Obama’s Climate-Change Comments Fail Fact Checking

“Press in your pocket” dept.

“Mr President, your comments are scientifically meaningless. With your access to qualified researchers one must conclude they are political.”

Obama’s Democratic Convention Climate Change Comments Fail Fact Checking

By Dr. Tim Ball, Climatologist

(Excerpts) – Many organizations “fact-check” economic claims of politicians at US election Conventions, but climate facts need scrutiny. In his Democratic convention speech President Obama said;

“And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet-because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They are a threat to our children’s future and in this election you can do something about it.”

What is carbon pollution? Carbon, is a solid not a greenhouse gas. Do you mean CO2, a naturally occurring gas essential to plant life, and not a pollutant? It’s unclear because you say, incorrectly, it’s causing climate change. Projected warming and climate change due to CO2 only occurs in predetermined Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) computer models that exclude major mechanisms and whose projections are consistently wrong.

What does“climate change is not a hoax” mean? Nobody ever said it was a hoax. The hoax is the science and Reports of the IPCC.

Disconnected comments continue. Nobody ever said droughts, floods and wildfires are a joke. A real joke is the prefix “more’ because all these events are within natural variability. It’s the same mythology used about increased number of hurricanes.

Mr President, your comments are scientifically meaningless. With your access to qualified researchers one must conclude they are political. You said people can do something about climate change. That’s false. German Physicist and meteorologist Klaus-Eckhart Plus said about climate change,

“There’s nothing we can do to stop it. Scientifically it is sheer absurdity to think we can get a nice climate by turning a CO2 adjustment knob.”

He said this after educating himself about IPCC science, which apparently directs your views.

“Ten years ago I simply parroted what the IPCC told us. One day I started checking the facts and data – first I started with a sense of doubt but then I became outraged when I discovered that much of what the IPCC and the media were telling us was sheer nonsense and was not even supported by any scientific facts and measurements. To this day I still feel shame that as a scientist I made presentations of their science without first checking it.”

World leaders making presentations before checking the science and facts is more shameful.

See entire great article, with much mention of the sunspot cycle:
http://drtimball.com/2012/obamas-democratic-convention-climate-change-comments-fail-fact-checking/

Thanks to Andrew S. for this link