Warmists Concerned With How To Communicate A Dying Cult

Warmist Adam Corner is quite concerned just how to communicate to people who really aren’t that concerned with the dying cult of Gore. I have a great idea, but, we’ll get to that (I bet you can guess what I’ll offer)

(Guardian) As the dust settles on another disappointing international sustainability summit, many who work on the myriad of issues around climate change and sustainable development are taking stock. And for those who are involved in promoting public engagement with climate change, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that times are tough.

The enthusiastic, hopeful – almost urgent – buzz of public awareness and expectation that existed five years ago has long since transformed into a low, background hum. There has been no weakening of the scientific evidence that climate change – attributable to human activity – poses a range of serious risks. But there has been some weakening of the social consensus that is essential for meaningful action to minimise these risks. While claims of a collapse in public opinion are exaggerated, there is no denying that scepticism about the nature and seriousness of climate change has increased – rather than decreased – in recent years.

Where public opinion about climate change could once be characterised as a state of mild concern, it has now become an amiable – or even disinterested – shrug. The more sophisticated analyses of trends in public opinion point to a clear link between the priority with which politicians and the media have treated climate change (linked to the economic crisis), and the weight it is assigned by members of the public. The issue has moved from centre stage to somewhere barely visible in the wings. Is it any surprise people have stopped paying attention?

And the solutions offered by Corner? The same old mule fritters about about spreading awareness, indoctrination, whining about Conservatives not buying into the Warmists malarkey (we know that it isn’t about science, but about increasing taxation and governmental control).

Without a focus on better communication, the danger is that the gap between the scientific and the social consensus on climate change will continue to grow.

How about, instead, Warmists actually practice science? They should release the raw data and show how they came to their conclusions so that others can attempt to replicate the so-called climate science. That is the way science works. Oh, and if they really believe, Warmists should practice what they preach. Show us the way.

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If All You See…

…is a shameful waste of water that will kill the planet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sister Toldjah.

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Save Money On Chevy Volt, Take Fossil Fueled Flight To Hawaii

Tom Nelson picks up this but of climahypocrisy from a Volt owner

Another of our newest Chevrolet Volt commercials now airing on TV features Elissa. She’s TOTALLY in love with her Volt and plans to use her fuel savings to go to Hawaii.

A round trip to Hawaii from Detroit (the commercial says she is from Westland, Mi) puts out 1.25 metric tons of CO2. This doesn’t include the travel to the airport, housing in Hawaii, a rental car, etc. The average CO2 output world wide is 4 metric tons, and the target is 2 metric tons to stop the planet from burning up or something. Climahypocrite.

I wonder what the carbon footprint of a Volt that catches on fire is?

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Hill Poll: Most Feel Obama Has Changed The Country For The Worse

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that most think Obama is ruining the country. And I bet some people are surprised by this poll. They might have listened when Obama said that he wanted to “fundamentally transform America” during his hopey changey run for the White House. And they might have paid attention to his background, policy offerings, and political experience

(The Hill) Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it’s changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority.

A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent of likely voters believe Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way, compared to 35 percent who believe the country has changed for the better under his leadership.

The results signal broad voter unease with the direction the nation has taken under Obama’s leadership and present a major challenge for the incumbent Democrat as he seeks reelection this fall.

Amazingly, 92% of Blacks feel that the country has changed for the better, which is strange considering the unemployment rate for Blacks is 14.4%.

59% of men and 56% of women say that Obama has made America worse thanks to Obama. It’s 55% for the 18-39 bracket.

Independent of voter opinions about how the country has changed, The Hill Poll found an overwhelming majority of voters — 89 percent — view the choice between Obama and Romney as important in terms of the future impact on the country.

The poll doesn’t ask why, but, considering that 56% think Obama has changed America for the worse, we can figure out why.

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Washington Post Fact Checker Gives Obama Tweet 3 Pinocchio’s

Let’s face it, Team Obama likes to stretch the truth, if not out right lie, in order to smear opponents. The number of un-truths, stretches, and lies that are going into Obama campaign fodder is a daily occurrence. It would take a giant post to list all the false ads. He can’t win on his record, so Team O is going negative and false. During a 30 day period ending July 2nd 76% of Obama’s ads were negative. And here comes more

(Washington Post) “FACT: In 2010 and 2011, Romney paid less than 15% in taxes on $42.5 million in income—much less than what many middle-class families pay.”

— Tweet by @BarackObama, July 3, 2012

We are avid readers of tweets by @BarackObama, though of course it is not the president himself but his campaign team that posts them. We are also very curious when politicians claim they have uttered “a fact.”

So, is it really true that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who is very wealthy, pays a tax rate “much less” than “many” middle-class families?

In a word, no.

First, one can see that for all the rhetoric about high taxes in the United States, most Americans pay a relatively small percentage of their income in taxes. Second, Romney had an effective rate of 13.9 percent in 2010 and 15.4 percent in 2011, which gives him a higher rate than 80 percent of taxpayers in the first method and puts him just about in the middle of all taxpayers in the second method.

And let’s not forget that under those net tax rates, Romney still pays around $3 million of his earnings to the federal treasury. So, as has become the norm with the Obama campaign

The Obama campaign’s tweet relies on a very slippery “fact.”

Romney, by receiving much of his income in capital gains and dividends and giving millions of dollars to charity, is certainly able to keep his effective tax rate relatively low, especially compared to a wealthy person who earns much of his or her income in salary. But, even so, Romney still pays an effective tax rate that is higher than the tax rate paid by most Americans.

And the Glenn Kessler, the fact checker, gives Team Obama 3 Pinocchio’s.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Watcher Of Weasels Forum Up: Romney’s Running Mate

You’ll remember the other day I wrote a short post regarding who I think Mitt Romney will pick as his running mate. Over at The Watcher’s Council forum many other folks chime in on their picks. Head on over at check it out.

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Yet Another “This Is What Globull Warming Regulations Looks Like”

A view of the future as globull warming regulations and stuff are passed: After the Storm: The Haves and the Have-Nots

Here’s part of the 1,009-word missive that Bush tapped out on her cell phone:

Over the last 4 and a half days, I’ve seen families struggle over what to eat when most of the food has spoiled. I’ve personally had to wait in line for gas, praying they wouldn’t run out before I got my fill. I’ve taken cold showers because there is no hot water (WT: because there’s no electricity). I’ve gone hunting for elusive ice that has become worth more than gold, and not found any. I’ve seen fights break out over basic necessaries, because nerves are becoming frayed from the stress of the heat and lack of water.

Kate Sheppard pushes the notion that we can expect more of this thanks to hotcoldwetdry because you, dear reader, decided to use your ice maker and record a few shows on your DVR. We can expect long lines for fuel and rolling blackouts and brownouts. I wonder if Kate will complain next week when temperatures are at or below normal?

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If All You See…

…is a wonderful non-carbon powered mode of transportation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jammie Wearing Fools.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous, and hot, day in America, though relief is right around the corner. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The First Street Journal beats up on excitable Juan Cole
  2. The Lonely Conservative beats up on excitable Barack Obama and his “I’ve tried real hard” comment
  3. The Jawa Report beats up on Obama over his Sharia czar
  4. Jammie Wearing Fool highlights all the IRS agents to come under Obamacare
  5. Ed Morrissey tells Obama to stop with the “I inherited” garbage
  6. Dan Riehl points out that the media has already done more digging on Romney than they did all of 2008 on Obama
  7. Gay Patriot contrasts Obama’s economic “recovery” with Reagan’s
  8. Public Secrets points out why California’s can’t have nice things
  9. Powerline wonders who’s really secretive
  10. Weasel Zippers features Holder pandering to the bigots at La Raza
  11. Wizbang highlights that Obama is not offering to pay your power bill
  12. Wake Up America explains exactly what Obama has done for Blacks and Hispanics
  13. This ain’t Hell… discusses how peace talks inspire more terrorist groups
  14. The Daley Gator shows liberals what real charity and compassion looks like
  15. And last, but not least, congratulations to Political Junkie Mom and family on the new edition!

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts

Note: I’m on the road today traveling to see the parents, so I did this post Saturday night, hence, any “Last Weeks” or LW goes to the website’s home page, regardless of the place holder material I’ve left. I’ll try and update Sunday night or Monday morning

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

The posts do take a long time, so, if you want to send me your links for Rule 5 babeage or links, use ye olde email in the header bar (remove the NOSPAM part). Preferably, create the html link so I can copy and paste how you want it to read.

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Politico Offers 5 Ways To Kill Obamacare Without Repeal

Romney has said that “What the Court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected President of the United States. And that is I will act to repeal Obamacare.” Obviously, that doesn’t mean he will abolish it by executive order, as many liberals, including the article over at the Politico, thinks. What that means is that he wants the Republican Congress, provided the GOP takeover the Senate and hold the House, to pass legislation to repeal this horrific and un-American legislation, and replace it with common sense ideas. As the Politico article points out, there are methods Romney can use even without legislation to gum up the works

1. Break the federal exchanges – Under the law, the federal government is supposed to build health insurance exchanges for states that don’t create their own.

But with Romney’s help, those states could defeat that effort, too, even if the law remains unchanged.

A quirk in the language of the law — which the law’s supporters call a “drafting error” — could allow Romney to make it basically impossible for federally run exchanges to function. That’s because the law doesn’t explicitly give federal exchanges the ability to provide the same insurance subsidies that it will give to state-run exchanges.

Obama’s Internal Revenue Service issued rules intended to eliminate this problem, but Romney’s IRS could reverse that interpretation of the law.

Then you get

2. Starve the federal exchanges -

Romney and the GOP could make sure that the Federal exchanges never see any more money, because the Democrats who wrote and passed Obamacare forgot to offer a means to fund them. Oops!

3. Withdraw rules – A new administration can’t just change existing rules that its predecessors have gotten into final form. That requires a full rulemaking process, and they have to prove they have a “rational” reason for the change.

Actually, Politico made a mistake here, because the Affordable Care Act gave enormous latitude and power to the director of HHS to create the rules. The phrase “the director of HHS shall/may” is scattered throughout the bill, allow said director to determine what the rules shall be. A Romney appointed director can change it all. Which Politico points out in the next bullet point

4. Be very ‘flexible’ – The secretary of HHS is in charge of ultimately certifying whether states are enforcing provisions of the law or whether the federal government needs to use its backup enforcement powers.

That means that a Romney HHS secretary could let states and employers get away with things an Obama secretary likely wouldn’t. That could include certifying state-based exchanges that don’t meet many of the law’s requirements, or giving broader latitude to companies that don’t want to update their insurance plans to meet the letter of the law.

Finally, we get to

5. Do nothing – He could stop the writing of the remaining rules to implement the law, stop Medicare from moving ahead with programs to find new ways to pay providers, stop the IRS from enforcing the individual mandate and even stop Medicaid officials from facilitating the expansion of the program in the states that want it.

So, a President Romney would have options to gum up the works with Obamacare even without full control of Congress by the Republican party. Expect massive teeth gnashing and Moonbat Level 10 from liberals.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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