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“There’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other,” Obama said, “and that is the urgent and growing threat of climate change.”

Obama then went on a non-scientific rant about the pseudoscience of manmade climate change. “In America,” he said, “the past decade has been our hottest on record” – neglecting, of course, to mention that according to Christopher Booker of the UK Telegraph, “The US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record.” Obama continued with his litany of alarmism: floods, wildfire seasons getting longer, droughts, rainstorms.

“Worldwide,” Obama concluded, “this summer was the hottest ever recorded – with global carbon emissions still on the rise.” In the United States, however, better technologies are stanching the rise of carbon emissions – while 2013 saw a rise in American carbon emissions, America saw a steady decline in CO2 emissions from 2006 on, thanks in large part to recession. That process, by the way, works in reverse as well: purposefully cutting carbon emissions can destroy economies.

But not according to Obama. According to Obama, he has heard the call of the people:

The alarm bells keep ringing. Our citizens keep marching. We cannot pretend we do not hear them. We have to answer the call. We know what we have to do to avoid irreparable harm. We have to cut carbon pollution in our own countries to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

So Obama claims that the marches over climate change over the weekend drove his action. The New York march, the largest in America, drew an estimated 311,000 people, and the September 2009 Taxpayer March on Washington drew twice as many people. Yet Obama did not feel the urgent call to lower taxes. Odd.

Obama then said there was good news: “we have the means -- the technological innovation and the scientific imagination -- to begin the work of repairing it right now.” What are those means?