Energy Secretary Chu steps down, blasts climate-change skeptics

Yahoo News ^ | February 1, 2013 | Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News

[CedarDave]

Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist frequently the target of Republican criticism, announced Friday that he was stepping down in the latest shake-up of President Barack Obama's Cabinet. Chu, who disclosed his decision in a letter to Energy Department staff, frequently clashed with GOP lawmakers over gas prices as well as government backing for green-energy companies like the failed firm Solyndra.

In his letter, Chu took aim directly at his critics, saying the clean-energy efforts were a success—and blasted climate-change skeptics as trapped in "the Stone Age."

He also scolded climate-change skeptics and urged a shift from fossil-fuels to other sources of energy.

"The overwhelming scientific consensus is that human activity has had a significant and likely dominant role in climate change," Chu warned in his letter. "There is also increasingly compelling evidence that the weather changes we have witnessed during this thirty year time period are due to climate change."

Chu underlined that China was pushing ahead with clean-energy investments—outpacing U.S. efforts.

[CedarDave]

Notice the mantra is no longer "global warming" but "climate change." And (gasp) man is responsible according to Chu. Well let Chu chew on the fact that those who have examined in a climate in an objective manner (unlike the so-called "scientific concensus") have found man has a minor role (if any) in climate change. And as for China? Their pollution is orders of magnitude worse than that in the US, now or in the past, so they had better move ahead with clean-energy investments to keep from poisoning a large part of their population.

[Da Coyote]

Shove it up your smelly Obama, Chu.

Simply by joining the most corrupt, inept, and sleazy administration in the history of the multiverse, you have besmirched your honored profession of physics.

Go thou, and teach high school with NEA idiots...which is what you deserve after sitting in the cesspool with the t*rds.

[skeeter]

Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist frequently the target of Republican criticism

Yahoo News is deeply troubled.

[colorado tanker]

The Chinese don't buy this crap, either. They have just figured out that they can make money selling windmills to gullible Westerners.

For themselves, they are still building coal-fired plants.

[b4its2late]

Chu underlined that China was pushing ahead with clean-energy investments—outpacing U.S. efforts.

Chuk Phew you Chu.

[Paladin2]

Chu-chu is leaving as the job is done?

(1000+ yr old wind technology and 200 yr old fixed rail tech is resurgent)

[illiac]

Related:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2984285/posts

[tangchung]

Yeah Chu was all for yucca mountain, the day he was sworn in Reid got a hold of him and shut the project down.

[cuban leaf]

Kinda reminds me of the parting words of another guy: “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore...”

[Hoodat]

"There is also increasingly compelling evidence . . .

Increasingly compelling? What kind of anti-scientific mumbo jumbo is that?

[Paladin2]

"compelling evidence"

Lawyer talk.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“Shut up!”, he explained.

[xrmusn]

Yeah...this hypocrite is the one that rode his bike to work to help save the planet.
Of course his “ride” with Secret Service detail had to follow behind him and it probably took 2 vehicles cause 1 couldn’t move that slow continuously....

Of course that is NOT entirely his fault but his riding the bike proved absolutely nothing...other than gullibility is alive and well.

[CedarDave]

Related:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2984285/posts

Saw that, but wanted to highlight his parting charges against climate change/global warming skeptics. And, of course, his famous wish that the price of gasoline be raised above six or seven dollars per gallon.

[Lizavetta]

Climate has ALWAYS been changing, you stupid little man.

[brivette]

ha Chu!, he replyed.

[lesko]

These punks always gotta get their shots in. They are incapable of simply walking away with grace.

[DManA]

Possibly even more significant the Euros don’t buy it either.

[dead]

human activity has had a significant and likely dominant role

Dominant?! More so than the sun?

[Wilum]

Yes! Christians 1, Lions 0