Freeze, Baby, Freeze

MAY 3, 2015

“ICE, ICE BABY: Stop. Collaborate and listen: Ice is back, and apparently, it isn’t at risk of disappearing, as Steven Hayward explains. Okay, it’s a bad reference to Vanilla Ice, but the horrific, imminent doom-and-gloom melting of the Earth’s ice caps–which Al Gore predicted would disappear completely by 2013– are doing quite well, thank you very much. Indeed, satellite images show the Arctic ice cap has grown and thickened 43-63% since 2012.

“The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) website still claims that the ice caps are the ‘canary in the coal mine’ and ‘harbinger of things to come’ for climate change. Back in 2009, climate change soothsayer James Hansen of NASA warned the globe that President Obama only ‘has four years to save the earth.’ Of course, Hansen’s wild exaggerations and data manipulation have been debunked, but this doesn’t stop the leftists, since we all know climate change isn’t really about climate at all, but about wealth redistribution.

“President Obama was just down here in South Florida, giving a speech in the Everglades on the hazards of climate change, where he did his best Al Gore imitation:

“’This is not a problem for another generation. Not anymore. This is a problem now. It has serious implications for the way we live right now. Stronger storms. Deeper droughts. Longer wildfire seasons. The world’s top climate scientists are warning that a changing climate already affects the air that our children are breathing. The Surgeon General and I recently met with doctors and nurses and parents who see patients and kids grappling with the health impacts. The Pentagon says that climate change poses an increasing set of risks to our national security.’

“Huh– that’s weird: How come Obama and the Surgeon General are seeing ‘patients and kids grappling with the health impacts’ from the ‘air that our children are breathing,’ when the EPA’s own data indicates that U.S. air quality has improved markedly since 1980? And it seems odd to conclude that ‘our national security’ is at risk due to climate change, when the Obama Administration’s massive Clean Power Plan will cause severe electricity reliability problems, which could cause a major breakdown of law-and-order if coal-fired plants are shut down without first identifying adequate electricity generation alternatives to meet citizens’ needs.

“It’s almost like Obama and the climate change alarmists are making this stuff up or something.”

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/ice-ice-baby-stop-collaborate-and-listen-ice-is-back-and-apparently-it-isnt-at-risk-of/

(The headline is a play on a mantra from “demonstrators” and “activists” who burned cities in the late 1960s, early 1970s.)