Can the UN, Congress & The President Control the Weather?! & Energy Policy July 8, 2014

1. Marc Morano Executive Editor/Chief CorrespondentFormer Staff U.S. Senate Env. & Public Works CommitteeMorano@ClimateDepot.com Can the UN, Congress & The President Control the Weather?! & Energy Policy July 8, 2014

2. Warmist’s View of Me 'What an A**hole’ -- Climategate Professor Andrew Watson to Morano on Live BBC TV debate: - Dec. 2009

3. Gallup Poll: Climate Change Not a Top Worry in U.S. • – Majority of Americans (51%) worry ‘only a little’ or ‘not at all’ about global warming – 2014 Environmental concerns rank lowest in Gallup polling history • 'This puts climate change, along with the quality of the environment, near the bottom of a list of 15 issues Americans rated in Gallup's March 6-9 2014 survey'

4. Gallup Survey March 2014

5. Even Former Catastrophists Now Get It!

6. We’re (were) all going to die! • Flashback 2007: Green Guru James Lovelock Predicts Global Warming Doom: 'Billions of us will die; few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in Arctic’

7. Lovelock in 2014 • Gaia inventor James Lovelock: • ‘Environmentalism has become a religion, and religions don’t worry too much about facts’ – UK Guardian

8. Why Failure thus far? • A movement that had Al Gore – one of the most divisive political figures -- as the face of the movement, was bound to fail. • A movement that utilized the scandal ridden United Nations – which is massively distrusted by the American people -- as the repository of science, was doomed to fail.

10. Dr. Judith Curry • Q: 'If the skeptic/orthodox spectrum is a range from 1 (intense skeptic) to 10 (intensely IPCC orthodox), where on the scale would you put yourself • (a) as at 2009 • (b) as at 2014, • and why has there been a shift (if any)?

11. Dr. Judith Curry • 'In early 2009, I would have rated myself as 7; at this point I would rate myself as a 3.” • Chair of School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology • “Climategateand the weak response of the IPCC and other scientists triggered a massive re-examination of my support of the IPCC, and made me look at the science much more sceptically.‘ – May 21, 2014

12. UN IPCC’s Pre-Determined ‘Science’ • UN IPCC Chair RajendraPachauri admits purpose of UN IPCC report it to make the case that ‘action is needed on climate change’ • UN IPCC chair Pachauri in Sept. 2013: ‘If the governments decide we should do things differently and come up with a vastly different set of products we would be at their beck and call.’

13. UN IPCC • UN Officials Predicted More Alarming Climate Report Years Ago: Flashback 2010: UN – ‘Next climate warming report will be dramatically worse’ • Lead author of UN climate report Dr. Richard Tol removes name from 2014 report: Says colleagues ‘drifted too far to the alarmist side’ & were likening climate change to the ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’

14. UN Lead Author Turns on UN • UN IPCC LEAD AUTHOR Dr. Richard Tol rips IPCC: • ‘The idea that climate change poses an existential threat to humankind is laughable’ – April 1, 2014 – Financial Times • Declared global warming has become a ‘religion’

15. Key Climate Science Point • 'Climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, and the very idea that we can manage climate change predictably by understanding and manipulating at the margins one politically-selected factor (CO2), is as misguided as it gets‘ – UK Prof. Philip Stott

16. Does Global Warming Science Matter?!

17. EU Commissioner: Global Warming Policy Is Right Even If Science Is Wrong • Connie Hedegaard: • ‘Let's say that science, some decades from now, said 'we were wrong, it was not about climate', would it not in any case have been good to do many of things you have to do in order to combat climate change?.’ – Sept. 16, 2013

18. Climate Astrology • “Whether the ice caps melt, or expand --- whatever happens --- the AGW theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.” – May 15, 2009 - Mathematical physicist Dr. Frank J. Tipler, Professor of Mathematical Physics, astrophysics, at Tulane University

19. Climate Astrology • Gore now claims 'increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with... man-made global warming’ – Feb. 2011 • NYT's Climate Astrology: 'Bundle Up, It's Global Warming’ – Dec. 2010

20. Unfalsifiable Climate Astrology • More Than 30 Contradictory Pairs Of Peer-Reviewed Papers: More Snow, Less Snow, 'Boreal forest fires may increase...Boreal forest fires may continue decreasing‘ • 'Earth's rotation to slow down...Earth's rotation to speed up...Great Lakes less snow...Great Lakes more snow...Malaria may increase...Malaria may continue decreasing...San Francisco less foggy...San Francisco more foggy...Winters maybe warmer...Winters maybe colder'

21. End Times: ‘Post-apocalyptic’ • Peace Prof. Michael Klare of Hampshire College wrote in Salon Mag. 'If earth continues heating at its exponential rate, our post-apocalyptic fantasies could become everyday realities’ • 'We envision rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, freakish storms, hellish wildfires, and rising sea levels...food riots, mass starvation, state collapse, mass migrations, and conflicts of every sort, up to and including full-scale war, could prove even more disruptive and deadly...persistent drought and hunger will force millions of people to abandon their traditional lands and flee to the squalor of shantytowns'

22. Haven’t we heard this before?! • Are global warming activists stealing material from Hollywood?!

24. 2014: Global warming claim:  • ‘Siberian corpses could ooze contagious virus if graves thaw out, scientists claim’ • -March 10, 2014 – UK Daily Mail

25. Biblical Apocalypse • Al Gore on the Weather: • 'Every night on the news now, practically, is like a nature hike through the book of Revelations‘ – August 2012

27. ‘Wrath of God?’ • Repent Ye Sinners to Stop Bad Weather! • Wash Post features theologian Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite urging us to ‘repent’ for our ‘sin’ of causing Typhoon Haiyan due to the ‘moral evil of climate change denial’ • ‘Suffering and the sin of climate change denial’ – Nov. 13, 2013

28. Climate Activists: ‘White America’ condemned to Hell!?’ Warmist Bill McKibben laments ‘White ’ has failed: ‘White America has fallen short’ by voting for ‘climate deniers – March 2013 BURN IN HELL: NYT Warmist Paul Krugman to those whose ‘deny’ global warming: ‘May you be punished in the afterlife for doing so’ — Calls ‘denial’ an ‘almost inconceivable sin’ - March 2013

29. Have we advanced? • UK Skeptical Scientist: • “From the Babylon of Gilgamesh to the post-Eden of Noah, every age has viewed climate change cataclysmically, as retribution for human greed and sinfulness.” – UK Scientist Philip Stott – Marc 9, 2007 – ABC News

30. Climate Hookers? No Joke! Democrat Congressional resolution warns global warming could push women to prostitution! • -- House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to "transactional sex" for survival. • The resolution sponsored by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) – April 2013

31. The Big Debate in WashingtonCan a Carbon Tax Stop Your Daughter From Becoming A Hooker?!

32. A Switch Can Alter Earth For ‘Thousands of Years?!’

33. Don’t touch that switch! • NYT’s Justin Gillis: • ‘Every time you flip on a light switch, causing more coal to be burned and CO2 to be released, you are slightly altering the earth’s climate for thousands of years’ – July 7, 2014

34. Touchy-Feely Warming? • “Global warming creates volatility and I feel it when I’m flying. The storms are more volatile.” - Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow – August 2009

35. Wacky World of Warmism • NBC News: Fasten Seat Belts: Climate Change Could Mean More Airline Turbulence --  'Computer models have predicted that climate change and increased carbon dioxide levels will speed up the jet stream, leading to more serious episodes by 2050.‘ – Feb. 19, 2014 • Cannot Locate Plane Due To Global Warming!? Mother Jones Mag.: ‘One Reason It May Be Harder to Find Flight 370 – - ‘Climate Change’! - April 23, 2014 •  ‘Did global warming help bring down Air France flight 447?’ — ‘Russian climatologist believes global warming played a significant part.’ – June 4, 2009

36. New Way to Measure ‘Global Warming’ • Do you want to know how global warming is faring? • Look at rape statistics, at crime statistics, vehicle theft statistics, whether your local Chipotle is serving guacamole’

37. Legislate Earth’s Temperature & Weather?!President Obama claimed the Waxman-Markey climate bill would have stopped global temperature increases of up to 5 degrees! Obama on June 25, "A long-term benefit is we're leaving a planet to our children that isn't four or five degrees hotter."

38. But Wait!? • Obama's own EPA has admitted the Waxman-Markey bill would not even detectably reduce atmospheric CO2 levels. – Let alone Temps • Then EPA Chief Lisa Jackson: ‘U.S. action alone will not impact world CO2 levels’ - July 2009

39. Obama Goes Full Witchcraft • Pres. Obama at DNC Convention: • “Climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it."  - Sept. 6, 2012

40. Vote Yourself Better Weather!

41. NYT: Tax Ourselves to Better Weather! • NYT OpEd: A carbon tax would result in 'climate stability' & prevent an 'end to life as we know it‘ • 'The good news is that we could insulate ourselves from catastrophic risk at relatively modest cost by enacting a steep carbon tax' -- 'But...stabilization may require a much higher tax.’

42. EPA Climate Regs Will Reduce Storminess? • Obama advisor John Podesta claims EPA CO2 regsare needed to combat extreme weather: • Podesta: ‘The risk on the downside you’re seeing every day in the weather’ – July 2014

44. Carbon Taxing Ourselves to Personal Freedom?! • NYT on carbon tax: 'It's an opportunity to reduce existing taxes, clean up the environment and increase personal freedom and energy security’ – July 2012

45. ‘Personal Freedom’ or Controlling Weather or ‘Serious Money’? • Wash Post endorses carbon tax 'to fight global warming', Predicts it 'could bring in serious money' -- 'would raise $125 billion a year’ – Nov. 10, 2012

46. Nanny State Japanese told to go to bed an hour early to cut carbon emissions • Environmental Ministry: “Many Japanese people waste electric power at night time, for example by watching TV until very late.” "But going to bed early and getting up early can avoid wasting electrical power which causes carbon dioxide emissions.

47. UN Seeks ‘Centralized Transformation • UN climate chief Christiana Figueres seeks 'centralized transformation' that is 'going to make the life of everyone on the planet very different’ • ‘This is a centralized transformation that is taking place because governments have decided that they need to listen to science. So it's a very, very different transformation and one that is going to make the life of everyone on the planet very different‘ - Nov. 21, 2012 – UK Guardian

49. UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres laments U.S. democracy is ‘very detrimental’ in war on global warming • Lauds one-party ruled China for ‘doing it right’ on climate change • 'China is also able to implement policies because its political system avoids some of the legislative hurdles seen in countries including the U.S., Figueres said.' - January 2014

50. Shrink Humans to Reduce Carbon Footprint