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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Alfred Alexander says:
January 22, 2013 at 3:06 pm
there is a God,and He is not easily mocked!!
Alfred
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He won’t be. We’re just living in the time before the hammer falls. Not all of us are nails. (Not by our own doing as I’m sure you know.)
the best thing that Obama could do for America is to have a massive heart attack
In re education; read Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt (Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan) The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, its first edition a 700 page chronological ana of education policy papers, from the Thirties John Dewey to Outcome Based Education. Free at her website, a searchable PDF.
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf
The first thing you must understand about Obama is that he is a narcissist extraordinaire. In his own mind He is never wrong and anything He believes in is correct. Only He can see the righteous path. We all need to follow Him in order to be saved. He believes he is God’s god.
The only saving qualification is that Obama is also a liar and a lazy bastard who actually does very little of what he says he is going to do. Thanks be to God.
Right right right … “the UNESCO takeover” and I just finished writing “… you can’t ultimately paper-over the drive to achieve in the human spirit …”
I went on to “invite governments world-wide to keep up these attempts to try though“. It makes desire for that which has been banned that much more sought after … no?
You don’t read these posts do you? You also heavily moderate (read: don’t approve) some posts by commenters on your blog do you?
PS. Please note the name: _Jim on account of the plethora of jims on the site.
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Is it just me reflecting on the phrases “leading climate scientists” and “Hansen” appear in the same sentence, while the word “not” is missing?
Anyhow, Hansen’s special relationship with the police, defines in a sense the level of “leading” …
Obama flies around in a 747, so maybe he can instead drive a Prius and really do something meaningful, and set a good example.
Maybe to solve the “A”GW problem we need a new slant”
http://goodstuffsworld.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/global-warming-and-hot-women.html
In my comment @ur momisugly January 22, 2013 at 4:08 pm, “scientists should be “expert …
I’ve seen this story plot somewhere else. Oooooh yes, Hansen as Wormtongue and Obama as Saruman. It works for a good while in that story also.
It seems that Kipling was somewhat of a prophet:
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“AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! “
Doug Huffman says:
January 22, 2013 at 3:43 pm
Thanks for the link.
Rhoda R,
That last gif almost made my head explode…
HenryP says on January 22, 2013 at 9:37 am:
“If ur pres. B.Obama believes in man made climate change he is being misled. Just like many of us who did not investigate.”
Henry P; You are one of the “well informed” ones, but that is only because you – you yourself – has studied the issue. I however was thought in primary school why warming by CO2 was —–“idiotic” ——-.
The difference between heat and energy, must be understood, – But, sadly it is not.
He’s a spiritualist, channeling a character from an early part of David Leisure’s career.
http://youtu.be/oDK8BYS2d9s
OK – I know this is silly, but….
In that AP photo of Jim Hansen (top of article), did the AP photographer really try to make him look like a zombie out of the schlock horror film Night Of The Living Dead?
They’re coming to get you, Barbara!
Global Warming Zombies – Hmm. Will that be the next thing caused by ‘anthropogenic’ CO2? Or maybe it was the ‘missing heat’? Judging from Jim Hansen’s photo, perhaps it already has…because They ARE Coming To Get You!
BWAAAAA HAA HAA HAAAAA };>)
The AGW meme is to the Scientific Method as the film Night Of the Living Dead is to the high art of film making: Schlock meister fear mongering, without substantial merit.
MtK
I’ve spent a lot of thought trying to unravel the mystery of how so-called “liberals”, such as Hansen et al, actually think. The first result of my thought process tends to confirm my Theory of Inverse Reality in that “liberal” is, more or less, the opposite of what it is intended to be. Consider the colors red and blue for instance. Does anyone remember when we called communist China “Blue China?” People who identify themselves as liberals or Democrats nowadays call themselves “Blue”, but in reality such lines of thinking run more towards the socialist end of the political spectrum, or closer towards “Red China”. California, where I live is called by almost everyone to be a “Blue” state, but in reality we are closer philosophically to a socialist state than say Texas, for instance. So how did red and blue become transposed so neatly on this side of the Pacific Ocean and no one seems to have noticed? Take light bulbs as another example. Is being of the liberal persuasion concomitant with providing a narrow or wide choice in “allowable for purchase” light bulbs in a supposedly free society? One might think that legislatively narrowing ones choices in the lighting arena portends a more conservative approach, not a wide-open liberal one, where you can purchase whatever kind of light bulb you want. Perhaps the most egregious example might be biofuels. If I am to believe that liberals are looking out for us little people, how does mandating use of food for fuel accomplish that purpose in any way? Does it not accomplish the exact opposite?
Catch my drift?
These days, when I see things like Hansen rebooting or recycling the same warning and tipping point, two election cycles in a row, I automatically pass this through the inverse reality lens and come to the exact opposite conclusion. Because, as counter-intuitive as it may seem, it is rarely ever wrong.
That is why I ardently believe everything Obama/Hansen/Mann et al do not say. Applied in this pretzel-logic way Hansen might actually be correct. It is entirely possible that we will arrive at a climate tipping point in the next 4 years, another 4 years or even 4 centuries or 4 millenia. But it will probably be of the opposite sign of the one expected. It might very well be the slide into the next ice age, which is now due…………..
In the final analysis we have labeled ourselves Homo sapiens, the wise one. This too may have run afoul of the Theory of Inverse Reality.
(SNIP over the top)
Sean says:
January 22, 2013 at 3:35 pm
“the best thing that Obama could do for America is to have a massive heart attack”
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That’s a terrible thing to say.
That’s also a dumb thing to say.
Two words: Joe Biden
Don’t you guys have mandatory retirement? Didn’t you hire an astronomer to look at the stars? How was he able to change what he is being paid for. Actually in the pic he seems to be looking at the stars and has a bit of an E.T countenanced.
Apoxonbothyourhouses says:
God help us all, the Yanks have voted in Don Quixote.
Don Quixote wasn’t interested in golfing holidays nor in lining the pockets of his sponsors. <.<
I wonder how many more trillions will be added to the US deficit by the end of the Big 0's second term?
Dang, of all the strange bits of “proof” he might have chosen, he used raging fires, crippling drought, and more powerful storms.
The three which have been most easily and most frequently rebutted.
Katherine,
To answer your question, if Obama’s current spending trajectory holds for the next four years, we will be looking at U.S. debt in the neighborhood of $20 – $25 Trillion. Those dollars will have to be repaid. Unchecked inflation is the easy way for government to pay those debts. In the mean time, Obama cronies get to spend those dollars at today’s buying power.
This is the inevitable result of hyperinflation.
If there are any doubts that this Kenyan is deliberately destroying the U.S. economy, his wild spending spree should put those doubts to rest. We are being sold out by someone who plans to be the future UN Secretary-General — and in charge of the world. That will be his pay-off for selling out U.S. sovereignty, and that is where all this is heading.
Good article by Ron Bailey explaining who advises Obama and what flawed and new policies he may impose: http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/22/obama-determined-to-make-confronting-cli
Out of the blue, citizen Nixon puts a cap on the 60’s to thus turned 20 million tripped-out kids into jaded radicals instead of artsy tree huggers as Tim Leary in PRISON sent out word to DESTROY, and Nixon too did a world historical flip flop, to turn the only book in human history that exceeds a million righteous cases of infanticide into…get this (!)…an excuse to first deny teens ready access to birth control and then condem the resulting teenage visits to quick fix clinics.
When Fox News ran with Climategate, a collective shudder expressed itself, here, that week. I can still defend scientific rigor against claims that Antarctica is warming in headline news, but I cannot anymore link to him (Goddard) or you (Watts). He posts Nazi killing fields and bloody abortion images, as *if* women who demand huge African blood diamonds and $1800 pairs of shoes actually care about Pope-bastardized versions of old dusty books. And you won’t even post the Church @ur momisugly White chart of the average of tide gauge data from Canada to the Cape of Africa. So you instead post thousand word blog-only essays full of crazy charts. Monckton is figuring it out: your big weapon is basic data, not points awarded for being Mr. Wizard. Pointman gets it too, as he delves into psychology.
-=NikFromNYC=-, Ph.D. in carbon chemistry, two blocks from NASA GISS, cafe diner for 20+ years in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
P.S. You must be noble, yes, but you must also FIGHT, and fight to win, for war has been declared upon you, and now creationists, anti-stem cell hacks, anti-athletic enhancement purists and other PRO-Chinese anti-Americans and lots and lots of pacifist “nice old men” would be only so happy to…WHAT?! I have no idea.