Obama on Keystone Pipeline

++For reasons that escape me, climate scientists have been engaging in a huge amount of data dumping the last few weeks. We have had the NASA climate change scenarios until the year 2100, where we all get fried. Climate scientists have released data that we should say adios to Portland, Maine, Boston, New York,and Miami with sea rises. We are already into an era of species extinction. I would just urge climate scientists to get a better bed side manner. Speaking as articulate scientists with measured tones,you get a sense of the direction of the disease but not its fatality. 

++The New York Times just printed an interview with President Obama on his views on the Keystone XL Pipeline. He rebuked Republicans saying the pipeline is a "jobs generator". He claimed there would be 2,000 jobs for the first year or two of its construction, then there would be 50-100 jobs afterwards. It was a "blip relative to need". He also disputed the idea it would lower gas prices. Instead, it would allow the Midwest to export its oil to the global market and would actually lead to an increase in gas prices. He said he would judge the pipeline on the issue of generating carbon pollution and if Canada would take measures to reduce carbon outputs. Meanwhile the Alberta tar sands are leaking thousands of gallons per day onto forest lands. 

++If President Obama doesn't approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, it would be the first project in the world that would be cancelled because of carbon emissions. That would be a big thing.