Guest essay by Eric Worrall
VOX has published a gem of an article, complaining that even CNN, the sympathetic TV station which covered the recent Democrat Presidential Candidate Debate, thinks Climate Alarmism is a special interest movement for fringe hippies.
According to VOX;
In 2012, CNN’s Candy Crowley moderated the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Afterward, she explained why climate change never came up.
… had that question for all of you climate change people. We just, you know, again, we knew that the economy was still the main thing so you knew you kind of wanted to go with the economy. …
This moment became something of a legend among, uh, “climate change people,” as it showed so clearly the way CNN understands the issue: as a boutique concern of one faction of the left, namely environmentalists. It’s not a “main thing” like the economy, and certainly not part of the discussion of the economy.
Public awareness of climate change has come a long way since then, and so has the Democratic Party. CNN, it seems, has not.
CNN shows it still doesn’t understand climate change or take it seriously
Read more: http://www.vox.com/2015/10/14/9530973/debate-cnn-climate-change
The problem with this nonsensical assertion, that climate change is of overwhelming interest to the public, is that it is simply untrue. Hardly anyone thinks climate change is a priority anymore. Even the climate obsessed bureaucrats at the UN can’t produce a survey which suggests people think climate change is an important issue.
Politicians and pundits who think persist in flogging the dead climate horse, who think worrying about future anthropogenic climate change is a motivating factor in most people’s lives, are simply ignoring the facts. Decades of failed apocalyptic predictions, and of course the Climategate Scandal, have taken the heat out of the issue.
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Dead Horse flogged to death by dead dogma.
Down in New Zealand, most media types, and many politicians, inject climate change into just about anything, especially anything to do with coastal real estate.
Its gotten so bad we have to step over piles of dead, flogged horses in the street, in our capital, they’re piled up neck high. Rodents should be having a field day on the corpse mountain, but even they won’t touch that carrion.
We have an emissions trading scheme (enforced by a Cuckservative Right wed to a Multi-Culti-Marxist wife), adding an overhead of misery to all Human activity, so businesses suffer, and they pass the suffering on to us.
The cost of living has spiraled upwards like Dorothy’s house in the Wizard of Oz, the former Wizard of OZ, Tony Abbot, got rolled by a Klymate Tru-Fan, and they’ll be adding horse meat to their political menu soon too.
But with the Paris climate cult-fest 2015 coming up, and knowing the French predilection for devouring Equine cuisine, we should see well stuffed reps waddling to back Charles De Gaulle après le banquet sans regret.
I admit to being a climate activist, I just put another log on the fire closed the door.
In the past where I live, those of us who lived out in the country could burn our burnables in a burn barrel; however that has long since been verboten. But I do have inside my house a pot-bellied stove which burns my burnables, keeps me warm, and produces more CO2 for my garden. I think I’m quite green – don’t you?
programmer,
When we bought our current house there were 2 barrels in the back. They had been used as “burn barrels” but were not fixed as such or used as such. They were both filled to the top with stuff – some of that was ash. Most of it was junk – bottles, food & beverage cans, busted light fixtures and old wire, bolts/screws/metal pieces – and more. The weight was such that I could not pick them up, so had to push them over and rake through the mess and repackage (in boxes) most of it for the landfill. At his new location, the previous owner, using another outlawed barrel, nearly set the county on fire. The fire-fighters were not amused. Common sense is not common.
This past month the state’s Department of Ecology paid about 80 county residents $250 each for old wood stoves. Ours was a 1980s model. Our new one was installed yesterday. The installer would have charged $100 to cart that old one away.
[Truth: The house is all-electric via hydro power. We actually do need a backup for winter if the lines go down.]
Global Warming is the “secular Apocalypse”
Yeah, it must be hard to get funding for Zombie Research.
Climate Change is too big to fail.
Ha ha
I searched the debate transcript for “Climate Change” and found it was mentioned 23 times. The word ‘tax’ in all its forms was also mentioned 23 times. We all know how much Democrats love taxes and taxing the rich. So why is VOX complaining? Did they want the entire debate to be about nothing but climate change?
Here’s what Hillary said about climate change during the debate, followed by what is said on her website:
Apparently, the “specific plans” Hillary has already put forward have yet to be laid out. I guess she wants to take credit now for what she plans to do in the future. I also found it interesting that it is currently not possible to invest in science and research. A Hillary presidency, however, is going to make such investments possible once again. She is also planning to use the “broken window fallacy” to grow our economy by shutting down perfectly good power plants and replacing them with unreliable ‘clean’ energy from solar panels and wind turbines. And yes, she plans to use government subsidies to make it possible. It sure sounds to me like our economy is going to suffer if she becomes President, but big energy donors and cronies are going to make out like bandits.
Pay attention to Ms Clinton’s choice in running mate. Ms Burwell is the Health and Human Services (HHS). Powerful arm of the government that is likely to be the administrator of making sure CO2 impacts are properly distributed (disparate impact).
If she is selected as the VP, it will be because she is the transition piece between this administration and the next concerning CAGW.
Meant to say HHS Secretary.
Notice how she and others like her uses the incorrect phrase “good-paying jobs”; it’s a clumsy and transparent attempt to be buddies with the bubbas.
Here’s a better version:
Notice how she and others like her uses the incorrect phrase “good-paying jobs”; it’s a clumsy and transparent attempt to buddy-up with the bubbas.
Louis Hunt says: October 14, 2015 at 8:05 pm
Apparently, the “specific plans” Hillary has already put forward have yet to be laid out. I guess she wants to take credit now for what she plans to do in the future.
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Why not, Obama got a Nobel as credit for future actions.
Nixon could claim that he lost the debate because climate change made him sweat profusely on TV.
It didn’t help his 4 o’clock shadow either.
It isn’t what candidates say before elections it’s what they will do after they are elected. Watch who the parties are that are backing a candidate.
Obama got elected on change but people didn’t know what he meant by change. These changes haven’t hurt people much yet but they will.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/pell_vs_pope/
Seems a high ranking Cardinal at the Vatican is in open revolt about the Popes “learch to the left”. Says the lord has issued no mandate to pronounce on scientific matters and “we believe in the autonomy of science”
They may not grasp the principles of evolution. But they have created an ecosystem in which only the gullible and submissive can survive. Pell has made the mistake of leaving his critical faculties switched on.
I cannot see that there is a place for him in the RC church.
Perhaps he needs to establish a breakaway Australian Church in which people are allowed to think.
I was wondering how long Pell would keep his mouth zipped on this topic.
No long it seems. Well done him.
http://www.pewforum.org/files/2015/06/PR-2015-06-16_popeEnvironment-00.png
The RCC is not 1B people moving in unison.
The Jesuits will be busy figuring out how to spin the cardinal for the Pope. It’s their job.
It’s very unusual for a modern day Pope to come out so strongly on a “science” issue.
I wonder what went down.
On another note, he was an excellent PR choice. Do you have an opinion on who the cagwistas whip out next ?
of course people forget, the current Pope came to power only as a result of the resignation of the previous Pope. the obvious question is this, what pressure was applied to Pope Benedict to make him resign? will the “climate change” Pope be the one that finally brings down the RC church?
Pell is known to be a climate skeptic and I am certain he is concerned about damage to the church that can result from taking a stand based on Climate pseudo-science that will be proven wrong over time. I think he wants to avoid a breakaway caused by Francis’s non traditional leanings.
this would explain the public apology the Pope made.
It is very evident that the large environmental organizations have absolutely no belief in their own catastrophic climate scenarios. If they did they could have dropped their bs propaganda campaigns against nuclear and geothermal power 20 years ago and we could have cut emissions 40-50% and have lower electric prices to boot.
But an actual solution is the last thing they would want.
You can’t place a CO2 tax on nuclear energy.
Not sure about where all this catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is going but one thing’s for sure, the weather out there is sure changing fast-
http://joannenova.com.au/2015/10/frances-top-tv-meteorologist-writes-skeptic-book-gets-told-not-to-come-to-work/#more-45720
As one commenter on JN said:
Je Sius Phillipe
With no disrespect intended or implied to the fallen, because it is all a part of the same struggle for truth and freedom. When Climate Alarmists blow up school children, and splatter their body parts all over the classroom, they are only one step behind those who spread fear for the other protection racket. The intent is there, in the forefront of their minds, even if they have not followed it through as yet. Beware the fervent idealist….
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The only debate most politicians have is which methods are best at sucking from the public trough.
Isn’t VOX’ Ezra Klein – at WAPO at the time? – the one who was at the center of the media coordination scandal?
Americans are not afraid of global warming / climate change. So, why debate it?
Chapman University’s second annual Survey of American Fears released (No mention of GW / CC)
What Americans fear most in 2015
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/cu-cus101315.php
Would be nice if the article sais what or who a VOX might be…