{"id":16990,"date":"2016-01-27T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16990"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:44:28","slug":"energy-lobbyists-gather-blame-obama-and-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16990","title":{"rendered":"Energy Lobbyists Gather, Blame Obama and the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dd_start\" class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"ten columns\">\n<h3 class=\"single\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicreport.org\/2016\/energy-lobbyists-gather-blame-obama-and-the-pope\/\">Energy Lobbyists Gather, Blame Obama and the Pope<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"ten columns offset-by-two\">\n<div class=\"left six\">\n<div class=\"meta-block right\">\n<div class=\"crop16by9single\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicreport.org\/2016\/energy-lobbyists-gather-blame-obama-and-the-pope\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15436\" src=\"http:\/\/www.republicreport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/USEACEOs.jpg\" alt=\"USEACEOs\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">Last week, on the day\u00a0after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/summary-info\/global\/201512\">\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that 2015 was by far the hottest year on record, the energy industry\u2019s chief lobbyists gathered in a downtown Washington ballroom to tell each other that the real problem was not global warming, but rather efforts by the Obama Administration \u2014 and Pope Francis \u2014 to contain global warming.<\/div>\n<p>The remarks of these lobbyists suggested that many of them live on a different planet, where climate change is not an urgent challenge but rather is\u00a0the obsession\u00a0of ideological malcontents.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, held annually,\u00a0is sponsored by the United States Energy Association, whose chieftains are\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0the CEOs of America\u2019s oil, coal, and gas companies. Rather, they are the heads of the Washington-based trade associations that lobby against regulation of greenhouse gases and toxic pollution. They mostly are former corporate lawyers or Capital Hill functionaries who worked their way up and now receive enormous-for-DC salaries to serve at the beck and call of actual energy executives.<\/p>\n<p>I think most of us are grateful to the men and women of America\u2019s energy companies for providing the power that fuels so much of our lives. The question is, now that the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/evidence\/\">evidence<\/a>\u00a0of human-made global warming is overwhelming, what do these companies want to do about it? Will they continue to deny the dangers of climate change and vilify those who seek to slow it? Or can they instead change course and devote more of\u00a0their skills and resources to innovations for cleaner energy, innovations that could make their companies, not to mention the Earth, more sustainable in the long term?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Lobbyists Gather, Blame Obama and the Pope Last week, on the day\u00a0after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u00a0reported\u00a0that 2015 was by far the hottest year on record, the energy industry\u2019s chief lobbyists gathered in a downtown Washington ballroom to tell each other that the real problem was not global warming, but rather efforts by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[141,11999,12000,328,584,7438,6474],"class_list":["post-16990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-climate-change","tag-david-halperin","tag-energy-lobbyists","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-obama","tag-papal-encyclical","tag-pope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16991,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990\/revisions\/16991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}