Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Global Warming Needed Here
If I was this guy, I would have an Al Gore dartboard.
UPDATE: Paging Al Gore.
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
The Big Chill
Oops. GW takes yet another body blow. This time from Antarctica scientists.
A new report on climate over the world’s southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models.
This comes soon after the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that strongly supports the conclusion that the Earth’s climate as a whole is warming, largely due to human activity.
It also follows a similar finding from last summer by the same research group that showed no increase in precipitation over Antarctica in the last 50 years. Most models predict that both precipitation and temperature will increase over Antarctica with a warming of the planet.
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“The best we can say right now is that the climate models are somewhat inconsistent with the evidence that we have for the last 50 years from continental Antarctica .
“We’re looking for a small signal that represents the impact of human activity and it is hard to find it at the moment,” he said.
By the way, these findings have been known for awhile but the IPCC keeps ignoring them. I wonder why…?
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Here Comes the Sun
I’ve been saying it all along and no some European scientists back me up. Ha! Take that GW people. Your much vaunted Europeans back me up. [Bjorn Lomberg is also European. What was that about a consensus?)
Global warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly than at any time during the past 1,000 years, according to new research.
A study by Swiss and German scientists suggests that increasing radiation from the sun is responsible for recent global climate changes.
Dr Sami Solanki, the director of the renowned Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany, who led the research, said: “The Sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures.
advertisement“The Sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently - in the last 100 to 150 years.”
Those hacks at the IPCC are just typical UN money grubbing bureaucrats looking for a hand out from tax payers in rich nations. But the actual, unvarnished, non-ideological science studies show that climate change is a natural and cyclical thing. Just as the seasons change, so does the climate during solar cycles. Scientists have more or less known this for a long time, whcih is why the GW crowds alarmist claims are so specious.
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Monday, February 12, 2007
Quote of the Day
“It’s ironic that a field based on challenging unproven theories attacks skeptics in a very unhealthy way.”
The Man Made Global Warming is not scientific. It is ideology. And the people pushing this idea down our throat act like religious zealots.
But I’ll bet some people in New York wishes there were Global Warming right now.
UPDATE: A good article on Climate fanatics
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
Cosmic Global Warming
Man-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research.
Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth’s climate than global warming experts previously thought.
In a book, to be published this week, they claim that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet.
How cosmic rays could seed clouds diagramHigh levels of cloud cover blankets the Earth and reflects radiated heat from the Sun back out into space, causing the planet to cool.
Henrik Svensmark, a weather scientist at the Danish National Space Centre who led the team behind the research, believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere.
This, he says, is responsible for much of the global warming we are experiencing.
He claims carbon dioxide emissions due to human activity are having a smaller impact on climate change than scientists think. If he is correct, it could mean that mankind has more time to reduce our effect on the climate.
Watch this guy get crucified by all the GW proponents. Even though his theory makes more sense.
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Polar Bears on Ice
If you saw that picture of the polar bears stranded on a tiny iceberg, which glbal warming people are claiming is some kind of proof. Guess what…? There’s more to the story.
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Here’s Your Global Warming
Check out this graphic of the earth’s climate over time. Gee, did they have SUVs back in the Sabretooth and Dinosaur era, too? My my.
Looks like a cycle to me.
This climatologist explains what the GW movement is all about.
We really should get off fossil fuels for a lot of reasons, including the wars they are funding and causing. But GW is BS. Let’s focus on constructive change and not economically hazardous, bureaucratically driven nonsense.
[via Freedom Channel]
UPDATE: Solar activity increases global temperatures. Surprise!
Another thing that comes in cycles, lies from the NY Times. This article is from 1933.
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Sunday, February 04, 2007
Global Warming - Bah!
You know my position on man-made global warming. I think Instapundit has an excellent position on the subject, though I am more skeptical than he is. But most people agree we need to get off fossil fuels as soon as we can.
George Will wrote a great piece in Newsweek that sums up the absurdity of the whole debate. The money quote:
Was life better when ice a mile thick covered Chicago? Was it worse when Greenland was so warm that Vikings farmed there? Are we sure the climate at this particular moment is exactly right, and that it must be preserved, no matter the cost?
Frankly, I think we’ll be off fossil fuels in our lifetime and the point will be moot. In the meantime, the hysterics and political hacks need to simmer down. The public will not take reducing their livelihoods and comforts lightly. The more they push this, the more people will push back.
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Friday, February 02, 2007
Meltdown
The Fourth IPCC TAR report comes out today, and like the last one, it’s a pile of jury rigged conclusions.
Scientific evidence for human-induced global warming will receive a significant boost Friday when the U.N.‘s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the summary of a key report, according to environmental activists and top Democrats in Congress.
But wait.
Some climate researchers and environmental scientists previously associated with the IPCC claim the public relations summary of the panel’s fourth assessment report distorts the actual scientific findings and that the discrepancies are driven by a political agenda.
The IPCC Summary for Policymakers, roughly 20 pages long, is primarily the work of political appointees, not of scientists, according to Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric science at MIT.
The full text will not be available for another three months, as two further documents making up the fourth assessment report are scheduled to be released in April and May.
Lindzen specialized in the study of clouds and water vapor for IPCC’s third assessment report, which was released in 2001.
He told Cybercast News Service the rules for the fourth assessment report specifically require changes to be made to the body that will bring it into line with the summary statement.
“If you were doing that with a business report, the federal trade commission would be down your throat,” Lindzen said.
Whenever people from one side of a political fence are screeching about something, and you can be sure it’s an agenda of some kind. All you have to do is drill down, objectively, to see that it’s all about the Benjamins. While pro GW people like to claim all skeptics are tools of the greedy oil companies, it never seems to dawn on them that they are parroting propaganda from the leaders of this GW movement, who are bureaucrats and grant grubbing scientists. Bureaucrats love manufactured crises because they can use them to get laws passed that give them more tax dollars and power. Grant grubbers use these kind of crises to get more grant money. After all, many scientists live on grant money. That’s their income. So they will do anything to insure the gravy train is running, including lie and falsify reports.
When you consider that their best evidence is computer models which are easily faked and not the weather, which conveniently is unseasonably warm sometimes, but not consistently. And the fact that most of the arguments used by the GW proponents are based in logical fallacies it becomes clear that the man-made global warming theory is just that, a theory, based more on assumptions than real facts. Theories are made to be criticized. To be held up to analysis.
But when they use the evil oil companies are behind the critics defense, that’s clearly a straw man argument. Another logical fallacy. Just because someone disagrees with man-made global warming doesn’t make them an oil company shill and it does nothing refute the merits of the critics position. In fact, even if energy companies hold an anti-global warming position, that doesn’t mean they’re wrong.
Personally, I am all for getting rid of fossil fuels. But until we have a working replacement for them, it’s not practical. And radically transforming society to cut back on energy use when it’s not necessary is only going to hurt people’s livelihoods and well being. People are not going to give up their jobs and their comforts for some half baked theory. Nor should they.
New energy sources will come on line in the near future. Progress marches on. Someday, in most of our lifetimes, this will be a moot argument.
UPDATE: See what I mean about liars? The new IPCC report cuts a lot of the previous GW estimates, which should tell you how accurate they are at all.
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
France Wants to Tax Us
Here’s a classic example of why the Global Warming thing is a scam. Bureaucrats want to use it to tax us using an international tax. Kyoto signatories have to pay fines if they don’t measure up (no country has), but since we didn’t sign it we’re exempt. So what then?
President Jacques Chirac has demanded that the United States sign both the Kyoto climate protocol and a future agreement that will take effect when the Kyoto accord runs out in 2012.
He said that he welcomed last week’s State of the Union address in which President Bush described climate change as a “serious challenge” and acknowledged that a growing number of American politicians now favor emissions cuts.
But he warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance. The European Union is the largest export market for American goods.
“A carbon tax is inevitable,” Mr. Chirac said. “If it is European, and I believe it will be European, then it will all the same have a certain influence because it means that all the countries that do not accept the minimum obligations will be obliged to pay.”
I guarantee, the Euros will try to find a way to try to milk us one way or another using this scam. But will they have the balls to do it with China, who is becoming a much bigger polluter than the US? We’ll see.
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