Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach

In discussing President Obama’s latest boondoggle, the one billion (with a “b) dollar Climate Resilience Plan, The US Under-Assistant Minister of Scientific Silly Walks, John Holdren, wandered way off of the party line. The party line in question, of course, is …

“Although we can’t ascribe any given weather event to climate change, we still insist that blah blah blah …”

Perhaps Holdren’s teleprompter was broken, but anyhow, here’s what he said (emphasis mine):

During a call with reporters on Thursday evening, the assistant to the president on science and technology, John Holdren, said, without any doubt, the severe drought plaguing California and a number of other states across the country is tied to climate change.

Now, that quote was bad enough, since everyone from the IPCC to my cat agrees that

• There is no link between historical post-Little-Ice-Age warming and extreme weather, and

• Droughts are more common in colder times than in warmer times, and

• For the last decade and a half there’s been no statistically significant warming, certainly not enough to cause increased extreme weather.

• We have neither the understanding nor the information necessary to ascribe ANY single weather event to climate change, and we’re a long ways from having either one.

But despite Holdren going way off piste in his comment, it wasn’t truly of the quality needed for a quote of the week. It wasn’t concise enough for an epigram … or for an epitaph, for that matter.

However, just when it all looked hopeless, Holdren rallied, came back and captured the gold by uttering the deathless words that will ring forever in the halls of climate academe:

Weather practically everywhere is being caused by climate change.

There you have it, folks, Holdren’s Law of Climate Causation, all you need to know about droughts and such … weather practically everywhere is being caused by climate change.

…

… and people wonder why the alarmists are having trouble these days peddling their nostrums? Well, mostly it’s not a communications failure. Mostly, it’s because we’ve been lied to before by these same folks (including Holdren), and Holdren’s current pathetic shilling for the Obamaclimate program is just more of the same.

The issue is not how the science is being communicated, as Judith Curry and many others seem to think.

The issue is that what is being communicated is so obviously not science, but merely poorly framed and scientifically absurd scare tactics, that as in this case, the communication just makes people point and laugh …

Regards to all,

w.

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