People send me stuff. This email from the White House comes courtesy of WUWT reader John B. You’d think they’d have learned something after the disastrous “AskDrMann” hashtag debacle, but nooooo.
Message: White House warning of extreme weather, Nov 19, 2014.
From: info@mail.whitehouse.gov
To: xxxx@xxxx.xxx
Subject: Make sure your community is ready for climate change
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:51:17 -0600
The White House
Make sure your community is ready for climate change
Climate change is happening now — and we’ve got to be ready because we’re going to see more extreme weather.
That’s why we’re taking action. Last Tuesday, the President made a historic announcement with China that sets new targets for carbon pollution reductions.
And on Monday, the Administration released the Climate Resilience Toolkit to help our communities respond to our changing climate.
Check out these easy-to-use tools, including interactive maps and visualizations, that will help prepare your community for the impacts of climate change. See how you can help your community or business get ready.
Whether you’re a small business owner, planner, farmer, policy leader, or an interested resident, these tools can help you make sure that you have a climate-ready community or business.
Have questions about what climate change means for you, why it matters, and what we can do to fight it? Last Thursday, Dr. John P. Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, announced that he wants to answer your questions.
Ask Dr. Holdren your questions on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Vine with the hashtag #AskDrH — and he’ll answer some of them on camera.
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At the moment I am watching the Trains magazine webcam at the UP-BNSF diamonds in Rochelle, Illinois, where a long United Pacific coal train is slowly passing through. A while ago an equally-long BNSF unit oil train clattered across the diamonds as well. These ‘fossil fuel’ trains warm the very cockles of my heart! Here is the precious stuff that will continue to power our civilization, and even release some long-sequestered CO2 to grow more crops to feed the world. It is hard to imagine that the deluded ideologues in the White House will be able to stop these trains from fueling the American economy, try though they might. At some point the American people are going to cry, “Enough! Out with these miscreants and fools!” Indeed, I think they already did, back on November 4th.
/Mr Lynn
That’s UNION Pacific, of course. /Mr L
Rochelle is about 10 miles from where I live. Good news.
Mods: Is everything being sent to moderation again? Or just my (very) occasional comments? Anyway, just saw another of Dr Hansen’s “death trains”—second one in about a half hour. “Keeping the lights on,” as the TV ad says. /Mr L
While it bothers me that ‘we, the people” have been recently called “stupid”, it bothers me even more that “we, the people” don’t seem to be smart enough to realize that we’ve just been called stupid.
You know, there might be something profound there, but I’m just not seeing it.
/grin
“Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.” – from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long, by Robert Heinlein.
(+10) An excellent bumper sticker!
Local farmers are building more bins to store the record corn and soybean crops………..yeah, they’re ready.
Fits total with the actions of any cult based on known lies and fraud. Just double down to the cult base.
“Ten years ago, the Pentagon paid for a climate study that put forth many scary scenarios.
Consultants told the military that, by now, California would be flooded by inland seas, The Hague would be unlivable, polar ice would be mostly gone in summer, and global temperatures would rise at an accelerated rate as high as 0.5 degrees a year.
None of that has happened…
The report also became gospel to climate change doomsayers, who predicted pervasive and more intense hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts…Doug Randall, who co-authored the Pentagon report, said, “Even I’m surprised at how often it’s referred to…
Asked about his scenarios for the 2003-2010 period, Mr. Randall said in an interview: “The report was really looking at worst-case. And when you are looking at worst-case 10 years out, you are not trying to predict precisely what’s going to happen but instead trying to get people to understand what could happen to motivate strategic decision-making and wake people up. But whether the actual specifics came true, of course not. That never was the main intent.”…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/1/pentagon-wrestles-with-false-climate-predictions-a/?page=all
This Pentagon climate report speaks to the heart of false climate science alarmism that is rampant to day .These alarmist climate science reports are meant to exaggerate and scare people. They do not highlight that these are worst case projections in the opening paragraph. These qualifications never make the headlines or press releases .The rational world does not plan for the future based on worst case scenarios. We might as well all quit living if this was the case . No nation can afford to spend money to mitigate worst case scenarios, nor should they. The problem is that some politicians take these worst case situations and make public policies and actions as if they were true. They then fabricate entirely new falsehoods like carbon dioxide is a pollutant on top of these worst case scenarios and you now have a firm government action thrust on the general public that is all pure fabrication of a worst case scenario that will never come about. Yet it comes from the highest administrative offices in the land
“Twenty-First Century Snake Oil:
Why the United States Should Reject Biofuels as Part of a Rational National Security Energy Strategy
Captain T. A. “Ike” Kiefer”
http://www.scribd.com/doc/126243673/21st-Century-Snake-Oil-Why-the-U-S-Should-Reject-Biofuels-as-Part-of-a-Rational-National-Security-Energy-Strategy
Odd in this case is directly proportional to the lack of interest in science integrity at the WH.
Wake me up when the White House says climate has stopped changing.
How do we respond to the email?
I have questions for Mr Holdren.
Dear Mr. Holdren,
The nose hair in my left nostril grows at a rate of almost 3 times that of the right nostril. Is this due to Global Warming, Climate Change or Both?
Thank you.
Patrick,
You can’t trick me.
You’re just chasing a substantial research grant.
For Holdren to say something rational about science, is like waiting for Eric Holder to say that : ‘Racism in America will stop, when the NAACP, El Razo, and the Congressional Black Caucus all disband, and distribute their collective immense wealth to the Nation’s poor.’
And I have that unfortunate “white privilege” gene, so I am not responsible for my views; it’s not my fault; I was born with the defect.
If we translated this to a time 5,000 years ago…
Big warmy come! Really big, big hot!
Lotsa wind, lotsa bad bad stormy.
Water come up! Swallow your hut! Fill your cave.
IT ALL YOUR FAULT! Climate God berry, berry mad.
Not too late fix, but too late soon!
Gimmy half your cows now and I makey go away.
Hey Ralph:
“In the Korean War the F4 it was fighting Migs of half the weight and a quater of the cost, and the Migs were doing quite well, thank you. As I said, we were led by donkeys then, and we are led by donkeys now. ”
Are you talking about the F4 Phantom 2? I didn’t think the UK used those even in Vietnam – and I’m very sure they were not even in existence during the Korean War…
Not only that, but even in Vietnam, the F4 had a 12 to 1 kill ratio. At least for US pilots…
Motogeek, it was the F-4U Corsair that was the effective MIG fighter and CAS platform. It had a shorter turning radius than the MIG and allowed it to get on the inside most of the time. My father was in VMF-214 and a mechanic on plane #15 during Korea.
You are correct about the F-4 Phantom during Vietnam
I think it was the F-86 Saber jet that was fighting MIG-15s in Korea. The F-4 Phantom didn’t even exist. The F4-U4 Corsair was WW-II vintage (Black Sheep and all that)
The F-86 was quite superior to the MIG-15 in Korea. In Viet Nam, the MIG-21 was much more nimble than the F-4 Phantom (which is a totally huge plane). But the Phantom had superior weapons systems, which gave it the edge, until Russian SAMS showed up.
The MIGS of that era were relatively simple, and simple to service, and yes much cheaper than US planes. But in the end you get what you pay for.
And the RAF F-4H RR-Spey Phantom, was one hell of an aircraft; but not necessarily what was needed at the time.
I was living in St Louis MO, when MacDonald was building the F-4H for the RAF, and those things were a sight to behold.
Actually, we passed one up while making a landing approach to Lambert Field in a Cessna 172. We were coming back from a trip to LA in the 172, and the F-4H was coming back from a QA test flight. The MO ANG was flying F-100 super sabres, back then, and the F-4H could eat those for lunch and spit out the scrap metal. The F-4 had a weird boundary layer control system, that could keep the wings flying at very low speeds, by blowing engine exhaust out over the wings, so their landing speed was very very slow.
And that resulted in a screaming whine on landing that was unmistakable.
Heck of a plane, the F-4 Phantom; but maybe not quite what was wanted at the time; it was intended for a different war.
Here’s my question: “people are making millions off of the great climate scare; how can I get in on the action?”
I live in the far corner of NE Oregon. Wake me when I am buried in 10 feet of snow or 10 inches of water or 10 mm of blown in dust. Till then…scram.
The good news: we finally have a republican congress plus senate.
The bad news: they are the party that denies the global warming stuff, but Unfortunately, they do not formulate a firm argument why they are against. That is a sure way to lose the case.
Meanwhile we will have to tolerate a white house that continues to be fed with one-sided information and they have another 24 months to run amok.
Well “Congress Plus Senate” is redundant. The Senate is part of Congress.
And the Republicans who aren’t yet in control, have just shown that they aren’t going to stick to their campaign promises. They can spend with the best of the Democrats.
They just voted for a humungous spending spree of pork ladled onto what was supposed to be a Military appropriations bill. No they didn’t vote a lot more money for veterans affairs, or anything like that. But plenty of money to clean some monuments back East that nobody even knows exist.
From the Climate Resilience Toolkit:
“To identify the climate stressors that could impact you, your business, or your community, think about weather- and climate-related events that occurred in the past or happened elsewhere in your region. In many cases, climate change will make such events more frequent or intense.”
And of course, it is equally likely, if not more, that climate change will make such events less frequent or intense.
Yes watch out for global cooling as sun cycle 25 brings a new grand minimum.
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