Posted on 06/24/2013 8:01:49 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
President Obama's new climate change video to promote his policy speech at Georgetown University, clashes with the exposure of the false "scientific consensus" in The Economist and other media organs.
Mr Cohn does his best to affirm that the urgent necessity of acting to retard warming has not abated, as does Brad Plumer of the Washington Post, as does this newspaper. But there's no way around the fact that this reprieve for the planet is bad news for proponents of policies, such as carbon taxes and emissions treaties, meant to slow warming by moderating the release of greenhouse gases. The reality is that the already meager prospects of these policies, in America at least, will be devastated if temperatures do fall outside the lower bound of the projections that environmentalists have used to create a panicked sense of emergency. Whether or not dramatic climate-policy interventions remain advisable, they will become harder, if not impossible, to sell to the public, which will feel, not unreasonably, that the scientific and media establishment has cried wolf.
As a rule, climate scientists were previously very confident that the planet would be warmer than it is by now, and no one knows for sure why it isn't. This isn't a crisis for climate science. This is just the way science goes. But it is a crisis for climate-policy advocates who based their arguments on the authority of scientific consensus. Mr Cohn eventually gets around to admitting that "In the end, the so-called scientific consensus on global warming doesn't look like much like consensus when scientists are struggling to explain the intricacies of the earth's climate system, or uttering the word 'uncertainty' with striking regularity."
If this is true, then the public has been systematically deceived. As it has been presented to the public, the scientific consensus extended precisely to that which is now seems to be in question: the sensitivity of global temperature to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Indeed, if the consensus had been only that greenhouse gases have some warming effect, there would have been no obvious policy implications at all. [Emphasis in original.]
The moralising stridency of so many arguments for cap-and-trade, carbon taxes, and global emissions treaties was founded on the idea that there is a consensus about how much warming there would be if carbon emissions continue on trend. The rather heated debates we have had about the likely economic and social damage of carbon emissions have been based on that idea that there is something like a scientific consensus about the range of warming we can expect. If that consensus is now falling apart, as it seems it may be, that is, for good or ill, a very big deal.
Inconvenient truth ~ 66 degrees and raining in Sacramento.
It is warm to hot here today and will be very cold in a few months. That’s climate change I can believe.
vaudine
nobama is a day late and a dollar short with his warming fear mongering.
The “gas” is from the BS that flows from that clowns pie hole.
The (p)resident of the newnited states should be crumbling too.
Well, now that all that low-level scandal stuff has been dealt with, he can go on to bigger, more important issues...
Another poster had it down cold: Hey, look at the squirrel!
When a man can look you in the eye and lie about any given subject, it seems safe to assume that he is lying about every thing.
[[President new climate change video to promote his policy speech at Georgetown University, clashes with the exposure of the false “scientific consensus” in The Economist and other media organs.]]
the GOP could effectively counter this IF they had a spine by making hteir own video and going in right behind him and showing hte REAL truth abotu hte leis connected to ‘man-caused’ cliamte change- but nope- the GOP are spineless-
I was happy to see The Economist finally get real about this. Until a couple of years or so ago, I used to recommend The Economist to FReepers, as being generally well researched and objective. Then, they hopped on the global-warming bus, and spewed so much propaganda about it, that I stopped reading it myself. They may win me back as a reader — though only for the free subscription this time.
Global Warming is as big a fraud as Affirmative Action.
Pray for America to Wake Up
President You Didn’t Build That is miles past desperate for distractions.
The ‘Great Leap Forward’....to hell.
“nobama is a day late and a dollar short with his warming fear mongering.”
By the time he figures this out, it will be cooling again.
“Global warming” or “climate change” has never been about science: it’s been about control, specifically the leftist’s insatiable desire to control people. All you have to know about the left is that there is nothing that cannot be used as leverage over others.
“It’s about protecting children!”
“It’s about saving the planet!”
“It’s about equal rights!”
“It’s about social justice!”
The left will say anything, do anything, tell you anything if they believe it will allow them to control you.
Leftism is a dangerous cult (like Scientology), and leftists are little more than brainwashed cultists. Theirs is a fanatical set of religious beliefs (which is why they gravitate to other cultists, like Muslims).
And Obama plays them all for the fools that they are. He is their “Pied Piper” and patron saint all in one.
I keep thinking about where we would right now be if the leaked emails and other revelations of this fraud ‘science’ were able to be kept hidden from view as planned. I believe the ruling class would have surely gotten away with this VLST (Very Large Scale Theft). Now even European members are beginning to question the need for these carbon credit trading schemes. I suspect the US public opinion in general is beginning to shift, or at least has peaked. For so long this scheme cooked up by crooks was viewed as scientific fact by most LIVs.
We need more scientists who do represent the majority to step up and speak out. But they know from where their bread is buttered. They may well still get away with this, in which case all energy costs will ‘necessarily skyrocket’. But I do think it will be less easy than say three years ago to get a bill through Congress. I certainly hope I am right. But lately, I trust no one to be looking out for American’s interest, and what the EPA can and will do without Congress. I am just hoping that the more the truth is told, as in the TE article, the tidal wave of blind support for this nonsense will have subsided.
When will people learn that ANTHING the UN is selling is likely out right fraud, and never any good for this country.
Obama and the climate fanatics don’t care about the weather, or whether or not they are right or wrong scientifically. They care about policies and social engineering, about controlling the masses and the economy, about the enrichment of themselves and the elite. Science be damned. It’s all politics.
He’s on the wrong side of this issue-—Who do you believe what he says or your own lying racist eyes.
...something like a Cosmic King Canute.....
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades. The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp
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