From Larry Kummer at the Fabius Maximus website
Memorandum: “Climate: A unifying theory to the case“,
Emailed from John Podesta to Chris Lehane, 28 January 2014.
This memo was emailed to Podesta (a senior White House official) from Lehane (partner in the strategic communications firm Fabiani & Lehane, dissolved in Nov 2015). We have it courtesy of Wikileaks — and whoever leaked it to them.
John Podesta was Chief of staff to Bill Clinton and Counselor to the President for Obama. He is Chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Chris Lehane – When an attorney in the White House Counsel’s office, he and his current business partner Mark Fabiani called themselves the “Masters of Disaster” for their work as a “rapid-response” team responding to the many scandals of the Clinton Administration. Lehane co-authored a book on damage control titled Masters of Disaster: The Ten Commandments of Damage Control
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“Thank you for asking us to share some ideas for a holistic approach to climate. Per your direction, the goal is to unify policy, politics, and communications to help the Administration best execute an informed plan over a multi-year time period. …this document is intended to provide some food for thought as the Administration refines its thinking on climate. …{it} addresses the four components that the Administration may want to consider as it seeks to lead on this issue.
- Three-Year Framework. …
- Right v. Wrong. Make the case that climate must be approached as a challenge of historical social change where progress will depend in part on successfully casting the issue in moral terms of who is right and who is wrong …
- The Big Idea. …{It} could drive an Administration-wide approach to climate for the next three years. …
- 2014 Action Plan. …
“To achieve victory, we must treat climate change as an issue of historic importance that is worthy of a true political social movement to create change. This political social movement must be founded on moral principles with stark definitions of who is right and who is wrong, and it is important to outline the historically negative, irreversible implications if we were to not succeed.
“By pursuing this as a political social movement, President Obama and his Administration will best be able to assure that his legacy includes his unprecedented leadership on climate that initiated the shifting of the country’s political tectonic plates to enable transformative climate change policy, before it was too late.
“…At the end of the day, given the powerful and entrenched interests that are opposed to climate change policy, one needs to have an organizing platform that defines the Administration as being morally on the right side of the issue and, equally important, defines the opposition as morally responsible for an issue that threatens the health and welfare of the American people. …
“Define the issue as between those who believe in the science, and therefore are taking steps to respond to the scientific findings, versus those who do not believe in the science. The power of this approach is that it puts the opposition in an indefensible box (the vast majority of people believe the science that climate is changing); it fits into what we call the Troglodyte Narrative(anti-women; anti-Latino; anti-gun safety; anti-common sense fiscal policy; and anti-science) that is raising basic trust issues for the Republican Party – especially with electorally decisive voter cohorts. You either believe in basic science or you are against basic science — in which case you fail a basic requirement for being capable of occupying public office. …
“The Winning Principles
“The Big Idea will need to be animated by three principles that the wedge political policies would connect with (think of FDR’s Four Freedoms or TR’s Three C’s). In the context of being informed by various campaigns (candidate and ballot initiative) in which climate was deployed as a decisively winning political issue, there are three issues that really stand out as wedge principles that could undergird the Big Idea (whatever the Big Idea may be).
“Health/Safety. The opposition is engaged in practices or holding positions that are demonstrably imperiling the health and safety of our people. This ranges from macro issues like extreme weather to local issues like drinking water, air quality and rail safety to micro issues like children’s asthma. People care when the health and safety of their families are implicated.
“Pocket Book. People care when climate impacts them economically. On the positive/aspirational front, this principle can be about whether new green jobs will be based here or overseas or how citizens are able to save money by paying less for energy. …
“Accountability/Responsibility. Follow the money. Who is accountable/responsible for the bad things that are happening, and how are they rigging the system to benefit from the bad things? …
“2014 Action Plan
“…Establishment of an extreme weather SWAT team prepared to work together and engage when extreme weather happens — including response; local outreach; media; science information about historic nature of the event; and coordinating possible principal travel (POTUS, FLOTUS, VPOTUS, Cabinet).”
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Conclusions
The most important thing about this memo, obvious almost three years later, is its complete failure. Few Americans consider the environment our most serious problem. It is a minor issue in the presidential election, seldom even mentioned. Climate change isn’t among our top 10 fears.
The approach is pure politics, with little mention of science. For example, the SWAT teams {as we have seen} blame all “extreme” weather on climate change — ignoring that extreme weather is normal, occurring before any anthropogenic effects. The IPCC has repeatedly explained this, not just in their regular Assessment Reports but also in the 2012 report “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” (SREX).
Worse, the binary framing (“the vast majority of people believe the science that climate is changing”) ignores the key issues of how much change is likely from anthropogenic sources — and when. That is the area of debate among climate scientists (there is as yet no consensus), and the necessary input to make public policy decisions.
Describing climate change as a moral issue probably seemed like a sure winner to Lehane, especially with academia, journalists, and most NGOs as supporting players. But that prevented political compromise or any rational discussion of costs vs. benefits — both essential elements of successful public policy. It polarized the issue so that America has taken few measures to even prepare for the repeat of past weather (as Hurricane Matthew reminded us).
Worse, Lehane does not mention what he relies upon as the authorities for science. The IPCC? NOAA? The alarmists that journalists love for their exciting soundbites? The climate scientists who write the IPCC’s Working Group I reports devote great effort to explaining their state of knowledge — and the large uncertainties in much of it. There is a large gap between the certainty of warming since the early 19th century plus the large role of anthropogenic forcings since 1950 — and the massive unknowns driving climate during the 21st century. All that is lost when the issue is defined in purely moral terms.
So they lost. Clinton’s probable win (in March I predicted a landslide) Lehane and his fellow activists a second chance. Will they learn from their failures in the 28 years since James Hansen’s 1988 testimony to Congress ignited the movement? Or will they have sufficient political power to push through their agenda despite their weak political support and ineffective plans?
There are better ways to handle major public policy issues. Climate change, our mad foreign wars, and our mishandling of so many other key challenges — these show our dysfunctional politics in action. We can do better.
Reblogged this on Climatism and commented:
“Masters of Disasters” Fabiani and Lehane confirm that issues of environmental catastrophe play into quite a number of the Lefts/Progressives social agendas, namely power and control.
The UN and its environmental agencies, UNEP and their ‘sciencey’ arm, the IPCC, have used Global Warning aka Climate Change to push their globalist agenda for decades:
“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.“ – Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” – Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
More recently this stunning admission from IPCC leader, Ottmar Edenhoffer, in November 2010 :
“We (UN IPCC) redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…”
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore…”
And this from Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN’s Framework on Climate Change in 2014 :
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years since the Industrial Revolution.”
In other words, use climate policy (through climate alarmism) to change the structure of the worlds successful free-market capitalist economies to the failed statist communist model.
Nice one Wikileaks and the Podesta emails – the gift that keeps on giving!
Right. It was a political con, backed by false science, from the start.
The warming issue was kicked into public prominence June ’88, when Senator Tim Wirth & “scientist” Jim Hansen sabotaged Congess’ air conditioning for their televised presentation:
http://www.stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/1988-james-hansen-and-tim-wirth-sabotage-the-air-conditioning-in-congress/
John Doran.
The notion that mankind was a problem and was doing harm to the planet, came first. The “science” was then, and has been ever since, butchered until it fitted in with the notion.
Put in stevengoddard search box: Hansen Wirth sabotage congress air conditioning
Climatism has it precisely correct. The warming/climate, because it’s not warming, hoax is a deindustrialisation/depopulation agenda, dressed up as an environmental/resources agenda.
The reason is control. The money masters’ fiat money created out of thin air & lent out at interest (fraud & usury) scam in which all Western govts are complicit, is grinding to a halt.
All money is created as debt, & more debt is created to pay the interest on this debt.
It’s an upside down pyramid of usury which is crumbling. Madness.
Far fewer people in a post-industrial future will be far easier to control our Feudal money master lords intend.
3.5 hr video: Bill Still Money Masters
Book: The Creature from Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin.
John Doran.
“There is a large gap between the certainty of warming since the early 19th century plus the large role of anthropogenic forcings since 1950 — and the massive unknowns driving climate during the 21st century. ”
Oh, so Fab one deems himself worthy to state as a fact the “large role of anthropogenic forcings since 1950” . . and thus reenforce my disrespect and suspicion. Congrats ; )
John,
Life will go on despite your disrespect.
Almost all scientists considered “skeptics” — including many whom I respect and whose opinion I rely on — believe that anthropogenic factors (e.g., atmospheric emissions, land use changes, aerosols, soot deposits) have had a large role since 1950.
Quantify it.
“Almost all scientists considered “skeptics” ”
I don’t do vicarious scientific thinking, sir. It’s silliness to me.
“… — including many whom I respect and whose opinion I rely on — believe that anthropogenic factors (e.g., atmospheric emissions, land use changes, aerosols, soot deposits) have had a large role since 1950.”
Then you ought to write the words “I believe” in such declarations as I commented on (or some such qualifier), and you will at least gain a bit of my respect. Talking as though you are an infallible God ain’t impressive to me.
Donald Trump will make climate great again 😉
All he needs to do is decriminalize CO2 as a pollutant and dwell on the benefits. Then divert renewable funding to safe nuclear R&D.
but his stated policy is to restart the coal industry??
Nuclear R&D??? Another rabbit hole.
We know nuclear. Nuclear’s problem is not technology, it’s government.
Aside from bringing the U.S. back to stone age. I guess keeping the third world from cheap reliable power requiring them to burn crap and die of respiratory problems is all part of leftiy’s “morality” what a bunch of unbelievable a-holes.
Bingo JK- Fabius invariably laments the LW statists when caught in lies and machinations not because it indicts their constructs, but because it hinders the effectiveness of their propaganda campaign.
Hansen’s 88 nonsensical “science”- Santer’s outright IPCC lie- the ridiculous hockey stick- acidity lies- SLR lies- absurd adjustments, hurricane, drought, polar bear lies…It’s all lies…
Pretty soon you find yourself saying things like “large role of anthropogenic forcings since 1950.”
BTW- 2nd to last paragraph : (would allow)?
JRP,
“Fabius invariably laments the LW statists when caught in lies and machinations”
That’s quite delusional.
The US, as most would like to view it, is gone. Hillary will be elected, and the liberal news media will continue to push her agenda. The media has shown this year, that they will do whatever is required , to see their chosen candidate elected. That is a lot of power!
One way to quantify how truly biased the news media is, is to simply understand that while Hillary is incredibly unpopular with the public, she is still VERY popular within the news media.
Matt,
“The US, as most would like to view it, is gone.”
Have confidence in the Republic. It was designed to outlast fits and fads, mania and maniac leaders. Power is decentralized on Fed, State, and local levels and between three branches — plus the bureaucracy.
People have declared the Republic finished in every generation since the Founding. Most of them are dead and the Republic still rolls on.
It is a form of occultism, to my mind, to think that our Republic is somehow safeguarded against collapse by virtue of some people having said it’s collapse was imminent in the past. That such utterly weak logical inference appears in your comment, renders your opinion on the matter essentially irrelevant, to me, Editor . . for if you will include such pablum in your arguments, I can’t have confidence in your treatment of other aspects of the question at hand, naturally.
“…one needs to have an organizing platform that defines the Administration as being morally on the right side of the issue”
These are some of the same people who made fun of the Moral Majority and insisted “you can’t legislate morality.” Now, they want to redefine morality as opposition to climate change and legislate it. You can’t make this stuff up.
“You either believe in basic science or you are against basic science — in which case you fail a basic requirement for being capable of occupying public office.”
First, they redefine basic science as something that matches their political beliefs. Then they want to require everyone who holds public office to adopt their definition. They would be incensed if anyone else did the same thing and tried to force it down their throats. But even if they had the science right, there is no requirement in the Constitution to “believe in basic science” in order to hold public office. They’re just making up their own rules like the little wannabe dictators they are.
It’s a story old as time! The weavers (Of narratives), the con game of the “confidence man” and the scams of rogues always play to the egos of their marks*:
*A confidence trick is known as a con game, a con, a scam, a grift, a hustle etc. The intended victims are known as “marks”. 😉
Why did my comment go straight to moderation?
It’s a story old as time! The weavers (Of narratives), the con game of the “confidence man” and the scams of rogues always play to the egos of their marks:
It’s a story old as time! The weavers (Of narratives), the “confidence men” always play to the egos of their marks:
I had not seen this video before, and note that it makes a similar point that I made above, namely:
At no time have I ever cared more about the outcome of the US election.
PS:
Should have read:
Richard
This is the second video from the Belgium politician that is going around. Sorry I don’t have first at hand.
And anyway, Science is only a colonial construct 🙂 :
The [British, or even English, or is it the UK] Spectator: Science Must Fall: it’s time to decolonise science
Mother Nature does not do politics.
Thermalization of terrestrial radiation explains why CO2 (or any other gas which does not condense in the atmosphere) has no significant effect on climate. http://globalclimatedrivers2.blogspot.com identifies the three factors which do (98% match with measured, 1895-2015). Blaming CO2 for warming is misguided science.
Water vapor has made earth warm enough to be habitable. Water vapor in the atmosphere (measured as TPW (Total Precipitable Water) has been measured by satellite and is reported by NASA/RSS under http://www.remss.com/measurements/atmospheric-water-vapor/tpw-1-deg-product with latest numerical data at ftp://ftp.remss.com/vapor/monthly_1deg/tpw_v07r01_198801_201609.time_series.txt (they only report the previous month. last 2 digits (09) are the month)
Increasing water vapor is the only significant factor countering the average global temperature decline which would otherwise be occurring. Water vapor is hundreds if not thousands of times more effective at warming the planet than CO2 would be even if effect of CO2 wasn’t made insignificant by thermalization.
Switching from coal to natural gas adds water vapor increasing the probability of flooding.
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“Clinton’s probable win (in March I predicted a landslide) Lehane and his fellow activists a second chance.”
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“…would give Lehane…a second chance…,” I suppose you meant to say.
More importantly, a “win” for Hillary is improbable without a lot of post-normal adjustments occurring on election day.
http://16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Trump-vs-Hillary-Attendance-10-15-Summary.png
Successfully convincing Trump supporters that they have probably lost the race already would likely discourage many of them from actually voting. Was that an objective of the author, perhaps?
If Hillary was truly electable, she wouldn’t need dead people and illegal immigrants registering to vote, she wouldn’t require proudly-biased full-spectrum support from the professional liars in establishment media (~2/3rds of Americans don’t trust them), and she wouldn’t need agent provocateurs engaged in the evil shenanigans documented in that viral video (2.2+ million views on day1) AndyG55 posted in his comment above.
Amen, Hillary really isn’t even Campaigning. And Trump’s overall attendance numbers including the Primary, give him an “inciting violence” number of about 2 out of maybe as much as 1 Million attendees. One of those violent guys was a Black Vet who took out a male “protestor” who had been or was still wearing a KKK hood. The Dems got that right. I’ve been trying to get it out via #BlackTwitter that the Dems Founded the KKK, Jim Crow Laws, and the “#DemoKKKratGhettos”; as well as other historical items showing that they’ve nearly always been the Racists.
The other violent Trumpster was ~80 years old. But the AstroTurf Operation below tries to incite the people waiting outside in line, placing a trained “victim” where they know the Media will be waiting to film. Even their old COPD “victim” on Oxygen apparently had to be sure to get to the front of the line by showing up at 6am.
Project Veritas has just released another of its “outings”, Part 1, showing exactly how the “victims” are admittedly manufactured by a super secret “double blind deniability” method keeping the Clinton Campaign separate from the Big on-the-ground AstroTurf Operation that Veritas investigated. But then the Operation admits and details how it works, on tape, to Project Veritas and calls Trump’s supporters “psychotic”!
I’d already seen more of this kind of Projection and Denial in the wiki-leaks. They seem to need to accuse the eeeville Trumpsters of what they are doing, because they simply can’t conceptualize a different level of thought from theirs. But we sure do know theirs.
I’d already concluded and tweeted that Hillary’s Sex-Assault Bimbo’s were essentially AstroTurfed and lying, because this is what the Dems and Hillary Clinton do; and two of Trump’s alleged “victims” of misogyny had already been pretty much outed as confabulating. That itself tars the rest of them and also by the “false in one, false in all” presumption allowed, according the We The Jury. And it wrongly tars real victims of sexual assault and worse, as they do actually exist in large numbers resulting from Hillary’s own role in promoting and nurturing the existence of ISIS, and etc.; which is well documented according to the statements of Brennan and General Flynn, who were there in the Administration as ISIS seeded and burgeoned as “The JV”.
It’s up to Chris Wallace to finally rightfully destroy Hillary Clinton in the 3rd Presidential Debate. And I try to let the offending MSM know that “We The People” are watching them, including Fox News. Who knows what Chris will do? I’ve tried to let him know about our very serious concern and focus and the likely results if Hillary wins. And I referred him to his own Father, Mike, who got suckered by Ahmadinejad when he visited Iran, because of the Dictator’s “charm”. But where had Mike been for the whole rest of his life! Dictators aren’t going to appear as Bela Lugosi’s Dracula when they are trying to fool people.
Has Chris Wallace been fooling himself the whole time?
Thanks to Trump, I’ve now noticed that a lot of seemingly rational Pundits are severely disabled by their lack of experience in the Real World outside of their Bubble. Trump’s outed them too, as well as the whole comfy Establishment Cabal that essentially wants to Rule us. It started off in the case of allegedly “Conservative Journalists” with the statements of noted Baseball Stat Expert, George Will, who’s going to vote for Hillary: After Trump had visited the Border and talked to the Border Agents who’ve now endorsed him, Will immediately said “Trump doesn’t do evidence.” Like that obtained from talking to actual Border Agents? But Will stuck with what he’d said, and it only got worse as he escalated his name-calling to anyone even considering the question of the plague of illegal Alien crime, which by now is easily proven, and thus to me! By implication. So I in turn envision Will’s future as getting a room with Tim McCarver and pouring over Baseball Stats for the rest of their lives. A little money to the Clinton Foundation could be the only other price George will pay.
“the plague of illegal Alien crime, which by now is easily proven”
PJ Media got hold of the still undenied Official Crime Stats in Texas over a 6 year period. There were 3000 murders by illegals total, from which someone could calculate the per cent Murders/year by illegals in Texas, by getting the total murders there per year. It came out to ~500/1200 or so, or greater than 40%! I almost still can’t believe it, but that’s what I got.
This whole election, and the fate of climate policy in the US, and around the world, comes down to the potential appointments to the SCOTUS.
If the public wants to hand the LEFT long term control over the government, and the opportunity to ram every crazy left wing idea down the public’s throat, then by all means, elect Billiary. She will ensure SCOTUS appointments that will bastardize the US Constitution, and rubber stamp every left wing idea, and rule every conservative position as unconstitutional. The EPA will be able to do whatever it pleases with Greenpeace as its advisor.
It is the “leftists” utopia!!! …. laws and regs that affect the masses, sentencing them to “equal poverty for all”, while exempting the liberal (DNC and RNC), inside the beltway political class.
Humanity is about to take one more giant leap backwards to the feudal system of old if the crook gets elected.
Exactly, and the “conservative” Never Trumps better start thinking about their own personal “Legacy”.
The “Never Trumpers” should go ahead and sport “Hilliary for President” stickers on their bumpers.
I don’t care if you don’t like the guy, she is a far worse alternative.
“Dr. Deanster October 18, 2016 at 7:19 am”
Right, since they’re so proud of their “Conscience”, why don’t they sport it? But their call for help demands ours! Otherwise they might be mistaken for Irredeemable Deplorables or even America Sympathizers!
When it comes to the NWO agenda using lies like Climate Change people need to start using the common sense God gave them. Climate change is what the climate has done through it’s entire existence long before man could do anything to hurt it. We have had extra warm periods and extra cold periods throughout it’s history and the water has not risen hardly at all and not even noticeably for the last 100 years. Remember Al the whore Gore said Florida would be under water by 2012 and the ice caps melted? I am still high and dry in Florida and have not seen a difference in the beaches for the last 25 years.
Clinton/Podesta/MxKibben
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17086
We know the left change data that suits the narrative on climate change. Why do we think that the same won’t happen ( and isn’t happening ) with this election. When politics is involved corruption knows no bounds.
..Decide for yourself…
https://youtu.be/5IuJGHuIkzY