Quotes of the Week: Some early comments on the National Climate Assesment report

From the WP article:
“By the end of the century, temperatures could be up to 5 degrees higher if the nation acts aggressively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industry, or up to 10 degrees if emissions are high.”
The taxpayer is now funding climatastrology. I predict we will soon be experiencing the “Jeane Dixon effect”, which refers to a tendency to promote a few correct predictions while ignoring a larger number of incorrect predictions.

I have never seen the leadership of the United States so completely and thoroughly self destructive. The coverage from the MSM is nothing short of breathless panic.
There was a poll a while back about forming a lobby group. I voted no because I think the opportunity for it to become derailed from its initial intent is massive. But ANYTHING is better than this. Change my vote to yes.

Wobbles wibbles. Was he wearing his underpants on his head when he wrote this tripe?

The satellite shots released this week comparing “snowpack” of the Sierras after a giant snowstorm years ago with a shot after weeks of dry weather in ’14 convinced me that the alarmists have absolutely no respect for their target audience (some of whom post here).
Because science!

davidmhoffer says:
May 6, 2014 at 9:00 am
“I have never seen the leadership of the United States so completely and thoroughly self destructive.”
We in the U.S. have an opportunity in November to change course and take political power from the extreme left wing eco-progressives who are destroying our country. Current polling indicates that a massive change is indeed coming…

Frank K.
We in the U.S. have an opportunity in November to change course and take political power from the extreme left wing eco-progressives who are destroying our country.
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Not being an American, I don’t mix into issues of Democrats vs Republicans. But the issue goes far beyond the eco-lunacy. The Obama Doctrine is making the world a very dangerous place. Obama has been outmaneuvered to the point of absurdity on everything from relations with Russia, the crisis in the Ukraine, the crisis in Syria, the Iranian threat, China carving off chunks of territory for themselves from the Philippines and Japan. The only thing that the Israelis and Palestinians can agree on is that Obama’s administration hasn’t got a clue. In the absence of strong leadership from the United States, the power vacuum in the world is being filled by the most odious regimes on the planet. While Obama was busy studying the practice of law in a civilized country, Putin, Kim, Assad, the Ayatollah’s and China’s leadership were studying Machiavelli and Art of War. They are conducting themselves on the basis of rules Obama seems oblivious to the existence of, and hence finds himself out foxed at every turn.
Obama has chosen in climate, an opponent he believes cannot fight back. One he can beat. On this to he is a fool. The climate will do whatever it does quite independently of Obama’s policies. He’s hung his last vestige of hope for a positive legacy on an issue that will ultimately make his idiocy plain. The legacy he will leave behind will attest to the damage he has done on the world stage as well as to the country he supposedly serves.

National Climate Assessment Report 2014
(this message approved by Bernie Madoff, Soapy Smith, Frank Abagnale, Charles Ponzi, Michael Moore, Al Gore, Baghdad Bob and the Four Horses of the Apocalypse)

I wrote up my reaction to the draft of the NCA here http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/hyping-catastrophe-to-eliminate-the-supposed-mismatch-between-human-minds-and-the-world-we-inhabit/ and will be looking for comparable language to what I found there and in the recent IPCC report. The insistence on personal and societal transformations in advance of any actual proof of the model that take us in a decidedly Marxist Human Development Society direction.
The IPCC tucked it into its peculiar definition of adaptation and the idea of the necessity of Climate-Resilient Pathways.

Sadly, look at how we have come full circle.
The American marxists have recapitulated the Soviet Union’s marxist AGW, Thermageddon, Climate Change, “climate disruption” Lysenkoism. We truly live in a repressive state when our president spouts such tripe and his thugs & cronies croon the same music and enforce meme compliance.

Ah, John Podesta, founder, Center for American Progress.
According to the May 5, Washington Examiner our dear John Podesta had this to say:
‘And the senior White House official (Podesta) criticized those who deny the effects of climate change.
“I’d say that probably look out your window,” he said to critics.
“If you want to try to side with the polluters and argue to the American public that climate change is not happening, today, tomorrow and certainly in the future, that’s going to be a losing argument,” he added.
Now I’d like to ask this cofounder of the powerhouse Washington lobbying firm, the Podesta Group, what window he, when he’s over at the home of his other cofounder, his brother, Tony, that he looks out of? And which home; the one in Washington? Or the one in Virginia? Or, for a Southern Pacific romp; the one in Australia? Or, for a place truly romantic; the home in Italy?
Now, I suspect that our dear John would be on board with reducing his own carbon footprint, not so much as to show solidarity with the little people that he expects to do so, but, if for nothing else, than to protect the climate he so dearly loves. So I wouldn’t expect Johnny (is it ok to call you that, Johnny?) to wave from one of his co lobbyists, and brother Tony’s homes in Australia or Italy: All that carbon spewing jet mileage. But the least you could do, Johnny, is wag your boney finger at your younger brother Tony for all those frequent flier, carbon spewing jet flights to that Italian getaway. My understanding is that Tony Podesta, and wife Heather (also a lobbyist) traveled there several times a year. Oh, the climate horror! But, then, the planet can acquire comfort knowing that that has only been going on for 10 years, and at least it was a colorful 10 years. According to the January 15, Washington Post, Heather and Tony, ‘Wed in 2003 (her third marriage, his second), the popular twosome cut an unusually colorful swath through Washington’s political scene — she in cutting-edge designer clothes and heels, he in graphic ties and trademark red Prada loafers.’ Ah, but maybe we can accept the carbon footprints of those frequent flier flights after all. Perhaps those Prada loafers are cheaper in Italy. Moreover, we can draw comfort in the fact that those multi-yearly Italian honeymoon anniversary destinations have come to an end. Maybe John Podesta’s concern for the climate modified their behavior after all. Or, maybe it’s because John’s brother Tony and sister in law Heather are untying the knot. Of course it’s a contentious divorce; all that artwork (they both were art collectors, you know) to split up. And, who gets what mansions?
Now, President Barack Obama, never one to overlook the potential political benefits a contentious divorce, or marital infidelity can provide, seems to be (as he is often called) aloof. But, then again, who knows: According to the January 15, Washington Post, ‘During the 2008 Democratic convention, Heather wore a large L-shaped pin — for “Lobbyist” — in mock defiance of then-candidate Barack Obama’s anti-lobbyist rhetoric.’ But I really shouldn’t insinuate that, after enlisting John Podesta’s aid in December, the POTUS had a vested interest in tamping down John’s, Podesta Group’s cofounder and lobbyist brother, Tony’s, lobbyist wife’s, Heather’s (complicated, eh?) lobbyist braggadocio. After all, that was so 2008 and Obama’s clearly moved on.
Hm, these people expect the rest of us to live in a world of want and austerity? I like Glenn Reynold’s typical response:
Tar. Feathers.

It has come to a pretty pass when governments lie so blatantly. They offer up terrifying ‘scenarios’ to grab equally lurid headlines.
‘Up to 5 degrees of warming and a 4 foot sea level rise’ in the next 86 years? Pure unadulterated bullshit. Absurd claims that are so off the wall deliberately misleading that they’re tantamount to fraud.
Meanwhile, bugger all ‘warming’ for the thick end of 2 decades…