Hillary endorses Obama climate plan, gets on the "slam skeptics" bandwagon

Steve Milloy writes:

Hillary Clinton endorsed the Obama climate plan and slammed coal industry in speech at the BIO conference this week. Clinton also hit the media for giving air time to skeptics.

The BIO audience erupted into applause at these comments— possibly because earlier in her interview she stated she favored states insuring biotech entrepreneurs against risk/loss.

Her climate comments begin at about 19:26 into the clip and run about 9 minutes. Audio video quality is not the best, but good enough.

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ralfellis
June 27, 2014 10:41 am

evanmjones says:June 27, 2014 at 10:28 am
They say the smoke alone is worth a thousand pounds a puff.
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Eh? Is Hillary into Bill’s cigars as well, now??
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Latitude
June 27, 2014 10:41 am

nothing is funnier than the truth……..comment image

Scott
June 27, 2014 10:43 am

It satisfies the big donators and besides its much easier to talk about GW than anything serious, like personal wealth, Benghazi, Monica etc etc etc At least her daughter is doing well from her $10M+ condo(She was broke too when she left home, but has worked hard and saved her money)

rogerknights
June 27, 2014 10:43 am

I hope someone will post a transcript of her climate-related words.

Greg
June 27, 2014 10:50 am

Clinton wheels out the old 97% myth and then adds an extra 1% for good measure.
“The debat is over” yet again.
Hey the dabate never even started yet, ask Mann ask Schmitt.

Resourceguy
June 27, 2014 10:54 am

Voting for a persona for President is a joke. It’s all about party platform, even when that platform is based on fraud and tauntology.

empiresentry
June 27, 2014 10:59 am

The uber rich like the Clintons, the gores, the obamas, could care less if you starve because your electrical bill tripled.
– They care less if you healthcare bill trippled from $300 to $1300 because that amount of money is inconsequential to them.
– They care less if you lose your job because they do not know what that is like or what it means.
– They care less if you freeze in the winter, ice building up inside your house, and you blanket off rooms so that you can heat one room to a livable degree…because they have never known that.
– They care less about science and reality because the propaganda wave is more important to them then fact and reality.
The social elitists could care less since they live the grand life that we pay with 99% of all new wealth going to their buddies….while us peasants scratch for fire wood.

phlogiston
June 27, 2014 11:02 am

Such mindless climate mumbling from the Matron of democraticity will do nothing to advance respect and status for women. Instead it will reinforce negative stereotypes of females of a certain hair color. Condoleeza Rice would have been 100 times better as a leader role model for the ladyfolk.

June 27, 2014 11:02 am

If America elects Silly Hilly, I’m going to move farther away from the border.

motvikten
June 27, 2014 11:21 am

Regarding the Clintons I recommend a documentary in the Why Poverty series.
“Stealing Africa”
Bill appears at about 43 min. .

more soylent green!
June 27, 2014 11:33 am

You gotta follow the green — the money, that is.

more soylent green!
June 27, 2014 11:40 am

Stephen Rasey says:
June 27, 2014 at 9:50 am
A top news item today is “Millions of Americans cannot afford their Homes.”
Compared with households living in affordable housing, severely cost-burdened low-income households spend 39 percent less on food each month and 65 percent less on health care. “These cutbacks seriously undermine the basic well-being of low-income households,” the report says.
So the President, and Hilary by agreement, feel with 40 million home owners on the brink of solvency, this is the time to increase the burden on owners and renters by making electricity costs “skyrocket.” Force people tomorrow to give up the homes they cannot afford today. Disaster looms.
Do they want society to crash, or do they not see how actions are connected?
Stupid is as Stupid does.

You write like these are bad things. How long ago was the goal to make people more self-sufficient? The goal is now to make people more dependent, unable/unwilling to take care of themselves. See The Road to Serfdom — hard times lead to desperate things, such as giving up liberty and rights for security and material gain (at someone else’s expense).

June 27, 2014 11:47 am

I respectfully submit – via my blog post from yesterday – that the origins in the climate issue of skeptics not deserving fair media balance is a talking point apparently invented by the late Stephen Schneider, circa the 1980s: ” ‘Skeptic Climate Scientists Do Not Deserve Fair Media Balance.’ Spread This Line Widely; NEVER Check its Veracity and Don’t Examine its History.” http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=1886

June 27, 2014 12:05 pm

Ms Clinton mentions the media “false equivalency” bit at the 27:40 point. By one way of excellent example, the US PBS NewsHour has literally never offered the kind of ‘unfair balance’ situation she speaks of over the last 18+ years: “PBS NewsHour global warming coverage: IPCC/NOAA Scientists – 18; Skeptic Scientists – 0*” http://junkscience.com/2012/07/13/pbs-newshour-global-warming-coverage-ipccnoaa-scientists-18-skeptic-scientists-0/

June 27, 2014 12:12 pm

Gary Pearse said:
June 27, 2014 at 11:02 am
If America elects Silly Hilly, I’m going to move farther away from the border.
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Comrade obama is in process of deleting the borders. Mustn’t impede the migratory habits of the heroic International Workers, ya know.

June 27, 2014 12:16 pm

Mark and two Cats says:
June 27, 2014 at 12:12 pm
Gary Pearse said:
June 27, 2014 at 11:02 am
If America elects Silly Hilly, I’m going to move farther away from the border.
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Comrade obama is in process of deleting the borders. Mustn’t impede the migratory habits of the heroic International Workers, ya know.
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Oh wait – that’s just the southern border. He wants the Canadian border intact to keep out the pipeline.

June 27, 2014 12:28 pm

@more soylent green!
You write like these are bad things. …See The Road to Serfdom — hard times lead to desperate things, such as giving up liberty and rights for security and material gain (at someone else’s expense).
You bring the issue into hard focus with exceptional depth of field.
After 36 years (Carter Administration), it is time to reread The Road to Serfdom. … And pass it on to my children.

rogerknights
June 27, 2014 12:40 pm

Greg says:
June 27, 2014 at 10:50 am
Clinton wheels out the old 97% myth and then adds an extra 1% for good measure.

Here’s Schopenhauer on that topic:

The Art of Always Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument by Arthur Schopenhauer,
#30: Appeal to Authority Rather than Reason
When we come to look into the matter, so-called universal opinion is the opinion of two or three persons; and we should be persuaded of this if we could see the way in which it really arises. We should find that it is two or three persons who, in the first instance, accepted it, or advanced and maintained it; and of whom people were so good as to believe that they had thoroughly tested it. Then a few other persons, persuaded beforehand that the first were men of the requisite capacity, also accepted the opinion. These, again, were trusted by many others, whose laziness suggested to them that it was better to believe at once, than to go through the troublesome task of testing the matter for themselves.
Thus the number of these lazy and credulous adherents grew from day to day; for the opinion had no sooner obtained a fair measure of support than its further supporters attributed this to the fact that the opinion could only have obtained it by the cogency of its arguments. The remainder were then compelled to grant what was universally granted, so as not to pass for unruly persons who resisted opinions which every one accepted, or pert fellows who thought themselves cleverer than any one else.
When opinion reaches this stage, adhesion becomes a duty; and henceforward the few who are capable of forming a judgment hold their peace. Those who venture to speak are such as are entirely incapable of forming any opinions or any judgment of their own, being merely the echo of others’ opinions; and, nevertheless, they defend them with all the greater zeal and intolerance. For what they hate in people who think differently is not so much the different opinions which they profess, as the presumption of wanting to form their own judgment; a presumption of which they themselves are never guilty, as they are very well aware.
In short, there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself? Since this is what happens, where is the value of the opinion even of a hundred millions? It is no more established than an historical fact reported by a hundred chroniclers who can be proved to have plagiarised it from one another; the opinion in the end being traceable to a single individual. It is all what I say, what you say, and, finally, what he says; and the whole of it is nothing but a series of assertions: –

aaron
June 27, 2014 12:46 pm

Guess she’s not planning on being president.

Brute
June 27, 2014 1:05 pm

Someone on her staff must have arrived to the conclusion there is still political value in the rhetoric. Like Obama, neither one of the Clinton pair could even begin to explain what a molecule is.

June 27, 2014 1:09 pm

12:46 pm
I think Hillary is hoping Climate Change will be a moot point after Obama uses his pen at the Rio+20(+3) Sustainable Development Goal Conference in Paris in Sept-2015.

peter
June 27, 2014 1:10 pm

This coming winter Hillary is likely to be in a nomination battle with whoever else wants the job. If we have another winter even close to the one we just had, don’t be surprised if one of her democratic opponents calls her out on this. There are a lot of Democrats from Coal states. You know that there is going to be a lot of coal money pushed onto ‘their’ candidate.

Londo
June 27, 2014 1:14 pm

Once the economy crashes, my only hope is that there will be a day of reckoning because the need for a cleanup of the political class is absolutely overwhelming. All the idiots that have managed to climb the political ladder must be purged.

Tom J
June 27, 2014 1:22 pm

The local seafood restaurant is having a special on flounder this week. It’s caught (off guard) in icy gold waters at varying depths to which it might sink to. The fishermen say almost any lure will catch this flounder but it’s easiest to catch when it’s floundering. The current inhabitant of the WH, himself not a seafood lover, was just about ready to send it back to the kitchen until he noticed that the caretakers of that residence were prone to get even if he didn’t like the food they served him. So he kept it on his table for a while till he could quietly slide it under the door. (He prefers sliding his leftover food under busses when they’re available but he was afraid this one would splatter clear across the country and give his staff even more of a mess to clean up.) I’ve heard this flounder has to be poached in the sweetest wine imaginable because it tends to get very sour with age. In fact, it’s one of the few, if not only, seafood dishes where the chef might actually add cups of sugar to the broth to try and sweeten it up a little. Reservations for this entree have to be taken two years in advance: not necessarily because there’s demand but because it takes forever to prepare.

ossqss
June 27, 2014 1:23 pm

What else could she possibly endorse that Obama has had his hand in that would not catch her on fire? Think about it.