"This is the first time that the high court has been asked to consider purely scientific arguments rather than, for instance, the EPA's failure to follow the recommendations of its inspector general." Dr. Fulks has a doctorate in physics from University of Chicago, Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research.
7/20/13, "Energy program shows the dishonesty of climate change arguments: Guest opinion," The Oregonian, Gordan J. Fulks, opinion
"In 1960 when a U-2 spy plane disappeared over the Soviet Union, President Dwight Eisenhower told the world that it was a "weather research aircraft" flying out of Turkey. That cover story worked for a week, until Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev confirmed that the pilot had been captured deep in Soviet territory. Should an American president have supported an elaborate fabrication? It served no lasting purpose and demeaned a great president.
The cases that followed involving Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton were far less excusable and far more damaging to the presidency. They stretched the truth to avoid accountability.
Now we have yet a different situation where a president is trying to sell a vast program of carbon controls and renewable energy subsidies, based on arguments that may meet political standards for honesty but fail scientific, engineering and legal standards. That is far more damaging to this nation than Clinton denying an affair with Monica Lewinsky.
President Barack Obama's "climate change" speech last month reiterated his assertions that the earth is warming dangerously, that human emissions of carbon dioxide are clearly responsible and that virtually all scientists agree with him. As 115 scientists from around the world told him several years ago: "With all due respect, Mr. President, that is not true." One was Nobel laureate in physics Ivar Giaever, a Democrat. The president now calls those who dispute his hysteria the "Flat Earth Society."
Because the president knows that Congress and the American people will never support carbon reduction schemes that seriously harm our economy, he is pursuing a strategy involving rhetorical subterfuges while his Environmental Protection Agency quietly moves forward with regulations.
Consequently, 11 of us filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court recently asking it to overturn the EPA's "endangerment finding" on carbon dioxide. This is the first time that the high court has been asked to consider purely scientific arguments rather than, for instance, the EPA's failure to follow the recommendations of its inspector general.
We prove that the EPA's "three lines of evidence" are fatally flawed, based on multiple robust data sets, not on "expert opinion" from those paid to support the president's position. Honest data show no unusual warming in the latter half of the 20th century and none at all for the past 15 years, despite a slow increase in carbon climate models, for which the taxpayer has paid so dearly, are epic failures.
Without global warming, carbon dioxide is clearly "not guilty." And hence the hysteria about extreme weather caused by carbon dioxide is likewise nonsense.
What about the programs that the president is trying to sell to cure a problem that does not exist? These are substantial hoaxes also.
While "efficient use of energy" and "renewable energy" sound good, they are far from the reality. Ethanol, solar and wind typically produce little net energy beyond what went into their manufacture. They merely launder high-quality energy from fossil fuels into less desirable but politically popular kinds.
Remarkably, wind and solar do not even reduce our "carbon footprint," because they need backup by special natural gas power plants designed for rapid startup. These are far less efficient than state-of-the-art gas-turbine plants that run continuously. Scrapping wind and solar programs would hugely benefit ratepayers and burn less natural gas overall.
Because Obama has no scientific education, he can hardly be expected to understand the details of what we are saying. But as an attorney, he should know what constitutes honest argument.
Gordon J. Fulks lives in Corbett. He holds a doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago, Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research." via Junk Science
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There is a fortune at stake. He knew no one dared criticize him and even if they did, major media wouldn't report it: .
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Five climate lies told to the US Senate on August 1, 2012:
8/1/12, "IPCC Lead Author Misleads US Congress," Roger Pielke Jr. blog
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"The politicization of climate science is so complete that the lead author of the IPCC's Working Group II on climate impacts feels comfortable presenting testimony to the US Congress that fundamentally misrepresents what the IPCC has concluded. I am referring to testimony given today by Christopher Field, a professor at Stanford, to the US Senate."...
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7/18/13, "Roger Pielke Jr: Testimony On The Current State Of Weather Extremes," GWPF
"STATEMENT OF DR. ROGER PIELKE, JR. to the COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS of the UNITED STATES SENATE – HEARING on CLIMATE CHANGE: IT’S HAPPENING NOW"
"Take-Home Points
• Globally, weather-related losses ($) have not increased since 1990 as a proportion of GDP (they have actually decreased by about 25%) and insured catastrophe losses have not increased as a proportion of GDP since 1960."...
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Pielke Jr. Facts vs Obama extreme weather claims:
"Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Hurricanes make the list in ...
Hurricanes make the list in Obama's weekly address: "more extreme droughts, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes" http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/29/weekly-address-confronting-growing-threat-climate-change …Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Fact: It has been 2,811 days ...
Fact: It has been 2,811 days since the US was last hit by a Cat3+ hurricane, the longest such period since at least 1900.Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Fact: On climate time scales ...
Fact: On climate time scales there's been no increase in US hurricanes, normalized US hurricane damage or tropical cyclone landfalls globallyTwitter / RogerPielkeJr: IPCC: "Observations to date ...
IPCC: "Observations to date provide no conclusive and general proof as to how climate change affects flood behavior" http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2013/01/extreme-misrepresentation-usgcrp-and.html …"
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"Short Biographical Note" on Roger Pielke, Jr.
and political science. I began studying
extreme weather and climate in 1993
at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in
Boulder, CO. Over the past 20 years I have collaborated with
researchers around the world to Publish dozens of peer-
reviewed papers on hurricanes, floods, tornadoes,
Australian bushfires, earthquakes and other subjects related to extreme events. Since 2001, I have been a professor of
environmental studies at the University of Colorado.
A longer bio can be found as an appendix to
this testimony. My views on climate policy and politics, not discussed
in this testimony, can be found in my recent book, The Climate Fix
(Basic Books, 2011)."
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Big money was made on the 2007 5-4 Supreme Court decision allowing regulation of CO2 from tailpipes. For example petitioner Entergy's stock peaked on news of the ruling. Entergy stock chart 2003-2013, Marketwatch:
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Justice Stevens mistakenly cites the UN as a scientific authority on the idea that CO2 rise causes dangerous temperature rise. As of 2013 this isn't proven. He describes the origin of the UN IPCC, the 1992 UN Rio convention, that Pres. Bush #1 signed the UNFCCC agreement. See paragraphs in Section I and the beginning of Section II. UN personnel are unelected, unaccountable, can't be prosecuted civilly or criminally anywhere in the world, can take US taxpayer money and put it in a personal bank account and nothing will happen to them. Why cite such a group for any reason much less as a scientific source? The UN IPCC gets at least half its budget from the US taxpayer. UN IPCC personnel then jet set around the world on our money and lecture us that our lifestyles are unsustainable.
The presentation of Bush administration lawyers was just as bad. They actually agreed that human CO2 causes global warming. The case should be retried just for lack of competent counsel:
p.1, from Justice Stevens decision:
EPA does not dispute the existence of a causal
connection between man-made greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.
At a minimum, therefore, EPA’s refusal to regulate such emissions
“contributes” to Massachusetts’ injuries."...
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Most of what Justice Stevens states in the paragraphs below is demonstrably false as of 2013. 2006-2007 was the height of the global warming/Al Gore frenzy coupled with a criminally cavalier Bush administration. Meaning no one was there on behalf of the facts. Justice Stevens:
The harms associated with climate change are
serious and well recognized. Indeed, the NRC Report itself—which EPA
regards as an “objective and independent assessment of the relevant
science,” 68 Fed. Reg. 52930—identifies a number of environmental
changes that have already inflicted significant harms, including “the
global retreat of mountain glaciers, reduction in snow-cover extent, the
earlier spring melting of rivers and lakes, [and] the accelerated rate
of rise of sea levels during the 20th century relative to the past few
thousand years … .” NRC Report 16.
Petitioners allege that this only hints at the
environmental damage yet to come. According to the climate scientist
Michael MacCracken, “qualified scientific experts involved in climate change
research” have reached a “strong consensus” that global warming
threatens
(among other things) a precipitate rise in sea levels by the
end of the century, MacCracken Decl. ¶15, Stdg. App. 207, “severe and
irreversible changes to natural ecosystems,” id., ¶5(d), at 209, a
“significant reduction in water storage in winter snowpack in
mountainous regions with direct and important economic consequences,” ibid., and an increase in the spread of disease, id., ¶28, at 218–219. He also observes that rising ocean temperatures may contribute to the ferocity of hurricanes. Id., ¶¶23–25, at 216–217.18"...
"Massachusetts vs. EPA—Timeline, Legal Questions, and Case Details," sierraclub.org, Allowing the EPA to regulate CO2
"On April 2, 2007, in a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Sierra Club, 12 states, 3 cities, and other petitioners by agreeing that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants can be regulated under the Clean Air Act....
p. 2, "Filing as “amici” for the petitioners:
Fourteen prominent climate scientists, two electric power companies (Entergy and Calpine), four former EPA administrators, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, six states (Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National Council of Churches, Aspen Ski Company, North Coast Rivers Alliance, National Wildlife Federation, Alaska Natives, and ocean and coastal groups."...
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In Nov. 2012, 134 scientists wrote to the UN Sec. General:
11/29/12, 134 scientists write to UN Sec. Gen. Ban Ki-Moon, asking him to desist from blaming climate disasters on global warming that hasn't happened:
"Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years."...“The NOAA “State of the Climate in 2008” report asserted that 15 years or more without any statistically-significant warming would indicate a discrepancy between observation and prediction. Sixteen years without warming have therefore now proven that the models are wrong by their creators’ own criterion.”…(2nd parag. fr. end of letter). “Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years.”…"Policy actions that aim to reduce CO2 emissions are unlikely to influence future climate. Policies need to focus on preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climatic events, however caused."...Special to Financial Post, 12/10/12
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Obama 'climate action' in Nov. 2012 included giving $6 billion US taxpayer dollars for 'clean energy' to the Sultan of Brunei who owns 5000+ cars and to the Pres. of Indonesia, whose country is so corrupt even the World Bank says crime adds 20% to costs.
Below, one of the Sultan of Brunei's cars:
Below, one of the Sultan of Brunei's cars:
7/24/12, "The Sultan's Cars," wheel to wheel blog.
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