July 17, 2017
They are the worshipers of a lesser god, global warming. Foreign Policy, the propaganda arm of the Brookings Institution, reports that a number of Republican congressmen helped defeat an amendment to the 2018 defense funding bill proposed by Scott Perry of Pennsylvania. Perry’s amendment would have removed an amendment introduced by Jim Langevin of Rhode Island to require the Department of Defense to report on global warming.
Langevin’s amendment has some amusing bits. In the supporting evidence for global warming, one piece of evidence listed to demonstrate that global warming is really, truly, unequivocally happening is on page four:
(13) In the Yukon Training Area, units conducting artillery training accidentally started a wildfire despite observing the necessary practices during red flag warning conditions.
So some artillery rounds set fire to some brush in Alaska. And as a consequence, the Department of Defense is required to examine the effects of make-believe on its operations? On page five, the make-believers listed their demands with respect to the report the Department of Defense is required to compile, including reporting on the effects of increased flooding and drought at the same time. The make-believers shouldn’t be forced to choose. They can have both flood and drought if they want them, and if everyone believes.
The United States pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, per Lincoln’s assessment that the United States is “the last, best hope of earth.” That pullout may have saved humanity from a form of servitude. As the Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, it was “a damn close-run thing.” But the forces of darkness still hold a lot of high ground, believe they can still prevail and mount counterattacks to gain ground, as per the Langevin amendment. The fact that the Department of Defense is producing a report on global warming will be used to say how serious a problem it is.
The head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, has proposed a blue team-red team dialogue to progress climate science, instead of simply appointing someone, such as Will Happer, to write the required report and get it over and done with. Perhaps Mr. Pruitt thinks such an approach will provide legitimacy for the outcome. The blue team won’t play, though, because it means entertaining the thought that they could possibly be wrong. Besides, we don’t have the luxury of time. There has yet to be even one official government report, from anywhere on the planet, saying global warming is nonsense. There are 33 Republican-controlled states in the Union currently. Any one of them could commission such a report on climate; all of them should. This is a strategy that will capture the enemy’s center of gravity – the scientific imprimatur for their belief system.
Now back to our first question: Who are these people? Which Republican congressmen have broken faith and voted to subject their people to servitude, oppression, and contempt? The list can be broken into two. Firstly, there are the members of House Climate Solutions Caucus, the inner circle of self-selected misanthropes. The Republican members of this group are:
If this first list can be considered as those who have consciously made a choice for evil, this second group are the easily deluded fools:
If you see your congressman on either list, please point out to him the error of his ways.
David Archibald is the author of American Gripen: The Solution to the F-35 Nightmare.
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The question should be do you believe in catastrophic man made climate change.
Not do you believe that the climate changes.
But if you want to get to the real motive of the matter the question should be, Do you believe in a one dictatorship planet bought about by the global centralisation of power over all energy distribution.
A report, here or there, makes no difference. I’m pretty sure most politicians of any color know that the report is what you use as cover to do what you were going to do anyway. And we’ve reached the point where nobody is going to pay much attention to another global warming report. It’s not like we don’t get them every day anyway, is it?
If politicans are serious about reversing the more insane aspects of global warming that have been put into law, then they will commission a suitable report first. Almost anyone, including most readers of WUWT, could write such a report failry quickly, and it would be at least as intellectually and scientifically rigorous as the ICCP Summary for Policy Makers. It would not be difficult to write a better one that makes persuasive reading.
cool cancel the red team
I smell fear again.
The argument that global warming is an existential problem was abandoned for obvious reasons; the data do not support the argument. Instead, they cleverly switched to the climate change argument where there is endless anecdotal evidence of something that can be used as evidence of climate change. How do you prove that a decrease in sperm count in (pick your species) is not caused by climate change. Congresspersons, being of ordinary intelligence and no scientific training, have no ability to sort this out.
So the Dems are united in being wrong consistently. I suppose that stems from the whole premise behind it all of more money for power, redistribution of wealth, and vote buying. The behavioral impetus should be easier to model than the climate.
On mobile no names came up. This scam like housing and higher education has always been a bipartisan proposition. Call it the real Green Party as in greenbacks.
I am disappointed in my own Congressman Diane Black who heads the House Budget Committee. Way to much wasted green money and very little that might meet real needs. Our people are bad. The others are much much worse. We suffer on
You need to be very careful and reflect on the reality of politics. There are subtleties here. Some of the people on those two lists are your friends.
Never use a scattergun when well-placed rifle shots are sufficient.
Having their constituents annoyed with some of a congress member’s policies, and letting them know it was supposed to be a good idea.
Speaking of the Pentagon… I walked into an office on an Air Force Base one summer day a few years back and thought it was closed as it was almost completely dark. Only when you peaked into offices did you see the base civil engineers’ dimly lit by their computer screens. It was almost creepy the way people started appearing out of the darkness to chat with a visitor to their cave. I asked why the rooms and halls were so dark and they said they were trying to reduce their power use. Crazy! I can only imagine what effect that must have had on their productivity for some vague goal of reducing their imaginary carbon footprint.
Perhaps they wouldn’t now, since so many US bases have solar panels or renewable energy deals, which are saving the US govt money…
How do you know it’s saving the US government money? This is a basic question of audits and accountability, not executive orders and appearances.
Well, looking at both the UK and the US government during this summer’s hiatus, it is clear democracy sometime means that things can not be done as planed.
That may be bad, but autocracy is far worse, despite not suffering from such malady.
Even politicians eventually revert if not fully but at least to the necessary degree of sanity.
BTW the history of the US military makes it pretty clear that when push comes to shove climate and weather are secondary considerations for operations. During WW II when the logistics system could not keep up during the break out and advance across France the conscious decision was made by the US command to make equipping the units with winter gear a low priority in order to get more fuel and ammo to the front. The result was the majority of US combat soldiers suffering through one of the worst winters to hit Europe in memory during 1944-45 during the biggest battle the US fought inadequately clothed and equipped for the conditions. Thus during the Battle of the Bulge, more US soldiers became casualties due to cold injuries and illnesses associated with cold and wet conditions than enemy fire.
Same kind of thing happened earlier in the war in May 1943 when the US took the Aleutian island of Attu back from the Japanese. US troops were inadequately equipped for the wet cold conditions and cold injuries and illnesses resulted in higher casualties than the Japanese.
And in the Pacific during the Guadalcanal campaign August 1942 to February 1943 they didn’t even have enough canteens to supply each Marine with two for the initial invasion. Despite the several battles and heavy fighting more Marines became casualties due to malaria and other tropical diseases and heat injuries than to enemy action. But in that case, unlike the fighting in the European theater, the enemy was even less prepared to deal with the conditions and suffered a much higher proportion of casualties to those causes than the Marines and Army troops did on the island.
Wow! The lists are pretty impressive – I had no idea there are that many Republicans capable of clear scientific thought. There may yet be hope for America!
Sadly there is one Neanderthal leading the pack who worships money over any genuine attempt to monitor the impact our attempts to be wealthy have on the planet.
Has anyone checked how much cranium is under all that yellow hair? It’s possible he’s a pinhead neanderthal.
“Wow! The lists are pretty impressive – I had no idea there are that many Republicans capable of clear scientific thought.”
Around here we call those sorts of people “Dupes”. Even Republicans can be fooled by Leftwing/MSM CAGW propaganda.
With all the establishment institutions buying into the CAGW idea, it’s a wonder there are any skeptics still standing. But there *are* skeptics still standing and the reason is the skeptics can see that the CAGW narrative looks like a “house of cards”. All claims, no evidence.
Mod: glad to see High Octaine Payne banned. Nevetheless here is a piece I was writing when he disappeared…
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I shouldn’t rise to the bait, really, but …
You may be a Paine but you are certaInly not High Octane.
Some of the incoming Sunlight does indeed get absorbed in the atmosphere, just as some gets reflected straight back to space from cloud tops and surface. So what? The rest gets absorbed by the earth’s surface – which would therefore warm up except for the fact that an exactly corresponding amount of energy (on average over a long timescale) leaves the surface towards the atmosphere and, ultimately, to space.
This (long term) perfect balance ensures that the earth’s surface neither warms nor cools on average, with an estimated stable average surface temperature of around 15degC, that value being entirely dictated by the complex mix of gases in the atmosphere including the ‘insulation’ afforded by water vapour and CO2. The scientific debate is now entirely and exclusively about whether the doubling of CO2 due to industrialisation, predicted to occur by the end of the century, will cause a harmful or a benign temperature increase.
But you knew that didn’t you? I guess you are just having a lark to draw attention to yourself (fail). Please desist. You are doing an annoying disservice here to all us sane climate change sceptics.