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.
Obama knows science like I speak Hittite. He really is unlearned.
Obama: “We’ll need scientists to design new fuels …..We’ll need engineers to devise new sources of energy and businesses to make and sell them.”
The cluelessness of this man and his sycophants…..
Scientists HAVE designed new fuels.
Engineers HAVE designed new sources of energy.
Businessmen HAVE grown businesses to sell them.
It is called Unconventional Oil and Gas production.
Heavy Oil Sands from Athabasca
Bakken and Eagle Ford shale oils from fracking.
Shale Gas Fracking
There are scientists, engineers, and businesses going back to the Piceance Basin oil shales in Colorado and Wyoming, the most concentrated hydrocarbon deposit on Earth. trying figure out how to crack a trillion barrel prize.
The only problem seems to be is that these new sources of energy aren’t what the political elite want to see.
Gary Pearse says:
June 23, 2013 at 9:35 am
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?
China invented capitalism, from them we all came. But, history demonstrates the repetition of tyrants and social corruption leading to millions being 100’s of millions being slaughtered. A Greek philosopher put it well; you can judge a society by the music they listen to. (..or what they vote for, etc.)
Doug Hoffman says:
‘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.’
I admittedly am not a nuclear engineer or physicist, so I cannot speak to whether a leak in a LFTR is any better or worse than a radioactive water leak in today’s reactors nor how Kirk Sorensen and FLIBE Energy intend to deal with the risk of a salt coolant leak in LFTR. What I do know though is that you attempted to associate LFTR with the risks of sodium coolant and a sodium cooled reactor, and LFTR clearly is no such thing.
Doug, I assume you know who Alvin Weinberg was (may be now R.I.P.). Following the success of the molten salt reactor project at ORNL in the late 1960s, I doubt if he would have gone to the Nixon administration for more funding if he didn’t feel that he was on to something that was worth continued funding and support. It was politics and nothing else that brought an end to the project.
At any rate Doug, following Fukushima, I somehow get the impression that the elimination of the risk of meltdowns and explosions in nuclear reactors is far more important than leaks anyway. Furthermore, if you have a better way to draw down and eliminate our plutonium stockpiles, I’m sure there are many people in Washington and elsewhere who would like to hear your ideas.
Last time I checked, jet fuel comes from the same oil wells that other fossil fuels come from. Now I have little doubt that all those flights on the world’s largest private jet (Air Force 1), plus its entourage, on trips to such important hot spots as Hawaii (Holiday vacation), Bahamas (ocean studies for the little’uns), Idaho (skiing studies), Mexico (cultural studies for the little’uns), well, they probably slurped up at least several thousands and thousands of gallons of the stuff.
Now I’ve never believed in CAGW since I find it awful suspicious that the same scientists who endlessly bleat out about it manage to receive oodles of research funding from the same governmental entities that stand to benefit so much from it. But if Obama genuinely believes in all this, well you’d think he’d be a little more genteel in his profligate consumption of fossil fuels, or at least a little more discreet.
Ah, but then why would he have to be? After all, other Washingtonians, Hollywoodians, and elites who prescribe to this theory never seem to be called to task for their profligate (did I already use that word?) use of private jets, yachts, or their fondness for mansions (or multiples thereof).
And the United Nations, which belches out this lurid theory every opportunity it gets, never seems to be questioned as to how their climate change and ecology conferences (at taxpayer expense) always seem to find themselves in really nice, tropical, white sand beachfront, touristy kind of places.
But then again maybe no questioning is warranted by all of this. Maybe their CO2 emissions exist on a higher plane then the CO2 emissions of us lesser beings. Whereas our CO2 emissions probably reek of flatulence perhaps their CO2 emissions are sweetly perfumed and thus able to perfumigate the very theories they themselves present to us. Maybe their CO2 emissions are magical.
Agenda 21 coming right into your face !
Tuesday at 1:35 pm EST
@CD (@CD153) 10:01 am
I doubt if [Alvin Weinberg] would have gone to the Nixon administration for more funding if he didn’t feel that he was on to something that was worth continued funding and support
Oh really? People go to government to continue their pet projects regardless of merit chance of success and expectation of payoff. Fusion research isn’t the only example. The fact they are going to the government and not venture capitalists ought to tell you something about prospects for success.
If I may, I would like to urge proponents of LFTR and other Thorium based reactor designs to “zoom out” and look at the bigger issues involved. The focus isn’t the reactor, it is the Thorium fuel cycle. LFTR’s promise is a conceptually safe reactor design married to an as yet unproven, untested, continuous reprocessing of a highly radioactive working fluid from the reactor core. Think of the marriage of a metal smelter and an oil refinery in a hermetically sealed environment on the same site as the reactor.
The muscle of LFTR requires we create LFTR kidneys to remove reactor poisons from the blood of the LFTR core.
It isn’t the physics that is holding back LFTR. It is the chemistry and metallurgy. Even when we solve the technological problem of the reprocessing, who wants a smelter or oil refinery in our back yard. So there is still a NIMBY problem with a safe reactor.
Addendum: Think of the marriage of a metal smelter and an oil refinery in a hermetically sealed environment on the same site as the reactor whose working fluid emits hard gamma rays at high doses.
The States and the People did NOT grant the federal government the power to govern the weather ( or healthcare, or retirement, … etc ). More importantly, as bad an idea as Prohibition was, at least the fools of the time realized they lacked Constitutional authority and passed an Amendment ( again, let’s disregard the overall folly of those knuckleheads for now ).
The current fools residing in the District of Criminals have such utter disdain and contempt for the Constitution and the States and the People that they don’t even feel the need to cover their follies under the fig leaf of an Amendment. This is how far we have fallen in just a couple of generations so just imagine what five or ten more into the future will bring. There will only be a USSA that dwarfs the heyday of Communist China and the Soviet Empire, except it will carry the illusion on Constitutionality. This will be the worst of all possible forms of “government” ever witnessed because tyrannies can be toppled, but Socialism disguised as (D)emocracy cannot, and will lead to catastrophic civil war. Folks better wake up now because there will come a time when it is too late.
Our Congress should use Barry’s Climate power grab for an article of impeachment, then convict him in the Senate and remove this scrawny little girl from the office he should never have been allowed to enter in the first place. Then all the members of Congress should impeach themselves and shut down the place until the next election. aside from nuking it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
Tune in at whitehouse.gov/live
Play on words; my mind first read that as whitehouse.gov / hive
Makes more sense given the thinking within the ‘hive’ on that subj …
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Laup Nor fan? TNX 4 O re: 2nd term.
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Yes.
Historians have a chance to begin compiling a work to rival Edward Gibbon’s work: “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” while this ’empire’ is still kicking …
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Instead of researching thorium reactors maybe we should should research how to convert all the BS coming out of The White House into methane. Then we wouldn’t even need the farmers to “grow fuel”!
“…the world is making a collective yawn (consensus?)…”
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That doesn’t matter to an autocrat.
[snip a bit over the top -mod]
Maybe a bit over the top, but, horrifyingly, right on the mark.
Der Fuehrer conveniently ignores the hardships his policies create for low-income people raising their grandchildren right now, here, today Those hardships are A-OK with him so long as he and his crony capitalist buddies get richer off the backs of middle- and low-income people. And hypocrite that he is, you don’t see him rushing to downsize his lavish lifestyle, literally spending billions of the taxpayers’ money so he can live the celebrity meme.
And how smarmily he speaks of the world he envisions for our grandchildren – an Orwellian nightmare of tyranny and poverty for everyone except him and a few of his super-rich fellow kleptocrats.
A very minor refinement Stephen, if I may:
The political elite don’t seem to have any *compunction on using those fuels, rather, the problem is, they don’t want to see _us_ making use of those fuels in any manner, way, shape or form.
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*com·punc·tion – Noun
(1) A feeling of guilt or moral scruple that follows the doing of something bad: “spend the money without compunction”.
(2) A pricking of the conscience.
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It’s time to break out the link to this story again.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/25/obama-years-ago-helped-fund-carbon-program-pushing-congress/
Our Commander in Chief (from Chicago, no less) went from the Illinois State Senate to the leader of the free world in just a couple of years. That didn’t come happen for free.
Time to pay back those campaign promises.
EW3 says:
“And the NSA will know the IP address of everyone giving a thumbs down.”
What would the NSA care about Obama. He’s the current teleprompter reader, not more.
This xkcd strip may or may not be relevant:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/council_of_300.png
What’s the number in here every day? 10,000+ The count on the video would be up because a percentage from here will have popped over to have a look at it. Doesn’t make ’em fans.
I’m still waiting for anger in the general public to reach the heights it needs to – the world over. It’s amazing how laid back the population is to all this (the entire scam). I know that’s the MSM controlling that, but the bigger this balloon gets, the bigger the burst is going to be when it blows. And people are finding out on their own.
Are all these CAGW guys and gals convinced they’ll be out of harm’s way when it happens? Presidents and Prime Ministers? Leading climate “scientists”? All the rest of the advocates and alarmists? Really?
It’ll be like lancing a boil. Scary, ugly, but necessary for the health of the patient. Can’t wait.
As soon as someone says, do this “for the children”, you know that logic and truth have flown out the window.
Ian H says:
June 22, 2013 at 10:55 pm
I’m not watching it. Just thinking about it makes me ill.
See if I got the web address correct: whitehouse.gov/lie
Are you ready for the long, hot summer?