Obama Takes Another Hit

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President Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Policy Takes Another Hit: BP, Caterpillar and ConocoPhillips Exit USCAP Global Warming Lobbying Group

Washington, D.C.: President Obama’s cap-and-trade policy took another hit with the announcement that oil companies BP and ConocoPhillips and heavy equipment maker Caterpillar are leaving the high-profile United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) lobbying organization.

USCAP played a key role in lobbying for the Obama-supported Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill approved by the House of Representatives last year.

“The companies that bolted USCAP realized the organization was really a front group serving only the interests of GE and utility companies and their environmental allies. This became obvious when the Waxman-Markey bill gave the vast majority of free carbon allowances to the utility industry while GE reaped the reward of its lobbying muscle by securing federal mandates for electricity generation in a way that benefits GE’s wind turbine business,” said Tom Borelli, PhD, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project. Read more

Obama To Redirect FWS Resources Toward Climate Research And Land Acquisition

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It appears Barack Obama’s promise to return science to its rightful place in dealing with conservation and environmental issues isn’t the science most of us hoped it would be. As a matter of fact, one has to question whether his decision to restructure the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service resources away from existing programs and funnel them into new programs geared toward climate research and land acquisition, has anything at all to do with science. From the New York Times: Read more

Obama Comments Spur Special Interest Lobbying

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Following Obama Comments, Corporate and Environmental Special Interests Scramble to Lobby Administration Officials on Global Warming Legislation

Climategate and United Nations’ Controversies Eroding Political Support for Obama’s Policy, says National Center for Public Policy Research

Washington, D.C.: Desperation and panic over the imminent failure of cap-and-trade legislation is driving a new White House lobbying push by special interest groups, according to policy experts at the National Center for Public Research. Read more

New SEC Guidance on Climate Change to Affect CEOs

Another Blow to Obama’s Agenda: New SEC Guidance on Climate Change Disclosure Will Force CEOs Who Lobby for Cap-and-Trade to Expose the Business Risk of Cap-and-Trade Legislation to Shareholders

Washington, D.C.: Corporate CEOs who have been actively lobbying for cap-and-trade climate legislation may soon find themselves in an embarrassing position thanks to a new Securities and Exchange Commission regulation, says Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project.

The SEC voted January 27 to provide public companies with interpretive guidance that encourages corporations to disclose the possible business and legal impact of climate change to shareholders. Full disclosure will require companies to assess and describe how cap-and-trade legislation can harm company earnings. Read more

Three Steps the IPCC Must Take

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Washington, D.C.: Statement of National Center for Public Policy Research president Amy Ridenour on what the IPCC must do in wake of unfolding scandals:

In the wake of admissions the IPCC knew all along it was putting bogus science in its 2007 Assessment Report, that the false prediction was included specifically for its “impact on policymakers and politicians,” and that this allegedly was covered up as long as it was because the IPCC chairman was raising money for his personal pursuits based on the prediction, the IPCC must immediately take three steps to restore its credibility. If it does not, the Obama Administration should use its influence to have it shut down. Read more

Congressional Black Caucus, EPA Start “Race Card Tour” to Promote Climate Regulation

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National Center for Public Policy Research

Washington, DC: An “environmental justice” public relations tour of economically-disadvantaged communities being led by EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and members of the Congressional Black Caucus is being criticized by Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli as a desperate attempt to play the “race card” to bolster the Obama Administration’s “cap-and-trade” emissions proposal.

Borelli contends energy limits, such as those in the Waxman/Markey bill approved by the U.S. House last year, would devastate the communities the EPA-CBC tour is highlighting as in need of help. Read more

Economic Stimulus Funds Went to Climategate Scientist

Funds Should be Returned to U.S. Treasury, Says National Center for Public Policy Research

Funds Should be Returned to U.S. Treasury, Says National Center for Public Policy Research

Washington, D.C.: In the face of rising unemployment and record-breaking deficits, policy experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research are criticizing the Obama Administration for awarding a half million dollar grant from the economic stimulus package to Penn State Professor Michael Mann, a key figure in the Climategate controversy. Read more

Statement of David A. Ridenour on Congressional Junket to Copenhagen

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“CBS had only half the story”

Washington, DC: Statement of National Center for Public Policy Research vice president David A. Ridenour on Congressional excesses in Copenhagen:

“Thanks to CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson, we have an idea of the size of the carbon footprint left by Nancy Pelosi’s delegation to the global warming conference in Copenhagen last month.

It was big — so big that it would take more than 1,300 Bangledeshis a year to produce as much carbon.

Attkisson reported that the delegation consisted of at least 101 people, including 20 members of Congress. The delegation was so large, she reports, that it required three military aircraft to transport them. Read more

Spying on Icebergs Instead of Terrorists?

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Obama Program Diverts Intelligence Assets to Climate Research

New York, NY: As terrorists continue to infiltrate America, the Obama Administration is tasking some of our nation’s most elite intelligence-gathering agencies to divert their resources to environmental scientists researching global warming.

Experts with The National Center for Public Policy Research are decrying this practice as a distraction from important counterterrorism duties. They further question if it a possible avenue to renew climate change subterfuge already plaguing some of these scientists.

“This is another example of President Obama not taking terrorism seriously,” said Deneen Borelli, a fellow with the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network. “Our enemies must be laughing at the Obama Administration’s incompetence.” Read more

New EU President Rompuy Confirms New World Order Wishes

Climategate “Hacker” Probably Whistleblower

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Dr. Tim Ball, renowned environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, writes in the Canada Free Press that more than likely the person who released the emails and documents that have all become part of Climategate, was a whistle blower and not a hacker. And as such this would have profound legal implications.

Whistle blowers are protected by laws and it would also allow for this information to be admissible in a court of law.

Ball indicates there is a list of likely suspects, insiders, who may well have been the whistle blower and points a finger at Keith Briffa, one of the climate scientists who appeared to be a war with those running the show at the Climate Research Unit.

Read more here.

The Copenhagen “Accord”

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Barack Obama rode into town on his carbon-spewing jet plane(s) with the intention of saving the Copenhagen Climate Conference and the planet from complete disaster. What he did was anger the Chinese and other developing countries and then he and his people went to work to create a spin that they salvaged an agreement with four countries on climate change.

According to Christopher Monckton, the four countries, of which he calls the “Forthright Four”, (China, India, Brazil, South Africa) demanded the following four conditions. Read more

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