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NOTE: I had to split this blog into 4 - it was getting too big. - Now see also my Bigpond Blog - HERE
Blog of Anti Global Warming News
Latest (Fourth) Blog
NOTE: I had to split this blog into 4 - it was getting too big. - Now see also my Bigpond Blog - HERE
A
running anti-news news blog - for those who don't accept
something as true just because it is repeated ad nauseam in the Media.
SORRY - BIT SLACK ON THIS BLOG NOW - GO TO MY - "BIGBLOG" HERE - http://greenhousebullcrap.bigblog.com.au/index.do
9/5 The BBC Try To Explain. The BBC environment reporter, faced with mounting evidence of global cooling tries to explain away why the computer models were wrong. Thats fine, but-
THE WHOLE BLOODY GLOBAL WARMING FIASCO IS COMPLETELY, TOTALLY, WHOLLY, UNEQUIVOCALLY, DEPENDENT ON COMPUTER MODELS!!!
Sorry for shouting, but it really is exasperating. No computer models - No Global Warming.
This Greenie environment writer then has the gall to acknowledge what cynics have said from the start - computer models cannot resolve clouds. They were predicting climate catastrophe with computer models which still cannot resolve cloud behaviour.
Read the mea culpa here - "Climate prediction: No model for success" - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7381250.stm
8/5 How NASA's Hansen Fixes The Data. Or why I don't trust GISS or the Goddard Space Institute run by James "I'm Being suppressed By Deniers" Hansen.
When you've been making a big name and a lot of money for yourself predicting the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it and your data suddenly shows the opposite, it is very tempting to just "fix" the data.
To it's great credit The Hadley Climate Center, even amid the current UK hysteria, has resisted that temptation, but Hansen has not. Like all fanatics if the data disagrees with the dogma then it must be a temporary glitch in the data which can just be smoothed out.
Lets all hope that he finally discredits himself so much that he fades out from the media completely.
Read all about it -
"Is the earth getting warmer, or cooler?" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/a_tale_of_two_thermometers/
and
"Does 'climate change' mean 'changing data'?" - http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63360
8/5 The Gall of Gore! One would think that when he put hurricane Katrina on his poster and claimed the disaster as Global Warming and since then hurricanes have virtually stopped in the USA, big Al would have learned his lesson, but no, here he's popped up again - yes, you guessed it - claiming the Burma Disaster. The science is, of course, that hurricanes and all other storms rely on a large temperature/pressure difference, NOT an overall warming or cooling of the planet.
"Al Gore Calls Myanmar Cyclone a 'Consequence' of Global Warming" - groan - http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080506160205.aspx
7/5 j = σ T⁴. Want some extremely esoteric scientific jargon? Read this - "Average temperature vs average irradiance" - http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/05/average-temperature-vs-average.html
btw that's The Stefan-Boltzmann equation.
Of course - silly me!! Unfortunately, the science has been "settled" so nobody is listening to them anymore (if they ever were!).
Superstition has triumphed.
7/5 Latest Satellite Global Temp.
The latest Global satellite temperature data (for April) is in.
Bad news for the Alarmists.
The bounce back up has stopped. Global cooling concerns continue.
"RSS MSU LT Global Temperature Anomaly for April 2008 - flat" - http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/rss-msu-lt-global-temperature-anomaly-for-april-2008-flat/
7/5 More and More Trivial Pap. Global Warming relies on a constant stream of sensational little tidbits, but even the modern media must preserve some credibility. As the Arctic and Greenland ice bounces back, Antarctica sets new records for ice extent, the global temperature refuses to rise and has now started falling and the Argo Buoy data refuses to confirm what it's supposed too, all the UK media environmental reporters will become more and more desperate to keep up the flow. So here's what we get -"Surge in fatal shark attacks blamed on global warming" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/04/wildlife.climatechange . I rest my case.
4/5 It's Official - whoopsie - the Globe seems to be cooling - but don't worry Greenies, a new computer model predicts it will get catastrophically warmer later!
A new computer model? - what happened to the old ones?
The old computer models, on which the IPCC based the whole doomsday theory, are just casually discarded. That's the beauty about models - when you don't like the old ones you just make new one!
The IPCC was obviously wrong about "natural forcings" being irrelevant as well. Natural forcings are back with a vengeance!
How much more bullcrap are we expected to take from these people? They just keep getting it wrong don't they?
The elephant-in-the-room is. of course. that if the Globe can just cool for 10 years as we continue to pump out CO2 at an almost exponential rate, then we obviously can ignore the whole Global Warming alarm - climate change is here and is happening now and it is not human!!!
Mother Nature has made fools of the Greenies yet again!
To labour the analogy a little, the rhino-in-the room is what is really controlling the global temperature? - what causes the El Nino/La Nina phenomena? Is Helios more powerful than Gaia? Don't mention the war - or the Sun!!!
Senator Inhofe rejoices here - "BREAKING NEWS: 'Global Warming Will Stop,' New Peer-Reviewed Study Says Global Warming Takes a Break for Nearly 20 Years?" - http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=a17defa8-802a-23ad-4912-8ab7138a7c3f&Issue_id
at the news reported in The NY Times - "In a New Climate Model, Short-Term Cooling in a Warmer World" -
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/science/earth/01climate.html?scp=1&sq=In+a+New+Climate+Model%2C+Short-Term+Cooling+in+a+War
mer+World&st=nyt
and here in the UK Telegraph - "Global warming may 'stop', scientists predict" - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/30/eaclimate130.xml
3/5 China, India, and now Russia smile indulgently, pat the euro greenie movement on the head and just ignore them. Perhaps one day China, India, and Russia will be so wealthy that they can afford such decadent self abuse also, but not yet. This century will belong to them.
"Russia says has no plans to cap carbon emissions" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7489862
"Russia will not accept binding caps on its greenhouse gas emissions under a new climate regime, currently being negotiated to succeed the Kyoto Protocol after 2012, top officials said on Monday."
2/5 Not Happy Helen! As we Aussies prepare to follow them down the carbon trading path, New Zealanders prepare to pay about $1000 per household for being politically correct - no other reason - the globe's stopped warming and may be getting colder - but as they compete for food and fuel with the nouveau riche in china and India, Kiwis are all expecting everyone else to pay - not them personally.
"Government defends climate change scheme" - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=144&objectid=10507093
"Govt emissions plan will hurt more than necessary - report"- http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10507098&pnum=0
29/4 This Sydney Morning Herald item - "Extreme weather is here to stay" - Ben Cubby, Environment Reporter - http://www.smh.com.au/news/water-issues/extreme-weather-is-here-to-stay/2008/04/27/1209234655241.html - exemplifies one of the real tragedies of Global Warming - the real science is being suppressed.
Instead of Professor Matthew England, co-director of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of NSW, warning us that the sunspot activity has virtually stopped and that the next solar cycle has just not started, and the global satellite data shows not only no warning, but now a distinct cooling and that we should be prepared for the strong possibility of a lot more rain and snow and colder temperatures and even another "little ice age" what do we get?
We get what we deserve when we set the good professor up in a fancy office in a multi-million dollar research center and pay him and his colleagues millions of dollars to research "Global Warming".
He's not going to tell the SMH environment reporter that the globe stopped warming and probably won't start up again for quite some time.
Tell ya what, though, I'll bet that he and his colleagues are all lining up a new sinecure!!
27/4 Cardinal Pell writing in "The Sunday Telegraph" Points out some salient facts to consider.
"Politicians sceptical of these claims would need unusual courage to resist the strong tides of public opinion. However the rest of us are not so constrained and we should consider all the available information.
Three points are of some significance... "
Click here to read it - http://www.sydney.catholic.org.au/Archbishop/STC/2008/2008420_382.shtml
26/4 Science.
"Internal Radiative Forcing And The Illusion Of A Sensitive Climate System“ by Roy Spencer University of Alabama at Huntsville
Click here to read...
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/illusion_of_sensitive_climate_system.html
"Many of us, especially those who were trained as meteorologists, have long questioned the climate research community’s reliance on computerized climate models for global warming projections. In contrast to our perception that the real climate system is constantly readjusting to internal fluctuations in ways that stabilize the system, climate models built upon measured climate behavior invariably suggest a climate system that is quite sensitive - sometimes catastrophically sensitive — to perturbations such as those from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, it has been difficult to articulate our ‘hand-waving’ concerns in ways that the modelers would appreciate, i.e., through equations."
26/4 Do We Aussies Really Want This UK Mess?
UK Telegraph - "'Useless' green levy on drivers rakes in £4bn"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/24/nlevy124.xml
"However, the Telegraph has seen Treasury projections which disclose that while the amount raised from car tax will more than double - from £1.9 billion to £4.4 billion by 2010 - carbon dioxide emissions from motoring are expected to drop by less than one per cent."
UK Independent - "Dominic Lawson: The staggering cost of renewable energy"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-the-staggering-cost-of-renewable-energy-813350.html
"According to Mr Golby, meeting such a commitment will involve an increase in electricity generating costs of about £10bn per year; this is equivalent to almost £400 per household – or, in the roughest terms, an increase of about 40 per cent in annual electricity bills. Try selling that to the British public; and, of course, the Government hasn't..."
26/4 Where is Solar Cycle 24?
"The next 11-year cycle of solar storms (known as Solar Cycle 24) was predicted to have begun in autumn, 2006, but it appears to have been seriously delayed [see: ‘Spotty Science’, November 21]. It was then expected to take off in March last year, and to peak in late-2011, or mid-2012. But, as you can see for yourself from the image, the Sun remains spotless, except for one fading spot. This delayed onset has somewhat confused the official Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Panel, leaving them evenly split on whether a weak or a strong period of solar storms now lies ahead.
Other scientists, however, are more concerned... "
Click here - "Keeping You Up-To-Date" - http://web.mac.com/sinfonia1/Global_Warming_Politics/A_Hot_Topic_Blog/Entries/2008/4/24_Keeping_You_Up-To-Date.html
26/4 Newsweek Mentions The War. The Green Phanton. "Global warming's curious absence as a campaign issue."
Read it here - http://www.newsweek.com/id/133652/
26/4 Andrew Bolt On Tim Flannery's Predictions.
"How the weather mocks Flannery. He's flooded in Sydney, where he predicted drought, and snowed in in Canada when he predicted heat."
Read it here - "Prophecy all washed up" - Herald Sun - http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23594184-25717,00.html
26/4 US Senator Inhofe on the proposed USA Carbon Trading Bill - just substitute "Australia" for "America" - "The United States Senate will soon begin to debate a global warming cap-and-trade bill that, if passed, would impose severe economic constraints on American families and American workers for no environmental gain. We have had this debate before, starting with the rejection of the Kyoto Protocol in 1998, then again in 2003, and again in 2005. Each time, these cap-and-trade measures were defeated for two simple reasons: they did not include developing nations; and because of the significant economic impact on the American public. With the American economy facing troubles, now is certainly not the time to try this costly experiment."
Very good stuff from an elected representative. Published in "The Washington Times" - read it here - http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Facts&ContentRecord_id=777d68fb-802a-23ad-4c89-67667f412585
24/4 The solar Link "The Australian" is putting out some good stuff lately.
"Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh" - Phil Chapman is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer who lives in San Francisco. He was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut.
click here to read - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23583376-7583,00.html
and...
"Coal isn't cool but our growth depends on it." - "Shall we stop all this, Prime Minister, or stick with symbolism?"
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23583375-7583,00.html
24/4 Watermelons! The Environmentalists' Real Agenda by "Investor's Business Daily" - "Ideologies: Once in a while the truth accidentally tumbles out on global warming activists' real agenda. That's exactly what happened at the U.N., when Bolivia's leader called for ending capitalism to save the planet".
Click here - http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=293758110252962
24/4 A very good list of Scientific Peer Reviewed papers against Global Warming - http://petesplace-peter.blogspot.com/2008/04/peer-reviewed-articles-skeptical-of-man.html - duplicated here - http://home.austarnet.com.au/yours/Peer_Reviewed_Climate_Science_April08.html
22/4 Climate Change 101. A very good summary of the anti case - "Climate Change 101: Key Global Warming Facts" by Dennis T. Avery co author of "Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years" click here - http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5164
22/4 Carbon Trading Rorts. Book - "Money for Nothing" - Carbon cartels and the rise of a phantom industry By John Charles. http://www.brainstormnw.com/coverstory.html
22/4 Ruskies Get Bolshie Mit Der Shermans. In a stupid attempt to be Greener than Green, Germany sold it's energy supply to Russia and the Russians are quite prepared to leverage it - OOPS.
Do Germans Fear Global Warming More Than the Russians - Sunday Commentary - inRich.com - http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion/commentary.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-04-20-0092.html
22/4 E.U. Facing Business Backlash. The Energy Tribune again - another very good piece - on how Europe finds that cutting carbon emissions is far easier said than done. Read it here - http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=865
22/4 Sinister Forces Attack US Power Supply. And They're not Arab Terrorists! The evil Sierra Club again. Greenies have the luxury of trying to bring society down without worrying about what to replace it with or with getting re-elected. They elect themselves and use the powerful US court system to bring radical change. "Activists play climate card in fight over coal" by Judy Pasterrnak Los Angeles Times - http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5713955.html
22/4 UK Telegraph Redeems Itself. "Stop The CO2 Scare Before Its Too Late" - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/20/do2002.xml
21/4 Glenn Beck Again - Mainstream US TV - pours scorn on the BBC Email scandal (see below) - UTube VIDEO - click here - http://youtube.com/watch?v=216v5AoQcFQ
20/4 Professor Carter On Mainstream TV. As 1000 "distinguished Australians" are peeing in each others pockets to make themselves feel all warm and fuzzy with political correctness, distinguished Uni of Townsville Prof. Bob Carter warns newzulanders about carbon trading and G. Warming superstition.
Says there are the deniers and there are the alarmists, but the huge bulk of scientists are in the middle on the issue but are afraid to speak up.
Watch it here - UTUBE - "Climate Change - has it been canceled?" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgaeyMa3jyU
19/4 Radio. A very interesting radio discussion in the UK about the "Climate Change issue" - some debate also.
"Climate Change Special".
Click here to listen - http://www2.talksport.net/shows/show.asp?showId=100719&id=102415&c=100043&sCatType=shows
16/4 Japan's Guilt Money. While the global output of CO2 rises almost exponentially Japan buys its way out of Kyoto,
"Japan Ups CO2 Offset Buying As Nuclear Power Slows" - http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=47959&newsdate=15-Apr-2008
So what's a carbon offset I hear you say?
Why, It's the biggest racket ever invented.
Example 1 - The farmer who is paid to not clear his land.
Example 2 - Planting trees which only fix carbon when they grow and then release it again when they rot or burn.
Example 3 - The Russians take the billions of yen from Japan and use it to dramatically increase their own carbon output in blatant disregard for Kyoto!
The list is very long - see below.
16/4 The British Antarctic Servey has published this interesting paper in which it hides a huge amount of bad news for alarmists in amounts politically correct waffle. "Climate Change - Our View" - here - http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/our_views/climate_change.php
15/4 How They're Defending Themselves. This is The Spin. Faced with the down-turn in temperature and up-turn in precipitation - "Climate experts predict temperature drop" - UK Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/10/eaclimate110.xml .
Basically they blame it on La Nina in the Pacific - quite what causes the la Nina/El Nino phenomena is not discussed - they do correspond with sunspots but that is politically incorrect of course.
The Telegraph then claims that the floods and storms that have come with the down-turn in global temperatures are caused by - yes - you guessed it - Global Warming - with the wonderfully specious argument that it may be getting colder now but it is still warmer than 1961 to 1990 - yes 1961 fer crissake! The Tele never worries about insulting the gravitas and intelligence of it's readers for good reason I suppose!
So the global temperature plunges way down below average and we get freezing cold winters thick snow and floods but it's all caused by Global Warming.
Mmmm.
Of course the elephant-in-the room is that there is now no need to panic. "Natural forcings" were dismissed by the IPCC as irrelevant, but here they are, back with a vengeance!!
Despite our continuing, almost exponential, output of CO2 the Planet seems to be self-regulating very nicely thank you.
12/4 Self Destruction. We elected a Kevin07 but we got the ALP left. Nobody controls them! This complaint from our biggest exporter will only encourage them more!
"Don Voelte, the head of Woodside, which operates the North West Shelf gas project, Australia's biggest resources development, said while the Government was saying trade-exposed industries would have transitional arrangements under the scheme, there were no details and no evidence that such a plan could work."
Read it here - "Woodside finds carbon scheme lacking" - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23514872-2702,00.html
11/4 AL Gore Pontificates - New. I don't know about you but I find the evangelism of this latest talk - click here - http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/243 really quite chilling. It is just so dangerous, ignorance and superstition and self righteousness is a very alarming mix - and the liberties and contempt for science are really quite appalling - puts creationists to shame.
We are supposed to be facing the imminent end-of the-world-as-we-know-it and what new evidence does he have? Nothing. Yes nothing.
9/4 BBC Egg on Face!!! In a stupid bite-the hand-that-feeds them move, Greenies have severely embarrassed the BBC environment dept., by posting a private email..
These links show the embarrassing Email exchange behind the altering of the BBC News item, mentioned below, to satisfy the fanatics - an interesting expose' of how we skeptics are affecting them.
See the whole fascinating exchange here... http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/002906.html
and here... http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1207342907.html
here's an excerpt...
"Otherwise, I would have to conclude that you are insufficiently
educated to be able to know when you have been psychologically
manipulated. And that would make you an unreliable reporter.
"I am about to send your comments to others for their contribution,
unless you request I do not. They are likely to want to post your
comments on forums/fora, so please indicate if you do not want this to
happen. You may appear in an unfavourable light because it could be
said that you have had your head turned by the sceptics.
Respectfully,
jo.
=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=
from Roger Harrabin
to Jo Abbess ,
date Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:28 AM
subject RE: Correction Demanded : "Global temperatures 'to decrease'"
Have a look in 10 minutes and tell me you are happier
We have changed headline and more.
=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x=x= "
9/4 Antarctica - More Good news. Too late for a media retraction I suppose! Yes that huge Iceberg was NOT the Wilkins Ice Shelf breaking up - Satellite data measuring meltwater, confirms the satellite data reporting a cooling southern hemisphere and a record sea ice extent down there last winter.
"Recent Data On Surface Snowmelt In Antarctica" - http://climatesci.org/2008/04/07/recent-data-on-surface-snowmelt-in-antarctica/
9/4 Solar Cycle Update. "Solar cycle minimum at the earliest in second half of 2008?"
SC24 = solar cycle 24
"The start of SC24 is not to be expected prior to July 2008, and in all likelihood might even take place only in the first half of 2009. This conclusion matches perfectly the results one can make from evolution of the number of spotless days. Nonetheless, SC23 would be one of the longest in over 100 years, possibly even in over 160 years."
That's good news for G.W. skeptics and snow bunnies but unfortunately very bad news for all humanity in mid to high latitudes.
Click here - http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/solar-cycle-minimum-at-the-earliest-in-second-half-of-2008/
8/4 A very good assessment of Climate Change politics by Brad Norington in "The Australian" - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23487282-11949,00.html The ALP & Unions are far from united on it - quite a few skeptics apparently.
8/4 So Orwellian! World Health Day. The UN WHO, having been taken over by Greenie activists, tries to improve the health of billions by demanding that they stay in abject poverty as noble savages until they can afford wind turbines, solar panels, compact fluros and biofuels - yeah right!
Well there's too many of them anyway! They'll just have to do the decent thing and die - die to save the planet.
"WHO catches Climate Fever" - http://junkscience.com/blog_js/2008/02/18/who-catches-climate-fever/
8/4 The bloggers get stuck into the new Gore Ad. campaign - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/06/only-young-people-democrats-respond-positively-gores-new-ad
and... http://www.philanthropy.com/giveandtake/index.php?id=541
and... http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-vadum/2008/04/01/media-ignores-al-gores-planned-global-warming-profiteering
and... http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-vadum/2008/04/06/al-gore-responds-newsbusters-denies-global-warming-his-meal-ticket
The point being that Al is in it for a quid and see the huge amounts of money involved in the Global Warming/Alternate Energy business now.
8/4 Bizarre. There's not much in this story - "Earth in crisis, warns NASA's top climate scientist" - Terra Daily - http://www.terradaily.com/2007/080407011650.dyqm0pmz.html - except just how shrill James I'm-being-suppressed-by-deniers Hansen is becoming as his own global temperature data resists his attempts to prop it up and just continues to fall.
What is truly remarkable however, is that he is there with his hand out for US$50,000 with our John Howard!!!
""It's analogous to an engineer who sees that there's a flaw in the space shuttle before it is to be launched. You don't have any choice. You have to say something. That's really all that I'm doing," he explained.
Hansen was in Wilmington to receive a 50,000 dollar Common Wealth Award for outstanding achievement, along with the former prime minister of Australia John Howard, the US actress Glenn Close, and NBC news anchor Ann Curry.
Howard, who would not sign the Kyoto protocol when he was in office, told AFP: "I thought it was the right policy at the time because the major emitters" were not on board."
He added: "You need a new Kyoto protocol with all the major emitters committed to it. Then you are cooking with gas.""
Now that's really balancing things out, John Howard and James Hansen! (Should say, to use Hansen's own analogy - he is delaying a Shuttle launch for nothing - the globe stopped warming and he knows it!)
7/4 Lord Nigel Lawson, former UK Chancellor. Zealotry over global warming could damage our Earth far more than climate change. A good essay.
"The new religion of global warming, however convenient it may be to the politicians, is not as harmless as it may appear. Indeed, the more one examines it, the more it resembles a Da Vinci Code of environmentalism. It is a great story, and a phenomenal bestseller. It contains a grain of truth - and a mountain of nonsense". Lord Nigel Lawson, former UK Chancellor the Exchequer.
NZ Climate Science Coalition - http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239&Itemid=1
7/4 Professor Bob Carter has popped up again - "Courier Mail" - "What's so special about global warming, Mr Blair, asks Bob Carter" -
click here - http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/2008%2003-31%20RMC%20on%20Blair%20in%20Courier%20Mail.pdf
and in "The Australian" - http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/2008%2003-18%20RMC%20Aus%20letter%20on%20Blair.jpg
7/4 Et tu CO2 - then Global Warming - die! First the freezing cold winters, then the global satellite record, then the global sea ice data, then the Argo buoy data, and now Mauna Loa carbon dioxide data has turned on them.
Early days yet, but "less rapid warming" aka cooling has led to "less rapid" CO2 rise - aka dropping?. Not a good time for alarmists!
"CO2 monthly mean at Mauna Loa leveling off, dropping?" - click here - http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/co2-monthly-mean-at-mauna-loa-leveling-off/
and here for the NOAA data - http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
7/4 I Was Hoping This Would happen. The smart thing for the BBC and It's fanatical environment writers, Richard Black and Roger Harrabin is to let G. Warming fade away and to go back to frogs and whales.
Instead, driven by prejudice, they have now got themselves into the position of trying to dispute facts and data, not theories. It is no longer their doomsday theory being attacked the skeptics, it is their doomsday theory being attacked by the data.
"Natural forcings", far from being irrelevant as claimed, have turned on them with a vengeance. "Global Warming is real, it is happening, we must act - Now" was the great catch cry and the more they prop it up, the more stupid they are going to look.
The latest pathetic effort at turning back the tide - "Global temperatures 'to decrease' " - click here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329799.stm
has given the skeptics a field day - "Global temperatures going down imply temperatures will go up" - click here - http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/scarewatch/bbc_scarewatch_temps_down_temps_up.html
and here (in pdf form) - http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/scarewatch/bbc_scare_temps.pdf
6/4 Nothing Like A Good Power Plant. Julie Walsh, CEI - http://www.globalwarming.org/node/1996 - "Nigeria needs more power plants to be able to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Yes, more. They have the seventh largest gas reserves in the world, but haven’t turned these into electricity. Most of the population still uses wood for cooking, as does rural India.
Last August, scientists found that these “dirty brown clouds created by millions of cooking fires in Asia contribute as much to global warming as greenhouse gas emissions.”"
6/4 The Wind Power Farce. This gem of an article is choc full of detail on the stupidity of these monsters that litter our countryside and force up our power bills. "Overblown: The Real Cost of Wind Power" - http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=842
"A “load factor” of just over 30 percent is recommended for a wind farm to be economically viable. However, many of Britain's onshore farms have been running at around 20 percent, with some in urban areas dropping as low as 9 percent. Oswald believes that overly relying on wind power will result in major power failures across the U.K. and an increase of up to 50 percent in electricity bills. While nothing comes close to the capricious aspect of nature itself, the industry also still suffers from some severe technical difficulties... "
and...
"Much has been written about Denmark's success as the world's wind power pioneer. But the regularly repeated claim – that Denmark generates 20 percent of its electricity demand from wind sources – is highly misleading. That 20 percent of electricity is not supplied continuously from wind power. Denmark’s wind supply is so variable that it relies heavily on neighbors Norway and Sweden, taking their excess production... "
5/4 NSW Treasurer Vents On Garnaut. Still smarting from having the rug pulled out from under his power privatization Michael Costa has attacked Ross trust-me-I'm-a-doctor-this-won't-hurt-a-bit Garnaut by claiming it will cost a staggering $439 billion with a "B" and wipe out 4% of the economy.
Read it here - SMH - http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/greenhouse-gas-cuts-will-cost-430b/2008/04/03/1206851105550.html
Nobody can predict the future BUT we do live a society that is based on cheap power and fuel and it is really quite predictable what will happen if we suddenly make it all very expensive and elite - not rocket science.
5/4 The BBC - Some Rare Debate. Obviously stung by the distinct possibility that the Globe may be now cooling this article - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7327393.stm is a rather pathetic attempt to discredit the solar - cosmic ray - cloud connection. It does get one thing right though -
""We started on this game because of Svensmark's work," said Terry Sloan from Lancaster University. "If he is right, then we are going down the wrong path of taking all these expensive measures to cut carbon emissions; if he is right, we could carry on with carbon emissions as normal."
The sunspot/global temperature link is actually very close - if you can predict sunspots you can predict global temperature.
Richard Black also confuses the IPCC report which actually only dismisses solar radiance not the cosmic/ray sunspot link in a crude attempt to claim the very small late 20th century rise as anthropogenic and dismissing "natural forcings" - a BIG boo boo because now they need "natural forcings" to explain away why the globe stopped warming and has now started cooling!
The crucial point is that the alarmists are all possible future theory while the sunspots/cosmic rays people are effectively explaining actual data, past and present.
5/4 Nancy Does India - Gets the Big Finger. So to speak! Normally the Indians just politely ignore G. Warming and get on with raising themselves out of abject poverty, but when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rocked up to confront them they had to respond. The silence from Nancy has since been deafening - "No climate agreement without India, says US" - http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/apr/02wto.htm
One Indian response - "Hold critical debate on climate change: Montek" - "The Hindu" - http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/03/stories/2008040356171400.htm
And another - here -
"How Rah News Service" - "Montek questions Pachauri panel report" - http://howrah.org/india_news/8571.html
5/4 "One cool view of global warming." Professor Aitkin AO, a historian and political scientist, is a member of the Australian Science and Technology Council. here - http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/articles/1215521.html?src=search
"What we should not do is go down the path of carbon taxes, carbon trading and carbon caps before it is absolutely plain that there is no alternative. Why? At present such measures seem likely to be unnecessary and futile and to lead to rorts."
5/4 About Face From "The Guardian"? No it's all part of the plot. This opinion piece - "The road from Kyoto - The strategy has failed. The world must follow Japan in a radical rethink of climate change policy" - seems very encouraging.
Has the Guardian changed it's spots? Of course not. You see, virtually every signatory to the Kyoto Protocol will be in breach of their undertakings in 2012. Until now they could all sneer and jeer and threaten The USA and Australia, but 2012 is the target date on which they all fail - that is why Kyoto must be denigrated and replaced urgently - the Asians call it "face".
5/4 Gore Smudge - Oops We Missed It. It took this right wing think tank to point out the deliberate mistake - see this link here - http://www.businessandmedia.org/commentary/2008/20080402153850.aspx
I dismissed the AL Gore CBS 60 minutes item as trite media pap - below - but the following from it is a true masterpiece of political obfuscation (you don't get to be VP of the USA fer nuthin')
"Now, we're told that this ad campaign is going to cost a barrel of money. How are you paying for this?" Stahl asked.
"Well, Tipper and I - thank you again - have put all of the profits from the movie and the book that we would have otherwise gotten, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' to this," Gore said.
"All the profits?" Stahl asked.
"Correct. All that we would have received, absolutely," Gore said.
"And, not only that but, you know there is a cash component to the Nobel Peace Prize, which he was awarded. And we donated that and we matched it," Tipper Gore added.... "
smooth, charming smile from Al - Butter wouldn't melt in it's mouth!
So where is the deliberate mistake you ask? - Simple - in fact bleeding obvious! - Big Al didn't make $300M from the movie, the book, and the prize - Dan Gainor reckons there's $290 million coming from elsewhere - probably big business with their snouts in the Global Warming trough! Obviously from people Big Al wants to keep from us for our own good anyway!
I should have realized that because Al just doesn't splash $300M around like that - he's there to make it, not waste it!
All this from people who routinely say of skeptic scientists - oh, don't listen to him, he's in the pay of the evil multinationals!!
4/4 The Pot Calls The Kettle Black. Brendan Nelson just got blamed for being a Swans fan in Sydney and a St Kilda Fan in Melbourne - meanwhile Kevin07 is strutting around Europe on "Climate Change" issues while our "Ambassador For The Environment" is following a very non Euro line in Bangkok. "Australia 'reverting on climate change'" - http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23477794-29277,00.html
Greenpeace is not happy - they'll have to send in Phil Hare to mobilize the ABC and the ALP Left again! Soooo annoying!
4/4 Why "Global Warming" Works - Simple - It Doesn't Have Be True. Remember that recent Antarctica iceberg? The following links prove that it was nothing to do with Global Warming - a simple check with skeptics at the time would have proven that the Antarctic climate is cooling slightly and that It set a record sea ice extent last winter but It's too late now, everybody believes ice shelves are collapsing there - because they want to believe it. The media are completely unabashed because it was a good story and, yes, everybody does want to believe it.
The sinister aspect of it all is that the activists who feed this constant stream of mis-information into the conventional wisdom have a plan - they want to destroy industrialism and ride the wave of poverty and despair that results from that destruction - they consider themselves social engineers and must marvel at just how easy it all is.
The truth about the Wilkins Ice Sheet - http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/the_wilkins_ice_shelf_con_job/
Find a detailed pdf of the science here - http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Wilkins_Ice_Shelf_con.pdf
3/4 Please Don't Frighten The Children. Environmentalists should ask themselves what will happen when a whole generation grows up and discovers that they were lied to about Global Warming. Newsmax - Global Warming for Kids. By: Philip V. Brennan - http://www.newsmax.com/brennan/global_warming/2008/04/01/84620.html
3/4 "It All Falls Apart" - Continued. Bloomberg - "U.S. Rejects China's Call for Climate Change Funding (Correct)" - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=atHRfXGgR9bc&refer=latin_america - "China, the world's second-biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, called for developed nations to provide financial support of 0.5 percent of their GDP a year to help it and other developing nations fight global warming."
Also here - "Poor nations at climate conference demand more money to cope with global warming" - http://www.pr-inside.com/print512779.htm
3/4 The Argo buoy Spin - "Climate Science" dug out the response the National Post Argo Buoy data - here - "Comment On Weblog Titled “Josh Willis On Climate Change: Global Warming Is Real”. http://climatesci.org/2008/04/01/comment-on-weblog-by-josh-willis-titled-josh-willis-on-climate-change-global-warming-is-real/ Josh Willis is the hapless NASA scientist who has to try and explain away the slight cooling detected in the global oceans when headlines are screaming that we are in IMMINENT danger - we MUST act NOW - Global Warming is Real and happening NOW etc. etc.
Poor Josh Willis is quoted - "It is a well-established fact that human activities are heating up the planet and that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come. Climate change skeptics often highlight certain scientific results as a means of confusing this issue, and that appears to be the case with Mr. Gunter’s description of our recent results based on data from Argo buoys.
Indeed, Argo data show no warming in the upper ocean over the past four years, but this does not contradict the climate models.... "
It goes on - really jaw dropping stuff for anyone who follows the debate.
It's all a bit sad really - what these Green people have done to science and to scientists.
31/3 Non Earth Hour - The more things change the more they stay the same - everybody ignored it - nobody turned out for it - and The Media just faked it with a shot of the Harbour Bridge lights - de ja vue all over again. There was no plunge in demand - demand normalydrops at 8pm.
Andrew Bolt - http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/earth_hour_crashes_to_earth
31/3 Al Gore on CBS 60 Minutes - don't waste your time - it's a feel good personal profile - nothing new. (Do not watch it on a full stomach, however). http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/27/60minutes/main3974389.shtml It is just a matter of how long it takes before the public realizes the Globe isn't warming - it's actually cooling. I don't think the new generation will ever forgive them.
31/3 "How Volcanism Affects Climate" - http://icecap.us/images/uploads/HOW_VOLCANISM_AFFECTS_CLIMATE.pdf
31/1 Tuvalu - a mainstream media debunking from The NZ Herald - just getting it ready for the next time the old chestnut reappears! (they have to recycle the old ones with the globe now cooling!) - "Chris de Freitas: Tuvalu floods, but it's not sinking" - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/466/story.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10498927
31/3 Book Your Snow Trip Now! In fact it may be a good time to buy into the Snow Resorts from simpletons who actually believe in G. Warming. Solar cycle 23 has gone REAL quiet. ( if you can predict sunspots, you can predict climate - they follow each other very closely -
The Northern Hemisphere just had a huge season - http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Snowstorm+inches+us+closer+to+No.+1&articleId=3e1f3ca1-9255-4b6e-adb3-702b2ebb60d3
Antarctica is on track to setting another record sea ice extent - that famous ice shelf that broke off has already frozen over again - http://icecap.us/images/uploads/MISLEADING_REPORTS_ABOUT_ANTARCTICA.pdf - "And this winter is coming on quickly. Satellite images show the ice has already refrozen around the broken pieces and expanded. In fact the ice is returning so fast, it is running an amazing 60% ahead (4.0 vs 2.5 million square km extent) of last year when it set a new record."
30/3 Sorry, You've Lost Me Professor. Perhaps I'm just a bit dim, or the jargon has just rolled too far ahead of me. I know this piece by Paul Kelly is important but I just don't get it. "Garnaut warns of fixers" - "The Australian" - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23443997-2702,00.html
The bit I did get was this - "He said he would be optimistic once a proper ETS were established. "Well-designed markets can unleash the ingenuity of Australians in reducing emissions at minimum cost to the standard of living," he said.
He predicted this could be done without a noticeable effect on rising living standards."
So we build up a prosperous, egalitarian society based entirely on cheap power and fuel and we then suddenly choke off that cheap power and fuel by making it more and more expensive and elite and expect no noticeable effect on living standards. Pull the other one - it plays God Save The Queen!!!
28/3 Wind turbines - Another Greenie Fiasco. Here's a good one. Ohio, USA, decide to put up Wind Turbines to be Green and save the planet. Except birds and bats that is, they are expendable. Uh huh. I mean what's a few birds and bats when there's 2.7 billion dollars at stake (yes that's billion not million) But wait there's more - not only do folks have to pay for the very, very expensive power from the bird killers to save the planet, but, and here's the really good bit - they are going to erect a few windmills and see how many birdies they kill and if necessary they are going to shut them down during the migration season so not too many endangered species get killed. So not only do they not produce any power for the 2.7 billion dollars when the wind don't blow, but they will to be shut down if they start killing too many eagles! Strange world we live in innit?
"Windmills that kill birds & bats get a pass" - http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/26/battered.ART_ART_03-26-08_A1_HF9OFQN.html?sid=101
27/3 Plllease - Not Collapsing Ice Shelves AGAIN!! Fer Crissake can't the Global Warming alarmists come up with something new? Why do the mass media keep spewing out the propaganda unchallenged? I mean if we're facing the imminent end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it surely there is more than icebergs! A gigantic iceberg breaking apart isn't exactly melting is it? Taking the Antarctic Peninsular as typical of the whole continent is like taking Florida as typical of the whole USA.. See below for the links, but the continent set a record for sea ice extent last year - hardly G. Warming. So why does the huge G. Warming industry have to resort to repetitive cliche' - simple there is no new evidence to cite - it just ain't there anymore.
Some more objective links to explain ice shelves - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/24/ice_shelf_collapse/
and - http://www.igsoc.org/journal/54/184/j07J086.pdf
26/3 Looks Like 12 Cold Years. More Science - Looks like Global Cooling will last 12 years. http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/this_long_cycle_should_portend_a_cooling/
And here
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/SOLAR_CYCLE_LENGTH_SUNPSOT_NUMBERS_AND_TEMPERATURES.pdf
One would hope that by then it will be obvious that natural "forcings" are much much much more powerful than human Global Warming is and we do not need to spend trillions on the non existent problem.
25/3 ABC America Attacks Professor Singer. Taking advice from Greenpeace, an ABC reporter, for want of a better word, follows the party line with a personal attack on the octagenerian Professor Singer. here - click to play - http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4505513&affil=kgo .
Actually I thought the good Prof. came across very well.
I think most people are going to realize from it that there is an other argument and will seek it out.
Professor Singer actually looked a little smug - he knows the planet is now cooling and that super slick reporters and Greenpeace activists are just going to look more and more stupid as it does. His reply is here - http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/article.cfm?artId=23002
25/3 ARGO Buoys Turn On Their Masters. 3,000 ARGO buoys have become Global Warmer deniers, refusing to detect any Global Warming and actually detecting a slight cooling - OOPS.
"Perhaps The Climate Change Models Are Wrong" - Lorne Gunter, National Post - http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=8926a1d3-f43f-4f8b-811d-0a0daa3e1012&k=39580&p=1 -
"So why are some scientists now beginning to question the buoys' findings? Because in five years, the little blighters have failed to detect any global warming. They are not reinforcing the scientific orthodoxy of the day, namely that man is causing the planet to warm dangerously. They are not proving the predetermined conclusions of their human masters. Therefore they, and not their masters' hypotheses, must be wrong.
In fact, "there has been a very slight cooling," according to a U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) interview with Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a scientist who keeps close watch on the Argo findings.... "
AND
"Just look how tenaciously some scientists are prepared to cling to the climate change dogma. "It may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming," Dr. Willis told NPR.
Yeah, you know, like when you put your car into reverse you are causing it to enter a period of less rapid forward motion. Or when I gain a few pounds I am in a period of less rapid weight loss.... "
25/3 Japan - $500 Billion - Yes $BILLION!!! Wall Street Journal - "In Kyoto’s Home, Japan Tallies the Costs" - http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/03/19/in-kyotos-home-japan-tallies-the-costs/
"If getting within shouting distance of Kyoto’s targets could cost Japan $500 billion, how much would it cost to cut emissions twelve-fold more?"
Trouble with Global Warming is there is no solution to it, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and we are just going to get endlessly nagged by greenies with the end of the world is nigh.
24/3 There Is A Real Journalist At The ABC! While Kerry Obrien and Tony Jones and the Left of the Labor Party were sniveling, groveling and slobbering all over the Euro-Greenie Phil Hare last week, Micheal Duffy and Ian Coombe on the very obscure Radio Nation "Counterpoint" program were left to report something that just might be relevant to the billions upon billions we are about to spend on Global Warming - the globe stopped warming! Not only that, there was a recent conference in NY which presented a hell of a lot of science proving that humans are much, much, much, more puny than mother nature in global climate.
The "7.30 Report" and "Lateline" are obviously just keeping it all from us for our own good!
There is no transcript - listen to it here - Counterpoint 17 March 2008 - http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/cpt_20080317.mp3 - The Global Warming Item is buried into the program (which starts off with a diet item) - Go to the 26 min. 50 sec. mark in the mp3. The program link is here - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2008/2191714.htm .
I have edited out the whole item in question and posted it here -
- http://users.bigpond.net.au/grantsite/counterpoint17-3-07edited.mp3 - It's a 12Mb mp3.
(This conference gets more hits than anything - so here's the link to it)
24/3 The conference that just won't go away - "The Australian" - "Climate Facts To Warm To" - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html - "CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.
Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.
Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth still warming?"
She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."
Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"
Marohasy: "Actually, no. ......"
23/3 Australian Carbon Tax - Master of spin Kevin07 may call it a "carbon trading scheme" but when the Government sells permits to burn fuel and that is passed on to the consumer, I call it a tax because it is a tax.
So now the hapless aussie motorist is not only paying federal petrol tax and state petrol tax and is competing with hundreds of millions of Chinese and Indians for the OPEC fuel, he is now going to be slugged with a carbon tax - and that's only half of it - his power bills are going through the roof.
This "The 7.30 Report" item - "Counting the cost of carbon emissions" - http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2196083.htm contains one VERY significant LIE - "MATT PEACOCK: But against such lobbying, the Federal Government will have to weigh the consequences of inaction. This week the United Nations reported that Arctic ice sheets are melting at double the speed scientists had earlier predicted." CBS - hardly some obscure blogger - reported here - "Arctic Sea Ice Builds, But Vulnerable" - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/18/ap/tech/main3948901.shtml which is backed up by Global Sea Ice Data here - http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
and here http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/january-2008-4-sources-say-globally-cooler-in-the-past-12-months/
22/3 Or It Could Mean The Globe Isn't Warming - DURH!!! "The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat" - "Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them."
NPR - U.S. National Public Radio - should try and keep up with the science - then they wouldn't get confused - here - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025 .
See Here - Comments On The NPR Story By Richard Harris Entitled “The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat” - http://climatesci.org/2008/03/19/comments-on-the-npr-story-by-richard-harris-entitled-the-mystery-of-global-warmings-missing-heat/
And Here - HEAT STORAGE WITHIN THE EARTH SYSTEM BY ROGER A. PIELKE SR. - http://climatesci.colorado.edu/publications/pdf/R-247.pdf
20/3 CBS - Thin Ice Spin. Skeptics have known for a month or more that arctic sea Ice is back and sure enough, here is the mass media spin - it's back but it's only thin -uh huh!
Skeptics are not worried by this of course because it will look more and more stupid as the Globe gets cooler and cooler in response to the dwindling solar wind.
We know it is spin because it dismisses the record antarctic ice pack last winter with this trite little piece of obfuscation - "At the South Pole, in Antarctica, sea ice seems stable, even slightly above normal, the scientists reported. However, ice levels in Antarctica always are quite different from the Arctic and aren't as connected to the world's weather."
CBS News - "Arctic Sea Ice Builds, But Vulnerable" - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/18/ap/tech/main3948901.shtml - yeah right!
20/3 The latest Greenie Farce - Hybrids. To the Ozone Hole that will not go away, Chernobyl that only killed 23, not hundreds of thousands, toxic mercury light globes, biofuels causing mass starvation while increasing CO2 output (to name a few) - we have the latest politically correct greenie joke - "Toyota Prius proves a gas guzzler in a race with the BMW 520d " - Times On Line - http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/used_car_reviews/article3552994.ece
20/3 The Australian opposition rubs it's hands with glee and sharpens up the political knives and media follows suit as the Australian Government prepares a carbon trading scheme - "Australia to have carbon trading scheme by 2010 - minister" - http://www.physorg.com/news124947215.html - carbon trading schemes are notoriously corrupt and have NEVER had any effect on CO2 output anywhere in the world. On present form It will be a feast of boo boos.
20/3 A very good summary of the NY Conference by an Hawaiian Reporter - "2008 International Conference on Climate Change: An Intellectual Feast"
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?bfb0f7d0-188c-47eb-939e-1dd14832892b
And the Washington Post struggles to maintain objectivity in this report - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/03/AR2008030302781.html
20/3 It All Falls Apart Continued - There is no doubt Germany and Europe wanted to keep their Kyoto commitments and provide a lead to the World - It's just that it's impossible - the Greenies have conned them beautifully - "Concessions to Merkel threaten climate change plan" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/15/germany.climatechange
20/3 Waste On A Truly Gigantic Scale - $2,900,000,000,000!
The US Environmental Protection Agency - EPA - Analysis of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008.
On November 9, 2007 Senators Lieberman and Warner requested that EPA estimate the economic impacts of the S. 2191, the ‘Climate Security Act of 2007’ (now the ‘Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008’). This document constitutes EPA’s analysis in response to this request. The analysis is available online at: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/economics/economicanalyses.html or you may download it directly from here http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/downloads/s2191_EPA_Analysis.pdf.
Their conclusions ain’t pretty.
EPA estimates that LW may reduce GDP by $2.9 trillion in 2050 while reducing atmospheric CO2 by around 25 ppm by 2095.
What a bargain — reduce GDP by an estimated 6.9 percent for no meaningful change in atmospheric CO2!
NOTE - I am more and more uneasy with this, on philosophical grounds - the whole G. Warming fiasco is based on the preposterous notion that we can predict the future - we cannot - with computer models - or with economics - if we could predict the future of the economy the economists would not need to work for a living - they would keep it to themselves and become very rich. Greenies claim that it will all be, not only alright, but beneficial - skeptics should not fall into the trap of matching their crystal ball gazing. It is however self explanatory that cheap power and fuel have brought wealth and prosperity to the masses in the west and that making it expensive and elite will choke that prosperity and bring instant poverty.
19/3 It All Falls Apart - or what Kevin07 discovered on his theatrical visit to the Bali love-in.
China and India are not going to take any crap from the old world - "India, for example, has an emission of one tonne per capita. The US is 20 tons per capita. So I have no idea why India should be a major emitter," Indian climate official Ajay Mathur said late Saturday.
MAKUHARI, Japan, March 15. Japan is hosted weekend talks of the world's top 20 greenhouse gas emitters in a bid to push forward the slow-moving negotiations on a new treaty after Kyoto, whose obligations expire in 2012.
It was a TOTAL DISASTER. China and India are quite happy to let the decadent West self destruct - this century will belong to them. A chinaman in a space suit salutiing the hammer and sickle on the moon will symbolize it.
Reports on the non-event at Makuhari are here - http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/16/content_7799763.htm - http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSSP86019._CH_.2400 - http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jbpJ2oo4XAaJp7ZBs_zWDU1pgZ2g - http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=143&art_id=nw20080316102120201C350328 - http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUST132482
19/3 I have never heard of this "Eco World" website, but I have certainly heard of the the impressive authors of their current series of articles - Lindzen and now Mark Morano - "The Debate Resumes" - http://www.ecoworld.com/home/articles2.cfm?tid=453
19/3 Beating them to death with a wet lettuce? - "EU leaders promise to act against China and US in carbon crusade" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/eu-leaders-promise-to-act-against-china-and-us-in-carbon-crusade-796271.html
18/3 The State Attorney General of California - Jerry Brown - published this trite bit of Greenie propaganda - "Global Warming Contrarians and the Falsehoods they Promote" - here - http://ag.ca.gov/globalwarming/contrarians.php - I just had to write all over it - here - http://home.austarnet.com.au/yours/Global%20Warming%20Contrarians.htm and here
17/3 Channel 7 Panics - Brings On "On Thin Ice" Before the Globe Cools Anymore
Last week we had a visit from the Greenpeace activist Phil Hare who was here to prop up wavering support for Global Warming by Labor after they finally discovered that they had been making impossible election promises on it. It is no co-incidence that "On Thin Ice" suddenly appeared on 7.
Channel Seven have adopted G. Warming as a cause. Trouble is, the Globe stopped Warming - not only stopped warming but started cooling.
Channel Seven are going to look more and more stupid as the Globe becomes less and less hot and more and more cold.
No amount of political spin can disguise the fact that mother nature is proving much more powerful than we are.
But - I hear you say - this is just one cold winter and the inevitable end of a drought. Yes, that's fine, BUT, Mr Hare, the IPCC and Channel Seven, the ABC and the CSIRO have been claiming for 2 decades that CO2 is entirely responsible for climate changes and that "natural forcings" are on a much longer time scale and so can be completely ignored.
Satellites measure the whole Earth temperature and the data shows not just a fall, but a dramatic drop in global temperature last year.
Not only that but the Arctic sea ice is back to normal and the Antarctic sea ice just set a record for winter.
Whether this is a short term or a long term cooling remains to be seen BUT it has already PROVEN 3 things.
ONE - The UN IPCC and their computer models failed to predict it.
TWO - The UN IPCC was wrong to claim that "natural forcings" can be ignored.
THREE - Whatever we do about "climate change" can be easily neutralized by "natural forcings" which are clearly much more powerful than anthropogenic CO2.
Not only that, but the same satellite data shows that G. Warming stopped about 10 years ago now and there is a distinct downturn.
Here's a new "Summary For Policy Makers"
Global Temp data here - http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc.lt
Global Sea Ice Data here - http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
and here http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/january-2008-4-sources-say-globally-cooler-in-the-past-12-months/
17/3 Hey, Nobel Prize Winners, Answer Me This by Roy W. Spencer University of Alabama in Huntsville
As a climate scientist, I would like to see some answers to a few basic global warming science questions which I’m sure the U.N.’s Ministry of Global Warming Truth (also known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) can handle. After all, since they are 90% confident that recent global warming is man made, they surely must have already addressed these issues:
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Hey-Nobel-Prize-Winners-Answer-Me-This.pdf
I can answer his questions - The IPCC is not science - the notion of using computer modeling to predict the future was always patently absurd - We have just been visited by an "IPCC Lead Author"- Phil Hare - here in AUS - he's actually a Greenpeace Activist see here - http://junkscience.com/blog_js/2008/03/11/ngos-and-the-ipcc/ (also here http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2187890.htm)- so the dire warnings of "scientists" was actually written by at least one political activist. It is not science, it was never science. I don't blame Dr Spencer for getting exasperated.
16/3 Snouts in the trough - The trouble with creating the multi-billion dollar Carbon Trading fiasco is that it becomes self propagating and very difficult to stop - "Economist Strikes Gold In Climate-Change Fight" - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120535230851631199.html
16/3 OMG - Not Tuvalu - AGAIN!!! - http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10842290.htm - Tuvalu is a coral atoll - it is fortunate that the coral can grow much, much faster than the sea level can rise or it would have been swamped 10,000 years ago when the sea level started to rise after the Ice Age, Europeans have done a lot of damage to the Island - most prominently by giving then a cargo cult mentality. I repeat the JunkScience reference which debunks the Tuvalu furphy very effectively - http://junkscience.com/blog_js/2008/01/23/sea-level-rise-paradise-lost-tuvalu/
16/3 NOAA - Climate of 2008 February in Historical Perspective - National Climatic Data Center - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/feb/feb08.html - "In the contiguous United States, the average winter temperature was 33.2°F (0.6°C), which was 0.2°F (0.1°C) above the 20th century average - yet still ranks as the coolest since 2001. It was the 54th coolest winter since national records began in 1895."
Of more interest is that despite the La Nina there was more precipitation - "Winter precipitation was much above average from the Midwest to parts of the West, notably Kansas, Colorado and Utah. Although moderate-to-strong La Niña conditions were present in the equatorial Pacific the winter was unique for the above average rain and snowfall in the Southwest, where La Niña typically brings drier-than-average conditions."
This is consistent with the Solar Connection theory - that is, when the sun calms (as it has) the Earth clouds up and the Earth's surface cools and makes G. Warming alarm look more and more stupid - will the bubble burst or will it just fade into obscurity is the only question - along with how much economic damage it does to the poor and middle class before it dies.
15/3 The Lunatic Fringe is not happy with Kevin07 - http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/garn-m14.shtml - that's good news - now there's the little problem of keeping G. Warming election promises which will impoverish millions of Australians - this'll be interesting - has the master of spin bitten off more than he can chew? I was queuing up with the pensioners to vote today - they are never going to forgive him!
15/3 New Gallup poll shows Americans are very underwhelmed with Global Warming alarm - here it is - interpret it yourself - http://www.gallup.com/poll/104932/Polluted-Drinking-Water-No-Concern-Before-Report.aspx Even with the very, very cold winter it must be a big worry for the G. Warming industry.
15/3 The "New Scientist" is a greenie magazine and makes the usual mistake of confusing carbon dioxide with pollution, but in doing so it only succeeds in pointing out the futility of western attempts to curb global carbon output without China - China will have to go back and filter sulfur and particulates when they become fully westernized, but otherwise greenies should go back to saving frogs! - "China emissions to swamp Kyoto reductions by 2010" http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13447-china-emissions-to-swamp-kyoto-reductions-by-2010.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
This Seattle Time report confirms that - "China promotes new era of coal-fired energy, despite pollution" - http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=00682b74-e6dd-4023-a454-eba84a1137a3
14/3 You're Scaring Them to Death!!!
"America and China face trade protection measures from Europe if they fail to join a global climate deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol, EU leaders will caution at their summit in Brussels today.
Nations that refuse to curb greenhouse gases will be told that they face “appropriate measures” — code for trade sanctions — if they try to gain a competitive advantage by continuing to allow cheap, high-pollution production."
Europe exports its high pollution industries and then threatens to penalise those countries with trade sanctions - OH PLLLEASE!!
9/5 The BBC Try To Explain. The BBC environment reporter, faced with mounting evidence of global cooling tries to explain away why the computer models were wrong. Thats fine, but-
THE WHOLE BLOODY GLOBAL WARMING FIASCO IS COMPLETELY, TOTALLY, WHOLLY, UNEQUIVOCALLY, DEPENDENT ON COMPUTER MODELS!!!
Sorry for shouting, but it really is exasperating. No computer models - No Global Warming.
This Greenie environment writer then has the gall to acknowledge what cynics have said from the start - computer models cannot resolve clouds. They were predicting climate catastrophe with computer models which still cannot resolve cloud behaviour.
Read the mea culpa here - "Climate prediction: No model for success" - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7381250.stm
8/5 How NASA's Hansen Fixes The Data. Or why I don't trust GISS or the Goddard Space Institute run by James "I'm Being suppressed By Deniers" Hansen.
When you've been making a big name and a lot of money for yourself predicting the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it and your data suddenly shows the opposite, it is very tempting to just "fix" the data.
To it's great credit The Hadley Climate Center, even amid the current UK hysteria, has resisted that temptation, but Hansen has not. Like all fanatics if the data disagrees with the dogma then it must be a temporary glitch in the data which can just be smoothed out.
Lets all hope that he finally discredits himself so much that he fades out from the media completely.
Read all about it -
"Is the earth getting warmer, or cooler?" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/a_tale_of_two_thermometers/
and
"Does 'climate change' mean 'changing data'?" - http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63360
8/5 The Gall of Gore! One would think that when he put hurricane Katrina on his poster and claimed the disaster as Global Warming and since then hurricanes have virtually stopped in the USA, big Al would have learned his lesson, but no, here he's popped up again - yes, you guessed it - claiming the Burma Disaster. The science is, of course, that hurricanes and all other storms rely on a large temperature/pressure difference, NOT an overall warming or cooling of the planet.
"Al Gore Calls Myanmar Cyclone a 'Consequence' of Global Warming" - groan - http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080506160205.aspx
7/5 j = σ T⁴. Want some extremely esoteric scientific jargon? Read this - "Average temperature vs average irradiance" - http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/05/average-temperature-vs-average.html
btw that's The Stefan-Boltzmann equation.
Of course - silly me!! Unfortunately, the science has been "settled" so nobody is listening to them anymore (if they ever were!).
Superstition has triumphed.
7/5 Latest Satellite Global Temp.
The latest Global satellite temperature data (for April) is in.
Bad news for the Alarmists.
The bounce back up has stopped. Global cooling concerns continue.
"RSS MSU LT Global Temperature Anomaly for April 2008 - flat" - http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/rss-msu-lt-global-temperature-anomaly-for-april-2008-flat/
7/5 More and More Trivial Pap. Global Warming relies on a constant stream of sensational little tidbits, but even the modern media must preserve some credibility. As the Arctic and Greenland ice bounces back, Antarctica sets new records for ice extent, the global temperature refuses to rise and has now started falling and the Argo Buoy data refuses to confirm what it's supposed too, all the UK media environmental reporters will become more and more desperate to keep up the flow. So here's what we get -"Surge in fatal shark attacks blamed on global warming" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/04/wildlife.climatechange . I rest my case.
4/5 It's Official - whoopsie - the Globe seems to be cooling - but don't worry Greenies, a new computer model predicts it will get catastrophically warmer later!
A new computer model? - what happened to the old ones?
The old computer models, on which the IPCC based the whole doomsday theory, are just casually discarded. That's the beauty about models - when you don't like the old ones you just make new one!
The IPCC was obviously wrong about "natural forcings" being irrelevant as well. Natural forcings are back with a vengeance!
How much more bullcrap are we expected to take from these people? They just keep getting it wrong don't they?
The elephant-in-the-room is. of course. that if the Globe can just cool for 10 years as we continue to pump out CO2 at an almost exponential rate, then we obviously can ignore the whole Global Warming alarm - climate change is here and is happening now and it is not human!!!
Mother Nature has made fools of the Greenies yet again!
To labour the analogy a little, the rhino-in-the room is what is really controlling the global temperature? - what causes the El Nino/La Nina phenomena? Is Helios more powerful than Gaia? Don't mention the war - or the Sun!!!
Senator Inhofe rejoices here - "BREAKING NEWS: 'Global Warming Will Stop,' New Peer-Reviewed Study Says Global Warming Takes a Break for Nearly 20 Years?" - http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=a17defa8-802a-23ad-4912-8ab7138a7c3f&Issue_id
at the news reported in The NY Times - "In a New Climate Model, Short-Term Cooling in a Warmer World" -
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/science/earth/01climate.html?scp=1&sq=In+a+New+Climate+Model%2C+Short-Term+Cooling+in+a+War
mer+World&st=nyt
and here in the UK Telegraph - "Global warming may 'stop', scientists predict" - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/30/eaclimate130.xml
3/5 China, India, and now Russia smile indulgently, pat the euro greenie movement on the head and just ignore them. Perhaps one day China, India, and Russia will be so wealthy that they can afford such decadent self abuse also, but not yet. This century will belong to them.
"Russia says has no plans to cap carbon emissions" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7489862
"Russia will not accept binding caps on its greenhouse gas emissions under a new climate regime, currently being negotiated to succeed the Kyoto Protocol after 2012, top officials said on Monday."
2/5 Not Happy Helen! As we Aussies prepare to follow them down the carbon trading path, New Zealanders prepare to pay about $1000 per household for being politically correct - no other reason - the globe's stopped warming and may be getting colder - but as they compete for food and fuel with the nouveau riche in china and India, Kiwis are all expecting everyone else to pay - not them personally.
"Government defends climate change scheme" - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=144&objectid=10507093
"Govt emissions plan will hurt more than necessary - report"- http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10507098&pnum=0
29/4 This Sydney Morning Herald item - "Extreme weather is here to stay" - Ben Cubby, Environment Reporter - http://www.smh.com.au/news/water-issues/extreme-weather-is-here-to-stay/2008/04/27/1209234655241.html - exemplifies one of the real tragedies of Global Warming - the real science is being suppressed.
Instead of Professor Matthew England, co-director of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of NSW, warning us that the sunspot activity has virtually stopped and that the next solar cycle has just not started, and the global satellite data shows not only no warning, but now a distinct cooling and that we should be prepared for the strong possibility of a lot more rain and snow and colder temperatures and even another "little ice age" what do we get?
We get what we deserve when we set the good professor up in a fancy office in a multi-million dollar research center and pay him and his colleagues millions of dollars to research "Global Warming".
He's not going to tell the SMH environment reporter that the globe stopped warming and probably won't start up again for quite some time.
Tell ya what, though, I'll bet that he and his colleagues are all lining up a new sinecure!!
27/4 Cardinal Pell writing in "The Sunday Telegraph" Points out some salient facts to consider.
"Politicians sceptical of these claims would need unusual courage to resist the strong tides of public opinion. However the rest of us are not so constrained and we should consider all the available information.
Three points are of some significance... "
Click here to read it - http://www.sydney.catholic.org.au/Archbishop/STC/2008/2008420_382.shtml
26/4 Science.
"Internal Radiative Forcing And The Illusion Of A Sensitive Climate System“ by Roy Spencer University of Alabama at Huntsville
Click here to read...
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/illusion_of_sensitive_climate_system.html
"Many of us, especially those who were trained as meteorologists, have long questioned the climate research community’s reliance on computerized climate models for global warming projections. In contrast to our perception that the real climate system is constantly readjusting to internal fluctuations in ways that stabilize the system, climate models built upon measured climate behavior invariably suggest a climate system that is quite sensitive - sometimes catastrophically sensitive — to perturbations such as those from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, it has been difficult to articulate our ‘hand-waving’ concerns in ways that the modelers would appreciate, i.e., through equations."
26/4 Do We Aussies Really Want This UK Mess?
UK Telegraph - "'Useless' green levy on drivers rakes in £4bn"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/24/nlevy124.xml
"However, the Telegraph has seen Treasury projections which disclose that while the amount raised from car tax will more than double - from £1.9 billion to £4.4 billion by 2010 - carbon dioxide emissions from motoring are expected to drop by less than one per cent."
UK Independent - "Dominic Lawson: The staggering cost of renewable energy"
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-the-staggering-cost-of-renewable-energy-813350.html
"According to Mr Golby, meeting such a commitment will involve an increase in electricity generating costs of about £10bn per year; this is equivalent to almost £400 per household – or, in the roughest terms, an increase of about 40 per cent in annual electricity bills. Try selling that to the British public; and, of course, the Government hasn't..."
26/4 Where is Solar Cycle 24?
"The next 11-year cycle of solar storms (known as Solar Cycle 24) was predicted to have begun in autumn, 2006, but it appears to have been seriously delayed [see: ‘Spotty Science’, November 21]. It was then expected to take off in March last year, and to peak in late-2011, or mid-2012. But, as you can see for yourself from the image, the Sun remains spotless, except for one fading spot. This delayed onset has somewhat confused the official Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Panel, leaving them evenly split on whether a weak or a strong period of solar storms now lies ahead.
Other scientists, however, are more concerned... "
Click here - "Keeping You Up-To-Date" - http://web.mac.com/sinfonia1/Global_Warming_Politics/A_Hot_Topic_Blog/Entries/2008/4/24_Keeping_You_Up-To-Date.html
26/4 Newsweek Mentions The War. The Green Phanton. "Global warming's curious absence as a campaign issue."
Read it here - http://www.newsweek.com/id/133652/
26/4 Andrew Bolt On Tim Flannery's Predictions.
"How the weather mocks Flannery. He's flooded in Sydney, where he predicted drought, and snowed in in Canada when he predicted heat."
Read it here - "Prophecy all washed up" - Herald Sun - http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23594184-25717,00.html
26/4 US Senator Inhofe on the proposed USA Carbon Trading Bill - just substitute "Australia" for "America" - "The United States Senate will soon begin to debate a global warming cap-and-trade bill that, if passed, would impose severe economic constraints on American families and American workers for no environmental gain. We have had this debate before, starting with the rejection of the Kyoto Protocol in 1998, then again in 2003, and again in 2005. Each time, these cap-and-trade measures were defeated for two simple reasons: they did not include developing nations; and because of the significant economic impact on the American public. With the American economy facing troubles, now is certainly not the time to try this costly experiment."
Very good stuff from an elected representative. Published in "The Washington Times" - read it here - http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Facts&ContentRecord_id=777d68fb-802a-23ad-4c89-67667f412585
24/4 The solar Link "The Australian" is putting out some good stuff lately.
"Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh" - Phil Chapman is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer who lives in San Francisco. He was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut.
click here to read - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23583376-7583,00.html
and...
"Coal isn't cool but our growth depends on it." - "Shall we stop all this, Prime Minister, or stick with symbolism?"
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23583375-7583,00.html
24/4 Watermelons! The Environmentalists' Real Agenda by "Investor's Business Daily" - "Ideologies: Once in a while the truth accidentally tumbles out on global warming activists' real agenda. That's exactly what happened at the U.N., when Bolivia's leader called for ending capitalism to save the planet".
Click here - http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=293758110252962
24/4 A very good list of Scientific Peer Reviewed papers against Global Warming - http://petesplace-peter.blogspot.com/2008/04/peer-reviewed-articles-skeptical-of-man.html - duplicated here - http://home.austarnet.com.au/yours/Peer_Reviewed_Climate_Science_April08.html
22/4 Climate Change 101. A very good summary of the anti case - "Climate Change 101: Key Global Warming Facts" by Dennis T. Avery co author of "Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years" click here - http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5164
22/4 Carbon Trading Rorts. Book - "Money for Nothing" - Carbon cartels and the rise of a phantom industry By John Charles. http://www.brainstormnw.com/coverstory.html
22/4 Ruskies Get Bolshie Mit Der Shermans. In a stupid attempt to be Greener than Green, Germany sold it's energy supply to Russia and the Russians are quite prepared to leverage it - OOPS.
Do Germans Fear Global Warming More Than the Russians - Sunday Commentary - inRich.com - http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion/commentary.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-04-20-0092.html
22/4 E.U. Facing Business Backlash. The Energy Tribune again - another very good piece - on how Europe finds that cutting carbon emissions is far easier said than done. Read it here - http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=865
22/4 Sinister Forces Attack US Power Supply. And They're not Arab Terrorists! The evil Sierra Club again. Greenies have the luxury of trying to bring society down without worrying about what to replace it with or with getting re-elected. They elect themselves and use the powerful US court system to bring radical change. "Activists play climate card in fight over coal" by Judy Pasterrnak Los Angeles Times - http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5713955.html
22/4 UK Telegraph Redeems Itself. "Stop The CO2 Scare Before Its Too Late" - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/20/do2002.xml
21/4 Glenn Beck Again - Mainstream US TV - pours scorn on the BBC Email scandal (see below) - UTube VIDEO - click here - http://youtube.com/watch?v=216v5AoQcFQ
20/4 Professor Carter On Mainstream TV. As 1000 "distinguished Australians" are peeing in each others pockets to make themselves feel all warm and fuzzy with political correctness, distinguished Uni of Townsville Prof. Bob Carter warns newzulanders about carbon trading and G. Warming superstition.
Says there are the deniers and there are the alarmists, but the huge bulk of scientists are in the middle on the issue but are afraid to speak up.
Watch it here - UTUBE - "Climate Change - has it been canceled?" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgaeyMa3jyU
19/4 Radio. A very interesting radio discussion in the UK about the "Climate Change issue" - some debate also.
"Climate Change Special".
Click here to listen - http://www2.talksport.net/shows/show.asp?showId=100719&id=102415&c=100043&sCatType=shows
16/4 Japan's Guilt Money. While the global output of CO2 rises almost exponentially Japan buys its way out of Kyoto,
"Japan Ups CO2 Offset Buying As Nuclear Power Slows" - http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=47959&newsdate=15-Apr-2008
So what's a carbon offset I hear you say?
Why, It's the biggest racket ever invented.
Example 1 - The farmer who is paid to not clear his land.
Example 2 - Planting trees which only fix carbon when they grow and then release it again when they rot or burn.
Example 3 - The Russians take the billions of yen from Japan and use it to dramatically increase their own carbon output in blatant disregard for Kyoto!
The list is very long - see below.
16/4 The British Antarctic Servey has published this interesting paper in which it hides a huge amount of bad news for alarmists in amounts politically correct waffle. "Climate Change - Our View" - here - http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/our_views/climate_change.php
15/4 How They're Defending Themselves. This is The Spin. Faced with the down-turn in temperature and up-turn in precipitation - "Climate experts predict temperature drop" - UK Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/10/eaclimate110.xml .
Basically they blame it on La Nina in the Pacific - quite what causes the la Nina/El Nino phenomena is not discussed - they do correspond with sunspots but that is politically incorrect of course.
The Telegraph then claims that the floods and storms that have come with the down-turn in global temperatures are caused by - yes - you guessed it - Global Warming - with the wonderfully specious argument that it may be getting colder now but it is still warmer than 1961 to 1990 - yes 1961 fer crissake! The Tele never worries about insulting the gravitas and intelligence of it's readers for good reason I suppose!
So the global temperature plunges way down below average and we get freezing cold winters thick snow and floods but it's all caused by Global Warming.
Mmmm.
Of course the elephant-in-the room is that there is now no need to panic. "Natural forcings" were dismissed by the IPCC as irrelevant, but here they are, back with a vengeance!!
Despite our continuing, almost exponential, output of CO2 the Planet seems to be self-regulating very nicely thank you.
12/4 Self Destruction. We elected a Kevin07 but we got the ALP left. Nobody controls them! This complaint from our biggest exporter will only encourage them more!
"Don Voelte, the head of Woodside, which operates the North West Shelf gas project, Australia's biggest resources development, said while the Government was saying trade-exposed industries would have transitional arrangements under the scheme, there were no details and no evidence that such a plan could work."
Read it here - "Woodside finds carbon scheme lacking" - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23514872-2702,00.html
11/4 AL Gore Pontificates - New. I don't know about you but I find the evangelism of this latest talk - click here - http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/243 really quite chilling. It is just so dangerous, ignorance and superstition and self righteousness is a very alarming mix - and the liberties and contempt for science are really quite appalling - puts creationists to shame.
We are supposed to be facing the imminent end-of the-world-as-we-know-it and what new evidence does he have? Nothing. Yes nothing.
- He cites Arctic sea ice - again. WRONG. Arctic sea ice extent is bouncing back up. Antarctic sea ice just set a record extent. He flippantly says "comes back in winter" well if it "comes back in winter" how is it Global Warming!!! Oh it's only thin - it "comes back" every winter, but it's only thin "its vulnerable" vulnerable to what?! Perhaps we should just wait until it doesn't come back in winter before we cite it as "Global Warming". Groan.
- But wait! It gets worse. This supposed lack of ice in autumn, which always comes back in winter anyway, is putting pressure on Greenland - What?! Putting pressure on Greenland fer crissake! Like, uh, HOW?!
- Then he quickly mentions the Antarctic melt water - another annual event which is perfectly normal - in fact slightly less now. Groan again.
- Then he resorts to comparing Earth and Venus. He makes an elementary mistake - all the Earth's carbon is tied up in limestone and other carbonaceous rock - the atmosphere and fossil fuels are actually very trivial in proportion.
- Then he makes another elementary mistake - Planet Mercury is cooler than Venus - yes - but that's because it has no atmosphere - it's like saying the Moon is cooler than the Earth. It depends if you're in light or shade! Earth and Venus have atmospheres, but Earth's is very thin - mostly nitrogen - while Venus' is very thick - mostly CO2 and it receives much, much, more heat than Earth (watts per square meter decreases logarithmically from the Sun).
- Then he spouts an outrageous LIE. Skeptics do NOT claim that Earth's temperature is regulated by variations in energy from the Sun. They claim that variations in sunspot activity cause the solar wind to vary and the solar wind decreases the cosmic ray flux and that reduces cloud cover - more clouds cool the planet and vice versa. This mechanism - confirmed experimentally - explains the FACTS (as opposed to Al's G. W. THEORY) that the Earth's temperature very closely follows both sunspot activity and volcanism and that cooling is always coincident with increased precipitation..
9/4 BBC Egg on Face!!! In a stupid bite-the hand-that-feeds them move, Greenies have severely embarrassed the BBC environment dept., by posting a private email..
These links show the embarrassing Email exchange behind the altering of the BBC News item, mentioned below, to satisfy the fanatics - an interesting expose' of how we skeptics are affecting them.
See the whole fascinating exchange here... http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/002906.html
and here... http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1207342907.html
here's an excerpt...
"Otherwise, I would have to conclude that you are insufficiently
educated to be able to know when you have been psychologically
manipulated. And that would make you an unreliable reporter.
"I am about to send your comments to others for their contribution,
unless you request I do not. They are likely to want to post your
comments on forums/fora, so please indicate if you do not want this to
happen. You may appear in an unfavourable light because it could be
said that you have had your head turned by the sceptics.
Respectfully,
jo.
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from Roger Harrabin
to Jo Abbess ,
date Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:28 AM
subject RE: Correction Demanded : "Global temperatures 'to decrease'"
Have a look in 10 minutes and tell me you are happier
We have changed headline and more.
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9/4 Antarctica - More Good news. Too late for a media retraction I suppose! Yes that huge Iceberg was NOT the Wilkins Ice Shelf breaking up - Satellite data measuring meltwater, confirms the satellite data reporting a cooling southern hemisphere and a record sea ice extent down there last winter.
"Recent Data On Surface Snowmelt In Antarctica" - http://climatesci.org/2008/04/07/recent-data-on-surface-snowmelt-in-antarctica/
9/4 Solar Cycle Update. "Solar cycle minimum at the earliest in second half of 2008?"
SC24 = solar cycle 24
"The start of SC24 is not to be expected prior to July 2008, and in all likelihood might even take place only in the first half of 2009. This conclusion matches perfectly the results one can make from evolution of the number of spotless days. Nonetheless, SC23 would be one of the longest in over 100 years, possibly even in over 160 years."
That's good news for G.W. skeptics and snow bunnies but unfortunately very bad news for all humanity in mid to high latitudes.
Click here - http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/solar-cycle-minimum-at-the-earliest-in-second-half-of-2008/
8/4 A very good assessment of Climate Change politics by Brad Norington in "The Australian" - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23487282-11949,00.html The ALP & Unions are far from united on it - quite a few skeptics apparently.
8/4 So Orwellian! World Health Day. The UN WHO, having been taken over by Greenie activists, tries to improve the health of billions by demanding that they stay in abject poverty as noble savages until they can afford wind turbines, solar panels, compact fluros and biofuels - yeah right!
Well there's too many of them anyway! They'll just have to do the decent thing and die - die to save the planet.
"WHO catches Climate Fever" - http://junkscience.com/blog_js/2008/02/18/who-catches-climate-fever/
8/4 The bloggers get stuck into the new Gore Ad. campaign - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/06/only-young-people-democrats-respond-positively-gores-new-ad
and... http://www.philanthropy.com/giveandtake/index.php?id=541
and... http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-vadum/2008/04/01/media-ignores-al-gores-planned-global-warming-profiteering
and... http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-vadum/2008/04/06/al-gore-responds-newsbusters-denies-global-warming-his-meal-ticket
The point being that Al is in it for a quid and see the huge amounts of money involved in the Global Warming/Alternate Energy business now.
8/4 Bizarre. There's not much in this story - "Earth in crisis, warns NASA's top climate scientist" - Terra Daily - http://www.terradaily.com/2007/080407011650.dyqm0pmz.html - except just how shrill James I'm-being-suppressed-by-deniers Hansen is becoming as his own global temperature data resists his attempts to prop it up and just continues to fall.
What is truly remarkable however, is that he is there with his hand out for US$50,000 with our John Howard!!!
""It's analogous to an engineer who sees that there's a flaw in the space shuttle before it is to be launched. You don't have any choice. You have to say something. That's really all that I'm doing," he explained.
Hansen was in Wilmington to receive a 50,000 dollar Common Wealth Award for outstanding achievement, along with the former prime minister of Australia John Howard, the US actress Glenn Close, and NBC news anchor Ann Curry.
Howard, who would not sign the Kyoto protocol when he was in office, told AFP: "I thought it was the right policy at the time because the major emitters" were not on board."
He added: "You need a new Kyoto protocol with all the major emitters committed to it. Then you are cooking with gas.""
Now that's really balancing things out, John Howard and James Hansen! (Should say, to use Hansen's own analogy - he is delaying a Shuttle launch for nothing - the globe stopped warming and he knows it!)
7/4 Lord Nigel Lawson, former UK Chancellor. Zealotry over global warming could damage our Earth far more than climate change. A good essay.
"The new religion of global warming, however convenient it may be to the politicians, is not as harmless as it may appear. Indeed, the more one examines it, the more it resembles a Da Vinci Code of environmentalism. It is a great story, and a phenomenal bestseller. It contains a grain of truth - and a mountain of nonsense". Lord Nigel Lawson, former UK Chancellor the Exchequer.
NZ Climate Science Coalition - http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239&Itemid=1
7/4 Professor Bob Carter has popped up again - "Courier Mail" - "What's so special about global warming, Mr Blair, asks Bob Carter" -
click here - http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/2008%2003-31%20RMC%20on%20Blair%20in%20Courier%20Mail.pdf
and in "The Australian" - http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/2008%2003-18%20RMC%20Aus%20letter%20on%20Blair.jpg
7/4 Et tu CO2 - then Global Warming - die! First the freezing cold winters, then the global satellite record, then the global sea ice data, then the Argo buoy data, and now Mauna Loa carbon dioxide data has turned on them.
Early days yet, but "less rapid warming" aka cooling has led to "less rapid" CO2 rise - aka dropping?. Not a good time for alarmists!
"CO2 monthly mean at Mauna Loa leveling off, dropping?" - click here - http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/co2-monthly-mean-at-mauna-loa-leveling-off/
and here for the NOAA data - http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
7/4 I Was Hoping This Would happen. The smart thing for the BBC and It's fanatical environment writers, Richard Black and Roger Harrabin is to let G. Warming fade away and to go back to frogs and whales.
Instead, driven by prejudice, they have now got themselves into the position of trying to dispute facts and data, not theories. It is no longer their doomsday theory being attacked the skeptics, it is their doomsday theory being attacked by the data.
"Natural forcings", far from being irrelevant as claimed, have turned on them with a vengeance. "Global Warming is real, it is happening, we must act - Now" was the great catch cry and the more they prop it up, the more stupid they are going to look.
The latest pathetic effort at turning back the tide - "Global temperatures 'to decrease' " - click here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329799.stm
has given the skeptics a field day - "Global temperatures going down imply temperatures will go up" - click here - http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/scarewatch/bbc_scarewatch_temps_down_temps_up.html
and here (in pdf form) - http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/scarewatch/bbc_scare_temps.pdf
6/4 Nothing Like A Good Power Plant. Julie Walsh, CEI - http://www.globalwarming.org/node/1996 - "Nigeria needs more power plants to be able to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Yes, more. They have the seventh largest gas reserves in the world, but haven’t turned these into electricity. Most of the population still uses wood for cooking, as does rural India.
Last August, scientists found that these “dirty brown clouds created by millions of cooking fires in Asia contribute as much to global warming as greenhouse gas emissions.”"
6/4 The Wind Power Farce. This gem of an article is choc full of detail on the stupidity of these monsters that litter our countryside and force up our power bills. "Overblown: The Real Cost of Wind Power" - http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=842
"A “load factor” of just over 30 percent is recommended for a wind farm to be economically viable. However, many of Britain's onshore farms have been running at around 20 percent, with some in urban areas dropping as low as 9 percent. Oswald believes that overly relying on wind power will result in major power failures across the U.K. and an increase of up to 50 percent in electricity bills. While nothing comes close to the capricious aspect of nature itself, the industry also still suffers from some severe technical difficulties... "
and...
"Much has been written about Denmark's success as the world's wind power pioneer. But the regularly repeated claim – that Denmark generates 20 percent of its electricity demand from wind sources – is highly misleading. That 20 percent of electricity is not supplied continuously from wind power. Denmark’s wind supply is so variable that it relies heavily on neighbors Norway and Sweden, taking their excess production... "
5/4 NSW Treasurer Vents On Garnaut. Still smarting from having the rug pulled out from under his power privatization Michael Costa has attacked Ross trust-me-I'm-a-doctor-this-won't-hurt-a-bit Garnaut by claiming it will cost a staggering $439 billion with a "B" and wipe out 4% of the economy.
Read it here - SMH - http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/greenhouse-gas-cuts-will-cost-430b/2008/04/03/1206851105550.html
Nobody can predict the future BUT we do live a society that is based on cheap power and fuel and it is really quite predictable what will happen if we suddenly make it all very expensive and elite - not rocket science.
5/4 The BBC - Some Rare Debate. Obviously stung by the distinct possibility that the Globe may be now cooling this article - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7327393.stm is a rather pathetic attempt to discredit the solar - cosmic ray - cloud connection. It does get one thing right though -
""We started on this game because of Svensmark's work," said Terry Sloan from Lancaster University. "If he is right, then we are going down the wrong path of taking all these expensive measures to cut carbon emissions; if he is right, we could carry on with carbon emissions as normal."
The sunspot/global temperature link is actually very close - if you can predict sunspots you can predict global temperature.
Richard Black also confuses the IPCC report which actually only dismisses solar radiance not the cosmic/ray sunspot link in a crude attempt to claim the very small late 20th century rise as anthropogenic and dismissing "natural forcings" - a BIG boo boo because now they need "natural forcings" to explain away why the globe stopped warming and has now started cooling!
The crucial point is that the alarmists are all possible future theory while the sunspots/cosmic rays people are effectively explaining actual data, past and present.
5/4 Nancy Does India - Gets the Big Finger. So to speak! Normally the Indians just politely ignore G. Warming and get on with raising themselves out of abject poverty, but when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rocked up to confront them they had to respond. The silence from Nancy has since been deafening - "No climate agreement without India, says US" - http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/apr/02wto.htm
One Indian response - "Hold critical debate on climate change: Montek" - "The Hindu" - http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/03/stories/2008040356171400.htm
And another - here -
"How Rah News Service" - "Montek questions Pachauri panel report" - http://howrah.org/india_news/8571.html
5/4 "One cool view of global warming." Professor Aitkin AO, a historian and political scientist, is a member of the Australian Science and Technology Council. here - http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/articles/1215521.html?src=search
"What we should not do is go down the path of carbon taxes, carbon trading and carbon caps before it is absolutely plain that there is no alternative. Why? At present such measures seem likely to be unnecessary and futile and to lead to rorts."
5/4 About Face From "The Guardian"? No it's all part of the plot. This opinion piece - "The road from Kyoto - The strategy has failed. The world must follow Japan in a radical rethink of climate change policy" - seems very encouraging.
Has the Guardian changed it's spots? Of course not. You see, virtually every signatory to the Kyoto Protocol will be in breach of their undertakings in 2012. Until now they could all sneer and jeer and threaten The USA and Australia, but 2012 is the target date on which they all fail - that is why Kyoto must be denigrated and replaced urgently - the Asians call it "face".
5/4 Gore Smudge - Oops We Missed It. It took this right wing think tank to point out the deliberate mistake - see this link here - http://www.businessandmedia.org/commentary/2008/20080402153850.aspx
I dismissed the AL Gore CBS 60 minutes item as trite media pap - below - but the following from it is a true masterpiece of political obfuscation (you don't get to be VP of the USA fer nuthin')
"Now, we're told that this ad campaign is going to cost a barrel of money. How are you paying for this?" Stahl asked.
"Well, Tipper and I - thank you again - have put all of the profits from the movie and the book that we would have otherwise gotten, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' to this," Gore said.
"All the profits?" Stahl asked.
"Correct. All that we would have received, absolutely," Gore said.
"And, not only that but, you know there is a cash component to the Nobel Peace Prize, which he was awarded. And we donated that and we matched it," Tipper Gore added.... "
smooth, charming smile from Al - Butter wouldn't melt in it's mouth!
So where is the deliberate mistake you ask? - Simple - in fact bleeding obvious! - Big Al didn't make $300M from the movie, the book, and the prize - Dan Gainor reckons there's $290 million coming from elsewhere - probably big business with their snouts in the Global Warming trough! Obviously from people Big Al wants to keep from us for our own good anyway!
I should have realized that because Al just doesn't splash $300M around like that - he's there to make it, not waste it!
All this from people who routinely say of skeptic scientists - oh, don't listen to him, he's in the pay of the evil multinationals!!
4/4 The Pot Calls The Kettle Black. Brendan Nelson just got blamed for being a Swans fan in Sydney and a St Kilda Fan in Melbourne - meanwhile Kevin07 is strutting around Europe on "Climate Change" issues while our "Ambassador For The Environment" is following a very non Euro line in Bangkok. "Australia 'reverting on climate change'" - http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23477794-29277,00.html
Greenpeace is not happy - they'll have to send in Phil Hare to mobilize the ABC and the ALP Left again! Soooo annoying!
4/4 Why "Global Warming" Works - Simple - It Doesn't Have Be True. Remember that recent Antarctica iceberg? The following links prove that it was nothing to do with Global Warming - a simple check with skeptics at the time would have proven that the Antarctic climate is cooling slightly and that It set a record sea ice extent last winter but It's too late now, everybody believes ice shelves are collapsing there - because they want to believe it. The media are completely unabashed because it was a good story and, yes, everybody does want to believe it.
The sinister aspect of it all is that the activists who feed this constant stream of mis-information into the conventional wisdom have a plan - they want to destroy industrialism and ride the wave of poverty and despair that results from that destruction - they consider themselves social engineers and must marvel at just how easy it all is.
The truth about the Wilkins Ice Sheet - http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/the_wilkins_ice_shelf_con_job/
Find a detailed pdf of the science here - http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Wilkins_Ice_Shelf_con.pdf
3/4 Please Don't Frighten The Children. Environmentalists should ask themselves what will happen when a whole generation grows up and discovers that they were lied to about Global Warming. Newsmax - Global Warming for Kids. By: Philip V. Brennan - http://www.newsmax.com/brennan/global_warming/2008/04/01/84620.html
3/4 "It All Falls Apart" - Continued. Bloomberg - "U.S. Rejects China's Call for Climate Change Funding (Correct)" - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=atHRfXGgR9bc&refer=latin_america - "China, the world's second-biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, called for developed nations to provide financial support of 0.5 percent of their GDP a year to help it and other developing nations fight global warming."
Also here - "Poor nations at climate conference demand more money to cope with global warming" - http://www.pr-inside.com/print512779.htm
3/4 The Argo buoy Spin - "Climate Science" dug out the response the National Post Argo Buoy data - here - "Comment On Weblog Titled “Josh Willis On Climate Change: Global Warming Is Real”. http://climatesci.org/2008/04/01/comment-on-weblog-by-josh-willis-titled-josh-willis-on-climate-change-global-warming-is-real/ Josh Willis is the hapless NASA scientist who has to try and explain away the slight cooling detected in the global oceans when headlines are screaming that we are in IMMINENT danger - we MUST act NOW - Global Warming is Real and happening NOW etc. etc.
Poor Josh Willis is quoted - "It is a well-established fact that human activities are heating up the planet and that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come. Climate change skeptics often highlight certain scientific results as a means of confusing this issue, and that appears to be the case with Mr. Gunter’s description of our recent results based on data from Argo buoys.
Indeed, Argo data show no warming in the upper ocean over the past four years, but this does not contradict the climate models.... "
It goes on - really jaw dropping stuff for anyone who follows the debate.
It's all a bit sad really - what these Green people have done to science and to scientists.
31/3 Non Earth Hour - The more things change the more they stay the same - everybody ignored it - nobody turned out for it - and The Media just faked it with a shot of the Harbour Bridge lights - de ja vue all over again. There was no plunge in demand - demand normalydrops at 8pm.
Andrew Bolt - http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/earth_hour_crashes_to_earth
31/3 Al Gore on CBS 60 Minutes - don't waste your time - it's a feel good personal profile - nothing new. (Do not watch it on a full stomach, however). http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/27/60minutes/main3974389.shtml It is just a matter of how long it takes before the public realizes the Globe isn't warming - it's actually cooling. I don't think the new generation will ever forgive them.
31/3 "How Volcanism Affects Climate" - http://icecap.us/images/uploads/HOW_VOLCANISM_AFFECTS_CLIMATE.pdf
31/1 Tuvalu - a mainstream media debunking from The NZ Herald - just getting it ready for the next time the old chestnut reappears! (they have to recycle the old ones with the globe now cooling!) - "Chris de Freitas: Tuvalu floods, but it's not sinking" - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/466/story.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10498927
31/3 Book Your Snow Trip Now! In fact it may be a good time to buy into the Snow Resorts from simpletons who actually believe in G. Warming. Solar cycle 23 has gone REAL quiet. ( if you can predict sunspots, you can predict climate - they follow each other very closely -
The Northern Hemisphere just had a huge season - http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Snowstorm+inches+us+closer+to+No.+1&articleId=3e1f3ca1-9255-4b6e-adb3-702b2ebb60d3
Antarctica is on track to setting another record sea ice extent - that famous ice shelf that broke off has already frozen over again - http://icecap.us/images/uploads/MISLEADING_REPORTS_ABOUT_ANTARCTICA.pdf - "And this winter is coming on quickly. Satellite images show the ice has already refrozen around the broken pieces and expanded. In fact the ice is returning so fast, it is running an amazing 60% ahead (4.0 vs 2.5 million square km extent) of last year when it set a new record."
30/3 Sorry, You've Lost Me Professor. Perhaps I'm just a bit dim, or the jargon has just rolled too far ahead of me. I know this piece by Paul Kelly is important but I just don't get it. "Garnaut warns of fixers" - "The Australian" - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23443997-2702,00.html
The bit I did get was this - "He said he would be optimistic once a proper ETS were established. "Well-designed markets can unleash the ingenuity of Australians in reducing emissions at minimum cost to the standard of living," he said.
He predicted this could be done without a noticeable effect on rising living standards."
So we build up a prosperous, egalitarian society based entirely on cheap power and fuel and we then suddenly choke off that cheap power and fuel by making it more and more expensive and elite and expect no noticeable effect on living standards. Pull the other one - it plays God Save The Queen!!!
28/3 Wind turbines - Another Greenie Fiasco. Here's a good one. Ohio, USA, decide to put up Wind Turbines to be Green and save the planet. Except birds and bats that is, they are expendable. Uh huh. I mean what's a few birds and bats when there's 2.7 billion dollars at stake (yes that's billion not million) But wait there's more - not only do folks have to pay for the very, very expensive power from the bird killers to save the planet, but, and here's the really good bit - they are going to erect a few windmills and see how many birdies they kill and if necessary they are going to shut them down during the migration season so not too many endangered species get killed. So not only do they not produce any power for the 2.7 billion dollars when the wind don't blow, but they will to be shut down if they start killing too many eagles! Strange world we live in innit?
"Windmills that kill birds & bats get a pass" - http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/26/battered.ART_ART_03-26-08_A1_HF9OFQN.html?sid=101
27/3 Plllease - Not Collapsing Ice Shelves AGAIN!! Fer Crissake can't the Global Warming alarmists come up with something new? Why do the mass media keep spewing out the propaganda unchallenged? I mean if we're facing the imminent end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it surely there is more than icebergs! A gigantic iceberg breaking apart isn't exactly melting is it? Taking the Antarctic Peninsular as typical of the whole continent is like taking Florida as typical of the whole USA.. See below for the links, but the continent set a record for sea ice extent last year - hardly G. Warming. So why does the huge G. Warming industry have to resort to repetitive cliche' - simple there is no new evidence to cite - it just ain't there anymore.
Some more objective links to explain ice shelves - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/24/ice_shelf_collapse/
and - http://www.igsoc.org/journal/54/184/j07J086.pdf
26/3 Looks Like 12 Cold Years. More Science - Looks like Global Cooling will last 12 years. http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/this_long_cycle_should_portend_a_cooling/
And here
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/SOLAR_CYCLE_LENGTH_SUNPSOT_NUMBERS_AND_TEMPERATURES.pdf
One would hope that by then it will be obvious that natural "forcings" are much much much more powerful than human Global Warming is and we do not need to spend trillions on the non existent problem.
25/3 ABC America Attacks Professor Singer. Taking advice from Greenpeace, an ABC reporter, for want of a better word, follows the party line with a personal attack on the octagenerian Professor Singer. here - click to play - http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4505513&affil=kgo .
Actually I thought the good Prof. came across very well.
I think most people are going to realize from it that there is an other argument and will seek it out.
Professor Singer actually looked a little smug - he knows the planet is now cooling and that super slick reporters and Greenpeace activists are just going to look more and more stupid as it does. His reply is here - http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/article.cfm?artId=23002
25/3 ARGO Buoys Turn On Their Masters. 3,000 ARGO buoys have become Global Warmer deniers, refusing to detect any Global Warming and actually detecting a slight cooling - OOPS.
"Perhaps The Climate Change Models Are Wrong" - Lorne Gunter, National Post - http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=8926a1d3-f43f-4f8b-811d-0a0daa3e1012&k=39580&p=1 -
"So why are some scientists now beginning to question the buoys' findings? Because in five years, the little blighters have failed to detect any global warming. They are not reinforcing the scientific orthodoxy of the day, namely that man is causing the planet to warm dangerously. They are not proving the predetermined conclusions of their human masters. Therefore they, and not their masters' hypotheses, must be wrong.
In fact, "there has been a very slight cooling," according to a U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) interview with Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a scientist who keeps close watch on the Argo findings.... "
AND
"Just look how tenaciously some scientists are prepared to cling to the climate change dogma. "It may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming," Dr. Willis told NPR.
Yeah, you know, like when you put your car into reverse you are causing it to enter a period of less rapid forward motion. Or when I gain a few pounds I am in a period of less rapid weight loss.... "
25/3 Japan - $500 Billion - Yes $BILLION!!! Wall Street Journal - "In Kyoto’s Home, Japan Tallies the Costs" - http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/03/19/in-kyotos-home-japan-tallies-the-costs/
"If getting within shouting distance of Kyoto’s targets could cost Japan $500 billion, how much would it cost to cut emissions twelve-fold more?"
Trouble with Global Warming is there is no solution to it, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and we are just going to get endlessly nagged by greenies with the end of the world is nigh.
24/3 There Is A Real Journalist At The ABC! While Kerry Obrien and Tony Jones and the Left of the Labor Party were sniveling, groveling and slobbering all over the Euro-Greenie Phil Hare last week, Micheal Duffy and Ian Coombe on the very obscure Radio Nation "Counterpoint" program were left to report something that just might be relevant to the billions upon billions we are about to spend on Global Warming - the globe stopped warming! Not only that, there was a recent conference in NY which presented a hell of a lot of science proving that humans are much, much, much, more puny than mother nature in global climate.
The "7.30 Report" and "Lateline" are obviously just keeping it all from us for our own good!
There is no transcript - listen to it here - Counterpoint 17 March 2008 - http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/cpt_20080317.mp3 - The Global Warming Item is buried into the program (which starts off with a diet item) - Go to the 26 min. 50 sec. mark in the mp3. The program link is here - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2008/2191714.htm .
I have edited out the whole item in question and posted it here -
- http://users.bigpond.net.au/grantsite/counterpoint17-3-07edited.mp3 - It's a 12Mb mp3. (This conference gets more hits than anything - so here's the link to it)24/3 The conference that just won't go away - "The Australian" - "Climate Facts To Warm To" - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html - "CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.
Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.
Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth still warming?"
She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."
Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"
Marohasy: "Actually, no. ......"
23/3 Australian Carbon Tax - Master of spin Kevin07 may call it a "carbon trading scheme" but when the Government sells permits to burn fuel and that is passed on to the consumer, I call it a tax because it is a tax.
So now the hapless aussie motorist is not only paying federal petrol tax and state petrol tax and is competing with hundreds of millions of Chinese and Indians for the OPEC fuel, he is now going to be slugged with a carbon tax - and that's only half of it - his power bills are going through the roof.
This "The 7.30 Report" item - "Counting the cost of carbon emissions" - http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2196083.htm contains one VERY significant LIE - "MATT PEACOCK: But against such lobbying, the Federal Government will have to weigh the consequences of inaction. This week the United Nations reported that Arctic ice sheets are melting at double the speed scientists had earlier predicted." CBS - hardly some obscure blogger - reported here - "Arctic Sea Ice Builds, But Vulnerable" - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/18/ap/tech/main3948901.shtml which is backed up by Global Sea Ice Data here - http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
and here http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/january-2008-4-sources-say-globally-cooler-in-the-past-12-months/
22/3 Or It Could Mean The Globe Isn't Warming - DURH!!! "The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat" - "Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them."
NPR - U.S. National Public Radio - should try and keep up with the science - then they wouldn't get confused - here - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025 .
See Here - Comments On The NPR Story By Richard Harris Entitled “The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat” - http://climatesci.org/2008/03/19/comments-on-the-npr-story-by-richard-harris-entitled-the-mystery-of-global-warmings-missing-heat/
And Here - HEAT STORAGE WITHIN THE EARTH SYSTEM BY ROGER A. PIELKE SR. - http://climatesci.colorado.edu/publications/pdf/R-247.pdf
20/3 CBS - Thin Ice Spin. Skeptics have known for a month or more that arctic sea Ice is back and sure enough, here is the mass media spin - it's back but it's only thin -uh huh!
Skeptics are not worried by this of course because it will look more and more stupid as the Globe gets cooler and cooler in response to the dwindling solar wind.
We know it is spin because it dismisses the record antarctic ice pack last winter with this trite little piece of obfuscation - "At the South Pole, in Antarctica, sea ice seems stable, even slightly above normal, the scientists reported. However, ice levels in Antarctica always are quite different from the Arctic and aren't as connected to the world's weather."
CBS News - "Arctic Sea Ice Builds, But Vulnerable" - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/18/ap/tech/main3948901.shtml - yeah right!
20/3 The latest Greenie Farce - Hybrids. To the Ozone Hole that will not go away, Chernobyl that only killed 23, not hundreds of thousands, toxic mercury light globes, biofuels causing mass starvation while increasing CO2 output (to name a few) - we have the latest politically correct greenie joke - "Toyota Prius proves a gas guzzler in a race with the BMW 520d " - Times On Line - http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/used_car_reviews/article3552994.ece
20/3 The Australian opposition rubs it's hands with glee and sharpens up the political knives and media follows suit as the Australian Government prepares a carbon trading scheme - "Australia to have carbon trading scheme by 2010 - minister" - http://www.physorg.com/news124947215.html - carbon trading schemes are notoriously corrupt and have NEVER had any effect on CO2 output anywhere in the world. On present form It will be a feast of boo boos.
20/3 A very good summary of the NY Conference by an Hawaiian Reporter - "2008 International Conference on Climate Change: An Intellectual Feast"
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?bfb0f7d0-188c-47eb-939e-1dd14832892b
And the Washington Post struggles to maintain objectivity in this report - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/03/AR2008030302781.html
20/3 It All Falls Apart Continued - There is no doubt Germany and Europe wanted to keep their Kyoto commitments and provide a lead to the World - It's just that it's impossible - the Greenies have conned them beautifully - "Concessions to Merkel threaten climate change plan" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/15/germany.climatechange
20/3 Waste On A Truly Gigantic Scale - $2,900,000,000,000!
The US Environmental Protection Agency - EPA - Analysis of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008.
On November 9, 2007 Senators Lieberman and Warner requested that EPA estimate the economic impacts of the S. 2191, the ‘Climate Security Act of 2007’ (now the ‘Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008’). This document constitutes EPA’s analysis in response to this request. The analysis is available online at: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/economics/economicanalyses.html or you may download it directly from here http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/downloads/s2191_EPA_Analysis.pdf.
Their conclusions ain’t pretty.
EPA estimates that LW may reduce GDP by $2.9 trillion in 2050 while reducing atmospheric CO2 by around 25 ppm by 2095.
What a bargain — reduce GDP by an estimated 6.9 percent for no meaningful change in atmospheric CO2!
NOTE - I am more and more uneasy with this, on philosophical grounds - the whole G. Warming fiasco is based on the preposterous notion that we can predict the future - we cannot - with computer models - or with economics - if we could predict the future of the economy the economists would not need to work for a living - they would keep it to themselves and become very rich. Greenies claim that it will all be, not only alright, but beneficial - skeptics should not fall into the trap of matching their crystal ball gazing. It is however self explanatory that cheap power and fuel have brought wealth and prosperity to the masses in the west and that making it expensive and elite will choke that prosperity and bring instant poverty.
19/3 It All Falls Apart - or what Kevin07 discovered on his theatrical visit to the Bali love-in.
China and India are not going to take any crap from the old world - "India, for example, has an emission of one tonne per capita. The US is 20 tons per capita. So I have no idea why India should be a major emitter," Indian climate official Ajay Mathur said late Saturday.
MAKUHARI, Japan, March 15. Japan is hosted weekend talks of the world's top 20 greenhouse gas emitters in a bid to push forward the slow-moving negotiations on a new treaty after Kyoto, whose obligations expire in 2012.
It was a TOTAL DISASTER. China and India are quite happy to let the decadent West self destruct - this century will belong to them. A chinaman in a space suit salutiing the hammer and sickle on the moon will symbolize it.
Reports on the non-event at Makuhari are here - http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/16/content_7799763.htm - http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSSP86019._CH_.2400 - http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jbpJ2oo4XAaJp7ZBs_zWDU1pgZ2g - http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=143&art_id=nw20080316102120201C350328 - http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUST132482
19/3 I have never heard of this "Eco World" website, but I have certainly heard of the the impressive authors of their current series of articles - Lindzen and now Mark Morano - "The Debate Resumes" - http://www.ecoworld.com/home/articles2.cfm?tid=453
19/3 Beating them to death with a wet lettuce? - "EU leaders promise to act against China and US in carbon crusade" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/eu-leaders-promise-to-act-against-china-and-us-in-carbon-crusade-796271.html
18/3 The State Attorney General of California - Jerry Brown - published this trite bit of Greenie propaganda - "Global Warming Contrarians and the Falsehoods they Promote" - here - http://ag.ca.gov/globalwarming/contrarians.php - I just had to write all over it - here - http://home.austarnet.com.au/yours/Global%20Warming%20Contrarians.htm and here
17/3 Channel 7 Panics - Brings On "On Thin Ice" Before the Globe Cools Anymore
Last week we had a visit from the Greenpeace activist Phil Hare who was here to prop up wavering support for Global Warming by Labor after they finally discovered that they had been making impossible election promises on it. It is no co-incidence that "On Thin Ice" suddenly appeared on 7.
Channel Seven have adopted G. Warming as a cause. Trouble is, the Globe stopped Warming - not only stopped warming but started cooling.
Channel Seven are going to look more and more stupid as the Globe becomes less and less hot and more and more cold.
No amount of political spin can disguise the fact that mother nature is proving much more powerful than we are.
But - I hear you say - this is just one cold winter and the inevitable end of a drought. Yes, that's fine, BUT, Mr Hare, the IPCC and Channel Seven, the ABC and the CSIRO have been claiming for 2 decades that CO2 is entirely responsible for climate changes and that "natural forcings" are on a much longer time scale and so can be completely ignored.
Satellites measure the whole Earth temperature and the data shows not just a fall, but a dramatic drop in global temperature last year.
Not only that but the Arctic sea ice is back to normal and the Antarctic sea ice just set a record for winter.
Whether this is a short term or a long term cooling remains to be seen BUT it has already PROVEN 3 things.
ONE - The UN IPCC and their computer models failed to predict it.
TWO - The UN IPCC was wrong to claim that "natural forcings" can be ignored.
THREE - Whatever we do about "climate change" can be easily neutralized by "natural forcings" which are clearly much more powerful than anthropogenic CO2.
Not only that, but the same satellite data shows that G. Warming stopped about 10 years ago now and there is a distinct downturn.
Here's a new "Summary For Policy Makers"
OOPS The Computer Models were wrong.
"Natural Forcings" are much more powerful than we thought.
The Globe seems to have started to cool - no need to panic - we can now just wait and see.
The most depressing thing is that Greenies will just drop G.
Warming and take up G. Cooling and they will just get away with it -
like the hole-in-the-ozone, DDT, Chernobyl, the Loch Ness monster and
all the other superstitious myths."Natural Forcings" are much more powerful than we thought.
The Globe seems to have started to cool - no need to panic - we can now just wait and see.
Global Temp data here - http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc.lt
Global Sea Ice Data here - http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
and here http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/january-2008-4-sources-say-globally-cooler-in-the-past-12-months/
17/3 Hey, Nobel Prize Winners, Answer Me This by Roy W. Spencer University of Alabama in Huntsville
As a climate scientist, I would like to see some answers to a few basic global warming science questions which I’m sure the U.N.’s Ministry of Global Warming Truth (also known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) can handle. After all, since they are 90% confident that recent global warming is man made, they surely must have already addressed these issues:
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Hey-Nobel-Prize-Winners-Answer-Me-This.pdf
I can answer his questions - The IPCC is not science - the notion of using computer modeling to predict the future was always patently absurd - We have just been visited by an "IPCC Lead Author"- Phil Hare - here in AUS - he's actually a Greenpeace Activist see here - http://junkscience.com/blog_js/2008/03/11/ngos-and-the-ipcc/ (also here http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2187890.htm)- so the dire warnings of "scientists" was actually written by at least one political activist. It is not science, it was never science. I don't blame Dr Spencer for getting exasperated.
16/3 Snouts in the trough - The trouble with creating the multi-billion dollar Carbon Trading fiasco is that it becomes self propagating and very difficult to stop - "Economist Strikes Gold In Climate-Change Fight" - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120535230851631199.html
16/3 OMG - Not Tuvalu - AGAIN!!! - http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10842290.htm - Tuvalu is a coral atoll - it is fortunate that the coral can grow much, much faster than the sea level can rise or it would have been swamped 10,000 years ago when the sea level started to rise after the Ice Age, Europeans have done a lot of damage to the Island - most prominently by giving then a cargo cult mentality. I repeat the JunkScience reference which debunks the Tuvalu furphy very effectively - http://junkscience.com/blog_js/2008/01/23/sea-level-rise-paradise-lost-tuvalu/
16/3 NOAA - Climate of 2008 February in Historical Perspective - National Climatic Data Center - http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/feb/feb08.html - "In the contiguous United States, the average winter temperature was 33.2°F (0.6°C), which was 0.2°F (0.1°C) above the 20th century average - yet still ranks as the coolest since 2001. It was the 54th coolest winter since national records began in 1895."
Of more interest is that despite the La Nina there was more precipitation - "Winter precipitation was much above average from the Midwest to parts of the West, notably Kansas, Colorado and Utah. Although moderate-to-strong La Niña conditions were present in the equatorial Pacific the winter was unique for the above average rain and snowfall in the Southwest, where La Niña typically brings drier-than-average conditions."
This is consistent with the Solar Connection theory - that is, when the sun calms (as it has) the Earth clouds up and the Earth's surface cools and makes G. Warming alarm look more and more stupid - will the bubble burst or will it just fade into obscurity is the only question - along with how much economic damage it does to the poor and middle class before it dies.
15/3 The Lunatic Fringe is not happy with Kevin07 - http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/garn-m14.shtml - that's good news - now there's the little problem of keeping G. Warming election promises which will impoverish millions of Australians - this'll be interesting - has the master of spin bitten off more than he can chew? I was queuing up with the pensioners to vote today - they are never going to forgive him!
15/3 New Gallup poll shows Americans are very underwhelmed with Global Warming alarm - here it is - interpret it yourself - http://www.gallup.com/poll/104932/Polluted-Drinking-Water-No-Concern-Before-Report.aspx Even with the very, very cold winter it must be a big worry for the G. Warming industry.
15/3 The "New Scientist" is a greenie magazine and makes the usual mistake of confusing carbon dioxide with pollution, but in doing so it only succeeds in pointing out the futility of western attempts to curb global carbon output without China - China will have to go back and filter sulfur and particulates when they become fully westernized, but otherwise greenies should go back to saving frogs! - "China emissions to swamp Kyoto reductions by 2010" http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13447-china-emissions-to-swamp-kyoto-reductions-by-2010.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
This Seattle Time report confirms that - "China promotes new era of coal-fired energy, despite pollution" - http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=00682b74-e6dd-4023-a454-eba84a1137a3
14/3 You're Scaring Them to Death!!!
"America and China face trade protection measures from Europe if they fail to join a global climate deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol, EU leaders will caution at their summit in Brussels today.
Nations that refuse to curb greenhouse gases will be told that they face “appropriate measures” — code for trade sanctions — if they try to gain a competitive advantage by continuing to allow cheap, high-pollution production."
Europe exports its high pollution industries and then threatens to penalise those countries with trade sanctions - OH PLLLEASE!!