Bad weather has not changed in kind from that of the past. We have. We are different. It is not that contemporary storms are more offbeat from those of the past. Current examples of extreme weather are not unprecedented, unequivocal or more frequent or severe. It is that we are more aware of their presence because of our infatuation with climate change and our modern communication and detection systems. We have satellites and doppler radar. There are more of us and we have more stuff so present storms seem more devastating than past storms and we imagine future storms will be even worse in terms of the damage they do to property. Perhaps they will but the damage they do to human lives is less because of our early warning systems that have been brought to us by our genius and our use of oil to produce the products of modern technology. We could prepare even better for the inevitable future occurrences of bad weather in order to mitigate their impact upon our communities. However, reducing CO2 emissions is not a productive strategy in that regard. As CO2 has increased in the atmosphere unabated temperatures have not. That is a disconnect between theory and reality. When that happens science says: modify or abandon the theory.
But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Yes, it’s true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science – and act before it’s too late.
Obama's war on climate change is a war against a chimera. He is enlarging the state, holding back the economic recovery, restricting freedoms, driving up the price of energy and killing jobs in order to deal with a problem which only exists in the discredited computer projections of a shameless cabal of grant-troughing activist scientists increasingly out of touch with real world data.
So why, outside the internet, has no one called him on it?
The ignorance displayed by the POTUS in the 2013 SOTU is disgraceful. His words convey misrepresentation of the latest science and stand as an example of poor leadership that the parents will have to explain to their children. His remarks at Georgetown University on June 25, 2013 repeated the same errors. It is difficult to defend the president and hold him up as a role model to emulate. You want your children to be proud of their country and their president but the disappointment with his wilful misinformation gives both science and politics a bad name. The president is wilfully pursuing a delusion rather than showing strong leadership and correcting the course that the country is on to be in concert with the knowledge we now have about our changing climate. There is no crisis although there are things that certain areas of the country can do to prepare for the inevitable future climate catastrophes that are going to happen because humans still do not know how to control the weather. Reality is always best faced head on rather than tripping in the twilight zone of human hubris and ignorance.
The POTUS wants to implement policies to address a problem that is not happening. This is madness. And when the cooling already evident in the data becomes more pronounced so that no one can deny it he will take the credit. The leadership of this president is contrary to what the US needs. It is destructive and delusional.
Questions are being asked: ‘What if man-made climate change is all in the mind?’
Will the POTUS spew more man made climate change nonsense in the SOTU of 2014?
That was a rhetorical question.
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