AOTW 5-22-2015

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Once again I have to give the award to Jug Huseein Ears Downgrade for the speech he made to the Coast Guard.

Despite this Barack Obama warned Coast Guard cadets today that climate change is creating an entire new ocean.

As Admiral Zukunft already mentioned, climate change means Arctic sea ice is vanishing faster than ever. By the middle of this century, Arctic summers could be essentially ice free. We’re witnessing the birth of a new ocean — new sea lanes, more shipping, more exploration, more competition for the vast natural resources below.

JHFC! He has to beat this dead horse of global warming climate change. The Arctic sea ice is not disappearing. In fact, it’s setting new records. Remember, Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW and other AGW lunatics said the Arctic sea ice would be gone by now. It’s still there. What’s more Lake Superior is getting more ice in the winter and taking longer to thaw in the spring. The Coast Guard has more important duties than preparing for mythical global warming climate change.

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Here is yet another award for the butthead-in-chief.

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9 comments on “AOTW 5-22-2015”

  1. WSJ’s Taranto had some comments about the commencement speech. In part…

    …“The planet is getting warmer,” he claimed in a commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy:

    Fourteen of the 15 hottest years on record have been in the past 15 years. Last year was the planet’s warmest year ever recorded.

    Our scientists at NASA just reported that some of the sea ice around Antarctica is breaking up even faster than expected. The world’s glaciers are melting, pouring new water into the ocean. Over the past century, the world sea level rose by about 8 inches. That was in the last century; by the end of this century, it’s projected to rise another 1 to 4 feet.

    Yes, the lucky cadets were treated to a presidential lecture on, in Obama’s words, “the urgent need to combat and adapt to climate change.”

    The president trotted out and knocked down a partisan straw man: “Now, I know there are still some folks back in Washington who refuse to admit that climate change is real.” He suggested that departure from “climate change” orthodoxy is unpatriotic: “Denying it, or refusing to deal with it endangers our national security. It undermines the readiness of our forces.” He called it “a dereliction of duty.”

    He rehearsed the litany of weather disasters supposedly caused by climate change: “more extreme storms,” “deeper droughts and longer wildfires,” flooding of streets in coastal cities. And he went further, blaming global warming for geopolitical problems:

    Understand, climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the world. Yet what we also know is that severe drought helped to create the instability in Nigeria that was exploited by the terrorist group Boko Haram. It’s now believed that drought and crop failures and high food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East. So, increasingly, our military and our combatant commands, our services—including the Coast Guard—will need to factor climate change into plans and operations, because you need to be ready.
    Even if one assumes all these assertions are true, they do not advance a case for urgent action. As the president acknowledged with that initial disclaimer, the chain of causation is just too weak. Global climate change contributes somehow to local droughts, which contribute somehow to instability, which contributes somehow to the rise of Boko Haram and rebellion in Syria (a rebellion, let us recall, for which the president briefly urged U.S. military support back in 2013). The vagueness of the hypotheses make it impossible to evaluate any proposed climate policy as a remedy for the Nigerian or Syrian conflicts.

    The most telling assertion in the president’s speech was meant as a throwaway line. Immediately after setting up his some-folks-back-in-Washington straw man, Obama allowed as how “on a day like today, it’s hard to get too worried about it,” the antecedent being “climate change.” It was a cool spring day in New London, Conn.

    Now of course weather isn’t the same thing as climate, as global warmists are quick to point out in fair weather. But that’s true of all weather. It is fallacious to attribute bad weather but not good weather to “climate change,” as if every day was idyllic everywhere on preindustrial Earth.

    Similarly, if “climate change” is contributing to war and instability, it must also be contributing to peace and stability. Obama boasts of various foreign-policy achievements, such as the “end of the war” in Iraq and the diplomatic openings to Iran and Cuba. Stipulating for the sake of argument that these are in fact favorable developments, the logic of the president’s Coast Guard speech is that he must share the credit for them with all humans whose activities have contributed to climate change.

    But of course he does not. As with the weather, he presents “climate change” as a cause of all manner of bad effects but no good ones. In the geopolitical realm, it is an all-purpose excuse when things go wrong. It is logically little different from saying of a disaster, whether natural or man-made, “It was God’s will.” That statement is true if one accepts the underlying metaphysical theory, and it may provide comfort to those who do. But it is not an empirical explanation. It isn’t science.

    Obama’s denunciation of those who persist in “denying” global warmism is especially objectionable in light of his own denialism with regard to Islamic extremism. As we noted last August, the president insisted that the Islamic State, which is among the combatants in the Syrian war, “speaks for no religion. . . . No faith teaches people to massacre innocents.” Presumably he would say the same of Boko Haram (whose name means, roughly, “non-Islamic education violates Islamic law”)….

    Isn’t “dereliction of duty” a serious punishable offense in the military context? Is Obama suggesting that anyone in the service who questions his agenda should be locked up?

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  3. Well’p sorta sounds like unless y’all start shutting down these warped dirt worshiping fuckers by any means necessary that y’all are going to lose your battles, aren’t you?

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  4. The way I see it, Obungler only has two choices. He can admit he’s so dumb that he can’t figure out that this’s pseudo-science and he’ll believe whatever garbage he’s told, or he knows that all this is bullshit and he’s willin’ to wreck what’s left of our economy by usin’ this as an excuse to redistribute the wealth in the manner of a true socialist.
    Either way, Denny, great choice again.

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  5. How many of these awards does Obama have now Denny? I hope you’re keeping count. He’ll have a whole wing in the library to show these off. ……snicker………

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    • Race relations in the age of Obungler, the dude who was supposed to bring the races together. Instead he has taken racial relations between blacks and whites back to the 60’s.

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