Sentences with phrase «if obama»

Even if Obama is re-elected, it is highly unlikely that he could get decarbonization as policy passed by the congress.

But if Obama had won without the popular vote last week, hell would've been raised by the GOP, FOX News, and all the other money - rich heavy - hitters who might have the weight to get it changed.

5) Even if Obama folds on KXL — and I think he will — the pressure on him and the Democratic Party to prove that they are serious about climate change will than be huge.

Even if Obama folds on KXL — and I think he will — the pressure on him and the Democratic Party to prove that they are serious about climate change will than be huge.

If the Obama administration decides not to approve the Keystone pipeline, there is still the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline to the pacific at Kitimat in British Columbia.

NWF's Peter LaFonatine writes «if Obama rejects the project, it makes it that much harder, politically and economically, for the next company to build a pipeline through the U.S.; precedent will have been set.»

If the Obama administration is serious about job creation and the next wave of green employment, it would do well to investigate hemp more seriously.

Coal production in Wyoming and other states will decline significantly if the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan takes effect, federal energy analysts say.

If Obama really wants to make a lasting impact on global warming, he can work across the aisle or across the Pacific in Beijing, to work toward implementing a meaningful, economy - wide carbon tax as quickly as possible.

But the focus on adaptation and preparedness acknowledges that even if Obama meets his promised goal of a 17 percent reduction by 2020, the effects of climate change will be difficult to prevent.

The result will be the same if Obama and EPA are allowed to implement their regulations.

But if Obama and others focus first on consumption subsidies the motives look less like fiscal responsibility and a stable climate, and more like a finger pointing exercise or negotiating tactic designed to show that the developing world has plenty of funds available to adapt to climate change and invest in clean energy, if only they would stop making energy affordable for their populations.

If the Obama administration is serious about its pledge to end subsidies to fossil fuels, it would use its power as the biggest World Bank funder to stop this loan.»

I'll make one prediction: If Obama does not veto the Keystone XL Pipeline after talking the talk on climate change, green groups will go ballistic (even though, Cato Institute scholar Chip Knappenberger calculates, full - throttle operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline would add an inconsequential 0.0001 °C / yr to global temperatures).

In a mildly sinister mindset that I have, I wonder if Obama or someone in the White House on staff solicited such a letter from the initially George Mason University (close to Washington DC) to serve as another way to attack climate science skepticism's popularity.

If the Obama Administration orders a release, it would be the 2nd time the administration had tapped the SPR.

If Obama is smart he will use it to head off the Right - wing revival.

If Obama takes the position that legislation can be negotiated without regard to whether its supporters believe in the scientific evidence or not, if he brings to the bully pulpit no serious vocabulary on climate change, no gravitas on climate science, then how likely is it that he will lead government and society to deal with the problem in a «comprehensive» way?

Unfortunately, Virginians may not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way.

Unfortunately, Pennsylvanians may not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way.

Unfortunately, Nevadans might not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way.

If Obama spends the next $ 10 billion on gas electrification, he can help lift 90 million people out of poverty.

Who do you think will benefit the most if Obama's current plan is implemented, if Hillary's (still in flux) plan is implemented?

If Obama's clean power plan is rolled back, it could have serious implications for international climate negotiations.

If Obama and his minions keep up this climate foolishness and continue to be AWOL on immigration and national security, one more terrorist attack will wipe the Democratic party out for a generation.

Only if Obama has achieved a convincing deal at the Copenhagen conference will there be a real reason to honor him.

If the Obama Administration continues with its plan to impose the comprehensive set of SCC - guided regulations that was announced in 2013, we can expect the following economic impacts by the year 2030:

So if Obama - type green energy spending in the hundreds of billions and a near depression only reduced our CO2 output by 5 or 10 %, what will it cost to reduced it by McKibben's 80 %?

e360: Do you feel that if the Obama administration gets behind a serious structure of targeted greenhouse gas reductions that it's conceivable in Copenhagen to have a global agreement with binding reductions in greenhouse gases?

Even if Obama halted the popline, Canada has signaled its interest in selling the same crude to China, which would require much more intensive transport and would still send the same emissions into the air.

If Obama does not want to «condemn our children» to a future beyond repair, why is he ignoring real threats, hiding real data, and wasting billions blaming an uninformed public for a fictitious problem that he says can only be solved by bigger government and more taxation?

If Obama's policies on energy and environment were truly original they would be worth consideration, but they are not.

If Obama does decide to press forward, it will open up yet another front in Washington's climate wars — with Republicans denying the science while decrying what they see as the nanny state run wild.

We will know if the Obama Administration is truly serious about pursuing a 28 % reduction in America's GHG emissions by 2025 only if we see President Obama issuing formal directions to the EPA to use its full regulatory authority to the maximum extent currently allowed by law in suppressing US carbon emissions.

The carbon cap might have passed in the fall of 2009, if Obama had made it and not health care his top priority, and if the Senate majority had been willing to use the maneuver known as reconciliation, so that 51 rather than 60 votes were needed.

But I think Becker's approach is useful, and — as I said earlier this week — such a step is essential if Obama is serious about building the case for a sustained push to build an energy menu that works for the long haul.

In the next two or three weeks we'll find out if Obama is serious or just trying to change the subject from the oil catastrophe.

But he said the «concept represents a significant bid to test the potential for advancing energy policy» — if Obama continues to press the case and some Republican lawmakers see the merits in moving being «drill baby drill.»

Rising gas prices may slow that transition here in the short run, but if Obama moves forward with carbon dioxide restrictions at power plants, that transition should be sustained.

If Obama is elected, I believe he will enact the EPA to go ahead with their co2 plan.

If Obama is re-elected, with the pressure off in a second term, he might find a way to reject it or reroute it around the most sensitive regions.

If Obama cast all of this the right way, such a policy would incorporate the need for more domestic energy exploration and development (done responsibly) with a long - term plan that also stresses conservation, efficiency and innovation.

If Obama wins he will be President of a country that is even less unified that climate is any kind of problem at all.

If Obama is the one proposing them after he gets elected, it will make Hillary's health care stumbles in 1993 look like nothing, and his power will be weakened.

unfortunetley for them there has been a slow and steady stream of evidence coming out since the dems got subpeaona authority (and no doubt if obama becomes president there will be much more) that whether its the justice dept, the war, the environment this was a very bad bunch.

Now if Obama would listen and back off his wrongheaded plan to drastically increase the ethanol quotas, he might increase his chances of being elected.

If Obama wins this November, who also reminds me of Hiawatha through his interest in talking and negotiating first rather than declaring war as the usual knee jerk reaction, I'd say we have an even better than average chance at producing more earth conscious groups like the Boot Camp innovators and perhaps even creating A Great World of Peace.

Further, whether it is «right» or «wrong» to «do the ethical thing» (and I would submit that in reality, that's a very weak argument in terms of its potential to effect change), my point was that if Obama really wants to «do the right thing», he needs the rest of the world to do the same.

I can also bet you if Obama is elected, the United States and the world all stand a much greater chance at global negotiations for positive and peaceful conflict resolution, for building resiliency together and finally, for using the military to save and improve lives instead of ending them forever.

If Obama becomes elected NOTHING will happen.