Obama might do well to research more before he makes snide remarks.
President Obama angrily blasted climate change skeptics during his energy policy speech Tuesday at Georgetown University, saying he lacked “patience for anyone who denies that this problem is real.”
“We don’t have time for a meeting of the flat-Earth society,” Obama said. “Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.”
Actually, even the Flat Earth Society believes in climate change:
As it turns out, there is a real Flat Earth Society and its president thinks that anthropogenic climate change is real. In an email to Salon, president Daniel Shenton said that while he “can’t speak for the Society as a whole regarding climate change,” he personally thinks the evidence suggests fossil fuel usage is contributing to global warming.
“I accept that climate change is a process which has been ongoing since beginning of detectable history, but there seems to be a definite correlation between the recent increase in world-wide temperatures and man’s entry into the industrial age,” he said. “If it’s a coincidence, it’s quite a remarkable one. We may have experienced a temperature increase even without our use of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution, but I doubt it would be as dramatic as what we’re seeing now.”
Story here: http://www.salon.com/2013/06/25/flat_earth_society_believes_in_climate_change/
Thanks to Tom Nelson
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Fossil fuel usage *does* contribute to global warming. Skeptics just argue it is not as much as modeled.
So what does the concept of a warming globe even mean in the mind of a flat-earther? Shouldn’t it be planar warming?
Don’t the IPCC model the world as flat anyway?
Weird a president of an organisation not speaking for the entire organisation and its members. What is the world coming to?
President Obama admitting its just his crazy ideas not the entire Federal government.
“We don’t have time for a meeting of the flat-Earth society,”
This, from an individual that believes adding radiative gases to the atmosphere will reduce the atmospheres radiative cooling ability. Sad.
“Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.”
Global warming has been in effect a global IQ test with results permanently recorded on the Internet. Obamaclese has no idea of the size of the coming storm.
Well, if you consider something on the order of a 0.6 C average temperature increase dramatic then , yes, AGW would probably be catastrophic to you. Shoot, you may have to reschedule your cherry blossom parade. Oh, the horror!
Hey Konrad.
Don’t bother the president, he is doing his bit for glowbull warming…
“The president is traveling to sub-Sahara Africa with his family from June 26 to July 3. The Obamas will be accompanied by hundreds of Secret Service agents and staff, which stack up transportation and accommodation costs. Military cargo planes will bring 56 vehicles including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with bulletproof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the Obamas will stay. Fighter jets will fly in the air space above the first family to provide round the clock protection. ”
Do as I say, not as I do you worthless proles!
Readers might be interested in the article Tom Harris and I published today regarding Obama’s plan and comments.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/blowing-smoke-obama-climate-speech-riddled-with-lies/?singlepage=true
Michael Palmer: “So what does the concept of a warming globe even mean in the mind of a flat-earther? Shouldn’t it be planar warming?”
Now THAT made me laugh out loud! Made my day! Thanks Michael 🙂
What the heck is “detectable history?”
“Planar warming” HA HA HA HA . . . ouch . . . sideache. . .
Well, yes. Global warming is a fact. But so is global cooling. It warms, it cools, it changes. The real question is what could or should we do about it. As a child of the Ozarks, I will tell you that I do not wish to poop into a hole in the ground, live without running water, live without air conditioning, live without modern medical facilities, live without modern transportation, live without individural transportation, live without FANS. and more. I welcome warming if I can keept the rest!
I don’t blame Obama for getting it wrong about sceptics, he is just badly advised. He doesn’t have time to research all the issues himself.
Same as with Bush and the WMDs, lobbyists have learnt you just need to fabricate evidence that supports a leaders particular prejudices’ or tendencies, and you can get them to say and do what you want. Silly world. Scientists should know better.
“97 of scientists….”. No, actually only a majority of those who expressed an opinion, which was less than 32% of the total. This is not “97% of scientists”. Simply counting only the votes which you think ‘counts’ isn’t a survey, in a democracy this would mean one only counts votes from people who ‘matter’, which isn’t a democracy.
I always said that the industrial revolution happened because the climate got warmer and not the other way around.
Suggest to Obama that if he wants to walk the walk, no more electicity for any government installation including the White house. They can live and work with fireplaces and candles. Kind of an Earth Hour forever. Do you think he believes that much?
Of course.
See, the president of the Flat Earth Society is as nutty as the Mad Hatter! 🙂
Eve says:
June 26, 2013 at 10:23 pm
Suggest to Obama that if he wants to walk the walk, no more electicity for any government installation including the White house. They can live and work with fireplaces and candles. Kind of an Earth Hour forever. Do you think he believes that much?
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Let’s ask him.
Oh wait – he’s on his $100M vacation in Africa.
Jimmy Haigh. says:
June 26, 2013 at 10:20 pm
I always said that the industrial revolution happened because the climate got warmer and not the other way around.
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I remember a curious bit of information that proposed that introducing coffee into England and Europe made a big difference in the productivity of the average worker.
Other_Andy says:
June 26, 2013 at 9:20 pm
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Maybe he can buy some Nigerian Carbon Credits while he is there to “offset” his inanity 😉
Wonder if he has “time for a meeting of the flat-Economy society”?
Michael Palmer says:
June 26, 2013 at 9:03 pm
“So what does the concept of a warming globe even mean in the mind of a flat-earther?”
Yup. I liked that one too! I do wonder how they get their heads around that one
Now that’s funny!
Renaldo says:
June 26, 2013 at 9:43 pm
As a teuchter I couldn’t agree more.
http://uk.ask.com/wiki/Teuchter
If the Global Warming Challenge has now become part of an IQ test, things are not looking good.