Rick McKee, editorial cartoonist for the Augusta Chronicle, sends me this political cartoon about climate change which he posted on his Facebook page and the WUWT Facebook page.
It sums up perfectly what is wrong with our current political leadership: they are more worried about climate change than they are immediate threats with a clear and present danger.
SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/rick.mckee?fref=photo
According to Breitbart, Hillary Clinton made the comments at a recent paid for speaking engagement in Las Vegas. I guess when you get that kind of money, you’ll say anything for hire.
The topic is explosive, not so much for the climate change part, but for the other two elements in it. Commenters should be be warned that we’ll snip any inappropriate comments.
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Thanks for posting, Anthony. There’s a lot of truth in there which makes it so powerful.
There’s an ironic truth in Hilary Clinton’s assertion:
I can only agree that her hard choices are the real threat.
Al Gore showed how the opportunity is real!
I’ll just say that, in the event she decides to run for President, please don’t vote for her. It DOES make a difference.
Oh, I would give ANYTHING for Hillary Clinton to run in the next election–it would guarantee a Republican win!
I think you over estimate Republican voters. They didn’t turn out on 2008 for McCain and they didn’t turn out in 2012 for Romney even after all of the things that Obama and his administration did before the election. So, what exactly is it that makes you think they are going to turn out for the 2016 election against Hillary?
The Ebola outbreak in Africa is looking increasingly out of control. There is some evidence it has limited airborne capability, though the WHO denies this. Ebola is an airborne disease in pigs and some other mammals, so a more virulent human airborne version is very much on the cards. The symptom free incubation period is up to 3 weeks. It is 50 – 90% lethal. It is evolving rapidly, every new victim helps Ebola learn to exploit our weaknesses.
Why the f*ck are politicians still gabbling on about the climate?!
The worrying thing about this outbreak is its mutation rate, which has accelerated greatly since the smaller outbreaks in the 90’s where there was said to be a very slow almost no mutation rate http://www.sciencedigest.org/EBOLA.HTM to the current one that shows quite an extreme mutation rate 300 mutations (identified) since May http://www.ibtimes.com/origin-ebola-outbreak-may-be-bat-virus-has-rapid-mutation-rate-1673118 UK is now concerned about the influx of more than 20,000 students from the same area of Africa as University terms start.
Thousands of students from West Africa are due back here in the USA any day now. The Universities are poopooing any “issues:. Could it be greed for their tuition money, you think?
The reaction to Ebola is amazing. Here you have a disease that could easily find its way to India, China or Indonesia and Kaboooooooom! This is an urgent problem not the trace rise of the trace gas co2. In fact the rise is good.
“Why the f*ck are politicians still gabbling on about the climate?”
Money(donations, payback) and power
And we still have an issue with near-earth objects impacting us, which would do a climate change in a fraction of a second. And probably lots of other nearer and more dangerous threats…
Eric, the Govt can’t tax ebola.
you get the gold star for best comment.
It’s not airborne, until it is, then it is.
This is a real problem so it will not be addressed.
I still want to know what Obama and Hillary were doing while the ambassador was being killed in Benghazi.
I wouldbn’t sweat Ebola, it is just the panic of the week. It’s only killed 1500 -2000 people this year. Malaria on the other hand has killed over 500,000 this year, but it is a boring disease so no press. Ebola is basically like global warming, a non problem that some are hysterical about.
It’s not a problem, until it is, then it is. Every new disease began as a non problem, spreading among population we don’t care (or even would get rid of !). Then it either really became under control, or … not.
So, sure, Malaria is far worst, but, still, don’t underestimate this new enemy
They are still blathering about climate change/global warming because its popular with us Democrats, and ebola isn’t a real threat until it shows up in the US. We have the 97% “consensus” that proves that global warming is the hot button issue
They sure are trying hard to GET ebola to show up here…
Rich McKee, Thank you
Your welcome!
Yup
But Hillary also believes the moderates in Syria should have been supported when they were… you know…. still alive. All that’s left now in Syria are murderous psychos on both sides. Apparently Obama considers this horsesheisse…
I was actually considering supporting her on her election – her talks of interventionism is exactly what the world needs today. However her extreme views on climate and violent videogames make me think otherwise.
The moderates are not all dead. Most of them joined ISIS.
You mean the ones that were swallowed up or murdered by ISIS and other mad jihadis?
Moderates wanted a secular, free Syrian society, ISIS is the exact opposite. Ideologically, what you are saying makes no sense. When those fighting for the moderates switched sides to ISIS, they were “moderate” no longer.
What about her views on sniper fire? Personally, I could not vote for someone who would have their finger on the nuke button, and might imagine suddenly that they are under sniper fire and the like. I’d like a president who can distinguish reality from fantasy please.
The thing is… everyone’s memory isn;t 100% and a lot of times our brains fill in the gaps. Not everyone is recorded in everything they say unlike politicians so it’s easy to say “Politicans are liars”. Everyone lies, intentially or otherwise, but only those on the public forum are called up on that.
Hillary seems to exaggerate when filling the gaps. She needs to quit doing that, otherwise she’ll be labelled “gaffe-prone” and probably not even get selected.
Henry Kissinger’s Thoughts On The Islamic State, Ukraine And ‘World Order’
http://www.npr.org/2014/09/06/346114326/henry-kissingers-thoughts-on-the-islamic-state-ukraine-and-world-order?sc=tw
And comments on Hillary as Prez
Her intervention in Libya and support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt didn’t work out so well. Nor arming the anti-Assad fighters in Syria with former Libyan weapons, via Turkey, which is what Benghazi was all about. Now ISIS has ex-Libyan shoulder-launched surface to air missiles.
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Climate change is what? Oh she means more “urgent” than say saving those 700 Yazidi girls and women from the slave market in Mosul? Too late Hildabeast you dolt.
This may get snipped but… let’s please remember the victims of Boko Haram in Nigeria (as well).
We all wanted them to “bring back our girls” but slavery seems to have become more profitable.
Since Las Vegas is reputed to be one of the cities on their list of 3 or 4 US cities to hit with a terrorist act it would seem Hillary’s speech there is quite inappropriate. But then again, if she invited Bill along he might’ve had a pretty good time if he got out of Clark County.
Las Vegas? Can I contribute?
Nothing is more “urgent” than keeping the Hildabeast out of office in the next election.
Unless the alternative is Elizabeth Warren.
And the reason the politicians remain focused on climate is twofold:
1) They pretty much screwed up everything else (foreign policy, economy, jobs, healthcare, etc)
2) You can’t squeeze money out of the other threats.
Oh…and one more
As Louis Black said while playing a politician in one of his skits…”But it’s HARD!…it’s really HARD!”
Money. Always follow the money.
Whilst I fully understand the sentiment of this message and applaud the message I am saddened and disheartened by it at the same time. America and the western democratic nations it envelopes can’t do anything about the climate change issue. The other issue is one of their own making. As a soldier who fought for your freedoms against the very people this cartoon demonises all I have to say is “I told you so”.
Never was the reactionary principle more evident.
Deep thanks for your service.
This is just one of many reasons to not vote for Hillary. Some others:
a) Bill
b) Benghazi
c) Compulsive lying (“dodging sniper fire”, “dead broke”, inter alia)
d) James McDougal
e) Mary Mahoney
f) Vince Foster
g) Ron Brown
h) Ed Willey
i) Jerry Parks
j) Kathy Ferguson
k) Bill Shelton
l) Suzanne Coleman
m) Paul Wilcher
n) Johnny Lawhorn Jr.
o) Kevin Ives, Don Henry, Keith Coney, Keith McMaskle, Greg Collins, Jeff Rhodes, James Milan, Jordan Kettleson
p) Major Bill Barkley, Jr., Captain Scott J. Reynolds, Sgt. Brian Hanley, Sgt Tim Sabel, Maj. Gen. Bill Robertson, Col. William Densberger, Col. Robert Kelly, Spec. Gary Rhodes, Steve Willis, Robert Williams, Conway LeBleu, Todd McKeehan
Whatever your attitude to Hilary (and I can guess you weren’t going to vote for her in anyway) the Benghazi thing is not one of them: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/House-panel-No-administration-wrongdoing-in-5663509.php
Amongst the conclusions of the GOP-lead investigation:
But just because there’s nothing there doesn’t mean that some people will not use the nothing to beat her over the head. Like Whitewater. Again and again.
Now as far as I can see, the cartoonist is entirely correct. Climate change has had its day as the “scare du jour”, which comes as something of a relief.
Oh, how charmingly naive. Believing anything out of Washington is only for the incurably credulous, which either you are, or you are being brilliantly sardonic.
Note that the comments about Benghazi report were a SF paper’s report of a democrat’s version of a document that is still classified. For a direct contradiction of the ‘stand down’ comment, see rerun of the Benghazi special 8 pm EDT tonight on Fox. I think everybody should wait a bit before ‘declaring victory’ on either side of the Benghazi debate.
Fox News: Blockbuster Benghazi Book Reveals Source of ‘Stand Down’ Order
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/04/Fox-News-Blockbuster-Benghazi-Book-Reveals-Source-of-Stand-Down-Order
You celebrate too early, John A.
What about the video? Lying through her teeth to the American public seems to be forgotten in the post-mortem analysis. What did the investigation conclude about that? I might be somewhat favorable toward Hillary were it not for that despicable fabrication. We know that the Clintons are very particular when it comes to the definition of the truth and know how to parse the truth in a myriad of ways, but I can’t forgive her for that cynical political falsehood.
You forgot the cattle futures and the White House travel office! What about Hillary Care?
The real reason Hillary is unelectable is Waco. You can not immolate women and children inside their home because of their religious beliefs.
I’m a lifelong Democrat that will never vote for Hillary because of this unconscionable act carried out by Janet Reno under orders from the Clintons.
Yes, I know of other life-long Democrats who suddenly realized after Waco the lengths the Clintons will go through to cover up or promote whatever they perceive will sustain their political power and agendas.
The person in charge of the Justice Dept. at the run-up to the Waco attack was Bill’s buddy Webster Hubbell. Janet Reno was just the scapegoat in subsequent hearings. And the objective was to get rid of the four Arkansas state troopers (Steve Willis, Robert Williams, Todd McKeehan, and Conway LeBleu) that were witnesses to Paula Jones’ encounters with Bill, which assassinations they accomplished by assigning them to the BATF and putting them in harm’s way. The Branch Davidians were a smokescreen.
Note that the newspaper article says “She usually requires those who pay her six-figure fees for speeches to also provide a private jet for transportation — only a $39 million, 16-passenger Gulfstream G450 or larger will do.”
If climate change is such an overweening concern then why does she insist upon such a massive carbon footprint?
Carbon footprints do not matter anymore as it has been proven that CO2 released from burning fossil fuels has negligable effect on global warming/climate change.
“negligible” sorry!
Well we know that; but she should be a little bit more cautious lest her victims notice it as well.
Because their carbon footprint is different then our carbon footprint. You see, the carbon footprints of the commoners reek of flatulence whereas the carbon footprints of the well connected, and the elites, are sweetly perfumed and thus able to perfumigate away the catastrophic consequences of their profligate consumption compared to the consequences occurring from the consumption by us lesser folks. Simply put: their carbon exists on a higher plain than our carbon. Their carbon, you see, is magical and effervescent.
How much does it cost to get that kind of carbon??
Because she thinks she’s important and therefore the normal rules don’t apply to her.
Tonyb
The CO2 from a Private Plane transporting a speaker who’s a “Defender of the Climate” is imbued with “magikal properties” that alows the biosphere to sequester the CO2 preferentially, inversely any CO2 emitted from the generating the electricity to charge Anthony’s electric vehicle is imbued with “magikal properties” that prevents the biosphere from sequestering the CO2, ever.
What is Bigfoot’s carbon footprint?
I didn’t realize that AlGore’s new nickname was Bigfoot. ‘Bigwaist’ or ‘Bigwaste’ seems more appropriate.
I think some of the reason that Obama and Clinton are making insane noises about AGW, is to please their backers. Clearly some of the big funders of Obama’s political aspirations and Clinton’s future presidency bid, are devout AGW zealots. But both are like Al Gore, as long as the money flows in they will say anything!
Absolutely! They are puppets.
Makes sense.
MzBill is inappropriate.
I would post this on my Facebook page, but I would probably lose (alienate) a lot of my friends and family members. Didn’t John Kerry say almost the exact same thing about climate change?
Yes John Kerry did, and here is the quote from Feb. 16, 2014:
“When I think about the array of global climate – of global threats – think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction – all challenges that know no borders – the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them. And it is a challenge that I address in nearly every single country that I visit as Secretary of State, because President Obama and I believe it is urgent that we do so.”
If you were to lose friends over this post, perhaps you should reconsider what the word friend really means?
Mark
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” –Edmund Burke
I’m wondering when, or even if, there will be a point again when truth, conviction and pure pursuit of knowledge is more important than the next grant (for climate scientists) or the number of friends we have on Facebook (for the majority of us).
Bruce
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. — Adlai Stevenson II, American politician, presidential candidate (1900-1965)
So Hill-Dog is smaller than a Chihuahua.
“Hillary makes whopper statement in Las Vegas to get the youth vote.”
Ouch.
We don’t get the detail over this side of the Atlantic. Which politicians in US are arguing that something serious should be done about IS – such as putting troops on the ground?
I think another Clinton administration would be kind of fun because you could juxtapose Hillary as. Commander in Chief with Bill as Philanderer in Chief.
If it were just HRC spewing this bilge it would be bad enough, given that the current MSM meme is that she is essentially the inevitable choice for our next affirmative action “Fearless Leader”. Unfortunately this seems to have been nominated as the flavor of the moment talking point for the entire BHO administration, the Dems, and most of the CAGW crowd.
In a sense I have always sort of agreed with those who hype the incredible dangers of CAGW, although my logic for supporting that notion has always been completely different. To me CAGW has always presented an existential threat to all humanity, not at all because of anything that the weather may present, but because the harebrained and highly hazardous “solutions” being enacted and demanded for the phantom problem of the Demon CO2. Given the EPA’s ongoing assault on our energy system it will probably take good luck on the level of divine intervention to avoid multiple occurrences of people dying cold in the dark over the remaining Winters of the Bamster’s reign.
Let us not neglect that today a “near Earth object” — a freakin’ giant meteor! (1) — grazed commercial space near our lovely little green planet. We only saw it coming a week ago. We have no way to deflect such a thing if it comes directly on target. If one such does hit, I guan-freakin’-tee that it will change the climate sooner, more, and worse than any amout of carbon dioxide.
We got war, (in risk subcategories of religious, political, econmic, and due to simple miscommunication) and as ever famine, plagues, (old and new, tuberulosis and ebola, not to mention smallpox being discovered “leftover” in research lab closets and Black Death being dug up by Indiana Jones-style grave robbing wanna-be anthopologists) volcanoes, earthquakes, prison rape, homelessness among the mentally ill, hydraulic dam failures, unemployment, misallocated resources under the control of economically-illiterate tyrants, and, in the US alone, over 1,000,000 full time practicing lawyers! I could 100% agree with the 97% about global warming and STILL put the priority on “doing something” about that particular hazard behind space defense; which is itself behind several of the other hazards I actually worry about.
(1) or a relatively tiny little asteroid. Who cares?
The Lawyers undoubtedly comprise the greatest existential threat to civilisation.
We need the lawyers to clear up the compensation claims after the giant meteor has hit.
(2) At this point, what difference does it make?
So just to clarify, observations prove there has been no warming worth a camels arse for the thick end of 20 years (and possibly as long as 25) yet there are some who continue to call ‘climate change’ / ‘global warming’ the greatest threat facing the entire planet?
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They make the lunatics at IS look rational.
I’d say the Ebola outbreak is the biggest threat right now, far beyond ISIS. If it mutates to a more communicable form, ISIS-type nuts will probably make sure it spreads beyond Africa:
Make haste on experimental Ebola treatments, urges World Health Organization group
By Jon Cohen 5 September 2014
Science Magazine
http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2014/09/make-haste-experimental-ebola-treatments-urges-who-group
Excerpt:
Researchers and health professionals should fast-track extraordinary efforts to give people unproven treatments and vaccines in locales hard hit by Ebola, more than 200 experts attending a World Health Organization (WHO) forum recommended today.
“We have to change the sense that there is no hope in this situation to a realistic hope,” said WHO Assistant Director-General Marie-Paule Kieny, who spoke at a press conference with two other attendees of the consultation. More people have become sick and died from Ebola in the last few months than in the 4 decades since the virus was discovered, she noted.
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Ebola Is Rapidly Mutating As It Spreads Across West Africa
by MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF
August 28, 2014
NPR.org
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/08/28/343734184/ebola-is-rapidly-mutating-as-it-spreads-across-west-africa
Excerpt:
For starters, the data show that the virus is rapidly accumulating new mutations as it spreads through people. “We’ve found over 250 mutations that are changing in real time as we’re watching,” Sabeti says.
While moving through the human population in West Africa, she says, the virus has been collecting mutations about twice as quickly as it did while circulating among animals in the past decade or so.
***”The more time you give a virus to mutate and the more human-to-human transmission you see,” she says, “the more opportunities you give it to fall upon some [mutation] that could make it more easily transmissible or more pathogenic.”***
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Disease modelers project a rapidly rising toll from Ebola
By Kai Kupferschmidt 31 August 2014
Science Magazine
http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/08/disease-modelers-project-rapidly-rising-toll-ebola
Excerpts:
Extrapolating existing trends, the number of the sick and dying mounts rapidly from the current toll—more than 3000 cases and 1500 deaths—to about 10,000 cases by 24 September, and ***hundreds of thousands*** in the months after that.
If the disease keeps spreading as it has, most of the modelers Science talked to say WHO’s estimate will turn out to be conservative. “If the epidemic in Liberia were to continue in this way until the 1st of December, the cumulative number of cases would exceed 100,000,” Althaus predicts. Such long-term forecasts are error-prone, he acknowledges. But other modelers aren’t much more encouraging. Caitlin Rivers of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg expects roughly 1000 new cases in Liberia in the next 2 weeks and a similar number in Sierra Leone.
The models are only as good as the data fed to them; up to three-quarters of Ebola cases may go unreported. The modelers are also assuming that key parameters, such as the virus’s incubation time, are the same as in earlier outbreaks.
“I’d say the Ebola outbreak is the biggest threat right now, far beyond ISIS.”
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Ebola plus terrorism. The US southern border is an open invitation for a ruthless, well funded group, ie ISIS, to send in operatives with, say, dirty bombs made of clothing and body parts from deceased Ebola victims, or even live carriers and have them wander about in schools and shopping malls.
Hillary and Bill would argue “It depends on what the definition of ISIS”.
poetic justice would be the isis mobs getting it and decimating themselves.
we can hope
Thank you …for these links.
It took them a model to extrapolate an exponential trend.
Well I extrapolated the exponential – one doubling per month – and the worldwide mortality by Ebola will equal the worldwide natural mortality in SEPT 2015.
Surely god will only let the right people die.
Death to God is nothing. He’d just say “welcome home”.