What Global Warming?: Obama Inauguration will Generate Half-Billion Pounds of CO2

Do as he says. Not as he does.

Here’s an environmental impact story you’re not likely to see in the mainstream media. Neither NBC’s chief environmental affair correspondent Anne Thompson, nor ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore nor CBS “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley – all of whom have been eager over the years to expose so-called crimes against the environment – have rushed to report on the massive carbon footprint of the Obama inauguration.

But a comprehensive new study by The Institute for Liberty (IFL) took an in-depth look at each component of the Jan. 20 inauguration in Washington, D.C., and estimated that 575 million pounds of carbon dioxide will be emitted in the atmosphere for the inauguration – which is roughly equal to what the average American household would produce in 57,598 years.

Speaking with the Business & Media Institute, IFL President Andrew Langer noted the hypocrisy of the event having so large an environmental impact, especially in light of the strong stands promoting the case for manmade global warming of many of Obama’s cabinet picks. Even Secretary of State Designate Hillary Clinton characterized climate change as a national “security threat.”



“I think it’s certainly hypocritical that as they’re doing all of this – gauging these celebrations and they’re using them and some might say wasting a lot of energy,” Langer said. “But they are using a great deal of energy in this celebration. They can’t, on one hand ignore their own very real CO2 impact, while at the same time hamstringing everybody else.”

Hope and change you can believe in.