{"id":29243,"date":"2012-03-23T14:18:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=29243"},"modified":"2012-03-23T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:18:38","slug":"obama-doesnt-seem-to-get-true-threat-of-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/obama-doesnt-seem-to-get-true-threat-of-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama — Doesn't Seem to Get True Threat of Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Maybe he’s just playing political games, as extremist Republicans contend and many liberals hope. Maybe he’s promoting drilling for oil in speeches (and in practice) in order to make sure he remains president and can do a ton to advance clean energy and energy efficiency in the U.S. Or maybe he just doesn’t get the extreme threat of global warming.<\/p>\n Obama’s decision to trumpet the significant amount of oil drilling he is making possible, and even fast-tracking, around the country is downright disheartening. It also seems to indicate that he has no idea how serious the coming effects of global warming are and how quickly we need to transition to a clean energy economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Obama made speeches in Nevada<\/a>, Ohio<\/a>, New Mexico<\/a>, and Oklahoma<\/a> in which he spoke about how much his administration was increasing oil production.<\/p>\n A line from New Mexico: “And we\u2019ve quadrupled the number of operating oil rigs to a record high.”<\/p>\n More from that speech:<\/p>\n … over the last three years, I\u2019ve directed my administration to open up millions of acres just like this for oil and gas exploration in 23 different states.\u00a0 Let me repeat that — millions of acres in 23 different states.\u00a0 That\u2019s just onshore.\u00a0 Offshore, I\u2019ve directed my administration to open up more than 75 percent of our potential oil resources.\u00a0 And that includes an area in the Gulf of Mexico that we opened up a few months ago that could produce more than 400 million barrels of oil — about 38 million acres in the Gulf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n