Saturday, January 12, 2013

MIT warmists throw Obama's whole "we'll all enjoy a green jobs paradise!" sales pitch under the bus: "This is a deeply unpalatable political message. It means immediate spending and economic sacrifice by present-day voters in order to achieve benefits that will be realized decades from now"

MIT to Obama: Only 4 years left to stop global warming
MIT urged Obama to make climate change his No. 1 priority. "The potential for global warming over the next decades threatens consequences so dire that they could overwhelm any progress you make toward other long-term economic, social and political goals," said the letter.
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The letter said Obama should act now to cut carbon emissions and begin the path to ending global warming:

"This is a deeply unpalatable political message. It means immediate spending and economic sacrifice by present-day voters in order to achieve benefits that will be realized decades from now. And it must be done while millions of Americans are still skeptical that global warming is taking place or that it is caused by human activity. But as extensive and exacting analyses over the last decade have shown, we can no longer wait without risking dramatic upheavals in global security and the health and welfare of hundreds of millions of the world's inhabitants."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You folks ever talk to MIT researchers Lindzen and Choi ... their 2009 research actually measured carbon impact on temps and found it to be nil. Throws you all under the bus!!!
Joe

Anonymous said...

The mistake is taking "emotional comfort" for "technical certainty".

We look and look and look at the ice on a lake, wondering whether it will hold our weight. We talk to each other about it, and then we skate out onto it. That is reaching an emotional comfort.

Exactly what the IPCC/Gore and the eco-green have done. Look, look, talk, talk.

If we had measured the ice thickness in a lot of places and then moved onto it, we'd have had technical certainty. For the warmists, that would have been finding the mid-tropospheric hotspot, seeing a continual temperature rise of > 0.18C/decade, the melting of Antarctica and sea-level rise in the >4mm/yr level.

Emotional comfort and technical certainty. Perhaps too much for the liberal green.

pyeatte said...

Too bad so many researchers have a financial vested interest in supporting AGW. If they tell the truth, they lose funding. Lindzen and Choi apparently have the clout to withstand the storm.