Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
I fear that Science magazine has beclowned itself as badly as the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. They’ve published a “scientific” policy paper by the noted climate scientist Barack Hussein Obama. Not a paper with Obama as one of the signatories. No, Science magazine claims that the President wrote the deathless prose all by himself, not a co-author in sight.
Here’s an example:
At the same time, evidence is mounting that any economic strategy that ignores carbon pollution will impose tremendous costs to the global economy and will result in fewer jobs and less economic growth over the long term. Estimates of the economic damages from warming of 4°C over preindustrial levels range from 1% to 5% of global GDP each year by 2100 (4). One of the most frequently cited economic models pins the estimate of annual damages from warming of 4°C at ~4% of global GDP (4–6), which could lead to lost U.S. federal revenue of roughly $340 billion to $690 billion annually (7).
Ignoring “carbon pollution” will lead to loss of US Federal revenue? OMG … can’t have that.
Now I gotta ask … is there anyone on the planet who thinks that:
a) Barack Hussein Obama was the sole author of this piece of drivel? … or that
b) Any of this is anything but politics? … or that
c) We should get our climate science advice from op-ed political pieces by outgoing politicians? … or that
d) Science magazine is doing its reputation any good by publishing this puff piece? … or that
e) Obama made it into Science magazine (or to be the Editor of the Harvard Law Review) on his own merits?
January 20th … could you hurry up please?
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Sorry, not possible. But if all the people who want to flee Trump’s America leave now at speeds approaching that of light, time will slow down and Obama’s administration will last longer (for them anyway), and the remaining time will be less unpleasant for the rest of us.
I love “time will slow down”.
I threw up in my mouth, a little.
It reads like a speech, including such timely references as ‘ A U.S. Department of Energy report released this week…’. Take away the footnote references, and it could have been in his next State-of-the-Union,
“…….At the same time, evidence is mounting that any economic strategy that ignores carbon pollution…..”
I sincerely hope that I am not the only one here is getting REALLY sick and tired of carbon dioxide being referred to as “carbon pollution.” Propaganda is of course the reason behind why this is done. Never mind that CO2 is also composed of an oxygen atom.
Is it hydrogen that comes out of my kitchen tap when I turn it on? Do I season my food with sodium or with sodium chloride (Yea, I know. Pure sodium is nasty stuff when exposed to air or water. I saw it happen in a college chemistry lab many years ago).
I’m about as much a scientist as Obama is. If he can publish a piece in this “science” magazine, then I guess I can too, right?
Oops…two oxygen atoms in CO2, not one.
Ironically, the photo used to illustrate this WUWT post is a picture of Obama looking at brain cells through a microscope during a tour of a laboratory with Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, September 30, 2009.
The brain cells, of course, must be those of a current “consensus” climate scientist — thus, making it a very fitting photo for this post.
Laugh, laugh, and laugh again. Great comment.
Ironically, the photo used to illustrate this WUWT post is a picture of Obama looking at brain cells through a microscope during a tour of a laboratory with Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, September 30, 2009.
He’s not looking AT the brains cells of a climate scientist, but looking FOR them.
The other possibility is that he is looking at a plot of satellite data over the last two decades in the hope of finding a rise in global temperatures. Or maybe sea-level data in the hope of finding an increase in the rate that it’s rising, or maybe oceanic pH in the hope of finding an increase in de-basification.
It’s just like in the “Golden Years” in Romania. Mrs Ceausescu seemed to be the author of almost all science school books. Yeay her!
he’s a POS and I will be glad when he’s sitting in the dustbin of horrible history.
He’s not that old and he’s rich from being in politics. Don’t expect him to fade away too fast. Look at what Bill and Hillary tried to pull off. For that matter, Al Gore’s probably not finished quite yet on the global power circuit. As long as these characters can get donations, they can continue operating at some level.
oh I know he is planning on butting in often and loudly but…he won’t have any real authority at least.
I doubt the coverage for CAGW will change much under Trump….most likely at first it will intensify as is. Count on official findings contrary to the CAGW meme either getting no recognition or being skewered. The CAGW bank rollers control the necessary news outlets to assure a continuation of the narrative and they have too much invested to give up now. I would be wary though if I were an outlet that falsely reports or tries to spin an official government statement though as Trump is already on record to dislike false and misleading press coverage. He also seems to be vindictive. In this case I hope he is.
Obama looks as uncomfortable and ridiculous and Mike Dukakis did in his tank photo. Fortunately, that came during his campaign and people saw him for the idiot he was. Unfortunately, this is on the way out, so it doesn’t matter.
F*ck, AS Mike…
Political stunts of this sort became increasingly common under the editorship of Donald “used NSF funds for my yacht” Kennedy. It is the reason I quit AAAS in 2001. I’ll bet this leads to some resignations as well.
By the way, isn’t it ironic that so-called right-wing people are chided and mocked by the left for religious beliefs, but left-wingers the world over turn their charismatic leaders into near deities with nary a second thought? Of course, Barack Obama is a deity in a league of his own.
Dante’s Inferno describes those various leagues rather precisely.
Some of the comments upthread led my lawyer’s nose to do a little sniffing before dinner and football. For regular papers, no ghost authorship is allowed, and there must be original content. This fails both tests.
But this is not a regular paper. It is a policy forum review submission. That has separate written rules (a quick single google fu finds them):
1. Advance scientific understanding–fail.
2. “Opinion is acceptible but other views should be acknowledged.” –fail.
3. ‘Conflict of interest’: “If you cannot judge this paper impartially, please notify us immediately.”–fail.
4. Your review—fail. Holdren’s review, Fail. WHO, yup, but to which identifier ‘you’ and ‘yours’ does not apply in the Science rules sense.
So, Science mutiply violated their own written Policy Forum submission guidelines to humor Obummer on his way out to oblivion. Par for the course in corrupted climate science.
Anything an Executive Order could not take care of?
Or a pardon!
Not bad for a guy who is “lost” trying to understand 9th grade math.
Obama:
If he can’t do 9th grade “math stuff,” it’s not surprising that he’s confused about climate change.
I’m afraid Obama’s an idiot. We’ve had an idiot president for 8 years.
Perhaps he doesn’t perceive the relationship of math and science. Therefore he can be a “political Scientist” without the “math part”.
He’s a “social scientist,” therefore, no math, science, or even logic. Just emotions and feelings (and ruthlessly attacking your opponents with scandalous accusations of racism, sexism, genderism, or whatever the victimhood -ism of the moment is).
The most important point is not about the president, but about AAAS, should be renamed the American Association of the Alienation of Science.
“…roughly $340 billion to $690 billion annually”. This from a president who has already added $1Trillion every year of his presidency to the national debt.
President Obama should spend a week at Fresno ice fishing, then write an update to “his” paper. http://fresnowalleyes.com/fresnocam.html
I dropped my subscription (and membership) several years ago because Science has become so political.
Eventually politicians and charlatans will be forced to understand that Mother Nature does not do politics or take directing.
Maybe, but our lifetimes as wretched humans are not long enough to grasp the entire scope of our reality. That is what separates us from the demigods we envision ourselves as. One must observe many cycles (annual, decadal, centennial, etc) before arriving at a mean behavior in nature. perhaps after a century of satellite observation humanity will have a small glimpse of the actual drivers playing a “rock-paper-scissors game” of chaotic counter forcing.
Barack Obama was NEVER the Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
He was the President of the HLR – an affirmative action creation by elite universities to increase “diversity” in an institution that exists solely on the basis of merit earned by its members.
The Editor of any Law Review is usually the smartest student in the law school who chooses to compete for a place on the Law Review (in his/her first year) and thereafter serves with exceptional distinction during their time on the Law Review. The Editor is chosen for his/her legal acumen, diligence, good humor, and sole-minded dedication to producing a quality product of exceptional merit.
The President of a Law Review is something else all together.
This has a lot of credibility after this “scientist” also estimated that passing his healthcare plan would cut costs for the average family by $2500 a year. No, instead health costs have gone through the roof under Obama’s plan. And Obama knew that would happen, just like Obama’s knows that adopting his climate change plan would take a wrecking ball to the economy:
Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket:
What is the social cost of removing the first expression in this formula?
6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy = C6H12O6 + 6O2
If we get below 300ppm (.03%), it may be immeasurable.
Anyone worried about maintaining the oxygen content in the atmosphere should remember that more CO2 results in more plant growth, which makes more oxygen and sequesters more carbon in biomass as it easily meets the global food requirement (except where politics screws it up).
Pop Piasa January 9, 2017 at 5:25 pm
Anyone worried about maintaining the oxygen content in the atmosphere should remember that more CO2 results in more plant growth, which makes more oxygen and sequesters more carbon in biomass as it easily meets the global food requirement (except where politics screws it up).
But of course burning fuel consumes oxygen and since more oxygen is consumed, than is generated during photosynthesis overall the oxygen concentration is decreasing.
http://scrippso2.ucsd.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/plots/daily_avg_plots/ljo.pdf
Relax, guys. Here’s my “surprise-free” model.
All sorts of great economic things start happening and America gains status (real, actual status, not what the left thinks passes for it). And somehow or other, none of it will turn out to have anything at all to do with Donald Trump.
So I look forward to all sorts of wonderful things that Trump has Absolutely Nothing to Do With. That’s my model.
And it backtracks well, too. It’s not as if we haven’t seen all this before: My alma mater (Columbia University, GSAS) is where you will learn about how Reagan didn’t save — or even help — the economy, he actually ruined it. And about how the fall of the Soviets had nothing (Nothing, NOTHING) to do with him. (NOTHING!) And all it will cost you is a mere two grand a credit.
Actually, Reagan inherited a bigger mess than Obama kept whining about and his administration set the stage for the dot com boom that Clinton took credit for. I never remember Regan complaining about the mess Carter left him, nor do I expect Trump to whine about the mess left behind by Obama.
Science did not accept my two page letter, which I wrote myself, so I am jealous. Not only did I write it myself, I read the references.
Who believes that Pres Obama contributed anything to this paper, even as much as a full read of the manuscript?
When did this dude have time to research this properly? Who was running the country while he slogged through the papers and adopted an informed stand for himself to claim authorship of?
In between golf games.
Willis,
Now I gotta ask … is there anyone on the planet who thinks that:
b) Any of this is anything but politics? ”
I don’t think it’s about politics, but rather corruption. In brief, I believe corruption has become rampant to the point of there being a great many people who face loss of status/wealth (and in some cases imprisonment) if people not deeply involved in the now extremely corrupt “establishment”, unleash/activate the rule of law (and not men). Hence, everything (including the kitchen sink ; ) is being thrown at the incoming Administration, which might help de-legitimize and/or demonize it.
“is there anyone on the planet who thinks that:
b) Any of this is anything but politics?”
I agree about the corruption, but would add that on Science’s behalf it is also publicity. Selling copies, being “relevant” and being quoted in the non-scientific press as well as the light science press – Sci Am and New Scientist.
Science Magazine should be forced to change their name to “Mullarkey” Magazine or some other fitting title. They’ve blown any credibility they had left.
No, Gandhi, the fix for the title of the magazine is muuuuuuuch easier than what you suggest.
They merely need to add a big question mark at the end of the word, “science”. … Give me a few minutes to work up a mock front-page cover.
Siants . . sounds like science ; )
And now for a little levity…..
If Hillary Clinton had won the US presidential election, we would have had two US presidents sleeping with each other in the White House!
However, since Donald Trump is the President-Elect, on January 20th 2017 we will witness an ethnically African-American family moving out of public housing so an ethnically Caucasian-American billionaire can move in!
Robert,
Perfect! Just…..Perfect!