People send me stuff. In this case somebody sent me something that I hadn’t gotten through the ‘approved’ channels. Thanks to “Son Of Soylent Green” for this tip via email.
Looks like Obama is getting ready to ramp up the climate rhetoric with the help of spin doctors who apparently are already “in the know” about what will be in the SOTU speech.
See this email which somehow never made it to me through regular channels:
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So, will we see these two alarmists touted in the MSM as experts in SOTU climate policy analysis tomorrow? Probably.
I had to laugh though at the outfit that is pushing this, something called:
A look at the Bio’s of the principal and staff is telling, not a scientist among them, but there are novelists, MTV folks, and Fenton communications spin offs.
Jeff Nesbit, Executive Director
Jeff is the Executive Director of Climate Nexus. Before becoming our fearless leader, Jeff was the Director of Legislative and Public Affairs at the National Science Foundation from June 2006 to June 2011.
Previously, he managed his own strategic communications consulting firm in Washington, DC with more than 200 national clients; served as a senior communications official at the Food and Drug Administration and White House during the administration of President George H.W. Bush; and was a national journalist with Knight-Ridder and others.
Jeff is a graduate of Duke and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He’s the author of 19 novels.
Robert Tanner, Managing Director
Bob brings to his role as Managing Director a career that spans investigative reporting to congressional policy-making, from hearing rooms on the Hill to the Katrina-flooded streets of New Orleans. Now he fuses strategy with tactical execution, with oversight of all operations including editorial content, digital and social strategy, messaging, partnerships and finances.
Previously, Bob served as senior investigator for the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee during the climate change debates of 2009-2010 and the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Prior to that, as a national editor and reporter for the Associated Press, he helped launch the National Investigative, National Reporting, and Disaster Response teams. Earlier in his 20-year journalism career, he reported for news wires, local newspapers and public television in Maryland, New York, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C.
Bob is a recovering surfer with a persistent rock-climbing habit, but mostly he reads and watches AYSO soccer games and Marx Brothers movies with his wife and two children.
Monika Sharma, Director of Creative Marketing
Monika has extensive media and communications experience, both with traditional media outlets and new media applications. She puts these skills to good use at Climate Nexus, where she currently oversees digital strategy and branding.
Prior to joining Climate Nexus, Monika was ‘doing good’ at MTV Networks, where she managed multiple issue-focused campaigns across MTV’s various media platforms. Monika further honed her marketing skills on the social innovation team at Weber Shandwick, where she was responsible for brainstorming and pitching sustainability ideas to corporate clients like MasterCard and Samsung.
Monika is a graduate of Duke and Columbia. She is an avid yogini, Francophile and music fan, who is constantly inspired by her native New York.ianne Saenz, Director of Marine Science Communication
Dianne Saenz, Director of Marine Science Communication
Dianne runs our oceans desk, working to improve understanding of how rapidly changing ocean chemistry is affecting the web of life undersea and in turn, affecting us. Prior to joining Climate Nexus, Dianne managed external communications strategy and efforts for Oceana’s North American campaigns.
Dianne started her career as a news aide for The Washington Post, and since then has worked as a communicator for Fleishman-Hillard International Communications, Fenton Communications, Friends of the Earth, Calvert Group socially and environmentally responsible mutual funds, Physicians for Social Responsibility and U.S. Senator Mark Warner’s telecommunications venture capital firm. She was also instrumental in launching the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology and PLoS Medicine in their start-up phases.
Dianne is a graduate of Vassar College and completed graduate-level professional development work at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Dianne is passionate about cycling, traveling to coastal places to swim and SCUBA dive, and advocating for smart growth in Virginia.
it says experts can comment on the Presidents plans.
I look forward to comments from – oh who am i kidding, not going to happen.
I hope everyone gets to see Dr. Michael Oppenheimer live on television. He has the deepest voice that I have heard, over many years, and he is quite happy to use its power to scold anyone who does not agree with him. He is the father of “the supercomputer climate model offensive” and he began it on television in the late Seventies when the models were recognized as pie in the sky. He has occupied a low profile for decades, maybe because he scolded a tad excessively, but he is most definitely part of the CAGW inner circle.
I noticed the email mentions “Global Warming” and not climate change. Maybe the experts will explain there hasn’t been any significant warming for 16 years and therefore no need for whatever it is Obama proposes to address it?
The White House is offering an “enhanced” version available only at
WhiteHouse.Gov – State of the Union 2013
During the Speech (http://www.whitehouse.gov/SOTU)
After the Speech
Connect all week
Join the Conversation
With a special link to: Get Updates from the WhiteHouse and Share Your Story.
Will they take and seriously publicly address the hard data from real skeptical scientists and engineers?
One wonders how they will spin 16 years of zero warming while CO2 continued to increase. One wonders how they will spin every failed prediction. One wonders how they will spin the scandals, the coverups and the lies? One wonders how they will spin the global sea ice levels that are actually above “normal” after all the unprecedented melting…
On the other hand, the target audience re-elected president zero. They obviously can’t remember what happened yesterday, much less the past four years. So the bar is not very high… Sad that.
I recognize one name. Monika Sharma is a well know Marxist propagandist. She’s not wrong, shes evil. Her job has always been to short-circuit the cognitive capacity of our children.
“Conversation” in a Marxist context is the primary vehicle through which indoctrination happens.
The state of the union sucks. And Obama has no solution (4 years and running now). I suspect if the memo is legit, that he will use AGW as a boogeyman to enforce austerity upon the nation. Gas prices will be just the start, but out of control prices are coming. We have had 4 years of inflationary spending, and only accounting tricks have kept the rate low.
Has anyone thought to send Sen. Rubio some climate science talking points for his rebuttal? Prob’ly not. Would’ve been nice.
Hayhoe – Hayhoe – barack obama has to go!
How can we save our little girls from Oppenheimer’s deadly pearls?
They are very sophisticated. I would be very concerned that a balanced message is not being marketed very well.
Robert M says:
February 12, 2013 at 1:06 pm
One wonders how they will spin 16 years of zero warming while CO2 continued to increase.
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… as SkepticalScience.com does it with this piece of gobbledegook:
“…temperatures may not have changed for the last 16 years but the underlying trend is warming. ”
’nuff said.
A crackdown on sorcery/climate scepticism is imminent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9862776/Sorcery-crackdown-Chechnya-leader-orders-hard-line-on-wizards.html
For the horse’s mouth
http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/climate-change
A person’s vote is a token appeasement that democracy supposedly still exists.
The last person to find out what is in the SOTUS will be Obama, companies like Climate Nexus write the agenda, Obama is just the orator. Why not just have a newsreader as President?
I see climatenexus.org is a sponsored project of rockefeller philanthropy advisors.
🙂 Is it bad that my mind automatically translates SOTU to STFU? hehe..
Ahhh … so that’s the consensus I keep hearing about!
Mike, we do.
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Considering no one (with the exception of a few “evil” Republicans) is willing to challenge his Highness and his cabinet, even when an Ambassador is killed, I don’t see anyone challenging him on the AGW issue. The predictable response is “Look. All of the “experts” have looked at this and the consensus is blah blah blah blah.”
Why did this guy have to get a second term?
re: Michael Oppenheimer
He is Baba Streisand’s favorite scientist, receiving major funding from her over many years when he spent much of his career at the radical “Environmental Defense Fund.” He was also joined at the hip with Michael Mann on some of the more dubious Climategate email correspondence (rallying scientists to denounce dissenters, etc.). He is the epitome of a politicized activist “scientist”…. as suggested by the following:
Oppenheimer with Joe Romm, Michael Mann, and Gavin Schmidt, trying to salvage the Copenhagen fiasco
Dec. 3, 2009
My tweet to: #WHChat Simple question. If CO2 continues to rise but temperatures don’t (as in the last 16 yrs), can we assume that CO2 isn’t responsible?
Obama will use AGW as a boogeyman to cover his rear since we are now experiencing the highest gas prices for a February ever.
“Bob is a recovering surfer with a persistent rock-climbing habit, but mostly he reads and watches AYSO soccer games and Marx Brothers movies with his wife and two children”
Well that’s good enough for me…where do I sign.