Five Things Obama Got Wrong In His Keystone XL Speech
Geoffrey Ingersoll
President Barack Obama just rejected plans to build the Keystone XL oil pipelineFriday, arguing the project wouldn’t do much for the economy and would undercut U.S. efforts to fight global warming.
“If we want to prevent the worst effects of climate change before it’s too late, the time to act is now.” —@POTUShttps://t.co/VpIdTWwQZ4
— Facts On Climate (@FactsOnClimate) November 6, 2015
But is Obama right when he says the pipeline wouldn’t bring that many economic benefits and undercut American efforts to cut its carbon dioxide emissions?
Here’s the top five things Obama got wrong in his Keystone XL speech:
1. Global warming will make Earth ‘uninhabitable in our lifetime’
Obama admitted Keystone XL itself would not cause catastrophic global warming, but warned that inaction would cause the Earth to become “inhospitable” and “uninhabitable” within our lifetimes.
This statement may play well with left-wing environmentalists, but it’s not grounded in science. Increasingly,scientists are finding that Earth’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide is not very high — about 1.6 degrees Celsius by 2100 if CO2 concentrations double. That’s hardly enough temperature rise to make the planet “uninhabitable.”
2. Keystone XL wouldn’t make a ‘meaningful long-term contribution to our economy’
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