Tag Archives: Barack Obama

The 97% consensus – a lie of epic proportions

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

To John Cook – it isn’t ‘hate’, it’s pity, – pity for having such a weak argument you are forced to fabricate conclusions of epic proportions Proving that crap can flow uphill, yesterday, John Cook got what one could consider … Continue reading →

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‘King’ Obama to circumvent lawful due process on climate

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

FLASHBACK March 2011: Obama on Deporting Illegals ‘America Is a Nation of Laws,’ Presidential Action Not ‘Appropriate’ Obama Administration Moves Forward on Climate Change Without Congress Forthcoming regulation likely means no new coal-fired power plants will be built in the … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week – NYT on James Hansen & Bill McKibben’s ‘boneheaded’ efforts

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

Whoo-boy. NASA’s James Hansen disses McKibben in an email to an NYT reporter. Hansen was speaking candidly, never thinking this email would see the light of day. But that’s not the punchline… Hansen on the highly inflated 350.org Keystone XL … Continue reading →

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Carbon tax hallucinations

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

Carbon taxes will do nothing for revenues or climate, but will hurt job and economic growth Guest post by Paul Driessen Average planetary temperatures haven’t budged in 16 years. Hurricanes and strong tornadoes are at or near their lowest ebb … Continue reading →

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Climate cycles and political alarmism

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

Dr. Michael Asten writes to alert me of this article in the Australian, with this advice: The overwhelming conclusion ought to be that cycles should be built into at least some of the climate models in order to explore scenarios.  But … Continue reading →

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Weepy Bill gets Wapo’d

Posted on January 24, 2013 by

Heh, even the liberal mouthpieces think the 350.org campaign led by Bill McKibben against the Keystone XL pipeline is stupid, calling it “bizarre”. They write in a forceful editorial today:

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Newsbytes: Hansen’s 4 year doom cycle gets rebooted

Posted on January 22, 2013 by

WUWT readers may recall this from 2009: 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… That is how we will preserve our … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – Seth Borenstein’s best headline evah

Posted on January 18, 2013 by

Gosh, who knew?

Posted in Alarmism, Humor, media, Satire | Tagged , , , | 66 Comments

Oh Noes! The clock of doom is stuck again, global warming blamed

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

One has to wonder about the relevancy of this non-working prop clock in this day and age. Maybe they should update it to an iPad play list that is about to end for it to be more relevant to the … Continue reading →

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‘climate’ being teed up for a big comeback this year by Obama administration

Posted on December 26, 2012 by

People send me stuff. This comes from a Washington insider. Not for attribution but a relative of mine of some seniority at State [Department] indicated to me an understanding within that institution that ‘climate’ was being teed up for a … Continue reading →

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Sandy and the presidential election

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

From Fox News, a surprising metric from exit polls. They write: Many analysts felt that the arrival of Hurricane Sandy gave the president a boost last week by allowing him to display leadership in front of the American people, as … Continue reading →

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Climate totally absent from all presidential debates

Posted on October 22, 2012 by

The first time the debates have been silent on climate since 1988.  Over at Joe Romm’s paid for propaganda arm of the Center for American Progress they recently wrote: Why It’s Impossible To Ignore Climate In A Presidential Foreign Policy … Continue reading →

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Al Gore on Obama’s failed debate performance – ‘it was the altitude’, not the attitude

Posted on October 4, 2012 by

I would not have believed this if I wasn’t able to see it myself. This bloviation even tops Gore’s “Earth’s interior is millions of degrees” comment on live TV. Watch this video segment from Gore’s Current TV: 

Posted in Al Gore, Humor, Politics, Ridiculae | Tagged , , | 158 Comments

Climate goes off the presidential radar

Posted on October 3, 2012 by

Watching the debate tonight, I kept listening for some hint of the discussion of the “climate crisis”. Why? Because the League of Conservation Voters put out a broad petition campaign to influence moderator Jim Lehrer: But it didn’t work, not … Continue reading →

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The president decides to stick with ‘climatism’

Posted on September 28, 2012 by

By STEVE GOREHAM In President Obama’s remarks to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, he stated, “… My plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet — because climate change is not a hoax. More … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – climate change is not a joke

Posted on September 7, 2012 by

Last night at the DNC, President Obama released a climatic whopper to appease those donors that were threatening to withhold funds if he didn’t say something about climate in his speech. Prior to his speech, Joe Romm had the best … Continue reading →

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I love the smell of climate desperation in the morning…

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

This is quite some headline on E&E’s Climatewire this morning. I’d call it “unprecedented”.

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Friday Funny / Quote of the week – the healing rift

Posted on August 31, 2012 by

I’m sure many WUWT readers on both sides of the AGW debate watched Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech last night. The most memorable line that got a standing ovation was a poke back at Obama’s famous line – “I am absolutely … Continue reading →

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By this logic, Chris Mooney should be blaming Obama for not seizing the opportunity to talk about global cooling last winter

Posted on July 5, 2012 by

Sigh. This is so bad… it’s funny. For the record, it is now official; Chris Mooney is a paid political hack disguising himself as a science writer. I’m going back to calling him a “kid blogger”, because no adult could … Continue reading →

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White House gets serious about space weather

Posted on June 16, 2012 by

From EOS,  Vol. 93, No. 25, 19 June 2012 White House and Agencies Focus on Space Weather Concerns “Space weather is a serious matter that can affect human economies around the world,” Tamara Dickinson, a senior policy analyst with the … Continue reading →

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