While the most recent public polls on climate-change give a ho-hum response, Dr. Roy Spencer recently surmised that in the State of the Union Address tonight, President Obama will join the “everything is caused by global warming” club. He writes:
I predict that, despite the brutally cold weather in DC this Tuesday, Obama will preach on climate change in his State of the Union address. I predict he will even use the cold weather as evidence to support his case.
During his address it looks like there will be a wintry mix starting across the southern reaches of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and the Florida panhandle. I wouldn’t be surprised if he uses the event as evidence of human-caused climate change.
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For those of us old enough to remember, similar events happened back in the epic cold winters of the 1970s. Many instances of snow falling in Florida in the 1800s surely weren’t due to humans. Believe it or not, more snow tends to go with colder weather, not warmer. Go figure.
Sounds plausible, rational, and factually based. Of course, the SOTU is all about politics, so we’ll have none of that.
In other related news, that National Journal Reports:
Public to Obama, Congress: Climate Action Is No Big Deal This Year
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that 27 percent believe that addressing climate change should be an “absolute priority” in 2014.
Forty-one percent put the topic in the “can be delayed until next year” bucket, according to the poll conducted January 22-25 and released Tuesday.
In contrast, 91 percent say job creation should be a top priority, reducing the deficit comes in at 74 percent, and 63 percent say ensuring all children have access to preschool should be in the “absolute priority for this year” category.
A separate Pew Research Center poll finds that 29 percent of respondents want global warming to be a “top priority” for Obama and Congress this year, while 31 percent call it an “important but lower priority.”
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/public-to-obama-congress-climate-action-is-no-big-deal-this-year-20140128
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I won’t be able to listen to/watch the SOTU address, as I’m traveling today, so readers will have to dissect and post memorable quotes here for discussion.
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REad this poll on what is the top 10 issues – hint E=GREEN is high on the D side.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/167084/democrats-republicans-differ-top-priorities-gov.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines%20-%20Politics
If you are going to lie, you might as well make it a big one.
Big Lie, German: Große Lüge, is the expression coined by Adolf Hitler
For real it was Hitler…
I won’t be watching the SOTU address. I am Canadian, so I’ll be watching hockey. 🙂
Use this to close the EPA make E=GREEN mean small businesses making profits and growing jobs.
http://articlevprojecttorestoreliberty.com/article-v—group-overview-and-proposal.html
I won’t be watching the SOTU address because I will be watching snow fall outside my window. Falling snow is much more interesting than a one-sided speech where half the audience claps every other sentence, the other half sits in protest of what was said, and everyone in attendance knows that every word is a lie.
_ Throwing taxpayer money at clean energy projects (headed by major Democrat fundraisers and bundlers) is an “investment.”
_ Carbon pollution is destroying our environment and baking our planet.
_ We must act now.
_ Other countries are throwing their money down a big green hole and we must throw away more or fall behind.
_ If Congress won’t act, I will.
If I were making the case, it would be: “…look at California– record-breaking drought, crops threatened, reservoirs going dry…Obviously global warming..BTW, probably screwing up the jetstream which is causing the record cold to the east…have to study that…”
Considering his buddy Tom Steyer the billionaire (who made his money in oil) is funding an anti Canadian oil pipeline commercial during the the speech, I’d say the odds are pretty good that he’ll throw in some the warming is creating the arctic temperature rhetoric. Maybe a little the ice is melting and the oceans are flooding thrown in for good measure. Then a whole bunch of how the “global temperature has increased point something degrees in the last 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 years.
For the love of God, would the President (or anyone else for that matter) please tell us just how the blankety blank climate is changing that is such a concern to him?
Just remember that Barack Obama said while campaigning for office that “Electricity prices will necessarily sky rocket.”
He will implement a number of executive actions with his pen, without congress, to drive electricity rates higher. Anyone taking bets?
Who needs SOTU?
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/podesta-obamas-warmed-executive-action-will-use-it-climate-change-and
We’ll have to start talking about the “Obama effect” – like the Gore effect, but more powerful.
Even the heatwave in Australia is cooling down, at least up here in the North. There’s a massive tropical low / cyclone 1000 miles off the coast of Australia, taking the edge off the hot weather we were having.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2014/01/28/07/34/qld-on-alert-as-cyclone-threatens-to-form
Make sure you call your Congress Critters tomorrow and ask sticky questions to remind them you are not a sheeple.
My list:
What is your stand on Global Warming?
What is your stand on Global Governance?
What is your stand on selling US Technology to China?
What is your stand on China’s growing aggression?
What is your stand on China’s antibiotic resistant bacteria in sewage sludge spread on fields? link
What is your stand on China’s processing chicken for the USA?
Never too soon to figure out whether you want to vote for the hog or vote for a new little piglet.
Listen to him?
WHY?
Maybe…. he will claim some neat stuff like this:
His parents met for the first time AFTER he was born. Mm, hm.
“… aaand I promise that our journey along the shining path of social and climate justice is nearing its end and all the workers of the world will unite under a common banner…”
I will not be watching the SOTU. I live comfortably without TV, it’s the mind-sucker and little death of intelligence. I enjoyed hearing the SOTU characterized as “a disturbance in the farce.”
Somewhere he’ll say something along the lines of, “We’ve done much to combat these extreme weather events we are now experiencing. But other nations have not followed our example. If other nations won’t do their part then it is up to us, The US, the leader of the Free World, to make up for their lack of vision. Therefore I am making a special appointment to the newly formed Ultra-Department of Education. Richard Windsor’s first and primary task will be to show us all how to [make] tools out of flint.”
(Of course, his wording may be different.)
Is there any chance the President will finally make a decision on the Keystone Pipeline?
Probably not. It would look bad to announce another pivot to jobs in the same speech where you kill jobs for no good reason except to make the fringe left happy. He’ll likely wait until after this fall’s elections to do that out of fear of losing the Senate to Republicans.
I don’t know what “Pres B.O.” will be talking about but I will watch and it is certain to live up to that acronym
Likely the overwhelming proof of continued rising temperatures, how this decade will be the hottest on record, how americans need to act now or feel the heat tomorrow, and likely about how effective the Obamacare plan is working.
PaulH says: “I won’t be watching the SOTU address. I am Canadian, so I’ll be watching hockey.”
Tonight a lot of us will temporarily be Canadians…
/sarc
(Mods, thanks for filling in the [make].8-)
And the obama, peace be upon him, rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still”. And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.
I believe he will blame the cold weather on George Bush !
😎
“Big lie – Grosse Lüge”: Just for the record – not that I think the Hitler card needs to be drawn – it was his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels who coined the phrase “The size of a lie is a factor of its acceptance – “In der Grösse einer Lüge liegt ein Faktor des Geglaubtwerdens”, (And no, I am not a German historian – but it helps to be a Norwegian attending high school around 1960, when English, German and French were compulsary foreign languages.)
I wandered over to TalkingPointsMemo and found no speculation that the climate or pipeline would feature significantly in the speech.
Dave says: “… would the President … please tell us just how the blankety blank climate is changing that is such a concern to him?”
Climate change is not a concern to B.O. B.O. is using Climate Change as excuse to drive his Socialist Changes.
People need a reason (valid or not) to motivate them to support actions (regardless of appropriateness).