AP: Obama says he’ll unveil climate plan in Tuesday speech ‘for the sake of our children’. It seems though, that the world is making a collective yawn (consensus?) so far given the views. The video has been up for several hours and has only a few hundred views and has 437 “likes” as of this writing.
The video description says:
At 1:35 on Tuesday June 25th President Obama will speak at Georgetown University on the growing threat of climate change. He will lay out his vision of where we need to go, to do what we can to address and prepare for the serious implications of a changing climate. Tune in at whitehouse.gov/live
This quote from the video makes me laugh and angry at the same time:
“We’ll need scientists to design new fuels and farmers to grow them,” he said. “We’ll need engineers to devise new sources of energy and businesses to make and sell them.”
The hell with “new fuels and farmers to grow them”, biofuels are low return on investment and raise the cost of our food supply; just get a Thorium reactor program started. The technology has been around for years, and the Chinese are already headed down that path.
Be warned those of you disparaging this Administration. We know who you are. For the “sake of the children”, We monitor all the terrorists and evil right wing deniers with our secret email and telephone monitoring program. Denying the threat of climate change is on par with espionage. Obama will be presenting his “Green Book” on Tuesday, the Green Revolution to save our planet has begun!
The phones were for jobless people to use to find work. Many had lost their homes so land lines were impractical.
CodeTech says:
June 23, 2013 at 6:29 am
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We will enjoy your world as we stroll happily across the deer- manicured lawns of our sustainable non- farm, gathering all that we need, like children picking wildflowers; carefree and safe- under the watchful paternal eyes shining down at us from every tree.
CodeTech says:
June 23, 2013 at 6:29 am
Nah, I tried to watch it. Can’t do it.
Yes, even counting the lies/second seems to have lost its appeal. But I’m going to watch it because I think the Big O is in big trouble, making more mistakes, and I lust for the kill!
Personally, I’m shocked we haven’t been talking about writing Congressmen and Senators. Normally, there would be several links to resources to locate these individuals and voice your concerns, whichever way they may lean. (like this: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members)
In this case, there may be little they can do, but it couldn’t hurt to demonstrate that we know how impotent they are becoming. Maybe a few of them would get on the back legs and start taking some umbrage.
Wuwt post from the Admin? The Green Revolution! Ha, ha, ha!
More like the 21st century nightmare has begun!!!! Here was his role model…
Goode ’nuff says:
June 23, 2013 at 7:12 am
The phones were for jobless people to use to find work. Many had lost their homes so land lines were impractical.
Yes, but even more impractical was a life without street drugs, especially “for the children”.
The fluxed fuel fluid simply solidifies after a leak! What provides the shielding from the fuel now that it is exposed? Of course there are no real hazards in a witches brew of Fluorine, Thorium, Uranium, Beryllium and Lithium.
After RCRA was enacted, we no longer tried to clean and re-use waste once it had become mixed toxic and radioactive, so I had to monitor in-process radioactivity and dump the solutions before they became so – I could watch the Sun rise and set the instruments were so sensitively set.
I was always amused by the security provided expended fuel during refueling operations. Our sarcastic alternative was to offer all that could be carried away FREE!
About Obama-phones, what a clever way to get PRISM enabled cellphones into commerce. What will they think of next, now that that market is saturated? Oh, camera equipped set-top boxers. Clever NSA geeks! And hacking into automobile computers too.
The free phones idea started with Clinton, was supported by Bush, and continues with Obama (all kinds of politicians seek to buy votes). By the way, the phone companies that run this program are “government-approved” businesses. Another definition of the product they hand out: Ready-made listening devices. Wonder how many voters with free phones have their conversations stored on some server in Washington.
Gail, its comments like those which is why I read WUWT almost daily and digest comments. The entire analysis you provided while showing your work in this particular instance is excellent. The only thing I would add is that despite us starting to use more land for farming things, we are still using less farmland today than we did in 1900. The entire change of society and usage of industrial farming has made yields that much larger, and I think people all over the world miss the big picture in that we have tons of land to use to farm, and we have techniques to turn even the most barren soil into productive soil, the issue of course is money and the will to do so.
In 1990, there were almost 987 million acres in farms in the U.S., that number was reduced to just under 943 million acres by 2000, and then reduced to 914 million acres in 2012 (*1).
From http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/landuse.html
So the entire trend starting in 1900 is continuing with less land feeding 20 times more people than it did back than. I think my large point here is that the problem is not enough farm-land or planting too much corn, the issue is that we have TOO MUCH land sitting fallow. If you want to do stupid things like Obama and “grow your fuel” you HAVE to entice more people to grow food otherwise our food reserves will just continue to dwindle and one bad harvest means famine.
From the same page as before:
Two significant trends occurring in the agricultural sector during the past century involved the increased use of machines and government price supports. These factors combined to allow operators to increase the size of their farms and gain efficiencies.
You notice that they credit price controls on agriculture as a good thing since it forces less land to be used. This is the key right there. Price controls on agriculture are the reason WHY less land is being used so much more efficiently. Only the best farmland left is being used because anything less is simply not economical due to Government constraints.
So the entire blame for agriculture and a lack of food reserves is directly the fault of Government control of food prices. By micro-managing the costs like the Government HAS been doing for the last few decades they are simply causing this problem and will continue to do so until a huge famine DOES hit and causes starvation. One could say that price controls solved one problem and created several others. Welcome to Government I guess.
Gail Combs says:
June 23, 2013 at 2:47 am
But the thumbs down will also sky rocket.
And the NSA will know the IP address of everyone giving a thumbs down.
Some of US use The Onion Router Net, about the Nasty Sneaky Agents knowing IP’s.
My bad. Bill Gates has INVESTED in the TWR, not “invented”.
Thanks Elmer! The Symbion article helped connect a few more dots.
Goode ’nuff says:
June 23, 2013 at 7:31 am
Wuwt post from the Admin? The Green Revolution! Ha, ha, ha!
More like the 21st century nightmare has begun!!!! Here was his role model…
Boooosh!DerangementSyndrome + et tu quoque fallacy = Obama takes Orwell’s “1984” literally, as a blueprint for the future!
Captain Ozone says:
June 22, 2013 at 10:32 pm
@u.k.(us)
Plus, the man is a muslim-raised avowed Marxist, bent on destroying democracy and capitalism as we know it.
…and the folks who put him there are his equals. Over the cliff bound.
One last one for Elmer:
http://www.businesstimes.co.tz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1128:us-government-agency-brought-symbion-power-to-tanzania-&catid=35:features&Itemid=29
Please see this short clip of candidate Obama debating president Obama. It shows, really in the clearest possible terms, why you cannot trust politicians at the highest levels. Left or right, makes no difference: two heads, one snake, one master:
That’ll be me on a list now….
Doug Huffman says:
June 23, 2013 at 5:25 am
This shunned has power only if you want to live under his gun.
How, exactly, do I escape the gun of the U.S. government?
I’d be mightily obliged to know.
The voice of the more than half of the U.S. population now is “We wanna be slaves!”
Therefore, all your beloved “democratic” institutions work against individual liberty, suppress entrepreneurship and free market, suppress talent and true science, destroy families, watch our every step, and make us no better than trained animals.
Do you still hope that the system that makes you an exhausted animal would somehow save you?
The video showed plenty of wind turbines, and crops for fuel. But what about the solar panels and the electric cars? Or mention of how shale gas is reducing total US emissions?
If there were a genuine problem with global warming, the people least capable of dealing with it are the politicians. There is a total lack of focus on getting the greatest impact from the least economic harm. For any politician to admit to scale of policy failure so far exhibited, especially the most powerful leader in the world, is political suicide.
This video is for the week minded. These are not the droids you want.
I wonder if the USA is perhaps buying itself a much enlarged Muslim terrorist future.
After Obama et al have succeeded in convincing the populations of countries like Bangladesh and other countries that the USA is responsible for all the climate and weather disasters that occur in their countries a percentage of those populations may come to feel that it is their devout duty to make the devil USA pay each and every drought, storm, or flood that they experience.
Kitefreak says:
June 23, 2013 at 8:37 am
That’ll be me on a list now….
Heck, just save “them” the trouble and cc everything digital. Large files, small files, pics, movies… all of it.
Increased energy prices hurt everyone, particularly the poor. Really bad idea.
Is this when Obama jumps the shark and becomes a true lame duck? I think so.
“just get a Thorium reactor program started. The technology has been around for years, and the Chinese are already headed down that path.”
And if you follow the links, in the linked article, the Chinese plan to develop and patent the technology. It was successfully developed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee in the 1960s. Are we going to be buying American tech back again from the Chinese?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor
This technology never went anywhere, believed my some to be because the military wanted plutonium for weaponry and thorium tech produced relatively benevolent waste. Oak Ridge was ORDERED by the AEC to stop all research on the molten salt reactor in 1974.
http://thoriumsingapore.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73&Itemid=67
I’ve been to China half a dozen times re mining and development projects and, despite a communist government in charge, this country has the youthful zeal and confidence that we used to associate with America. In contrast, America is now bending to lefty political power, a product of lefty education that has taken possession of schools and universities. Is this how virile empires crumble?