President Obama announced on Tuesday that he is taking additional steps in his war on the United States of America. Obama has now added increased pressure to shut down coal-fired electricity generating power plants in the United States while subsidizing costly and unreliable solar and wind energy schemes.
President Obama’s goal is to drastically increase our energy costs so it becomes prohibitive for most Americans to travel, to drive to work, and to cool their homes and workplaces. Obama will do this by using the EPA to make regulations so onerous on coal-fired electricity generation that electricity production using coal will stop in the United States. Desperate coalmines will then sell their coal at greatly reduced prices to Russia, China, and India. China and India each open one or more traditional coal-fired power plants each week and will happily purchase all the coal we can produce.
President Obama promised in the same speech that he would not okay the Keystone Pipeline unless he is assured the oil it transports will not increase air pollution. If the United States does not use this oil, it will be shipped to China to provide inexpensive energy for China’s growing economy. Only the American people will lose.
President Obama referred to carbon as a pollutant, disregarding the fact that God has used carbon as the foundational building block of all known life on Earth. Obama also failed to mention that due to fracking and the increased abundance of natural gas as a fuel, carbon emissions in the United States have now decreased to 1992 levels. Obama stated,
“And what they’ve found, year after year, is that the levels of carbon pollution in our atmosphere have increased dramatically.”
Plants use carbon dioxide as their source of carbon for life and give off oxygen, which is used by all animals. The Earth would be much greener if only carbon dioxide levels would be increased. Carbon dioxide levels are at about 400 parts per million. However, many greenhouses increase carbon dioxide levels to 1,500 parts per million to help plants grow faster and be healthier.
Forty years ago the Progressive Left was trying to scare the American people into believing the Earth was continuing to cool. An increase of tornado activity at that time was blamed on global cooling. Now Obama claims tornados are increasing because of global warming.
President Obama warned us that our climate will continue to warm. However, scientific data shows Earth temperatures have continued to cool for more than 10 years and may continue to cool for the indefinite future.
Obama probably is not aware of the fact that God assured us that our climate would continuously change as a normal part of His plan for Earth. Genesis 8:22 assures us,
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”