President-elect Barack Obama proposes economic suicide for US

Telegraph.co.uk, 2008 11 29

President-elect Barack Obama proposes economic suicide for US

By Christopher Booker

If the holder of the most powerful office in the world proposed a policy guaranteed to inflict untold damage on his own country and many others, on the basis of claims so demonstrably fallacious that they amount to a string of self-deluding lies, we might well be concerned.  The relevance of this is not to President Bush, as some might imagine, but to a recent policy statement by President-elect Obama.

The 10,000 wind turbines in the US generate less power than a single coal-fired plant

Tomorrow, delegates from 190 countries will meet in Poznan, Poland, to pave the way for next year’s UN conference in Copenhagen at which the world will agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. They will see a video of Mr Obama, in only his second major policy commitment, pledging that America is now about to play the leading role in the fight to “save the planet” from global warming….(Full Story)

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Comments by folc.ca:

A few of the many comments that the article attracted are by nay-sayers such as this one:

The smart people, and the smart money, today acknowledge climate change, and are working out how to deal with it. Those who are pro-active will sell products to those who are not - a fact that the Germans, in particular, are aware of, and one which is already benefiting their exports.

Mr Booker, meanwhile demonstrates a proud ignorance of science and engineering of the kind that has helped cause irreparable damage to this country’s economic prospects.
Posted by Paul T on November 30, 2008 3:12 PM

and

“Have you ever studied Thermodynamics? (No - Is the answer).”

I studied physics. At a reputable university. And you? Or everyone’s hero, Chris Booker?

Don’t try to pretend this is a scientific argument. This is a political one.

And, by the way, I’m quite happy to see counter-evidence to global warning. This article obviously isn’t that.
Posted by Paul T on November 30, 2008 4:22 PM

Paul T. is eminently wrong.  It appears that the assertion that one has studied physics at a reputable, unnamed university is not evidence that one is qualified to correctly judge global climate trends and is not a remedy against superstition.  In fact, it does not even guard against failing to understand how journalism works.

Christopher Booker writes excellent articles on the man-made global-warming hype.  However, he writes articles that do not agree with the propaganda on man-made global warming spread by the International Panel on Climate Change.  Christopher Booker is well aware that Al Gore’s climate hysteria (e. g.: An Inconvenient Truth) has been thoroughly debunked, such as by the objective climate research compiled and reported by Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, former science advisor of Margaret Thatcher, in his report “35 Inconvenient Truths” (and in his letter to Senator McCain), a report in which he refers to a finding of the U.K. High Court in 2007 that clearly stated, not in so few words, that Al Gore is a liar.  Unfortunately, people like Paul T. and Barack Obama are far from being as well informed.

Barack Obama, at least, has a reason (although not a good one) for disregarding the truth on man-made global warming.  He wants to erect wind mills, kill-off coal-fired power generation to use the effort to impose massive taxation and perhaps have all Americans walk and bicycle to work. Of course, Barack Obama will support discredited Al Gore, even though Al Gore is not an uninterested party.  Al Gore depends on Barack Obama to promote the hype on man-made global warming, so as to fan the flames of the fears that create the global panic in which Al Gore’s international carbon-credit-brokering business thrives and grows.

Other than that, the only constant of climate is constant change, but that is not man-made.

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