These Words Mean What?

Professor Obama chimes in on the "irreversible momentum" of clean energy, yet seems to indicate that future policy choices will influence our eventual energy path.

So, is the momentum for clean energy irreversible unless it is reversed? I'm not sure what I am being told here. Nor can I guess at his intent. If his goal is to take the pressure off Trump and talk the Hillary/Obama crowd in from their various window ledges, I suppose a "Trump Doesn't Matter" essay might make sense. or maybe he is hoping to persuade the international community of that notion.

Who knows? And, after checking the calendar, who cares? I'll guess at another motivation - since this paper is nicely foot-noted and appears in "Science", maybe Prof. O is hoping to snag another Nobel Prize on his way out the door. Bookends!

SINCE YOU ASK: NO, the word "fracking" does not appear. Waddya, kidding? He does acknowledge that US carbon emissions fell while the economy grew in part due to a shift to natural gas from coal, without using the five letter word:

Since 2008, the United States has experienced the first sustained period of rapid GHG emissions reductions and simultaneous economic growth on record. Specifically, CO₂ emissions from the energy sector fell by 9.5% from 2008 to 2015, while the economy grew by more than 10%. In this same period, the amount of energy consumed per dollar of real gross domestic product (GDP) fell by almost 11%, the amount of CO₂ emitted per unit of energy consumed declined by 8%, and CO₂ emitted per dollar of GDP declined by 18% (2).

The importance of this trend cannot be understated. This “decoupling” of energy sector emissions and economic growth should put to rest the argument that combatting climate change requires accepting lower growth or a lower standard of living.

...

The IEA noted that “There have been only four periods in the past 40 years in which CO₂ emission levels were flat or fell compared with the previous year, with three of those—the early 1980s, 1992, and 2009—being associated with global economic weakness. By contrast, the recent halt in emissions growth comes in a period of economic growth.”

...

The American electric-power sector—the largest source of GHG emissions in our economy—is being transformed, in large part, because of market dynamics. In 2008, natural gas made up ~21% of U.S. electricity generation. Today, it makes up ~33%, an increase due almost entirely to the shift from higher-emitting coal to lower-emitting natural gas, brought about primarily by the increased availability of low-cost gas due to new production techniques (2, 15).

Mysterious "new production techniques.

Obama also explains that public policy must continue to incentive businesses to improve their bottom lines by conserving energy, since businessmen (and women! Also, the gender-fluid) can't figure out for themselves that cutting costs and reducing the efficiency of their energy usage can improve the venerable bottom line. Yeah, I don't know why these business leaders are so foolish and short-sighted either, but thank heavens a former (and failed) community organizer is here to help straighten them out.

Comments

[Marlene]

How tolerant for the protesters to call him a pig in front of his grandchildren.

[Buckeye]

Marlene

You and Mrs. Buckeye are on the same wavelength. She is pissed at the language given his grandchildren are in the chamber.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Those protesters have to receive tickets from democrat Senators. There is no way that Code Pink isn't recognizable to Capitol Hill police.

Even I, out here in the Heartland, recognize Medea Benjamin's mug.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Twitter comment from MTV News guy over Sessions' adopted grandchildren:

Ira Madison III Verified account
‏@ira

Sessions, sir, kindly return this Asian baby to the Toys "R" Us you stole her from

[jimmyk]

Sessions, sir, kindly return this Asian baby to the Toys "R" Us you stole her from

"Adopted grandchildren" were presumably adopted by his kids, not by him, correct?

[Threadkiller]

Bad move:
It's a losing strategy: you don't pin pawns with your queen.

Good move:
Pawn threatens King; Knight takes Pawn.

Of course there would be no good move if the 3AM bad move was never tweeted.

Here is a video of the Fox and friends interview that includes the long setup to Conway's excellent response:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/01/09/kellyanne_conway_i_wish_meryl_streep_was_as_concerned_about_disabled_boy_tortured_on_facebook_live.html

I look at this chessboard as a multitasker. Trump's Queen did not get used at all in this set of moves. He wore a different hat to cause the mayhem that led to the Knight's better position. IMO he didn't even put on the hat of a Pawn. Instead he inserted a little red game piece from "Sorry!" into the traditional media Chessboard that went unnoticed.

They think they are playing the same game because they always think high level pieces are moving on the board. Not only are all the pieces moving, there are pieces they have never seen that are moving, as well as the whole board is spinning.

His tweeks take zero time and usually direct the game his way. Streep wasn't a Pawn in this set of moves. She is a high value piece. Look at the press she generated. I'd make her a Rook, and the Media the King.

Trump used a Sorry piece to disable their Rook and force their King to start dancing when they were confronted by his Knight.

I like it.

[James D]

MM @ 10:22

Nothing but class on the left, as always.

[lurkersusie]

Of course.

Lisa Desjardins ✔@LisaDNews
AT SESSIONS HEARING: Khizr Khan. Told me he wrote committee w concern and Dems invited him.

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

I would guess the digital Maoists will kindly overlook Ira Madison's comment.

Yeah! getting my car worked on.

[lurkersusie]

FLASHBACK: Booker: 'Honored' To Work With Sessions On Civil Rights https://youtu.be/chkAASced_0
11:48 PM - 9 Jan 2017

[Sandy Daze]

I like it.

Posted by: Threadkiller | January 10, 2017 at 10:25 AM

Me too.

MAGA.

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

This is my shocked face that the hearings are turning into a freak show.

So much for the comity of the senate. Kerry was confirmed 94-3.

[Jim Eagle]

Isn't Mr. Khan's 15 minutes up already?

The Democrats are showing everyone that they learned nothing on November 9th, 2016.

[Sandy Daze]

I'm in Dunedin, FLA for a few days. Any JoMers nearby for a cuppa joe ?

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

there is a Red under every bed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/opinion/russias-dnc-hack-was-only-the-start.html?_r=0

Soros must be worried that he's going to have to come up with pallets full of cash for his Russian mobster buddies.

[Jim Eagle]

Sandy,

common man aka GMax is in that vicinity.

Hostage situation in Alabama. Sure hope not tied to Session's hearing.

[buccaneer morgan]

Mock is removing all doubt.

[Marlene]

Sandy,we're a couple of hours south of you. :(

[Thomas Collins]

Depending on one's concern about a pawn becoming a queen, it may be a good move for a queen to pin a pawn.

[Marlene]

Dunedin is near Clearwater? I think common man is in Destin.

Sessions just said he would recuse himself from any Clinton investigation.

[Jim Eagle]

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2017/01/robbery_and_reported_hostage_s.html

Credit Union in Tuscaloosa but not a robbery.

[DebinNC]

The Democrats are showing everyone that they learned nothing on November 9th, 2016.

And reconfirming the rightness of the outcome.

[Thomas Collins]

"Great speech by Collins."

Don't mention it, Marlene. Glad to be of service.

[Jim Eagle]

marlene,

Thanks for the correction. Need to change my contacts out. Read it as Destin not Dunedin.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Sessions will recuse himself from Clinton. Says he would defer to a deputy to make decisions. Grassley helpfully points out that Lynch didn't do this. Heh.

Sessions says we do not prosecute political opponents but we also need to make sure people are not above the law.

Grassley asks him if he would submit to oversight, unlike many who have gone before, who says they will in confirmation hearings and then don't. Grassley gives him a bunch of letters sent to Obama's AG's which have never gone answered.

Feinstein is now asking about child sex trafficking. ( o ^ O ) YIKES!

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

hummm

>>>When North Koreans hacked Sony Pictures ...<<<

I think he meant the inside job, then the troll job after ...

>>>At the time of the D.N.C. attack, water treatment plants, nuclear power plants and even casinos were on the Department of Homeland Security’s “critical infrastructure” list. Voting equipment was added last Friday, but we must do much more to protect the people who animate our democratic process. Imagine how stolen information could be (or already has been) used to influence or corrupt officeholders, or voters themselves.<<<

Wouldn't a list of what is not critical infrastructure be shorter?

Also, if collectivization is bad generally, and in specific cases, deadly (say in agriculture), wouldn't it stand to reason that collectivization of networks or data is bad?

[Jim Eagle]

Sex trafficking and Comet Ping Pong not mentioned once.

[buccaneer morgan]

That was another crowdstrike bullseye, rich.

The wandering coma's enforcer, general gondin, has gone Norwegian blue.

[DebinNC]

"Police have not yet spoken with the suspect, but are trying to establish contact with him. It isn't known how many employees are inside, but the bank was not open when the situation began."

[henry]

rich, collecting information in one place makes it a better hacking target... The ACA website opened the entire Soc Sec database to all comers on day 1. The feds are a hindrance, not a help here.

[Truthbetold5]

Still worried about your pal Alefantis, Jack?

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

Crowdstike came up with the Norks did it thesis for the Sony hack?

iirc, some of the more marginally attached anonymous script kiddies came up with the Norks after the fact.

[buccaneer morgan]

Yes that hacker out of anapa, belan says thanks

[James D]

Sounds to me as though it's time for the full nuclear option.

The Dems are making it clear that there is no other way to deal with them.

[Cecil Turner]

Cecil, Does this amount of homework fit with your knowledge of General Mattis? If so, he sure ain't mentally lazy.

At the time, he was a LtCol Inf Bn C.O. attached to a Task Force (Ripper) centered around a tank Bn. In effect, he was an alternate ops officer when he was doing staff work and of course commanded his own unit.

The few interactions I had with him were in his staff function, and no, he certainly wasn't lazy. In fact, they had a bunch of crazy ideas (in one, they proposed a bunch of 4-man infantry "hunter killer" teams with a TOW missile spread all over the desert: obviously unworkable and I don't know if Mattis himself was involved in that one, but you get the idea: highly innovative). As a loosely attached staff aviator, he mostly ignored me.

Trump used a Sorry piece to disable their Rook and force their King to start dancing when they were confronted by his Knight.

That's one way of looking at it. An alternate is that when he got around to delegating, he did a good job.

Just glancing at those tweets (about Russia, the disabled guy, intel weenies, dishonest media, and Streep), there's little doubt it's sucking up some of his brain bytes. And no offense TK, but if someone is going to convince me he's not fixated on minutiae, it probably won't be you.

[dublindave]

Dude, watching Meryl Streep, not just a national but a world treasure, destroy the republican party for it's lack of morals was a thing to behold.

Jesus.

The Republican party and it's base had to defend their right to humiliate a man with a serious disability...their right to humiliate and fucking degrade him as a disgusting piece of shit......Republicans.

This will never be forgotten...it will go down in history.

[Cecil Turner]

Sounds to me as though it's time for the full nuclear option.

Read somewhere a few days back there were already three (R) senators eschewing it. Can't find it (and they obviously could change their minds), but my sense is that senators tend to take that whole senate thing fairly seriously. Prediction: if they do use the nuke, it'll be a limited strike.

[Willy]

Thank the gods we'll have an AG with a fetish for voter integrity.

We can't tolerate the wrong voters.

[henry]

yep, wait for this level of bull the set in, then nuke before SC nomination

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Republican Senators take tradition seriously.

Democrat senators ignore tradition, like Corey Booker testifying against Sessions tomorrow (even though he previously had thanked Sessions for his Civil Rights work).

[buccaneer morgan]

According to the wiki, they pinned it within two. Days.

[DebinNC]

These Dem shenanigans are a great backdrop for BOzo's "I did it all for you" ode to himself in Chicago tonight.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Interestingly, every citizen in India has an ID for voting, even people who belong to the Untouchable caste.

[Old Lurker]

TC "...concern about a pawn becoming a queen..."

Wait. This thread is about Lindsay Graham?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Deb,

So true. I won't be watching. I used up my tolerance for listening to Obama after the last State of the Union speech.

[Willy]

MM

How quickly do you think Sessions will eradicate 'voter fraud'?

[buccaneer morgan]

Leaky Leah has a tantrum again.

[hrtshpdbox]

I don't think I've ever met someone who actually likes Meryl Streep. Thinks she's a good actress, yes, thinks she'd be fun to meet, no.

[Captain Hate]

In defense of the suicidal inauguration codger, he can't be less in contact with reality than Leaky.

[Truthbetold5]

Jack and Clarice

Why is it that James Alefantis is not suing anyone?

#PIZZAGATE - BREAKING: Alefantis threatens to murder researcher! ( MIRROR )
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pUly5qbK25k

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

MM-

all sorts of ballot integrity measures are present all around the world ... except the US, because dem voters are too stupid to get an id.

[Cecil Turner]

Leahy's column, best graf:

As senators prepare to gather in the Kennedy Caucus Room for the confirmation hearings of Senator Jeff Sessions to be attorney general of the United States, I cannot help but wonder what Ted would think.

Oooo, I know, I know: "if I hadn't drowned that girl, I could probably have been AG, just like Bobby."

[Dave (in MA)]

My gay bil's FB posts frequently mention either Diana, Bette, Cher, the other Bette, Joan, Golden Girls, Barbra, Designing Women, or Meryl. I don't get it. Oh, and the occasional Brady post.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

rish,

So true. Europeans on the Reddit site are completely dumbfounded that we have so many states without one. (Indiana has a strict one, with financial help and even transportation for those who needhelp getting one.

This is simply a democrat vote fraud scheme. Everyone knows it, including the democrats.

The other thing is that states need to check for doubly registered people in two states, deceased voters still on the rolls, and fraudulent names and addresses.

A very long time ago the dems used to believe "One man, one vote." Since they have been taken over by the progressive left, they seem to have switched to the "as many votes as we need however e manufacture them" method.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

rich, I mean.

[Captain Hate]

I cannot help but wonder what Ted would think

How do I defend my rapist nephew?
How do I defend my murderer nephew?
How do I defend my idiot son Patches?
Who do I get in a "sandwich" with odd Dodd?
How can I sneak a drink to my ex wife who is trying to stay sober?
Why does my bathroom scale give such high numbers?
Why are there all those broken capillaries on my face?
How does anybody in Vermont believe an asshole like Leahy?

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

>>>e manufacture<<<

shhhh, don't give them any ideas Miss Marple.

[Old Lurker]

When do my payments to that dead girl's family end?

Does anyone remember when I asked Russia to defeat RR?

Does anybody else know that we moved our family loot to Tahiti to avoid US laws?

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

iirc nuking state voting systems was the good idea of Cloward-Piven and started apace with motor voter laws.

now it is critical infrastructure well protected by DHS.

[Frau Grammatik]

Barry was absent from school that day: incentive is a noun.
Duh!

This noun dates back to Middle English, from Late Latin incentivum, from incentivus "stimulating." In Latin, incentivus meant "setting the tune," from incinere "to sing." The related English verb is incentivize. The less common verb incent was first used in the early 1980s, and has been criticized as business jargon.

Where was writing expert Ben Rhodes?

[GUS]

Lindsay Graham concerned that Russians HACKED OUR ELECTION SYSTEM.
Total fucking bullshit.
Marty worried about Comet Ping Pong from his Arlington Heights Apartment. Hilarious.
Dickless Durbin wants more CRACK DEALERS released.

Good Times.

[DebinNC]

Dems rehang picture featuring cops as pigs ... Can't say Dems are afraid to show who they really are. Another nice addition to BOzo's Farewell Address in Chicago tonight.

[Willy]

I get peak ignore when I land a haymaker.

[hrtshpdbox]

Am I the only person who finishes a bottle of red wine before the appetizer?

When we finally get universal health care, will I get the credit?

How come John and Bobby got all the gravitas?

[JimNorCal]

Heh. I'm on a David Horowitz email list. In my inbox is "Obama's #10 Worst Blunder". I'm guessing tomorrow wii bring #9 and so on. They also are doing a ten day countdown.
Today is normalizing relations with Cuba.

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

???

what was that "Willy"?

[Willy]

"It's clobberin' time" lol.

[GUS]

Durbin seeking freedom for convicted Crack dealers. A crack dealer in Chicago ruined the lives of thousands of Chicago "children".
Now Durbin Blames Sessions for wanting to RUIN the lives of CHILDREN, whose parents came here illegally.

Die in a fire mother fucker.

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

sure, sure ...

... the Dems will piss and moan and Sessions will get confirmed 60-40. tactless and classless as ever and pointless.

[Dave (in MA)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6I-pmV0RA

[Buckeye]

Barry was absent from school that day: incentive is a noun.
Duh!

I have a sneaky suspicion that Zero was absent from school on a lot of days.

Smokin' dope with his bros' had much more appeal.

[JimNorCal]

Thanks, Frau, for the update on "incentive". Thx MM, too.

[Cecil Turner]

Safe prediction of the week:

Hunter said: “The Capitol Police aren’t going to arrest me for taking down a picture that portrays them as pigs.”

[Jim Eagle]

In honor of our trolls. How they were conceived, finally revealed.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/two-animals-species-sex-zoophilia-monkey-deer-japanese-macaque-female-sika-interspecies-sexual-a7519706.html

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

and the stupid party confirmed Kerry 94-3 in that august body.

[DebinNC]

Praying for the AL hostages being held by a gunman ... State took over that credit union Aug. 2015 due to malfeasance. Swat team positioned outside.

[buccaneer morgan]

Yikes, the horror.

[Cecil Turner]

tactless and classless as ever and pointless.

Other than playing to the base, I'm not sure where they're going with this. Might be battlespace prep for the upcoming fight over the deep cleanse of the civil rights division (which oughta be dismantled, but won't be).

[GUS]

Have they asked Senator Sessions to comment on Dana Gilbert Ward's dead military child??
I hope they do, I want to know which child it was. Dylan? Maya? Jesse?
Which one gave the ultimate sacrifice for our Nation!?

[DebinNC]

Suspect in police custody. No hostages injured.

[Willy]

I can't wait for the crimson tide to replace the swamp of DC.

I say 'give them their fantasy football team ASAP."

Let's light this candle.

[Buckeye]

... the Dems will piss and moan and Sessions will get confirmed 60-40. tactless and classless as ever and pointless.

I'm sure they have the telephone banks manned and are making fundraising calls as I type this, so not completely pointless Rich.

[Captain Hate]

now it is critical infrastructure well protected by DHS.

Jeh Johnson's streak of failures rivals Bob Shrum's.

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

Posted by: Cecil Turner | January 10, 2017 at 11:55 AM -

wouldn't they be violating on of their satanic bible's rules: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. [see Wisconsin]

at some point they will have to start caving and Sen Sessions is an odd choice to start a fight that doesn't look like will end too soon.

[Willy]

GUS: DUDE...your guy is inches away from the cat-bird seat

Get your white hood whiter with Clorox.

[Buckeye]

Anybody heard from Beasts yet today?

Was going to let him know I feel his pain:)

At least the Tide didn't embarrass themselves.

[Appalled]

Cecil:

Other than playing to the base, I'm not sure where they're going with this.

I think the Dems honest to gosh do not believe they did anything wrong and Trump's election is a fluke. So they are set to treat it as an aberration, and will go hard left in 2018 and 2020. I can see myself voting Libertarian for a very long time...

Also, a lot of donors for the Dems are hard left, so oppositional tactics mean money.

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

viz cleaning out the Justice Department.

[Willy]

Dang autocorrect. I wanted Fantasy Foosball and it gave me boring and trite football.

[GUS]

I bet it was Maya. Dylan and Jesse are probably pussies like Daddy.

[the generallyistic deplorable rich]

Posted by: Captain Hate | January 10, 2017 at 12:02 PM

lol ... instead of casinos as critical infrastructure maybe they could have kept better tabs on the Orlando killer's "wife".

[jimmyk]

I used up my tolerance for listening to Obama after the last State of the Union speech.

Impressive, Miss M. I used up my tolerance before the first one.

[Clarice Feldman]

http://www.city-journal.org/html/end-unrwa-farce-14932.html
defund Unrwa

[Willy]

I really think I'm the happy-go-lucky outsider and my mood has been glowing as though my ship has come in.

But y'all still seem bitter and angry.

[GUS]

The Orlando mass murderer was a gay or bi-sexual Muzlim.

Obama is a straight Christian. Right?

[Truthbetold5]

Jack

James Alefantis wanted to run a "museum" just like you. Until he got caught!

[Captain Hate]

rich, I think Jeh measures success differently than anybody with a sense of ethics does.

Maybe Dabo can afford a less goofy cap that doesn't make him look like a cross between Norman Bates and Robert Gordon.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

rich,

This casinos being "critical infrastructure" reminds me that in New Orleans, levee repair money went for constructing casinos.

Maybe DHS got confused because of this moving of money to casinos in New Orleans and thought because that was done, they must be critical.

[GUS]

What kind of "man", lies about his own offspring dying in Uniform for the Country?

[Captain Hate]

Welp the networks have fallen in line to cover King Zippy's farewell, including the "conservative" Rupert and the brats.