Obama Ignored US Embassy's Warnings On Climate Change Speech

In this response I’m trying to direct my political opinions back toward the issue of climate change, at least to a degree, especially with my conclusions at the end. What this climate issue really underscores (IMHO) is the shift in the American population (over just a couple of generations) which voted in a dangerous ideology that Obama represents and egests, and the change to European-style socialism and even Soviet-style ideology that has been continually propounded by the progressive leftists in the media and academia. In effect, voters have been and are being brainwashed to accept the small “gimmes” that government hands out in exchange for their liberty and the opportunity for the “pursuit of happiness.” This “gimme” mentality is actually a negative feedback cycle, so, absent a collapse of the country’s systems, a further slide along these lines is simply inevitable, especially as the demographics of the USA continue to change (with 5 million more gimmes coming soon?). The fraud and sham of CAGW/CC is a prime tool for these Progressives, because, as many on this site already know, it allows for stringent control of industry and the furtherance of big and perhaps even world government. It really has taken only a relatively few generations to inculcate a sea change in ideology in the U.S.: from the rights of the individual to choose, to the need for government to choose for the “common good,” which is whatever they choose and decide, which of course is not what they must abide. We stupid voters (many of us anyway) have allowed this to happen to ourselves. While it’s hard to blame the Greatest Generation, it appears to me that, in their desire to give their children a better life than they had in the Depression and WWII, they spoiled the succeeding generation to an extent, who accelerated the trend with their children. My belief is that this kind of ideology has naturally and preferentially bled over into much of academia, even atmospheric and climate science. And, while I’m a believer in cycles, it’s hard for me to see a cycle back to the principles of previous generations.
So, here’s the climax to my response: I do, however, see a cycle back to cooler global temperatures, based on at least 3 interrelated cycles: the about-70 year cycle (66?), the slightly longer about-200 year cycle, and the even longer about-600 year cycle. I think all of these are governed to a large degree by the about-11 year sunspot cycle…and groups of 3 sunspot cycles are responsible for the above-mentioned cycles. Perhaps future solar researchers can figure out why there are groups of 3, (3 11s, 3 66s, 3 198s), but perhaps it relates to the change in polarity of the sunspot cycles every 11 or so years…one cycle is dominated by positive polarities, and the next by negative (the 22 year Hale Cycle). Could this flip-flop of polarity possibly impact the way the Earth receives energy from the Sun, resulting in temperature differences, especially for the shorter 70 year cycle? I think these cycles can add to or subtract from the total effect, leaving us with our current high maximum (e.g. all cycles are superimposed right now). Specifically, the 70 year cycle has just passed into the next 35 year cooling cycle, as has the 200 year cycle, but the longer period 600 year cycle (which is probably the most dominant) is still around its peak for another few decades. This superposition of all 3 cycles has caused the noticeable global warming of the 20th century, particularly the last third, but, since they have all peaked, this is why we have plateaued or “paused” for the last almost 20 years. So, as time progresses, we should be on the downhill trend, especially as we move to the last 30 years of the 21st century. Well, that’s what I’ve come up with over the last 30 years of looking at temperature and storm variability (especially in the northeastern U.S., but also globally) from the available climate information of the past 2000 years. I’ve discussed these ideas with a State Climatologist that I knew, but he didn’t like my ideas and subsequently (past 10 years) preferred the CAGW explanation from the media interviews I’ve seen from him. The difference between Academia versus real-world operations, gimme-ism versus individual liberties, has never been more pronounced, and we see who is currently winning. I believe it will take a long time…perhaps 25 or 50 years…before this CAGW/CC error is completely corrected (climate cycling naturally combined with generational changes). But how long after that will it take to reverse the changes, taxes, and negative effects that already have been implemented…and are yet to be imposed? Money and “investments” already spent and to be spent will never be recouped, and precious resources will have been mostly wasted, where, otherwise spent intelligently, they might have done real good for the world.

Reblogged this on Public Secrets and commented:
Our petulant man-child president strikes again, this time insulting a close ally in order to push his climate-change claptrap. The only word to describe such a performance is “juvenile.”

I do find it somewhat sad that President Obama, a man with such obvious talent and who’s presidency started with such optimism and hope, will be remembered for not actually having achieved much and for taking a position that declared CO2 as a pollutant. History will not be kind I fear, and this should serve as a warning to other leaders of the folly of jumping on ideological bandwagons.

Did Mr. Obama not say that he would pursue evidence based policy? I admire that. I do wish he would make good on that promise.
America has had good and bad presidents. But so what? To Obama’s critics: if you think that there is anything unusually bad about him, and the sky is going to fall, you’re just different kinds of alarmists. America has survived some rather ordinary presidencies. I’m sure it will survive this one.
And what’s a thread like this one without giving one’s political opinion?
Reagan was charismatic and seemed to enjoy himself (Obama started this way). GHWB was professional but for some reason could not hold onto a second term despite a huge spike in his popularity. Clinton was presidential material, but was lucky to be able to coast along with the happy ’90s vibe (I think many of you understand how great the ’90s were). GWB was not presidential material – the job did not suit him. He had to throw around his country’s military strength to look like he had a vision. Obama could have been rather good, but dropped the ball. I don’t understand his odd love affair for illegal immigration – was he not a lawyer? Hello?
None of these men were as great as Roosevelt or Eisenhower, though. Nevermind Churchill, my pick for the 20th century’s greatest man. But who is?

A small, bitter man, we can be glad that Obama can’t distinguish between spouting ugly venom and leadership. He has only ever been a “community organizer” and old habits die hard. This is, in general, the fatal flaw of much of the left: they can only ever be negative, childishly demanding, spiteful and mean. Given the reins of “power” (how I detest that term), they flail and thrash around looking for an enemy and are ultimately the authors of their own undoing. Were Obama a leader, he would be far more troublesome. But he’s not; he’s a spoiled child and now he’s going to throw his toys around.
Let him do so — he’s going to be the lynch pin of a generation-long pivot to a general rejection of the statists and their particular brand of divisive negativity. The institutional left is slowly, reluctantly, awakening to the reality that their messiah will have been a catastrophe, more for them than for the country they revile so much and upon which they had hoped Obama would inflict fatal wounds. Watch for them to turn on Obama more and more as they try to salvage what’s left of what they saw as the culmination of the “revolution”. It’s too late; the mask has been lifted; the left thought their hour had come, but they misjudged. People have awoken to the deception, and the shimmering mirage of utopia-through-government is dissipating, as does any fool’s paradise, into the unyielding pavement of reality.