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 planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared. –President Barack Obama, Second Inaugural Address, 21 January 2013
Hmmm, nevermind, let’s try again this term. I’m so thankful to be here since Hansen’s reliance on his Jor-el complex was wrong the first time. Here’s some reactions to Obama’s speech yesterday as collected by Dr. Benny Peiser of The GWPF.
By bringing in God, Obama is attempting to reframe the issue as one that transcends not only partisanship but the divide between those who believe in science and those who doubt science but believe in God. Left or right, atheist or creationist—either way, Obama is saying, we’ve got to do something. –Will Oremus, Slate, 21 January 2013
Obama’s decision to include the climate issue in his speech signals that he’s at least hoping to pursue yet another very difficult legislative goal. And climate change is about as difficult as any of the other items. Legislating the issue is even more difficult than finding a public consensus. With Democrats now in the minority in the House and with a smaller Senate majority, it’s hard to see how [climate] legislation would pass now, without being significantly scaled back or without some pressing new impetus. Even in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, there wasn’t a concerted push on climate change. And given all the more time-sensitive issues on the table right now, it’s unlikely climate change will become a real priority any time soon. –Aaron Blake, The Washington Post, 21 January 2013
When President Obama takes the oath of office for the second time, he will also usher in a new era in American power politics. Whereas the old left-wing definition of “who rules” focused on large corporations, banks, energy companies and agribusinesses, the Obama-era power structure represents a major transformation. Today’s new hegemons hail almost entirely from outside the material economy, and many come from outside the realm of the market system entirely. Daniel Bell, in his landmark 1973 The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, may have been the first to identify this ascension to “pre-eminence of the professional and technical class.” This new “priesthood of power,” as he put it, would eventually overturn the traditional hierarchies based on land, corporate and financial assets. As befits a technological age, the new clerisy also enjoys the sanction of what Bell defined as the “creative elite of scientists.” More disturbing still may be the clerisy’s regal disregard for democratic give and take. Joel Kotkin, Forbes, 19 January 2013
One of his most passionate moments was even devoted to addressing “climate change,” of all things. He rarely mentioned the subject in the election campaign. But doing something about global warming is a commandment in the modern liberal catechism, and now Mr. Obama says it will be a major priority in the next four years. He even used the stock liberal description that those who disagree with him on climate change “deny” scientific fact. It’s another example of deliberately stigmatizing his opposition. –Editorial, The Wall Street Journal, 22 January 2013
Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added. –Robin McKie, The Observer, Sunday 18 January 2009
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“…and now Mr. Obama says it will be a major priority in the next four years.”
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That’s because he doesn’t have to worry about re-election. He is now free to pursue things that are important to the political inner-circle instead of the public. It’s like when he told Medvedev to hang on until after the 2012 election for him to neuter our missile defence system.
Now the obama autocracy is even more free to work on crippling this country.
http://www.markbuckles.com/hugobama.htm
@Bob Rogers
Exactly!!!!
All while Lord Attenborough wants people to die…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9815862/Humans-are-plague-on-Earth-Attenborough.html
Hansen to R2D2; “Help us Obami Won Kenobi, you’re our only hope…”
@Eric H – Re: ” Obami Won Kenobi”
Or perhaps “Obama bin kenyan”?
Your too late Gore just give up gracefully and admit it’s the money your after!
denniswingo says:
January 22, 2013 at 11:00 am
All while Lord Attenborough wants people to die…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9815862/Humans-are-plague-on-Earth-Attenborough.html
This is stupid. If the human race are threatening themselves then nothing needs to be done! It’s a case of negative feedback!
So they’ll be heroes for maintaining the status quo?
The English language doesn’t contain enough disparaging terms to sufficiently convey my displeasure with these politicians.
Doomed.
I knew it.
And guess which few words of the 2nd Inaugural Address were lovingly repeated over and over and commented on in the BBC newscasts …
Doomed…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmZRDUO1wGQ
Obama carefully avoided to mention climate change in the pre-election discussions.
Once elected, he brings it onto the table forcefully. This is fraud.
And a tricky move knowing that not many voters did have it as a priority anymore.
What a smart a…
@ur momisugly Jimbo
“If that is what Hansen actually said or meant then he is at loggerheads with the IPCC.
“Some thresholds that all would consider dangerous have no support in the literature as having a non-negligible chance of occurring. For instance, a “runaway greenhouse effect” —analogous to Venus–appears to have virtually no chance of being induced by anthropogenic activities…..”
http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session31/inf3.pdf ”
Now Jimbo I thought you knew there was no place for facts in this debate. Shheeesh 😉
I would just like to point out that in 2009 Obama created the Belmont Forum and in 2010 the Belmont Forum released what it called the Belmont Challenge to restructure the economy, society, and even human behavior itself. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/the-belmont-challenge-and-the-death-of-the-individual-via-education/ lays out what is being promised under the illusion it is required to save the world.
The Belmont Forum then joined in with UNESCO and UNEP and the International Council for Science and the International Social Science Council to get this global vision under way using IGBP in Sweden. Set up originally in 1987 after the release of the Brundtland Report. They call this effort the Future Earth Alliance and no one involved thinks it’s a joke or wears superhero costumes.
After a year of planning, FEA went operational on January 1, 2013. I’d say President Obama has the perfect vehicle for Transformative Change. Whether it is wanted or needed or not.
And with its monopoly influence over education, higher ed and K-12 mostly unappreciated, the accreditation agencies all over the world push UNESCO’s just basic skills and changes to values and belief systems. And it is all largely unreported or reported incorrectly as in OECD’s PISA and how it drives a poorly understood global Competency initiative that tracks back to the old notorious Outcomes Based Education.
If I was a President I would set up some throw-away goals too, so I’d have something give up during tough negotiations over other issues. Don’t too take much of what he had to say too seriously.
I would love to someone ask the President (or any climate activist for that matter) a question at a press conference such as: “If we had reduced manmade global CO2 contribution by, let’s say 20 percent from the levels of 1990, what affect would it have had on tropical storm Sandy, and how would it compare to the more powerful hurricanes to hit the northeast many years ago?”
Do these people really think hurricanes will suddenly go away, or perhaps turn away from the coast because we’ve reduced CO2 output? Geez….
George V.
Maybe someone could create a petition at We The People on the White House website to show how many of us feel that CAGW or whatever it is called now is scientifically incorrect and economically disastrous. If 100,000 people sign the petition within 30 days, the White House must make a response.
It might be interesting to see the response to such a petition if it got major support from the American citizens.
How can anyone doubt that Obama will be every bit as successful as he’s been
in everything else he’s attempted?
These are interesting times: I have the feeling “the consensus” is at last crumbling. It may become a faith thing versus a science thing. If it comes to that faith will lose, no-one really believes in creationist theories or Noah’s ark anymore. The foundations of CAGW are so eaten away, and rotten, that people will simply turn their backs on the pseudoscience. That the president of the US chooses now to nail himself to this rotten corpse makes me wonder what is going on in his head.
Until this moment I thought he was a well intentioned, slightly misguided but intelligent man.
Hansen & Sato (2012) predicted a 5 m increase in sea level “cannot be ruled out” by 2100
= 16.4 feet!
Reality check: NOAA’s is now able to close the sea level budget against data.
It evaluates sea level rise at <b?1.1 +/- 0.8 mm/year for 2005-2012.
A simple extrapolation gives a century prediction of ~110 mm (4.3″)!
The Budget of Recent Global Sea Level Rise 2005–2012
Hansen: “A 10-year doubling time, or even shorter, is consistent with the gravity field data, but because of the brevity of the record even a linear mass loss cannot be ruled out.”
Hansen, J.E., and Mki. Sato, 2012: Paleoclimate implications for human-made climate change. In Climate Change: Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects. A. Berger, F. Mesinger, and D. Šijački, Eds. Springer, pp. 21-48, doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-0973-1_2. http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha05510d.html
Hansen predicts a possible 45 fold increase in sealevel above a simple linear extrapolation.
Now that is definitely a Chicken Little class alarm!
The last I heard, the radiative forcing of carbon dioxide is logarithmic in concentration, not exponential.
Dennis wingo- those comments don’t originate with Attenborough, they come from Prince Philip of Wales, whose family from Germany, was in with the Nazi SS. His cousin Prince Bernhardt, was in the SS and together they founded the WWF, they have taken Windsor’s disgusting comments and made a religion out of it that has spread to all the Greenpeace type groups out there. The origin of the environmental groups comes from the right of the political spectrum and is now disguised and sitting on the left, just like National Socialism itself, which will probably return in some fashion we don’t immediately recognize.
Barnstorming the country 24 /7 burning 3500 gallons of Jet fuel per hour, is certainly an odd way to convince people that they should pay more to heat their homes in the winter, and forgo the anual visit to relatives.
Back when a man was judged by his actions, instead of his oratory ability, that would certainly qualify as a “hypocrite”.
“Barack Obama has only four years to save the world”.- Sunday 18 January 2009
Hmmm…Isn’t that twice in the last 30 days that the world ended?
*grin*
Geez, “What a maroon, what an ignoranimus!”
http://www.entertonement.com/clips/nsvdjzkfdz–What-a-maroonBugs-Bunny-Looney-Tunes-usmc
The good news is if he is force to do everything by Executive Order the damage can be removed by the next POTUS with the stroke of a pen.
If congress passes a law then it’ll be worse than we could imagine.
Obama must be forced to do it on his own.
cn
Like most scientifically illiterate folks, Obama confuses science with technology, and really believes that science knows all. But, you would think Obama would at least wonder why
the world needs all those scientists and why they are forever arguing. Oh, that’s right. Wondering requires gray matter.
Every four years, there is another fours available. After every previous prediction fails to materialize, there is always the introduction of another unproveable prediction. The circus meanders on gathering money by the wayside from the impoverished citizenry.