It could be argued that President Obama is one of the laziest and most narcissistic men ever to occupy the US White House. At one speech after his successful election in 2008 he gravely informed the world that at the moment of his electoral success the world had started to cool and rising sea levels had begun to abate. At first blush one thought that these statements were mere rhetorical hyperbole. But the more Obama has subsequently flapped about along like a fish out of water we wonder whether indeed he really did believe his own hyped exaggerations.
His approach to combating "climate change" has been replete with his signature moves: lots of soaring (hollow) rhetoric about the grave dangers facing humanity coupled with various histrionic acts. But throughout Obama cannot forge a political consensus to push through his agenda (assuming he has a substantial agenda.) This would require effort and work. Obama, however, appears to believe he is like the gods. Merely to speak something is to call it into existence. Far be it from the Great One to get down and dirty in constructive bi-partisan negotiations with Congress to reify his dreams (albeit in a compromised form).
We, of course, are thankful for his incompetence. The latest gimmick has been to pronounce that all coal fired electricity plants and other coal and oil and gas dependant industrial processes will be made to disappear. He has so pronounced. It will happen.
Christopher Booker, writing in The Telegraph on the other side of the Atlantic, tells us what the reality will be.
Clearly Christopher Booker fails to understand that he is in the presence of a deity, although a very minor one. How obtuse. On the other hand, poor President Obama. It's about this time that one begins to feel sorry for a vain, foolish man trying to "cement his legacy as a world leader" when all along the audience knows that his legacy will indeed be cemented into history, but not in the form he so desperately wants.Thank Goodness, the Republicans will squash Obama's climate lunacy
Ask not how the US President's Clean Energy Plan will keep the lights on...especially if you work at the BBC
By Christopher Booker
Last week in the White House, to a roomful of 150 cheering environmental activists, President Obama unveiled his answer to what he called “the greatest threat facing the world”. Variously billed as a bid “to cement his legacy as a world leader” and an attempt to salvage brownie points from December’s talks on a global climate treaty (which he knows will fail, because India, China and the Republican majority in Congress won’t buy it), Obama’s “Clean Energy Plan” for the US is twofold.
Obama plans a further huge boost to wind and solar power which, despite billions of dollars of subsidies, still only manage, intermittently, to produce a mere five per cent of America’s electricity.
On one hand, to bypass those Republicans in Congress, he wants to use federal regulations to impose crippling new CO2 emissions cuts on the fossil-fuel power plants that still currently supply the US with about 70 per cent of its electricity. This even poses a serious threat to the shale gas industry, which has more than halved US energy costs and played a key part in its economic recovery.
Solar power in the Mojave desert Photo: Alamy
On the other hand, Obama plans a further huge boost to wind and solar power which, despite billions of dollars of subsidies, still only manage, intermittently, to produce a mere five per cent of America’s electricity.
Inevitably the BBC Today programme wheeled on one of Obama’s senior “climate” advisers, to tell us how wonderful this all is, and how it will slash US energy bills so dramatically that, between 2020 and 2030, it will save consumers “$139 billion”. This is implausible enough, but, equally inevitably, what the BBC interviewer did not ask was how America can keep its lights on and its economy running when, after all those “dirty” coal-fired power plants have been closed down, the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, But that is precisely the all-important question which, when faced with such insanity, either in the US or here in Britain, the BBC’s journalists are careful never to ask.
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