Obama invokes 'tauntology' in discussing climate skeptics

I’ll say it
The problem you’re trying to solve simply doesn’t exist.

I disagree with the President. Cool. He disagrees with me. Even cooler. In America it is cool to disagree with the status quo. One might say it’s my Patriotic Duty to disagree with the nation’s President, I mean, if the moon really really is made of cheese.

He’s fixed the economy and health care and the Middle East, why not let him fix the weather?

i just posted the Daily Mail version on the “lousy data” thread. i haven’t stopped laughing since i read it:
15 June: Daily Mail: AP: Denying climate change is like saying the moon is made of cheese, argues Obama as he takes on global warming deniers at commencement speech.
He says Congress is ‘full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence’ of climate change
While in Orange County, the president also attended a closed-door fundraiser at the Laguna Beach home of Getty oil heiress Anne Earhart…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2658079/Denying-climate-change-like-saying-moon-cheese-argues-Obama-takes-global-warming-deniers-commencement-speech.html
this guy wants people to pay skyrocketing electricity prices to keep the CAGW scam going!
15 June: ABC: Obama Longs to Break out of White House Bubble
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press
“I think frankly we’ve all been through a cold and bitter winter and the bear has cabin fever,” said Obama friend and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. “His cabin is a little bit bigger and harder to escape than most.”…
Obama interspersed his four-day weekend with official duties, including Democratic Party fundraising, a speech on climate change and calls to his national security adviser discussing military options to stop a violent insurgency in Iraq…
Obama has taken three weekends away in a golf-friendly place this year after kicking off 2014 on the links in Hawaii.
The Obama family also is planning a longer-than-usual summer vacation to Martha’s Vineyard for two weeks in August, where last summer the president golfed nearly every day on the island.
Obama has golfed every weekend since Washington’s weather got clear enough to allow it in April, save a week when he was in Asia…
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-longs-break-white-house-bubble-24144367

what Quinn said ^

What Quinn said.

What Iron308 said Quinn said^

I assume you spelled “tautology” deliberately as “tauntology”.
It’s a new word. I like it.

I was listening to this on the radio yesterday as I drove to San Diego to pick up my Marine son, who, btw, makes less than a hamburger flipper in Seattle, and Obama made the point that he knew global warming was real because last summer he gave a speech about it and it was 95 degrees out and he was sweating. (At that point I turned off the radio) Please don’t ever think he actually believes this crap. He knows the truth, and he knows that he needs to jam as much control over the economy as he can before the AMO flips and the Arctic ice puts the lie to all this climate change b.s.

So who is it that denies the climate is changing? Because I don’t believe I have heard of anybody like that.
What I have heard people discussing is just what the causes of the climate change are and how to deal with those changes.
Not quite the same thing, Mr. President.
But why deal with the truth and with reality when lies, half-truths and sound bites are so much easier to deal with.

Dave says:
June 15, 2014 at 6:00 am
Perhaps B Hussein doesn’t care about any of those issues listed above climate change.
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Make no mistake and I don’t doubt for a minute: They’re getting exactly what they want.
Maybe not as fast as they’d like so they have to settle for smaller bites.
but
They’re getting exactly what they want.
The true team members have to make sure the people believe in CAGW not if they consider it a priority.
As long as the people accept the science the government wanted when it was paid for then whatever the president and his agencies must do to save the planet is a good thing.
cn

Scarface says:
June 15, 2014 at 6:30 am
With so little to worry about, I would focus on climate too. No deficit, no unemployment, no poverty, no illegals, no atomic bomb in Iran, no caliphate in Iraq or Syria, no al qaida, no boko haram, no scandals and a booming economy.
Actually, it’s just next on the Conservative’s checklist provided in the article:
Jobs? More people not working than ever before. Check
Deficit? A trillion a year should do it. Check
Morals? Shown that the laws, and even the Constitution do not apply to him. Check
Healthcare? Obamacare ought to mess it up in short order. Check
Immigration? Let’s see them deal with a flood of kids. Check
Climate? Hmmm…lots of possibilities here.
By the way, anyone notice that the group labeled “Liberal” is the only one that puts Climate above Morals? Maybe that’s what happens when you’ve got to lie through your teeth to make your case.

It’s all those photus ops…
Evrybuddy say Cheese!

The following are the remarks delivered by OSTP Director John Holdren at the International Space Exploration Forum in January of this year.
“First, you should know that as someone who spent the first part of his professional career immersed in aerospace engineering and rocket science, I stand before you not just as President Obama’s science and technology advisor but as someone who is personally passionate about space exploration.
More important, you should know that the President shares that passion. I don’t think he was making mini solid-rocket motors out of his mother’s empty lipstick tubes as a kid, as I was. But I do know that he was inspired by the space program from a very young age and that he cares intensely today about the challenges and rewards of reaching beyond the confines of our planet.
And while the United States, like other nations, needs to temper its ambitions with budgetary realities…”
The following are the comments Tom Judd would like to make in regards to John Holdren’s remarks regurgitated directly above:
First, you should know that as someone who spent the first part of his professional career at a mid level, non managerial, job immersed in paying income taxes beyond a level sufficient to fund a home mortgage I stand before you not just as President Obama’s employer (as he relentlessly forgets all we voters are), and not just as one of his science, technology, history, business, economic, human relations (and all the myriad other specialties combined from the other vast swathe of his other voter) advisors, but as someone who is personally passionate about why his tax money finances Obama to utilize not one, but two jumbo jets to fly to Hawaii for Christmas when he has the audacity to tell me not to drive to work.
More important, you should know that because it’s not his money the President doesn’t share that passion at all. Now, unlike Obama’s science advisor I wasn’t making mini solid-rocket motors out of my mother’s empty lipstick tubes as a kid since I knew the proper use of an empty lipstick tube was to write ‘go home’ on the bathroom mirrors shortly before the lipstick tube was actually empty. (And the point of that was as a message for people who had overstayed their welcome.) And, unlike President Obama’s science advisor (who, thankfully at least knows the moon isn’t made out of cheese) I find it extraordinarily difficult to believe Obama was inspired by the space program from a very young age growing up in Indonesia (nor by his adolescent tutor in Hawaii, Franklin Davis), and that he cares intensely, or at all, about the challenges and rewards of reaching beyond the confines of our planet. Unless, of course, it can inflate his ego.
And while Obama, like other national leaders, needs to temper ‘his’ ambitions with budgetary realities can John Holdren not utterly insult our intelligence (I know that’s asking a lot) by insinuating that his administration actually has any intention whatsoever of doing so.
And, in closing, I would like to thank Mr. Anthony Watts, and his contributors, and moderators, for the profound service they continually, and in the complete absence of taxpayer funding, provide to us all.
Thank you very much.

The AP/ABC News report begins:

President Barack Obama said denying climate change is like arguing the moon is made of cheese, as he issued a call to action on global warming to Saturday’s graduates of the University of California, Irvine.

The irony being that intelligent critics of the kind of climate policies being pushed by Barack Obama believe that the moon was made from a major interplanetary collision and that the Earth’s climate is made, to a very large degree, by the resulting two-planet system, which may be unique in the known universe.
Well at least some intelligent policy sceptics think that, like Matt Ridley.

Transcript of UCI commencement speech 6-14-2014 by President Obama:
“(Various greetings, then) . . .one of the most significant long-term challenges that our country and our planet faces: the growing threat of a rapidly changing climate.
Now, this isn’t a policy speech. I understand it’s a commencement, and I already delivered a long climate address last summer. I remember because it was 95 degrees and my staff had me do it outside, and I was pouring with sweat — as a visual aid. (Laughter.) And since this is a very educated group, you already know the science. Burning fossil fuels release carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide traps heat. Levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere are higher than they’ve been in 800,000 years.
We know the trends. The 18 warmest years on record have all happened since you graduates were born. We know what we see with our own eyes. Out West, firefighters brave longer, harsher wildfire seasons; states have to budget for that. Mountain towns worry about what smaller snowpacks mean for tourism. Farmers and families at the bottom worry about what it will mean for their water. In cities like Norfolk and Miami, streets now flood frequently at high tide. Shrinking icecaps have National Geographic making the biggest change in its atlas since the Soviet Union broke apart.
So the question is not whether we need to act. The overwhelming judgment of science, accumulated and measured and reviewed over decades, has put that question to rest. BS The question is whether we have the will to act before it’s too late. For if we fail to protect the world we leave not just to my children, but to your children and your children’s children, we will fail one of our primary reasons for being on this world in the first place. And that is to leave the world a little bit better for the next generation.
Now, the good is you already know all this. UC Irvine set up the first Earth System Science Department in America. (Applause.) A UC Irvine professor-student team won the Nobel Prize for discovering that CFCs destroy the ozone layer. (Applause.) A UC Irvine glaciologist’s work led to one of last month’s report showing one of the world’s major ice sheets in irreversible retreat. Students and professors are in the field working to predict changing weather patterns, fire seasons, and water tables — working to understand how shifting seasons affect global ecosystems; to get zero-emission vehicles on the road faster; to help coastal communities adapt to rising seas. And when I challenge colleges to reduce their energy use to 20 percent by 2020, UC Irvine went ahead and did it last year. Done. (Applause.) So UC Irvine is ahead of the curve. All of you are ahead of the curve.
Your generation reminds me of something President Wilson once said. He said, “Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American.” That’s who we are.
And if you need a reason to be optimistic about our future, then look around this stadium. Because today, in America, the largest single age group is 22 years ago. And you are going to do great things. And I want you to know that I’ve got your back — because one of the reasons I ran for this office was because I believed our dangerous addiction to foreign oil left our economy at risk and our planet in peril. So when I took office, we set out to use more clean energy and less dirty energy, and waste less energy overall.
And since then, we’ve doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas by the middle of the next decade. We’ve tripled the electricity we harness from the wind, generating enough last year to power every home in California. We’ve multiplied the electricity we generate from the sun 10 times over. And this state, California, is so far ahead of the rest of the country in solar, that earlier this year solar power met 18 percent of your total power demand one day. (Applause.)
The bottom line is, America produces more renewable energy than ever, more natural gas than anyone. And for the first time in nearly two decades, we produce more oil here at home than we buy from other countries. And these advances have created jobs and grown our economy, and helped cut our carbon pollution to levels not seen in about 20 years. Since 2006, no country on Earth has reduced its total carbon pollution by as much as the United States of America. (Applause.)
So that’s all reason for optimism. Here’s the challenge: We’ve got to do more. What we’re doing is not enough. And that’s why, a couple weeks ago, America proposed new standards to limit the amount of harmful carbon pollution that power plants can dump into the air. And we also have to realize, as hundreds of scientists declared last month, that climate change is no longer a distant threat, but “has moved firmly into the present.” That’s a quote. In some parts of the country, weather-related disasters like droughts, and fires, and storms, and floods are going to get harsher and they’re going to get costlier. And that’s why, today, I’m announcing a new $1 billion competitive fund to help communities prepare for the impacts of climate change and build more resilient infrastructure across the country. (Applause.)
So it’s a big problem. But progress, no matter how big the problem, is possible. That’s important to remember. Because no matter what you do in life, you’re going to run up against big problems — in your own personal life and in your communities and in your country. There’s going to be a stubborn status quo, and there are going to be people determined to stymie your efforts to bring about change. There are going to be people who say you can’t do something. There are going to be people who say you shouldn’t bother. I’ve got some experience in this myself. (Laughter.)
Now, part of what’s unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It’s pretty rare that you’ll encounter somebody who says the problem you’re trying to solve simply doesn’t exist. When President Kennedy set us on a course for the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn’t be worth it; it was going to be too expensive, it was going to be too hard, it would take too long. But nobody ignored the science. I don’t remember anybody saying that the moon wasn’t there or that it was made of cheese. (Laughter.)
And today’s Congress, though, is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence about climate change. They will tell you it is a hoax, or a fad. One member of Congress actually says the world is cooling. There was one member of Congress who mentioned a theory involving “dinosaur flatulence” — which I won’t get into. (Laughter.)
Now, their view may be wrong — and a fairly serious threat to everybody’s future — but at least they have the brass to say what they actually think. There are some who also duck the question. They say — when they’re asked about climate change, they say, “Hey, look, I’m not a scientist.” And I’ll translate that for you. What that really means is, “I know that manmade climate change really is happening, but if I admit it, I’ll be run out of town by a radical fringe that thinks climate science is a liberal plot, so I’m not going to admit it.” (Applause.)
Now, I’m not a scientist either, but we’ve got some really good ones at NASA. I do know that the overwhelming majority of scientists who work on climate change, including some who once disputed the data, have put that debate to rest. The writer, Thomas Friedman, recently put it to me this way. He were talking, and he says, “Your kid is sick, you consult 100 doctors; 97 of them tell you to do this, three tell [you] to do that, and you want to go with the three?”
The fact is, this should not be a partisan issue. After all, it was Republicans who used to lead the way on new ideas to protect our environment. It was Teddy Roosevelt who first pushed for our magnificent national parks. It was Richard Nixon who signed the Clean Air Act and opened the EPA. George H.W. Bush — a wonderful man who at 90 just jumped out of a plane in a parachute — (laughter) — said that “human activities are changing the atmosphere in unexpected and unprecedented ways.” John McCain and other Republicans publicly supported free market-based cap-and-trade bills to slow carbon pollution just a few years ago — before the Tea Party decided it was a massive threat to freedom and liberty.
These days, unfortunately, nothing is happening. Even minor energy efficiency bills are killed on the Senate floor. And the reason is because people are thinking about politics instead of thinking about what’s good for the next generation. What’s the point of public office if you’re not going to use your power to help solve problems? (Applause.)
And part of the challenge is that the media doesn’t spend a lot of time covering climate change and letting average Americans know how it could impact our future. Now, the broadcast networks’ nightly newscasts spend just a few minutes a month covering climate issues. On cable, the debate is usually between political pundits, not scientists. When we introduced those new anti-pollution standards a couple weeks ago, the instant reaction from the Washington’s political press wasn’t about what it would mean for our planet; it was what would it mean for an election six months from now. And that kind of misses the point. Of course, they’re not scientists, either.
And I want to tell you all this not to discourage you. I’m telling you all this because I want to light a fire under you. As the generation getting shortchanged by inaction on this issue, I want all of you to understand you cannot accept that this is the way it has to be.
The climate change deniers suggest there’s still a debate over the science. There is not. The talking heads on cable news suggest public opinion is hopelessly deadlocked. It is not. Seven in ten Americans say global warming is a serious problem. Seven in ten say the federal government should limit pollution from our power plants. And of all the issues in a recent poll asking Americans where we think we can make a difference, protecting the environment came out on top. (Applause.)
So we’ve got public opinion potentially on our side. We can do this. We can make a difference. You can make a difference. And the sooner you do, the better — not just for our climate, but for our economy. There’s a reason that more than 700 businesses like Apple and Microsoft, and GM and Nike, Intel, Starbucks have declared that “tackling climate change is one of America’s greatest economic opportunities in the 21st century.” The country that seizes this opportunity first will lead the way. A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine for growth and jobs for decades to come, and I want America to build that engine. Because if we do, others will follow. I want those jobs; I want those opportunities; I want those businesses right here in the United States of America. (Applause.)
Developing countries are using more and more energy, and tens of millions of people are entering the global middle class, and they want to buy cars and refrigerators. So if we don’t deal with this problem soon, we’re going to be overwhelmed. These nations have some of the fastest-rising levels of carbon pollution. They’re going to have to take action to meet this challenge. They’re more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than we are. They’ve got even more to lose. But they’re waiting to see what does America do. That’s what the world does. It waits to watch us act. And when we do, they move. And I’m convinced that on this issue, when America proves what’s possible, then they’re going to join us.
And America cannot meet this threat alone. Of course, the world cannot meet it without America. This is a fight that America must lead. So I’m going to keep doing my part for as long as I hold this office and as long as I’m a citizen once out of office. But we’re going to need you, the next generation, to finish the job.
We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. (Applause.) We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy.
In other words, we need you. (Applause.) We need you. And if you believe, like I do, that something has to be done on this, then you’re going to have to speak out. You’re going to have to learn more about these issues. Even if you’re not like Jessica and an expert, you’re going to have to work on this. You’re going to have to push those of us in power to do what this American moment demands. You’ve got to educate your classmates, and colleagues, and family members and fellow citizens, and tell them what’s at stake. You’ve got to push back against the misinformation, and speak out for facts, and organize others around your vision for the future.
You need to invest in what helps, and divest from what harms. And you’ve got to remind everyone who represents you, at every level of government, that doing something about climate change is a prerequisite for your vote.
It’s no accident that when President Kennedy needed to convince the nation that sending Americans into space was a worthy goal, he went to a university. That’s where he started. Because a challenge as big as that, as costly as that, as difficult as that, requires a spirit of youth. It requires a spirit of adventure; a willingness to take risks. It requires optimism. It requires hope. That day, a man told us we’d go to the moon within a decade. And despite all the naysayers, somehow we knew as a nation that we’d build a spaceship and we’d meet that goal.
That’s because we’re Americans — and that’s what we do. Even when our political system is consumed by small things, we are a people called to do big things. And progress on climate change is a big thing. Progress won’t always be flashy; it will be measured in disasters averted, and lives saved, and a planet preserved — and days just like this one, 20 years from now, and 50 years from now, and 100 years from now. But can you imagine a more worthy goal — a more worthy legacy — than protecting the world we leave to our children?
So I ask your generation to help leave us that legacy. I ask you to believe in yourselves and in one another, and above all, when life gets you down or somebody tells you you can’t do something, to believe in something better.
There are people here who know what it means to dream. When Mohamad Abedi was a boy, the suffering he saw in refugee camps in Lebanon didn’t drive him into despair — it inspired him to become a doctor. And when he came to America, he discovered a passion for engineering. So here, at UC Irvine, he became a biomedical engineer to study the human brain. (Applause.) And Mohamad said, “Had I never come to the United States, I would have never had the ability to do the work that I’m doing.” He’s now going to CalTech to keep doing that work.
Cinthia Flores is the daughter of a single mom who worked as a seamstress and a housekeeper. (Applause.) The first in her family to graduate from high school. The first in her family to graduate from college. And in college, she says, “I learned about myself that I was good at advocating for others, and that I was argumentative — so maybe I should go to law school.” And, today, Cinthia is now the first in her family to graduate from law school. And she plans to advocate for the rights of workers like her mom. (Applause.) She says, “I have the great privilege and opportunity to answer the call of my community.” “The bottom line,” she says, “is being of service.”
On 9/11, Aaron Anderson was a sophomore in college. Several months later, he was in training for Army Special Forces. He fought in Afghanistan, and on February 28th, 2006, he was nearly killed by an IED. He endured dozens of surgeries to save his legs, months of recovery at Walter Reed. When he couldn’t physically return to active duty, he devoted his time to his brothers in arms, starting two businesses with fellow veterans, and a foundation to help fellow wounded Green Beret soldiers. And then he went back to school. And last December, he graduated summa cum laude from UC Irvine. And Aaron is here today, along with four soon-to-be commissioned ROTC cadets, and 65 other graduating veterans. And I would ask them to stand and be recognized for their service. (Applause.)
The point is, you know how to dream. And you know how to work for your dreams. And, yes, sometimes you may be “super underrated.” But usually it’s the underrated, the underdogs, the dreamers, the idealists, the fighters, the argumentative — those are the folks who do the biggest things.
And this generation — this 9/11 generation of soldiers; this new generation of scientists and advocates and entrepreneurs and altruists — you’re the antidote to cynicism. It doesn’t mean you’re not going to get down sometimes. You will. You’ll know disillusionment. You’ll experience doubt. People will disappoint you by their actions. But that can’t discourage you.
Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or started a business, or fed a young mind, or sent men into space. Cynicism is a choice. Hope is a better choice. (Applause.)
Hope is what gave young soldiers the courage to storm a beach and liberate people they never met.
Hope is what gave young students the strength to sit in and stand up and march for women’s rights, and civil rights, and voting rights, and gay rights, and immigration rights.
Hope is the belief, against all evidence to the contrary, that there are better days ahead, and that together we can build up a middle class, and reshape our immigration system, and shield our children from gun violence, and shelter future generations from the ravages of climate change.
Hope is the fact that, today, the single largest age group in America is 22 years old who are all just itching to reshape this country and reshape the world. And I cannot wait to see what you do tomorrow.
Congratulations. (Applause.) Thank you, Class of 2014. God bless you. God bless the United States of America. (Applause.).” — end transcript

The content of his speech reveals the content of his heart — and the lack of content in his head.
A MORE IMPORTANT POINT.
The left accuses the Republican Party of being taken over by ring-wing radicals. The reality is that the Democratic Party has been taken over by left-wing radicals.
Give it a moment’s thought and you will realize that the right-wing of the Republican Party advocates nothing that the Democratic Party of JFK would not have endorsed or was actually, back then, a part of the Democratic party platform.
What has happened to the Democratic Party? Left-wing radicals control it. The lunatics are running that asylum. JFK must be turning in his grave.
And they accuse the Republican Party of being run by radicals? That is a socialist trick. Accuse others of being what you yourself actually are.
Eugene WR Gallun

Mr. Obama, next time you give a speech to college students perhaps you can tell them about my recently graduated nephew who has a $100,000 student loan that he is paying back through his $10.00 an hour job at a burger joint. Then, Mr. president (the lower case ‘p’ is intentional), you can inform them that my nephew unfortunately started college after you entered the WH, then graduated, and began his career (flipping burgers) all during your sorry occupancy there. Finally, Mr. president, you can then educate those college students that, while the moon is not, indeed, made out of cheese, if they support your policies their brains may very well be.

That the fate of the world should be in the hands of California 22 year olds should scare the bejeesus out of everybody, including California 23 and 21 year olds.
I want, for a moment, to single out Obama’s alma mater, Harvard. Universities today, and most especially Ivy League schools, are turning out liberal class elitists (I know, they always have, that’s what they’re for) that, due largely to the failure of the overall North American educational system postwar, appear not to have any significant intellectual capacity beyond the high school classes they left. What they have, is classist arrogance, as if all of their post-secondary course work consisted of catechismic discussions of “how great we art” and how lucky we don’t have to belong to the class of ordinary folk that provided us the fiscal opportunity to be here in the first place.
It literally, is like they don’t learn anything else. I picked on Harvard, because of late, it seems to be the poster child of colleges that have produced slew of liberal arts majors completely devoid of self-awareness and an overabundance of narcissism, based laregely on nothing but the presumption of entitlement.
My viewpoint is tempered by my Canadian perspective: We’ve had an especially egregious run of Harvard sycophants (or is that psychophants?) kick around our political scene in the last few years, all of them to a man, presumptive self-entitled egomaniacs apparently devoid of any real understanding of how the world works for most people. Michael Ignatieff, returning saviour of Canada and wannabe Leader of the Free North, now exiled back to the hallowed halls, David Miller, former mayor of Toronto, established snob, who much preferred to vacation in Spain than spend his tax-paid salary in Ontario, and our former provincial premier Dalton McGuinty, while not of Harvard a priori (not sufficiently class-worthy, I guess), has retreated there in an attempt to escape answering questions on how he and his party might have substantially purloined the public treasury for political gain.
And for our neighbours to the south, America’s first “non-white” president, who’s disdain for just about everybody is palpable, and by liberal-friendly media accounts, would much rawther talk smack about the rabble, and instead cavort with pseudo-intellectuals and discuss art and philosophy,and about how droll and tedious the job of being president has become. He is yet another Harvard graduate who apparently doesn’t get it. Can’t get it. Is it the education, or is just old-fashioned/new-egalitarian snobism for the 21st century?
There are world-scale adjustments coming for western civilization. The unfortunate part is that in the absence of demonstrable reality-hardened true-intellectual leadership (of any stripe), it will be everyman for himself, and it isn’t going to be pretty, at all.

Dan Sudlik says:
June 15, 2014 at 5:58 am
A great description of the President. I wish I could remember who said it. He is a pyromaniac in a field of straw men.

Yes, if you like to see straw men created and destroyed, King Barack is the gift that keeps giving.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ln7chQuKyg&w=640&h=390%5D
Obama’s War on Straw Men

When Obama promised to devote the Stimulus money to “shovel-ready projects” and not efforts to keep public employee salaries/pensions solvent…..
When Obama promised that the GM bailout was to save the company and not to transfer assets to political cronies in the UAW…….
When Obama promised that once Obamacare went into effect the cost of health insurance for a family of four would drop $2k/yr and that if one liked their plan/Dr they could keep their plan/Dr…….
When Obama said he was outraged that the IRS was targeting conservative groups and that he would “get to the bottom of it”……..
When Obama claimed that his election/leadership would result in peace in the Muslim world…………
…….I said those promises were comprised of horse manure.

I’m not sure Obama has many steadfast beliefs other than the leftist socialist agenda. It seems that on every issue the first thing he asks himself is “What position on this issue would further my agenda?” and that becomes his position. I’m not convinced he actually believes or cares much about CAGW but adopting a pro CAGW position furthers the agenda.
I don’t believe he is a stupid man but basing your position on a political agenda instead of the facts of an issue can make you sound stupid. When Obama talks about climate change he sounds about as stupid as anyone I’ve ever heard.

The answer is clear. As a “Community Organizer,” his job was to agitate, to rile
up, to provoke. The job of a community organizer is the same as the race
hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton with one difference. The race
hustlers extort money from businesses by threatening boycotts if they do
not hire enough minorities. The community organizer threatens lawsuits
against lending institutions if they do not extend half million dollar home loans
to welfare recipients.
Both types are parasites. They are no better than con artists, Elmer Gantry’s,
or Rainmakers. Anyone who thought that electing Obama would mean an
end to racism was dangerously naive, as are those that thought he could
bridge the gap with the Muslim world.

The moon is made of rocks. We haven’t been back.

Roger Sowell
June 15, 2014 at 7:52 am
Transcript of UCI commencement speech 6-14-2014 by President Obama:
‘Your generation reminds me of something President Wilson once said. He said, “Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American.” That’s who we are.’
Oh my god I hope not. Perhaps someone can teach Obama and the generation he was speaking to (or, more precisely, talking at) a little bit about history, and President Wilson, and economics, and inform them that Woodrow signed legislation introducing the income tax which, if they’re not among the 40% of graduates who are essentially serving coffee and flipping burgers, will effectively confiscate a substantial (and I mean, substantial) portion of their income that will further extend the length of time they’ll be paying back their six figure student loans. And further inform them that Woodrow Wilson presided over the creation of the Federal Reserve, without which the US functioned quite effectively for well over a century, and now is in the process of essentially wiping out their inheritances (which could fund their children’s college ed) by printing paper money just as fast as it can in a largely futile attempt to compensate for the negative economic consequences of Obama’s policies. And, additionally inform them that if anyone who rejects Obama’s policies is claimed to be motivated by racism the argument could cut both ways since Wilson, the original Progressive, segregated the US government for the first time, and also supported the KKK. And, after giving time for the students to digest all of this (and the fact that President Wilson presided over Prohibition, and WWI), finally inform them that during Wilson’s time in office an amendment to the Constitution was added changing the selection of Senators from occurring in the State Capitals to occurring through popular elections and if that amendment had not occurred it’s highly unlikely former Illinois Senator Obama would be in the WH today. And, out of all the negative things that occurred during President Wilson’s term in office I think that last one takes the cake. So much for idealism, eh?

Hey, the Pres. is right. I never thought of it that way, but on closer examination climate science is full of holes and the more you stick your nose into what is going on, the more it stinks.
Perhaps it really IS made of cheese. Probably a really smelly french cheese too.
This is definitely a credible hypothesis. I wonder whether POTUS has a science and technology adviser who could give us his “personal opinion” on what sort of cheese it is.

rogerknights says:
June 15, 2014 at 10:24 am
ferdberple says:
June 15, 2014 at 6:27 am
When President Kennedy set us on a course to the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn’t be worth it,” he continued.
Among them was Werner von Braun, and he was right. He wanted to build an orbiting station that could be used to assemble rockets to go to the Moon in ten years, and then Mars, etc. Now we’re at a dead end, as a result of JFK’s policies.
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But the real reason for a manned moon landing was not scientific endeavour, it was a political move. Which brings us back to the reason why climate science is made of cheese.

What I find funniest about the moon comment, is the modellers that landed us on the moon do not think it is an issue either…. http://www.therightclimatestuff.com/

But if you disagree with this President it’s because you’re a racist, you hate people with darker skin. Unless you have darker skin than this President, which means you’re a racist who hates people with lighter skin. Unless you have the same skin tone as this President, which means you’re a self-hating racist.
Either way, the solution to eliminate virtually all racism is also the prescription for saving Medicare and Social Security from future insolvency: Everyone goes outdoors into the sunlight until everyone gets tanned the same color on all possibly visible skin. Clothing optional.
PS, albinos and others unable to tan will be colored by tattooing appropriately, but it will be paid for by the government for the greater good. The government appreciates your gratitude.

JohnH says: “…before too long, 97% of climate models will have failed to predict the prior 18 yrs of surface temperatures. ”
Hey John, try to keep up. ESA directorate of Earth Observation has just declared that surface temperature is a “lousy” indicator of climate. So any silly ideas about sticking to the facts will not work. The facts don’t matter My, you’re so 20th century !
Remember the President of the United States of America has just told us climate science is made of cheese.
So here we have a further clue as to just what KIND of cheese it really is. We already know it stinks and is full of holes, we now also know that when left exposed to heat and the light of day, it becomes very fluid.

It’s also worth noting that when cheese reaches this kind of fluid state it is no longer fit for human consumption and it is illegal to sell it to the public. It has to be thrown in the skip.

George Steiner says:
June 15, 2014 at 11:03 am
You have elected him twice. Stop complaining.

Not I. It was the 47% who pay no federal income taxes who elected him, plus a few well-off liberal Democrats. The problem is they inhabit the states with the most electoral votes.
/Mr Lynn

Obama said
“You’re going to have to learn more about these issues. Even if you’re not like Jessica and an expert, you’re going to have to work on this. You’re going to have to push those of us in power to do what this American moment demands. You’ve got to educate your classmates, and colleagues, and family members and fellow citizens, and tell them what’s at stake. You’ve got to push back against the misinformation, and speak out for facts, and organize others around your vision for the future.”
I hope the graduates do that.

From rogerknights on June 15, 2014 at 12:28 pm:

From the George Will column cited by Joel O’Brien:

Obama often is what political philosopher Kenneth Minogue said of an adversary — “a pyromaniac in a field of straw men.”

Sounds like a scene from a new horror flick:
Scarecrow Surprise
Waiting in the fields is for the birds.
Coming November 4, 2014

He just reads the teleprompter. He has no intellect.

I am happy about this in [one] sense. There is a huge sector of the population that is now aware that there is another side to the discussion. Land of unintended consequences awaits all men.

So basalt is now called cheese?

He’s gonna draw a red line in the green cheese.
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A concerted response to Our Dear Leaders taunt on “….ignoring the science!” is to directly ask him to disclose his collegiate course work in science, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, and mathematics! State categorically that Our Dear Leader is a ‘Science Illiterati’, until he proves otherwise….
He could, of course, refute this direct statement by releasing his collegiate records from Harvard, Columbia, and Occidental College. But he won’t…….
To the best of my knowledge, Our Dear Leader has ‘studiously’ refused to release his college transcripts. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_Barack_Obama%27s_grades_in_college
Mac

Dang! Must have had a ‘hanging chad’..
Should read:
A concerted response to Our Dear Leaders taunt on “….ignoring the science!” is to directly ask him to disclose his collegiate course work in science, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, and mathematics! State categorically that Our Dear Leader is a ‘Science Illiterati’, until he proves otherwise….
He could, of course, refute this direct statement by releasing his collegiate records from Harvard, Columbia, and Occidental College. But he won’t…….
To the best of my knowledge, Our Dear Leader has ‘studiously’ refused to release his college transcripts. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_Barack_Obama%27s_grades_in_college
Mac

George Steiner says:
June 15, 2014 at 11:03 am
You have elected him twice. Stop complaining.

52.93 percent of those who voted voted for him in 2008
51.06 percent of those who voted voted for Obama in 2012.
That means that a more than 1/2 people in the U.S. did not vote for him and have every right to point out how miserable a president he has been. It was clear from the beginning that he had no meaningful qualifications for president, but the media simply buried that story and refused to report on it out of political correctness, and totally abandoned their responsibility as journalists to fairly report the news, and their reason for existing.
They sold out and have become the modern U.S. Pravda mouthpiece for the executive branch rather than their intended (and constitutionally protected) check on the power of the government. The incestuous relationship between the executive branch and the modern mainstream media is a disgrace.

Dave says: “Perhaps B Hussein doesn’t care about any of those issues listed above climate change.”
He doesn’t. Other than using those issues to accomplish his dream of destroying the Republic he loathes to create his vision of a Socialists Utopia. What else would explain Obama’s insistence in continuing to pursue his failures?

Larry Ledwick says:
52.93 percent of those who voted voted for him in 2008
51.06 percent of those who voted voted for Obama in 2012.
That means that a more than 1/2 people in the U.S. did not vote for him and have every right to point out how miserable a president he has been.
No, 100% of the country has the right to complain about any president. It’s just that we all get to laugh at the people who complain while not even bothering to vote against him. And we especially laugh and laugh at the ones who didn’t vote twice. “Obama is a monster, a failure, the worst president ever who is dragging our country to ruin… but I just can’t miss Greta and ‘Wheel of Fortune.’ Please take my commitment to America seriously, though.”

Obama is the worst leader of any country in the world in history.

“He has made Jimmy Carter look absolutely brilliant and competent …”
No, that’s impossible. Obama may be “The Return of Jimmuh” but remember, it’s taken the Lite-Worker six years to do as much damage as Carter did in four.

what Tanya ^ said .

P.S.
Both of them sacked by their own party BEFORE they went to election.

Yes old44, KR and JG ( allegedly soon to be known as prisoner 4523476 ) were pretty bad, arguably worse than Obama. But Obama has been proven to be particularly inept, and seems to have a penchant for breaking the law, that KR never had, JG, not so much (allegedly)

tauntology – great word, Thanks for bringing it to my attention

Would it be taunting to note that the President gave speech number 5,723 about energy prices needing to necessarily skyrocket for the middle class, right before boarding his private jet to California, for another weekend of CO2 spewing, partying and loafing?

Since this post is about climate and young college grads, typically age 22 or 23, the following presents a dozen questions for the grads to consider.
http://sowellslawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/climate-questions-for-teens-and-20s.html
Here are a few of those questions:
– The Roman warm period, and the Medieval warm period were both much warmer than today, so how did Polar bears survive those warm periods? PETA and WWF were not around back then.
– Why is the sea level decreasing off the coast of California?
– Why are sunspots so very critical to earth’s average climate? Why were there so few sunspots during both the recent cold events (Maunder and Dalton)? Why were there so many sunspots during the 1980’s and 1990’s?
– Why do climate scientists (Mann, Hansen, and others) hide their data for years, and never reveal their calculation methods? What are they hiding?
– Why is the Main Stream Media so silent on Chiefio’s blog results, the March of the Thermometers? see http://chiefio.wordpress.com
– Why do thousands of scientists say (signed their names) that man-made global warming is junk science?
– Why do process control engineers know that increasing CO2 above 350 ppm cannot possibly have any role in changing earth’s climate?
– If the science is settled, why are governments funding additional research in the billions of dollars per year?

Quinn the Eskimo on June 15, 2014 at 6:15 am

He’s fixed the economy and health care and the Middle East, why not let him fix the weather?

One who ends all wars and brings back peace for our time has enough time on his hands to fix the weather.

Obama said snow pack is declining and drought worsening.
I guess he hasn’t seen the data. That’s understandable since finding all that stuff takes some time and effort and his advisers have clearly never seen it. I keep basic data in this file. If you have a suggestion of what I should add, please pass along.
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/ofcl5g9r00bhfyf/AAAa7MpBm1zUsmm4D_qnWRbfa

I kind of welcome the taunts actually. Soon enough, the Obama brand will be so sullied and toxic, it will make the heretics look like heroes.

RE:Mary Brown at 9:25 am
Obama said snow pack is declining and drought worsening.
On May 29, 2014, I was struck by the low the water level at Dillon Reservoir, Summit County, Colorado. It was lower than I had ever seen it.
But it wasn’t from drought. It was from planning ahead. There was still thick snowpack in the drainage basin that was going to flood the valley if the managers of the reservoir didn’t make room for the water.
Reservoir levels of Denver Water Board. Note how close they are to capacity on June 12.
http://www.denverwater.org/SupplyPlanning/WaterSupply/ReservoirLevels/
Links to Snowpack and precipitation monitoring stations in Colorado:
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snotel/Colorado/colorado.html
Click a Station, Then click “Daily Graph” at “Snow Water Equivalent”, “Current Water Year”
Example: Hoosier Pass (Continental Divide, CO-9)
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/nwcc/view?intervalType=+View+Current+&report=WYGRAPH&timeseries=Daily&format=plot&sitenum=531&interval=WATERYEAR

Reblogged this on Sierra Foothill Commentary and commented:
Obama makes a grade school level logical fallacy in his presentation on climate change, while employing some signature ‘tauntology’ How…unpresidential.

I talk to college kids regularly, as well. I usually point out some anecdote about how the prevailing wisdom has been wrong, and it takes courage to have an open mind and think about things in different ways in order to test whether the status quo is right or wrong.
I encourage the kids to realize they can, and should, question anything they hear, including what I might tell them. This is the hallmark of educated people.
If the prez wanted to address man-made global warming, he could have noted that he has one view, and some in the country have another view, but he is sure that this young.bright graduating class has learned what it means to be educated, and to be critical thinkers, that he is sure the future, including the climate, is in good hands.

RE: Stephen Rasey at 10:59 am
On May 29, 2014, I was struck by the low the water level at Dillon Reservoir, Summit County, Colorado. It was lower than I had ever seen it.
Here is the panorama of Dillon Reservoir from I-70 Scenic Overlook east of Frisco

Talking about President Obama former Vice President Dick Cheney said, “Rarely has a US president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many”. He was referring to Iraq but the same could be said for climate change.