There is a special tonight on Fox News at 7 PM Pacific time with Steve McIntyre on Climategate and the CRU disclosures. Hannity will be preempted.
UPDATE: The Fox special is now posted in you tube clips on Climate Audit. Anyone who missed it can see it here in its entirety.
This commencement speech, unlike the one at Notre Dame, would have been worthwhile. I hope they appreciated it.
There may be no greater challenge facing mankind today – and your generation in particular – than figuring out how we?re going to meet the energy needs of a planet that may have 9 billion people living on it by the middle of this century. The magnitude of that challenge becomes even more daunting when you consider that of the 6.5 billion people on the planet today, nearly two billion people don?t even have electricity – never flipped a light switch.
Now, the “consensus” back in the mid-1970s was that America and the world were running out of oil. Ironically, some in the media were also claiming a scientific consensus that the planet was cooling, fossil fuels could be to blame, and we were all going to freeze to death unless we kicked our fossil-fuel habit. We were told we needed to find alternatives to oil – fast. That task, we were told, was too important to leave to markets, so government needed to intervene with massive taxpayer subsidies for otherwise uneconomic forms of energy. That thinking led to the now infamous 1977 National Energy Plan, an experiment with central planning that failed miserably. Fast-forward to today, and: déjà vu. This time the fear is not so much that we?re running out of oil, but that we?re running out of time – the earth is getting hotter, humans are to blame, and we?re all doomed if we don?t stop using fossil fuels – fast. Once again we?re being told that the job is too important to be left to markets.
I think the population growth figures are overblown but that’s the only thing I disgree with.
This is interesting. The Obama people are talking about science being restored with his election but he has appointed one of the worst AGW hysterics as his science advisor. Canada will not be happy about it and maybe my property in Tucson will appreciate.
This pretty much states my opinion.
More recently, CNN meteorologist Chad Myers, an American Meteorological Society certified meteorologist, said, “You know, to think that we (humans) could affect weather all that much is pretty arrogant.”
I think we will know in another few years. That may be too late for Obama to avoid looking the fool.
This letter suggests that the UN reconsider its approach to climate change. After all, the climate has been changing as long as there is any evidence to study about earth temperature. In 1200, Greenland supported farming and a population of 5,000 people. With the onset of The Little Ice Age (Note that Wikipedia is not reliable here for reasons previously explained. They even still have the “hockey stick.”), the Norse population died out and was replaced by Inuits who arrived about 1200 AD and remain the Greenland population. They were better able to tolerate the Arctic conditions that followed.
The Bush Administration seems to have given up on this subject, seemingly planning to run out the clock, and McCain may be too willing to be influenced by the climate-politicians. We’ll see.