From AP Video:
President Barack Obama is pledging to respond to what he calls “the threat of climate change.” He says that failing to do so would be a betrayal of the nation’s children, and of future generations. (Jan. 21)
Video and comments from Al Gore follows:
WUWT reader Chris Beal sends this in:
Al Gore Wrote Today:
In his second Inaugural address today, President Obama spoke powerfully and eloquently about the critical importance of solving the climate crisis. His forceful commitment to take action will rekindle the hopes of so many that we are at long last approaching the political tipping point, beyond which we will finally start transforming our economy to sharply reduce global warming pollution and safeguard the future.
President Obama Said in his speech today:
Here is the key section of an inspiring speech:
“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.”The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries we must claim its promise.”That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks.”
Ref:
http://blog.algore.com/2013/01/inaugural_address.html
UPDATE: Delingpole has a go at this ridiculousness here.
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The Boris Johnston quote on your site an hour ago sums it up fully:
As a species, we human beings have become so blind with conceit and self-love that we genuinely believe that the fate of the planet is in our hands — when the reality is that everything, or almost everything, depends on the behaviour and caprice of the gigantic thermonuclear fireball around which we revolve.
James Delingpole has a good write-up on Obama’s “war on reality”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100199161/obama-declares-war-on-reality/
“Still, for all that, I applaud the President’s chutzpah and ingenuity. If you want to expand the size of government as much as he obviously does, there’s really no better way than to declare war on reality.”
Barmy O’Barrack again.
Gotta find a barf bag quick.
The EPA is already out of control. 2nd term- the gloves really come off. Keep your powder dry and keep telling the truth, folks.
Regarding the Australian fires…
If the analysis of their intensity being caused by overprotection during the last few decades is accurate, I have to ask: Why didn’t they learn from Yellowstone? And, in a related vein, I *hope* that *we* learned from it… did we? I remember in the aftermath there was a lot of awareness of the unfortunate need for “natural fires” as part of the forestation cycle. Are we still showing awareness of that in our actions here or have we forgotten?
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MJM
“He says that failing to do so would be a betrayal of the nation’s children, and of future generations. (Jan. 21)”
But leaving them a bankrupt country is a great idea.
He’s concerned about our children’s future? How about not bankrupting their future with his trillions of big government debt?
But he knows he told a lie when he said more extreme weather like Hurricane Sandy because Sandy wasn’t out of the ordinary. Did he lie unknowingly as in “I didn’t know the facts” or did he deliberately lie because he knows but just wants to put this invented crisis to good use.
Either way it’s a big fat lie, and it will be shown to be so.
…a betrayal of the nation’s children…
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Again with the children. I guess it wasn’t enough to use children as human shields for his gun control media event.
Reminds me of that Socialist Realism painting of Stalin: http://tinyurl.com/a4wtayt
Mark, you wrote, “Again with the children. I guess it wasn’t enough to use children as human shields for his gun control media event.”
Mark, “dragging out the children” is one of the strongest propaganda tools available. When I was working on my Peace Science degree (note: never finished the Ph.D. on that) I spent a lot of time examining different forms of propaganda and how it was used by various governments to get their populations to back war efforts. Hitler yelled about the Jews drinking the blood of Christian children, Saddam Hussein trotted out the little hostages and patted them on their heads, and GBush Sr. pictured the Iraquis as dumping premature Kuwaiti babies on hospital floors so they could steal the incubators and bring them back to Iraq on the “Highway of Death.” In the antismoking realm the use is so pervasive that I devoted an entire chapter to examining it in Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains, and I’ll be looking at it again for some of the secondhand and thirdhand smoke chapters in my next book. Basically it’s a fundamental abuse of our hardwired biological love-response to love and protect our children. It’s abusing our love of our children.
And the global warming crowd knows this perfectly well: just remember that TV commercial with the train coming down the tracks at the little girl, or the images the clean-air environmentalists grabbed from the antismoking campaigns showing little children with oxygen masks campaigning for politicians who’ll give them “clean air to breathe.”
It’s a cheap, easy, but very powerful propaganda trick, and people fall for it every time.
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MJM
“more powerful storms” — AAAAAAAAUUUUUUGH! Why won’t that meme die?
I see no overwhelming science in support of alarmism. Maybe he doesn’t know about all the science that does not agree with him?
Malice? Or Incompetence?
Welcome to the asylum America.
So! How many new renewable energy companies has he chosen to go bankrupt, waste a lot of resources, go out of business and enrich their ‘green’ ceos?
“In his second Inaugural address today, President Obama spoke powerfully and eloquently about the critical importance of solving the climate crisis. ”
So says the man with a bigger personal carbon Footprint than some countries, Al Gore!
WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS???? How the hell is being in the situation whereby the world is NOT warming up at all for 2 decades in any way a crisis?
DO these people not look at the data at all? THEIR MODELS ARE WRONG!
“a betrayal of the nations’ children”
but spending trillions beyond what we can afford, saddling future generations with crippling debt, isn’t a betrayal?
““We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.”
My apologies because I’m sure this has already occurred to … just about everyone out there who’s been awake for the last four years, but I can’t seem to stop myself from belaboring the obvious. Why is it again that saving our children and future generations from the threat of climate change, which may or may not have an impact a century or more down the road, more of a priority than saving our children in the decades to come from indentured servitude to pay back insane increases in federal deficit spending?
David L says:
“He’s concerned about our children’s future? How about not bankrupting their future with his trillions of big government debt?”
Willis Eschenbach had an excellent comment about that on another thread today:
Willis posted it to the Greenpeace comments section, where it was moderated out of existence. But it is too good a comment to let their censors delete it completely from the internet.
Don’t worry. In 5 years time, when the world is seeing late frosts and early snowfalls accompanied by brutal winters, the next President will promise to end this scourge of Anthropogenic Global Cooling. Additionally, he will demand higher regulations on fossil fuels in order to warm the planet.
Just remind me again why you re-elected him? Oh, yeah, he bought off 47% of the voters so only had to dupe a further 4% and job done.
Keitho’s deliberations about him lying or being ignorant are just the same as we have over here with ‘Call me Dave’. Is he really so ignorant and ill-informed, or is he lying? And he must hire some dumb advisors if he isn’t lying as they are doing a poor job of advising him. Given that he is a politician, and as lying and cheating come naturally to them, I plump for that.
.”The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transfer of cash to Americans that supported my campaign.”
@John Robertson: Malicious incompetence.
Thank God a leader listens to the professionals and not opinion writers on blogs. Finally we can get down and do something meaningful about the changing climate.
Did I just see a man on TV rake in the biggest personal pension top-up in the history of the planet?
Facts anyone? http://www.clipular.com/c?1272633=uxyQDogrVLwqXRm229v3kq9OCds