This is quite some headline on E&E’s Climatewire this morning. I’d call it “unprecedented”.
Unfortunately, the story is behind a paywall, so we can’t read why they think this way.
But it underscores the desperation that is permeating the mainstream climate community…they have come to realize that climate has become a taboo political subject, one almost guaranteed to be political suicide this year.
Add the fact that the Goreacle has fallen off the radar…
And Romney got a standing ovation at the RNC for this line mocking Obama’s “healing the planet” speech…
“President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans,” pausing for the audience to laugh at the absurdity, “and to heal the planet. My promise … is to help you and your family.”
I think we can safely say that global warming as a campaign issue for the left is dead.
We’ll see tonight if Obama needs the money that bad:
Oh, and then there’s this:
Climate change so serious Democrats mention it once in over 80 speeches over two days
UPDATE: Tom Nelson has this worth sharing:
One of five Obama quotes that you may not hear in his speech tonight: “As we speak…cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.”
[Obama] I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, ‘You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.’ So when Brian Williams is asking me about what’s a personal thing that you’ve done [that’s green], and I say, you know, ‘Well, I planted a bunch of trees.’ And he says, ‘I’m talking about personal.’ What I’m thinking in my head is, ‘Well, the truth is, Brian, we can’t solve global warming because I f—ing changed light bulbs in my house. It’s because of something collective’.”
2. Rise Of The Oceans Sound Clip , Quote, MP3, and Ringtone – Hark
[Obama] “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.”
3. Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket – YouTube
Barack Obama: “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” (January 2008)
4. Obama Says He Will Control Your Thermostat, “We can’t drive our SUVs”… – YouTube
obama oregon May 17 2008 “We can’t drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times…and then just expect every other country is going to say OK…”
5. Joe Soucheray: For those who believe anything, it’s easy to believe in Obama
“As we speak,” Obama said in Berlin, “cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.”
h/t to Geoff Simon for the ClimateWire story
Being from the UK I ain’t got a chicken in this fight but a thought about Al-Gore, I think he’s been taken into the Epcot centre for an upgrade, bit of a stuck record for the last few years.
Were I giving advice to the Republican campaign, I’d recommend they just run clips of President Obama’s comments over and over. Two of my favorites are the ones concerning those of us who cling to our guns and our bibles and how entrepenuers and small business owners did not create anything, the government did for them.
I recently saw something he supposedly said on our national anthem – how it was militeristic, what with bombs bursting in air, and if he could, he’d replace it with “I”d like to teach the world to sing”.
I haven’t tracked this one down to confirm if it is true, but if it is, it gets added to the top of the list.
Personally all the stuff about birth certificates and is he a Muslim is childish. President Obama is not a bad man. He is simply a man with his own ideas of how America should look. And all one has to do is listen to what he says. There is no secret conspiracy. He makes it very clear what he believes in. Which should make it simple when deciding who to vote for. You either share his vision of America’s future or you don’t. Ignore the stuff about hope and change, about maintaining the promise for the future.
Moonbats on parade – I love it.
At about 99:56 in the Democracy Now video, Taylor says, referring to the time of the RNC, “..we’re having the most extreme hurricane hitting the coast.” Most extreme? Isn’t it amazing how effortlessly these folks make stuff up?
It’s common knowledge that Al is way to busy running the Cannabis Network-er, Current TV.
Did President Obama move his acceptance speech indoors tonight because of Climate Change?
Yep. A change in the political climate.
Obviously the Obama and fellow democrats do not want to talk about the green scams. Leadership would be admitting that “green” energy is a scam.
Wind Power producers on the edge of bankruptcy.
“Problems at Vestas will bolster critics of renewable energy who say companies are failing to perform despite the subsidies pumped into the sector. The debate over green energy is particularly polarised in America and has surfaced as a major topic in the run-up to the presidential elections in November.”
US and German solar manufacturers have reached bankruptcy.
Regardless of the economics, the lack of driver (there is no dangerous warming as the planet’s response to a change in forcing is to resist the change by increases or decreases in tropical cloud cover, negative feedback) Western countries have mandated electrical utility companies produce electricity from the green scams. Higher costs for electricity, as is higher cost for gasoline a type of tax, reducing the amount of money families have for food, education, and housing.
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/chart-the-death-spiral-of-solar-bankruptcies-counting/
The solar death spiral has been long and ugly. Over the past year, there have been over a dozen stalwarts and startups that have headed to bankruptcy court. Here’s our chart:
The solar death spiral has been long and ugly. Over the past year, there have been over a dozen stalwarts and startups that have headed to bankruptcy court.
Two companies even filed for bankruptcies in this week alone: manufacturer Q-Cells, which was the worlds largest solar cell maker in 2008 and power plant developer Solar Trust of America, which just a year ago was on its way to build a few gigawatts of solar projects in the American Southwest.
The fate of Solar Trust, which is mostly owned by Solar Millennium, is a reminder of the difficulties of shepherding a power plant project to completion, even when all the permits are in hand. Solar Trust’s crown jewel project was the 1 GW Blythe Solar farm in California, and at one point the company was set to snag a $2.1 billion federal loan guarantee to build it before it decided to withdraw from the loan guarantee process last summer and change the technology it would use for Blythe.
Solar Millennium tried to sell Solar Trust to a fellow German company, Solarhybrid, only to see Solarhybird, too, file for bankruptcy last month.
http://www.greenwisebusiness.co.uk/news/vestas-to-axe-more-jobs-as-wind-turbine-manufacturer-forecasts-sales-slump-3508.aspx
Vestas to axe more jobs as wind turbine manufacturer forecasts sales slump Vestas is to shed another 1,400 jobs, bringing total redundancies for the year to more than 3,700, after the world’s biggest wind turbine maker slumped to a quarterly pre-tax loss. The Danish-based company, which recently ditched plans to build a plant in Kent, also reduced its forecast for current-year sales on Wednesday from seven gigawatts’ (GW)worth of turbines to 6.3. Next year is expected to be even worse at 5 GW.
Chief executive Ditlev Engels said: “2013, as it looks today, is probably going to be the toughest year that the wind industry has seen for a number of years.” Vestas plans to employ fewer than 19,000 staff by December to save an extra €100 million (£79 million). It blamed the sales slump on delays to projects in China and an expected slowdown in the US. Problems at Vestas will bolster critics of renewable energy who say companies are failing to perform despite the subsidies pumped into the sector. The debate over green energy is particularly polarised in America and has surfaced as a major topic in the run-up to the presidential elections in November.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/q-cells-bankruptcy-heralds-end-of-german-solar-cell-industry-a-825490.html
Bankruptcies Have German Solar on the Ropes
The German solar industry is at a turning point. The bankruptcy of Q-Cells this week shows that the days of German solar cell production are numbered. Asian competitors took the lead years ago, and German government subsidies were part of the problem. It wasn’t so long ago that people viewed Q-Cells as an energy company of the future. At one point, it was the world’s largest manufacturer of solar cells and quarter after quarter, it topped analysts’ expectations. The company proved to be a money-making machine even during the financial crisis, with some believing it might one day grow to become part of Germany’s DAX index of benchmark companies on the stock exchange….
…At the end of 2007, the company was valued at close to €8 billion ($10.7 billion at today’s rates). Q-Cells’ production facilities were located in the city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen, in a former lignite mining area in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The area was even dubbed “Solar Valley,” a play on California’s Silicon Valley.
In 2011, Q-Cells posted a loss of €846 million. As of last Tuesday, the firm had a marginal value of only €35 million and Q-Cells’ share price had plunged to just 9 cents. In Bitterfeld-Wolfen, concerns are growing about massive job losses among the 2,200 Q-Cells workers in the city.
But Q-Cells’ insolvency also comes as a great shock to the Germany’s solar industry. It is already the fourth major bankruptcy in a sector in crisis, and it underscores the degree to which German solar firms are being outpaced by competition from Asia — despite billions in German government subsidies granted each year to the industry. And despite solar energy gradually becoming more competitive, the setbacks are rapidly mounting.
Obama moved it indoors because they couldn’t fill the large arena, the empty seats would have looked bad on camera. So they moved it to a smaller arena. They said they moved it due to impending rain but they really are having a hard time finding people to attend in Charlotte. Lol!
Gore blimey. Al’s been frozen out ; )
Way to go Anthony! Now omanual will be forced back to Judy’s site where he can always be counted on to get his drivel in first. Betapug comes in second.
If they’re relying on a politician who knows nothing about climate science to convince the world that climate change is real, well… that’s a joke all by itself.
more soylent green! says:
September 6, 2012 at 8:35 am
I’m sure he’s not forgotten climate change, and saving the earth.
The problem is, Obama’s not going to win by telling everyone what he plans to do about it. So he’s going to publicly keep his plans on the down-low, while privately telling these people what they want to hear….
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I think there’s a precedent for that with the President.
Seems to me that Gore has bailed out as he sees no more money to be made from AGW. Others with a financial interest might be well advised to follow his lead.
Whether or not the climate is mentioned by either Biden or Barrack in tonight’s address, the subject will not be brought up by the mainstream press moderators during the three scheduled presidential debates. This might open the door for Romney to criticize the EPA’s role in shuttering coal fired power plants, plus the Department of Energy wasting taxpayer millions on Solyndra type green energy project loans. However, it wouldn’t hurt to cross your fingers.
For a man of Gore’s girth to fall off the radar, he must have reverse engineered a Klingon Cloaking Device. Now that is something Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers could take to market without the vast subsidies/regulations needed to make those investments worthwhile.
On a serious note, the day he is removed from their board of directors, is the day you REALLY know the renewable energy market is gone for a very long time.
Peter Schiff takes to the DNC to find people who want to ban all corporate profits, and he has no trouble whatsoever: http://bit.ly/QfN29c
Hang on, who did they select as their candidate ? And those other people who look the same in suits ? Oh well.
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ROFL !
The Green Economic Terrorist …
Hm, I wrote “Green Economic” but meant “Green Economy” … might work anyway …
Al Gore is visiting New Zealand in a month or so. I wonder if he will swing by Australia. So close.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/full-coverage/14682753/al-gore-to-visit-new-zealand/
That should help the Obama campaign no end.
I would say that playing the enviro-card has lost its political value. Green activists don’t seem to understand what they are playing with. Biting back at the politicians is a fatal mistake. Having risen to the center of power, they will be banished to the wilderness.
Or maybe I’m dreaming.
First rule of politics, get elected . Second rule of politics stay elected .
Right now preaching support for climate doom breaks those rules and that is way their mostly keeping their mouths shut .
There are few things more sickening than the American presidential race.
Market forces can never be revoked. The AGW political freak show coincides with the rise of cheap internet communications. Politics is kryptonite to real science and engineering. The solution is simple. Free Market forces will remove the money away from the AGW freak show. Stop feeding them and they will stop. Eventually.
The ideal practice of basic science must remain as free of external distractions as possible. Focus on the facts. Apply the scientific method. Formulate a clear Null hypothesis and test the hypothesis. For example, take the temperature plots for the longest running climate reference sites, plot the line of best fit. The slope of the line is zero. Thats about 10 years of zero warming. Time will favor the facts, the more good data the smaller the uncertainty in the time plots.
The same could be applied to the Antarctic science stations. 50 years of data there also show zero warming. Those stations are not immune to the “global climate” so are clear refutations of the claims of “global climate warming”
Free Oliver Manuel!
REPLY: Oliver has had plenty of chances to adapt good blog behaviors. Instead, he’s made a pest of himself in chronic fashion, so I’m really done with him and his crackpot theories. Let it be known that I’m an equal opportunity booter for skeptics/alarmists. Yesterday after years of taking his abuse, I permanently booted Eli Rabett aka Dr. Joshua Halpern of Howard University off too for his chronic bad behavior. I just down have time for these children and the stuff they do.
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. gave up on comments long ago on his blog because it is often a useless time sink. I’m contemplating that too.- Anthony