From the American Chemical Society
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2014 — Yesterday’s release of the third National Climate Assessment (NCA) should serve as a claxon [SIC] call for policymakers and the general public to take action to address and mitigate the observable and documented adverse climate disruption impacts being observed in every region and key economic sector of the United States.
These impacts, which have been observed and measured, are wreaking havoc with our society. This is a not a theoretical assessment; this report cites changes we are all observing and with which we are living. The future climate trends outlined in the report are even more dire. We should all be deeply concerned.
Of the report’s five major findings, the fifth describes the disturbing probable outcome of climate disruption currently being observed:
“Climate change threatens human health and well-being in many ways, including through more extreme weather events and wildfire, decreased air quality, and diseases transmitted by insects, food and water.”
ACS has long held the position that climate change is real and serious and that our nation needs strong policies and actions to protect against further adverse impacts, and we need to address the impacts we are already observing.
For 14 years, ACS has held a climate change policy position, which has been strengthened and updated routinely as new scientific analyses became available. The current public policy statement can be found by clicking on this link.
To assist its members, policymakers and the general public understand the science behind our climate, the ACS created an online Climate Science Toolkit of scientific information and resources.
The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 161,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
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Time after time after time…. NOTHING BUT HOT AIR AND BOGUS AIRBORNE PARTICULATES from U.S. federal grant-stooge (a.k.a. “__ society” or “__ agency” or “___ school of___”) after grant-stooge after grant-stooge…
“The planet NEEDS us…. MILLIONS OF DEGREES!!!! ….GLOBAL WARMING…. CLIMATE CHANGE….. WEIRRRRD WEATHER……. (gaaack…. cough…. gaaack!)….”
Good for a few laughs…. for awhile…. .
Now? The public is just plain sick and tired of it.
ACS — you are just SO 90’s (eye roll).
Coming soon — Flour Blowdryer II ! — in which big Joe Public tears that sucker out of the wall, heh.
Good night, ACS. Thanks for being such a great straight-person. Your check will be in the mail.
Janice
#(:))
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
May 7, 2014 at 10:21 pm
“There is the familiar CRC Handbook . . . ”
. . . had an interesting beginning as a marketing incentive to sell rubber aprons for lab work.
I heard this in 1966 from the Head of the Chemistry Dept – he was nearing retirement at that time and knew the history. Now it is online:
http://www.crcpress.com/aboutus/history
To state the obvious, this was not a “nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress.” And that’s a good thing. If it were a govt. thing chemistry students would have scars all over.
These impacts, which have been observed and measured, are wreaking havoc with our society.
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First thing we need to do is cut out all chemicals. Many of them are toxic and could cause cancer. People that work in the chemical industry don’t care about the future. They are shills in the pay of Big Chemical and deserve prison for the harm their poisons are doing to the environment.
“. . . adverse climate disruption impacts being observed in every region and key economic sector . . .”
In other words, they are saying that overpaying thousands of alarmist (pseudo)researchers with billions of public money has an impact. It definitely has: It makes those fat sinecure cats even fatter.
Full scale disconnection from reality,
“…the observable and documented adverse climate disruption impacts being observed in every region and key economic sector of the United States.”
The real epidemic is OLiars Disease, spreading at an unprecedented rate!
“the observable and documented adverse climate disruption impacts being observed in every region and key economic sector of the United States”
Aside from the poor prose, what are these “impacts”, how are they connected with “climate disruption” (is there such a thing?), and what can we do to mitigate them?
ABC World News Now, the news-like overnight airtime filler, just headlined with an “EXTREME WEATHER” piece, citing the heat wave and drought the climate scientists had predicted, with the on-screen subtitle “Tornadoes, High Winds, and Hail in the Heartland”, finishing with how this is expected with our rapidly warming climate.
In other words, normal spring weather has arrived in the central US.
“To assist its members, policymakers and the general public understand the science behind our climate, the ACS created an online Climate Science Toolkit of scientific information and resources”.
“A Climate Science Toolkit” of “scientific information” Gee, you know I thought the science was settled??? Right??? So why do they need a “Toolkit”? ( But I sincerely hope they forgot where the key is. btw Janice, love your barbs 🙂 ) The bloody BS is so deep it is getting beyond bizarre.
“Thus the ACS has a long history of dictating how to think and present your work if you want any respected science authorities anywhere to at least look at your work. Obey them or be damned to obscurity.
But they do not publish a similar handbook of facts, as facts do not matter. The presentation, and controlling the presentations, is what’s most important.”
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Nahhhh…I’m a Chem E. (long ago) and the CRC tables were 6 inches thick, filled with data on constants, conversion factors, steam tables, and all sorts of carp chem e.’s would need to consult in the real world. Have they added “warming” bullbleep since then? Someone straighten me out, if so. And even if, that surely must amount only to a coupla pages out of a thousand or so.
As for publishing “facts”: what the hell “facts”(other than conversion factors, units, etc.) would they be expected to publish, in a world of bazillion publications on all sorts of chemical topics?
“Facts do not matter”???? WTF?? That’s a particularly dim non sequitur. The entire CRC offers mathematical, physical and chemical FACTS.
As for their style book: that’s only a guide on how to present articles for publication, not a prescription as to what to say. It’s a reference, not a Bible. No one forces anyone to use it, and no one is kept from offering/publishing articles if they don’t.
Jeez, I think the ACS is entirely off the wall on AGW. But lets not accuse them of engaging in things that are irrelevancies.
“To assist its members, policymakers and the general public understand the science behind our climate, the ACS created an online Climate Science Toolkit of scientific information and resources”.
That is, of course, entirely apart from the claims against the CRC.
The ACS Statement is only 7 paragraphs long but manages to insist 6 different times that climate disruption is being observed. Apparently repeating something over and over makes it more believable and scientifically robust. Below is a list of the 6 phrases containing a reference to observations.
Adverse climate disruption impacts:
1. Are “observable and documented”
2. Are “being observed in every region and key economic sector of the United States”
3. Have been “observed and measured”
4. Are cited as “changes we are all observing and with which we are living”
5. “Describes the disturbing probable outcome of climate disruption currently being observed”
6. “And we need to address the impacts we are already observing”
It’s almost as if they think they can convince everyone that climate disruption is real and observable by just repeating the claims over and over. If climate disruption impacts have already been “observed,” “measured,” and “documented,” show me the actual data. Don’t give me a bunch of vague statements about “probable outcomes” that are supposed to show up sometime in the future. I have yet to observe any “disturbing” impacts from climate change or climate disruption in my region of the United States. So no matter how many times they tell me the emperor is wearing a dark and ominous suit of dirty CO2, all I see is a naked Al Gore surrounded by invisible gas.
When I hear “Green” and “Sustainability”, my hair stands on end!
From the ACS website:
(Thanks, Rosa Koire, for alerting us.)
All together now… “It’s worse than we thought” (TM)
Maybe it’s just me and I missed the critical words. Can someone show me where is the official statement the American Chemical Society mentions or hits at any of the following?:
‘man-made, greenhouse gases, fossil, anthropogenic’, etc.
It looks like they have been very careful in their official statement from what I have seen. Maybe they are hedging their bets. PS I have been told time and time and time again by Warmists that the United States WAS only a fraction of the planet. Today it resemble Godzilla.
From Anna Keppa on May 7, 2014 at 11:49 pm:
Author Guidelines for the Journal of Chemical Education:
Etc. ACS forces its use in their publications, and they are “…the world’s largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences.” Like an NIST or EIA standard, you aren’t forced to comply everywhere, but don’t expect a great reception if you don’t.
This misuse/spelling of “claxon” is very likely a conflation of clarion and klaxon, i.e. a clarion call.
This kind of mistake in using idiom (in writing) is almost always indicative of a sloppy mind, but in this case we already knew that.
As I skimmed through their “public policy statement on climate change” I saw the root of all evil.
Funding has in no way influenced their “public policy statement on climate change”. I notice their advocacy page too with a link to
.
“For 14 years, ACS has held a climate change policy position, which has been strengthened and updated routinely as new scientific analyses became available.”
So they have held this position for almost exactly as long as the globally-acknowledged ‘pause’ in global warming increase. To quote St. Anthony of Watt – “The stupid, it burns”.
A few climate scientists have made predictions that are actually coming true. Here is one of them:
“We can expect climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile…” – Dr. Kenneth Green, a Working Group 1 expert reviewer for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“For 14 years, ACS has held a climate change policy position, which has been strengthened and updated routinely as new scientific analyses became available.”
Oh Yeah ?
How was it “updated” to reflect the absense of the supposed warming for longer than that “policy position” has wailing about it?
ACS seems to repeat what U.S. Congress decides.
P.S. “Claxon” is how Spanish or Romanian native speakers would spell it.
Poor timing by the ACS.
At the moment the “molecule of the week” on the webpage is LSD.
http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en.html
So it’s official; the Warmists are now claiming that weather is indeed climate.
They have truly lost the plot.