LA Op-Ed Being Posted For Archival Purposes

I suppose the writer of this Los Angeles Times op-ed walks to work (and in Los Angeles, that borders on the writer being a saint). Three other points folks seem to forget:

• plastic comes from heavy oil, like the kind from Canada; plastic does not come from light oil
• one can buy heavy oil from Canada (currently about $60/bbl) or Venezuela (currently about $110/bbl)
• US refineries along the Gulf Coast are predominantly heavy oil refineries

In case the link is broken it's an op-ed "demanding" that President Obama kill the Keystone XL. But that's sort of old news coming from the LA Times, so that's not why I'm posting it.

I'm posting it because I get a lot of e-mail from folks telling me that, in light of the fact that the earth in fact has not been warming for the past sixteen years, it is no longer "global warming," but rather "climate change."

This is the start of the LA Times op-ed, just so there's no confusion:

If Obama OKs the Keystone XL, it will exacerbate global warming and put the U.S. on the hook for spills and environmental degradation, all in service to one of the planet's dirtiest fuels.

Just for the record: the LA Times still refers to "it" as "global warming."

A big "thank you" to a reader for alerting me to the article. The writer also noted that the president is talking about gun control today when North Korea has announced it has rockets (and perhaps nukes) pointed at US military bases in the Far East. This is South Korea's "Cuban missile crisis" and the president is talking about gun control. Okay. [For the record, the best think the US can do with regard to North Korea is ignore it. Negotiating with the North Koreans in the past brought us to this point. the show of force was just about right. Just enough to let the North Koreans we can get there pretty quickly but then pull back and let North Korea make the next move. Sort of like chess. The US/South Korea have a full board of pieces; North Korea has two pieces, a nuclear queen and a king, and it's North Korea's move. The clock is ticking.]