AP: Obama says he’ll unveil climate plan in Tuesday speech ‘for the sake of our children’. It seems though, that the world is making a collective yawn (consensus?) so far given the views. The video has been up for several hours and has only a few hundred views and has 437 “likes” as of this writing.
The video description says:
At 1:35 on Tuesday June 25th President Obama will speak at Georgetown University on the growing threat of climate change. He will lay out his vision of where we need to go, to do what we can to address and prepare for the serious implications of a changing climate. Tune in at whitehouse.gov/live
This quote from the video makes me laugh and angry at the same time:
“We’ll need scientists to design new fuels and farmers to grow them,” he said. “We’ll need engineers to devise new sources of energy and businesses to make and sell them.”
The hell with “new fuels and farmers to grow them”, biofuels are low return on investment and raise the cost of our food supply; just get a Thorium reactor program started. The technology has been around for years, and the Chinese are already headed down that path.
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The Presidents views and strategies on almost every topic are rehashed 1970s leftist claptrap, except for surveillance where he is up to date with the Chinese and Iranians.
Carbon Pollution? Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant. I can’t believe they get away with that sort of language. Pollutant and Pollution become meaningless words if they are applied to atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Biofuel kills innocent people. How would you like to be an Asian Mother watching her child starve because the manufacture of biofuel has so raised the cost of food that your meager income can no longer cover subsistence food. There is no circle in Dante’s Hell COLD enough for those who advocate biofuel.
They the (US) have land for food or land for energy but not enough for both, unless they destroy whats left of the natural environment.
Obama: “There’s no single step that can reverse the effects of climate change, But when it comes to the world we leave our children, we owe it to them to do what we can.”
.”.. and what I can do is spend $100 million taxpayer dollars and generate 1000+ ton carbon footprint for my family vacation I start tomorrow. I’ve cut out the safari… we all have to make sacrifices. You all save the planet while I’m gone.”
His timing on this is so spectacularly bad, the jokes will be brutal.
See also: March 17, 2013 Obama By-Passes Gas”
If Obama cared for our children, he wouldn’t saddle them with a huge national debt.
The “301” views is an artifact of the way youtube works. It’ll stick there for awhile, then bump up to whatever the real number is.
In any event, though, it’s clear people are not exactly flocking to it.
Oh dear what to say.
There is a second law of thermodynamics.
Where do these people get their ideas?
And serious but curious people often ask me as a physicist and engineer with much experience in nuclear power why I do not support a new nuclear thrust to meet a supposed energy shortage.
And indeed I am sometimes offered lucrative contracts to help develop a new generation of nuclear power. There are not many of us left you see.
My reply is No. Why? because fossils fuels are so abundant and cheap they are all that is required at the moment.
perhaps in a hundred years we will need to consider other options. But who knows how technology will have advanced by then.
But otherwise coal, natural gas and oil will see us through for a few generations.
Kindest Regards
It’s well known that Governments pick losing technologies. Here we go again.
Umm, the man is a product of the Chicago/Illinois political machine.
Need I say more ?
To paraphrase Rumsfeld’s famous contribution to English lexicon, there are idiots who know that they are idiots, and there are idiots who don’t. The ones that don’t are most harmful. Obama doesn’t know. And we all are going to pay for this for a long, hard time to come.
You don’t understand how Youtube works:
Now you do 😉
@u.k.(us)
Plus, the man is a muslim-raised avowed Marxist, bent on destroying democracy and capitalism as we know it.
Doesn’t mean anything necessarily.
YouTube often freezes the like count and updates it periodically. To update every single like for every video in real time would be a massive server burden, impacting performance.
I mean, it takes the NSA to have that kind of capability.
2014 can’t come soon enough.
It’s back scratching time.
I’m sure the deals really got sweetened through 501c(4) organizations where donors aren’t revealed. Get a donation declaration open secrets.org can look at and most people probably think that’s all there is to it. When the real money (70%) can go without a name on it that the public can see.
I didn’t have time to track much of the $2.6+ billion, but saw a couple million from Robertson and Walton.
http://m.edf.org/people
http://m.edf.org/people/board-of-trustees
Putting this on WUWT will send the views skyrocketing!….kinda counter productive really…
The only thing it’s necessary to say about “the growing threat of climate change”, Mr. President, is that none of the threat comes from the climate and all of it comes from increasingly shrill and desperate politicians. Stop Climate Change – Abolish Politicians Now!
Alexander Feht June 22 10:26pm:
“He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool: shun him;
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is simple: teach him;
He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep: waken him;
He who knows, and knows he knows, is wise: follow him.”
It’s hard to fail solving a non-existent problem with a non-existent solution.
Since there is now no “Climate Chagne” left to fight???
“He will lay out his vision…”
He’ll lay a square egg in a great moment of solitude.
Call me cynical…
Obama must be completely deluded. What was he thinking, if at all?
Don’t pay any attention to
1) the invasion of your privacy, the reading of your emails, the tapping of your phones
2) the use of the IRS to crush his political enemies,
3) The Bengazi cover-up
4) The Fast and Furious debacle,
5) The attack on religious freedom,
6) The use of the EPA to attack businesses of political enemies,
7) The use of email aliases to conceal nefarious activity,
8) The attempt to circumvent the 2nd Amendment,
9) The explosion of food stamps,
10) the rise in the chronically unemployed population
11) and on and on and etc…..
Just pay attention to carbon credits…
He would be laughable if he hadn’t 44% approval.
Obama: “to save the planet I’ll need to raise taxes on y’all to give to my scientist friends to conduct studes that will tell me I need to raise taxes on y’all. Meanwhile I’ll be golfing and/or on an exotic vacation”
Neat how that works.