I made it back to a computer in time today to get a copy of the State of the Union address, here are the relevant passages about climate:
“Now, one of the biggest factors in bringing more jobs back is our commitment to American energy. The all-of-the-above energy strategy I announced a few years ago is working, and today, America is closer to energy independence than we’ve been in decades.
One of the reasons why is natural gas – if extracted safely, it’s the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change. Businesses plan to invest almost $100 billion in new factories that use natural gas. I’ll cut red tape to help states get those factories built, and this Congress can help by putting people to work building fueling stations that shift more cars and trucks from foreign oil to American natural gas. My administration will keep working with the industry to sustain production and job growth while strengthening protection of our air, our water, and our communities. And while we’re at it, I’ll use my authority to protect more of our pristine federal lands for future generations.
It’s not just oil and natural gas production that’s booming; we’re becoming a global leader in solar, too. Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar; every panel pounded into place by a worker whose job can’t be outsourced. Let’s continue that progress with a smarter tax policy that stops giving $4 billion a year to fossil fuel industries that don’t need it, so that we can invest more in fuels of the future that do.
And even as we’ve increased energy production, we’ve partnered with businesses, builders, and local communities to reduce the energy we consume. When we rescued our automakers, for example, we worked with them to set higher fuel efficiency standards for our cars. In the coming months, I’ll build on that success by setting new standards for our trucks, so we can keep driving down oil imports and what we pay at the pump.
Taken together, our energy policy is creating jobs and leading to a cleaner, safer planet. Over the past eight years, the United States has reduced our total carbon pollution more than any other nation on Earth. But we have to act with more urgency – because a changing climate is already harming western communities struggling with drought, and coastal cities dealing with floods. That’s why I directed my administration to work with states, utilities, and others to set new standards on the amount of carbon pollution our power plants are allowed to dump into the air. The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. And when our children’s children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us to be able to say yes, we did.”
My dog loves me. I feed her. Whatever nonsense comes from my mouth, even if she doesn’t have a clue about me having no clue, she is hell-bent on protecting me, and will vote for me any time I tell her to vote for me. Because I am her master, because she eats out of my hand.
To stop the end of civilization, we need to stop the welfare society and to abolish universal suffrage. Rational social behavior and universal suffrage are incompatible.
I watched the Fox News analysis after the speech, as well as the speech itself. Turns out that the most tepid applause and lowest rated portion of his speech was when he mentioned climate change as a fact. Apparently, the public has figured out that climate change is a code word for the absent “global warming,” and that it’s also a code word for increased energy costs and lost jobs.
Bob Weber says:
January 28, 2014 at 8:56 pm
No mention of………
Bob,
Our Dear Leader proposed business tax changes to encourage company operations here and discourage off-shoring operations to overseas locations.
Both Democrats and Republicans have argued that our tax code is riddled with wasteful, complicated loopholes that punish businesses investing here, and reward companies that keep profits abroad. Let’s flip that equation. Let’s work together to close those loopholes, end those incentives to ship jobs overseas, and lower tax rates for businesses that create jobs here at home. Moreover, we can take the money we save with this transition to tax reform to create jobs rebuilding our roads, upgrading our ports, unclogging our commutes – because in today’s global economy, first-class jobs gravitate to first-class infrastructure.
Haven’t we heard these empty promises before? It seems to me we should be funding Our Dear Leaders laundry list of transportation projects with all of the money we are saving with ObamaCare. The average family of 4 will see savings of $2,500.00 That should work, right? ‘Cause OKare is going to save us LOTS of money, right?!
Oh wait… I forgot. If you like your ObamaCare savings, you can keep your ObamaCare savings! Period!
No mention of that, either.
Mac
Did you notice that Obama did not mention science in connection with climate. Instead he talks of a debate being settled. They might have finally realized that all talk of consensus science was anti-scientific and that scientific observations do not support their claims of facts.
What, if anything, does Obama mean when he says that “carbon pollution” causes “climate change”? Doesn’t he realize that scientific research has not proved there to be a cause and effect relationship between CO2 concentrations and global temperatures? Doesn’t he grasp that our climate changes with or without man-made emissions of CO2? Doesn’t Obama realize that putting unemployed people into low productivity jobs such as installing solar panels is the road to economic ruin for the people of the U.S. rather than the opposite? Why does Obama wish to increase our supply of labor by opening our borders to cheaper foreign labor in a period of high unemployment? Does Obama have a clue to logic or to elementary economics? Can’t we attract better people into public office than Obama?
Please insert “he” before “says” in the first sentence of my previous post.
[Done. ~ mod.]
The Farce is Strong with this one.
10 below outside, and solar panels, he wants.
The dark side clouds his judgement.
At an end, his power to deceive.
Stopped he must be.
Climate Change is a fact, which direction, how fast, how much, and how certain are we of that is the problem?
Alexander Feht says:
January 28, 2014 at 9:51 pm
Alexander
‘Your dog’ is an apt analogy.
If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Pauls vote.
Mac
Janice Moore says: January 28, 2014 at 7:46 pm
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Sorry, Janice, but my Arabic-English dictionary has a somewhat different translation: “The Hopeless Grifter’s unChanged Gift for Lying” 😉
LOL, Hilary, you are right! I was on the wrong page in my dictionary — what I gave was the translation of: “Joe Biden.”
As long as the Stupid burns, it’s likely we will never run out of energy.
Impeachment ASAP.
“But we have to act with more urgency – because a changing climate is already harming western communities struggling with drought, and coastal cities dealing with floods.”
Where are the alarmists that tell us “that’s weather”?
Our fine fearless leader quote:
>I’ll use my authority to protect more of our pristine federal lands for future generations.<
The pristine Federal land he protecting in North Dakota is the farm land brought back from the farmers in the thirties. Prairie land once plowed is not pristine and to top it off the mineral acres are owned by BNSF. The reason BNSF owns the mineral right ids that the land was land grant land the railroad received to build the track that runs through North Dakota, Pristine my a**, any body who has a half a brain can till grassland that pristine from that that been plowed, the contrast is stark. On top of that the only surface owner that can denied a mineral owner his property is the Federal government. The only good thing about most of the so called wilderness area is so small the oil can be extracted by stand off on the next section and then drill under the so called wilderness area..
There’s no hope when you have a president who doesn’t know the difference between carbon and carbon dioxide. Carbon is too valuable to waste by polluting the air with it.
Gail Combs says:
January 28, 2014 at 7:17 pm
From your link to the Broken Window Fallacy (which BTW is an excellent insight).
(“the things that are seen, and the things that are not seen”)
Now I’m surprised by this, because I just don’t see the stated conclusion being “unexpected” at all. I have always thought it to be entirely expected.
Terry you question are valid but you have remember when it come to Obama what Thomas Sowell said “well educated, smart but ignorant.” Unfortunately that sums up most of the graduates from our major Universities in the last forty years. Also for the MSM crowd you can eliminate smart.
Most important to understand that the pulses in the winter over the polar circle running from the stratosphere to the troposphere, and not vice versa.
In winter, the temperature gradient at the edges of the vortex increases with altitude in the stratosphere from level 150 hPa, and the maximum is observed at the level of 50-10 hPa (20-30
km), so the vortex is most evident at the level of 50-30 hPa, where there is the lowest temperature and the highest gradients.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/intraseasonal/temp10anim.gif
speaking of politicians…
the Chris Turney Fiasco is far from over in Australia, yet we already have a new comedy unfolding:
28 Jan: Cairns Post, Australia: Caitlin Guilfoyle: Sea Shepherd on trial over spill in coastal waters off Cairns
A WELL-known marine life conservation group has been charged with discharging oil in coastal waters off Cairns.
Sea Shepherd Australia Limited was recently mentioned in Cairns Magistrates Court charged with discharging oil in Trinity Inlet on October 13, 2012…
Former Greens leader Dr Bob Brown is Sea Shepherd Australia’s chairman.
Sea Shepherd Australia Limited and the Department of Transport and Main Roads declined to comment while the matter is going through the court.
http://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/cairns/sea-shepherd-on-trial-over-spill-in-coastal-waters-off-cairns/story-fnjpusyw-1226811832390
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/22/bill-gates-3-myths-that-block-progress-for-the-poor/#comment-1547803
Posted 24Jan2014 (pre-SOTU):
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In the developed world, we need less government, not more, and we need much more common sense than is displayed by our current global leadership. Obama and most of the leaders of Western Europe have failed badly. The average world leader today is lacking adequate education to function effectively in this complex modern technological world, and is easily misled by the latest fads and foolishness. Again, global warming hysteria and green energy nonsense are excellent examples.
Jim Brock says:
January 28, 2014 at 6:45 pm
Sounds like T Boone has snuggled up to the One.
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The natural gas boom has bought significant benefits along with it,s growth. Obama wants to claim this benefit as a positive achievement of his administration. Which makes sense, considering the many negative achievements that will stand as his record. He has made ‘Climate Change ‘ a substantial part of his presidency, and over time he will be remembered for that.
Forecast polar vortex February 5th altitude of 23 km.
http://oi59.tinypic.com/dxyb86.jpg
Gosh, gotta sit through four or five different Republican responses to get the response??? WUWT? Takes Kathy Rodgers, Mike Lee (tea), Rand Paul (libertarian) and the Cruz (keep my Cuba) just to say something?? Kind of fractured, ya think? This is going to take all night.
some of u may know of WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance), which was founded by British musician, Peter Gabriel, in the 80s. it is now in a number of countries, including United Arab Emirates…and Adelaide in Australia. this year looks like fun:
WOMADelaide 2014: The Planet Talks
The Planet Talks return to Speakers Corner with a line-up of stimulating and inspiring speakers from Australia, Europe and the USA.
The sessions will be hosted by Robyn Williams (ABC Radio National) and Bernie Hobbs (ex ABC TV’s The New Inventors).
The Planet Talks is presented by the University of South Australia.
Speakers:
TIM FLANNERY
Tim Flannery is one of the most well known Australian environmentalists and climate change activists of our time. With a long list of published works and a past Commissioner of the Australian Climate Commission, Flannery brings a wealth of practical experience and fundamental understanding of the key issues facing our planet today…
PROFESSOR TOM WIGLEY
Dr Tom Wigley is a Professor at the University of Adelaide and has a position at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He is one of the world’s most highly cited scientists in the field of climatology.
PLUS other assorted smug-faced, well-off CAGW zealots.
SUNDAY PROGRAM INCLUDES:
Politics, Media, Law & Merchants of Doubt
SESSION 01 – The Captain Kirk & Dr Spock of communicating climate change
Hosted by Robyn Williams (TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABC)
Speakers: Annabel Crabb (TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABC), Tory Shepherd, Tanya Ha
The Media, MPs and Mothers all play vital roles in shaping our emotional (Kirk) and rational (Spock) attitudes to environmental action.
How do they frame a climate change message in ways that are relevant, accurate and meaningful to their audiences?
Our panel of expert science, environment and politics communicators discuss some of the social, cultural, political and psychological machinations behind the things we see, hear and read about climate change…
SESSION 02 – When Polly met Peter & Tim
Hosted by Bernie Hobbs (EX-TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABC)
Speakers: Polly Higgins, Peter Garrett & Tim Flannery
Find out what happens when one of the world’s most visionary thinkers in the area of law and environmental action – Polly Higgins – meets Australia’s leading environmental thinker, writer and activist Tim Flannery and former government minister, ACF president and Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett for a frank conversation about why and how the law and legislation must tackle climate change.
http://www.womadelaide.com.au/program/the-planet-talks