- Obama has decided he doesn’t need Senator Corker’s surrender anymore
- And Obama’s approval rating continues to soar
- About that whole average temperature thing
Does anyone recall: In July 1997, the U.S. Senate passed S. Res. 98 by a vote of 95-0. S. Res. 98 expressed the sense of the Senate that the “United States should not be a signatory to any protocol . . . which would…”
With that vote, then-President Clinton dropped any attempt to gain ratification of the “Kyoto Treaty” on climate change . Clinton was very much aware that constitutionally, a two-thirds vote of the US Senate is necessary to ratify any treaty negotiated by the Executive branch.
President Obama, acting in an unconstitutional and lawless manner simply calls the Paris “climate accords” an “agreement” and decided he has the full authority to “ratify” it. And one more time, Obama declares that Congress is completely irrelevant to his “rule”!
Even China’s Communist leader shows at least pretend deference to the country’s legislative body.
From Rick Moran writing at American Thinker
Commie legislature ratifies climate deal; Obama decrees US ratification
The Communist legislature of China voted to ratify the Paris climate accords yesterday, leading to President Xi declaring the agreement was now in effect in China.
Meanwhile, President Obama also declared the ratification of the climate deal – but sort of forgot to take it to the Senate to get its approval. He just waved his scepter and ratification came into being.
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The White House argument for why Obama doesn’t need to get Senate approval is that the climate deal requires “an executive decision” rather than advice and consent of the Senate. If this is true, why did the Chinese president get his parliament’s approval for ratification? Why are most nations requiring a vote from their legislative bodies?
Martin Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute thinks Congress should refuse to fund any part of the deal
DLH
About that whole average temperature thing — it is used to drive panicked responses to what are natural variations in weather and climate, and propagandize in pursuit of more and more government controls — all part of the Paris climate scheme:
Average global temperatures during a given year go up and down within that year (usually reported on a month to month basis) and vary as a reported consolidated figure for that year, from year to year. It is simple enough. Figures for some years are higher than others, some years are lower than others.
But we have only a minute period of arguably dependable recorded temperature relative not only to earth’s eons of history but to even man’s presence on the planet. Accordingly, “trends” over a period of years should not be given an inordinate emphasis any more than variations month to month or comparing a month in one year to that of another year. And certainly no response should be contemplated, even operating under the hubris that man can do something about it other than to hurt himself, without a firm handle on whether the trend is good or bad overall as regards man, or whether the solutions are worse than the actual problem. In other words, there really isn’t a discernible trend with such a limited period of data, and regardless, all the upsides and downsides need to be objectively considered before any action or blame.
The graph shown below shows world average yearly temperatures. It is based on satellite data, which is more reliable because it is not subject to alarmist data produced extending back 180 years ago which resulted from relatively crude thermometers, subject to recording station placement bias, observation error and computer modeling manipulations (and don’t get us started on claiming accuracy from temperature and CO2 modeling based on tree rings and the like). All the data should be interpreted with the understanding that El Nino’s are a recognized recurring natural weather phenomenon the presence of which has a global effect.
What I see is that the latest figure for 2016 (2015-2016 El Nino year) is about the same as the same period in the 1997-98 El Nino year. That is nearly two decades ago but still less than a blink in Earth’s real climate history, with its (grossly determined) natural periods of warming and cooling, and epochs resulting in dramatic change, all of which, as is the case now, man had nothing to do with.
Source of the graph: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2016/09/uah-global-temperature-update-for-august-2016-0-44-deg-c/
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