Real Climate Science

August 06, 2011
Obama: US ‘Must Do Better’ After Credit Downgrade

http://www.voanews.com/

No matter how many speeches he makes, the conclusion is clear: Obama’s greatest failure is spending America into enormous deficits, and being clueless about how to get the economy to recover.  His speeches, riddled with “I” and “We” are mostly serving to indict him for his failings.  Appearing on TV more than any other sitting president, Barack Obama is constantly “explaining” why things aren’t working, when he should be working on what to do different and better.

Instead he is “campaigning,” which is the only thing he knows how to do reasonably well.  But he can’t fix the economy; he has neither the experience nor the knowhow to do it.  His failed, misguided policies have only exacerbated the size of his mistakes and shortcomings.

http://blogs.forbes.com/

Carter was capable of taking responsibility for his failures.

“The responsibility is fully my own.” Carter said

http://news.google.com/newspapers

Christina Romer, the former chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers on Friday offered a rather strong opinion concerning the announcement by Standard & Poor’s that the credit rating agency downgraded America’s debt to AA+.

Appearing on HBO’s “Real Time,” Romer said we’re “pretty darn f–ked”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2759427/posts

h/t to Dave G

How Similar is Water On Mars To Water On Earth?

New evidence suggesting the existence of water flowing on Mars indicates the possibility for life to exist on the Red Planet.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have taken images and videos of dark, finger-like features running down a number of Martian slopes in the middle latitudes of the Planet’s southern hemisphere. The lines become more visible in the warm season, suggesting that they could have been created by the flow of certain volatile chemicals which boils at low temperatures.

These flows then dry up in colder seasons. The strongest candidates are water and carbon dioxide, according to a study by planetary geologists at the University of Arizona.

http://newyork.ibtimes.com/

Atmospheric pressure on Mars (or Earth) is much too low to have liquid CO2. What are they talking about?

I’m pretty sure too that H2O is H2O, whether it is on Mars or Earth.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b19254/

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b33747/

Reader “Independent” raises a good point. Gavin complains that he prefers paleo data over satellite observations, yet the hockey stick was created by throwing out the inconvenient paleo data and replacing it with observations.

Why are these jokers still being funded?

BAGHDAD — The security situation in Iraq is more dangerous than it was a year ago, according to a government watchdog report issued Saturday that cites more attacks on U.S. troops, a continuing wave of assassinations targeting Iraqi officials and a growing number of indirect rocket strikes on Baghdad’s Green Zone.

“Iraq remains an extraordinarily dangerous place to work,” Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the U.S. special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, wrote in his quarterly report to Congress and the Obama administration. “It is less safe, in my judgment, than 12 months ago.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

“Climate sensitivity is not constrained by the last two decades of imperfect satellite data, but rather the paleoclimate record.”

– Gavin

What do we need NASA for? We have Mikey Mann.

These same idiots who happily believe the bogus interpretations of GRACE and sea level data, can’t accept Spencer’s real data.

Obama already has plans to turn Afghanistan over to the Taliban. He should have brought everyone home, rather than pretending that we aren’t giving up. Every day he increases his reputation as the most incompetent buffoon to ever grace high office in Washington.

http://www.foxnews.com/