Friday, June 14, 2013

Obama Tells Keystone Foes He Will Unveil Climate Measures

Every day we wake up wondering what this man will do to us next.
Bloomberg   " “Keystone XL and the moral urgency of climate change will determine this president’s place in history more than anything else,” said John Sellers, executive director of The Other 98%, a non-profit that opposes the pipeline, in a conference call with reporters this week. “President Obama can be the FDR of this moment and say no to dirty fossil fuels, or he can lock us and our children into a future of climate chaos.”

"Global emissions of carbon dioxide rose 1.4 percent in 2012 to record levels, according to a report this week by the International Energy Agency.

" “A broader climate agenda is far more important in the grand scheme of things,” said Josh Freed, director of the Clean Energy Program at Third Way, a Democratic-leaning policy group in Washington, D.C. “Keystone is a battle but climate is the war.” "
No mention in the article of the counter arguments to the environmentalists.

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