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/
“michael hart says: May 6, 2014 at 6:08 pm
….. if the ‘pause’ continues they can claim success.”
Unreal or surreal, since there’s been no change at all in the pace of CO2 concentration increase for the past two decades or more.
sadly when you have a fascist/socialist/communist in charge, you will always be told it is so bad out there, the other guys are all the reasons you are not a squillionaire and then implement fascist/socialist/communist policies that take away freedoms, choices, and more than likely many peoples lives (just ask the Jews, Christians, gypsies, etc that have been killed by the above mentioned groups). They usually package it nicely with statements like “it’s for the children”, “its for the future of the planet” and other cute sounding slogans, designed to make you seem like the enemy if you ague against it.
They are already programing the masses to accept mass murder, for the sake of the planet no less, 80% I believe is their current target (themselves excluded of course). They are already getting the useful idiots riled up ready to perform street lynching’s en mass as soon as they call for it, which is why they have their lists of who is on board, so they can rid gia (of whatever they are calling the earth these days) of the unclean.
But on a funny note, if they do get rid of the productive unclean, they will die within a few short months themselves from starvation, lack of medicines, lack of well pretty much everything that sustains life as we know it, as they are unable to produce anything of use to the world themselves.
So fellow travellers, buckle in for an interesting ride, get as off grid as much as possible and sit back with some popcorn and watch them self implode and eat each other as they fail miserably.
“If you like your climate, You can keep your climate, Period”, just do exactly as “we” say…….
Cheers, Kevin.
Geoff Smith says:
May 6, 2014 at 7:51 pm
They watch it, they talk about it and most believe it.
Check this out! Has CNN turned the corner? I was very pleasantly surprised.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/05/06/crossfire-bill-nye-says-we-dont-agree-on-the-facts.cnn.html
Logic is not Bill Nye’s strong suit. CNN seems to have picked up on that weakness.
reality:
6 May: Reuters: UPDATE 2-Europe stuck with Russian gas dependence, say G7 ministers
Germany says no alternative to Russian gas in short term.
Europe will be saddled with its dependence on Russian gas for years, ministers from the Group of Seven industrial nations said on Tuesday, condemning the use of energy as a weapon of political coercion.
“I don’t know anyone in the world who could tell us how Europe’s dependency on importing Russian gas can be changed in the short term,” German Economy and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel told reporters…
U.S. shale gas was not expected to aid Europe until at least the end of the decade, when it could be imported from tankers as LNG.
Both Italy and France restated their support for the South Stream pipeline project, which will bring gas from Russia into Europe bypassing Ukraine – while also declaring the need to build up alternative channels.
A third of the EU’s gas imports is from Russia, with almost half of that passing through Ukraine…
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/06/g7-energy-gabriel-idUKL6N0NS3I220140506
suicidal?
5 May: NYT: Peter Baker: Obama Aides Tell Executives to Skip Forum
The White House has pressured the chief executives of some of America’s largest energy, financial and industrial corporations into canceling plans to attend an international economic forum in Russia to be hosted by President Vladimir V. Putin this month…
The top executives of such giants as Alcoa, Goldman Sachs, PepsiCo, Morgan Stanley, ConocoPhillips and other multinational companies with business in Russia have either pulled out of the conference or plan to do so after an intensive lobbying campaign by President Obama’s advisers. Corporate officials predicted that nearly every American C.E.O. will now skip the forum in St. Petersburg…
Among the top administration officials who have been working the telephones are Valerie Jarrett, the president’s senior adviser and liaison to business; Jacob J. Lew, the Treasury secretary; Penny Pritzker, the commerce secretary; and Jeffrey D. Zients, the national economic adviser.
“They’ve basically been saying, ‘We’re not telling you what to do, but it wouldn’t look good,’ ” said an executive at one of the companies who received such a call, and who, like others, declined to be named to avoid offending either side in the dispute…
They (some industry officials) said European or Asian competitors may simply fill the void. “Nobody wants to get caught on the wrong side of anybody in this if they can help it,” said one such official. “Some companies are trying to do their best to avoid getting trapped in this minefield.”…
At a closed meeting in Moscow of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia last week, representatives of United States firms expressed aggravation at being penalized either way. “The understanding is that those that choose to go will be on the Obama administration’s dog list,”*** concluded a participant’s summary of the session…
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/world/europe/us-urges-executives-to-skip-russian-forum.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=0
***aw shucks. that’s preferable to being on Obama’s “kill list”.
Geoff, all we have to worry about here is the political situation in the United States – that is the key to everything. Here is why: if we can take control of both houses of Congress (looking good for November), then we can block all climate related legislation here for years to come. And when it is widely publicized what we are doing, it will become obvious that the Indians and the Chinese will not do anything to hurt their economies if we won’t. And once it is established that the US, the Chinese, and the Indians aren’t going to do anything, it won’t matter what the Euro’s believe or do – they don’t have enough power left to affect anything at all, and at that point all they will be able to do is cry in their beer about it. So the Euro’s will believe we are Bad People – that and 5 bucks will buy you Venti Mocha at Starbucks, and that’s about it.
And then nothing will happen to the world after all, and it will all be forgotten.
If we win politically here in the United States, we can cut this snakes head off worldwide.
Nye was all about Sandy being a climate change disaster, but when the CNN reporter pointed out the IPCC and NCA reports saying there was no trend in hurricanes, suddenly he was saying “Hurricanes shmurricanes!”
Then the host called Nye out on the bullying and shaming that climate scientists do to anyone who merely questions the claims. Win all around.
I am not trying to grand stand but – I could not think of why all this AGW and IPCC nonsense has gone so far. And been supported by so many government officials to follow the AGW and methane & CO2 hypothesis, in order to change the climate! I honestly believe and have maintained that the this planet is an ice planet, and thinking of the 1970s series with Lenard Nimoy and late Stephen Schrieder (spelling sorry) but he was one of Gores scientific advisers with James Hansen, but it seems to have been completely dismissed. For those who are too young to remember it is on YouTube, where they discussed the likelihood of a coming ice age.
Are there no dissenting scientists, archaeologist, geologists that have proclaimed already the global warming is not happening and there is more likelihood that we are ending the interstadial or interglacial we have enjoyed for over 10,000 years? It would seem that the IPCC and other global alarmists have been trying to distract us from what could be the inevitable, that would prove far more harmful to the Northern Hemisphere particularly. Particularly if our energy use would be increased to keep us warm etc. And of course would affect crop growing.
In fact, some years ago, a news article in Australia proclaimed the Southern Hemisphere would be inundated with immigrants from the Northern Hemisphere should another ice age start.
This would be centuries away anyway for the glaciers to encroach as far as the great lakes or in Northern Europe, and UK. But it would mean a global approach and consensus would be required more than it is today. Just a thought.
This makes me physically ill. It makes me want to puke. And makes me very angry.
I watched some of Holdren’s and Podesta’s carefully stage crafted propaganda, followed by equally well coordinated coverage of that same propaganda by our local TV news stations here in the south Seattle area,making sure the message was reinforced.
Our country is being sequentially weakened, crippled deliberately, with malice a fore thought through carefully coordinated political attacks. Economically, militarily, monetarily, industrially, ethically, and morally crippled by Our Dear Leader, his administration, and the socialist democrats and spinless ‘moderate’ republicans that support increasing government controls and erosion of individual rights, to advance ‘the collective’.
In recent months, I have seen numerous posters on these pages postulating how the ‘warmists are on the run’, ‘the myth of AGW is collapsing’, and similar ‘It’s all but over’ confidence in this echo chamber of self assuring commentary……
DOES IT LOOK LIKE IT’S OVER????
DOES IT LOOK LIKE THEY ARE RUNNING AWAY????
They are pressing their crippling agenda aggressively forward and
They Are Winning.
Now, what are we going to do about it? Anybody?????
Repeating the message indefinitely is the time honoured solution. We need a one page list of the most salient FACTS with sources cited, and zero rhetoric! Update this list regularly and popularise it by circulation over time…. It needs to have a catchy and self explanatory name – suggestions?
There once was a children’s story The Emperor’s new cloths. Now we don’t need to read stories by the brothers Grimm. We have AWG to spin stories of what’s to belive we see when reality isn’t to be trusted. It only takes a child as in the story shouting: The emperor is naked…..
I am not American but I know that our Australian government is ignoring the global warming hypothesis and is trying to repeal our carbon tax for starters. But until July 1st when new members of the senate take over, they have stalled it, as it is the senate that is stopping it.
Get on to your Republicans who you may not support but if they have a good presidential nominee next year who speaks against global warming, you might have a chance to reverse this with commonsense. Hilary Clinton will be the Democratic nomination I think, and I don’t think she will win the hearts of many Americans. But you don’t need another Sarah Palin! Who says humans walked with dinosaurs. There must be many Republicans who don’t agree with AGW.
Search them out, and lobby them.
Graeme says:
May 6, 2014 at 10:31 pm
Repeating the message indefinitely is the time honoured solution. <b.We need a one page list of the most salient FACTS with sources cited, and zero rhetoric! Update this list regularly and popularise it by circulation over time…. It needs to have a catchy and self explanatory name – suggestions?
Graeme,
Good Start! One page climate fact sheet with links to references.
Name: The Climate Truth Shall Set You Free!
Who’s next???? C’mon Americans!!!!!
What are we going to do about it????
Mac
John Slayton
In case you turn up here I note that you asked on the other thread about methodology and in particular the Hann book which detailed problems that don’t seem to have been resolved published over a century ago.
I wrote about these problems here and think the book you seek is one of the first links
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/23/little-ice-age-thermometers-%E2%80%93-history-and-reliability-2/
tonyb
anthony has begun a new thread, but posting here is less O/T for what i want to say:
i just watched Patrick Michaels on australia’s APAC Channel (australian public affairs channel). excellent talk. easy to understand. Dr. Michaels has been touring australia since the end of April, and speaking at mostly sold-out events.
YET Dr. Michaels has not had a single mention in any australian MSM – no interviews whatsoever on the many taxpayer-funded ABC radio & tv programs that push CAGW non-stop. how can this be when the Australian Govt was partly elected by the public to dismantle CAGW policies? nothing in Fairfax or Murdoch media. boy, does that vindicate everything Dr. Michaels had to say in his talk.
even so, it is so extraordinary, i can hardly believe it.
btw APAC Channel doesn’t count. no-one watches it.
I don’t think it’s that they’re winning – they are in control and spewing this crap and doing whatever they please about it provides an illusion that they’re winning. Whoever believes the swill that was dished out today is truly paranoid delusional. And I’ve no doubt they’ve created some in the general population. It’s going to take a while to “recover” if we can stop those that have the reins right now.
Its all About Control.
They that know better?
Control those who know not.
So I happen to be in D.C. on business and yesterday I make my way across the the lower side of the Capitol building. There on the lawn are two dozen high schoolers with a long global warming banner and they are chanting some mindless script. Of course, on top of them are camera crews getting tight angle shots to impart the sense that this was a large and notable assembly…
It struck me that the youth and the ill informed are being preyed upon by activists and their media friends.
If you folks would like to reverse this trend, another tack would be to find some qualified experts to build a truly persuasive, scientifically defensible case that AGW theory is wrong, and then get it published in a high-quality peer-reviewed journal. I am afraid you will have a difficult time doing this, not because the journals are rigged — they’re not — but because no such argument is known.
palindrom:
I’ve already done what you suggest. See the peer-reviewed article at http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=7923 .
Rule #1 – Never let a good crises go to waste.
Rule #2 – If you do not have a good crises, make one up.
They are following the rules.
And the Weather Channel has already fallen in lock step! What a shame. I know it must really be upsetting to John Coleman to watch his baby implode on itself.
Other than local on the 8’s, it’s not worth watching anymore.
The good news is that on the climate change issue Americans are Outliers. The bad news is that even though we rate dead last, 40% of Americans still view global climate change as a “major threat” to the U.S. We know that Democrats overwhelmingly buy into the hype and pap dished out by the MSM and will swallow this latest “report” whole, without question, while Republicans generally do not. As usual though, enough people have to care that we are being lied to, and that our democratic form of government is threatened by these lies to bother showing up at the polls. The question then is, are people fed up enough? Is the level of anger high enough? I honestly don’t know.
Patrick Michaels made a joke at his talk in Sydney about how the audience didn’t need Fairfax Media, Fairfax needed them. he was correct. Fairfax churns out CAGW scare stories by the hour – unreadable. if only the Govt would now cut back taxpayer-funded ABC which costs the public over a billion dollars a year. they have multiple TV & radio stations all over Australia, with CAGW inserted into virtually every program. unwatchable, unlistenable.
the MSM is suicidal. this is the latest round of cuts at Fairfax:
7 May: ABC: Fairfax journalists strike over loss of 80 jobs at The Age, Sydney Morning Herald
Fairfax staff have gone on strike for 24 hours in protest after the company announced it was set to cut about 80 full-time positions across newsrooms in Sydney and Melbourne…
As a result, 35 editorial jobs were on the line, 30 photographers would lose their jobs and 15 positions would be lost from the Life magazine division, the company said, as any “new arrangements will absorb more copy-editing and page layout work”…
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) federal secretary Christopher Warren called the cuts “an assault on the quality journalism” that might lead to a decline in the volume and quality of content…
“It strips a massive loss in skills, experience and knowledge from the group,” he said…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-07/fairfax-journalists-strike-for-24-hours-over-loss-of-80-jobs/5436232?google_editors_picks=true
palindrom = troll
Palindrom — I think you mean CAGW. No-one in their right mind denies that humans influence climate — we’ve been doing that since we invented agriculture; the question is, how much, and whether there is any point in wrecking our economies trying to change the scale of that influence. The CAGW conjecture, on the other hand, does not have to be proven ‘wrong’, because its proponents have not as yet adduced any concrete, empirical evidence in its favour. It’s not surprising that no argument exists against it — there is nothing against which to argue.