Posted: 8/13/2013 11:21:48 AM EDT
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President Obama touts "the middle class" in virtually every speech. Every policy he proposes is spun as something that will help middle class Americans. It seems his advocacy arm, OFA, didn't get the memo. On Tuesday, OFA activists are spreading out across the country to warn about climate change and advocate for reductions in energy emissions. OFA's proposals would cripple the economy and further impoverish the middle class.
Climate change activists are convinced that the planet is rapidly warming due to carbon emissions generated by the modern economy. Hey, everyone is entitled to their opinion. New data, however, suggests there has been almost no warming in the Earth's atmosphere since 1998. In the US, emissions are down more than 7% since 2007. Some of this decline is due, no doubt, to the economic slowdown. But, a large part of it is due clearly to greater efficiency in energy use. On a per capita basis, carbon emissions are down almost 20% since 1990, the totemic year used by environmentalists. On the basis of per$ of GDP, emissions are down almost 40%. In other words, it takes almost 40% less energy to produce $1 than it did in 1990. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/13/OFA-picks-climate-over-the-middle-class?utm_source=BreitbartNews&utm_medium=facebook |