GOP presidential hopeful
Carly Fiorina, formerly the chief of Hewlett-Packard, says the federal government
itself is a bigger threat to America than so-called global warming.
In a recent interview
with Katie Couric, Fiorina was responding to Couric’s question about whether
she thinks climate change is a “serious issue.”
“I think it’s an issue,”
she said. “I think we ought to be focusing our time, energy and resources on
innovations. We need to keep it in perspective.”
Couric interrupted her
to repeat the question, asking specifically about how serious Fiorina believes
the issue to be.
She said far more
dangerous to America is the “web of dependencies” into which people fall, the
issue of whether “people are getting a good education” and the “dangers we face
around the world.”
Even, she said, “The
fact our government is a vast, bloated, unaccountable, corrupt bureaucracy.”
The
Political Insider commented: “Former
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is Hillary Clinton’s worst nightmare. She is
tough and articulate. And after her extraordinary performance during the
‘earlier’ Fox News debate last week, she showed she’s ready for battle. Her
polling numbers are skyrocketing.”
Fiorina said about
global warming that the U.S. alone, no matter what it does, will not impact any
global issue like that.
“So when I see a state
like California destroy lives and livelihoods with environmental regulations
that will make no difference at all, when I see the Obama administration take
that same regulation and apply it nationally – it will make no differ at all,
and yet we’re destroying peoples’ lives and livelihoods. I wonder why are we
doing this. Why are we doing this when it won’t have any impact”
She said innovation
needs to be the focal point of any work on the issue. Half of America’s energy
comes from coal, she pointed out, yet Obama wants, essentially, to ban it.
“To say we’re basically
going to outlaw coal, which is what this administration is doing, is so
self-defeating. It destroys jobs, communities.”
Wind tech?
Wonderful idea, she
said, but do the experts tell Americans that “wind tech slaughters millions of
birds?”
“I think it is frankly
ridiculous for the Obama administration to call ISIS a strategic distraction,
and then go on to say that climate change is the single most pressing national
security issue of our time.”
WND has reported that from one side of the political spectrum, Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley said ISIS got its start due to drought-fueled rage.
"One of the things
that preceded the failure of the nation-state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was
the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region,
wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that
created the symptoms – or rather the conditions of extreme poverty – that has
now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence," the former
Maryland governor said, fielding a question about foreign policy from Bloomberg.
O'Malley's not alone in
that line of thinking.
In May, President Obama
said to U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduates to be prepared for a shift in
military strategy that would include a fight against global warming, because
weather patterns figure into trends toward violence. And in early 2014,
Secretary of State John Kerry called climate change "the greatest
challenge of our generation," more so than poverty, terrorism and the
proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Ivar Giaever, a Nobel
Prize-Winner for physics in 1973, said, "I would say that basically global
warming is a non-problem."
He's a former professor
at the School of Engineering and School of Science Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute and received the 1973 physics Nobel for his work on quantum
tunneling.
Only
a year ago, WND reported scientists
and others on a team assembled by the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, which focuses on free-market solutions to today's problems, say
the "scare" of global warming from the use of carbon fuels and other
human activities "is over."
It's "past
time" for the world to realize that and "stop the madness of wasting
great sums of money on EPA's imaginary threat," contends Kenneth Haapala,
the executive vice president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project in
Virginia. He's also a policy adviser at the Heartland Institute.
Institute experts said
Thursday the Remote Sensing Systems, which provide data to NASA, NOAA and the
National Science Foundation, have confirmed "the global mean surface
temperature has not risen for 18 consecutive years."
"This extends the
so-called 'pause' in global warming to a new record, one not predicted by the
climate models of the United Nations' International Panel on Climate
Change," the organization said.
Craig Idso, senior
fellow in environment for the Heartland Institute and co-editor of the
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, a counterpart to the
IPCC, said that to "the world's climate alarmists, atmospheric carbon
dioxide is a dangerous trace gas, and for years, they have been insisting its
increase will raise global temperatures and wreak havoc upon Earth's climate
and biosphere."
"Yet, despite a 9
percent increase in CO2 over the past 18 years, there has been no rise in
global temperature," he said.
"Think about that.
Over this time period the air's CO2 content has risen some 40 parts per
million, which represents fully one-third the total global CO2 increase since
the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, yet contrary to model projections,
planetary temperatures have failed to rise," Idso said.
Idso said it's
"time for global warming diehards to face the facts."
About that time, WND columnist Lord Monckton wrote: "Worldwide, the liarists – growing ever
more desperate as the Great Pause grows ever longer – are taking up the cry
that The Models Were Right All Along But The Warming Has Gone Into Hiding,
Really And Truly It Has, With Knobs On, Cross My Heart And Hope To Die, So
There.
"Just one problem
with that. The catastrophist clique no longer entirely controls the scientific
journals. It tried to, but it didn't get away with it. In addition to 'The
ocean ate my global warming,' the scientific journals contain a host of recent
papers giving between them no less than 25 – yes, 25 – mutually
incompatible explanations of the Great Pause."
The holes in the theory
have been documented. For example, London's Independent newspaper declared at
the turn of the millennium, "Snowfalls
are now just a thing of the past." The report quoted David Viner, senior research scientist at the
Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, long considered an
authoritative resource for global warming research, as saying snow would soon
be "a very rare and exciting event" in Britain.
"Children just
aren't going to know what snow is," he claimed at the time.
But the authoritative
reputation of East Anglia was seriously downgraded in 2009 when leaked emails
proved researchers there were engaged in a major scheme to manipulate and
suppress evidence against global warming, misconduct London's Telegraph
newspaper called "the worst scientific scandal of our generation."
Well-known scientist Art
Robinson has spearheaded The
Petition Project which to date has
gathered the signatures of 31,487 scientists who agree that there is "no
convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane,
or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause
catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's
climate."
They say,
"Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in
atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural
plan and animal environments of the Earth."
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