House has big energy plans while Obama's in Paris

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Washington Examiner:

As President Obama and senior administration officials head to Paris next week for a worldwide summit about climate change, the House will be taking three votes that could affect the president's plans.

 

The House is scheduled to vote on two Senate resolutions to block the Clean Power Plan, Obama's signature environmental regulations to limit carbon emissions at power plants. The White House has said that Obama would veto the resolutions.

 

The resolutions are mostly a symbolic measure to show Obama, and the rest of the world meeting at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, that Congress opposes the Clean Power Plan. Twenty-seven states have sued to block the rule, as have many industry groups.

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Bill Gates to announce world's largest clean energy partnership in Paris

 

Billionaire Bill Gates will announce at the Paris climate summit on Monday that he's pledging billions of his own money for clean energy research and development funding.

 

Gates will join other billionaires and world leaders at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris to announce the fund, Greenwire reported Friday morning. It's being billed as the world's largest clean energy research and development partnership.

 

Countries including the U.S. and India will agree to double their research and development budgets for clean energy. They also will work on projects together as part of a coalition, the report said. Money from Gates and other funders will help fund the efforts, although the exact amount of money is not clear.

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bill-gates-to-announce-worlds-largest-clean-energy-partnership/article/2577198

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Climatistas: We’ll Always Have Paris

Steven Hayward

November 29, 2015

 

We’ll be doing wall-to-wall coverage of the off-the-wall climate talks in Paris this week, but I can hardly do better in setting this up than to recall some of the testimony I presented to the House Foreign Affairs Committee back in 2011. Here are a couple of excerpts:[/i]

 

I will begin with my contentious conclusion, which is that the international diplomacy of climate change is the most implausible and unpromising initiative since the disarmament talks of the 1930s, and for many of the same reasons; that the Kyoto Protocol and its progeny are the climate diplomacy equivalent of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 that promised to end war (a treaty that is still on the books, by the way), and finally, that future historians are going to look back on this whole period as the climate policy equivalent of wage and price controls to fight inflation in the 1970s. . .

 

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But climate assistance has revived the old idea of requiring wealthy nations to indemnify poor nations. The German newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung observed shortly before the Cancun summit last year: “The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated.” What prompted this conclusion was a candid admission from a UN official closely involved with the climate negotiations, German economist Ottmar Edenhoffer: “But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”

 

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Meanwhile....

Paris Climate Change Protesters Under House Arrest
Leslie Eastman Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 2:00pm
“City of Lights” ices out environmental justice warriors.

Despite the Paris massacre earlier this month, the United Nations Climate Change Conference scheduled for that city is going on as planned, despite the significant security concerns given the number of world leaders participating.

 

But the climate change leaders don’t want everyone to participate, and environmental justice warriors have been placed under house arrest:

 

 

Public demonstrations are banned in France under the state of emergency that was declared after the Paris terrorist attacks two week ago, in which 130 people were killed.

 

Green groups have described the move as “an abuse of power” but the French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the activists were suspected of planning violent protests.

 

“These 24 people have been placed under house arrest because they have been violent during demonstrations in the past and because they have said they would not respect the state of emergency,” he said.

 

They must remain in their home towns, report to the local police three times a day and abide by a nightly curfew until December 12, when the climate change conference winds up.

 

 

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