Lying About Climate Change

Obama is at the UN summit for climate change and telling whoppers there like he does in the health care debate.

He says, "And I am proud to say that the United States has done more to promote clean energy and reduce carbon pollution in the last eight months than at any other time in our history." (1)

But that isn't true. We have been able to reduce our carbon emissions by 1.3% and grow our economy through a private sector solution -- THREE YEARS AGO (2). (Ahem, I would mention that was under George W. Bush).

While Europe pursued the ineffective Kyoto strategy, the US worked to engage the world’s biggest polluters in a joint program that seriously addressed both emissions and economic growth:

"In a surprise move that caught Europe’s smug moralists and the environmental movement’s noisy extremists flatfooted, the United States announced in Vientiane, Laos, last week that it was joining five other nations – China, India, Japan, South Korea and Australia — in a new pact that offers a refreshing and effective alternative route to tackling the problem of climate change." (3)

The result of this was instead of imposing a $1700 cost burden per American household and costing the US 3.5% of its GDP by 2050, Bush grew the economy — and increased tax revenues:

"An unexpectedly steep rise in tax revenues from corporations and the wealthy is driving down the projected budget deficit this year, even though spending has climbed sharply because of the war in Iraq and the cost of hurricane relief.

"On Tuesday, White House officials are expected to announce that the tax receipts will be about $250 billion above last year’s levels and that the deficit will be about $100 billion less than what they projected six months ago. The rising tide in tax payments has been building for months, but the increased scale is surprising even seasoned budget analysts and making it easier for both the administration and Congress to finesse the big run-up in spending over the past year.

"Tax revenues are climbing twice as fast as the administration predicted in February, so fast that the budget deficit could actually decline this year." (4)


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1. Morrissey, Ed (2009, September 22). "Obama makes U.N. debut on global warming (text, video here)". Hot Air.
Retrieved September 22, 2009, from Hot Air

2. Eilperin, Juliet (2007, May 24). "U.S. Carbon Emissions Fell 1.3% in 2006". The Washington Post.
Retrieved September 22, 2009, from The Washington Post

3. The Anchoress (2009, September 22). "Obama lying about Carbon Emissions?". The Anchoress.
Retrieved September 22, 2009, from The Anchoress

4. The Anchoress (2009, September 22). "Obama lying about Carbon Emissions?". The Anchoress.
Retrieved September 22, 2009, from The Anchoress