We have the technology for clean cheep energy but both the US and Egypt are withholding it from us. My question is why are we using obsolete technology?Answer: Greed the source of all the worlds problems. Google the documentary
" Who Killed the Electric Car " if you want to know why we are still sucking at the teat of big oil. Electric cars are a viable alternative for most people but the development of them has been stifled by greed. We now have electric motorcycles with ranges in excess of 100 miles. Buy an additional battery pack and double that.

The problem is our output is less than 18% of world output and falling. By decades end we'll likely be 5% give or take. Not because we'll have cut so much but because the entire developing world is on a coal tear, building plants like mad, and won't stop for decades.
So, even if we took the draconian tack of cutting our output in half we'd only lower world emissions by a couple of points. Worse yet, that would be totally swamped the following year by the developing nations.
Bottom line, do we completely destroy our economy, our standard of living, our future prosperity to do something that will be undone less than a year later? The reason the economy is in such bad shape, everyone agrees, is we don't have enough extra money to drive the economy. How will taking even more money out of our wallets help that?
Obama has no choice but to do what he is doing, not because of big oil, not because of the Koch brothers, but because our oil boom is the only thing keeping this economy off life support. Why are we recovering in fits and starts while the EU is still floundering? Oil, natural gas, coal exports. If Obama wants ANY legacy he can't stop that.
Solar is a wonderful thing, I have 30KW myself, but it will be a long time before the average American can fill their tank with electrons. Don't kill one horse until you can ride the other one, that's a recipe for disaster.

Lancaster, Ca., just passed a law requiring all new homes to be 100% solar powered. Now we need a law requiring the Utilities to pay $0.49 kwh for the surplus solar we feed onto the grid.

Thank the lord for Barack Obama. I was a lifelong christian until this wonderful man was elected. The I realized that he was the real messiah. His sensible and kind words made me realize this idiocy of my faith and I am happy to say I am an atheist. I no longer perpetuate hatred for things I don't understand. You all should kneel down and pray to Mr. Obama too! He will indeed shed beautiful and warming light on your life.

No perspective. Go back to the Carbiniferous, many millions of years ago, and you will find much more carbon in the air. All without man. The climate changes every year. And this Obama's legacy? All sound and fury with no meaning. That's how we will remember you.

Discussions about Climate Change is kinda like beating a dead horse. Whether it does exist or doesn't there is little if anything we can or WILL do about it. Best advice is to live with it and adjust to it, just as life on this planet has done for millions of years. If we made all the environmentalist suggested changes this year, it would take another 200 years to see any great improvement. In the meantime all the people and nations of the earth would be bankrupt. Pick your poison. Regarding the Keystone XL pipeline; do you want the oil on trains with defective tank cars or in a much safer delivery system of a pipeline? The oil will get there. Personally I prefer the pipeline. Let's get real and eliminate the bulls**t!

To me it seemed like this article was very selective in its presentation of facts. For example:

"If you want to understand how people will remember the Obama climate legacy, a few facts tell the tale: By the time Obama leaves office, the U.S. will pass Saudi Arabia as the planet's biggest oil producer and Russia as the world's biggest producer of oil and gas combined."

Really? That fact and a couple of others are all we need to know about Obama's legacy on climate change? What about Congress? Does Congress play a role in what Obama is able to accomplish? (Maybe just a little, itsy bitsy, teeny weeny one?)

This article doesn't seem interested in presenting all sides of the story. It's written by one of the country's most outspoken environmentalists.

If you want to get an objective look at what's happening with U.S. environmental policy and Obama's role in it, going to this writer is like going to Bill O'Reilly for an objective look at the Tea Party.

I doubt that Obama will leave office with any major climate change policy under his belt. However, despite what this writer and many other folks want to believe, there is only one reason for this:

Congress.

When I was in England recently, even people whom I spoke with there understood this. Why can't Obama critics from the Left accept this in America?

I just don't think it's fair to criticize Obama for not taking greater steps on climate change. It's like blaming the mayor of San Francisco for not getting rid of homelessness there. Sure, there's truth to it. But was he ever going to be able to accomplish that?

If you're interested in looking at a more objective look at the story, here's a Washington Post article on Obama's environmental record: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

And if you're going to give credence to Obama's environmental critics, then I think it's only fair to look at Obama's own side to the story:

http://ofa.barackobama.com/cli...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ener...

If you can still determine after all of this that Obama is all talk when it comes to the environment, then I'd love to hear your points.

SLOP....Are you with them? Yes you are!

http://www.opednews.com/articl...

Furthermore, "Currently, most Canadian tar sands exports are mainly limited to the U.S. Midwest market by a lack of transportation infrastructure." This fact (the lack of "infrastructure" or transportation facilities to move the oil to the international market) keeps down not only the price the Kochs can get for their oil (since it can't currently be sold on the international market); it also greatly lowers the sheer volume of it that they can sell (at any price), because the local Midwest oil market is small. Keystone XL would thus also enormously increase the annual sales-volume of this currently deeply landlocked oil.

Say NO to SLOP and Tar Sands!

TOXIC WASTE:

http://rt.com/usa/keystone-oil...

Production of crude oil in western Canada emits more harmful carcinogens into the environment than official estimates let on, according to a new study. The Keystone XL pipeline would, if approved, move tar sands oil from Alberta through the US to Texas.

A new study by the University of Toronto-Scarborough published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported that Canadian officials may have underestimated emissions of harmful carcinogens known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from Alberta tar sands

Saying NO to MORE CO2 in the Air... President Obama do the right ACT...
REJECT the XL Pipeline.... This one is on YOU!:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Live up to YOUR State of the Union speech:

There's a better way forward for our country.

Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace. And let's promote the use of wind, solar and other kinds of clean, safe renewable energy made right here in the USA.

Why is McKibble advancing lies, how is he compromised,
is he just a deceptive Psychopath?

"Hunting the Psychopath - Mike Cross Interviewed on Freedomain Radio - YouTube" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Dr. Michale Mann has issued an important statement to the public regarding the XL Pipeline:

http://www.theguardian.com/com...

"As the world looks to 2015 for the establishment of legally binding emissions targets, it is looking to the US for inspiration and leadership. While opponents of carbon regulations routinely point to China and India as an excuse for further inaction, the US is still the dominant force in world politics. If Obama puts his foot down and tells us the pipeline will not be built, he will be telling the world that the United States is committed to a future powered by clean renewable energy. For better or for worse, as the US goes so goes the planet.

If the United States takes the climatologically necessary step of preventing the Keystone pipeline, it sends a message more powerful than any protest, watered down regulation or rosy proclamation. It says that business as usual is no longer an option. It says carbon pollution is a serious problem. It says that we will no longer be held hostage by ideologues demanding, "More fossil fuels, or the economy gets it!"

It is time that President Obama does more than just talk the talk, but reject this monster of a project.

Horrific
fires:This story just leaves me speechless. It speaks for itself, and
requires no comment. A bit off topic, and maybe someone will comment on
it. The United Kingdom is being and has been battered by storms off the
Atlantic for so long now I have lost track. Major rain and wind events
arrive one after the other, month after month. This weekend another one
is slamming into an already heavily flooded South West England.
David Cameron, a moderate climate change denier and great proponent of
Fracking all of Britain as fast as well can be drilled, has taken
personal charge of dealing with the floods in Somerset Levels. Now, this
never makes US news, nor does the great Alaskan heatwave, nor do these
Norway fires, nor does anything but the minor cold snap brought on by
tropical heat streaming into the Arctic to push the polar vortex south.
NO, these stories are NOT covered. This is a deliberate attempt to cover
up mass climate change from the public, this is due to corporate
ownership of media and it slavish behavior to fossil fuel industry. You
can read about how cold a Siberian city is today in the Daily Mail, you
can read about 2 inches of snow in Atlanta in the New York Times, YET,
all the stories of record heat and the complete collapse of normal
arctic weather patterns and these crazy blocking patterns causing
droughts and record rain. NOPE, these are off limits. I read Orwell in
High School 1984 with it’s control of news present and past, well this
is in full operation in the US and British Main Stream Media. They
disgust me, as if their children and grand children will escape the
world wide disaster that draws nearer than anyone dared predict. What we
see right now, today has put the almighty fear of god into me. None of
this was supposed to happen or begin to happen till earliest 2050 to
2100. Imagine if you will, what will this blog be writing about when the
next major El Nino develops and heat comes roaring out of that sea
water where the energy is being stored. Wild fired in Norway in January
burning hundreds of building? Really, that is Science Fiction level
events.

"Breaking: New Climate Data Rigging Scandal Rocks US Government"
http://www.principia-scientifi...

From this scientist's tweet we see that media personality Anderson Cooper was mistaken about Haiyan's storm surge: https://twitter.com/RogerPielk...

Lol! Record ice growth in both South and North poles in 2013! People like Michael Mann of the IPCC have been caught changing data to support his claim of global warming. Why? More resource equals more money for their research. What melted the ice 25,000 years ago? Read about the great warmth over the Middle Ages wine made in England grass in Greenland. Does anyone here know how much of all human behavior contributes to total CO2 on earth? 2-3%! it's all about the money baby!

Prevention is the best medicine, Earth has sepsis, before we are all blown away to "Kingdom Come" because of lack of common sense, Act now, Put a Price on Carbon! Environmentalists have spent the past two years fighting the Keystone XL pipeline because of the negative environmental impact on the nation, that eventually "dirty oil" has a "cause and affect," on increased CO2 emissions! Stop the Stinkin Carbon Thinkin! Keystone XL pipeline is outdated "classic" technology and enormous amount of metal fabric wasted in the building of a pipeline that is unnecessary expense, increase exposure and increase incidence of environmental contaminants. What industrialist text book suggest quickening goods to market in leu of environment safety. This business plan is ridiculous fast plan for money to get product to market FAST. Keystone XL pipeline is an insult to the founding principles of business/industry ethics and money management responsibilities! Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline and encourage the Industry groups to go back to the planning draft boards. Revise, Savor Plans for up-date-21st century ideas using cost-affective forward "GREEN" Thinking! We must be realistic and prevent catastrophic pollution episodes that ill-affect humanity and environment. Thank you.