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The global warming cap and tax bill HB-2020 has riven Oregon politics.
Oregon Senate Republicans walked out of the legislative session one week ago to deprive the Democrats, who enjoy a supermajority in the legislature, a quorum to pass this destructive and onerous bill.
So strong is the revulsion to this job-destroying, vast expansion of government that Oregon blue collar workers, truckers, loggers and farmers' voices have reached high enough decibels to make national news.
Leftist publications such a "The Daily Beast" and "Rolling Stone" have desperately grasped for (banned) straws in their effort to dirty-up the reputations of the people who grow and truck your food.
Media have whispered about 'militias,' death threats have been made against the head of the Oregon GOP, Senate Republicans and now, as if on cue, the evil Koch Brothers have appeared in the hallucinations of "Rolling Stone" reporters bwahahaha-ing and twisting their mustaches and while toying with their puppet strings.
But the bottom line is: Democrats more than overreached. Now they're (finally) reaping the whirlwind.
Thousands of Oregonians from around the state converged on Salem Thursday to show support for the Oregon 11 senators and the people who stand to lose their jobs if this bill should pass.
The Democrat leadership says the bill is dead for the session, but few believe them.
Last Sunday I arranged to call in to the Abrams and Pasero show on KXL. I advise you to do the same this Sunday morning from 8-10am.
Check out my call. It's in the first hour after the 8:30am news.
June 28, 2019 UncategorizedBlue Collar Rebellion, Cap and Tax, Climate Change, global warming, Governor kate brown, No on HB 2020, Oregon 11, Police response times, Stay Strong Stay GoneVictoria Taft
Legendary tennis star Martina Navratilova has waded into the Blue Collar Rebellion, Oregon's push back to the Democrats' confiscatory global warming cap and tax bill.
The vote on the bill has been stymied by the 'Oregon11,' the group of Republican senators who, after being rebuffed by Democrats on every negotiation attempt, fled the capitol building to deny the Democrats a quorum to shove through the freedom-sucking monstrosity-of-a-bill.
On Twitter on Sunday, the sports legend and gay advocate derided the Oregon state GOP as "disgusting" for pushing back on the attempt to destroy Oregon legacy jobs. She can be forgiven I suppose for missing the part about loggers and truckers begging lawmakers to kill the bill and save their jobs only to have the door metaphorically slammed in their faces.
Navratilova fled Czechoslovakia to the United States when she was 18 to escape the tyranny of the freedom-sucking commies and their StB secret police. Somewhere in the Bush 43 years, the ardent Leftist concluded that all Republicans were … commies? … and re-upped her Czech citizenship which she lost when she defected.
Now she embraces the authoritarian Brown, who has dispatched the police to arrest the Republicans and force them to show up so the Democrats can cram down the freedom-sucking climate bill.
She's given money to anti-GOP groups:
I'd like to thank my friend @Martina for her support. We are putting her gift towards the @RepMattGaetz /GOP billboard! Thank you! https://t.co/g2orQLd0n7 pic.twitter.com/xBZzY8y7bM
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) February 17, 2019
She's retweeted photoshopped images of President Trump carrying a torch as if a white supremacist. She's passed along a photo of Vice President Mike Pence depicted as a drag queen.
To her, all Republicans are 'ists' and 'phobes' and are, of course, deplorable.
But the tennis icon has foot-faulted her way into the Oregon anti-HB 2020 global warming fray and right into the Blue Collar Rebellion.
The tweet in response to the Oregon GOP reads:
"You are totally disgusting. You think this what [sic] what people voted for? When you can't gt your way to have goons come in on your behalf and take with f***ing guns?!?"
More scary miltia people at the Oregon Capitol this morning. No wonder Senate Democrats left. #orpol #orleg #capkillsjobs #hb2020 #Oregon11 pic.twitter.com/SDKMiDmCuq
— Oregon GOP (@Oregon_GOP) June 23, 2019
Martina was under the Democrats' carefully planted impression that the Republicans sent 'militias' to stop Oregon Governor Kate Brown. Of course, the Oregon GOP explicitly said that they neither were affiliated with nor have asked for 'militia' to help. No 'militias' have come to Salem that anyone can tell.
The 'militia' story is an interesting way, however, to distract from the real issue for working Oregonians, such as, oh, I don't know, losing their jobs and the heavy-handed, mafioso-like way in which the Democrats have conducted themselves.
For her part, Brown sent the Oregon State Police to – at the point of a gun, Martina – force the Republicans back to the legislative chambers to shove down the billion-dollar expansion of the government and make the little guys pay for it with their jobs.
You'd think Martina would recoil from the very behavior she'd fled from so many years ago.
I just checked her time line to see the responses Navratilova was getting to her uninformed tweet, but they apparently were too much for her. It appears her tweet was deleted.
Or maybe Navratilova joined Oregon's Blue Collar Rebellion. If so, Martina, you're in very good company. We're all 'militia' members now.
June 25, 2019 UncategorizedBlue Collar Rebellion, Cap and Tax, global warming, Goons, Guns, HB 2020, Martina Navratilova, militia, Oregon GOP, Oregon State Police, tennisVictoria Taft
Oregon Online Polls Show 80% Support for GOP Anti-Tax Walk Out, So Naturally Desperate Democrats Begin to Stoke Hazy Rumors of 'Militia Threats'
Oregon state Republican senators walked out of their legislative chambers on Thursday and haven't been seen since.
The 'Oregon 11' as they're called, left after hours of negotiations failed to roll back any of the Democrats' global warming energy tax package. The taxes would cost Oregonians hundreds of dollars per year in gas, food, and other energy impacted living expenses (read: everything). It would snuff out logging and trucking jobs. In short, it's a disaster.
The Democratic supermajority's message was clear: Take it or leave it.
Republicans left.
Oregon public opinion has followed the senate Republicans.
Oregonians hate the taxes. And they love the Republicans taking a stand. Even in deep blue Eugene:
Another poll confirms Oregonians did not like cap and trade. #orpol pic.twitter.com/IgH7AE3dj0
— Brittany Ruiz (@brittertwits) June 22, 2019
Former GOP governor's candidate Allen Alley pointed to this Portland poll showing 79% in support the Republican walk out.
Do these results surprise you? Is this a reflection that people are just fed up with the government? Or are they beginning to see through the massive tax increases portrayed as some sort of socially beneficial program? #Oregon11 #DefeatHB2020 #orpolhttps://t.co/CUOdP4krSA pic.twitter.com/fed6CjmQPa
— Allen Alley (@allen_alley) June 22, 2019
The Democrats, cheered on by their 'leader' Governor Kate Brown, refused to budge on the onerous taxes, refused to remove an 'emergency clause' on the bill to circumvent a voter referral, ignored the hundreds of people who traveled to Salem to plead with them, and blew off convoys of truckers begging Democrats not to put them out of business.
Public opinion is overwhelmingly against the cap and tax bills and solidly with the Republicans.
True public servants. The voice of Oregon families. #StopHB2020 #Oregon11 https://t.co/MV3D3NA0oR
— Josiah Barron (@JosiahBarron) June 22, 2019
The Democrats have a bonafide public relations nightmare on their hands.
Now the story has piqued national interest. Scrutiny grows. Governor Kate Brown's authoritarian tactics have been exposed and Democrats are getting a look at themselves in the mirror.
It ain't pretty:
Brown has sicced the Oregon State Police on the senators, ordering them to forcibly bring back the Republicans to provide the Democrats a quorum to pass the hundreds of millions of dollars in new taxes.
Brown's allies have threatened to bring back the sweeping anti-gun bills, that were dead for the session and pass them out of spite.
Democrats refused any meaningful negotiation with the Republicans
The Democrat issued "Wanted Posters" featuring the photos of Republican Senators for the Oregon Stasi to report.
Brown reportedly has been phoning mayors throughout the state, whose senators have walked out and threatened to halt state funded projects
Reliable source tells me that mayors in cities represented by @ORSenateRs are getting calls from Gov. Brown threatening to remove any projects from their cities and towns. Ask your mayor if he/she got that call. #orpol #orleg #Oregon11
— Bill Post (@BillPostOregon) June 21, 2019
Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Greg Wooldridge called out the 'bullies' in the supermajority:
.@OregonGovBrown and the Dem supermajority are wasting everyone's tax dollars, time and energy. Enough already — gavel down the session so we can move on.
Cap and trade is going nowhere and none of the other bills are either.
This is what bullying the minority gets you.#orpol
— Greg Wooldridge (@greg_wooldridge) June 21, 2019
With the Democrats losing the public relations battle, what to do … ? What to do…?
Statesman Journal
"Hello, Central Casting? Yes, we could use someone to conjure up some militia threats. Could you do that? Nothing specific. Don't want them to find the source. No, I don't want Antifa, they're on our side. Wait, could you get the 'militia' guys to wear masks? That would look cool. We'll need rural men. Jeans. Check. Plaid. Check. Big belt buckles. Fishing vests. Do you have anyone with guns? Yes, I know practically everyone in rural Oregon has a gun, but just go with me on this. Could you get 'em to carry AR-15's? Great. We need them now. We're losing here. Hurry up."
In near-record time, the Oregon Democrats had conjured up 'militia threats.' First, The Daily Beast 'quoted' an 'unnamed source' which claimed that they would go to Idaho where the senators are rumored to be hiding to provide security for them:
One source inside the Oregon militia movement told The Daily Beast that their members were "willing to put their own lives in front of these senators' lives." The source claimed that dozens of armed militia members have "mobilized" to protect the state senators, and said there was potential for violence if law enforcement officials try to bring the senators back to Oregon. The source added that the militias would defend the Republicans "at any cost."
"All of these people are armed," the source said.
Another "militia member" was quoted in MSN:
In a Facebook post, Paul Luhrs, a member of the Oregon III%er militia, said the militia had "vowed to provide security, transportation and refuge for those Senators in need."
And Republican state Senator Brian Boquist was quoted as saying he'd be damned if he'd let the Oregon State Police take him as a "political prisoner."
One of the lawmakers on the lam, Republican Brian Boquist (R), warned that he would resort to violence rather than return to the state, implying in a local television interview that he would attack law enforcement officers sent to retrieve him.
"Send bachelors and come heavily armed," Boquist said. "I'm not going to be a political prisoner in the state of Oregon. It's just that simple."
Cue the "hotbed":
Militia groups in the Pacific Northwest—a hotbed of far-right extremist activist—claim they've mobilized to protect those state senators.
Wait, the GOP senators were aligning with militias?! Even the Oregonian was dubious:
Kate Gillem, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Senate Republicans, responded Friday that Oregon lawmakers aren't interested in the offers for assistance.
"The Senators are not with any militias," she said, "and are not accepting their help."
Womp, womp.
Say what you want about the militias – and they are – you've got to admit, they haven't shot at anyone, not like the Bernie Sanders supporter who went hunting Republicans and nearly killed Congressman Steve Scalise. Or the Antifa thug who shot a protester in Portland. Or the Antifa guy who threw the IED at the cops. I could go on.
But Democrats weren't giving up. They saw their buddies at the Beast, MSN and CNN take the bait and so, with a Rachel Maddow slot dancing in their heads, decided to up the ante. Suddenly, the autocrats in the legislature and Mahonia Hall recast themselves as victims.
Soon, rumors were percolating in the political water table by 'threatening militias,' who heretofore had failed to materialize anywhere, but who were descending on Salem this weekend to "Occupy the Senate." The 'threat' prompted Democrat Senate President Peter Courtney to cancel the Saturday session.
Even Fox News fell for the ruse:
We at VictoriaTaft.com have located the 'militia' behind the Courtney shut down:
Come join us this weekend. Floor Sessions are currently scheduled for 10am both days. Let the Democrat Senators hear from you #orpol #orleg #occupythesenate #oregon11 pic.twitter.com/a6GUZZnLGK
— MarionCoRepublicans (@marioncogop) June 21, 2019
Yes, the 'militia concern' came from the Marion County Republican party which had begun to organize a peaceful protest at the capitol building. Seeing that it might be a problem, such as inviting more national media scrutiny and making the Democrats look bad, the session on Saturday was called off and the Republicans and any anti-global warming tax opponents were reframed as a 'militia.'
"Do you like the cap and tax taxes?"
"You hate the earth. You're a Nazi. You're a fascist. You must be a militia member."
Democrats might think Oregonians are stupid, but the vast unwashed in the 'militia' are only too aware of the all-pain, no-gain nature of global warming taxes. They're aware of California's experiment, which includes a slush fund for state Democrats.
Oregonians, ready to burst forth into a full-blown tax revolt, are now being eyed by a clueless national media as a militia. It won't work.
June 22, 2019 UncategorizedClimate Change, global warming, Governor kate brown, Guns, Kate Brown, militia, No on HB 2020, Oregon, Oregon11, oregonians, Senate Republicans, Stay Strong Stay Gone, Tax, taxesVictoria Taft
Blue Collar Oregonians Rise Up Against Dem Governor Kate Brown & Leftist Legislature Over Oppressive Energy Tax Bill
I felt a great disturbance in The Force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror.
Energy is productivity. Where have I heard that before? Oh, I know, everywhere. Because it's true. Now, Oregon's 'Democratic' supermajority, 'led' by the quisling Kate Brown, wants to snuff out what's left of Oregon's productive, family-wage, blue collar trucking and logging jobs, as well as put the big hurt on every-single-person in the state. How? With a basket of energy taxes that would hit every struggling family like the strike on Alderaan.
Oregon's planner-class has worked assiduously to create a man-made, coffee and beer swilling, tree-lined, choo-choo riding, organic utopia. But it turns out that even in utopia real people still need jobs. Kate Brown and her fellow-travelers in the legislature would sell out those jobs – those people, those families.
Now, the 'little people' are fighting back.
Timber Unity Facebook page.
Truckers, loggers and everyday citizens descended for the second time on the state capitol building in Salem this week to plead with the Democrats not to put them out of business with these onerous taxes.
Truckers convoyed to Salem days ago and again on Wednesday to pressure Democrats to see them, listen to them.
According to the Zero, or what's left of the Oregonian, HB 2020 would cost the working people of Oregon hundreds of dollars a year, in fuel, groceries, offsets, and cooling and heating your home. In short, Oregonians would be taxed on nearly everything so that the swells of Salem can say they're doing something about the global warming. Yes, those same swells who rail against high rents. Cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy, thy name is Democrat.
Saw mills have been shuttered or suffered layoffs while forests are allowed to burn to cinder, emitting more carbon into the air than any Oregon industry has ever loosed. Yet, what do these so-called 'leaders' call for? Taxing the little guy to effect whatever climate emergency the Left has conjured up this week.
It was the Left, after all, that decimated the logging industry with its spotted owl fairy tale. Now these same people who are motivated by 'well, the California cool kids are doing it' want to drag Oregon into the stupid zone. For what? To get on a panel at Aspen Institute, a free ride on Tom Steyer's private jet to Davos or be featured in a SxSW on-on-one?
Truckers know all-too-well that if they have to pay higher taxes and their company has to pay for offsets of some kind, that no matter what they haul, it will cost every consumer more.
It's a joke … and Oregonians are the punchline.
Today, Republican lawmakers of the Oregon Legislature walked out for the second time this session to deny Democrats a necessary quorum to pass oppressive laws.
The desks inside the legislature once occupied by Republicans are empty. Zee pahty has sent the henchmen to find them.
Democrats may not feel it, yet, but there's been a disturbance in The Force.
More Oregonians are waking up.
And the empty suit at Mahonia Hall should be one of them.
June 20, 2019 Environment, Oregon, UncategorizedDemocrats, global warming, Governor kate brown, mahonia hall, Oregon, Oregon Legislature, taxes, the forceVictoria Taft
Trump EPA Transition Point Man Myron Ebell in Portland for Talk
Myron Ebell is one of the people I always go-to for expertise on climate/global warming issues. And at a time when the Trump Administration is considering pulling out of the Paris Accords pertaining to global warming, his viewpoint couldn't be more timely.
The Oregon born, Competitive Policy Institute's global warming expert, served as the Trump transition point man at the Environmental Protection Agency.
The left calls him a climate "denier," but he likes to think of himself as a skeptic, you know, like science is supposed to be.
Climate fabulists bray that their viewpoints are based exclusively on science. It's science all right: political science.
On Thursday, June 8th, he'll be the guest of Cascade Policy Institute in Portland for a talk on what he's been up to lately.
Sign up to go here.
June 1, 2017 global warming, OregonCascade Policy Institute, Climate Change, Competitive Enterprise Institute, global warming, Myron EbellVictoria Taft
Environy: Global Warming Event Postponed Due to Snow
December 11, 2016 global warming, Portland Oregonglobal warmingVictoria Taft
The same people who were in lock step with Al Gore as he predicted the "true planetary emergency point of no return"–for 2016, the sea levels wiping out American beach front homes, increasing tornadoes, hurricanes, melting Arctic ice caps and the extinction of the polar bears, had to cancel an event late last week.
It turns out that the people who believe that man is so powerful that he can change the weather, couldn't get the weather to cooperate with their global warming news conference.
You'll note that the news release (compliments of Lars Larson) shows that the global warming crowd has now included in their list of man-made horribles earthquakes.
Anything to keep the money rolling in, I guess.
POSTPONED: Mayor Hales and Community Activists to Celebrate Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Ban
Portland, Oregon – Mayor Charlie Hales will join community leaders and activists immediately following the anticipated passage of a new city ordinance that renews Portland's commitment to strong climate action, lower carbon emissions, effective seismic resilience, a safer Columbia River Gorge, and a safer environment for those in and around Portland. This policy also sends a strong signal about the seriousness of Portland's commitment to green infrastructure and a transition to clean, renewable energy sources.
The ordinance prohibits the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure that has the capability to transload fossil fuels or is larger than two million gallons in capacity and forbids existing terminals from expanding in size, preventing any further potential damage to their local environment.
This victory is the result of over two years of organizing from local activists and community members committed to the betterment of Portland's environment and the protection of our neighbors' health and safety. The ordinance is an important step forward for Portland and should serve as a model for other municipalities and states.
All speakers will be available for a brief question and answer session and interviews immediately following the press conference.
What: Mayor Hales and Community Activists to Celebrate Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Ban
When: To be determined
Where: Portland City Hall Atrium (1221 SW 4th Ave, Portland OR)
This policy was worked on by 350PDX, Audubon Society of Portland, Columbia Riverkeeper, Climate Action Coalition, Friends of the Columbia Gorge, Oregon PSR (Physicians for Social Responsibility), Center for Sustainable Economy, the Oregon Chapter Sierra Club, and more.
The very same people who predicted world wide calamity this year due to man's influence on the weather, couldn't get enough cooperation to get rid of the snow.
Remember when the world laughed at Christian charlatans who predicted the world's demise?
Global warmists now claim climate psycho trauma!
July 11, 2014 global warming, UncategorizedClimate Change, Climate Chaos, Climate Trauma, Global Cooling, global warming, Ice Age, Population BombVictoria Taft
Purveyors of climate claims including: new ice age, population bomb, warming, cooling, change and chaos now warn of climate trauma
When a kid guilelessly tells a global warming purveyor on camera that he rides a bike to school to save the polar bears, is it any wonder there's climate trauma?
Portland kid claims to ride bike to school to "save polar bears" in 2012 bicycle propaganda film.
C'mon, Al Gore and his acolytes–the boy's teachers–have been telling the kid global warming caused by gassing up his mom's car is killing those fuzzy, cute polar bears. The kid is told riding his bike will save them. Between hating his mom for having a car and the guilt of not riding his bike on rainy days, this kid could someday be a walking psycho ward. 'If only I had ridden in October and November, I might have been able to save more! There they go…on that little bitty ice chunk… And then the day after tomorrow the waves are going to crash over Manhattan!'
Of course the polar bear population has grown but, shhhhhh, don't tell anybody, especially that kid.
A group touting this new psycho malady claims the climate chaos will cause trauma but that the resilient human race will be able to pull through….IF WE ACT IN TIME!
The mental stresses of climate change have so far been overlooked beyond climate expert burnout and criticisms of too many climate disasters in the media desensitising people. However, the stresses of dealing with climate change are a public health concern that needs to be more widely addressed.
So far I'm tracking with these guys. I've OFTEN warned of the social costs of the so-called "Smart Growth", as they insist on calling it, by cramming people into boxes, working to take cars away, no yard for their children to play, pricing them out of independence through higher taxes and regulation and even fining them for using resources. But, you didn't think they'd toss this out and agree with those who have been criticizing them for years, did you? Not when there's another fear to dangle in front of you, they won't!
Climate impacts on mental health include trauma, shock, anxiety, depression, grief, PTSD, relationship strain, substance abuse, and a sense of loss and lack of control.
But that's not all, it gets worse, natch.
Climate impacts on physical health include severe physical trauma, death, broken bones and cuts, disease, reduced access to health care, increased exposure to pests and toxins, allergies, asthma, impaired fetal development and changes in general fitness as climate impacts change daily routines.
But IF YOU ACT NOW you can help stop these horribles. Good grief, are you still standing there???!!! DO something! And, as luck has it, they helpfully provide a list,
Things you can do to reduce the stress of dealing with climate are:
Give people confidence we can prepare for and mitigate climate change
Communicate solutions
Highlight the co-benefits of acting on climate
Acknowledge the normality of emotions around climate
Use personal stories to connect
Be careful with too many disaster images causing a sense of hopelessness
Focus on local impacts
Emphasise the power of collective action
Help people interpret their experiences
Connect the dots from impacts to solutions
I like number 6. Now that's absolute Al Gore Gold.
Only if you stop the climate (ice age, population bomb, cooling, warming, change, chaos) will you be able to PERSONALLY feel better. It's all about you. Think globally, act personally.
You have to love the chutzpah. They're now warning the result of their own decades-long fear mongering in our schools and freedom restricting laws and regulation and disguising it as another climate chaos fall that can only be solved if you do what they say. Again. Naturally.
The Cool Kids Check the Temps of Oregon Global Warming Report
September 17, 2013 UncategorizedAGW, carbon, CO2, global warming, man made global warming skeptics, Oregon global warming commissionVictoria Taft
Stay cool, Oregon!
The dire predictions and claims in Oregon Global Warming Report are put to test by scientists who question assumptions made about man's influence on climate.
Man made global warming skeptics are greeting the Oregon Global Warming Report with what you might expect from scientists: skepticism.
For openers, the group of scientists who range from Climate Scientist, Astro phyisicist, to Meteorologist wonder how the report can support this claim about rising temperatures in Oregon:
Al Gore predicted New York would be under water by now and that the Arctic would have no ice. The Arctic has 60% more ice than usual this time of year. New York is still dry. Al Gore has made $100 million + on his Global Warming scare.
Climate change is here. Average temperatures in Oregon are rising.
From one of the many scientists weighing in on the new report:
The first statements on the Oregon Global Warming Commission's website at http://www.keeporegoncool.org are,"Climate change is here. Average temperatures in Oregon are rising.", but the NOAA National Climatic Data Center Climate at a Glance site at www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/ presents the official Oregon climate data indicating that:
· Oregon's year to date (January – August) temperatures have trended downward at a rate of 0.5 degrees F per decade during the last 20 years.
· Oregon's year to date (January – August) temperatures have trended downward more rapidly at a rate of 1.8 degrees F per decade during the last 10 years.
The list of Commission members features Al Gore acolyte Bill Bradbury, environmentalists, corporate types, leftist politicians and one scientist from Oregon State University.
The Commission (see list nearby) also claims Oregon has reduced its greenhouse gas use.
These improved and up‐to‐date data indicate that Oregon met its 2010 greenhouse gas reduction goal, having arrested the growth of greenhouse gas emissions and, it appears, also establishing a downward emissions trajectory in which emission levels are expected to be reduced into the future.
I'm just a layman, but I would expect that in a great recession with record numbers of people out of work–who have no jobs to drive to, businesses have had to shutter, and production has gone overseas, that there might be reduced output of anything. They're free to take a victory lap, of course, but where there's less productivity, there is less CO2 and other greenhouse gasses emitted.
The report also assumes CO2 is what drives temperature increases, but that is in dispute. In fact, the rising sea tide is actually turning against that assumption.
The Commission also claims:
The problem: too much carbon in the atmosphere.
I recognize that there's only one apparent scientist on the list of Commission members–see it nearby–but isn't a bit flabby to call CO2 carbon? They're not the same thing. This has been an ongoing problem with discussion of global warming. C02 and carbon are, for some reason, used interchangeably. Considering this is supposed to be some kind of scientific document, you'd think they put in the effort to be precise (Please see the full report below).
I asked one of the man made global warming skeptics about this and he was a bit more forgiving (and he's a scientist and I'm not, so I add it here):
They interchange the terms regularly and do separate calculations, both for carbon consumption and CO2. The difference is just the molecular weight of C12 and its isotope burned from fossil fuel and the resultant oxidized atoms of carbon to oxygen forming the CO2 molecule.
For those non scientists out there, here's a wonderful explanation of the difference between CO2 and carbon.
"Carbon" (chemical symbol C) is what we burn to get energy to power modern society. Carbon is the molecular building block for wood, charcoal and coal, and hydrocarbons (HC) like oil and natural gas. Cars and power plants do not emit carbon, except in the form of soot. Thus, talk of "carbon disclosure" or "reducing our carbon emissions" is misleading, unless one is confessing how much charcoal was used at a picnic, or apologizing for not having pollution controls on a wood-burning stove.
"Carbon dioxide" (CO2) is another natural byproduct of combustion, from power plants, factories, vehicles, homes, hospitals and other users of wood, coal, petroleum and biofuels. This is what many environmental activists, politicians and scientists blame for recent and future climate change.
Please enjoy reading the report below. More updates will follow.
Oregon 2013 Global Warming Commission Report