Barry Picking AGW Climahysterics For Key Positions
Posted on December 19, 2008
Get ready to welcome crazy regulations and higher energy prices, folks: Advocates for Action on Global Warming Chosen as Obama’s Top Science Advisers
President-elect Barack Obama has selected two of the nation’s most prominent scientific advocates for a vigorous response to climate change to serve in his administration’s top ranks, according to sources, sending the strongest signal yet that he will reverse Bush administration policies on energy and global warming.
The appointments of Harvard University physicist John Holdren as presidential science adviser and Oregon State University marine biologist Jane Lubchenco as head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which will be announced tomorrow, dismayed conservatives but heartened environmentalists and researchers.
Like Energy Secretary-designate Steven Chu, who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Holdren and Lubchenco have argued repeatedly for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions to avert catastrophic climate change. In 2007, as chairman of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Holdren oversaw approval of the board’s first statement on global warming, which said: “It is time to muster the political will for concerted action.”
Yes, let’s muster that political will as the temperature portion of climate appears to be in decline. Granted, one year does not a long term trend make, but, considering that most respectable scientists have seen a flat and/or reducing temperature gradient since 1997, well, should be interesting, and costly, when they play these games in the name of AGW.
I wonder if Holdren and Lubchenco will release the types of vehicles they drive, and what they themselves do to reduce their “carbon footprint.” Good thing that global cooling is coming.
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Man, it was so hot in Vegas that it snowed!!!
Global warming and cooling are tracked over 500,000 years using the Greenland Ice Core data. The observed ice ages and warmer periods are caused by slight changes in the orbital distance from the sun to the earth and by earth axis tilt changes. No human inputs caused the indicated temperature changes–they are natural events.
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Other more random events like sun spot activity and volcanic activity cause shorter term temperature events. Again–no human input.
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The costs of “fixing climate change” will be very high–and will not change anything. However, they will cause much higher energy costs and economic problems.
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Like the old joke says, “Why did the cowboy stop shooting himself in the foot?” The answer is that it felt so good when he stopped.
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The O’bummer seems to want to de-industrialize the new U.S.S.A.–coming soon–proved by his “energy” picks..
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