Guest essay by Eric Worrall
President Obama has paid a personal visit to one of the few Americans who is genuinely worried about the climate.
US President Barack Obama has paid a personal visit to a mother who has echoed the greatest fears for many parents across the world in a heartfelt letter.
Mr Obama arrived in a quiet community in Omaha, Nebraska, in an 18-car motorcade on Wednesday to visit Lisa Martin and her husband Jeff in their living room.
The unexpected visit stemmed from a letter to the President Mrs Martin penned 12 months ago as she sat awake at 4am feeding her newborn son Cooper.
She wrote to Mr Obama — not expecting a response — to convey her thoughts, worries and hopes for the future in which her son would grow up.
In her letter, Mrs Martin described her “overwhelming sense of dread” about climate change.
“Will my son be able to thrive on this planet?” she wrote.
“Will he be able to experience the small things, such as winter in Nebraska, where he has snow days and sledding?
“Where he comes home to me cooking homemade hot cocoa for him, like I did?
“Sadly, I think the answer is no.
I suggest an 18 car motorcade, no doubt preceded by a flight in Air Force One, to visit someone who is worried about CO2 emissions, neatly encapsulates the utter farce which is the President’s position on climate change.
I wonder how she will feel once her energy bills are impacted by the POTUS’s new unilateral penmanship?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/01/14/obama-administration-set-to-announce-moratorium-on-some-new-federal-coal-leases/
“President Obama has paid a personal visit to one of the few Americans who is genuinely worried about the climate” Oh sure and just ignore the zombie apocalypse.
.. I really wonder whether that child is safe with him ???
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that this mother is not too bright. It’s a whopping -6.6 degrees in Omaha right now with a light cover of snow on the ground. I suppose if Obama would have showed up naked, she would have commented on how fine his clothes were.
Obama visits the only person in Nebraska who actually wants more snow in winter. Omaha NE temps in January, average low -10°C, average high 1°C. I’m more concerned about a mother willing to send her kid out in weather that bad. But then that kid is never going to know a snow day anyway judging by how alarmist and over protective she is now. Got some sad news for you sweetheart, you will be long dead before there are snow free winters in Nebraska.
So, a kid gets indoctrinated with globaloney and repeats what she’s been told a hundred times. Then the Community Organizer sees an opportunity, and initiates a P.R. stunt.
Circular propaganda?
Well, I remain a strong Obama supporter unlike most of the folks who post on this blog. However, I do regret that he has apparently been taken over by the warmist side. I have great confidence that with his very superior intelligence, if he were presented with anything close to an unbiased analysis of the facts he would see through the global warming illusion. For my part, i am certainly not ready to convert to right-wing ideology over this one issue, since they are so wrong about so many other issues. And I have yet to see a president of whatever stripe that hasn’t made serious mistakes.
…Are you really that stupid or are you just practicing to be a liberal politician ???
Yeah, who did that loser Abe Lincoln think he was, foisting all that right wing crapka on people like TRPs ancestors. Oh well, I guess lefty Booth took care it.
A skeptic in the making 🙂
The doubts are creeping in.
TRP,
I’m not an Obama supporter, but hopefully like most people who can agree to disagree I commend your sticking to your principles and your support of Obama. Unfortunately, I think you err in your
Obama is a progressive ideologue. I’m sure he well understands, but doesn’t care about, the “global warming illusion.” The rest is rationalization. You justify your statement that you’re “not ready to convert to right-wing ideology over this one issue” By a drive-by Ad Hominem attack on “right-wing ideology” and previous presidential mistakes.
If you stick to the topic of global warming, I’m sure you’ll get a great discussion.
TRP, I think you would be surprised how many prominent climate skeptics are left wing. Freeman Dyson is a constant thorn in the side of alarmists, yet he also embraces Democrat politics, and likes Obama.
Steve McIntyre, who probably did more to expose the shaky scientific foundations of climate alarmism than anyone else, and quite probably has the highest number of mentions in Climategate of any skeptic, tends towards left wing politics (according to James Delingpole).
While there is no doubt that in America climate skepticism is most openly expressed by Republicans, there are a growing number of elected Democrats who are reaching their limit on this issue – as demonstrated by the recent climate mutiny in California.
When you think about it, it makes sense for someone who truly embraces socialism to vehemently oppose the dishonesty and distortions of climate alarmism. A large, powerful government can only succeed if it is honest. Politicised science, poor decisions based on defective data, will destroy any attempt to create a socialist state, by rotting it from within.
you are correct. The center of mass of the converting troposphere is about 5km. The Wet Air Lapse Rate is about 6.5C/km. 33C is the difference between the surface temperature and the predicted black body temperature. This is believed to be caused by GHG. However:
5km x 6.5C/km = 32.5 C —
The so called GHG effect is nothing more than the conversion of Potential Energy into Kinetic energy, moderated by the condensation of water. The Troposphere above 5 km is colder than predicted for a black body. The Troposphere below 5 km is warmer than predicted for a black body. No CO2 required.
The same calculation holds true for Venus and Mars.
It takes a long time for the News to get through to Nebraska, even these days.
A little faith in our government please. Obama is not the worst POTUS in history. My vote goes to Jimmy Carter who I did vote for when I was in college.
My theory that extra ordinary times make make great presidents, hence Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. They changed how we think about our country.
The extra ordinary times included the USSR completing their defacto invasion of South Vietnam, invasion of Afghanistan, Iran going dark side, and high inflation, unemployment, and interest rates. While Carter may not have caused these things, he did fail to change the direction of the country in a positive way.
The fall of the USSR and the Berlin Wall changed how we thought about our country. At least for me. I think dismantling nuke weapons and using the material to make electricity is the ultimate in cool.
In a way I fell sorry for POTUS Clinton and Obama. How can you have a legacy of greatness if there are no great problems to solve? While I do not think climate change is a real problem, POTUS Clinton and Obama have failed to change anything. Fracking has lowered the price of natural gas, so we are using less coal in the US.
Obama the fracking president. No pun intended. Well maybe.
Imagine if Obama was the President who swept all this climate idiocy away. History would remember him as a courageous statesman who changed the course of history.
Oh please. Give me a break. The woman’s letter is dripping with sanctimoniousness. Her “concern” and “angst” is all an act, meant to show how much of a True Believer she is. And naturally Obozo used it and played it up to the hilt. Great show, and a perfect way to highlight his own self-important goal of “saving the planet”. Sickening.
If there was a need to set the scale for “how low can you go”, this stunt is a good starting point.
Why do it in fly-over country ?
like the monkey he is at the tether of the organ grinder
I guess she’ll be relieved when she realizes M4GW was correct: “It was all a hoax”.