Budget Advice and Global Warming Denial

View 790 Tuesday, September 17, 2013

“Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.”

President Barrack Obama, January 31, 2009

Christians to Beirut. Alawites to the grave.

Syrian Freedom Fighters

What we have is all we will ever have.

Conservationist motto

Some advice for the Republicans:

The Budget

What they should do is attach a mandate to the CR to implement Obamacare as written without any carve-outs or exemptions for Congress, no exemptions for Congress Staffers, no exemptions for Unions, no exemptions for Corporate Cronies like GE, Goldman-Sachs, and Warren Buffett. Let Obama veto that and explain why he is against implementing his own law.

Bruce Garrick

I confess this appeals to me. Comments?

ObamaCare suggestion…

I would add one thing to Bruce Garrick’s idea: No delay for business penalties.

Charles Brumbelow

As the IPCC report approaches publication there is much speculation on just how far the consensus view will retreat from the absolute confidence the previous reports displayed. Mike Flynn calls attention to this:

Denialism

This short blog post might interest you:

http://judithcurry.com/2013/09/17/consensus-denialism/

Seems I’ve heard bits and pieces before.

MikeF

Since the academic budgets of a great number of people depend on the continued Global Warming Consensus, there is a conflict of emotions among the climate scientists. It will be interesting to see how that plays out. We’ll have a longer discussion shortly, but my conclusions haven’t changed: we don’t have a climate model reliable enough to bet trillions on. We know the Earth has been both warmer and colder in historical times, and the earlier climate shifts are unlikely to have been caused by human influence. Clearly human activities can affect climates – we all grew up learning that the desertification of much of North Africa was due to goats, and we know that some local climates are determined by human activities in the region – but human activity is unlikely to have caused the Viking period warming, the great cooling after 1300, the Little Ice Age, and such; and the warming beginning in 1800 or so is very unlikely to have been caused by human activities. Until the Believers stop denying the existence of the Viking Warm, the Roman Warm, and the Little Ice Age, we aren’t going to learn much from those models.