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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Isn’t it a given that anything with an Obama by line was written by Bill Ayers?
I hear stuff from time to time. I have recently heard the NRA is planning to honor the soon-to-be-ex-President with a lifetime achievement award on January 21, 2017. He has single-handedly managed to increase the sale of firearms and ammunition to ordinary citizens by almost a factor of 10 during his eight years as POS. Whoops! Sorry about that typo–it should be POTUS.
The ceremony should be a real humdinger as he will be presented a green ceracoated AK-47 specially modified to hold only a one-round magazine. At least he should be familiar with the firearm and its operation.
Can BHO pass a background check?
As long as he applies before midnight on 1/20/2017.
OK, since they have come out of the closet, so to speak, can we now rename Science magazine “Politics Today”?
It could the Pope who helped him write it!
Willis, you just gave me a sarcgasm. Thank you for that.
Carbon pollution !
Considering that humans are made of carbon, considering that he is himself a human If he consider himself as a pollutant, well, he might be right after all
FROM ARTICLE:
“I fear that Science magazine has beclowned itself as badly as the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.”
MY comment:
Barack “Nobel Peace Prize” Obama dropped at least 26,000 bombs in 2016, which was at least 3,000 more than in 2015.
Those numbers are almost certainly understated, because for some airstrikes the actual number of bombs dropped is unknown, so one bomb dropped is assumed, to be conservative.
Source:
http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2017/01/05/bombs-dropped-in-2016/
Beware the Obamadon! (an extinct insectivorous lizard).
All life ends up carbonless eventually. Fossils are already there!
Wow !! Dr. Barack Insein Obama
The cost of carbon:
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPQEPBk3oy0E7WHeVx5PLQADUnVlYB4AY6ZmpFciynIFnhKlXj
Here’s your quote-“Now I gotta ask … is there anyone on the planet who thinks that: e) Obama made it into Science magazine (or to be the Editor of the Harvard Law Review) on his own merits?”
…Editor of the Harvard Law Review?
Willis, Very disappointed in your logic, civility, and charity. You almost always have appealed to your readers “better angels.” One can find interviews with several of Obama’s classmates who describe why the voted for him as editor of Harvard Law Review. I read them a few years back.
How many fallacies can you be guilty of in one sentence?
False equivalence
Onus probandi
Proving too much
Faulty generalizations
Cherry picking
Hasty generalization
Poisoning the well
Abusive fallacy
Appeal to spite
Obama’s “science policy” information probably comes from one of the worst science advisors IMO ever selected- John Holdren. I think Holdren and Science Magazine deserve your scorn, and Obama, too, for sticking with Holdren. However, Your Argumentum ad hominem et al does not represent the Willis Eschenbach I’ve loved to read and recommended to others.
I am sorry but this kind of emotionally phrased objection is absolutely unfair towards Willis. The name of the author if a part of a scientific paper and in this case, it’s obviously the most important part of it. The article has absolutely no scientific value, the only interesting thing about the article is “Barack Obama” at the top, and I agree with Willis that it was almost certainly this name that secured the place for this political driven in a science journal.
You may call these comments “ad hominem argumentation” but in that case, the ad hominem argumentation is clearly the essential one in this situation.
Just in case no-one has yet hi-lighted Obama’s education:
From wikip:
“Later in 1981, he transferred as a junior to Columbia College, Columbia University, in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations[32] and in English literature[33] and lived off-campus on West 109th Street.[34] He graduated with a BA degree in 1983 ”
So much for his qualifications for speaking authoritatively to anything scientific (beyond Poli-Sci, which isn’t proper Science anyway).
That puts him in the same category as Bono and diCapricio … a shill.
[Technically, no one knows what he actually studied, nor what classes he actually attended at any of his “schools” .. No transcripts, applications, grants, attendance records, nor grades or Law school tests have ever been released from any of his claimed “schools” for any of his assumed degrees. .mod]
How do you all feel about Trump nominating Kennedy Junior to review the links between Autism and Vaccinations? In reality, if Trump really feels they are connected in some way, it speaks volumes about his understanding of scientific proof and investigation.
Wile E. Coyote – Soooper Genius!
George Smith re Madame Curie – yes she was Polish – she named polonium for her mother country
“momentum is irreversible”
Actually it is not ‘sustainable’. There is more than one aspect to sustainability. While the source of energy may be ‘renewable’, the equipment to convert energy to useful power is not renewable.
The leftist progressives are all delusional !!
And only morons would claim Obama wrote this all by his lonesome. Unfortunately, there are about 60 million of them )-:
La-La-Land
https://youtu.be/Ec0clERjQ5A
https://youtu.be/Q686m6cqv4E
better me, better you.
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
I fear that Science magazine has beclowned itself as badly as the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. They’ve published
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.
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– a “scientific” policy paper by the notorious ‘climate scientist’ Barack Hussein Obama.
leaves air to breath. Thx.
My Blog: As some folks know, I’ve started my own blog called “Skating Under The Ice“. There I discuss, well, interesting stuff. Come over and take a look, follow the blog … enjoy.
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Willis, you’re pregnant not wanting abortion?
show me your belly on youtube and tell me, lil’l mam’.
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Lot’s a manly Americans not willing to show their pregnant bellys on youtube but behold:
abortion is women’s payment not taxpayers.
Willis, hast Du Scheisse im Hirn?