How NOT to Convince Someone That Climate Change is Real

For the third time in the last few years, Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, spoke at the festival on Friday. Naturally, his interactive discussion focused on addressing the climate crisis. The former vice president focused on the need to “punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science,'” said the Chicago Tribune.

Gore said forward-thinking investors are moving away from companies that invest in fossil fuels and towards companies investing in renewable energy. “We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a proposed federal cap-and-trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon-emission limits. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.” (Ecowatch.com, 3/16/2015)

If you want to convince RedStateVT that man-made climate change is real...

...here are some things that you should not do or say:

Please do not insult us or call us names.  If we are "climate-deniers" then you are "climate-truthers."

Please do not threaten to punish us (see above). That just makes us dig in our heels.

Please do not tell us that the answer to climate change is a tax. How does that make sense? Plus we think Americans pay too much in taxes already.

Please do not announce that climate change is "settled science." You can't say "accepted science" either. We have studied the issue and come to a different conclusion.  Plenty of people, including many scientists, disagree with you.

Please do not blame oil companies. No one, including you can live one day without fossil fuels. Oil is legal. Thank God for oil.


...here are some things that you should do or explain:

Please explain Climategate. Remember when scientists were found to have been colluding on the "science" of climate change? We do. Please explain.

Please explain exactly how Federal and state grant money flows to scientists and others who believe in man-made climate change. Just how much does Bill McKibben pull in?

Please separate out what you believe to be man-made climate change from naturally occurring climate change. 

Please factually refute just one thing found on Climatedepot.com. 

Please tell Al Gore to shut up. Really, do you want this phony to be your spokesperson? By the way, please ask Al Gore how many millions of dollars he has personally made from ginning up this issue.

The Perplexing Search for Proof of Obama's Brilliance

Possibilities
But while it sure is possible to move those 1700 unsold ELRs, Cadillac will need about two years to finish the job if it can’t find more than 60 people a month who want a $76,000 two-door plug-in hybrid. Cadillac, in the AN report, attributes the inventory buildup to a heavy production cycle ahead of a summer and fall slowdown. (Caranddriver.com, 5/19/2014)

We recently wrote about the Cadillac ELR, extolling its ability to travel a full 37 miles on a single charge. Others have taken notice which explains the fact that GM now has only a two year backlog. Go green!


The Hype
“This is not a hypothetical thing for governors on the West Coast — this is fire alarms and floods,” Mr. Inslee said Monday in a telephone interview. “It’s not a next-century issue. This is a next half-hour issue.” (New York Times, 5/20/2014)

Liberal sages such as Al Gore have - in the past - told us that we have only (fill in the blank) years to save the planet. Now things have apparently reached crisis proportions. We are down to mere hours. If RedStateVT does not publish again, you will know that it is because time has run out. Go green!

Thanks for Waiting

Cold Day
In Cold War Echo, Obama Strategy Writes Off Putin (New York Times headline, 4/20/2014)

As others have noted, Candidate Obama got off a (rehearsed) line during the last campaign at Mitt Romney's expense saying something to the effect of 'the eighties wanting its foreign policy back.' And so - adding to a list which includes George Bush and Dick Cheney - Obama now owes an apology to Romney. Of course, all three are smart enough to know that they will never get one. 


Runaway
Even as Mr. Obama announced that eight million Americans had enrolled in the program and urged Democrats to embrace the law, those in his party are running from it rather than on it, while Republicans are prospering by demanding its repeal. (New York Times. 4/20/2014)

And why is this? Can some Democrat please explain why the party's candidates are running away from its signature legislative accomplishment?


Bent
That’s daunting enough, but here’s the key finding: The world has only about 15 years left in which to begin to bend the emissions curve downward. Otherwise, the costs of last-minute fixes will be overwhelming. “We cannot afford to lose another decade,” says Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist and co-chairman of the committee that wrote the report. “If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.” (New York Times editorial, 4/21/2014)

Climate change deniers (yes, that includes RedStateVT) have a ball with these predictions of impending doom, particularly when they come with a specific date attached. Back in 2006, Al Gore (remember him?) predicted that the end would come in ten years. And so the ever clever Rush Limbaugh took the Gorey One up on it and posted a countdown clock on his website. It is still there today and reminds us that - according to Gore - we are down to the final two years!


Over and Over
In his opening statement, Obama asserted that "the repeal debate is and should be over. The Affordable Care Act is working." He said the same thing on April Fool's Day, though the repetition is beginning to feel like "Groundhog Day." The assertion, and especially the reassertion, that the debate is over is self-refuting, for it is simply a statement of Obama's position in the debate. (James Taranto, Wall Street Journal, 4/18/2014)

Liked this one from Taranto. In essence, if the debate is over, why is Obama still talking about it? RedStateVT has a similar observation that when Liberals are unwilling to debate an issue any longer (usually when they are losing that debate!) they simply declare the debate to be over. It's settled science!


RIP
Weeping before a polished wood coffin at her wake this past Saturday, they described Ms. Onyango, the half sister of the president’s father, as “the spirit of the Obama family” and talked about raising money to send her body back to Kenya. Mr. Obama helped pay funeral expenses and sent a condolence note, Ms. Onyango’s family members said, but the president did not attend, as he was golfing. (New York Times, 4/23/2014)

The New York Times declares that Obama's relations with his extended family are, well, "complicated." We will have to research how the Times described Ronald Reagan's relations with his children. We do not recall them saying "complicated."