Obama Picks His Green Team
Tuesday December 16, 2008
On Monday, December 15, President-elect Barack Obama made the official announcement confirming his choices for the top energy and environmental jobs in the United States. In addition, transition officials said Obama planned to nominate U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, a Democrat from Colorado, as Interior Secretary. Like all Cabinet members, Salazar would have to be confirmed by the Senate before he could assume the post.
Obama will be counting on the members of his “green team” to help him craft new policies that will enable America to increase its use of renewable energy, lessen its dependence on foreign oil, and do more to protect the environmental while re-energizing and rebuilding the economy.
In announcing his choices for Secretary of Energy, EPA Administrator, Energy Czar, and chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Obama said: “There is not a contradiction between economic growth and sound environmental practices. We won't create a new energy economy and protect our environment overnight, but we can begin that work right now if we think anew, and act anew."
Here is a brief rundown of the appointees that make up Obama’s green team:
- Secretary of Energy – Steven Chu, a Chinese-American who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1997, is Obama’s choice to head the U.S. Department of Energy. Chu, 60, is a professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2004, he has served as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has been a leader in promoting research and development of carbon-neutral alternative and renewable energy sources to help reduce global warming.
- EPA Administrator – Lisa Jackson, former commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and a 16-year veteran enforcement officer at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will become the new EPA administrator. Jackson, 46 and a native of New Orleans, holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University. She will be the first black woman ever to lead the EPA.
- Energy Czar – Carol Browner, 52, former EPA administrator under President Bill Clinton, is Obama’s choice to fill a newly created position that will help coordinate energy and environmental policy among more than a dozen federal agencies. As the nation’s so-called “energy czar” (the official title is energy coordinator), Browner will advise the president and vice president on energy issues and will also lead the National Energy Council if Obama decides to create one. It is not yet clear whether Browner will be an official member of the Cabinet.
- White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair – Nancy Sutley, currently Los Angeles deputy mayor for energy and environment, will head the Council on Environmental Quality in the Obama White House. Her responsibilities will include advising the president and vice president on domestic and international environmental issues and coordinating environmental policies and actions among numerous federal agencies. Before joining Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in his effort to transform L.A. into “the greenest big city in America,” Sutley was an energy advisor to California Gov. Gray Davis, deputy secretary for policy and intergovernmental relations at the California EPA, and a member of the state Water Resources Control Board. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sutley, a Latina and a prominent gay rights activist, served on Sen. Hillary Clinton's California Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender steering committee.
- Secretary of Interior – U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, a Democrat from Colorado, is Obama’s choice to lead the Interior Department. Salazar, a Latino, grew up on a ranch in Colorado and was a farmer for 30 years. His family has deep roots in the American West that go back 400 years. As a private-sector attorney, Salazar focused his practice on water and environmental law. Later, he was executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and chief legal counsel to Colorado Gov. Roy Romer before serving six years as attorney general of Colorado. A U.S. senator since 2005, Salazar serves on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Agriculture Committee.
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There is one signifigant answer and topic as to how and what recycling really does.
1)Recycling isn’t as it seems. Sure, it helps our enviorment clean up, and the three R’s (reuse, recycle, renew), but, in terms of energy conservation, it doesn’t help! Sometimes, recycling uses up more energy than it will take to create another item! Recycling may be a helper, but there are some things about it that aren’t really helpful.
There is one signifigant answer and topic as to how and what recycling really does.
1)Recycling isn’t as it seems. Sure, it helps our enviorment clean up, and the three R’s (reuse, recycle, renew), but, in terms of energy conservation, it doesn’t help! Sometimes, recycling uses up more energy than it will take to create another item! Recycling may be a helper, but there are some things about it that aren’t really helpful.
Good question…I myself don’t like the “excuse” that recycling gives us. We say, ‘Well at least I recycle. That’s doing something.’ I believe the key is to curb our consumption not recycle it.
Thanks for your blog it’s great!
Were those first two comments made here because Obama has re-cycled so many appointees from the Bush & Clinton administrations?
He’s also named Gov. Vilsak from Iowa as the Sec of Ag. He’s in favor of developing bio-fuels further and of diverting funds from some Ag entitlement programs into eco-friendly/ eco-protectionist programs.
Report: The Truth about Global Warming-Armageddon/ apocalypse
In the future the only thing to eat will be other people
By: Willie J. McDonald
July-1983
Non- Fiction
Armageddon, apocalypse, and global warming are one in the same. Global Warming, Armageddon, and apocalypse what ever you want to call it, can be stopped! Please read this report. In the name of God the world must listen to me, before its too late! Please do not trust the US government in this matter. Unlike the US government I don’t have any conflict of interest. I’m an expert on the subject of global warming. The American governmental scientists are knowingly lying to the world about global warming. Telling the world green house gases are causing global warming, so the oil companies can continue to pump crude oil. The truth will cause a world wide economic collapse, but the alternative is far worse. The real reason for global warming is the earth’s orbit around the sun is decaying, in other words the earth is moving closer to the sun, and the moon’s obit around the earth is decaying, It’s moving away from the earth at 4-cm each year. Two leap seconds had to be added to the atomic clock, because the earth’s rotation has decrease in speed. Some scientists are saying the days will increase from 24 hours to 25 hours in a day. This is due to the sun’s light, and rays covering more, and more of the earth’s surface, and that’s due to the earth moving closer to it. Unfortunately, these trends will continue to worsen. I’ve studied this phenomenon since July-1983, warning people of the coming destruction, and death. People called me crazy at first. I understand the weather was normal at that time, but now the weather is beginning to support my findings. December- 2007: Houston, Texas is experiencing warm sunny winters, a record high of 81degrees. Eventually Houston’s winters will completely disappear, as time goes on.
Houston, Texas (latitude- 29.75 north/ longitude-95.36) is the perfect place to observe global warming, what’s occurring in Houston in the winter will occur with other country in Houston’s latitude-29.75 north, and 29.75 south of the equator during both of their prospective winter. South Africa: 29 degrees south is experiencing warmer, than usual winters, and tornadoes in winter, which is very unusual for that region. Houston’s winters are being replaced by warm sunny days, and that not normal for Houston, Texas. The sun is over the southern hemisphere now, and in the past the sun’s direct, and peripheral heat, and rays stayed within the southern hemisphere, away from the equator, and the outer edges of the polar ice caps. The sun is thousands of times larger, than earth. The earth has moved, so close to the sun that it’s peripheral rays, and heat has spread over the equator from the southern hemisphere to the southern part of the northern hemisphere, where Houston, Texas is located, and the sun’s peripheral heat, and rays has spread over the outer edges of the south pole, and is melting the ice. The same thing will occur, when the sun reaches the northern hemisphere. The peripheral heat and rays will spread over the equator, and heat the northern part of the southern hemisphere, and melt the ice on the outer edges of the North Pole, Just ask the governments of Greenland, Iceland, and the city of Alaska-USA about their melting ice packs. Talk to the people of Venice Italy about their rising ocean.
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This trend will continue, until all the ice in both polar ice caps is melted, and until winter no longer exist in both hemispheres, back, and forth melting one polar ice cap at a time. The ice is melting faster in the summer months, faster than it can reform (build up ) in the winter months. There is enough ice in both polar ice caps to flood 95% of the existing land mass of this planet. The warmer the winters, the hotter the summers. The direct heat, and rays from the sun will intensify as the earth move closer, that’s the area of the earth the sun is stationed directly over. I grew up in Houston, Texas. I remember the hottest part of the day use to be 12:00 noon, now its 5:00 o’clock in the after noon.
This is more evidence of earth’s orbit is decaying. December- 2007: The thunderstorms, and floods that occurred in the States of Oregon, And Washington State (latitude: 45-49 degree N.)was suppose to by a snowstorm, after all its winter, but the atmosphere was too warm to support a snowstorm, so a thunderstorm was created instead, the flooding was extraordinary. January-2008 tornadoes touch down in the mid-west of America, causing death, and destruction in the millions of dollars. Febrary-2008 many tornadoes touched down, and killed dozens of people.
The only different between a snow storms, and a thunderstorms is the temperature of the upper atmosphere. The position of the sun to the earth determines the temperature of the upper atmosphere. This is the type of weather that will dominate in the future, floods, and tornados during the winter months, when these storms are not suppose to develop. The weather will go from one extreme to the other, from flooding to droughts in various parts of the United States, and the world. Food production will gradually come to a halt, because of the weather. As I said in the past global warming has nothing to do with C02 gases, R-12 gases, CFC gases, a hole in the ozone, the sun going nova, methane gases leaking from the ocean’s floor, or green house gases, as you will see in the future. Global warming will not be reverse by ridding the atmosphere of these gases.
Some of these gases have polluted the atmosphere since the industrial revolution in America, and Europe. In the early 20th century, before emission devices were installed on automobiles, and trucks the air in many cities was, so polluted it blotted out the sun, And cause breathing problems. There was no global temperature increase during this time period. Global warming is in its beginning stages, and will gradually get worse. It will not occur over night, and the winters will diminish gradually, over the decades. June-1978: I went to the mountains of Big Bear, California. As I looked down the city of Los Angles, California. The greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, trucks, and industrial activity was, so bad a very noticeable thick haze formed reducing visibility by 30%.There was no noticeable spike in temperature in Los Angeles, California, during that period. Carbon dioxide is poisonous to all mammals, including humans. If the levels of C02 gases are, so high why there haven’t been reports of carbon dioxide poisonings, such conditions require hospitalization. The reason the earth is moving closer to the sun the molten core of this planet is cooling, because it’s not getting enough crude oil (fuel).
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The oil companies drill into an oil well to extract the crude oil. These oil wells are actually self- pressurizing fuel cells, and over time the crude oil extraction process used by the oil companies releases the pressures needed to force the oil into the outer core. All oil wells (self pressurizing fuel cells) must be capped off, and the pressure within them brought back to normal, so the crude oil can be forced into the outer core. This will raise the temperature in the core, and strengthen the earth’s magnetic field, and push the earth away from the sun. The higher the temperature in the core the stronger the earth’s magnetic field, and the cooler the temperature in the core, the weaker the earth’s magnetic field. The core is cooling, because it’s not getting the fuel (crude oil) it once did, before man discovered crude oil, and new uses for it.
Everything that generates energy, or expends energy needs fuel, and the earth isn’t any different from any other machine. People, and animals derive their energy from food, plants derive their energy from water, and sun light, automobiles from gasoline (a crude oil derivative), and thunderstorm, snowstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes derive their energy from electro-magnetic energy generated by the earth itself, these storms are electro- magnetic phenomenon. The earth (a machine) generates a magnetic energy field from the inner core, and it is derived its energy from combustion of crude oil in its outer core. I was told by other scientist there’s not enough oxygen in the core for crude oil, and/or its components to combust. This is not true, the earth’s core residual temperature is between 5000 to 7000 degrees Celsius, and that’s hot enough to melt steel, and its hot enough to combust crude oil, and its components, come in contact with the core, inspite of the lack of oxygen in the core. Besides one of the components of crude oil is oxygen.
This is no time to be superstitious, global warming (the apocalypse) has nothing to with the wrath of God, it is cause by the ignorance of man. The oil extraction process used by the oil companies are compromising this planet’s fuel system. People take the earth’s magnetic field for granted, because it’s invisible, and silent. The magnetic field holds people, object, and the oceans to the surface of earth. It keeps the air we breathe from escaping into space. It protects life on this planet from the harshness, vacuum, poisonous gases, and radiation of the surrounding universe. It protects life on the surface of this planet from sun flares, and it locks the earth in orbit around the sun, locks the moon in orbit around the earth, and keeps the earth at a safe distance from the sun, and moon. Contrary to popular belief the electro- magnetic energy in thunderstorms, winter storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes, etc. are not generated by sunspots, neither, sun flares, nor energy from deep space striking the earth’s magnetic field. The energy in these storms are generated by the earth magnetic field. The earth acts as a generator’s armature. The sun rotates the earth at one thousand miles per hour, the earth’s magnetic field brushes against the magnetic field of the surrounding universe. The electricity that’s generated is trapped in the earth’s atmosphere, and dispersed throughout the earth’s atmosphere, where it gathers water from the atmosphere, and form thunder storms, and from thunder storms into other weather phenomena, tornados, and hurricanes, etc.
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The electro- magnetic energy in a thunder storms can carry hundreds of million of gallon of water, and weigh hundreds of millions of metric tons. That’s just some of the things earth’s magnetic field does. The earth is a machine, a self-contained biosphere designed specifically for our life form, and fueled by crude oil. These fuel cell (oil wells) can be re-pressurized by igniting the methane gases in them. In fuel cells thought to be empty, such as spindle top in Beaumont, Texas. It will be necessary to pump in a mixture of air, and methane gas, and ignite the mixture. The gas will expand, when ignited creating the necessary pressure to force the remaining oil into the core. These fuel cells extend for thousands of miles, from the upper crust down to the outer core of the planet, the oil companies can only drill less, than ten miles down.
There are millions of gallons of crude oil remaining in these fuel cells, and they are located all around this planet for even heating of the core. Uneven heating of the core will result in a shift of the earth’s axes, and the earth has shifted on its axes by 15 degrees (As reported by NASA).
Normalizing the flow of crude oil to the core will increase the temperature in the outer core, and the outer core heats the inner core, which generates the earth’s magnetic field. If the pressure in these fuel cells (oil wells) were placed back to normal pressures, and left alone the temperatures in the outer core will stabilize. My report is the only way to save all life on this planet. More evidence that large quantities of crude oil are combusted, and sustain the high temperatures in the core, every conceivable by-product, and/or residue of crude oil is ejected from volcanoes all around this planet, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, the tremendous pressure in the core, and the dark smoke that’s ejected from volcanoes, etc. Volcanic eruptions in the past occurred more frequently, and they occurred in various parts around the planet, and were much more powerful, than present day eruptions.
The materials ejected from volcanoes originate from the outer core. There is a point of no return, because it will take decades to reheat the core back to normal temperatures. Volcanoes are the means by which the outer core rids itself of spent fuel, and volcanoes regulate the pressures in the outer core, volcanoes extends from the surface of the planet down to the outer core. Volcanic eruptions in the past were far more powerful, than volcanic eruptions in present days. This is more evidence the core is cooling. The higher the temperature in the core, the more frequent, the more wide spread, and the more powerful the eruptions. The cooler the temperature in the core, the less frequent, and the less violent, and the less wide spread the eruptions will occur. Many volcanoes are lying dormant, and haven’t erupted in many decades.
Crude oil is capable of generating temperatures found in the core, after all crude oil is a hydro- carbon, and hydro-carbons are used to melt, and manufacture steel There are three types of hydro- carbons, crude oil (a liquid), methane (a gas), and coal (a solid).
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The tremendous pressures ejected from volcanoes are due to the combustion of crude oil in the outer core. The gases in all hydrocarbons expand, when ignited, and will create pressure in an enclosed vessel, such as the core of this planet. There are two different diagnoses, but only one right solution. Please don’t close your mind to my findings. The one thing that frightens me the most, is the lies the leading scientists are telling the world, and the world believes the thing these scientists are knowingly lying about. Once these scientists notice their plans to reverse global warming is failing. These scientist will come up with another explanation for global warming, and convince the world this time they got it right, and the world believe them. I say again eliminating green house gases will not reverse global warming, and/or stop the earth’s orbit around the sun from decaying.
My solution is the only correct one. The leading scientists are wrong about everything, cleaning the air will not reverse global warming. Please keep an open mind. If we choose the wrong solution we will leave our grandchildren and great grandchildren a future that doesn’t exist, It will be a hellish existence. In the future the weather will be, so harsh it will be very difficult to grow plants, and to raise farm animals, what I’m trying to say is in the future the only thing left to eat will be other people. The leading scientist will think of another excuse for global warming, when they realize they are wrong, and their plans are not working. Please don’t let them do that, time is running out! If the earth past the point of no return, or if the core temperature drops below the flash point of crude oil, all is lost. Don’t focus on the fluctuation in temperature from year to year, focus on the weather trends, and the trends are its getting hotter, and the ice in both poles are melting. Global warming is in its beginning stages. Don’t just focus on your local weather focus on the world weather, and temperatures. Its important you see the big picture.
This report has been printed in the Journal of American Science. July- 2008. Volume-4/ number-2, and Volume-5/ number-1. Copy Right-2008
Mr. Willie J. McDonald
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