Archive for the global warming Category

Faith based science

The faith based science of global warming is set to take a fall. Via Flopping Aces post…

Duffy asked Marohasy: “Is the Earth stillwarming?”

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. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued … This is not what you’d expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you’d expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up … So (it’s) very unexpected, not something that’s being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it’s very significant.”

Duffy: “It’s not only that it’s not discussed. We never hear it, do we? Whenever there’s any sort of weather event that can be linked into the global warming orthodoxy, it’s put on the front page. But a fact like that, which is that global warming stopped a decade ago, is virtually never reported, which is extraordinary.” ~theaustralian.news.com.au

Outlawing capitalism

Nothing less than zero carbon output will do! In order to save the planet, capitalism, and it’s attending industrial output, must be stopped.

…it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades. ~washingtonpost.com

Uh huh.

“The question is, what if we don’t want the Earth to warm anymore?” asked Carnegie Institution senior scientist Ken Caldeira, co-author of a paper published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. “The answer implies a much more radical change to our energy system than people are thinking about.”

What are we talking about? The proponents want dictatorial powers to combat this global emergency. What’s necessary is the ‘political will’.

For now, at least, a goal of zero emissions appears well beyond the reach of politicians here and abroad.

It used to be hot?

Really?! If only the dinosaurs had had the sense enough to eradicate their fascist capitalist industrialist society. tsk tsk.

Dinosaurs might have known a surprising amount about what we think of as a quintessentially modern problem: global warming. Fossilised vegetation from 65 million years ago in the late Cretaceous period, reveals that central Siberia was a lot like modern-day Florida, with lush ferns and lots of rain.

Bob Spicer of the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, and colleagues examined fossilised fern leaves to estimate temperature at the time. Instead of the 0 °C that climate models had led them to expect, the average temperature was far warmer (Earth and Planetary Science Letters, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.11.049). There are three possible reasons for the mismatch, the team says.

Something like continental drift, differences in atmospheric chemistry or the shape of the Earth’s orbit round the sun, might have made the world so different then that the models we use for today’s atmosphere cannot mimic it. But the project’s …

The complete article is 362 words long.

~environment.newscientist.com

Fact: Global Cooling

Is it hot in here? No. Apparently it is not.

…All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C — a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year’s time. For all four sources, it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.  ~dailytech.com

Global cooling…

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January “was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average.”

China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.  ~nationalpost.com

Combating capitalism

Global Warming is merely a new term for an old ideology. Socialism postulates that capitalism is responsible for all the evils existent on planet earth. Those who ardently advocate the Global Warming agenda coincidentally advocate the same solutions to the ‘capitalism problem’.

In a long, and interesting speech, he [Bill Clinton] characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.”   ~blogs.abcnews.com

Indeed, this is precisely what the Global Warming Agenda is all about: combating capitalism.

Global snowing?

Yeah.

JERUSALEM – A rare snowstorm swept the Middle East on Wednesday, blanketing parts of the Holy Land in white, shutting schools and sending excited children into the streets for snowball fights. ~news.yahoo.com

Global warming strikes again.

Men in long Arab robes pelted each other with snowballs in the Jordanian capital, Amman, and the West Bank city of Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian government, came to a standstill.

“I’m originally from Gaza where snow never falls,” said Bothaina Smairi, 28, who was out in Ramallah taking photographs. “The white snow is covering the old world and I feel like I am in a new world where everything is white, clean, and beautiful.”

More killing conservative fantasies

The left has a definite fascination with killing their political enemies. The latest twist is a fantasy about Global Warming killing all the conservatives.

Global Warming Will Save America from the Right…Eventually
by Dave Lindorff

The future political map of America is likely to look a lot different, with much of the so-called “red” state region either gone or depopulated.  ~baltimorechronicle.com

How morose progressivism is.