Continuing his scaremongering about the end of the world vis-à-vis global warming, Barack Obama decided once again decided to prove that facts mean absolutely nothing to him.
President Barack Obama said the curbs on carbon emissions to combat climate change that his administration plans to unveil next week will also help address a growing threat to the nation’s health.
“We don’t have to choose between the health of our economy and the health of our children,” he said in his weekly address, which was recorded yesterday at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington. “As president, and as a parent, I refuse to condemn our children to a planet that’s beyond fixing.”
Bloomberg adds:
Obama recorded the address after meeting with children who are being treated at the hospital for asthma, which is aggravated by air pollution. As part of the campaign to build support for the rules, which are to be unveiled by the EPA, he plans to talk about the initiative during a conference call with the American Lung Association and other public health groups.
Scientists and physicians increasingly link a rise in allergies, asthma and other respiratory diseases to the elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused by climate change.
Bullspit.
News you can use:
– Asthma attacks are precipitated by LOW levels of CO2 which cause bronchoconstriction.
– Nasal allergies may be controlled with CO2.
Now for Obama’s Grande Stupidité:
President Obama warned Friday that storms like Hurricane Sandy will become more frequent as climate change intensifies.
While being briefed by emergency response officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters, Obama urged the public to prepare now for this year’s hurricane season.
“The changes we’re seeing in our climate means that, unfortunately, storms like Sandy could end up being more common and more devastating,” Obama said.
We should all hope that all hurricanes that make US landfall would be the same strength as Sandy.
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale rates hurricanes on a scale from 1-5, 5 being the most severe. Sandy came ashore as a Category 1 hurricane. Category 1 is the weakest of hurricanes.
The reason Sandy caused the damage it did is because of something called syzygy.
Higher-than-normal tides — tied to a full moon — have added to Hurricane Sandy’s coastal flooding threat.
As you might expect the explanation is a matter of simple astronomy, not any kind of lunacy associated in folklore with a full moon.
“It’s not the moon’s phase that matters, but the position,” says astronomer Phil Plait on his Bad Astronomy website.
During a full moon, the moon is essentially lined up on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun (this is what allows the near surface of the moon to be illuminated in its full splendor) and the gravitational tug of war between those two intensifies at this time, resulting in higher tides.
This kind of alignment of astronomical objects is called a syzygy (SIH-zhih-jhee) and sailors have understood the effect for centuries. So, for Hurricane Sandy, the higher-than-normal tides that threaten to add to an 11-foot storm surge feared for lower Manhattan are simply a matter of bad timing.
The high waters of Sandy were a caused directly because Sandy came ashore during a full moon and a high tide.
Period.
Flashback:
NASA Study Predicts More Severe Storms With Global Warming 8.30.07
NASA scientists have developed a new climate model that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth’s climate warms
Fact:
It’s been 3100 days since a Category 3 hurricane made US landfall.
Fact:
Tornado activity hits 60-year low in 2013.
Fact:
NOAA predicts near-normal or below-normal 2014 Atlantic hurricane season.
Ever see what happens to plant life in an enriched CO2 environment?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsOL5nWkn1k
It’s a thing of beauty.
Barack Obama is either a complete idiot and stupid as a brick wall or he is a liar of galactic proportions. If he didn’t know of the relationship between asthma and CO2 he should have known before he opened his mouth. He’s the goddam President. It’s his responsibility to know. It’s the particulates in the air that instigate asthma and allergies, not the CO2. But then, there’s not the money in particulates that there is in CO2. It’s also his responsibility to know the facts about Hurricane Sandy and present them honestly, but Obama is not an honest person.
Whatever Obama says, the opposite is going to be true and more than ever you are an idiot to believe anything Barack Obama says. Let’s add something to filter through your Barack Obama Bullshit Decoder Ring. When Obama talks about your health, it’s not about your health, it’s all about taxes.
So is Obama an idiot or a liar?
The answer is both.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
Everyone of them are lying. Now the polar bear expert confesses that he lied after poor Gore won so many awards using the polar bear dying on the ice shard! http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/05/scientist_confesses_he_made_up_polar_bear_population_estimates.html
There’s so much hot air in this administration they are like a convection oven.
Weather happens. Opinion: Time to get real about climate change
They say this is a crisis and a national security issue. In the last few weeks we’ve been told that LAX will be under water as will Miami, Charleston, and one other city whose name I forget. Some of these events are to happen around 2030. It’s time to put them on the spot publicly. If all of this is true as they vehemently claim it is, there is no possible way we will be able to change the climate that fast to stop it. For one thing, it will require the cooperation of China who doesn’t show any inclination to adopt green technology any time soon given their recent $400 billion dollar oil deal with Russia. Millions of American lives are at stake. Sounds like justification for a war. Obama should be flat out asked if he is willing to go to war with China in order to force them to go “green”. That will tell us exactly how committed they are to their cause and how much they actually believe what they say. Given that our all volunteer military is not big enough to fight China (and possibly Russia) reinstatement of the draft will be required. It’ll be interesting to see if the lefties out there are going to be willing to put their lives or the lives of their children on the line so China puts up wind farms.
Fact: You’re an idiot if you still are a climate change denier. And you’re an idiot if you’d rather do little or nothing about it so as not to inconvenience yourself but you’d let your grandchildren suffer.
Again…write a letter to your descendants about your views. Put it in a safe place. I’m betting future generations of your family with think of you as the family fool.
Watch Cosmos this week:
What difference does it make? The man believes in perpetual motion.
If anyone is really interested in understanding a real scientist using correct scientific principles, read this.
http://climateguy.blogspot.ca/2014/05/dr-jean-louis-pinault-explains-his-idea.html
The Catholic Church seems to now be one of the good Doctkor’s despised groups. Previously the Pope had installed enough solar panels in the Vatican to have the whole country/city carbon neutral. Now all the American Catholic Bishops are also taking a strong stand against carbon pollution. “At its core, global climate change is not about economic theory or political platforms, nor about partisan advantage or interest group pressures. It is about the future of God’s creation and the one human family.”
-U.S. Bishops
http://catholicclimatecovenant.org/catholic-teachings/bishops/
Can climate change deniers be considered mainstream ? or should they be classed as fringe?
@john:
A statement made in a very lengthy comment over 13 years ago.
Never mind the link you provided is comprised of radical, left wing so-called Catholics who could not find their way out of a religious paper bag.
No one denies climate change. The climate changes with each season, from hot to cold, and back again. What we say is that you have no solid proof, or any documentation that has not been doctored by those like Mann, that proves the earth is continuing to warm. As a matter of fact, it seems the earth is not warming, and hasn’t been for over a decade.
But by changing the terminology, from global warming to climate change, the far left can continue to push their agenda of global control. And lemmings like you continue to forfeit your God-given rights to follow right along.
@john: John, there’s nothing wrong with people using their own money to put up solar panels on their own property.
In Europe the power companies do penalize them with higher rates when they have to add to their own power from ”the grid.”
But so be it.
And I’d love to see solar freakin’ roadways become the new driveway and parking lot material for arenas and malls.
What Obama is all about is a next generation of crony capitalists pretending to build solar panels and hire people while they simply enrich themselves at the taxpayers’ expense.
Do we really need to put coal power out of business so these friends of O’s plans look financially feasible?
Do we need more Solyndras?
Apparently that’s the only way.
O is making his ”enemies” look bad so his friends appear to be good in comparison.
Sad.
@john:
It’s interesting that a drone would cite the words of a religious figure to support AGW mythology.
Only religion has infidels, heathens, heretics, blasphemers, unbelievers, deniers, etc. Not science.
Science has skeptics. In fact true science is founded on essential skepticism. Without it, you don’t have a science.
Besides, AGW mythology has been wholly discredited.
Global Warming stopped 17 years ago
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released–chart-prove-it.html
However even that is suspect considering all of the scandals which have rocked the science,
95% of the climate models are wrong
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/114474-just-settled-science-95-global-warming-models-wrong/
The 97% consensus figure often cited is bogus, nevermind that true science is never dependent on consensus anyway,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/05/30/global-warming-alarmists-caught-doctoring-97-percent-consensus-claims/
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2013/on-the-consensus/
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024
And many scientific papers are merely computer generated gobbledygook
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/feb/26/how-computer-generated-fake-papers-flooding-academia
So the Collective is going to have imagine a new pseudoscience to help the collection of 3rd world dictators at the U.N. weaken America and plunder its treasure.
I hear ocean species depletion might be the next bit thing in pseudoscience fashion.
AGW is a huge scam. The Aussies have figured that out. Eastern Europe has also figured it out, too. Only socialists who want to spread the wealth around using carbon credits, people like Al Gore and Michael Mann who profit from AGW scares and those who are connected to politicians like Obama who give them subsidies and cushy contracts.
Dr. John, thank you, great piece and awesome video. Sadly those that are getting too much self-produced methane from their rectal-cranial inversion won’t appreciate it.
@john: #6
It would be interesting to go back to when the EXPERTS said global warming started, find out how high the oceans were along both of our coasts, then compare that height to where they are today. If global warming exists, then the oceans should have started to rise from that date to now. If they haven’t, then the whole thing is a lie. Does anybody have that info?
Whatever a king says becomes law. The only problem as obama sees it is that he hasn’t been crowned yet, but he knows it will come, so he can act like a king now.
Anyone who has ever heard obama without his TOTUS, or paper in front of him, knows that he just babbles on and doesn’t say much of anything. One question I would like to ask obama is, “Can you remember the last time you told the truth?” I wonder what he would say.
A king doesn’t have to know anything.
@This one: #4
If people would have done this 30 year ago, and the ancestors are reading it today, they would think that THEIR ancestors are the idiots, because they would have been warning about global COOLING. That is what the politicians were warning back then. I’m old enough to remember it.
The family fool is the one who keeps trying to convince people of something that does not exist. Wouldn’t the people living right on the east and west coast notice if their water level has risen any since they were a kid, and grew up there? Wouldn’t ANYBODY who lives ANYWHERE in the world that lives right at the edge of the oceans notice ANY rise since the time they and their ancestors lived there. I haven’t hear of any, have you?
Show me anybody who can show me how the water level has risen where they live, and I can be convinced it is. If it is rising, and will rise many feet in a few years, why did Al Gore buy a house that is close enough to the ocean that it will be under water in a few years? With him warning about the oceans rising many feet, wouldn’t he want to be at least that many feet about that level.
If you want to make a bunch of money, figure out how high the waters will rise, then buy land that begins at that level, then in a few years you will have waterfront property to sell. You could make billions.
@This one:
So why then is it OK so saddle those same grandchildren with the massive debt that leftards are so fond of?
The entire AGW movement is a political/religious movement that has little to do with science or the scientific method. They discard what doesn’t support their predictions. They change hypothesis and adjust models after they are proven inaccurate and continue to insist they have been right all along.
We we had weather events that did not fit their predictions or models…they never admitted they were off in their predictions, etc. They just came up with the phrase: “Weather, is not climate”. And anyone who would question them is a “climate denier”. Climate…by definition…is “weather” over “time”. So, yes..they are absolutely linked together…because today’s weather, IS an indicator (however, small) of tomorrow’s “climate”.
I also do not know any “scientists” who would call C02…something necessary for life on this planet….a “pollutant” any more than they would call excess water…that causes drowning or flooding/etc….a “pollutant”.
Having said all that…yes…we have weather. And I’m no scientist. But, the little I have studied…I know that there are MANY things that make up our weather and effect our environment. …beyond “us”…and always have been. There “are” things happening in our environment related to warming. The artic ice shelf is melting and running off into the sea. At the other end of the world…ice melt is not as much of an issue for sea level because the ice is mostly in water. (put some ice in a glass…fill it to the top..the let the ice melt….it doesn’t run over, because the water in ice state displaces the same amount of water as it does in a liquid state……that would be physics I believe?) We also have more ice growth there on land. The artic ice is on land…and the melt is running off into the ocean….which could raise the water level over time. How much time…they don’t know….but it WILL be offset by many other things (heat/evaporation, displacement, currents, etc).
I have NO trouble accepting science or observable conditions. But, some of the CO2 driven theories and prediction it would seem to me have less to do with science, and more to do with politics…AND…money…and power. At least in terms of their goals. I have no trouble seeing that water and air patterns and warming in oceans, etc…can create conditions for all sorts of weather conditions..etc. But, their capability of predicting anything short term OR long term has been very poor. So, why suddenly…do they have this capability for long range predictions?
If it was a “scientific forgone conclusion” that their theories and preductions were accurate…we’d all be underwater by now. And the fact that we “have” weather…and it “changes” is not some sort of scientific secret recently discovered by Mann and company.
Finally, just look at it this way…taking it all into account….ask yourself a question: do you think weather can change over time? If the answer to that is yes…do you think there are limits as to how much the weather can change based on C02 levels? Becuase the “science” behind that…tells us….that there is just a smuch chance the earth can shrugg off these patterns and start a new cycle that will offset things…as there is that it won’t. The “GWA” are suggesting…that our weather will continue down this cycle of warming and will not counter cycle enough to offset the warming gains…and thus the earth will continue to warm.
I think those who believe this should save a letter and open it later in life. I’ve already been through this….(ie., global cooling in the 70s leading to a new ice age). They were wrong. And reemerged with global warming. …now climate change.
@This one:
“nuff said.’
@Dc:
Frozen water is actually less dense than liquid water. That’s why it floats. The arctic icecap is already floating… so if it melted, no change either way. The antarctic is different, because it sets on top of land, for a large part of it anyway. If it melted, seal levels would rise… by how much, I’m not sure… be a good math problem to estimate it… 😉
The global warming cultists (if they can call us “deniers”, we can call them “cultists”) seem to forget that where most of us are sitting now was under over a mile of ice just 15,000 years ago. All those cavemen driving SUVs really did a number on things. 😉
It’s also interesting that methane and water vapor are even more potent “greenhouse gasses” than CO2. Better not go back to horses, and keep the fuel cell powered electric cars off the streets. (they emit steam)
@Kraken:
True Kraken, the climate changers are confused. The subject was global cooling until about 1980, then it changed to ‘global warming’, then when the climate started cooling again, they didn’t want to have to go backk to ‘global cooling’ so it became ‘climate change’. of course, the climate changes every season, so now they don’t have to be concerned about being correct. If they think they can predict what the average temp will be 10 years from now, let them try to predict tomorrow. I doubt they can get it within 2 degrees. I just love it when they come out with a hundred percent chance of rain and the sun shines all day. So accurate prediction of the weather is not a science. It’s only guessing.
Regardless, the arctic icecap has seen a 50% increase.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25383373
Except for when it is apparently.
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/12/global-warming-causes-lessmore-snow.html
I can remember the global cooling chicken littleism.
http://omnologos.com/a-new-treasure-trove-of-1970s-global-cooling-articles/
This was the letter that our ancestors wrote to us on their views on the matter, to paraphrase This One. Since the world hasn’t ended in a mediocre Roland Emmerich screenplay, who exactly appears to be the fool?
Here is a recent article that describes the mini-ice ages since the last major ice age. It give one a good idea that the climate is cyclic. Michael Mann ignored the last mini-ice age to make his data fit his theory and to not have to address cyclic climate changes. http://junkscience.com/2014/06/01/denis-avery-hits-one-deep/#more-58476
Yep, the largest greenhouse effect comes from water vapor (clouds). The one large contributor to warming is….wait for it…..the sun. Who would have thunk it? And beyond that…as far as math and science go…you can easily decrease your rate of warming trend in your model by nearly half…but simply using F instead of C for your calculations. (ex: a rise in temp from 15C to 17C is a aprox a 13% increase. Switching to F, a 59F to 62.6F change is aprox a 6% increase. )
Jim,
The other interesting calculation to take into account would be the amount of water evaporation off the ocean when temps increase. You don’t get billions of dollars and gov’s willing to hand over control over their economy….by claiming everything is gonna be ok.
@Dc: #17
Let’s see how the global warming thing is going
Antarctica set record of -135.8
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cold-dis-comfort-antarctica-set-record-1358
Arctic ice caps grows by 29% in one year
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/And-global-COOLING-Return-Arctic-ice-cap-grows-29-year.html
114 of 117 climate predictions were wrong
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/09/12/climate-models-wildly-overestimated-global-warming-study-finds/
Temperatures haven’t risen for 17 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2485772/Global-warming-pause-20-years-Arctic-sea-ice-started-recover.html
Arctic sea ice up 50%
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/16/global-warming-satellite-data-shows-arctic-sea-ice-coverage-up-50-percent/
Weather stations placed near heat sources
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/26/climate-data-compromised-by-heat-sources/
http://surfacestations.org/odd_sites.htm
I just figured out who is responsible for the global warming scare: SPECULATORS. They figure that if they can convince people who live along the oceans that the water will soon cover their property, the speculators can buy up the property cheap, then sell it later on when global warming will be proven to be in error. It is a masterpiece of a plan.
@Jim S: #19
You reminded me that many documentary type shows showed sea fossils at the top of mountains. Let’s not forget that large deserts were once jungles. Let’s also remember that the continents were once one continent, then split up, and ALL OF THEM are still moving apart. In fact, they are predicted to go to the opposite side of the Earth, then come back together again. It would be interesting to see how they look after they have smashed into each other as far as they can go.
@Smorgasbord:
Or they could sell them houses on stilts and big boats.
@Redteam: #26
For many years I have told myself that I want to live at least 30-40 feet above any river or stream, because there is always a chance of heavy rains flooding them, and the oceans have too much potential for tsunamis, and a lot of the land tends to wash away. If a person wants to live right at the edge of a water source, they shouldn’t expect me to pay for their damage.
An easy way to prevent most flood damage is to pass a law that bans building residences and businesses in flood planes. Each city, county, and state has maps that show where flood planes are, but there is no law preventing developers from building in them. Before you buy any property, check to see if it is in a flood plane.
I lived in a town that flooded, and the city manager showed us city employees on a map where the flood plane went right through the center of town, and that is where the water went.
Ah, but here’s the rub.
Cities, counties, states all used swampland and wetlands to cheaply put up colleges, hospitals, senior housing.
I went to Long Beach State (now, UCLB) and learned it was built on both an earthquake fault AND a wetland! (Oh! AND an ancient Indian burial ground!)
My mom almost bought a senior-only condo only to learn it was subject to deep flooding and that, during an earthquake its land liquifies! All the roads and condos simply sink and are later power hosed clean.
It isn’t just the rich who live on beaches who are the problem.
It is the poor and inexperienced who don’t read the fine print.
After what these public entities have done in building in dangerous places, it would be very difficult for them to turn around and prevent others from doing the same.
Let the buyer beware.
Obama says: “As president, and as a parent, I refuse to condemn our children to a planet that’s beyond fixing.”
This is why OFraud and those on the bandwagon are ‘irrelevant’.
The list of damage the liberals, progressives and far left have imposed on ‘the children’ – ‘our children’ of the United States is more staggering then any pseudo ‘climate change’…that any normal (non-indoctrinated) person/child knows is another progressive fallacy especially, Especially – in the ‘context’ it is being used – which is just another Government power grab of (taxpayer money / and Government power imposed on citizens (the future ‘children’ /adults). In my opinion, they are ‘being set up’ for an even more oppressive ‘future’…
Obama and his
liberal-left-progressive-ideology inclusive of his willing minions and MSMAdministration continues to spend spend spend SPEND the United States into oblivion….in the process “condemning” our “Children” and leaving to them Massive Debt and an economy that is so sick and in such poor health in other words – in shambles.
The ‘future’ children will no doubt be more focused on their ‘struggle’ to just survive what our Government has done to “our Children”, and the ‘restrictions’ imposed on their lives. So indoctrinated into the ‘collective’ they will not have the individual intelligence to be able to fight back…against the government…
And, I do include many many politicians from both sides of the isle who have jumped on this ‘bandwagon’… who’s hands are ‘dirty’ and have assisted in, instead of ‘fighting back’ at the absurdity of all these progressive / liberal scare tactics…the current one being ‘climate change’ – somehow being ‘our’ fault… laughable..
@Nanny G: #28
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The places that are known trouble spots should be banned for building on. Also, if a building would be destroyed, it should not be rebuilt on the same spot.
@FAITH7: #29
A good example of what is coming for America is to look at Germany after WW I. In the agreement, Germany was made to pay for the damage, and it was taxes to much that the economy tanked, and it went into a great recession. This eventually gave Hitler his chance to take over the country.
I’ve always got to point out how cleaver this all is, in that it has all of us arguing about the weather and nobody is talking about a planet becoming hopelessly polluted by real toxins as opposed to what my mouth exhales all the time. Well played powers that be. We are all this stupid.
@Davol: I’ve said for years that one of the real dangers of the global warming cult is that it hurts the credibility of people worried about actual pollution.
I admit I didn’t read EVERY word of everyone’s comment but I sure didn’t see anything about the H.A.A.R.P. facility and geoengineering of the weather and using weather as a weapon.
@cathy:
With good reason. There is no more evidence supporting the theories that the Earth’s global weather patterns are driven by AGW, than there is that world wide weather is being driven by HAARP installation environmental warfare.
Climate McCarthyism claims yet another victim
Nor is Rossiter alone: Climate Science Defector Forced to Resign by Alarmist ‘Fatwa’
With the AGW
FacistsProgressives, you will only have as much free speech as they allow you and only if you preach their collective views.