G-8 summit far from a 'success'
It was announced on a local ABC radio affiliate station that the Group of Eight economic summit was a success. Therein lies the problem.
The news is being spun so it reflects what the presenter wishes the public to believe. This practice is also known in some circles as political bias.
I was pleased to read an Associated Press analysis in the Daily Herald on Friday, July 10 which questioned President's Obama's success at the G-8 summit despite his popularity as a politician: "Obama finds reach doesn't span globe."
How could the summit be called a success when the G-8 nations declined prompt actions to curb greenhouse gas emissions in favor of high-sounding goals to reduce their own emissions?
The AP analysis related how developing countries such as India and China refused to come on board with reducing their own greenhouse gasses.
It is evident President Obama, in his push to have the world accept his proposals for stringent global warming regulations and mandates, fails to grasp the untold pain it would bring to this country and other members of the G-8 with little or no environmental gain to show for such draconian measures.
It is telling that a 98-page report by Dr. Alan Carlin, an Obama administration EPA senior research analyst employee, was suppressed which warned against making hasty decisions on the issue of global warming.
Then there is Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator, who in front of a Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee hearing on Tuesday, June 9, admitted "U.S. action alone will not impact CO2 levels."
Chicago's own Heartland Institute sponsored a global conference in Washington D.C. a few months ago at which time 31,478 scientists signed a petition which in part states greenhouse gasses of any kind are not about to cause a disruption of the earth's climate.
Chip Nappenberger, administrator of the "World Climate Report", noted even if CO2 emissions were reduced to 83 percent below 2005 levels by 2050, global temperature would be decreased by a mere 0.05 degree Celsius.
Presently there is an effort to make Americans feel guilty about being alive. It is important, however, the American people are not suckered into believing man is able to alter the natural and reoccurring fluctuations of the planet's temperature through actions of his own.
The push by President Obama to have the Senate pass an energy and global warming bill similar to the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House Friday, June 26 - thanks in part to 10th District Republican congressman, Mark Kirk - if passed, would destroy the economy, reduce the dollar to junk status and end the U.S. as a free and productive country as we know it.
Senators Durbin and Burris must be made to see the folly of attempting to control the climate through calls to their Chicago offices.
In truth, the Waxman-Markey bill represents one leg of an extreme radical Democrat agenda which seeks to interfere with private property through vastly expanding power in Washington, D. C. It would impose the biggest tax increase ever on the American people and act as a job killer.
It is well to remember that plants love the CO2 humans exhale in the process of living!
Nancy J. Thorner
Lake Bluff