A former White House science advisor speaks out about "settled science" (2014)

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Climate Science Is Not Settled

"We are very far from the knowledge needed to make good climate policy, writes leading scientist Steven E. Koonin

"The idea that “Climate science is settled” runs through today’s popular and policy discussions. Unfortunately, that claim is misguided. It has not only distorted our public and policy debates on issues related to energy, greenhouse-gas emissions and the environment. But it also has inhibited the scientific and policy discussions that we need to have about our climate future.

"My training as a computational physicist—together with a 40-year career of scientific research, advising and management in academia, government and the private sector—has afforded me an extended, up-close perspective on climate science. Detailed technical discussions during the past year with leading climate scientists have given me an even better sense of what we know, and don’t know, about climate. I have come to appreciate the daunting scientific challenge of answering the questions that policy makers and the public are asking.

"The crucial scientific question for policy isn’t whether the climate is changing. That is a settled matter: The climate has always changed and always will. Geological and historical records show the occurrence of major climate shifts, sometimes over only a few decades. We know, for instance, that during the 20th century the Earth’s global average surface temperature rose 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

"Nor is the crucial question whether humans are influencing the climate. That is no hoax:". . . 
Hat tip to  WattsUpWithThat.com, . . . "the world’s most viewed website on climate. I’m a former AMS Television Seal Holder (Seal 676 retired) television meteorologist who spent 25 years on the air and who also operates a weather technology and content business, as well as continues daily forecasting on radio, just for fun.

President Trump slaps back when Obama tries to take credit for his economy

As always with Obama, the only spotlight is on himself.  There's no room for the American workers in this piece of undeserving self-congratulation. Trump, naturally (because he fights), had a response:

Andrea Widburg "It's been fascinating watching the Democrats try unavailingly to address the fact that the economy under President Trump has been rocket-fueled.  That effort reached its apex on Monday, when Barack Obama put out a tweet boasting about how it was his Recovery Act, which he signed on February 17, 2009, that not only saved the economy but laid the groundwork for its current strength.  The responses to his tweet were swift, especially from President Trump.

"One of the things that truly riles the Democrats is that President Trump has so much to crow about.  And crow he did during his State of the Union address, making sure to distinguish his economic accomplishments from the Obama malaise." . . .

 . . . "One of the funniest videos you will see today is Tom Steyer, who claims that Trump is presiding over a dismal economy, fighting Martha Raddatz as she points out that, even if Trump's lying about his economic numbers, Americans also happen to think things are great:"

. . . After watching Steyer getting slapped down by another committed leftist, you'd think Obama would have known better than to tangle with the Trump economy. But no...Obama waded right into it: @BarackObama Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history." . . .

It’s Over For Hillary And Her Sisterhood of the Plus-Size Pantsuits

Bill Thomas

Could the Hillary-Bernie feud, now entering its final phase, be responsible for everything the Democratic Party has put the country through for the last four years? We may soon find out.

Now three years later, it still goes on.

 "Politics is the business of getting voters to like you. The problem is, most Washington politicians are inherently unlikeable. This is one reason the subject rarely came up until Donald Trump was elected president.
"Now the question of likeability is all that Trump-crazed Democrats talk about—except when they’re talking about each other. That’s why it’s news when one Democratic politician calls another one unlikeable.
"It’s especially newsworthy when the former happens to be ex-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, whose personal un-likeability is legendary, and the latter is Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), an equally annoying old-time Bolshie, who fought Clinton for the Democratic nomination four years ago, got screwed over by the party, and now not only is running again—he’s in the lead.
"Clinton made her observation about Sanders in a new four-hour “docu-series,” entitled “Hillary.” The carefully crafted piece of long-form PR is scheduled to premiere on Hulu March 6, the week of Super Tuesday and the weekend of International Women’s Day (a.k.a. Communist Valentine’s Day) March 8.
"At one point in the film Hillary is asked what she thinks of Bernie, who probably would have beaten her in 2016 if the Democratic National Committee hadn’t rigged the system.
“ '[Sanders] was in Congress for years,” Clinton says. “He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him . . . .”
"When the comment went viral, Sanders had a comeback worthy of Rodney Dangerfield: “On a good day, my wife likes me.”
"Bernie is a well-known pain in the ass. But look at Hillary. Outside a small circle of paid lackeys, who actually likes her? Or, put another way, after the four decades she’s been in the public eye, who could?
"In the trailer for her new movie, Bill Clinton comes off as tellingly tentative on the subject. While they were dating, he says, he told Hillary, “I really want to marry you, but you shouldn’t marry me.' ” . . .