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Old 04-16-2014, 06:49 PM
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To the bone?

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President Obama's fiscal 2015 budget request includes $7.89 billion in funding for the Environmental Protection Agency, a cut of approximately $310 million, or 3.8 percent, compared to the agency's current funding level of $8.2 billion.

If the 'pubbies already cut the budget to the bone, why is Obie cutting further?
Did you have your effin' memory wiped in '08?
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Using gas rather than coal has also had a big benefit by lowering CO2 emssions. There is no way to eliminate the use of fossil fuels regardless of the desires of the environmental fringe.

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The International Energy Agency has just released some data that green-minded fans of shale gas should appreciate. The organisation's latest figures show that America's carbon-dioxide emissions from generating energy have fallen by 450m tonnes, more than in any other country over the past five years. The turnaround has been welcomed by many, and Fatih Birol, the IEA's chief economist, ascribes much of the credit to a shift away from dirty coal towards cleaner gas, according to an article in the Financial Times.

The importance of coal in America's energy mix has indeed tumbled since 1997, from almost half of electricity generation to just 36.7% in February, according to America's Energy Information Administration (see chart). This has come about mostly because of an increase in the use of natural gas (from 21.6% to 29.4% over the same period) rather than renewable energy (from 8.3% to 12.1%)

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Climate scientists have long regarded that 400 number as the symbolic threshold. One step beyond, and it would be virtually impossible to put the brake on human-generated climate change. The bad news escalated last week when the International Energy Agency reported that global emissions of carbon dioxide rose 1.4 percent in 2012, the largest annual increase on record.

The good news, by contrast, is that while CO2 emissions rise elsewhere, in the United States at least they have been going down, and are now at their lowest level in more than two decades. “Over the last four years,” Obama boasted in his State of Union address, “our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen.”

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Using gas rather than coal has also had a big benefit by lowering CO2 emssions. There is no way to eliminate the use of fossil fuels regardless of the desires of the environmental fringe.
Half measures.

All these steps will accomplish is a small delay. It just means that we'll hit the tipping point a decade or so later than otherwise.

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