Obama’s global-warming propaganda Down Under

The focus of the 2014 Group of 20 summit meeting in Brisbane, Australia, was on stimulating economic growth across the industrialized world. Thanks, though, to President Obama’s grandstanding and attempted sabotage of the agenda as laid out by the host country, climate change also came to prominence.

For several months prior to the G-20, and despite strong Australian resistance, radical environmental groups had been lobbying for inclusion of global-warming issues on the meeting’s agenda. Mr. Obama was happy to oblige them.

His endorsement of the U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change just before the G-20 was a signal that he would also use the Australian meeting to highlight his campaign to stop “global warming.”

That global warming stopped 18 years ago and the warming of a few tenths of a degree between 1979 and 1997 shows no sign of being other than of natural origin is apparently unknown to the president. Taking action on climate change is to be a cornerstone of his presidential legacy. Bankrupting the domestic coal-mining companies is just an added bonus in Mr. Obama’s eyes.

About a week prior to the G-20 came the sudden announcement that the University of Queensland was to be included in the conference’s security zone, because Mr. Obama was to give a major speech there. Clearly, something was brewing.

The brew turned out to be the president’s stirring of the global-warming caldron through his heavy emphasis on climate change in his campus speech. This posed a deliberate and significant embarrassment for the host nation’s prime minister, Tony Abbott, who still wished to keep that topic out of the G-20 discussions.

The usual suspects - if they all had tinnies, they would be out fishing, but as it was too hot to go to the beach, they scrawled some signs and marched through the empty city, watched by thousands of police and a few ‘news’ cameras...protesting against the treatment of the indigenous people...capitalism, and the threat of global warming. Yawn.
Their social security benefits were going straight into the bank - no worries.

Let’s “pretend” that the leaders of Target stores believe in climate change and they want other stores to believe in climate change, too. Target approaches Walmart and makes a deal. Target will pay to change over all of their stores to only use solar and wind power and will only be open for business when the sun shines and the wind blows. Target will charge their customers $5 for parking in their parking lot to offset the nasty carbon emissions from the cars.
Walmart verbally and eagerly agrees to all of these climate-saving changes but will wait 16 years before implementing them.

Target agrees and celebrates the wonderful climate change pact with Walmart. Walmart immediately begins a worldwide expansion program and opens a new store every month for the next 16 years.

Does Walmart need to worry about complying with the agreement or even competing with Target 16 years from now? Or will Walmart be the only store left?
This is the same kind of deal the United States just made with China. Pardon me if I do not feel like celebrating.
— Ken Pilkenton, Little Canada

http://www.twincities.com/Opinion/Letters/ci_27003807/Letters-to-the-editor-for-Nov-25-2014
Well done,Ken.

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