Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 11/13/2008 10:16:33 AM PST by Chairman of the Bard
President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is flirting with creating a White House "Climate Czar," but climate change crusader Al Gore says he doesn't want the job.
The Obama team declined to comment on such a post, even as environmentalists and power industry executives say it's being widely discussed inside the transition offices as a way to spur a clean energy industry, which Mr. Obama has promised will ween the U.S. from foreign oil and create millions of "green jobs."
Obama transition chief John Podesta promoted a similar idea earlier in his role as president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington think tank.
Mr. Podesta authored a white paper calling for an Energy Security Council within the White House to oversee climate change and clean energy initiatives. The czar and the council would coordinate agencies, including the Energy and Interior departments and the Environmental Protection Agency.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Because it would be an insult to pinheads.
I want God to be in a good mood with me:)
Just ping the FR IP addy. Then Ping yourself. Then ping your local things.
It was me!
Thanks!
Global Warming on Free Republic
The earth’s got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyV2cPLuFuA
bump
Al’s out makin’ big bucks on this con-job. He’s counting on his political connections to make him one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. Going government at this point would give him a conflict of interest and blow his cover re: his pretend altruistic motives and organizations. It would put a very large damper on his business plan.
That's pretty doubtful, judging by his editorial last weekend in the NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09gore.html
A quote to show what Al's still thinking:
"The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is “unequivocal.” To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future of the human species, please wake up. Our children and grandchildren need you to hear and recognize the truth of our situation, before it is too late."
He describes a five-point plan. Points 1-4 aren't that outlandish. Point 5 is the most controversial.
It has been explained. To get your information on this updated, read: Correcting Ocean Cooling
Sadly, the attempts by Josh Willis to make these necessary corrections have already been misinterpreted in some sectors.
Thank you for your reference to that article.
Would you trust any "scientific" conclusions about global warming based on that article?
The problem is that the article is not proof of the pudding that global warming is real, in my opinion, if that is what you are suggesting. In fact, the article is arguably an apology that the computer models that are being used to study global temperatures are still crude, but slowly improving (ha ha).
It remains that the politically correct global warming alarmism that the MSM was shoving down everybody's throats awhile back is not justified, in my opinion, by politically correct interpretations of crude computer models. After all, computerized earth / weather models still can't be trusted to warn about things like the relatively recent Indonesian tsunami or the blizzard that closed Denver International Airport a few years back.
Sadly, the attempts by Josh Willis to make these necessary corrections have already been misinterpreted in some sectors.
And speaking of misinterpreting things, you're sidestepping the reality that Mr. Willis and other scientists probably continue to do their share of head-scratching with respect to interpreting crude, computerized global temperature models.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.