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Just in case you missed it … Our president in name only, Joe Biden, who embarrassingly asked someone in a wheelchair, Chuck Graham, to, “Stand up Chuck, let’em see ya,” at a 2008 rally, made a more serious gaffe yesterday.
During an appearance at the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health, Biden attempted to acknowledge the work of Indiana Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski, saying, “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?
Jackie wasn’t there. She died in an automobile accident with two of her staffers on August 3, 2022. Hours after her death, Biden issued a statement saying he, “appreciated her partnership,” yet he expected her to be at the conference.
To make matters worse, stand-in White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre, couldn’t muster an apology for the blunder.
Then there was our vice president in name only, Kamala Harris, who stood in Korea’s Demilitarized Zone and touted “our alliance with the Republic of North Korea.”
Then There’s the Presidential Wannabe
You just knew someone on the left would tie hurricane Ian to climate change, and I guess Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar thought it was time for her to get some air time.
While boasting that Democrats did something about climate change with the Inflation Reduction Act during her appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” she seemingly suggested that voting for Democrats in the midterms could help thwart hurricanes and the effects of climate change.
“Disappointing,” said Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, adding, “I might have expected better from her. She’s supposed to be one of the adults in the room.”
“This is why many people have such a hard time taking anything about climate change seriously,” mused Curtis Houck, managing editor of NewsBusters.
She wasn’t alone. CNN’s Don Lemon tried unsuccessfully to get Jamie Rhome, the acting director of the National Hurricane Center, to agree with his belief that hurricane Ian was attributed to climate change.
“I don’t think you can link climate change to any one event,” Rhome responded. “On the whole, on the cumulative, climate change may be making storms worse, but to link it to one event … I would caution against that.”
The Loss of True Climate Scientist …
If it wasn’t for Francis Mention who writes the Manhattan Contrarian blog, I wouldn’t have learned about the passing of Dr. Tim Ball, the noted Canadian climate scientist.
“Ball was that rarity of a climate scientists in the world of academia with the temerity and courage to say and repeat that CO2 is a beneficial gas,” wrote Menton. “He would not back down, in a world that rapidly went insane and became increasingly intolerant and hostile to his position.”
I must point out here that my wife, who did much better than I in high school chemistry, often repeated Ball’s stance on C02 as a beneficial gas.
Ball didn’t shy away from calling out the biggest scamsters of the climate hustle, particularly Michael Mann, a professor at Penn State who was the lead creator of the UN IPPC’s “hockey stick” graph that has been used to sell global warming hysteria to the world for the last couple decades.
Speaking of climate scamsters …
If it wasn’t for the Wall Street Journal editorial board, we wouldn’t know about the pressure applied to World Bank President David Malpass by two of the biggest climate con men, Al Gore and John Kerry, who claim the bank isn’t doing enough to combat climate change. In other words, he is kowtowing to them.
When climate lobbyists ganged up on Malpass for refusing to “acknowledge that the burning of fossil fuels is rapidly warming the planet,” the leftist New York Times made it known to its green-loving readers.
The main role of the World Bank is to alleviate poverty. This requires energy, which is still most efficiently an affordably provided by fossil fuels. So, what is Kerry doing? He’s cautioning African leaders against investing in long-term natural gas production.
The greenies would like Malpass, an economist with international economist creds, having worked in the Reagan and Trump administrations, to step down, but he has no intention in doing so, especially not for them.
They’re after Malpass to coerce the Bank to guarantee the losses of lending for climate causes. Sorry, boys.
May God Continue to bless the United States of America.
