We all know that the bogus “97% consensus” number has been the staple bullet point of non-thinking climate activists everywhere. Now, I’m sure they will be thrilled to see that we have proof (with video) of a 100 percent consensus on climate.
In the video below, about 1 minute and 20 seconds in, Senator Jeff Sessions asks the $64,000 question of Democrat-invited EPA wonks during the Senate EPW hearing on Wednesday. He said:
The President on November 14th 2012 said, ‘The temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted, even ten years ago.’ And then on May 29th last year he also said – quote – ‘We also know that the climate is warming faster than anybody anticipated five or ten years ago.’ close quote
So I would ask each of our former Administrators if any of you agree that that’s an accurate statement on the climate. So if you do, raise your hand.
Watch the response:
Senator Sessions then said: “Thank you. The record will reflect no one raised their hand.”.
Wow. That’s a 100 percent consensus that the President’s words were not an “accurate statement”.
What a great vote of confidence on display.
It was interesting to see Sen. Seldom Righthouse (D-RI) stick his head in the shot early in the piece…I only wish there had been a camera fixed on him when the 4 EPA Horsemen of the Apocalypse kept their hands in their laps after the question was asked…THAT would have been entertaining…
Steve Reddish says:
June 20, 2014 at 12:45 pm
The misspelling of a word only matters if that word is thereby transformed into some other word which causes the reader to miss the author’s intended point. Please apply your efforts instead to promoting clarity of dialogue by noting misuse or conflation of words such as, but not limited to, “average”, “normal” and “typical”.
SR
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RoHa says:
June 20, 2014 at 8:39 pm
Misspelling of words, like gross errors of grammar, create the impression that the writer is either ignorant or careless, as well as being a discourtesy to the reader. Writers who wish to be taken seriously, and those who wish to be courteous to their readers, try to avoid such solecisms.
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I do not like the idea that critics of WUWT can turn to people and say that contributors of items can’t spell simple words and therefore what else don’t they know.
I agree with Roha a certain level of communication skill is necessary to make yourself understood if you need proof read
Mark Luhman says:
June 20, 2014 at 10:51 pm
and I’m not having a go at Mark who clearly has problems with the written word. While he is productively making a living in the IT world no problems, but I would have a problem if he moved to being a writer of articles here or such like.
Steve T
Best bit of this hearing is when all republican apointed EPA leaders said that it was beyond doubt that the earth was warming due to anthropogenic sources. A 100% consensus indeed.
Except not surprisingly you don’t see that posted here.
Cherry picked data, cherry picked faux experts, and now cherry picked testimony.
Sen. Sessions: .. my favorites from his voting record (irony)
Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act’s roving wiretaps. (Feb 2011)
Voted YES on removing need for FISA warrant for wiretapping abroad. (Aug 2007)
Voted YES on reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act. (Mar 2006)
Voted YES on extending the PATRIOT Act’s wiretap provision. (Dec 2005)
Voted NO on banning chemical weapons. (Apr 1997)
Voted NO on comprehensive immigration reform. (Jun 2007)
Voted YES on authorizing use of military force against Iraq. (Oct 2002)
Voted NO on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
honorable mentions (no irony)
Voted NO on additional $825 billion for economic recovery package. (Feb 2009)
Voted NO on $60B stimulus package for jobs, infrastructure, & energy. (Sep 2008)
source (www.ontheissues.org)
well I wish he would be so feisty on other issues than CO2.. all in all his record ain’t that bad in comparison to other republicans
I approve of the 100% consensus. 97% would always have been a bit dodgy.
It was like the cures for baldness or acne, The medicines worked on 60% of the cases. Trouble was the bald and pimply men were always in the 40% that never worked.
Even the disinfectants that removed 99.99% of the germs, you were infected by the 0.01% that survived, while the disinfectant itself gave you cancer.
Its the same with 97%. Its sounds like the margin that Kim Jong-un or Kim Il-sung win their elections with. I would never settle for less than 100%. Now they can safely tax us and take away our freedoms. Hurray!
Richard, I am interested in that 3 percent. That’s like saying in 3 percent of reports on gravity the apple fell UP. Maybe that phenomenon should be investigated a bit closer.
Actually Michael in quantum physics apples falling up cannot be completely ruled out. However in consensus science, pesky observations don’t even come into the picture. They are merely an inconvenient intrusion. Like the little boy who observed that the Emperor had no clothes, while 97% were discussing the qualities of his attire. Right now 97% agree that apples fall up. That’s not good enough. 100% should agree, just as 100% agreed the world was flat and the Sun moved around the Earth some time ago.
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Mark Luhman says: “Presently I am a network engineer … Yet I cannot spell correctly, sound out a word, or tell you if a sentence is structured correctly”
In my experience with network engineers this is remarkably common. The theory that I sort of subscribe to is that network engineering is left-brain and language is right-brain, skill in one tends to be rival with the other. Unfortunately, Cisco ISO is very language dependant so improving spelling skills seems important to network engineering.
Whups — Cisco IOS, not ISO. Getting my letter-soup mixed up.
Mark Stoval “Solar is no answer, but time will tell if it can ever be made to be of much use other than heating swimming pools in hot climates.”
Good heavens. Solar is THE answer. All energy, save only geothermal, is solar. Coal is solar. Petroleum is solar. Wind is solar. Tides are solar.
With a kilowatt per square meter, even at 10 percent efficiency that’s 100 watts per square meter — in a square kilometer you have a million of these, or 100 megawatts extractable power using current technology in a square kilometer.
You don’t even need a grid. A few hundred megawatts of power can be harnessed to crack hydrogen from seawater down in the gulf of California. Use it for fuel cells in cars and trucks or anything in Washington State where the sun doesn’t shine much.