Liberals/progressives don’t know “who we [Americans] are.” That’s no surprise to conservatives and libertarians. But here a self-admitted liberal NYT journalist “confesses” to liberal “prejudice” against conservatives and Christians, and acknowledges it is a “blind spot” for liberals.
“Eighteen percent of social scientists say they are Marxist.” He wonders, “Should universities offer affirmative action for conservatives and evangelicals?”
These scientists analyzed decades of real world climate data and conclude that climate has been improving. Then they look at their computer models and predict unmitigated disaster in the future.
It’s called science fiction. They are not in Kansas anymore. It’s time to look behind the curtain.
These “researchers looked at seasonal temperature changes since 1974, rather than annual averages, and found that “80% of Americans live in counties that are experiencing more pleasant weather than they did four decades ago,” the authors concluded.”
“The reason, they say, is that since the 1970s the winters have been getting warmer, but not the summers.”
“In their words: “Virtually all Americans are now experiencing the much milder winters that they typically prefer, and these mild winters have not been offset by markedly more uncomfortable summers or other negative changes.””
Then the researchers say, “Climate change models predict that this trend is temporary, however, because U.S. summers will eventually warm more than winters.”
But none of their climate models have ever validated against real world data. If their models actually worked, they would have predicted several decades of improving climate over the past several decades. Instead, they predicted catastrophic hurricanes, rapidly rising sea level, no ice in the north pole and other things that never happened.
http://www.investors.com/…/the-horror-climate-change-is-ma…/
“Here we show that in the United States from 1974 to 2013, the weather conditions experienced by the vast majority of the population improved,” reported the researchers before jumping off into their fantasy land of computer models.
http://www.nature.com/…/jo…/v532/n7599/full/nature17441.html
http://www.co2science.org/articles/V19/apr/a27.php
Dear Ms Hirono,
Your email reply to me dated 5/5/2016 is sadly very misinformed throughout. (copied below for your convenience.) Can you please allow me to arrange for you to meet scientists that understand the issues and science of global warming? There are many thousands of us.
Here is a link to a post on my blog that includes statements and names and location of thousands of scientists who dispute the unproven claim that CO2 is dangerous. In the words of Ivar Giaever, PhD (physics), Nobel Laureate in physics speaking to a meeting of other Nobel laureates, President Obama is “dead wrong” on climate change. The link to the video of his entire speech is in this post on my blog.
https://budbromley.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/obama-is-dead-wrong-on-climate-change/
EPA has never produced the data, methods or references that would enable another scientist skilled in the art to replicate its CO2 Endangerment Finding. That is a basic requirement of science as well as the law known as the Clean Air Act. The current and the past top administrators of the EPA have repeatedly refused to produce the documents required by Congressional subpoena that would show the EPA scientific methods used by EPA to make the administrator’s final determination that CO2 is an endangerment to the public under the Clean Air Act. You and your colleagues in Congress are allowing a federal bureaucracy to operate outside the law.
Where is the endangerment from CO2? From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25. An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States.
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
Important note: In the NASA information release at the link above, NASA offers no evidence or references for this paragraph: “While rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the air can be beneficial for plants, it is also the chief culprit of climate change. The gas, which traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere, has been increasing since the industrial age due to the burning of oil, gas, coal and wood for energy and is continuing to reach concentrations not seen in at least 500,000 years. The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.” NASA cannot provide evidence because there is no real world evidence to prove any statistically significant risk of increasing CO2 concentration when that risk is weighed against the real world evidence of benefits from increasing CO2. The computer models of climate used by proponents of the failed global warming hypothesis have never been able to validate against known real world data. There are no validated climate models. Climate models are not evidence, they are hypotheses until they are validated against real world empirical evidence.
The effects of CO2 on climate have been overestimated in the climate models and they still do not know how to fix their model, despite the expense by the federal government of more than $30 billion on climate research … that is money that is being borrowed since the federal government is spending in deficit. There is no justification to pushing Hawaiians further in debt to support unproven claims by politicians, media, NGOs and a small group climate scientists who work on government-funded grants.
CO2 is greening the planet not endangering the planet. “The extra growth is the equivalent of more than four billion giant sequoias,” according to the lead scientist. The study by a team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries, many of them climate alarmists, using 33 years of satellite imaging data has discovered and reluctantly reported significant greening of the earth due mostly (70%) from increasing CO2, 8% due to climate change, 9% due to more nitrogen in the environment and 4% due to land management practices. http://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004.epdf?referrer_access_token=bsod7odsulSxIrimOL0GIdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OYJHZxvEebXSMq9zMi6Q2vWe61M7QFieokWQcY1PQbxR4gAi8CQShwirX-GNMfMbB7JlnUTFMOkqRUD6C92ct5jwqJe4v6nhm8R7B81mKAzqkObeKxK01RqfFTnwncQKs6DkC-5KJuC9JKCVhDiM_L&tracking_referrer=www.bbc.com
In fact, the scientists at the UN IPCC admit they are unable to predict climate change or climate events, but President Obama is so certain climate change is a problem that he sends the UN millions of borrowed dollars and promises the UN hundreds of billions more borrowed dollars, pushing Americans and their children and grandchildren further in debt.
UN IPCC “The Scientific Basis:” “In sum, a strategy must recognise what is possible. In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible. The most we can expect to achieve is the prediction of the probability distribution of the system’s future possible states by the generation of ensembles of model solutions. This reduces climate change to the discernment of significant differences in the statistics of such ensembles. The generation of such model ensembles will require the dedication of greatly increased computer resources and the application of new methods of model diagnosis. Addressing adequately the statistical nature of climate is computationally intensive, but such statistical information is essential.”
The IPCC scientists continue: “Extreme events are, almost by definition, of particular importance to human society. Consequently, the importance of understanding potential extreme events is first order. The evidence is mixed, and data continue to be lacking to make conclusive cases….”
https://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/505.htm
It is unconscionable that you and the rest of Congress have allowed the balance of power between Congress and the Executive to be so abused. Congress specifically voted against further funding to UN IPCC. Yet you and your colleagues have allowed President Obama to send $500 million of taxpayer money … borrowed money … to be paid to the Green Climate Fund under the UN’s Paris climate agreement. This organization and this agreement will harm U.S. and Hawaiian interests. You should act to stop it.
The Obama administration claims: “Climate change is real, man-made, and happening now. The stakes are too high not to act.” The facts say otherwise. Climate change has always been occurring. Nature controls climate change, not man. The benefits of increasing CO2 outweigh any negative consequences.
Hawaii has other workable and proven solutions to its energy needs that are not currently being addressed. I would be happy to discuss this with you and/or your staff.
Sincerely,
Mr. Clare L Bromley
Your letter of 5/5/2016
Dear Mr. Bromley,
Thank you for contacting me with your concerns about climate change. As a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I share your concerns about the serious impacts of climate change and appreciate hearing from you on the issue.
Scientists around the world largely agree that the Earth’s climate has been warming at an unprecedented rate due to human activity. We in Hawaii know that climate change poses a significant threat to our safety and our way of life. Our islands are among the places most vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change. We face a variety of climate change related challenges like sea level rise, beach erosion, coral bleaching, and the degradation of habitats for native plants and animals, among others.
On June 25, 2013, President Obama released his action plan to fight climate change. The President’s plan consists of executive actions with three key objectives: cutting carbon pollution in the United States, preparing the United States for the impacts of climate change, and leading the international effort to combat global climate change and prepare for its effects. You can learn more about the President’s plan online at: http://1.usa.gov/1GF8m4E. You can also learn about some of the President’s other climate change initiatives online at: http://1.usa.gov/1Exn4Lz.
The President’s climate plan recognizes that electric power plants are the largest concentrated source of carbon pollution in the United States—accounting for roughly one-third of domestic greenhouse gas emissions. Consistent with this finding, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final Clean Power Plan rule for existing power plants on August 3, 2015. The Clean Power Plan builds on State efforts to reduce carbon pollution and gives States plenty of flexibility while maintaining access to reliable, affordable energy in communities across the United States. The EPA issued the final rule after reviewing nearly four million comments from the public. You can learn more about the final rule online at: http://1.usa.gov/1VQpq03.
In crafting the Clean Power Plan, the EPA concluded that it did not have adequate information to determine the potential for emissions reductions in Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Therefore, Hawaii is not covered under the Clean Power Plan at this time. However, Hawaii is already a leader among States in the effort to reduce carbon emissions and generate more of our electricity from clean, renewable sources.
I am working in Congress to fight climate change by supporting the President’s Clean Power Plan and other measures to reduce carbon pollution. I am also working to promote more renewable energy, protect public lands and natural resources, preserve the health and vitality of our oceans, and responsibly planning for climate-induced impacts on our communities. Please be assured that I will keep your views in mind as I continue to work on these efforts during the 114th Congress.
Again, thank you for contacting me. If you would like to stay in touch with me on this or other issues of importance to you, please visit my website at: http://www.hirono.senate.gov. Please do not hesitate to contact me again in the future if I may be of assistance to you in any way.
Aloha,
Mazie K. Hirono
United States Senator
“Greenwashing is not a recent phenomenon; since the mid-1980s the term has gained broad recognition and acceptance to describe the practice of making unwarranted or overblown claims of sustainability or environmental friendliness in an attempt to gain market share.” TerraChoice, now part of Underwriters Laboratories (UL) a standards setting and testing company, concluded that 98% of the products on U.S. supermarket shelves and 10% of all advertisements are guilty of greenwashing and the problem is escalating.
According to Scott Case, VP at TerraChoice, there are more than 500 green labels in the United States, and some are “significantly more meaningful” than others. “I testified before Congress last summer and I pointed out a certain lawyer in Florida who set up a website and is ‘certifying’ products. He doesn’t need to see the product, he doesn’t need test results. He just needs to see your credit card number,” Case says.
http://sinsofgreenwashing.com/fin…/greenwashing-report-2009/
Quotes are from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898878/
Imagine for a moment that Bernie Madoff was appointed or elected to a government post, instead being imprisoned for fraud. Imagine that Bernie then used the ‘color of authority’ of government to harass the investors he had bilked. That is what the U.S. government is doing today. The U.S. government is perpetuating and defending fraud.
“The Madoff investment scandal defrauded thousands of investors of billions of dollars. Madoff said he began the Ponzi scheme in the early 1990s. However, federal investigators believe the fraud began as early as the mid-1980s and may have begun as far back as the 1970s. Those charged with recovering the missing money believe the investment operation may never have been legitimate. The amount missing from client accounts, including fabricated gains, was almost $65 billion. On June 29, 2009, Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, the maximum allowed. ” (Wikipedia)
Similarly, the global warming scheme has defrauded taxpayers out of hundreds of billions of dollars. Maurice Strong began the global warming scheme in the early 1970s. Strong was Assistant Secretary General of the UN at the time. He was forced to resign from two UN positions after fraud and scandal. People who have looked into the global warming scheme believe the operation may never have been legitimate. Before the scheme began, there was already enough information available to scientists skilled in the field to disprove the theory which is the basis of the scheme. Multiple peer reviewed scientific publications already falsified the underlying science of the schemer’s theory. The proponents of the scheme have never been able to validate their climate models against real world climate data.
The amount of money spent by the U.S. government alone is over $100 billion, larger than Madoff’s fraud. This does not include billions more in financial costs for companies to comply with regulations which will have no benefit to citizens, nor the closure of plants and companies. The EPA scientist who designed the EPA strategy is in jail for fraud on another matter. The EPA administrator who was his boss was forced to resign after being charged with contempt of Congress for failure to produce the EPA’s methods used to determine EPA’s regulations. The EPA has never revealed its methodology for its final determination that CO2 is a danger to health, as required by law. Several scandals have occurred where government and academic scientists have been revealed to be changing data and blackballing whistle blowers.
The global warming fraud is still ongoing today and becoming more aggressive. It is protected and defended by the force of government and massive investment in propaganda. The schemers anticipate trillions of dollars annually in fees for trading carbon credits which will be required by regulations on companies and homes. Federal prosecutors and co-conspirators are harassing organizations and individuals who blow the whistle on this fraud. Members of Congress and others have called for skeptics or deniers to be arrested.
Fannie Mae, the U.S. mortgage agency, acquired the patent for the devices and systems to measure carbon in homes and offices. The system for trading carbon credits at commodities brokerages was designed by economist Richard Sandor under a $347,600 grant from Chicago-based Joyce Foundation; when that grant was made, Barack Obama, then Illinois state senator, was a member of the board of directors of Joyce Foundation. The president of the Joyce board went on to become executive vice president at the commodities exchange that would trade carbon credits, The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). A second $760,000 grant from Joyce Foundation was used to launch (CCX) which became the world’s first carbon-emissions trading company, equipped to regulate all transactions made under cap-and-trade energy plans designed to restrict and tax greenhouse gas (GHG). “By Sandor’s reckoning, cap-and-trade represents a $10 trillion-per-year market.” (1)
“Recognizing the enormous profit potential, Generation Investment Management (GIM) – a carbon-offset company whose chairman and founding partner is Al Gore – purchased a 10 percent stake in CCX and became the company’s fifth largest co-owner. In 2006, Goldman Sachs also purchased a 10 percent share of CCX.”
“CCX grew in its national and international influence. Stuart Eizenstat, former President Bill Clinton’s lead climate-treaty negotiator, became a director. Maurice Strong, the father of international environmentalism at the United Nations, also joined the board, bringing with him a host of top UN officials such as:”
“Rajenra Pachauri, [former] head of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [forced to resign after falsified data and sex scandal].
Elizabeth Dowdeswell, former head of the UN Environmental Program, [current Lieutenant Governor of Ontario]
Michael Jammit Cutajar, former head of the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change
Thomas Lovejoy, former World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President and a science adviser to the UN Environmental Program. [currently is Chair of the Scientific Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the multi-billion-dollar funding mechanism for developing countries in support of their obligations under international environmental conventions.]”
See reference 1
President Obama has made a $500 million payment from the U.S. government to the South Korea-based Green Climate Fund as part of his commitment for the U.S. to pay $3 billion to Green Climate Fund under an agreement at the UN climate conference in Paris. “Congress did not appropriate any money for the Green Climate Fund, but it also did not specifically prohibit State from using any of its other money for the fund.” (2)
“Days After $500 Million US Contribution, U.N. Green Climate Fund Increases Staff by 150%.”
Green Climate Fund will loan money to less developed countries through its board member World Bank for approved projects, with strings attached of course. Even hard left wing DailyKos is not pleased. Headline: “Green Climate Fund Fraud: Another World Bank Coup.” (4)
References:
(1) http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7526
(4) http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/4/27/970743/- You must type or cut and paste this link. Click through does not work.
“And it is rather striking that my leading competitor for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump, has been one of the key funders of those liberal Democrats imposing failed policies on the people of Illinois. Donald Trump gave $7,000 to Rod Blagojevich, that’s a fairly remarkable legacy for a Republican candidate for president. He gave $12,500 to the Democratic Party of Cook County. I know the people across Illinois know exactly what it means, the legacy is of Donald Trump who thinks that the Democratic Party of Cook County is an institution he wants to support. Presumably because he supports their corruption and their policies. But actually Donald’s contributions to Blago [former Illinois Gov Rod Blagojevich who is in prison for attempting to sell Obama’s vacated U.S. Senate seat] and Cook County Democrats pales compared to his contributions to Rahm Emmanuel [arch liberal democrat political operative and mayor of Chicago now under duress with more than 50% calling for his impeachment, rated F by NRA, former Obama chief of staff, Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee from 2005 to 2007 and as the Chair of the House Democratic Caucus from 2007 to 2009, former Clinton adviser, named by Clinton to be board member at Freddie Mac where he earned $320,000 in 2 years during which time Freddie Mac was plagued with scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities. The Obama Administration rejected a request under the Freedom of Information Act to review Freddie Mac board minutes and correspondence during Emanuel’s time as a director, Assistant to the President Clinton for Political Affairs and as the Senior Advisor to President Clinton for Policy and Strategy, Hillary Clinton supporter. Emmanuel was a leading strategist in White House efforts to institute NAFTA and universal health care, among other Clinton initiatives].. He [Trump] gave $50,000 to Rahm Emmanuel. $50,000. And I think the people of Illinois are fed up with the failed policies of liberal Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, who Donald has written check after check after check to, including two checks he wrote to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. In 2008.” ~ Ted Cruz, speech, Rockport, Illinois. March, 2016
Info in brackets is mine.
“Let me put this another way, parents. Do you realize that when you are dropping off your kiddies to school from k-12, and that when you are spending your life savings that you scraped together to send your perfect young adult to college — that their smiling teachers and professors with few exceptions are, on-balance, teaching your kids to steal your property, income and savings?* And teaching them this is morally superior? Yes, coercion, plunder and tyranny! Superior! Sound harsh? A recent poll shows that a little over half of the students feel that capitalism is not okay. Who taught them this? You? No. After all you own property and stuff and have jobs and want to keep what’s yours, right? And you don’t want anyone telling you how to live your lives under the point of the coercive State’s guns, right? And you yell and scream using choice expletives when you write that check to the State already as it is, right? Or, do you say, ‘Gee, after I was just raped by the State I want to bend over again and give more!! I want to give all of what I own to central planning crony oligarchs for the ‘greater good’. My little girl Mary and boy Tommy say that’s what I should do or I am a bigot, a racist, or a selfish, greedy capitalist pig. So, Dear Leader, here’s everything I have!’ You say this? No? Then you are a capitalist who wants to keep your own property and incomes and decide what you want to do with it. You want to decide for yourself what you believe, where you live, what you do what you buy and eat, without the elite central-planning crony oligarchy intervening! You want to live-and-let-live. You want this for your children but they have been brainwashed to hate you now. What to do? Wake up. This has been going on for the last 80 years—a ‘progressive’ collectivist education, media and entertainment attack on—you! Once my slap to your already numb cheeks has woken you up, grow a pair and have a come-to-divinity meeting by any means possible with your young breeding socialists-in-the-making and make sure in no uncertain terms they get that you will not take their arrogant bull-shit. Set them straight that there is no benign socialism–that ‘greater good’ and ‘social justice’ cannot ever be achieved by evil plundering, coercive, deceptive, and genocidal means! Because if you don’t, sometime in the near future their candidate-of-choice sold to them by their leftist-‘progressive’ teachers and professors will get elected and they will come for your property and liberty. We have enabled a collectivist beast that is devouring us and you have one shot to reverse this trend by letting little Mary and Tommy know, ‘what’s up’! Carry on. But carry on free.” DM Chaney “Thoughts on Liberty” (Drafts)
* NOTE: Don’t get me wrong. There are many great teachers who understand liberty and capitalism and why it is, without question, morally the only alternative. They understand that collectivism is only, and can ever only be, evil. There is no uncertainty here. Yet, they are over-powered by the screaming and coercion of the powerful NEA teachers union (“progressive” collectivist control since its inception and strong goals of global governance) and the collectivist, un-elected bureaucrats and career politicians that control the Department of Education. These forces drive the agenda and what is acceptable and not acceptable within the walls of our teaching institutions. Clearly, those nearly 50% of the students who still believe in freedom and liberty — capitalism — had to have some teachers along the way supporting their view. For those teachers, kudos.
By David Chaney.
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