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Van Jones Likens Keystone XL Pipeline to a ‘Carbon Bomb’

Feb. 18, 2013 11:00am

Environmentalists swarmed the National Mall in Washington DC on Sunday to protest what they believe is a lack of action on climate change by President Obama. Among the estimated 35,000 protesters was a face familiar to many in DC, a face that used to work inside the White House – former Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones.

Van Jones at Keystone Pipeline Protest in Washington

Image: MRC

Why was Van Jones there? Mr. Jones explained why he braved one of the coldest days of 2013 to attend the protest:

“I’m here to make sure the president of the United States doesn’t make the worst mistake he could possibly make. Which would be approving this horrible pipeline, like I said on stage, which would be like lighting the fuse on a carbon bomb…”

Yes, Mr. Jones was on hand to support the march and address one of his favorite topics – carbon emissions. In a brief interview with Media Research Center’s  Joe Schoffstall, he made some curious points. Jones said that the Republican party has “divorced itself from reality.” Further clarifying how he sees the GOP:

“Its economic theory has nothing to do with reality, Its understanding on how climate theory works has nothing to do with science. And they’re willing to take the biggest gamble ever. If somebody told you… that if you had a child and what you were doing to your child had a 96% chance that it was gonna kill it, you’d stop. 96% of scientists say that what we’re doing right now with carbon will cook the planet.”

The full two-minute interview with Mr. Jones in the freezing DC weather, talking about the need for action to stop global warming (now known as “climate change”) is here.

(H/T: MRC)

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  • Noonien_Soong
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:55am

    Van Jones the “This dumb*zz’ has no idea what a REAL carbon bomb is or looks like. Long ago and far away in the distant far east country of then China a carbon bomb was invented. It consisted of charcoal, sulfur and potash. In a relative sense of the words, all life is a carbon bomb. We as human beings use these derivatives for constructive and destructive purposes.

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    • doomytram
      Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:27pm

      Diseased Liberals like Jones and Obama need to watch that youtube video “If I wanted America to fail” The video was made for them… Commie One and Commie all.

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    • John 1776
      Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:43pm

      Would love to ask him how transporting all that oil by smokey locomotive train engines (owned by Warren Buffet) is more environmentally friendly then letting it slip through a clean new pipe?
      That’s how it’s coming down now, by tanker car.

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    • jacques.daspy
      Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:26pm

      Kennedy had the right idea in 1962. He gave us an opportunity to save the planet from human life by resetting the planetary clock. Certainly, earth would have done so much better the next time around, or maybe dinosaurs would re-evolve?

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  • woodyee
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:54am

    THIS IS A SETUP for what’s coming down the pike –

    Gaybama will back the Keystone Pipeline, and attach Carbon Credit Taxation to it.

    The precedent will be dangerous, enriching politicians invested in carbon-credit business (Algore’s), and a boondoggle to businesses, let alone the taxpayer, who will see the price of everything that rolls on wheels go up – again.

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  • grickm
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:49am

    What are Van Jones’ credentials to talk authoritatively about the climate? Last I heard he had no scientific credentials at all and is a revolutionary communist. In my view that qualifies him to go live in Cuba. Why listen to anything he has to say?

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    • Max jones
      Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:07pm

      Know thine enemy.

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    • piper60
      Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:35am

      Naruewally the Left has to pull out all the stops to kill the pipeline.It threatens to undermine the artificial energy shortage which is their greatest achievement:convincing the superpower that prevents them stealing the whole world to hobble itself. Nothing could be more wicked than permitting the victim to actually solve its energy shortage and shake off it’d dependance on foreign oil.

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    • webpsyche
      Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:54am

      wonder if he drives a car

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  • blondenblueeyed
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:47am

    I’d lot rather have an ENCLOSED ‘carbon’ bomb from the Keystone Pipeline than the stinky bomb coming from Van Jones’ lying mouth.

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  • GardenoftheGods
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:47am

    One sentence sums Van Jones’ BS about Global Warming/Climate Change…”on one of the coldest days in 2013.” Hey Van, if it’s that cold; there ain’t any WARMING happening!!! Wake up & smell the Communism; because that’s all ole Van is spewing!

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  • huey6367
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:45am

    He’s a tool. But not a sharp one. Go to China or N. Korea or Cuba and let me know how great Communism is.

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    • jacques.daspy
      Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:29pm

      Apparently, the Cubans feel that an independant “Communism” is better than a US supported dictatorship, oops, I meant democracy.

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  • SoulLine
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:45am

    Van Jones said, “I’m here to make sure the president of the United States doesn’t make the worst mistake he could possibly make.”
    I have a tendency to believe Obama made the “worst mistake” when he hired this communist garbage to begin with. Thank you Glenn for exposing the VJ trash. Now, you may thing these are harsh words coming from a Chaplain, get over it. I don’t hate Van Jones, I loath, despise, his ideologly.

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  • Sharon Rose
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:43am

    Van Jones = idiot

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  • UNALIEN
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:43am

    and Van Jones is a fascist who wants to drive up the cost of energy by attacking the free market expansion of oil supply which benefit the Middle eastern Oil States.. the Progressives are in Collusion with Middle Eastern Oil States, they don’t want Americans to get access to cheaper oil….

    85% of Global oil production ids STATE owned… FASCISM = Progressivism

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  • barber2
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:42am

    Surprised Van isn’t still out promoting anti-cop protests. Wonder if Dorner had any contact with Jones who was very active in California anti-cop protests. Big Race Card issue with Jones.. more of the divisive Discrimination / Race mess that has arrived on the scene, ironically, since the election of our first bi-racial, but swings Black, president !

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  • SoulLine
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:37am

    Van Jones is a communist. The Obama White House knew he was a communist when they hired him. Just like Obama, everything Van Jones says it is to promote his communist agenda. If Van Jones says the pipeline is bad for America that means it would be good for America. Seriously, thank God the opinion of killing all communists in America has been relaxed, otherwise this garbage would still be hiding with the cockroaches in the dark. Van Jones face will forever be associated with what an intelligent America hater looks like.

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  • tj1961
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:37am

    Mr Jones, If you and your friends REALLY want to lower CO2 levels..DON’T EVER EXHALE!!!!

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  • TexPat
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:30am

    One word – COMMUNIST

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  • Serenabit
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:27am

    I implore Glenn, his staff, and the community here on the Blaze to please check into and vehemently fight against the EPA’s recent classification of fly-ask being a “hazardous waste.” Fly-ash is a natural by product of burning coal; for thousands of years it has been used as a hardening agent in concrete, and a primary agent in fertilizer. As a result of this regulation all concrete in America must be replaced, coal fire furnaces will be shut down making electricity sky-rocket in costs, and will likely be the last regulation needed to bankrupt the United States. Whether the consequences are intentional or not, imagine the impact if every concrete road in the United States must be replaced and the current materials treated the same as nuclear waste. The cost is incredible! Please contact your Senators, Congressmen, and anyone who will listen! http://precast.org/2010/08/fly-ash-a-hazardous-material/

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  • Gildersleeve
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:26am

    Yo Van. India & China are constructing 1000 coal fired plants. Should be bomb the **** out of them?

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  • ltbdb
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:25am

    I don’t think the Canadians really care who they sell the oil to. If we don’t build the pipeline and buy the oil they will build a pipeline to the nearest sea port and load it onto tankers to be sold on the world market. The Chinese must be laughing their asses off. While we destroy our economy in the name of environmentalism they are building coal fired power plants as fast as they can and buying up all the oil they can get. If we stopped producing so called “greenhouse gasses” all together it wouldn’t make any difference in the total global emissions. We already have the cleanest power and industrial industries in the world. Lets just finish destroying our economy to apease the environmental wacko’s. It isn’t going to make a difference on global emissions.

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    • Dano.50
      Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:17pm

      Actually, the greenies have done the same to a pipeline we’ve been trying to build through BC to the Pacific coast.

      While I’m glad we are are building such, I am disappointed we’re dealing with communist country.

      Such countries haven’t changed their beliefs. They’re just put on sheep’s clothing.

      And you’re right about them laughing their butts off about us.

      What’s that old saying? A fool and his money is soon parted.

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:22am

    Van Jones is there because he wants to dictate to the President who is trying to be a dictator to taxpayers. I have always did my best to save on fuel, electricity when not needed, etc, What has the president done.. he and his wife flies around spreading “carbon” from airplanes. Time now is to stop all the lies and get back to morals and ethics or we are lost anyway.

    Our children and grandchildren are being given a debt that was brought on my this administration. We need the pipeline as much as when we give money (taxpayers) to other countries to drill.

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  • Eastinfection
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:21am

    I liken Van Jones to a Bomb-Pop.
    Colorful and fruity.

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  • wolverine
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:19am

    I don’t believe the arrogance abnd stupidity of these people to think that we can alter the climate change that is happening. This is like hoping to stop a freight train by standing in front of it.

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    • barber2
      Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:47am

      WOLV: The arrogance of the radical Left knows no bounds. Their common sense and actual knowledge, however, is extremely limited.

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    • Max jones
      Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:12pm

      “The problem, with our liberal friends, is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.”

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    • en2deep
      Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:43pm

      These people are in love with the ideal of ultimate control. They will take any avenue to get it, doesn’t matter if it’s the environment, equality or anything else they think of. America must be cut down to size so it can be forced into the global system. Where we can all share global resources,no more no less than anyone else. Stop being greedy Americans. Share the wealth.

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  • RodT82721
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:13am

    I think folks like Van, the subjects of the green religion, if t hey true beleivers as they claim, should remove anything that is made from petroleum, that nasty fossil product they all hate so, from their existence.
    They wont be riding bikes, parts are made from petroleum products, no transportation beside those feet to get around. Even those warm coats to ward of that global warming!
    Can’t even go with a Volt, petroleum products all over that too.

    The absurdity of these low information folks, thinking that a petroleum pipeline, after a couple hundred years of pipelines feeding our country, pretty much show the ignorance of these losers.

    Not a peep out of them when our dear leader goes to sleep while 4 of his own are murdered, but when the call goes out for protesting a pipeline, they show up to chant.

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  • 48Straights
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:13am

    And then he got into his gas powered car and went home.

    Almost a real news story, congrats Blaze!

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:12am

    Its time for Conservatives to start using absurb counter arguments. Not having the pipeline could have babies, children, and the elderly freezing to death. Progressives want to kill babies, children and the elderly. Progressives are denying thousand of people jobs by stopping the pipeline. Maybe that would work and shut the likes of Van Jones up for a change.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:10am

    Wow, that means those cans of 10W-40 in my garage are hand grenades! Cool.

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    • huey6367
      Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:44am

      Don’t let the administration know or they will classify you as a domestic terrorist.

      They will eventually be banned and all that possess them will become targets of drone attacks.

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  • txannie
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:10am

    van jones is a racist nimcompoop.

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  • thetruthlives
    Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:07am

    if VJ drives a car, flys on a plane, takes a bus. or train, then he needs to shut the EFF up……

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