Is it best to remain silent and be thought stupid rather than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt?
Does he even understand how that looks to people? Does he even understand that planes use fossil fuels which adds the dreaded CO2 to the air? Does he care? Does Lead By Example (LBE) mean nothing to him? Does he teach his children to say one thing and do another because that is what they are seeing? As blogger Instapundit has remarked: I’ll believe it’s a crisis when people who tell me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis. Hypocritical behaviour lessens the import of the warning. Do Obama and celebrity sponsors not understand that?
Obama has removed all doubt in his recent ignorant attacks on those who refuse to accept his view of man made climate change. He thinks they are an ignorant bunch who deny reality while in fact it is he who can’t recognize reality when he sees it. He also seems to think that his audience at UC, Irvine has not been exposed to history.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts -- Bertrand Russell
Obama is an insult to the robes he is wearing. In his commencement speech to the graduates of UC, Irvine he chose to mention climate change and rather than demonstrating scholarship befitting his audience and the institution which they attended he presented selective facts with which he is familiar. He said that “the 18 warmest years on record have all happened since you graduates were born” and he stated that fires in Western states, smaller snow packs in mountainous tourist areas, and flooding streets in cities like Miami were due to man made climate change. He is easy to convince. But Mother Nature has a history and many in his audience probably know that.
Quote by Jim Sibbison, environmental journalist, former public relations official for the Environmental Protection Agency: "We routinely wrote scare stories...Our press reports were more or less true...We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment."
The ‘18 warmest years on record’ ignores the copious scientific evidence that the Earth has been warmer in the past. Past ages such as the Medieval Warm Period, Roman warm period the Minoan warm period and the Holocene climatic optimum, all of which occurred within the last 10,000 years, were as warm or warmer than the temperatures that we currently experience. And those warm periods occurred prior to the human use of fossil fuels for energy at a time when CO2 was much lower in the atmosphere so neither it nor we can be blamed. Did Obama leave that out because he doesn’t know and should attend UC, Irvine, or because he doesn’t want you to know or because he just doesn’t know? For a POTUS none of those options is charming.
Quote by Ottmar Edenhofer, high level UN-IPCC official: "We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore."
Obama also failed to mention that the Global Climate Models(GCMs) that are used to offer scenarios for the future upon which government climate policy is based do not reflect what Mother Nature is actually doing. The GCMs routinely forecast higher temperatures than what we currently experience. Does this not suggest that we don’t know how the climate actually works? Isn’t that a basis for skepticism?
Quote by Stephen Schneider, Stanford Univ., environmentalist: "That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have."
Obama also failed to mention that Mother Nature, who Al Gore hears loud and clear’, stopped raising the Global Mean Temperature(GMT) over 17+ years ago. That means that no child who is in grade school has been alive to experience any global warming. In fact, the GMT datasets show a slow decrease in temperature since about 2002. Even NOAA shows US cooling since 2005. Did Obama leave that out because he doesn’t know and should attend UC, Irvine, or because he doesn’t want you to know or because he just doesn’t know? For a POTUS, none of those options is charming.
Quote from Monika Kopacz, atmospheric scientist: "It is no secret that a lot of climate-change research is subject to opinion, that climate models sometimes disagree even on the signs of the future changes (e.g. drier vs. wetter future climate). The problem is, only sensational exaggeration makes the kind of story that will get politicians’ — and readers’ — attention. So, yes, climate scientists might exaggerate, but in today’s world, this is the only way to assure any political action and thus more federal financing to reduce the scientific uncertainty." (emphasis mine)
Obama mentioned fires in Western states as evidence of man made climate change. I am sure that all students at UC, Irvine would be able to direct the POTUS to the US National Interagency Fire Center where he will find out that fire trends are on the decrease. Smokey Bear is proud. While the acreage burned is on the increase this can be attributed to a change in fire management practices - obviously not for the better.
Quote by Christine Stewart, former Liberal Canadian Environment Minister: “No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
Obama draws the attention of the students to smaller snowpack for tourists in the mountains as evidence of man made climate change. If given the chance I am sure that the students at UC,Irvine could point the POTUS to the Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab where he could see for himself that 5 out of the 6 snowiest years in the record have occurred since 2003. Please note that this corresponds to the slight cooling noticed in the GMT since 2002.
Quote by Timothy Wirth, U.S./UN functionary, former elected Democrat Senator: “We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”
Rising seas flooding the streets of Miami trouble Obama who sees this as more evidence of man made climate change due to our burning of fossil fuels. Perhaps the POTUS is unaware of the following explanation: Forget global warming: Groundwater extraction is causing cities to SINK beneath sea level. Apparently, sea level rise has also detected the temperature stasis. Shouldn’t seaside property values reflect the rising seas? Do they? Millions of dollars are being invested in hotels, resorts and airports in the Maldives. They do not seem too concerned about an imminent oceanic uprising. Besides sea level has been much higher in the past and we weren’t driving SUVs at the time. Does that suggest natural causes? The lack of any acceleration in sea level rise should be a cause for celebration.
Quote by Maurice Strong, a billionaire elitist, primary power behind UN throne, and large CO2 producer: “Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Does Obama believe that global sea ice extent is increasing and at record levels because the world is getting warmer? Heat makes ice? Would a science graduate believe that? Or a buffoon? You be the judge.
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose." Club of Rome (Emphasis mine.)
Liberal plot? Does anyone see a Liberal plot?
Quote by Dixy Lee Ray, former liberal Democrat governor of State of Washington, U.S.: "The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises - whether real or not - is expected to lead to – compliance”
How about now?
Quote by John Holdren, President Obama's science czar: “A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation...Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being."
Is John a liberal? Maybe now?
And they don’t care if they lie to achieve the goal. The goal is control and they don’t need to be ethical to get there. Who will stop them?
Crack scientists or is that scientists on crack have gotten otherwise intelligent people to believe that CO2, an invisible trace gas essential to life on Earth, is causing frightening snow in the winter, rain in the spring, heat in the summer and falling leaves in autumn. We must take a vow of poverty and pay tithes to our elite rulers to rectify this terrible state of the climate
CAGW - when scientists treat common weather phenomena as unusual. Author unknown to me.
Get a grip. Take a chill pill people. The climate is fine. It is you who are heating up over the delusion in your own mind.
Obama: Cue Donna Summer: Who do, who do you think you’re foolin’?
