Marlo Lewis writes at Fox News about the National Climate Assessment: (cue funeral dirge music)
Tuesday the U.S. Government’s Global Change Research Program released its latest “National Assessment” report on climate change impacts in the United States.
As with previous editions, the new report is an alarmist document designed to scare people and build political support for unpopular policies such as carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, and EPA regulatory mandates.
Also in keeping with past practice, the latest report confuses climate risk with climate change risk.
Droughts, storms, floods, and heat waves are all part of the natural climate. Our risk of exposure to such extremes has much more to do with where we happen to live than with any gradual climate changes associated with the 1.3F – 1.9F increase in average U.S. temperature since the 1880s.
The new report is an alarmist document designed to scare people and build political support for unpopular policies such as carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, and EPA regulatory mandates.
Since even immediate and total shutdown of all carbon dioxide-emitting vehicles, power plants, and factories in the U.S. would decrease global warming by only a hypothetical and undetectable two-tenths of a degree Celsius by 2100, it is misleading to imply, as the report does, that the Obama administration’s climate policies can provide any measurable protection from extreme weather events.
The Assessment is flat out wrong that climate change is increasing our vulnerability to heat stress. As hot weather has become more frequent, people and communities have adapted to it, and heat-related mortality in the U.S. has declined.
Cities with the most frequent hot weather such as Tampa, Florida and Phoenix, Arizona have practically zero heat-related mortality. That is the most probable future for most U.S. cities if global warming continues!
The report also foolishly predicts that climate change “intensify air pollution.” As EPA’s own data show, despite allegedly “unprecedented” warming, U.S. air quality has improved decade-by-decade since 1970 as emissions declined.
The report blames climate change for the Midwest drought of 2012. But the government’s own analysis concluded otherwise: “Neither ocean states nor human-induced climate change, factors that can provide long-lead predictability, appeared to play significant roles in causing severe rainfall deficits over the major corn producing regions of central Great Plains.”
Complete story here: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/05/06/national-climate-assessment-report-alarmists-offer-untrue-unrelenting-doom-and/
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Washinkton DC = lie central.
Lies kill.
Truth is life.
Seek truth.
Who does the fake numbers for the lies?
Who at the AP allows the lies to be repeted over and over?
Seek out the liars, expose them. Then shun them all. Turn our backs on them forever.
Not surprising at all. It just baffles me that masses can swallow this…. well, they have swallowed worse lies.
One day the biggest denier, mother nature, will prevail. Climate is local, not global. WE cannot control weather, even indoors (well, only in ver strict environments), much less climate.
true dat.
The NCA 2014 report actually says this:
“”when averaging over the entire contiguous U.S., there is no overall trend in flood magnitudes””
“”lack of any clear trend in landfall frequency along the U.S. eastern and Gulf coasts”” (hurricanes)
“”Other trends in severe storms, including the intensity & frequency of tornadoes, hail, and damaging thunderstorm winds, are uncertain””
“”There has been no universal trend in the overall extent of drought across the continental U.S. since 1900″””
I was just scanning the various articles on this National Climate Assessment report and oh my! I didn’t have to comment on any , the comments were overwhelmingly calling ducks ducks. I was quite impressed at the volume of people refuting with facts the scam. I feel that the public is getting not only a healthy dose of skeptical critical thinking but the people are getting angry that we are being told we are getting warmer while the facts are we are not. WOW….
Control freaks all of them
I know others have said it before, but maybe they figured most people aren’t paying attention, so they can say what they like for the supporters that are listening.
Then if the ‘pause’ continues they can claim success. The same supporters won’t notice that nothing credit-worthy was actually done, then everybody goes to the square dance.
Yes, it might defy the logic of sanity in the real world, but that’s often not where politicians are obliged to work.
Perhaps the following is the definition of incredulity but here goes:
Until they start measuring CO2 in something greater than parts per MILLION I will not accept, without evidence, that atmospheric CO2 is a major driver of climate. My bet is that a 100ppm increase relates to perhaps a 0.1 degree F increase in temp, given that all else stays equal, which it never does.
Soot melts snow and ice when the ambient temp is below freezing. Literally clean up our act and CO2 becomes a footnote
Talking of fiction, Sharknado 2 is coming out soon 😉
Obama’s last shot on Climate Change and why it’s doomed to fail: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/06/Obama-s-Last-Shot-Climate-Change-And-Why-It-s-Doomed-To-Fail
5 May: CBS: Sen. Introduces Bill To Test Out Taxing Motorists For Every Mile They Drive
The California Legislature is looking at a voluntary program that would tax motorists for every mile they drive.
KCAL9’s Bobby Kaple reports that Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, introduced a bill to test out the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax because the state’s gas tax was no longer bringing in the revenue it used to due to people driving more fuel efficient vehicles.***
The program is modeled after ones in Oregon and Washington.
“We want to do as Washington and Oregon have done in a much bigger state with much longer commutes…to make sure that we find out whether it would work, whether the public would like it or not,” DeSaulnier said…
Southland commuters were not thrilled about the idea of a VMT tax…
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/05/05/sen-introduces-bill-to-test-out-taxing-motorists-for-every-mile-they-drive/
This is much more sinister than is likely believed by most. They are aware the data says otherwise about increasing droughts, floods, storms, etc, but this is an ideal situation for the regulators. Since they know this, they can promulgate all these save the planet laws and when the incidence of these weather extremes continues to decline, can take credit for it. Make no mistake. They are forced by the short window of the opportunity to act fast, so the strategy will be hype it to the limit, put forth the emergency regulations and take credit for the results that are going to come through natural climate variations. This tactic must be resisted at all costs or the self-congratulations will go on for a century.
BLM has squads of armed enforcers.
EPA has “Homeland Security” operations.
At which doors will these EPA types come a knocking?
At first I was angry at the lies but then I realized how many people saw through the bs and were converted to the science side.
Ancient citystates cultivated algae for fertilizer. Feeding mined plankton to pond, absorbing co2 from air. The deposit is 2 meter deep layer plankton. Tunnel.blooms algae makes fish spectacular. The deposit is maybe 100 miles across.i watch water fleas stimulated by this incredible collection of necessary elements for human and frogs.washing floodplane eons till ground rock and soluables are exausted.the inland sea algae holds all important elements in a roundish cell with fingers(filia). Using this would decentralize civilization, make food production independent. Making world safer from war and plague. Which will be here shortly benefiting the wrong people.the cell is very small, like super fine dust . dangerous to breathe. Dusted onto 3 inch wheat grass, expremed, drank caused strong dreaming night time.these elements are obviously missing in everything else by comparison . individual gardening with this feedstock could free man of church and state. War, junkfood, and medical exploitagion of our bodies. Sorry I guess im wandering.attention to agriculture is now critical now . we’ve been blaming the mexicans too long.
In the Frequently Asked Questions (Appendix 4 of The National Climate Assessment), the authors admit that the climate models make no predictions. A system is controllable if and only if it makes predictions. Thus, for the purpose of controlling the climate, the climate models are logically worthless. A logical conclusion does not, however, emerge from the Assessment.
Like I have said time and time again. People here and on other sites sit smugly writing how we have the truth and how the truth is winning out and that the Warmists are losing ground.
Congrats to you. I guess the nightly news that MILLIONS of people see has no affect on the general populace or the gov’t.
Is there no one on this site with letters after his or her name who can get some TV time themselves?
Why has NO ONE from these sites hit the nightly news??? Are you locked out? I have no credentials unfortunately to get listened to.
Basically it has come down to I find this and other sited like it are a waste of my reading time. I think you have lost site of what your purpose is. I don’t want to read every damn article about how there is global warming just so folks here can make snide comments. Its about time there is positive action made to get the truth out there before it is too late and we have to pay for generations from stupid useless actions taken now.
Geoff Smith:
Usually, the PBS New Hour presents two sides of an issue. A couple of weeks ago, they presented two experts each of whom presented the same, alarmist view of global warming. Why did the PBS New Hour do this when plenty of people with outstanding credentials were available to present an opposing view? I don’t know the answer but suspect that the folks at PBS New Hour had been deceived by applications of the equivocation fallacy into thinking there was only one intellectually respectable view. I address this phenomenon at http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=7923 .
Actually, there is only one intellectually respectable view and it is not the one presented by PBS News Hour. The one intellectually respectable view is that global warming research conducted to date supports no conclusion on possible causes. This line of research has been a misconceived failure.
More people will die of heat related illnesses if they shut down the inexpensive “polluting” power plants and thus raise energy costs so that senior citizens have to choose between inflated food prices and paying their electric bill. Self-fulfilling prophesy or unintended consequences? It depends on their motives.
Geoff, wake up and smell the coffee – everyone on our side IS locked out of the mainstream media, The so-called media are now full-time paid political shills, there is not a single “journalist” among them worthy of the name. If the way this story is being treated doesn’t prove that to you, I don’t know what can.
And just FYI, “millions of people” do NOT watch the evening news anymore – tens of millions of people have permanently tuned out, having become convinced (and rightly so) that what is called the “news” is just the days dollop of political slop. Ratings are crashing at every MSM news show, and they soon will be dead. But the political forces that control them are still strong enough to block anyone from our side from getting on, so we have to work on this problem the way the French Resistance worked to undermine the Wehrmacht.
And that is what we do, every day, in every way we can. And sooner, rather than later, This Regime Will Fall.
Sorry friend I run a vacation cottages business and I have guests from all over the world and many from Toronto and Ottawa (tells you were I am) and 95 percent of them talk about global warming and the facts they hear on the news.
It’s fine for you to have your views on how crap the nightly news is and I to feel the same way but you are fooling yourself to think most people feel the same. They don’t. If a TV is not working in a cottage and they miss their news… does not matter if they are from France, Florida or Israel. They watch it, they talk about it and most believe it.
When you under estimate the opposition you will loose.
Some current citystate posters type the snake talk of algae of no brain at all.
Suppose in a few decades it becomes evident to most everyone that the planet is not in a runaway meltdown. Suppose in fact that it is going into another one of its mini ice ages. Do you think these chicken-littles will shut up? Of course not! The ‘reasons’ and discourse will change, but the goal remains the same: Give me MONEY! Give me POWER!
Follow the money. After you think about it, go to Media Matters and read the comments there. They all drank the Koolaid.
” As hot weather has become more frequent, people and communities have adapted to it”
Again, where has “hot weather become more frequent”??
They’re just getting us all moving in the same direction, everyone on board, working as a team. United, all one glorious people.
Workers of the world unite.
The shameless Obama ass-kissers at CBS and NBC both repeated the alarmist hype unquestioningly, except that NBC did mention that someone (not names) called the report alarmist.
To put it simply, it is of the same cloth as you can keep your health plan, and a video caused the Benghazi massacre. Somehow, the message needs to get out to the same people who are seeing through the Obama administration’s other lies.
I fear that this kind of official and institutional behavior will only be remedied by a rigorous housecleaning of the government, academia and the media of leftists, in the manner of the de-Nazification of Germany after 1945.
These people will still be clinging to the alarmist/CAGW meme even as the ice sheets of the next glaciation are advancing on them. The truth is simply not in the left. They can’t even recognize it when it slaps them upside the head. Obviously the worst winter ever recorded in Chicago didn’t get the attention of its most infamous son.
I personally think Obama knows full well that AGW is false and pursues it only as a device to consolidate totalitarian power.