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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” We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations”
For Obama to achieve this he must immediately declare war on China and India. Bomb their industry and coal fired power plants into rubble using nuclear bombs. Conventional warheads would give off too much CO2. He must then use the threat of further action to intimidate the Phillipines, Vietnam, Pakistan and all of Africa into not developing their economies thus preventing their CO2 footprint from rising. Then he has to bomb Germany, Poland, and the Uk as their emissions are rising.
Nothing he can do within America will make the slightest difference to climate change so there is no alternative.
Go for it!
About We the People petitions, only the demotic favored few, of which I am not one, are allowed to sign and make petitions. My every click, be it creative, or supportive, or plaintive, is ignored. I suggest that the site is a honeypot for collecting information. If something on-line is free, you’re not the customer, you are the product being sold to another’s profit.
So to deny AGW is to deny the living Christ. That should get the the right wiing Cristian fundamentalists on board.
OK, at least we are all clear that AGW is a question of belief now. Gaia or Jesus, take your pick.
Right, so who’s left that doesn’t agree?
America get’s what it deserves. The population are so dumb they voted this moron over the only sensible candidate – Ron Paul. No question about it, the chickens have come home to roost. Time to brush up on your Spanish and get the hell out of the failing mess.
REPLY: and where you live, in Australia with its ridiculous Carbon tax, is it any better? – Anthony
[Reply #2: Ron Paul was not a candidate. Writing in his name would be a wasted ballot. — mod.]
“REPLY: and where you live, in Australia with its ridiculous Carbon tax, is it any better? – Anthony”
Kind of a sad state of affairs when the debate is who is worse, not who is better.
AGW has always been about control and impoverishing the masses. The prefect tool.
Chuck says:
January 22, 2013 at 12:53 pm
Bullseye!
MtK
prefect … perfect…
Only four years to save the Earth!
OMG!
Call Flash Gordon immediately!
But, but the President (who else?) did save the world, several times over.
On May 21, 2011 (Harold Egbert Camping, Rapture, turned into Spiritual Judgment), October 21, 2011 (Camping, Rapture Remix) and December 21, 2012 (Mayan Calendar Doom), at least.
Anyway, the world has not ended on either occasion, has it?
The last time Earth was destroyed (as determined by the International Earth Destruction Advisory Board, an independent scientific institution which monitors the current status of the Earth and the number of times it has been destroyed) was at 7:35:05am UTC on September 10, 2008, well before his first inauguration, in fact even before the election.
It seems very clear that GW is not going to happen.But also what is very clear is
they will take action to stop GW. When there is no GW,they will say,we saved you!!!
You owe us,on your knees,pay up.
Alfred
“That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God.”
Ok, I’m not exactly certain which particular god (forgive the small ‘g’) Obama’s talking about here, there’s been lots of them down through the ages. Perhaps Mr. Obama can enlighten us. Is it the green god Mr. Gore has recently (ok, not so recently) discovered? Is it Reverend Wright’s god? Which god is it Mr. Obama? Is it you? Did you command yourself? Or, is it the people’s god? Don’t forget, they pay your salary. So what particular god of the people did you talk to? I don’t recall you bringing that conversation up during the campaign. Why not? Is that because there were to many different gods talk to? What particular characteristic of your upbringing in Indonesia, or Hawaii, or your tutelage by Franklin Davis, or good ‘ol Saul, or your community organizing days, has given you unique access to the commands of a god, whichever of several there may or may not be? Oh, and by the way, is that god carefully hidden in the Constitution, only available to be teased out by someone on the same plane, someone such as yourself?
All of this stuff is flat out scary. Practically half the population here is flat out insane. These obama people are showing that they are the most despicable people in the world. Proof of this is in their actions bringing out a pre-existing political agenda (the old gun control debate) following the recent tragedy of some lunatic murdering a bunch of innocent kids, trying to push their agenda playing on the emotions of the populace. There are even admissions by these clowns that their proposed changes would have had no effect on the tragedy. What’s worse, their solutions sap limited resources and action away from changes that could have prevented the tragedy and future similar ones.
This probably will apply to their “save the planet” barf. They will destroy wealth and prosperity and the well being of most people in order for them and their select little cadre of supporters to consolidate power and control. All this being done while accomplishing nothing to solve the actual problem or in this case, assumed problem. Hence, it doesn’t matter what the data shows. We could be headed for a full bore ice age in 10 years and they will still be trying to ban carbon based fuels.
L5Rick says:
January 22, 2013 at 1:07 pm
You’re forgetting the EPA guys. Obama doesn’t need Congress. He’ll use the EPA and executive orders to achieve eco-bliss.
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No. We haven’t forgotten. Bureaucracy with the authority of a legislature is just a tool to control.
“All animals are created equal … but some animals are more equal than others.”
See what Chuck said.
Chuck says:
January 22, 2013 at 12:53 pm
Robin says http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/22/newsbytes-the-4-year-doom-cycle-gets-rebooted/#comment-1206106
…”the Belmont Forum released what it called the Belmont Challenge to restructure the economy, society, and even human behavior itself.”
Thanks for the reference!!! I wonder if the powers that be will give me a few carbon credits for NOT burning a couple of tons of fruit tree trimmings I am generating this week. My real worry is those same powers that be don’t have the slightest idea that I have fruit trees that take water to grow (that I provide via a well that I maintain and pay to have the water brought up from a depth of 260 feet). In fact, the powers that love average data (without considering that we all don’t live in apartments in the city, or a suburban house) consider my use of electrical energy as wasteful as I am above average.
It looks like we can include a new member into the list of groups who exhibit ” Illusionary Superiority”, also know as the “The Lake Wobegon effect” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon .
“Today’s new hegemons hail almost entirely from outside the material economy, and many come from outside the realm of the market system entirely.”
Also, outside of the real world of rational thought of any kind, scientific or otherwise.
Well maybe Mr Hansen thinks Obama’s actions in his first term succeeded in saving the earth, or at least postponed the apocalypse. Haven’t US emissions dropped?
I think Edmund Burke understood the rationale for all the CAGW hype quite well:
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
How did Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Matt Drudge et al achieve what they did with the ‘promises’ higher ed through restrictive accreditation makes?
Oh wait – they didn’t .. MORE TESTIMONY to the fact that you can’t ultimately paper-over the drive to achieve in the human spirit … I invite governments world-wide to keep up these attempts to try though; I think it only makes the ‘yearn’ to be free that much stronger and attractive as a goal.
It also makes ‘markets’ for those few sharp enough to have escaped this ‘rut’ of indoctrination and strike out on their own (hiring those who were indoctrinated and thereby starting the proces of pulling *them* up by their bootstraps).
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there is a God,and He is not easily mocked!!
Alfred
Obama fortunately waited too long to take climate change action. It appears the planet is about to cool. What action should he take to stop the cooling?
It will be interesting to see how the MET, James Hansen and the other extreme warming paradigm pushers explain planetary cooling.
The no warming forecast up to 2017 issued Christmas Eve by the MET is the start of the back peddling.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21066534
“It happened after bloggers seized on a Met Office paper revising downward its decadal global temperature projection for 2017.
The damage to Met Office credibility, though, was exacerbated by a couple of blunders in its own communication. … …The first was to put the decadal report on its website on Christmas Eve – the traditional date for burying stories that the authorities don’t want publicised. I was initially suspicious. But the Met Office since explained that the scientist responsible was due to finish the work by end of year and was about to go on holiday. … …Scientists have been puzzling for some time over exactly what combination of factors is preventing the earth getting even warmer – maybe changes in solar activity, ocean currents or emissions of aerosol pollution.”
William:
There appears to be a significant solar magnetic cycle change underway. The sun is rapidly heading to a special type of Maunder minimum, the type that causes Heinrich events, if I understand the mechanisms. There is in the paleoclimatic record cycles of sinusoidal warming and cooling that follow a 400 year and 1500 year cycle and a 6000 to 8000 year abrupt cooling events that both correlate with solar magnetic cycle changes (there are cosmogenic isotope changes that correlate with the sinusoidal and the abrupt climate change events). Volcanic activity also correlates with the solar magnetic cycle changes decreasing during times of high solar magnetic activity and increasing during when the solar magnetic cycle moves to deep minimum. If I understand the mechanisms and if the sun is moving to the special Maunder minimum this will be the scientific story of the century, a game changer.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/Ap.gif
William: Logically as the planet has stopped warming, scientific journals are now publishing papers to help explain why the planet has stopped warming.
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.ca/search?q=brightening&max-results=20&by-date=true
Models have it wrong again: New paper finds clouds act as a negative feedback
A paper published today in the Journal of Climate finds that the global average feedback from clouds is negative, not positive as claimed by climate alarmists. Most climate models are programmed to assume clouds act as a positive feedback that accelerates global warming, but this paper and many others based on observations show this assumption is incorrect.
Great, waste precious resources on solving a fictitious problem. Meanwhile real problems receive no attention.
Notice, it was finally a shooting in the librul NE that spurred this on too (I think the politico’s wives eg. Kerry’s began to rag on them that did it … but I digress); can’t have this kind of thing taking place where the ruling elite are born, grow up to attend the Harvard – Kennedy School of Government and live …
Meanwhile, back on the streets of Chicago (The prez’s adopted hometown): http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/ events such as below continue:
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Was it Charlie? —– No, no – maybe it was Tom. – Ok so I cannot remember – but a Scottish chap with the surname of Brown was once upon a time the “Prime Minister” of Great Britain and he said that 2009 was the last chance we had, or the last chance open to us, to act on “Climate Change” – Copenhagen, he said, would be it. – No agreement – and the handcart with destination Hell marked upon it, would be ours. Well, Lord Monckton had a fairly good time in Copenhagen – and I am still here freezing my goolies off in the January frost.
One question I do have is this: During the “2012 American Heat wave” – how many people noticed that the Sun was out on every day when the heat was intense? Well my grandson lives in Denver and all his “Skype Messages” happened on sunny days. He “skyped” his mum (mom) every day.
Robin says:
January 22, 2013 at 3:01 pm
I think Edmund Burke understood the rationale for all the CAGW hype quite well:
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
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Thanks. I never heard that one before.
Jim–the UNESCO takeover and reform of higher ed started in 1998. What time any of those men spent passing through a campus briefly was before that.
The accreditation agencies push to remake education away from academics goes back to the 30s and what is known as the 8 Year Study. It still impacts education and is still seeking full implementation as what we know today as Outcomes Based Education.
UNESCO has always been about changing the nature of the West noetically. Through cultural evolution which is Lamarckian. Julius Huxley basically created the template for UNESCO around cultural evolution. People unskilled in Marxian thought put the focus on economics and control of the means of production. The main target though that can drive the remaining goals has always been consciousness.
And in the mid-90s UNESCO and the accreditors began to coordinate in a process misleadingly called Quality Assurance.
And right now much of what is going on in education is designed to make sure there is no more Creative Destruction displacing current companies. Think of what the buggy whip makers would have done about 1900 if they had had the political connections to try to rig their markets.
Dirigiste is the word for such a politically connected state directed economy of the public sector and Cronies. Very similar to Mercantilism. Prosperity for the connected.