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Both Mr. Holdren and Ms. Lubchenco are leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful government response.
…and it was a very prosperous time for mankind
“If we go back really, in recorded human history, in the 13th Century, we were probably 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than we are now and it was a very prosperous time for mankind,” Lehr said. “If go back to the Revolutionary War 300 years ago, it was very, very cold. We’ve been warming out of that cold spell from the Revolutionary War period and now we’re back into a cooling cycle.”
“If we go back really, in recorded human history, in the 13th Century, we were probably 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than we are now and it was a very prosperous time for mankind,” Lehr said. “If go back to the Revolutionary War 300 years ago, it was very, very cold. We’ve been warming out of that cold spell from the Revolutionary War period and now we’re back into a cooling cycle.”
CNN Meteorologist: Manmade Global Warming Theory ‘Arrogant’
via Andrew Bolt
Up! Down…
Flyin’ around,
Loopin’ the loop and defying the (insert your preferred word here).
New York, New York, it’s a helluva a town…
Tendentious Twaddle
16 December, 2008
And Many, Many Others Say It Is Nonsense, Too:
Scientists Denounce AP For Hysterical Global Warming Article
By Noel Sheppard
NewsBusters
“Scientists from around the world are denouncing an Associated Press article hysterically claiming that global warming is “a ticking time bomb” about to explode, and that we’re “running out of time” to do anything about it.”
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“…mooring our boats to the Washington Monument.”
The Day After (Inauguration)
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
The Associated Press warns that the new administration won’t have much time to save the planet from a global warming apocalypse. Never mind that the “ticking time bomb” is a dud.
And a clip, just to whet your appetite:
“The satellite record shows the sea level has actually fallen four inches around Tuvalu since 1993…”
“None of this, of course, matters to the warming zealots and some major media outlets. If it’s too dry or too wet, too hot or too cold, everything is caused by global warming. We believe, as do many reputable scientists, that the warming and cooling of the earth is a natural phenomenon dictated by forces beyond our control, from ocean currents to solar activity. We needn’t worry about one day mooring our boats to the Washington Monument.”
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15 December, 2008
The best little sunspot primer in town:
Solar Activity Cycles Past and Future
David H. Hathaway
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center National Space Science and Technology Center
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14 December, 2008
“Prime Minister John Key’s promise that “we’re putting all things on the table” in the climate hearings must include the science, not as an afterthought, but first and foremost.
“If the hearings show that the fundamental science backing human-caused climate concerns is wrong, or even in serious doubt (as much of it is), then the rest of the debate (tax versus emissions trading, etc) is pointless and they might as well wrap up the testimonies right there.”
Leading the world back to sanity
Act proposal provides chance for rethink of doomsday policies
Tom Harris in Ottawa
The National Business Review
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“They* are far from monolithic, but on this they would all agree: Science is not settled by majority vote, especially in a field as young as climate science.
“Skepticism and inquiry go to the essence of scientific progress. It is always legitimate to challenge the existing “consensus” with new data or an alternative hypothesis. Those who insist that dissent be silenced or even punished are not the allies of science, but something closer to religious fanatics.”
*The scientists and scholars Heartland is assembling.
Jeff Jacoby: Skepticism on climate change
International Herald Tribune | Opinion
via The Unbearable Nakedness of Climate Change
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13 December, 2008
“Obama’s America wouldn’t just welcome your tired, your poor, your huddled masses: It would create them.”
Global Warming’s Poor, Huddled Masses
By DAVID A. RIDENOUR
Investor’s Businness Daily
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“Professor Berg’s report summarises the findings of scientists of many countries to prove that average temperatures have risen over the whole world…”
World Climate Growing Warmer, Say Russians, Citing Arctic Data
by Harold Denny
This causes me much personal embarrasement. It was happening; and I did nothing.
My only excuse is that, as I was only 13 months old at the time, perhaps my options were limited…
Another brilliant piece from Watts Up With That?
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12 December, 2008
Now You Have Heard Everything:
There is no clear evidence that global warming is an imminent danger to the world, says Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Climate change not imminent danger, UN panel chief says
But governments should reconsider emissions cuts
CBCnews.ca
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“How are you going to go up and find all those little refractors and pull them down if something bad starts to happen?” he (Lawrence E. Buja) asked.
Scientists try to mitigate climate change effects
By ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press Writer
wtop.com
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Here we go gathering nuts in May,
June, July, Aug…
The wasteful, corrupt, dictatorship-dominated U.N. may not be successful in fulfilling very many of its supposed objectives — world peace, the end of poverty, mutual understanding, etc. — but when it comes to suppressing contrarian points of view that interfere with official U.N. stances, the organization ranks with the best.
When the United Nations insists that man-made global warming is now proved beyond doubt, it’s practicing one of the few things it has proved itself good at: censorship of dissenting viewpoints.
Now the U.N. is telling the world that only nuts on the fringe question dismantling the global economy to fight global warming. The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year stated that warming was “unequivocal” and “caused by human activity.”
The U.N.’s Global Warming Muzzle
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Don’t spend much of your “worry time” on a new climate treaty however, says Avery. Global temperatures are doing their best to tell us that CO2 isn’t very important after all
CHINA SINKS NEW KYOTO
China has now destroyed Western hopes for a new global warming agreement, just weeks before global talks in Poland aimed at writing a successor for the Kyoto Protocol — which expires in 2012, says Dennis Avery, a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute and Director for the Center for Global Food Issues.
China has attached a ransom note to its Polish meeting RSVP: They might go along with a new warming pact if the rich countries agree to hand over 1 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP)
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The little white lie that ran amok…
From Jørgen F. (04:16:03) on Watts Up With That?
“In Denmark both our prime minister and our ‘climate minister’(!) have stated clearly that their views on ‘climate change’ is based on ‘expert’ advice from IPCC and specific parts of the scientific community alone.
“They public acknowledge the fact that scientists can have a complete different view of reasons to & levels of climate change in 10 years time. But they see the changes in energy technology as an golden opportunity for Denmark, not matter what scientist say in 10 years from now – We don’t have any car industry, but a huge (Danish huge) wind turbine industry and we are in general fast movers on tech – opportunity knocks!
“The whole European Community (EC) also sees investments in the energy sector as an opportunity to free Europe from Russian or Middle-East energy supplies, and at the same time a way to invest Europe out of the current economical crises with public money.
“So no one really cares about climate – It’s just an opportunity to drive needed changes & investments.”
Continues on Watts Up With That?
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They Were Wrong…
Pre-industrial CO2 levels were about the same as today. How and why we are told otherwise?
By Dr. Tim Ball Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Canada Free Press
“How many failed predictions, discredited assumptions and evidence of incorrect data are required before an idea loses credibility? CO2 is not causing warming or climate change. It is not a toxic substance or a pollutant. Despite this President Elect Obama met with Al Gore on December 9 no doubt to plan a climate change strategy based on these problems. They make any plan to reduce of CO2 completely unnecessary.
“Proponents of human induced warming and climate change told us that an increase in CO2 precedes and causes temperature increases. They were wrong.”
via Ed Scott at Watts Up With That?
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The worst scientific scandal in history…
But it is not going to be permitted to continue as a major force from the scientific community cry enough! and move in a body to rid the world of this dangerous and malign lie:
“Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history. When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.”
“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?” – Geologist Dr. David Gee
“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” – Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden
UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
“POZNAN, Poland - The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN.”
via ICECAP
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10 December, 2008
“Problem is, none of it’s true.”
What has “truth” ever had to do with a good ol’ end of the world is nigh story? Truth only gets in the way. It is politically totally incorrect to allow dictionary definitions to derail even the most extreme bursting-heart, dizzy-head of missions…
“In a video presentation to a U.N. conference held to revive the Kyoto Treaty approach, Obama concurred with Gore that warming science is “beyond dispute and the facts are clear.” “Sea levels are rising,” he asserted, “coastlines are shrinking, we’ve seen drought spreading famine, and storms are growing stronger with each passing season.” Problem is, none of it’s true.”
Economic Chill
Investor’s Business Daily
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09 December, 2008
You thought we had already visited the heights of hysteria in the man-made global warming circus?
Baby… they ain’t even lit the match yet:
“PEOPLE affected by worsening storms, heatwaves and floods could soon be able to sue the companies they blame for global warming, a leading climate expert says.
“Oxford University physicist Myles Allen believes a breakthrough allowing scientists to judge the role man-made climate change has played in extreme weather events could result in class actions over the next decade.”
Companies could be sued over climate change
Sh… whisper it. They have a secret: ”The technique involves using two computer models to simulate conditions leading to extreme weather events.”
Ah…! I’ve heard of them things, used now instead of the old thimble and pea routine…
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Some clips to whet your appetite from a story which bids to unsettle thesettled science:
“…it is possible that aspects of the traditional greenhouse gas explanation could be largely wrong…”
Rethinking Observed Warming
World Climate Report
“…let’s visit an article just published in the prestigious journal Climate Dynamics.
“Evidence is presented that the recent worldwide land warming has occurred largely in response to a worldwide warming of the oceans rather than as a direct response to increasing greenhouse gases (GHGs) over land.”
“In the second sentence of their abstract, Compo and Sardeshmukh tell us “Atmospheric model simulations of the last half-century with prescribed observed ocean temperature changes, but without prescribed GHG changes, account for most of the land warming.” Are they kidding? Are they really suggesting that the warming of the land areas of the Earth may not have been caused directly by the increased concentration of greenhouse gases?”
(via ICECAP)
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From the sublime to the ridiculous…
Bring on the clowns, they may yet rid us of this man-made global warming pox even more rapidly than those who point out the bad science of this delusion raging aamongst us.
TAX COWS, HOGS FOR PASSING GAS, BURPING?
“For farmers, this stinks: Belching and gaseous cows and hogs could start costing them money if a federal proposal to charge fees for air-polluting animals becomes law, says the Associated Press (AP)…”
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A moment in history?
This is Australia at the gallop to save “billions of people around the world vulnerable to climate” from their own (or is it our?) foolishness.
Remember the Boy Scout helping the little old lady across the road, despite that not being where she wanted to go?
A “mission for good” needs no reality as a base; just a “Gosh, I feel good doing this” feeling inside.
Of course such folk are insufferable; but perhaps better than those who’s mission is to reduce all to their own feelings of personal misery?
“Copenhagen will be the best — and possibly last — chance the world will have to avoid dangerous climate change, as the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has reported to all governments that global greenhouse emissions need to peak and start coming down no later than 2015 to give the world a reasonable chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.
“The current negotiations are set to agree to a new climate treaty starting in 2012, so time is running out.
“If we want to save the Great Barrier Reef, our water supplies, our beaches and billions of people around the world vulnerable to climate change, this is our moment in history.”
This is our critical moment. We mustn’t hesitate
Don Henry, December 09 2008
Australia’s future depends on climate change negotiations.
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08 December, 2008
“And the climate science community gets mad at me for criticizing this crap, rather than the people who deposited it.”
So How’d They Do That?
Steve McIntyre on December 7th, 2008
“If they just did some paleo fieldwork with trees, corals, sediment cores they might understand why some samples are excluded.” Phil Jones
“As it happens, I have experience in mining exploration programs and I can assure Phil Jones that, contray to this experience enabling me to “understand why some samples are excluded”, it gives me exactly the opposite perspective. It makes it virtually impossible for me to think up valid explanations for “excluding” some samples. It’s illegal in the businesses that I know.” Steve McIntyre
Oh what a tangled web… but a fascinating and enlightening one, too, showing bare bones in a virtual X-ray plate of the body politic of this massive (and desperate?) confidence trick of man-made runaway global warming coming unglued.
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07 December, 2008
A subtle change, and very welcome … the second time in seven days … a report in ScienceDaily which did not have what had been the obligatory curtsy to carbon and simply stayed with the science of a report of interest in itself.
ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2008) — The decline of the Roman and Byzantine Empires in the Eastern Mediterranean more than 1,400 years ago may have been driven by unfavorable climate changes.
Yes, Virginia, there really is climate change. It is one of those givens that Earth’s climate is a dynamic system changing from hour to hour, day to day, and millennia to millennia; and to live in it successfully animal and vegetable alike must adapt to its swings.
Humility is helpful here, but purchases of Tilting-Lances have defied the present economic bust as the possessed charge blindly at windmills; and dragon-slayers daily ride forth in mighty voice to cause mischief to mythical monsters.
Hist…!
Is that the bugle of the U. S. Cavalry sounding?
New US military report on global warming raises worry
Calls theories on the cause ‘contradictory’
By Bryan Bender / Boston Globe / December 6, 2008
“WASHINGTON - A new US military report has come under scrutiny for asserting that the scientific data on what is causing global warming is “contradictory” – a position one leading specialist said indicates the government still hasn’t fully embraced the urgency of climate change.”
Go away, “leading specialist”, and realise we live in the best of times, and much of this may be to do with having an ample dose of C02 in the atmosphere to green the earth and feed us all, making this a time of plenty.
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06 December, 2008
Then turn not pale,
beloved snail,
but come and join the dance.
(A Lobster Quadrille, by Lewis Carroll, master of the absurb…)
“The quick response up and down for CO2 trend shortly after temperature changes suggests that we see a “dance” around equilibrium conditions in nature.”
and
“Therefore, the flatness of the Antarctic ice cores CO2 concentration is not really possible, that is of course unless the CO2-trend earlier was not at all dependent on temperature as CO2-trend is today. That however seems absurd.”
Flat Ice Core CO2-graph During 1000 Years?
By Frank Lansner
via ICECAP
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04 December, 2008
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
(The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll, Fit the Eighth – The Vanishing)
Waste heat could warm the earth? Perhaps it has already started.
Watts Up With That?
Plenty, if you read the responses to this in Watts Up.
The story begins:
“EVEN if we turn to clean energy to reduce carbon emissions, the planet might carry on warming anyway due to the heat released into the environment by our ever-increasing consumption of energy.”
Heat we emit could warm the Earth
New Scientist - 01 December 2008 by Mark Buchanan
Lewis Carroll never even pretended he was writing anything other than nonsense to amuse, not confuse…
However, when challenged as he was on the line below, Mr Carroll provided a blueprint for obfuscation now adhered to scrupulously by those to whom man-made global warming provides a giddy height of reputation and cold, hard cash:
“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.”
“If-and the thing is wildly possible-the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based , I feel convinced, on the line (in Fit the Second)
“In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appeal indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such a deed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural History–I will take the more prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened.” ETC
Instructive.
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03 December, 2008
They did not quite say “Not Global Warming” ~ but “Not The Greenhouse Effect” is creeping up on it…
“According to a study in Geographical Research, the droughts are related to the solar magnetic phases and not the greenhouse effect.”
Sun’s Magnetic Field May Impact Weather And Climate: Sun Cycle Can Predict Rainfall Fluctuations
ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2008)
“The sun’s magnetic field may have a significant impact on weather and climatic parameters in Australia and other countries in the northern and southern hemispheres.”
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…relatively benign influence on earth’s climate, while simultaneously providing manifold benefits to humanity and nature alike.
From the executive summary:
“For several decades now, personnel in our organisation have been working and publishing on matters related to earth’s rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (C02) concentration as they pertain to both the climate and biology of our planet. During the course of that endeavor, we have examined literally thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles, the results of which examination have led us to conclude that increasing atmospheric C02 concentrations will exert a relatively benign influence on earth’s climate, while simultaneously providing manifold benefits to humanity and nature alike.”
Submitted by Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
24 November, 2008
(830 Pages – PDF)
via PearlandAggie on Watts Up With That?
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02 December, 2008
A touch of history:
“The first Charleston observation began on January 1, 1880 collecting precipitation and temperature data for the U.S. Weather Bureau…
Important Historical Climate Station returns to EIUs Campus
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A British jurist wants to form an international court for the environment with the power to punish states and businesses.
Will fossil fuels soon become controlled substances?
Many, if not all, warm-mongers consider the Industrial Revolution a crime against humanity, or at least against the Earth goddess, Gaia. Global warming alarmist James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Al Gore’s favorite scientist, has said in the past that heads of major fossil-fuel companies who spread disinformation about global warming should be “tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.”
Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, and next head of the European Union starting in January, writing in the Financial Times, warned: “As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not communism.”
Criminalizing Carbon
Investor’s Business Daily
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(In Australia) “Note what Labor does when Liberal MP Dennis Jensen tries to table evidence in Parliament that directly contradicts the global warming hype:” - Andrew Bolt
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01 December, 2008
“…if you ever wanted a leverage point to control everything from exhalation to driving, this would be a dream. So it has a kind of fundamental attractiveness to bureaucratic mentality.”
(Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT)
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“National Climate Centre former head William Kininmonth said coverage of global warming had been hysterical and was getting worse, with a large public relations effort inundating the media with information from the alarmist side.”
Cold snap fails to cool protagonists of global warming
The Australian | John Stapleton | November 29, 2008
“EUROPE is shivering through an extreme cold snap. One of the coldest winters in the US in more than 100 years is toppling meteorological records by the dozen, and the Arctic ice is expanding. Even Australia has been experiencing unseasonable snow.
“But the stories about global warming have not stopped, not for a second.”
