or face the consequences. (NBC)

[Yssup Rider]

Fucking Republicans...

[Rey Lengua]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Fucking Republicans...

Fuckin Lying liberals ! Especially the " fudge packer, gloryholer " branch of the party !

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0zombies wasted our money and time. Go to the article for the links

http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/11/g...king-to-f.html

Green Fail: Obama & Democrats Wasted Years & Billions On Stupid "Green" Boondoggles Instead of Working To Fix The Economy

One always hopes that an American president is is intelligent enough to pursue smart economic policies that have proven to create both economic and job growth. Unfortunately, this president's 'Obamanomics' strategy has proven to be the antithesis of smart policy.

Not only was 'Obamanomics' not smart, Obama doubled-down on stupidity by pursuing "green" energy/product boondoggles that have only proven to enrich his large donors while stealing money from the middle-class pocketbook.

At 'C3' we've been compiling headlines about the green boondoggles that Obama and Democrats love and promote. Below is a list these headlines, which provide evidence of an administration stuck-on-green-stupid with no indications that these fiascoes will end well.

Green Fail: The Obama & Harry Reid $1.3 billion green boondoggle in Nevada - a $4.6 million per job fiasco

Green Fail: Obama’s ethanol policies responsible for 192,000 deaths each year – starving humans on the altar of the ‘green-vote’

Green Fail: The “No More (Obama) Solyndras” Act - a bipartisan piece of legislation that shows even Democrats are sick of the “green” energy waste by Obama White House

Green Fail: Obama, Abound Solar, large donations & even larger loans to the failed solar company

Green Fail: Obama's big donors will receive huge tax breaks from Solyndra bankruptcy costing taxpayers even more

Green Fail: Green energy firm receives $32 million loan from Obama and then promptly terminates 200+ U.S. employees

Green Fail: "Independent" watchdog on Obama's Solyndra loans is big donor to Obama now - green's renewable corruption

Green Fail: NRG Solar received $1.2 billion green loan from Obama… and just by chance, wife (Arvia Few) of then NRG executive VP is a large donor/bundler for Obama

Green Fail: "The wind industry is imploding" - layoffs by the welfare-queens of this taxpayer subsidized "green" industry, continues

Green Fail: "Voters abandon global warming fears" - but that doesn't stop Obama's EPA

Green Fail: "Worse Than Solyndra" - Maine U.S. Senate candidate in crony cahoots with Democratic administration to enrich green project, used Obama Team to bolster his expensive wind development

Green Fail: $10 mil to power 30 homes at twice the cost of buying traditional electricity, subsidized by American taxpayers - water turbine project is the latest boondoggle to be funded

Green Fail: 62% of Americans reject Democrats' corporate welfare to wealthy wind promoters like Maine's U.S. Senate candidate Angus King

Green Fail: A presentation to Obama by a big Democratic donor with a new 'green' idea - of course, the Obama administration gave him a $625 million loan [video] /sarc

Green Fail: A simple summary of the Washington Post editorial on Obama's 'Volt' - a brain-dead idea wasting taxpayer funds

Green Fail: Another "green" pipe dream investment by Obama goes bankrupt - $250 million of taxpayer dollars down the tubes

Green Fail :Another Obama green energy investment files for bankruptcy - Satcon Technology, a manufacturer of solar power conversion equipment

Green Fail: Anti-fracking supporters discovered to be using bogus science – claims are hype say scientists

Green Fail: At the Democratic Party Convention, Obama's key person responsible for the "green" Solyndra scandal literally runs away from inquisitive reporters

Green Fail: Beltway insider predicts failed Solyndra will damage Obama's re-election

Green Fail: Blaming China for solar company loans going bad – amazingly, Obama administration was so freaking incompetent it failed to consider aggressive Chinese competition

Green Fail: Brazil so desperate to promote renewable energy, they turn to human hamsters - Obama's DOE considers loan for hamster solution /sarc

Green Fail: California’s lunatic embrace of green energy is harming low income citizens by the millions

Green Fail: Cato said it presciently 15 years ago - "Renewable Energy, Not Cheap, Not Green" and Obama still doesn't get it

Green Fail: CBS News confirms that Obama’s one million electric vehicles goal a resounding joke – but American Enterprise Institute (AEI) “conservative” elites encourage you to buy one

Green Fail: CFL bulbs found even more dangerous to health – a UV ray risk to humans, thank you GE

Green Fail: College Illinois fund to lose 50% of its Fisker investment, which is another of Obama's "green" electric vehicle fiascoes

Green Fail: Congressional Budget Office study reports that Obama's "green" electric vehicles are waste of money - who knew?

Green Fail: Corn for biofuel equals amount that could feed 412 million people for a year

Green Fail: Danish firm gets $50 million of Obama's stimulus and then lays off 800 americans...stuck-on-stupid green policies

Green Fail: DNC platform calls for "environmental justice," including more Solyndras - the Democrats have learned nothing from the last 4 years

Green Fail: Electric power generating plants using ‘renewable’ biomass fail to protect environment – 79% in violation of air/water environmental standards

Green Fail: Email from an Obama expert on solar DOE loans - "All in all in the solar field, l think it is extremely easy to pick losers and l really do not know how to pick winners” – yet they showered billions of taxpayer dollars on green energy losers

Green Fail: Emails prove that White House was directly involved in huge loan to bankrupt solar company – emails contradict bogus statements by Obama

Green Fail: Emails shed light on corruption between White House & Solyndra – putting the private investors ahead of the taxpayers

Green Fail: Ethanol vs. the World - remove Obama's U.S. ethanol "green" subsidies say the WTO, FAO, IFAD, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, WFP, IFPRI, UN HTLF and the World Bank

Green Fail: EU spends billions on ‘green’ energy and its CO2 emissions remain the same – in contrast, U.S. emissions decline due to free market & innovation

Green Fail: EU study determines that wind power installations are not worth the cost (i.e. tax subsidies)

Green Fail: Forget climate change, Democrat and Obama's direct policies killing the world’s hungry – ethanol takes priority over food

Green Fail: Generation X has rejected the green’s fanatic religion pushed by spoiled ‘Boomers’

Green Fail: German media, consumers and taxpayers now finally realizing they are being raped by wind energy greed of a few- does Obama read German?

Green Fail: German politicians backtracking on “green energy revolution” – their original stupidity meets economic reality - is Obama smarter than the Germans?

Green Fail: GM so desperate to sell Volt it has to offer huge discounts - Obama's green lemon

Green Fail: Gore green fraud investments will give us 'no more Solyndras'

Green Fail: Green energy revolution, “an ideologically driven boondoggle from the start”

Green Fail: Hollywood's Matt Damon uses Mideast oil money to attack America's natural gas industry - the Democrats' green hypocrisy is simply astounding

Green Fail: Holy sheet!...a massive list of Obama's green investment failures - as noted before, Democrat green-stupidity and greed knows no limits

Green Fail: How Obama turned $527 million into $24 million – what a green genius, no?

Green Fail: In 1890, the Morrison Electric automobile had a range of 100 miles on a battery charge – better than Obama’s GM-bailout Volt

Green Fail: Is the obituary now being written for Obama's Tesla electric vehicle company? - despite a half-billion from taxpayers, Tesla running out of cash, fast

Green Fail: Italy’s perfect storm of solar ‘malinvestment’ – bankrupting Italy, the renewable energy way that Obama wastes billions on

Green Fail: Layoffs mount at the Democrat-subsidized wind energy manufacturing plants - green subsidies cause more harm than good

Green Fail: Liberal-biased media discovers that they can no longer just bury Obama’s “green” failures

Green Fail: Major crony capitalist and Obama supporter, GE, fails at solar panels – market does not support the over-the-top government hype & subsidies

Green Fail: Massachusetts town finds out just how expensive electric rates are from an Obama-style wind turbine project

Green Fail: More bad news for Obama’s wind energy subsidies – they are worthless in terms of creating jobs when compared to fossil fuel projects

Green Fail: More evidence that Obama’s green electric car initiative is failing – why are the elites so freaking stupid?

Green Fail: Nevada Geothermal Power close to defaulting after receiving an Obama “green” loan of $98 million – hmmm...dumbest president ever?

Green Fail: New blend of ethanol may damage car engines – Obama’s EPA political agenda likely to harm consumers’ autos

Green Fail: Nissan Leaf underperforms significantly in hotter climates - electric car battery range not so hot when hot

Green Fail: Obama & Democrats still believe wasting trillions on "global warming" hysteria is good idea - newest empirical evidence shows no warming for last 16 years

Green Fail: Obama administration gave $150 million of “stimulus” taxpayer dollars to LG Chem for production of Chevy Volt "green" auto batteries – instead, employees play card games, watch movies & read books/magazines

Green Fail: Obama administration’s idiotic Energy Secretary still pushing the even more idiotic goal of one-million electric cars in 3 years - why are big government scientists sooo freaking stupid?

Green Fail: Obama admits to making mistakes and then promises to continue with more ‘green’ failures [video]

Green Fail: Obama doles out $197 million loan to solar company that "industry analysts are not optimistic about" - just another Solyndra deal, where Obama's cronies enrich themselves

Green Fail: Obama's electric auto company suffers another setback - are these vehicles safe to own?

Green Fail: Obama has spent $9.8 million of taxpayer monies for each full-time “green” job – honestly, has there ever been a dumber U.S. president?

Green Fail: Obama loans $2 billion for South African clean energy project - more taxpayer monies down the foreign 'green' rat hole of Obama's big donors

Green Fail: Obama personally linked to $2 billion loan for controversial wind project – emails highlight the ‘green’ cronyism that’s wasting taxpayer dollars

Green Fail: Obama plans to spend millions exporting his signature failed green energy policies to Africa – keeping Africans impoverished via very expensive and unreliable green energy

Green Fail: Obama policies destroy an actual small 'green' business success story - destroying a solar device firm with sheer anti-small business, Democrat stupidity

Green Fail: Obama promised 200,000 new ‘green’ jobs per year – only 16,000 total new green jobs after spending $90 BILLION

Green Fail: Obama stimulus recipient Serious Energy is another failed "green" example of crony capitalism and corrupt politicians

Green Fail: Obama wealthy campaign donors “feed at the green energy trough” – leading to massive green taxpayer losses

Green Fail: Obama’s ‘green fleet’ – an utter taxpayer waste the Pentagon embraced instead of national security

Green Fail: Obama’s ‘green’ energy policies are the same as those pursued by Spain to economic ruin

Green Fail: Obama’s ‘green’ supporters are lethally anti-consumer, anti-job and anti-business –a clear and present danger to society

Green Fail: Obama’s Energy Dept. gave Treasury Dept. only one day to review Solyndra loan - $500+ million down the drain because of gross incompetence

Green Fail: Obama’s EPA cellustic ethanol mandate an unachievable boondoggle – massive stupidity from an out-of-control bureaucracy

Green Fail: Obama’s green stimulus money flowed “right to union pockets”

Green Fail: Obama’s loves "green" reusable grocery bags - but bags are likely to be infected with E. coli, salmonella, fecal coliform and the killer virus, norovirus- yum!

Green Fail: Obama-backed electric vehicle company goes dark - 400 jobs and 20,000 cars/year never materialize

Green Fail: Obama's "green utopia" an utter economic and energy failure - but he keeps defending it...stuck-on-stupid is not admirable

Green Fail: Obama's "green" energy and jobs are a massive failure - U.S. riches in fossil fuels kicks big green's butt

Green Fail: Obama's “green energy” gets 82X more tax preferences than fossil fuels

Green Fail: Obama's car company mislead public in UK about Volt's mileage - UK has banned ad for GM's Ampera (Volt) because of gross deception

Green Fail: Obama's Energy Dept. makes a big deal out of America's solar power - but it only generates 14/100's of 1% of America's total energy

Green Fail: Obama's EPA draconian, non-constitutional rulings rejected by court

Green Fail: Obama's 'Volt Economy' - throwing good money down the rat-hole after bad

Green Fail: Radical climate adviser to Obama says "Forget your computer, your TV, your stereo, your stove, your dishwasher, your water heater, your microwave, your water pump, your clock. Forget your light bulbs, compact fluorescent or not"...the liberal Democrats' utopia to save the world from climate change

Green Fail: Remember when Obama and the green fundamentalists wanted Americans to agree to those draconian and job-killing UN CO2 emission cuts?

Green Fail: Scotland does not meet its CO2 emission reductions because the climate was too cold – so much for Obama's scary global warming

Green Fail: Senators are calling for investigation of Obama’s “green” investments – Fisker & A123 Battery hundreds of millions in loans questioned

Green Fail: Senators question Fisker Automotive $529 million “green” loan from Obama – the promised 2,000 U.S. jobs never happened

Green Fail: Solyndra "green energy" corruption is so bad, that Obama DoE official refuses to testify before Congress

Green Fail: Some 50 government-backed “green” companies are either bankrupt or financially-troubled – Obama’s green cronyism is a complete bust

Green Fail: Stupid EU elites plunge 800,000 Germans into energy poverty – citizens can no longer afford basic electricity needs because of Obama-like 'skyrocketing' energy prices

Green Fail: Survey confirms massive opposition to Obama's wind & solar subsidies - over 60% say subsidies should be eliminated or reduced

Green Fail: Tesla's electric vehicle has quality problems and Obama's taxpayer loan to Tesla is in trouble

Green Fail: The 10 most revealing Solyndra emails – green slime oozing from the White House

Green Fail: The abysmal failure of carbon trading - EU spent 210 billion Euros for zero reduction in carbon emissions

Green Fail: The cost of Senator John Kerry's climate change hysteria - Democrats' green energy solutions have consequences

Green Fail: The Democrats and leftist-greens want to ban air conditioning - the NY Times supports this anti-technology looniness

Green Fail: The Germans unequivocally prove that solar panel companies are not viable - billions poured down a rat hole of failureand Obama learns nothing

Green Fail: The green fundamentalists are now pushing for the no-energy policy - the Obama-Democrats' green religion of the Sierra Club and Greenpeace is basically bankrupt

Green Fail: The green religion liberal/lefty politicians cause another food crisis – these green fundamentalists are the greatest danger to the quality of life for possibly billions

Green Fail: The hypocrisy from big green elitists is often amusing and always so blatantly stunning

Green Fail: The 'Next Solyndra' just keeps happening - Democrats' incompetency, helped by Obama, just makes it so

Green Fail: The Obama taxpayer-funded Nissan Leaf only goes 44 miles in hot weather

Green Fail: The unmitigated big government boondoggle called 'ethanol' - another green-welfare disaster

Green Fail: The USDA is supposed to promote farmers and ranchers products – instead, promote “meatless Mondays” per Obama/UN’s obsession with greenhouse gases

Green Fail: This is what Obama team calls a “success” – either they're galactically stupid or pathological liars

Green Fail: Toyota bails on Obama's green car fantasy - the market and technology still not viable

Green Fail: Turns out Maine's U.S. Senate candidate is just another greedy crony - enriched himself with $400,000 of taxpayer monies for his wind power welfare-project (just what we need in the Senate)

Green Fail: U.S. Air Force spends $59/gallon on biofuel vs. $4/gallon on fossil fuel – being politically correct costs a lot of taxpayer monies (cut the Defense budget, now)

Green Fail: UK Chancellor demands ‘green’ stupidity be stopped – ruling elites are realizing their own eco-cide stupidity now- will Obama learn this too?

Green Fail: UK drivers punished for driving green cars – govt will lose money if drivers switch to green cars, thus road taxes to increase (don't give Obama any more tax ideas, please)

Green Fail: Understanding why the ‘green’ energy boondoggle has failed so spectacularly

Green Fail: United Nations urges Obama to suspend ethanol production – the Democrats’ green religion wants more humans to starve, though

Green Fail: GM Volt battery manufacturer close to going out of business after Obama loaned the company $151 million

Green Fail: Watch Democrat green-stupidity in its full glory - wasting huge taxpayer dollars on the soon-to-become bankrupt battery maker [video]

Green Fail: Why green energy startups are now 'toxic' - hmmm, maybe they're unprofitable for investors long-term?

Green Fail: Wind and solar renewable energy projects are having major problems because of major environmental groups - the robust hypocrisy is amusing

Green Fail: Wind energy subsidy is $32,900/worker versus fossil fuel subsidy of $2,100/ worker - Obama is providing huge welfare checks to his wealthy wind-cronies

Green Fail: Wind power subsidies become a sizable drain at all levels of government

Green Fail: World food crisis from U.S. corn shortage imminent - Obama administration refuses to deviate though from their crazed ethanol corn consumption

Green Fail: Yep, those green-liberal Obama supporters sure do care about their local environment - Slobs R' Us

Green Fail: Internal Revenue Service says Solyndra bankruptcy plan nothing more than Obama's wealth cronies trying to avoid paying taxes

Green Fail: Obama gives U.S. embassy in Vienna Chevy Volts while he cut security at Libyan embassies...stupidity-on-green-steroids, no?

Green Fail: Obama-subsidized electric hybrids by Fisker exploded and burned when submerged by Hurricane Sandy - they're not supposed to do that

Green Fail: Obama promises more green failures in order to enrich his "friends" if reelected - refuses to admit that green-crony capitalism for his wealthy donors was a massive waste and gross error in judgment

Green Fail: Turns out Obama is misleading public about White House influence on ‘green’ loans – emails indicate WH put political pressure on Department of Energy employees

Green Fail: A big Democratic Obama donor is behind the infamous $59/gallon U.S. military jet biofuel

Green Fail: Big Obama supporters receive Federal funds for their venture capital investments – going “green” has whole new meaning for raped taxpayers

Green Fail: Failed Amonix Solar gave almost half of its political donations to a Democrat being investigated for ethics violations – corrupt politics stinking up Congress

Green Fail: Obama fundraiser gets coveted Energy Department post – involved with Obama’s failed “green” energy investments

Green Fail: Obama’s preferred style of “capitalism” is provided by his biggest donor “green” buddies – bringing disgrace to the White House

Green Fail: The bankrupt battery maker A123 appears to have bought off Obama and Democrats to assure a spot at the Federal taxpayer trough – green corruption and failure running rampant, no?

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Three Facts Prove Climate Alarm Is a Scam

By Larry Bell
Tuesday, 31 May 2016 10:16 AM

1988 was a barn-burner year for climate alarmists. Then-Sen. Al Gore’s steamy congressional hearing trumpeted a planet on fire, and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created to produce pseudo-scientific evidence blaming it on unfair capitalist industrial prosperity-spawned CO2 emissions.

Canadian Environment Minister Christine Stewart explained the real cause for urgency. She told editors and reporters of the Calgary Herald, “No matter if the science of global warming is all phony . . . climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”

Stewart was wrong. Consequences of that phony science upon environmental and energy regulatory policies matter a great deal. So let’s consider some inconvenient facts.

1. No Recent Warming Despite Higher CO2

First, no one I know “denies” that climate changes, both warmer and colder, and for better and worse. Not so very long ago, U.S. cooling of about 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit between 1945 and 1975 prompted The New York Times and other major news publications to headline “experts” trumpeting the arrival of a new ice age.

During “modern times” the global climate has been warming in fits and starts since the last “little ice age” (not a true ice age) ended about 200 years ago. Yet apart from entirely natural 1998 and 2015 ocean El Nino spikes, satellite and weather balloon measurements show no statistically-significant global warming for nearly two decades.

U.S. surface records obtained from the most reliable thermometer stations — those not corrupted by local “heat island” influences such as instrument relocations, urban developments or other man-made changes — show no significant warming over the past 80 years. There have been more all-time U.S. cold records than heat records since the 1940s.

Based upon the most reliable land surface data (UK Hadley Center, or “HADCRUT”), the average annual planetary warming between 1850 and 2015 is virtually imperceptible . . . and certainly not “dangerous.”

2. Extreme Claims Proven Extremely Wrong

Contrary to prevalent fear-mongering, sea levels have been rising at a constant rate of barely 7 inches per century without any measured acceleration. Even the latest 2013 IPCC report states; “It is likely that GMSL [Global Mean Sea Level] rose between 1920 and 1950 at a rate comparable to that observed between 1993 and 2010.”

Periodic Arctic warming cycles have been reported by whalers and explorers dating back centuries. Alpine glaciers at Glacier National Park have been receding since the little ice age ended. (Incidentally, polar bear populations are now at a record high.)

As for the sensationalized melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a British Antarctic Survey reported that this is “within the natural range of climate variability” over the past 300 years, and that “more dramatic isotopic warming (and cooling) trends occurred in the mid-19th and 18th centuries.” Overall, the Antarctic ice mass has been steadily growing since first recorded by NASA satellites in 1979. The 2013-2014 expanses exceeded all previous measurements.

Regarding that “extreme weather” we’ve been warned about, no category 3-5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. coast since October 2005, setting a record lull since 1900. Both NOAA and the IPCC have admitted that there has been no increase in the severity or frequency of droughts, floods, thunderstorms, or tornadoes in decades. Nor has the number of U.S. wildfires increased.

3. Inconvenient Confessions From IPCC Authorities

So how much confidence should we place upon IPCC objectivity to guide regulatory policies? Consider but a couple of statements from key inside sources in their own words.
As written in a 2007 journal Nature article by Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of 2001 and 2007 IPCC reports: “None of the [global climate simulation] models used by the IPCC are initialized to the observed state, and none of the climate states in the models correspond even remotely to the current observed state.”

Trenberth associate Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research wrote in an internal email: “Mike [Mann], the [report] Figure you sent is very deceptive . . . there has been a number of dishonest presentations of model results by individual authors and by IPCC.”

Ottmar Edenhofer, lead author of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (2007), summed up the situation quite clearly. Speaking in 2010, he advised: “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”

Or as U.N. climate chief Christina Figueres candidly remarked, the true aim of the recent Paris climate conference was “to change the [capitalist] economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”

No, none of this global warming (aka, “climate change”) alarmism is based upon objective science. It never was.

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Obama Raided $500M for Zika to Finance UN’s Green Climate Fund
Sen. James Lankford / @SenatorLankford / May 23, 2016

http://dailysignal.com/2016/05/23/ob...-climate-fund/

Last week, the Senate passed legislation to address and prevent the spread of the Zika virus. However, the Senate failed to pay for it, and instead approved a $1.1 billion “emergency” spending supplemental bill that is not subject to the budgetary caps that were agreed to last year.

While congressional inattention to the budget crisis is inexcusable, it is even more disturbing that the Obama administration already has the authority to pay for a Zika response from existing agency budgets, but chose not to.

I’ve said several times on the Senate floor, over the last two weeks, that the Zika virus is a serious threat and should be dealt with responsibly by funding immediate vaccine research and aggressive mosquito population control.

The threat to adults from Zika is relatively small, but the threat to pre-born children is very high. Our national priority rightly focuses on protecting the life of these young children in the womb, since each child has value, no matter their age or size.

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But an international medical emergency has now become a U.S. budget emergency, a major debt crisis that will impact our children as well.

If there was a way to both respond to Zika and prevent new debt spending, wouldn’t it be reasonable to do that? The Department of Health and Human Services, Department of State, and International Assistance Programs currently have about $80 billion in unobligated funds.

A small fraction of this could be reprogrammed and redirected to respond to the Zika emergency and not add any additional debt to our nation’s children. This is exactly the type of authority the Obama administration asked for in 2009 during the height of the H1N1 virus scare.

This is not a partisan idea, it is a reasonable one in light of the medical emergency and the financial reality of our nation.

In a floor speech last week, I also shed light on the fact that Congress last December provided the Obama administration with authority to pull money from bilateral economic assistance to foreign countries.

You might ask—so what did the administration spend the infectious disease money on earlier this year? You guessed it… climate change.

They can use those funds to combat infectious diseases, if the administration believed there is an infectious disease emergency. In the middle of the Zika epidemic, the administration did use their authority to pull money from foreign aid and spend it, but they didn’t use it for Zika.

You might ask—so what did the administration spend the infectious disease money on earlier this year?

You guessed it… climate change.

In March, President Obama gave the United Nations $500 million out of an account under bilateral economic assistance to fund the U.N.’s Green Climate Fund.

Congress refused to allocate funding for the U.N. Climate Change Fund last year, so the president used this account designated for international infectious diseases to pay for his priority.

While I understand that intelligent people can disagree on the human effects on the global climate, it is hard to imagine a reason why the administration would prioritize the U.N. Green Climate Fund over protecting the American people, especially pregnant women, from the Zika virus.

Unfortunately, it gets worse.

So, the administration found a way to offend our ally Israel, delay the Zika response and, if Congress allows him, add another billion dollars to our national debt.

The U.N. Green Climate Fund is connected to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an affiliated organization of the United Nations.

The UNFCCC recently accepted the “State of Palestine” as a signatory, which should trigger a U.S. funding prohibition. U.S. law forbids any taxpayer dollars to fund international organizations that recognize “Palestine” as a sovereign state.

So, the administration found a way to offend our ally Israel, delay the Zika response and, if Congress allows him, add another billion dollars to our national debt. That is a busy month.

The White House should not throw money at the U.N. while a vaccine for a virus known to cause severe, debilitating neurological birth defects is put on the back burner.

Zika is an important international crisis, but every crisis does not demand new “emergency funding” that is all debt. If there is a way to avoid more debt, we should take that option, it is what every family and every business does every day.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDB

Three Facts Prove Climate Alarm Is a Scam

By Larry Bell
Tuesday, 31 May 2016 10:16 AM

this just in.

norway plans to ban gas fueled cars and go electric by 2025

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

this just in.

norway plans to ban gas fueled cars and go electric by 2025

you mean this? nice pipe dream

http://www.newsy.com/videos/norway-h...rs-after-2025/

Norway Has Plan To Ban New Sales Of Gas-Powered Cars After 2025

Norwegian lawmakers are considering only allowing zero-emissions vehicles to be sold in the country after 2025.


By Matt Picht | June 4, 2016

Lawmakers in Norway may have a plan to ban the sale of new gas- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2025.


That's the headline from a Norwegian business newspaper reporting the country's four major political parties have signed on to an energy policy plan.


That plan says all new cars sold after 2025 must be emissions-free and clamps down on heavier vehicle emissions by 2030. The policy hasn't been formally announced and could be subject to change.


Norway is currently pursuing an ambitious climate goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030. To that end, the country's been encouraging its citizens to pick up electric cars by subsidizing their sales and exempting them from steep vehicle taxes.


So far, the government's plan seems to be paying off: Electric vehicles accounted for 18 percent of new car sales last year, a sharp increase from previous years. Reaching the government's zero-emissions milestone by 2025 will still be difficult — but not impossible.


The glut of new electric vehicles has created some new headaches for the Norwegian government; the country's electric charging infrastructure is still underdeveloped, and some of the tax breaks for electric vehicles are causing budget issues for local governments.


But the proposal did earn the entire country an attaboy tweet from Elon Musk, so that's something.

socialist subsidies always fail. foolish Norway. they'll learn .. the hard way.

Elon Musk smells like a Yak, buy some Old Spice will ya? and he thinks we are just a big virtual reality video game for the amusement of the Greys. lol

and he doesn't sell one Tesla in Norway. will Norway give him an import license?

[IIFFOFRDB]

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[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

you mean this? nice pipe dream

http://www.newsy.com/videos/norway-h...rs-after-2025/

Norway Has Plan To Ban New Sales Of Gas-Powered Cars After 2025

Norwegian lawmakers are considering only allowing zero-emissions vehicles to be sold in the country after 2025.


By Matt Picht | June 4, 2016

Lawmakers in Norway may have a plan to ban the sale of new gas- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2025.


That's the headline from a Norwegian business newspaper reporting the country's four major political parties have signed on to an energy policy plan.


That plan says all new cars sold after 2025 must be emissions-free and clamps down on heavier vehicle emissions by 2030. The policy hasn't been formally announced and could be subject to change.


Norway is currently pursuing an ambitious climate goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030. To that end, the country's been encouraging its citizens to pick up electric cars by subsidizing their sales and exempting them from steep vehicle taxes.


So far, the government's plan seems to be paying off: Electric vehicles accounted for 18 percent of new car sales last year, a sharp increase from previous years. Reaching the government's zero-emissions milestone by 2025 will still be difficult — but not impossible.


The glut of new electric vehicles has created some new headaches for the Norwegian government; the country's electric charging infrastructure is still underdeveloped, and some of the tax breaks for electric vehicles are causing budget issues for local governments.


But the proposal did earn the entire country an attaboy tweet from Elon Musk, so that's something.

socialist subsidies always fail. foolish Norway. they'll learn .. the hard way.

Elon Musk smells like a Yak, buy some Old Spice will ya? and he thinks we are just a big virtual reality video game for the amusement of the Greys. lol

and he doesn't sell one Tesla in Norway. will Norway give him an import license?

yeah, that's the one.

[The_Waco_Kid]

poor little Norway. they are the mighty mites of the eco-nazis. will Elon Musk buy their country? nope. he doesn't have that kind of jack. so they fail. they'd be better off investing in a bicycle factory.