Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Obama: "Denying climate change won’t make it stop"; "your car will get nearly 55 miles per gallon by the middle of the next decade"; "carbon pollution...threatens our planet"; wind industry has "never been more promising"

Remarks by President Obama at Campaign Event -- Ames, Iowa
... The decisions we make as a country on big issues like the economy and jobs and taxes and education and energy and war and climate change -- all these decisions will directly affect your life in very personal ways. And I've got to say, this is something I’m acutely aware of when I make these decisions, because they’re decisions that are going to affect Malia and Sasha, my daughters, as well.
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Will this be a country that keeps moving away from foreign oil and towards renewable sources of energy like wind and solar and biofuels -- (applause) -- energy that makes our economy more secure, but also makes our planet more secure?
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You believed four years ago that we could use less foreign oil and reduce the carbon pollution that threatens our planet. And in just four years, we’ve doubled -- doubled -- the generation of clean, renewable energy like wind and solar.
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We developed new fuel standards so that your car will get nearly 55 miles per gallon by the middle of the next decade.
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Nearly 7,000 good Iowa jobs depend on the wind industry. It’s time to stop giving $4 billion of taxpayer subsidies to oil companies that are making a profit every time you pump gas. Let’s give it to homegrown energy sources that have never been more promising...Denying climate change won’t make it stop

1 comment:

Dan Pangburn said...

Paraphrasing Richard Feynman: Regardless of how many experts believe it or how many organizations concur, if it doesn’t agree with observation, it’s wrong.

The IPCC and many others perceive that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide was the primary cause of global warming. Measurements demonstrate that they are wrong.

The average global temperature trend has been flat since 2001. No amount of spin can rationalize that the temperature increase to 2001 was caused by CO2 increase but that 25.2% additional CO2 increase had no effect on average global temperature after 2001.

Without human caused global warming there can be no human caused climate change.

Average GLOBAL temperature anomalies are reported on the web by NOAA, GISS, Hadley, RSS and UAH. The first three all draw from the same data base of surface measurement data. The last two draw from the data base of satellite measurements. Each agency processes the data slightly differently from the others. Each believes that their way is most accurate. To avoid bias, I average all five. The averages are listed here.

2001 0.3473
2002 0.4278
2003 0.4245
2004 0.3641
2005 0.4663
2006 0.3930
2007 0.4030
2008 0.2598
2009 0.4022
2010 0.5298
2011 0.3317

A straight line (trend line) fit to this data has no slope. That means that, for over a decade, average global temperature has not changed. If the average so far in 2012 is included, the slope is down.