tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59415604776185515202024-03-07T07:58:05.291-06:00Pete'sPlace On Global Warming/Climate ChangeExploring the issue of global warming and/or climate change, its science, politics and economics.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.comBlogger1106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-20735842865323734792016-12-08T05:36:00.001-06:002016-12-08T05:36:26.225-06:00<br />
Absolutely fantastic and reining in the destructive, oppressive, obstructive, overzealous, incompetent, job-killing, out-of-control EPA is LONG overdue, especially where it concerns their false narrative about the total hoax that is the idea of man-caused global warming. Want to make America great again? Start with eliminating and starting over with the EPA.<br />
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-22040819121868082682016-01-20T03:53:00.002-06:002016-01-20T03:53:32.985-06:00<h1 class="entry-title">
On the sad passing of Bob Carter, a great scientist and friend</h1>
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It is with deep regret that I report the passing of a friend, colleague, and great scholar, Dr. Robert M. Carter. Bob died peacefully in a hospital surrounded by family and friends following a heart attack a few days ago. He was 74 years old.</div>
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Funeral arrangements are being made and it will most likely take place on Monday next week in Townsville, Australia.</div>
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This is almost unspeakably sad. Bob was the very embodiment of the “happy warrior” in the global warming debate. He was a scholar’s scholar, with impeccable credentials (including a Ph.D. from Cambridge), careful attention to detail, and a deep understanding of and commitment to the scientific method. He endured the slings and arrows of the anti-science Left with seeming ease and good humor and often warned against resorting to similar tactics to answer them.</div>
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Bob never failed to answer the call to defend climate science, getting on planes to make the long flight from Australia to the U.S., to Paris, and to other lands without complaints or excuses. He was a wonderful public speaker and a charming traveling mate. He was not an easy man to edit, though – he kept wanting to put unnecessary commas, “that’s,” and boldfacing back into his manuscripts — but the great ones never are.</div>
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Bob helped immeasurably with three volumes in the <i>Climate Change Reconsidered </i>series, a series of hefty compilations of scientific research he coauthored and coedited with Craig D. Idso and S. Fred Singer. Just a few weeks ago, he flew to Paris to speak at Heartland’s “Day of Examining the Data” and contributed to the completion and review of another book, <i>Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC report on scientific consensus.</i></div>
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We honored Bob with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the 10<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-10) in Washington DC last June. I regret that I missed that event due to the sudden onset of shingles, and so missed the opportunity to see my friend as well as publicly recognize his great achievements in science.</div>
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We’ve updated Bob’s online bio, it is copied and pasted below. A “guestbook” is being created at Heartland’s blog, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">Somewhat Reasonable</a>. If you have a comment or memory you’d like to share, please send it to Jim Lakely at <a href="mailto:jlakely@heartland.org" target="_blank">jlakely@heartland.org</a></div>
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Please remember Bob and his wonderful wife, Anne, in your thoughts and prayers.</div>
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Robert M. Carter, Ph.D., a long-time policy advisor to The Heartland Institute and a world renowned authority on climate change, passed away on January 19, 2016. He was 74.</div>
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Dr. Carter was a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than 30 years professional experience. He earned degrees from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and the University of Cambridge (England). He held tenured academic staff positions at the University of Otago (Dunedin) and James Cook University (Townsville), where he was Professor and Head of School of Earth Sciences between 1981 and 1999.</div>
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Dr. Carter was one of the world’s leading authorities on the science of climate change. He was the author of two books on the subject, <i>Climate: The Counter Consensus (</i>2010) and <i>Taxing Air: Facts and Fallacies about Climate Change </i>(2013) and coauthor of several more, including three volumes in the <i>Climate Change Reconsidered</i>series produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) and published by The Heartland Institute. Shortly before his death he coauthored <i>Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming</i> (2015).</div>
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Dr. Carter’s public commentaries drew on his knowledge of the scientific literature and a personal publication list of more than 100 papers in international science journals. His research on climate change, sea-level change and stratigraphy was based on field studies of Cenozoic sediments (last 65 million years) from the Southwest Pacific region, especially the Great Barrier Reef and New Zealand.</div>
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Dr. Carter has acted as an expert witness on climate change before the U.S. Senate Committee of Environment & Public Works, the Australian and N.Z. parliamentary Select Committees into emissions trading and in a meeting in parliament house, Stockholm. He was also a primary science witness in the Hayes Windfarm Environment Court case in New Zealand, and in the U.K. High Court case of Dimmock v. H.M.’s Secretary of State for Education, the 2007 judgment which identified nine major scientific errors in Mr. Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth.”</div>
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-72155294794203369352015-04-14T09:12:00.001-05:002015-04-14T09:15:16.608-05:00<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Have We Passed the Point of No Return on Climate Change?</span></strong> <br />
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Don't despair. We are reaching the point where we realize and admit that yes, the climate is changing, and we have little or no control over this happening. We had best move on to something far more important. Like maybe the world economy? Like maybe the prevention of war?<br />
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<strong>The Death of Science in our public schools.</strong></div>
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Doesn't science involve inquiry, hypothesis, testing, and creative thinking? Since most of our public education is government-controlled, it has become politicized, and in my opinion, mortally wounded. So now we teach dogma and ideology, regardless of facts. Specifically, consider what passes for "climate science". Anyone not speaking the "party line" is derogatorily called a "denier", or worse. Our schools and our country are in deep trouble because we're raising generations of obedient little robots who never learn to think for themselves. Some liberal knows what is right and what is "best" for them, and that is all they are taught.<br />
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Consider how low we have sunk when we have liberals dictating what is taught in our public schools. This is an old story that seems to be getting worse. It makes one fear for the future of America. Think about this quote taken from he following article.<br />
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-85706746096822700832014-07-07T05:10:00.001-05:002014-07-11T13:45:40.470-05:00<br />
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-19688029175114261552014-06-27T23:49:00.000-05:002014-06-27T23:57:22.208-05:00Who Are You Calling A "Denier"?<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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I am not in "denial". I am not part of any "public relations" program. I am not beholden to nor paid by anyone to express my opinion about what I call the myth of man-caused global warming. Oh, and I am an Earth Scientist, a Geologist to be exact. My original interest in this subject has been purely scientific. It is politicians who have made global warming a world-wide political and economic issue. I have all of this well-documented and I've done it purely as a hobby, as <span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">almost a personal battle against injustice. </span></div>
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It is unjust because most people are not scientists and are too busy with their own lives to look into the real science behind the concept of man-caused global warming. As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, I am sure man's activities are not significantly involved in causing global warming or climate change. People are and have been systematically, callously, relentlessly, calculatingly indoctrinated into believing that the burning of fossil fuels, (coal and oil) is causing global warming, climate change and every weather-related event, the more dramatic and destructive the better. <br />
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And our government just keeps pouring out the false propaganda, and since the government might as well own the mainstream media, theirs is the only side of the story most people hear. It is a travesty and a tragedy. It is being pursued by governments for only one reason: to control the energy industry and use it as a means of further controlling and taxing the people. It is like taxing the food we eat or the air we breathe. When and if people become aware of this, they will become, as I am, outraged.<br />
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<span class="text_exposed_hide"><em>"The denial of man-made global warming is one of the greatest PR campaigns in history. With echoes of the industry-funded research from tobacco companies that denied links between smoking and lung cancer, the well-coordinated PR plan has delayed new regulations for coal and petroleum industries and influenced millions of Americans."</em></span></div>
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Everyone responds to dramatic effects. The news media knows that. Hollywood knows that. We are a culture bred to respond to video or photographic images. Man was first influenced by verbal story tellers, then accompanied by song, then came the written word, then the drawn or painted visual word, followed by photographs, then moving photographs, now video and everything digitized and available anywhere at the speed of light. <br />
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This is why glaciers are used so often to depict "catastrophic" global warming, because they are visual, huge, dramatic, and awe-inspiring. Imagine, people take cruises to places like Alaska, Patagonia, Argentina, and Antarctica, for what? To see big ice cubes (glaciers) melt. Then they attribute the melting to man's burning of fossil fuels and the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2). Apparently, many people are so awed by this melting ice they are willing to open their wallets and freely give money to those who promise stop the calamity of big melting ice cubes. This melting and freezing of glacial ice has always been going on. It is nothing new. Al Gore did not invent it. It is not a catastrophe because President Obama's teleprompter says so, or because John Kerry is instructed to say it is. It all sounds insane, doesn't it. Well, it is.<br />
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Why do they continue lying to us about global warming and climate change as being (or implied to be) man-caused in articles like the following? The only answer is we are being manipulated. What is the reason? If this effort is based on lies, it is wrong, and our money (taxes) are being taken unfairly and we ought to be outraged. Can it be much simpler than that? Are we so afraid to dissent and disagree that we march along like sheep to the slaughter? Have we as a people, as a nation, sunk so low, become so passive, so obedient? I hope not, even if recent election results seem to indicate otherwise.<br />
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The finding, along with data from Antarctica, suggests both of Earth's big ice sheets may have already passed a crucial tipping point, condemning them to collapse – either melting, or sliding into the ocean. That will mean sea levels rising by as much as 13 metres, leading to <span style="color: red;">massive coastal flooding</span>. So how fast will the ice collapse, and <span style="color: red;">can we stop it</span>?"</div>
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<em>(Is the above statement from the linked article complete sensationalist nonsense, or what? Of course it is, and it is typical of what our young people are being fed and considered science. Think of what a steady diet of this poison does. And we wonder why people vote the way they do? Peter)</em></div>
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It is well known and documented that Alpine Glaciers (those found in mountainous areas) have advanced and retreated many times in recordable history. This is history witnessed and written of by man during the past approximate 5,000 years. There is unmistakable and unarguable evidence these glaciers have advanced and retreated many times since the end of the last Ice Age, when Continental Ice Sheets covered much of the Polar Regions and the Northern Hemisphere. Something caused this glacial retreat, or melting, and it wasn't man-caused. At least this melting occurred before he burning of massive amounts of fossil fuels and the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2). <br />
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These were also at least as rapid climate changes as we see in the world today. So what is unique about current events? Why are we in such a frenzy to "stop climate change"? It is nothing unusual, unless we're being scared and panicked by fear? Is it so we will happily, or a least willingly, pay more taxes, carbon taxes or otherwise, to solve this imaginary warming problem? We should be worried, but not about global warming.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Dr. Christian Schlüchter’s</span> discovery of 4,000-year-old chunks of wood at the leading edge of a Swiss glacier was clearly not cheered by many members of the global warming doom-and-gloom science orthodoxy.</div>
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This finding indicated that the Alps were pretty nearly glacier-free at that time, disproving accepted theories that they only began retreating after the end of the little ice age in the mid-19th century. As he concluded, the region had once been much warmer than today, with “a wild landscape and wide flowing river.”</div>
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Dr. Schlüchter’s report might have been more conveniently dismissed by the entrenched global warming establishment were it not for his distinguished reputation as a giant in the field of geology and paleoclimatology who has authored/coauthored more than 250 papers and is a professor emeritus at the University of Bern in Switzerland.</div>
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Then he made himself even more unpopular thanks to a recent interview titled <span style="color: red;">“Our Society is Fundamentally Dishonest”</span> which appeared in the Swiss publication Der Bund where he criticized the U.N.-dominated institutional climate science hierarchy for extreme tunnel vision and political contamination.</div>
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Following the ancient forest evidence discovery Schlüchter became a target of scorn. As he observes in the interview, “I wasn’t supposed to find that chunk of wood because I didn’t belong to the close-knit circle of Holocene and climate researchers. My findings thus caught many experts off guard: Now an ‘amateur’ had found something that the [more recent time-focused] Holocene and climate experts should have found.”</div>
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Other evidence exists that there is really nothing new about dramatic glacier advances and retreats. In fact the Alps were nearly glacier-free again about 2,000 years ago. Schlüchter points out that “the forest line was much higher than it is today; there were hardly any glaciers. Nowhere in the detailed travel accounts from Roman times are glaciers mentioned.”</div>
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Schlüchter criticizes his critics for focusing on a time period which is “indeed too short.” His studies and analyses of a Rhone glacier area reveal that “the rock surface had [previously] been ice-free 5,800 of the last 10,000 years."</div>
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Such changes can occur very rapidly. His research team was stunned to find trunks of huge trees near the edge of Mont Miné Glacier which had all died in just a single year. They determined that time to be 8,200 years ago based upon oxygen isotopes in the Greenland ice which showed marked cooling.</div>
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Casting serious doubt upon alarmist U.N.-IPCC projections that the Alps will be nearly glacier-free by 2100, Schlüchter poses several challenging questions: “Why did the glaciers retreat in the middle of the 19th century, although the large CO2 increase in the atmosphere came later? Why did the Earth 'tip' in such a short time into a warming phase? Why did glaciers again advance in the 1880s, 1920s, and 1980s? . . . Sooner or later climate science will have to answer the question why the retreat of the glacier at the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850 was so rapid.”</div>
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Although we witness ongoing IPCC attempts to blame such developments upon evil fossil-fueled CO2 emissions, that notion fails to answer these questions. Instead, Schlüchter believes that the sun is the principal long-term driver of climate change, with tectonics and volcanoes acting as significant contributors.</div>
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Regarding IPCC integrity with strong suspicion, Schlüchter recounts a meeting in England that he was “accidentally” invited to which was led by “someone of the East Anglia Climate Center who had come under fire in the wake of the Climategate e-mails.”</div>
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As he describes it: “The leader of the meeting spoke like some kind of Father. He was seated at a table in front of those gathered and he took messages. He commented on them either benevolently or dismissively.”</div>
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Schlüchter’s view of the proceeding took a final nosedive towards the end of the discussion. As he noted: “Lastly it was about tips on research funding proposals and where to submit them best. For me it was impressive to see how the leader of the meeting collected and selected information.”</div>
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As a number of other prominent climate scientists I know will attest, there’s one broadly recognized universal tip for those seeking government funding. All proposals with any real prospects for success should somehow link climate change with human activities rather than to natural causes. Even better, those human influences should intone dangerous consequences.</div>
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Schlüchter warns that the reputation of science is becoming more and more damaged as politics and money gain influence. He concludes, “For me it also gets down to the credibility of science . . . Today many natural scientists are helping hands of politicians, and are no longer scientists who occupy themselves with new knowledge and data. And that worries me.”</div>
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Larry Bell is a professor and endowed professor at the University of Houston, where he directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture and heads the graduate program in space architecture. He is author of<span style="color: red;"> “Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax,”</span> and his professional aerospace work has been featured on the History Channel and the Discovery Channel-Canada.</div>
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<em>Peter</em><br />
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<em>This article was written by Richard Rothschild and originally published at <a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/01/santa-clause-easter-bunnies-catastrophic-global-warming/">Freedom Outpost</a></em><br />
I never deny climate change. The climate has been changing since the beginning of time. I simply reject hysteria and theories that suggest <em>catastrophic</em> anthropogenic (man-made) CO2 based climate change is occurring.<br />
There’s a reason the left has changed vernacular; Global Warming is now Climate Change, and Sea Level Rise is now Storm Surge. Scientists have not been able to demonstrate a correlation with their radical CO2 warming theories, so they now repackage their movement with even vaguer wording.<br />
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Furthermore, even in theory, if you assumed CO2 was the substantive driver of climate, CO2 abatement schemes large enough to be effective would be unaffordable; and those schemes small enough to be affordable would be ineffective. For example: To reduce the earth’s temperature one degree with CO2 abatement would require an investment equivalent to 130 years GDP of the entire planet, or more than $4,000,000,000,000,000 (4 quadrillion dollars). It ain’t happening.<br />
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I recommend you read the <a href="http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SenateMinorityReport2.pdf" target="_blank">U.S. Senate Minority Report</a> containing statements from 700 scientists rebutting Climate Change. Several of the scientists were previously involved with the UN-IPCC, and to put it bluntly, they say it just ain’t so, and the 52 scientists on the IPCC are wrong.<br />
Charts I have seen of worldwide cyclonic energy, worldwide temperatures, etc. do not corroborate CO2 theories. Claims of increased damage from hurricanes and storms are a function of increased development and infrastructure in vulnerable areas… NOT more violent storms.<br />
Claims in Maryland of rising sea level are actually a function of settlement of land masses. Furthermore, usual and customary sea level rise elsewhere of 3mm a year (ten inches per century) hardly qualifies as catastrophic. Besides, if Maryland’s Governor O’Malley and his Department of Planning REALLY believed this bunk, they wouldn’t be constructing more subways underground.<br />
Maryland will spend $17 Billion attempting to reduce Greenhouse Gases over the next decade. You’ll be pleased to know that this effort, if successful, will reduce the temperature of Maryland by 1/20,000 of one degree. Unfortunately, we have no way of measuring anything this small. So even if the program is a success, we’ll have no way of knowing it.<br />
I attended a convention where they asked a scientist from the University of Colorado who believes in manmade CO2 based global warming, “What would need to happen to get you to admit you were wrong?”<br />
His answer, “The current cooling trend would have to continue for another 10 to 20 years.”<br />
Bladabling.<br />
The “Climateers” argue that most scientific papers support their theories. Of course, nearly 100% of all government research grants are commissioned with a charge to demonstrate global warming exists. Clearly, it should be no surprise when universities and non-profits eager for follow-on grants give the government exactly the so-called science it requests. After all… if they produce conclusions counter to what the government wants, they get no more money.<br />
People ask, why do you call them “Climateers?” Simply because they are the only crisis centric group that becomes genuinely disappointed when evidence is produced that demonstrates their fears may be unfounded. Amusing.<br />
Environmental exaggeration provides the rubric government needs to scare children, scare adults, and justify unacceptable encroachments on our constitutional freedoms.<br />
Of course the smoking gun that says it all was the recent statement by the former undersecretary of the Marxist UN-IPCC and Ottmar Edenhofer who made the statement, “… that we redistribute the world’s wealth by climate policy.”<br />
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<span style="color: red;">I agree with the 700 scientist(s) in the Senate Report who conclude that claims of CO2-based catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is the biggest fraud ever perpetuated on the human race.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">We need our teachers to take the lead, and start teaching our children both sides of this debate and stop indoctrinating them with one-sided government paid-for propaganda.</span><br />
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And finally, as Mark Twain once said, “It is easier to fool a man than to convince him that he’s been fooled.”</div>
Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-33717708112471467552013-07-17T14:11:00.000-05:002013-07-17T14:11:01.254-05:00Reuters Changing Their Propaganda Team On Global Warming<em>Funny thing, I just commented (in the previous article) on a Reuters article about global warming/climate change politics, and now I see this article about how Reuters has shaken up their "reporting" staff on global warming. Do you think maybe the FBI, NSA, EPA, and IRS have been spying on them and asking (coercing) them into a more conventional party line on the subject of global warming and climate change?</em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: small;">Politicians around the world who bought into the idea of fossil fuel-burning, carbon dioxide causing global warming and climate change are realizing what a mistake they have made. It is costing not only the public in terms of lost jobs, higher energy costs, and a lowered standard of living, but now as near bankruptcy looms, politicians are the ones feeling the heat. It will only get warmer in the frying pan these self-serving clowns (politicians) find themselves in. The following article describes the problems liberal politicians in Australia are encountering because they have bought into the climate fear-mongering. I have no sympathy. They should, and do know better. They have allowed the greed of carbon taxes overwhelm the obvious. Man's activities are not causing catastrophic climate change, and to try and alter the global climate is political folly, or even suicide. Eventually, the truth prevails.</span></em><br />
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<span id="midArticle_2"></span>LAUNCESTON, <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/places/australia" title="Full coverage of Australia">Australia</a>, July 17 (Reuters) - Any government thinking of introducing policies to limit carbon emissions should look at <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.reuters.com/places/australia?lc=int_mb_1001">Australia</a></span> for an example of how not to do it.<br />
<span id="midArticle_3"></span>Australia's efforts to combat climate change have been poison to politicians from all sides of the debate, contributing so far to the demise of two prime ministers and an opposition leader, and there may be more to come.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_4"></span>The latest twist has seen Prime Minister Kevin Rudd decide to switch from a straight tax on carbon emissions to a floating emissions trading scheme (ETS) a year earlier than planned.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_5"></span>This has nothing to do with improving the workings of the scheme or limiting carbon emissions and everything to do with trying to win back voters angered by rising electricity prices and industries that have seen their international competitiveness eroded by the tax.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_6"></span>The theory is that power and other prices will decline as the cost of carbon permits is expected to be around A$6 per tonne - the level at which European permits are currently priced - compared to the tax of A$25.40 ($23.09) per tonne that had been planned from July 2014.<br />
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Assuming European carbon permits don't rise in price, which is a fairly big call given efforts to reduce the supply of permits, Rudd's changes will save the average Australian household A$4 a week in electricity costs.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_8"></span>Whether this is enough to assuage public anger and help Rudd's Labor Party win re-election will become clear in the coming months as he has to call a federal election by end-November.<br />
<span id="midArticle_9"></span>But Rudd's efforts to remove the carbon tax as an election issue only serve to underline how badly the whole thing has been handled.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_10"></span>When Rudd was first elected prime minister in 2007 he called climate change the "greatest moral, social and economic challenge of our time", signed <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.reuters.com/places/australia?lc=int_mb_1001">Australia</a></span> up to the Kyoto Protocol and proceeded to design an ETS.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_11"></span>This even enjoyed rare bi-partisan support from the then leader of the Liberal opposition Malcolm Turnbull.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_12"></span>However, it was Turnbull's support for the ETS that helped undo his leadership and he was ousted by his colleagues in December 2009, being replaced by the more conservative Tony Abbott, who withdrew his party's support for Rudd's plans.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_13"></span>Rudd's own popularity fell as he struggled to gain public support for his carbon scheme and a controversial new mining tax, leading to his ouster in a party coup in June 2010.<br />
<span id="midArticle_14"></span>His replacement as prime minister, Julia Gillard, scrapped the planned ETS, making a promise that any government she led wouldn't introduce a carbon tax.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_15"></span>This commitment came back to haunt her after the August 2010 election, in which she managed to hang on to power by cutting a deal with Australian Greens and two conservative independent lawmakers to form a minority government.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_0"></span>Part of her agreement with the Greens was the introduction of a carbon tax with a fixed price per tonne of emissions up until July 2015, at which point it would change to a floating, traded price.<br />
<span id="midArticle_1"></span>The broken promise was seized upon at every opportunity by the Liberal opposition and conservative media commentators, and in turn contributed to Gillard's poor performance in opinion polls.<br />
<span id="midArticle_2"></span>When these polls showed her Labor Party heading for a massive defeat in an election she scheduled for September, her colleagues once again ousted a prime minister, bringing back Rudd in a party room vote last month.<br />
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Rudd's popularity with the public has seen the Labor Party inch closer to the Liberals in opinion polls, putting pressure on Abbott, who courted ridicule as a climate sceptic earlier this week by describing the ETS as a "so-called market in the non-delivery of an invisible substance".<br />
<span id="midArticle_6"></span>However, the Liberals are still ahead in opinion polls and if they win the upcoming election, Abbott has promised to scrap the carbon tax and the move to an ETS, replacing it with what he terms "direct action" on climate change.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_7"></span>But even if his party does win the election, it may not control both houses of parliament, and the lack of a majority in the upper house Senate may cruel Abbott's plans, as legislation has to clear both chambers.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_8"></span>It's little wonder that businesses and the public want some kind of resolution to the issue, but the upcoming vote may not deliver this, at least not immediately.<br />
<span id="midArticle_9"></span>Part of the problem with Gillard's carbon tax is that it was more of a welfare programme than a plan to reduce emissions.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_10"></span>The tax raised was used to fund a raft of welfare measures to compensate for the higher prices caused by the tax.<br />
<span id="midArticle_11"></span>The plans of both Rudd and Abbott would see the revenue from the tax fall dramatically or disappear altogether, but the welfare payments would remain, leaving the nation's budget with the worst possible outcome.<br />
<span id="midArticle_12"></span>Rudd said his plan to move earlier to an ETS would cost the budget some A$4 billion, which would be recouped through spending cuts and tightening rules around company-funded vehicles for employees.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_13"></span>Abbott has so far only promised to end a small portion of welfare payments and seek spending cuts across the government.<br />
<span id="midArticle_14"></span>Absent from both plans is much talk about climate change and carbon emissions.<br />
<span id="midArticle_15"></span>Australia is the world's 15th-largest polluter and the highest per capita in the developed world, largely as a result of 80 percent of power being coal-fired and the prevalence of carbon-intensive industries such as mining and liquefied natural gas plants.<br />
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<span id="midArticle_0"></span>The existing carbon tax may actually be able to claim some credit for reducing emissions, with Australia's overall greenhouse gas emissions dropping 0.2 percent in 2012 from the prior year, and those from electricity generation by 4.7 percent.<br />
<span id="midArticle_1"></span>But this success, while modest, is completely drowned out by the political machinations.<br />
<span id="midArticle_2"></span>What the Australian experience shows is that any government tackling climate change needs as broad a consensus as possible, and that it should be done for the right reasons, not political expediency</span></div>
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-69740737313491283812013-07-16T22:35:00.000-05:002013-07-16T22:35:31.384-05:00Planet Earth Does Not "Lose" Ice<em>Breaking news: planet Earth does not "lose" ice or water. Ice either melts into water and is stored in the oceans, lakes, rivers, atmosphere or underground reservoirs. When ice is not melting, water is being added to glaciers as snow and ice. This cycle of cooling and warming, melting and freezing, has been going on essentially since the creation of the Earth. Note this has been going on longer and is controlled by forces far greater than humans burning fossil fuels.</em><br />
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<em>Here is a summary of what is known as the Earth's Hydrologic Cycle, taken from this blog. You can do a search of this blog and find much more.</em><br />
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Chilling Report: Earth Loses 300 Billion Tons of Ice Each Year</h2>
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It is amazing to see because it feels so clearly out of place, but in some spots along <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1374004098843_1">Antarctica</span>’s coast you can actually find hints of grass and other plant life—green evidence that in parts of the long-frozen continent the ice is thinning, and fast.</div>
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But just how much ice is being lost? A new, <a data-rapid_p="1" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/massive-ice-sheets-melting-at-rat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ten-year study</a> conducted by Bristol University’s Glaciology Centre says that between Antarctica and <a data-rapid_p="2" href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/06/05/can-first-crowdfunded-science-project-save-greenlands-ice" target="_self">Greenland</a>, the answer is 300 billion tons a year.<br />
That’s a lot of ice cubes.<br />
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In scientific terms, a decade makes for a short study; this one can’t forecast whether this kind of loss will sustain into the future. (Though reasoned experts believe it will and may even accelerate.) But if it continues at this pace, goodbye Miami, Hong Kong, New York City, etc., as well as the homes of hundreds of millions who live on estuaries, deltas, coral atolls and great city river basins around the globe.<br />
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The two massive <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1374004098843_2">ice sheets</span> in Greenland and Antarctica combined—the ice in Antarctica is three miles thick at some places—contain 99.5 percent of the earth’s glacier ice. If it were all to melt (which would admittedly take centuries), sea levels would rise by 500 to 600 feet.</div>
I’ve been to <a data-rapid_p="3" href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/06/13/climate-change-melting-polar-ice" target="_self">Antarctica</a> on a couple dozen different trips, mostly along it’s long, skinny Peninsula, which because it is surrounded by warming ocean on both sides is the area most-impacted by the planet’s changing climate. It’s there each austral summer that more shorelines are exposed thanks to disappearing ice, and where you find hints of plant life. (How did the seeds get there? Most likely hitchhiking on fishing boats and visiting tourist ships, both growing in numbers.)<br />
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Another satellite study, conducted over the past 20 years by NASA and the European Space Agency, confirms the Bristol study, reporting that the planet’s ice sheets have melted faster in the last 20 years than in the last 10,000.<br />
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According to this study, melting ice from both poles has been responsible for a fifth of the global rise in sea levels since 1992. The rest was caused by the thermal expansion of the warming ocean, the melting of mountain glaciers, small Arctic ice caps and groundwater mining. The share of the polar ice melt, however, is rising and most concerning.<br />
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When it comes to Antarctica, though, it can be tricky to generalize. It is a huge continent; the U.S. could easily fit inside its borders. In the huge area of <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1374004098843_3">East Antarctica</span>, where the ice is mostly above sea level, the air temperature is also much lower, and the experts do not expect the ice to melt on account of rising temperatures. In this part of Antarctica, the ice sheet is actually growing as a consequence of increased snowfall.</div>
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-54834722109543842502013-07-16T20:14:00.000-05:002013-07-16T20:14:43.614-05:00No Sea Level Rise, No Consensus, No Surprise<br />
<em>The fact that scientists cannot measure, nor predict any future world-wide sea level rise is certainly no surprise to me. The same should be true to anyone with any knowledge of basic Earth history. Actually the same should be true of any thinking person who has been to the beach, looked out over the vast ocean, flown over the ocean, looked at a globe, or watched any of many video documentaries shown often on television. If fact this should be true of anyone who has not been totally brainwashed by one of Al Gore's pseudo scientific "documentaries" like "An Inconvenient Truth", or to anyone who has not been totally mind-numbed by our public education system.</em><br />
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<em>In spite of a lack of consensus about future sea level rise, and it being an obviously politically-motivated, fear-driven hoax, the fearful spectre of catastrophic sea level rise continues to be rammed down people's consciousness' by the liberal controlled mainstream media. Wow, major scandal, right? No, it seems people have been lulled to sleep. But anyone who is the least curious about the subject ought to read the following article.</em><br />
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<img alt="sealevelrise" height="220" src="http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/images/pics2/sealevelrise.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="294" />There isn't enough data to say with any certainty what will happen to sea levels around the world this century, and there is no "scientific consensus" to suggest that the rate of the seas' rise will accelerate dangerously.<br />
That's according to a group of eminent specialists based in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Writing in hefty boffinry journal <i>Nature Geoscience</i> this week, the assembled experts have <a href="http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1874.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this to say</a> [Our emphasis]:<br />
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The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are very important factors in forecasting the rate at which the seas might rise in the coming century, which is perhaps the primary reason to be concerned about global warming and associated climate changes.<br />
During the 20th century, sea levels as measured by tide gauges rose about 17cm, just short of 2mm a year. The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch5s5-5-2-4.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">said that</a> "no long-term acceleration of sea level has been identified using 20th-century data alone", but the organisation nonetheless forecast rises in the 21st century of 26-59cm as many scientists think that the rate of rise will increase seriously due to global warming.<br />
Many others boffins assess that the ice sheets are so massive that they will take centuries to respond to likely levels of warming. Recent <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/03/sea_level_rise_barely_30cm_by_2100/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">first-of-its-kind analysis</a> pulling together all the factors in play suggested that the worst possible case in 2100 would be 30cm with the likely result less - in other words, no major change from the 20th century situation. And that was before <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/25/norwegian_co2_warming_shocker/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">new studies</a> came out reflecting the fact that global warming has been basically on hold for the last decade and more, meaning that warming forecasts should be revised downwards.<br />
Be all that as it may, the next IPCC report is now being produced. It will attempt to reflect what the various committees and advisors believe to be the scientific consensus on various matters including sea levels. But it appears that there simply isn't any scientific consensus on the Antarctic and Greenland melt rates - and therefore there isn't one on sea levels either.<br />
You wouldn't necessarily know this. Various organisations, for instance the Google-funded alarmist activism organisation Climate Central, <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/15/millions_at_risk_sea_level_rise/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">say that</a> there <i>is</i> a consensus and that it centres on a much higher figure - one or even two metres of rise by 2100. ("Scientists expect" this, we are told by the Google mouthpieces.)<br />
One of the authors of the new study today, Professor Jonathan Bamber of Bristol uni, carried out a previous effort to work out what scientists think sea levels will do, in which metre-range rises were described as "conceivable" but highly unlikely.<br />
"Expert opinion is shown to be both very uncertain and undecided," <a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v3/n4/full/nclimate1778.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">that study</a> said.<br />
The scientists compiling the new assessment say that there simply isn't enough data yet (especially from the GRACE satellites which have lately produced such <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/09/grace_data_himalayas_not_melting/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">surprising results</a> on glacier and ice sheet mass) to know what will happen. In the case of the Greenland ice sheet, at least another ten years of data will be required.<br />
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-62255432081214042612013-07-16T09:59:00.001-05:002013-07-16T09:59:52.186-05:00Ignorance and Bias Passed Off As Global Warming Journalism?<em>It is amazing that anyone so uneducated and ignorant about the basics of science would write an article about global warming, its causes and its effects on climate. What is sad is there are so many people who believe things like written in the following article. Sad and dangerous. This is akin to playing the race or the gender card in politics. Oh, and this writer even dragged in the perennial "bad guy", by speculating that oil companies are paying off Congressmen. That is not only inaccurate, it is way too old, disproved, and not even imaginative. The equation the author of the following article is really trying to prove is 2+3 = 4.</em><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">I didn’t go to science school, or anything amazing like that, but I’m fairly certain the following <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1373950878159_1">mathematical equation</span>—which I just made up like 20 minutes ago—accurately and succinctly summarizes the current state of the climate-political complex in the United States.</span></div>
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<strong>X </strong>= The <a data-rapid_p="1" href="http://library.wmo.int/opac/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=15110" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World Meteorological Organization</a> recently released a report on the years 2001 to 2010. As reads go, it was royal snooze. As warning shots go, it was a howitzer of the first order. According to the study, the first decade of the twenty-first century was the hottest since the start of modern measurements in 1850. The hottest. In 160 years!<br />
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This heat surge lead to “a rapid decline in <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1373950878159_3">Arctic sea ice</span> and accelerating loss of net mass from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and from the world’s glaciers.”</div>
The most tragic thread of the report? That'd have to be the 370,000 people that were killed by climage-change fueled extreme weather events like <a data-rapid_p="2" href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/06/11/climate-change-extreme-weather" target="_self">hurricanes</a> and <a data-rapid_p="3" href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/06/12/climate-change-wildfires-drought" target="_self">droughts</a> in the last decade. This is a 20 percent increase from the 1990s.<br />
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<strong>Y = </strong>Last week, <a data-rapid_p="4" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/11/2289051/new-infographic-the-anti-science-climate-denier-caucus/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Climate Progress</a> published a truly vexatious infographic that exposes just how deeply intertwined the tentacles of the fossil fuel industry are with some members of the one hundred thirteenth Congress.<br />
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Says the report: 115 current beltway baby-kissers have welcomed with open arms—and no doubt smug smirks and sly winks—more than $51 million in campaign contributions from big oil and gas. As part of this quid pro quo deal, these members of Congress are then responsible for standing in lockstep opposition to any legislation—be it Obama’s appointment to the EPA or, say, the House's 2009 <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1373950878159_2">climate change</span> bill—that would in any way, <em>in any way, </em>curb greenhouse gas emissions. These are the very same emissions, need I remind you, that 97 percent of peer-reviewed climatologists unquivocably say is causing climate change.</div>
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We’re speeding for the climate cliff and the traffic cops have dropped their radar guns to count their bribe money with both hands.</div>
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<strong>More fear-mongering and stupid stories from the same source. Go here to read more: <br />
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<br /><strong>• <a data-rapid_p="5" href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/06/25/president-obama-and-keystone-xl-pipeline-climate-change">Obama’s Climate Plan: Buh-Bye, Big Coal</a></strong><br />
<strong>• <a data-rapid_p="6" href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/05/23/london-drowning-underwater-climate-change">Will Climate-Change-Fueled Superstorms Wipe Out London?</a></strong><br />
<strong>• <a data-rapid_p="7" href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/09/12/do-math-climate-change-increasing-temperature-higher-crime-rates">Climate Change Crime Wave: Study Links Global Warming to 30,000 Additional Murders by 2099</a></strong></nav></div>
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-44160270134681345622013-07-15T23:35:00.001-05:002013-07-15T23:35:58.439-05:00Department of Defense Afraid Of Global Warming And Climate Change?<em>Unsubstantiated fear mongering? Politically motivated liberal propaganda? Global warming a threat to "national security"? A far, far more serious threat is the people who believe in this kind of hogwash. The frightening thing is many of them can vote. Does anyone think the Defense Department is playing on people's fears in order to secure more funding? They don't do that, do they? For a good laugh, or cry, read the article.</em><br />
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Though Earth's shifting climate evokes many images, civil unrest usually isn't one of them. Yet, a warming planet could have a profound impact on <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1373924780909_2">national security</span>, both in the United States and abroad. This time, the threat isn't from terrorism or a single enemy, but from natural disasters occurring on an unprecedented scale.</div>
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Acts of nature fueled by a warming climate — for example, floods and prolonged <a data-rapid_p="4" href="http://www.livescience.com/21634-dry-dying-images-of-drought.html">drought</a> — may lead to disrupted migration, food and water shortages, and other public health crises — which, in turn, could prompt civil and political instability. Those impacts would pose a particularly profound threat for people in countries with fragile governments, including key U.S. strategic interests.</div>
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This threat has Pentagon officials worried enough to speak out and to invest in research to better understand the relationships among conflict, socioeconomic conditions and climate. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) plans to use the data to predict future threats and develop ways to cope with them.</div>
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Under its highly selective <a data-rapid_p="5" href="http://minerva.dtic.mil/">Minerva</a> social-science program, the DOD has awarded researchers at the University of Maryland a three-year, $1.9 million grant to develop models that will help policymakers anticipate what could happen to societies under a range of potential <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1373924780909_6">climate-change</span> scenarios.</div>
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-67026845000202560942013-07-15T15:20:00.000-05:002013-07-15T15:21:29.073-05:00Sea Level Rise Will Drown Us All --- The Big Lie Continues<span class="userContent"><em>It doesn't matter how irrational their message is, or how often and thoroughly their predictions have been proven wrong. The global warming doomsayers just keep repeating themselves, hoping if they repeat themselves often enough, someone will listen to them. I think their devious strategy is proving wrong. People get weary and wary of the hype. </em></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><em>The problem is people then become jaded, and don't believe anything. Taken farther, people lose trust in their political leaders, even their educators who they see as either being stupid or "part of the big lie". Then what happens? A lack of respect for authority leads to a general breakdown in society. Do you think I'm exaggerating? Take a look around. Consider the growing lack of respect for law enforcement officers because of the abuses of a few. Consider the lack of trust generated by the NSA leaks. Add the admitted spying on ordinary, law-abiding people by the FBI, the IRS, the EPA, then tie all of that into the "Affordable Health Care Act", or Obamacare as it is more popularly known. The continual effort to get us to believe in the great myth of man-controlled global warming , or as they now call it, "climate change" is just part of the big hoax, the big effort to rule, control, and abuse ordinary people. It is not good friends.</em></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><em>This kind of distrust leads to people not taking immunization shots because they distrust doctors. How many people lie about their income, hide their income, or do everything they can to avoid paying taxes. That is what leads to black markets and smuggling in broken countries. Ban alcohol, ban drugs, ban guns and ammunition? Guess what, people will find a way, illegally or not, to get what they want. Why are people buying guns in record numbers, and hoarding ammunition? They're doing it because they don't trust our government. So continually promoting this man-caused global warming nonsense is wrong, counter-productive and produces nothing but harm, to our society, tragically to our environment and the planet we all love and refer to as Mother Earth.</em></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><em>Here is another of the stories in the media that keep repeating the same old party line. The big "boogie man" SEA LEVEL RISE is going to submerge us all.</em></span><br />
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<span id="midArticle_0"></span><span class="focusParagraph"><span class="articleLocation">BERLIN, July 15</span> (Reuters) - Sea levels could rise by 2.3 metres for each degree Celsius that global temperatures increase and they will remain high for centuries to come, according to a new study by the leading climate research institute, released on Monday.<br />
</span><span id="midArticle_1"></span>Anders Levermann said his study for the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research was the first to examine evidence from climate history and combine it with computer simulations of contributing factors to long-term sea-level increases: thermal expansion of oceans, the melting of mountain glaciers and the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.<br />
<span id="midArticle_2"></span>Scientists say global warming is responsible for the melting ice. A U.N. panel of scientists, the IPCC, says heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels are nudging up temperatures. A small number of scientists dismiss human-influenced global warming, arguing natural climate fluctuations are responsible.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Fish flopping on Venice Boulevard, </strong></span><a data-rapid_p="1" href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/07/11/sampal-dolphin-escapes-captivity-reunites-pod-ten-years-later" target="_self"><span style="color: black;"><strong>dolphins</strong></span></a><span style="color: black;"><strong> circumnavigating palm trees, whales beached on the boardwalk—these are the mental images that artist and researcher </strong></span><a data-rapid_p="2" href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/07/03/barbie-nickolay-lamm" target="_self"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Nickolay Lamm’s</strong></span></a><span style="color: black;"><strong> <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1373765001370_1">climate change</span> creations bring to the surface.</strong></span></div>
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Lamm, from the self-storage search engine <a data-rapid_p="3" href="http://www.storagefront.com/therentersbent/what-will-sea-level-rise-look-like-west-coast-edition" target="_blank">StorageFront.com</a>, crafted chilling illustrations that depict how <a data-rapid_p="4" href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/07/11/world-population-day-2013-booming-human-population-exacerbates-impacts-climate-change" target="_self">climate change</a> could have Venice, San Diego and many other metropolitan cities gasping for air.<br />
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<em>The idea that we could actually change and control the Earth's huge and complex atmospheric climate system is even more absurd. People won't even go close to asking the question "could we really control climate change even if we put every last human effort and dollar to work on the issue?" The answer is obviously NO. I mean 1/3 of the people in the U.S. are on food stamps, tens of millions of people are unemployed, or underemployed, and people want to spend Billions more to try and change the climate? Insane.</em><br />
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<em><u>To the ignorant trolls lurking out there: you bet it's a political issue. It has to be. New bills and taxes are being forced down our throats by our legislators on this issue every day.</u> It has long gone way past being a scientific question, which I originally, naively assumed. As a scientist, I had faith in logic, reason, facts, and the scientific method. No longer. We have lost control to big business, and big politics or big government. So we must fight the insanity using every method we can.</em><br />
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<em>Politicians look at a "carbon tax" on everything we do, and they DROOL; because most of the energy we use requires the release of simple (and harmless) carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. They salivate or dream about grabbing all that potential tax revenue. It is literally like being able to tax the air we breath. We do produce and release carbon dioxide every time we exhale. Simply speaking, we breath in oxygen, use it for vital physiological functions, and our bodies convert it to carbon dioxide. And our government wants to tax it!!!! Amazing (and sad) that so many people are so uneducated that they accept such absurd tax proposals. Obviously most of our public school teachers have also fallen for or are intimidated into accepting the global warming/human connection hoax.</em><br />
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<em>Now we get some egomaniac control-freak, like Billionaire NYC Mayor Bloomberg making proposals like the one described in the article below. Such idiocy is actually treasonous, if you think about it. What destroys America's economy, destroys America.</em><br />
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<b><a class="jcepopup" href="http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/images/pics2/submerged-New-York-AI-2001.jpg" rel="" target="_blank"><span class="jcemediabox-zoom-span" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 166, 195); float: right; margin: 5px; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><img alt="submerged-New-York-AI-2001" height="224" src="http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/images/pics2/thumbnails/thumb_submerged-New-York-AI-2001.jpg" style="border: currentColor; float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="300" /><span class="jcemediabox-zoom-image"></span></span></a>Build a Boat! It's Gonna Start Flooding!</b> (sometime soon). According to Mommy Mayor Bloomberg NYC is about to be flooded because of global warming, so he's announced a $20 billion dollar plan to prevent the big apple from becoming the worlds largest<i> bobbing for apples</i> game. Its a reasonable plan with only two problems, the City doesn't have that kind of money and the sea level isn't rising, in fact temperatures haven't risen in 15+ years.<br />
Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a $20 billion plan to defend New York City from what he claim will be the ravages of global warming in the coming decades. His plan will cost the average New York City househol<a href="http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2013/07/10/nyc-mayor-bloomberg-announces-20-billion-climate-change-plan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">d nearly $3,000</a>.<br />
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<i>Bloomberg’s 430-page plan, Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency, includes approximately 250 recommendations ranging from new floodwalls and storm barriers to upgrades in the city’s power and telecommunications infrastructure. The plan also calls for $1.2 billion in loans and grants to help owners make buildings more resilient to floods and proposes changes in the city’s building code.</i></div>
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<i>New York has always had to deal with the threat of flooding. Hurricanes and severe tropical storms have struck the area periodically since the founding of New Amsterdam (today’s New York) in 1624.Bloomberg announced the plan by claiming New Yorkers could either “do nothing and expose ourselves to an increasing frequency of Sandy-like storms” or “make the investments necessary to build a stronger, more resilient New York.”</i></div>
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Bloomberg is correct about the frequency of bad hurricanes, there was Hurricane Donna in 1960 (a category 2), Hurricane Gloria in 1985, Irene in 2011 and Sandy in 2012. See--a-15-year-gap followed by a 26-year gap and a 1-year gap (there were other storms but these were the bad ones). <b>Come on Mayor</b>! <b>Four bad hurricanes in 52 years and you are freaking out!</b><br />
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<i>“I have trouble seeing exactly how spending $20 billion—that’s billion with a ‘b’—will prevent bad weather or climate,” said climate scientist Willie Soon. “In general, to be more prepared is a good thing. But preparing, as New York City is apparently doing, using the faulty climate modeling scenarios offered by the UN IPCC [United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] is a serious distortion of basic science.”</i></div>
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As far as sea levels---that's also nonsense. The President forgot ever since the last ice-age 10,000 years ago, sea levels have been rising. So unless the Neanderthals were imitating Al Gore and flying private jets and driving gas guzzlers, rising sea levels are not caused by man but by natural phenomena.<br />
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The<a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/jamestaylor/2011/05/11/nasa-funded-group-doctors-sea-level-data/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> climate change hoaxer</a>s use computer models to predict that sea levels would rise anywhere from 15 inches to 20 feet because of global warming in the 21st century (the consensus number is closer to 3 feet).<br />
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But Mother Nature was never good at computer science. Satellite data proved that the first decade of the 21st century sea level grew by only 0.83 inches (a pace of just 8 inches for the entire century). What's even worse (for the global warming hoaxers) there has been no rise since 2006. Just like there has been no warming since 1998.<br />
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Gotta feel bad for the Mayor, he must be having some pretty bad nightmares to believe the City that never sleeps is going to become the city that can't keep its head above the water. Maybe he should stop having spicy food before he goes to sleep. Perhaps instead he could relax with a nice 44 ounce Slurpee.<br />
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-49644507851015231212013-06-26T20:56:00.001-05:002013-06-26T20:56:04.046-05:00<em>The evidence against man-caused global warming and climate change is enormous and growing. You won't hear these things from the mainstream media, of course.</em><br />
<em>Peter</em><br />
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As Obama heats up rhetoric & executive actions about ‘global warming’, the Earth has been COOLING since 2002</h1>
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<b><img alt="Obama at georgetown" height="206" src="http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/images/pics2/obama-georgetown.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="244" />Statement by Climate Depot’s Marc Morano: “President Obama is still parading his ignorance on climate science, linking bad weather to “global warming”, claiming a <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/05/warmist-dana-nuccitelli-chokes-on-his-own-vomit-cites-his-own-laughable-97-study-to-push-carbon-tax-climate-debate-is-settled-carbon-tax-is-vital/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mythical 97% consensus</a>, and implying that his executive actions can alter the globe’s temperature and lessen extreme weather events. The President has descended into the realm of medieval witchcraft by claiming he can combat global temperature rises and weather patterns through administrative action. Let the battle begin.”</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/watch-now-skeptic-chris-horner-on-obamas-climate-plan-nothing-obama-is-proposing-would-detectably-impact-the-climate-according-to-anybody/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Watch Now: Skeptic Chris Horner on Obama’s climate plan: ‘Nothing Obama is proposing would detectably impact the climate according to anybody’">Watch Now: Skeptic Chris Horner on Obama’s climate plan: ‘Nothing Obama is proposing would detectably impact the climate according to anybody’</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/un-ipcc-lead-author-dissents-over-obama-speech-carbon-dioxide-is-not-a-pollutant-not-now-not-here-not-to-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="UN IPCC Lead Author Dissents over Obama calling CO2 ‘pollution’: ‘Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, not now, not here, not to us’">UN IPCC Lead Author Dissents over Obama calling CO2 ‘pollution’: ‘Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, not now, not here, not to us’</a> — <a href="http://twitter.com/RichardTol/status/349536955563905025" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Tol: ‘According to this branch of the US gov’t, CO2 in the human body is not dangerous (but lack of CO2 is)</a>‘ – <a href="http://twitter.com/RichardTol/status/349537289929621504" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tol: ‘CO2 concentrations in the human lung reach 37,000 ppmv’</a> – <a href="http://twitter.com/RichardTol/status/349538919991345153" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘CO2 concentrations of 100,000 ppmv are immediately dangerous to life. Atmospheric concentration is about 400 ppmv’</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/obama-dresses-co2-in-a-big-bad-wolf-costume-the-term-carbon-pollution-is-used-a-further-13-times/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Obama Dresses CO2 in a Big Bad Wolf Costume: The term ‘carbon pollution’ is used a further 13 times.">Obama Dresses CO2 in a Big Bad Wolf Costume: The term ‘carbon pollution’ is used a further 13 times.</a> – The term ‘carbon pollution’ is one of the most odious slogans ever dreamed up by environmentalists. If the president has now officially adopted it, our opinion of him cannot remain the same. As any high school student knows, carbon is represented by a C on the <a href="http://www.webelements.com/carbon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">periodic table</a>. We are carbon-based life forms; carbon is within us and all around us. Anti-global-warming activists are, in fact, concerned about something else – carbon dioxide. Comprised of one molecule of carbon and two molecules of oxygen (a separate and distinct element on the <a href="http://www.webelements.com/oxygen/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">periodic table</a>)’<br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/obama-i-will-lead-the-world-in-a-coordinated-assault-on-a-changing-climate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Obama: ‘I will lead the world in a coordinated assault on a changing climate’">Obama: ‘I will lead the world in a coordinated assault on a changing climate’</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2011/01/14/oh-my-2010-tied-for-hottest-year-relax-it-is-purely-a-political-statement-even-nasas-hansen-admits-it-is-not-particularly-important-prof-mocks-hottest-decade-claim-as-a-joke/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Oh My! 2010 tied for ‘hottest’ year?! Relax, it is ‘purely a political statement’ — Even NASA’s Hansen admits it is ‘not particularly important’ — Prof. mocks ‘hottest decade’ claim as ‘a joke’</a> — ‘Claims based on year-to-year temperature data that differs by only a few HUNDREDTHS of a degree’<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/obama-cites-97-nonsensus-claims-some-skeptics-have-become-warmists/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Obama cites 97% Nonsensus; Claims some skeptics have become warmists">Obama cites 97% Nonsensus; Claims some skeptics have become warmists</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/the-presidents-climate-action-plan-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-multiple-citations-of-the-crazy-idea-that-carbon-dioxide-is-carbon-pollution/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Analysis: The President’s Climate Action Plan – the good, the bad, and the ugly: ‘Multiple citations of the crazy idea that carbon dioxide is ‘carbon pollution’">Analysis: The President’s Climate Action Plan – the good, the bad, and the ugly: ‘Multiple citations of the crazy idea that carbon dioxide is ‘carbon pollution’</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/flashback-2007-obama-claimed-co2-threatens-our-very-existence-claimed-that-no-business-will-be-allowed-to-emit-any-greenhouses-gases-for-free/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Flashback 2007: Obama claimed CO2 ‘threatens our very existence’; & claimed that ‘no business will be allowed to emit any greenhouses gases for free’">Flashback 2007: Obama claimed CO2 ‘threatens our very existence’; & claimed that ‘no business will be allowed to emit any greenhouses gases for free’</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/the-real-energy-agenda-flashback-1975-obama-science-czar-john-holdren-says-real-threat-to-usa-is-cheap-energy-the-u-s-is-threatened-far-more-by-the-hazards-of-too-much-energy-too-soon-th/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Obama’s real energy agenda: Flashback 1975: Obama Science Czar John Holdren Says Real Threat to USA Is Cheap Energy: ‘The U.S.is threatened far more by the hazards of too much energy, too soon, than by the hazards of too little energy, too late.’">Obama’s real energy agenda: Flashback 1975: Obama Science Czar John Holdren Says Real Threat to USA Is Cheap Energy: ‘The U.S.is threatened far more by the hazards of too much energy, too soon, than by the hazards of too little energy, too late.’</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/wh-climate-adviser-daniel-p-schrag-a-war-on-coal-is-exactly-whats-needed/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="WH Climate Adviser Daniel P. Schrag: ‘A War on Coal Is Exactly What’s Needed’">WH Climate Adviser Daniel P. Schrag: ‘A War on Coal Is Exactly What’s Needed’</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2006/12/23/harvard-prof-daniel-schrag-on-senator-inhofes-gathering-of-liars-and-charlatans/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Flashback 2006: Schrag slams Marc Morano after his appearance at Senate climate hearing: ‘I later learned that Inhofe’s communications director, Marc Morano, was a key figure in publicizing the swift boat veterans’ attack on John Kerry in 2004. Morano, it seems, is still up to his old tricks, twisting the facts to support his boss’s outrageous claims.’</a><br />
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<a href="http://twitter.com/eilperin/status/349536041746710530" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wash Post’s </a><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/juliet-eilperin/2011/03/02/ABZpz6M_page.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Visit Juliet Eilperin’s website">Juliet Eilperin</a>: ‘Is Obama waging a war on coal? Pretty much. Read my analysis<br />
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<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour/2013/06/25/networks-fail-mention-lull-warming-all-92-climate-change-stories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Networks Fail to Mention ‘Lull’ in Warming in All 92 Climate Change Stories</a><br />
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<a href="http://twitter.com/thinkprogress/status/349608739294298113" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Warmists upset: ‘Cable news virtually ignores Obama’s major climate speech: MSNBC: 41 seconds; FOX News: &<5 amp="" br="" cnn:="" minutes=""></5></a><br />
<em><strong><a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2010/12/08/special-report-more-than-1000-international-scientists-dissent-over-manmade-global-warming-claims-challenge-un-ipcc-gore-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Flashback: Scientists refuse to remain quiet after being called ‘flat-Earthers’ ‘After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri’s asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it’s hard to remain quiet.” – Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society’s Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.</a></strong></em><br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2010/12/08/special-report-more-than-1000-international-scientists-dissent-over-manmade-global-warming-claims-challenge-un-ipcc-gore-2/" rel="bookmark" target="_blank" title="Permanent link to SPECIAL REPORT: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore">More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore</a></strong><br />
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The UN and the U.S. Congress do not have the power to legislate, tax or regulate the weather.<br />
See: <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2011/12/07/climate-depot-special-report-az-climate-reality-check-subprime-science-exposeacute-the-claims-of-the-promoters-of-manmade-climate-fears-are-failing-presented-to-un-summit/a/1852/Princeton-Physicist-The-idea-that-Congress-can-stop-climate-change-is-just-hilarious--Warns-of-climate-change-cult" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Princeton University Physicist Dr. Will Happer: ‘The idea that Congress can stop climate change is just hilarious’ – Warns of ‘climate change cult’ – July 8, 2009</a> – Prominent scientists continue to challenge the alleged “consensus.” See: <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2011/12/07/climate-depot-special-report-az-climate-reality-check-subprime-science-exposeacute-the-claims-of-the-promoters-of-manmade-climate-fears-are-failing-presented-to-un-summit/a/12797/Exclusive-Nobel-PrizeWinning-Physicist-Who-Endorsed-Obama-Dissents-Resigns-from-American-Physical-Society-Over-Groups-Promotion-of-ManMade-Global-Warming" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Who Endorsed Obama Dissents! Dr. Ivar Giaever Resigns from American Physical Society Over Group’s Promotion of Man-Made Global Warming</a><br />
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The global warming movement continues to lose scientists, many formerly with the UN IPCC. See: <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2011/12/07/climate-depot-special-report-az-climate-reality-check-subprime-science-exposeacute-the-claims-of-the-promoters-of-manmade-climate-fears-are-failing-presented-to-un-summit/a/9035/SPECIAL-REPORT-More-Than-1000-International-Scientists-Dissent-Over-ManMade-Global-Warming-Claims--Challenge-UN-IPCC--Gore" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore</a> — See: <b><a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/02/03/top-swedish-climate-scientist-says-warming-not-noticeable-the-warming-we-have-had-last-a-100-years-is-so-small-that-if-we-didnt-have-climatologists-to-measure-it-we-wouldnt-have-noticed-it-at-all/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Top Swedish Climate Scientist Says Warming Not Noticeable: ‘The warming we have had last a 100 years is so small that if we didn’t have climatologists to measure it we wouldn’t have noticed it at all’</a> – Award-Winning Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, formerly of UN IPCC: ‘We Are Creating Great Anxiety Without It Being Justified’</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2012/04/23/alert-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-reverses-himself-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change-so-was-gore-the-problem-is-we-dont-know-what-the-climate-is-doing-we-thought-we-knew-20-years-ago/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘Gaia’ scientist James Lovelock reverses himself: I was ‘alarmist’ about climate change & so was Gore! ‘The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago’</a> </b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2012/05/09/german-meteorologist-reverses-belief-in-manmade-global-warming-now-calls-idea-that-co2-can-regulate-climate-sheer-absurdity-ten-years-ago-i-simply-parroted-what-the-ipcc-told-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">German Meteorologist reverses belief in man-made global warming: Now calls idea that CO2 Can Regulate Climate ‘Sheer Absurdity’ — ‘Ten years ago I simply parroted what the IPCC told us’</a></b><br />
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In February 2013, global warming activists were stunned by the retreat of one of their former UN scientists. <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/02/03/top-swedish-climate-scientist-dr-lennart-bengtsson-co2s-heating-effect-is-logarithmic-the-higher-the-concentration-is-the-smaller-the-effect-of-a-further-increase/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Top Swedish Climate Scientist Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, formerly of the UN IPCC, declared CO2”s “heating effect is logarithmic: the higher the concentration is, the smaller the effect of a further increase.” </a> Bengtsson noted that <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/02/03/top-swedish-climate-scientist-says-warming-not-noticeable-the-warming-we-have-had-last-a-100-years-is-so-small-that-if-we-didnt-have-climatologists-to-measure-it-we-wouldnt-have-noticed-it-at-all/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">global warming would not even be noticeable without modern instruments. “The warming we have had last a 100 years is so small that if we didn’t have climatologists to measure it we wouldn’t have noticed it at all’</a> — Award-Winning Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, formerly of UN IPCC: ‘We Are Creating Great Anxiety Without It Being Justified…there are no indications that the warming is so severe that we need to panic…The warming we have had the last a 100 years is so small that if we didn’t have had meteorologists and climatologists to measure it we wouldn’t have noticed it at all.”<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/18/2013-global-warming-update-temps-have-been-below-normal-in-75-of-us-tornadoes-have-been-below-normal-forest-fires-have-been-at-a-record-lows-no-global-warming-for-over-17-years/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2013 Global Warming Update: ‘Temps have been below normal in 75% of US — Tornadoes have been below normal — Forest fires have been at a record lows — No global warming for over 17 years’</a> – ‘The permanent corn belt drought is over – Arctic ice is very close to normal – Antarctic ice is above normal – Arctic temperatures are at a record low for this time of year – Longest period since the Civil War without a major hurricane landfall in the U.S .– Despite the fact that there is zero evidence supporting their position, our apocalyptic friends continue to ramp up the BS – with full support from the White House.’<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/16/obama-dial-testing-of-his-state-of-the-union-speech-showed-that-the-favorability-ratings-plummeted-when-he-vowed-to-act-on-climate-change-if-congress-refused-to-do-so/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Obama: ‘Dial testing’ of his State of the Union speech showed that the favorability ratings ‘plummeted’ when he vowed to act on climate change if Congress refused to do so</a> — Wash Post excerpt: ‘Obama expressed concerns about the political pain involved, saying that ‘dial testing’ of his State of the Union speech showed that the favorability ratings ‘plummeted’ when he vowed to act on climate change if Congress refused to do so.’<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/02/13/obama-fails-climate-science-in-his-state-of-the-union-address-climate-depots-pointbypoint-rebuttal-to-the-presidents-global-warming-claims/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Flashback: Obama fails climate science in his State of the Union address — Climate Depot’s point-by-point rebuttal to the President’s global warming claims</a>: ’Mr. President, acts of Congress, the UN or the EPA cannot alter storms or weather patterns’<br />
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Obama repeats fallacy of 97% consensus: <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/05/warmist-dana-nuccitelli-chokes-on-his-own-vomit-cites-his-own-laughable-97-study-to-push-carbon-tax-climate-debate-is-settled-carbon-tax-is-vital/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Background on the fallacy of the new 97% ‘Consensus’ study</a>:<br />
<a href="http://notrickszone.com/2013/05/23/dana-nuccitelli-refuses-reality-richard-tol-calls-john-cooks-survey-silly-idea-poorly-implemented/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Warmist Dana Nuccitelli Refuses Reality: UN IPCC Lead Author Dr. Richard Tol Calls John Cook’s ‘Consensus’ Survey ‘Silly Idea…Poorly Implemented’</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/05/22/un-ipcc-lead-author-richard-tol-on-cooks-97-consensus-study-cook-survey-included-10-of-my-122-eligible-papers-510-were-rated-incorrectly-45-were-rated-as-endorse-rather-than-neutral/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UN IPCC Lead Author Richard Tol on Cook’s 97% Consensus study: ‘Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly. 4/5 were rated as endorse rather than neutral’</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/05/21/retraction-watch-warmist-john-cooks-97-consensus-study-falsely-classifies-scientists-papers-according-to-the-scientists-that-published-them/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Retraction Watch: Warmist John Cook’s 97% consensus study falsely classifies scientists’ papers according to the scientists that published them</a> — ‘When asked about the categorizations of Cook et al, – ‘It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming’<br />
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<a href="http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/05/97-study-falsely-classifies-scientists.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Popular Technology.net: 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists’ Papers, “It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming”</a>: ‘Their responses are eye opening and evidence that the Cook et al. (2013) team falsely classified scientists’ papers as ‘endorsing AGW’, apparently believing to know more about the papers than their authors’<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/05/17/the-97-consensus-claim-a-lie-of-epic-proportions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘The 97% consensus claim – a lie of epic proportions’ – Warmist John Cook’s study exposed</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/19/obama-in-berlin-vows-us-will-do-more-before-it-is-too-lateto-battle-climate-change-warns-of-more-severe-storms-more-famine-floods-new-waves-of-refugees-coastlines-that-vanish-oceans-th/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">As Earth COOLS, Obama in Berlin vows U.S. ‘will do more…before it is too late’ to battle global warming: Warns of ‘more severe storms, more famine & floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise’</a> — Obama: ‘Peace with justice means refusing to condemn our children to a harsher, less hospitable planet…For the grim alternative affects all nations. More severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise.’<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/bjorn-lomborg-obama-should-confront-climate-change-fantasies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Bjorn Lomborg: ‘Obama should confront climate change fantasies’">Bjorn Lomborg: ‘Obama should confront climate change fantasies’</a> — Lomborg: Obama claim: ‘Renewables are a major part of the solution today’. No, they are almost trivial. Today, the world gets 81% of its energy from fossil fuels – by 2035, in the most green scenario, we will still get 79% from fossil fuels. Wind and solar will increase from 0.8% to 3.2% — impressive, but not what is going to matter.<br />
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Obama: ‘Biofuels should play a major part of the solution.’ No. For now, biofuels simply diverts food into cars, driving up food prices and starvation, while clearing forests for new fields emit more CO2 than biofuels save.<br />
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Obama: Efficiency can cut emissions. No. While efficiency is good, studies show it has little climate impact, because its savings gets eaten up by more use. As your car gets more efficient, you drive it further, and the money you still save get used for other carbon-emitting activities.<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/delingpole-obama-drives-green-dagger-into-the-heart-of-the-american-dream/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Delingpole: Obama drives green dagger into the heart of the American dream">Delingpole: Obama drives green dagger into the heart of the American dream</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/global-warming-theres-nothing-to-fight-against-hysteria-the-science-of-climate-change-is-screaming-at-us-for-action-sec-of-state-john-kerry-said-over-the-weekend-yes-we-hear-screams-but-n/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Global Warming: There’s Nothing To Fight Against: Hysteria: ‘The science of climate change is screaming at us for action,’ Sec of State John Kerry said over the weekend. Yes, we hear screams, but not from science. They’re from the alarmist movement dying’">Global Warming: There’s Nothing To Fight Against: Hysteria: ‘The science of climate change is screaming at us for action,’ Sec of State John Kerry said over the weekend. Yes, we hear screams, but not from science. They’re from the alarmist movement dying’</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/can-obama-restore-a-safe-tornado-free-climate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Can Obama Restore A Safe Tornado-Free Climate?">Can Obama Restore A Safe Tornado-Free Climate?</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/osfc-rapid-response-on-obamas-keystone-xl-announcement-not-to-approve-keystone-xl-unless-determined-first-it-will-not-lead-to-net-increase-of-ghg-emissions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="OSFC Rapid Response on Obama’s Keystone XL Announcement Not To Approve Keystone XL Unless Determined First It Will Not Lead to net Increase of GHG Emissions">OSFC Rapid Response on Obama’s Keystone XL Announcement Not To Approve Keystone XL Unless Determined First It Will Not Lead to net Increase of GHG Emissions</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/obama-cant-control-the-irs-or-the-doj-but-he-can-control-global-sea-level/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Obama Can’t Control The IRS Or The DOJ, But He Can Control Global Sea Level">Obama Can’t Control The IRS Or The DOJ, But He Can Control Global Sea Level</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/as-fossil-fueled-planes-continually-roar-overhead-obama-suggests-that-if-you-dont-believe-that-co2-causes-bad-weather-youre-a-flat-earther/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="As fossil-fueled planes continually roar overhead, Obama suggests that if you don’t believe that CO2 causes bad weather, you’re a flat-earther">As fossil-fueled planes continually roar overhead, Obama suggests that if you don’t believe that CO2 causes bad weather, you’re a flat-earther</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/obamas-climate-speech-pre-game-commentary/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Obama’s Climate Speech: Pre-Game Commentary</a> — ‘Renewable energy is costly, intermittent, and unreliable. <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/13/america-wind-power-column/2397447/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If it weren’t a bad buy for consumers</a>, Congress would not need to subsidize it (<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/factsheet/making-america-a-magnet-for-manufacturing-jobs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">in perpetuity</a> – if President Obama gets his wish), nor would <a href="http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=4850" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">30 states and the District of Columbia</a> need to mandate it.’<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/epa-climate-fiats-threaten-the-u-s-standard-of-living/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Analysis: EPA climate fiats threaten the U.S. standard of living</a> — ‘The EPA is already devising oppressive new rules to control carbon dioxide emissions, by regulating thousands of facilities that use hydrocarbon energy — and ultimately, almost everything Americans make, grow, ship, eat and do…This accumulation of anti-hydrocarbon restrictions and penalties is putting the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/environmental-protection-agency/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">agency</a> in control of nearly every aspect of our lives. Fuel, compliance and business costs will soar. Companies will be forced to outsource work to other countries, reduce workforces, shift people to part-time status or close their doors. Poor and minority families will be unable to heat and cool their homes properly, pay their rent or mortgage, buy clothing and medicine, take vacations, pay their bills, give to charity, and save for college and retirement.’<br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/obama-promises-an-end-to-cheap-energy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Obama promises an end to cheap energy</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/analysis-obamas-global-warming-plan-telegraphs-his-desperation/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Analysis: Obama’s Global Warming Plan Telegraphs His Desperation’</a> — ‘His poll numbers are plummeting, and his grand speech at the Brandenburg Gate last week had a 95% drop off in attendance. Russia and China are laughing at him over the NSA leaker. He’s under siege for abuse of power and McCarthy-style tactics to intimidate both the press and conservative groups.’ — ‘It will mean higher energy prices for most Americans. It will mean increasing the already outrageous costs of building power plants in the U.S. It will lead to the closure of certain coal-fired plants across the country.Of course whatever the plan, it has no hope of curbing Climate Change and it unquestionably will not lead to the short term job creation Americans need’<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/analysis-the-president-plans-to-raise-your-power-bill/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Analysis: The president plans to raise your power bill’</a> — ‘If you accept the science of global warming, then you accept the fact that the president’s unilateral action on climate change will have absolutely no effect in terms of adjusting the global thermostat to a temperature Obama finds desirable’ — ‘I hope GOP leaders in the House and Senate are able to force up-or-down votes on the president’s plan. Let’s see how many Democrats who will be facing voters in 16 months will be willing to sign on to his pointless, harmful crusade’<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/analysis-previewing-president-obamas-climate-change-speech/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Analysis: Previewing President Obama’s Climate Change Speech</a> — ‘What you won’t hear: Markets already incentivize Americans to be more energy efficient. Government mandates are inefficient and have unintended consequences.’<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/obama-urges-lets-stop-global-warming-for-the-kids-sake-we-owe-it-to-our-kids-to-do-something-about-climate-change/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Obama urges let’s stop global warming — for the sake of our children! ‘We owe it to our kids to do something about climate change’</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/new-pew-poll-americans-are-relatively-unconcerned-about-global-climate-change-americans-among-the-least-concerned-about-this-issue-of-the-39-publics-surveyed/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Pew poll: ‘Americans are relatively unconcerned about global climate change’ — ‘Americans among the least concerned about this issue of the 39 publics surveyed’</a> — Pew Global Attitudes Project: ‘In contrast, Americans are relatively unconcerned about global climate change. Four-in-ten say this poses a major threat to their nation, making Americans among the least concerned about this issue of the 39 publics surveyed, along with people in China, Czech Republic, Jordan, Israel, Egypt and Pakistan.’<br />
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<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/06/24/2204931/poll-climate-threat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pew Poll: Climate Change Viewed As Major Threat Around The World – Except In America</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/analysis-reality-already-raining-on-obamas-climate-announcement/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Analysis: Reality already raining on Obama’s climate announcement</a> — ‘The fuse is longer than media coverage may suggest,’ Book said in a note to clients Monday. The entire process of rolling out new regs — and perhaps developing a tradable credit system for utilities to comply — could take years.’<br />
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<a href="http://junkscience.com/2013/06/24/obamas-climate-plans-to-be-decided-by-courts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Obama’s climate plans to be decided by courts: The Financial Times reports: ‘Business groups have already signalled they intend to fight against new emissions regulations. ‘We don’t think that the Clean Air Act is the right way to do this. Climate policy should be decided by Congress, and in co-operation with other nations’</a><br />
<a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059983343" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Some climate activists not expecting much from Obama: ‘But other climate advocates are more skeptical about Obama’s timing and overall intention. One said that the administration has already delayed the rules for both new and existing power plants, both of which have been promised by EPA. This advocate, who asked not to be named, believes the president is trying to please his base before approving, potentially, the Keystone XL pipeline, which is detested by many environmentalists. The advocate is also concerned that Obama might not fulfill the promises he announces tomorrow.’</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/analysis-obamas-climate-plans-face-years-long-fight-will-unleash-a-yearslong-battle-that-has-little-assurance-of-being-resolved-during-his-time-in-office/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Analysis: Obama’s Climate Plans Face Years-Long Fight: ‘Will unleash a yearslong battle that has little assurance of being resolved during his time in office’</a> — ‘The president has called climate change a “legacy issue,” and his speech may head off a backlash from environmentalists should his administration approve the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.’ <br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/gore-excited-about-obamas-climate-speech-looking-forward-to-tomorrows-speech-by-president-obama-we-must-not-delay-there-is-too-much-at-stake/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br />Gore excited about Obama’s climate speech: ‘Looking forward to tomorrow’s speech by President Obama. We must not delay, there is too much at stake’</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/obama-climate-plan-an-albatross-for-2014-democrat-candidates/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Obama climate plan an albatross for 2014 Democrat candidates</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/24/white-house-deletes-factual-tweet-by-climate-skeptic-new-york-times-journalist-andrew-revkin-calls-action-disturbing-questions-claims-of-an-open-society/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">White House deletes factual tweet by climate skeptic — New York Times journalist Andrew Revkin calls action ‘disturbing’ — questions claims of an ‘open society’</a><br />
<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/24/white-house-deletes-factual-tweet-about-presidential-hurricanes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">White House deletes factual Tweet about presidential hurricanes</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/23/obama-climate-plan-likely-dooms-nomination-of-gina-mccarthy-for-epa-chief-it-absolutely-paints-a-bigger-target-on-her-back/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Obama climate plan likely dooms nomination of Gina McCarthy for EPA chief: ‘It absolutely paints a bigger target on her back’</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/23/dem-senator-whitehouse-obama-climate-rules-a-game-changer-for-carbon-tax-proposal-could-create-traction-for-carbon-tax-proposals/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dem Senator Whitehouse: Obama climate rules a ‘game-changer’ for carbon tax proposal — ‘Could create traction for carbon tax proposals’</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/22/ap-obama-says-hell-unveil-climate-plan-in-tuesday-speech-for-the-sake-of-our-children/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AP: Obama says he’ll unveil climate plan in Tuesday speech ‘for the sake of our children’</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/22/right-after-his-global-warming-talk-next-tuesday-obama-will-be-flying-to-africa-with-hundreds-of-secret-service-agents-and-56-support-vehicles-including-14-limousines-and-three-trucks/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Right after his global warming talk next Tuesday, Obama will be flying to Africa with hundreds of Secret Service agents and 56 support vehicles including 14 limousines and three trucks</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/22/dem-senator-vows-to-fight-obama-climate-regs-republicans-quickly-pledged-to-use-obamas-climate-plan-as-a-political-weapon-against-senate-democrats-who-may-be-vulnerable-in-2014/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dem Senator Vows to Fight Obama Climate Regs & ‘Republicans quickly pledged to use Obama’s climate plan as a political weapon against Senate Democrats who may be vulnerable in 2014′</a> — ‘Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), whose state is a major coal producer, has strongly criticized EPA climate regulations. He said in an interview Thursday that regulating power plants is shortsighted, especially in the absence of such requirements in emerging nations including China, which is the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter. ‘Why do you want to penalize and beat the living the daylights out of America and American taxpayers, and American ratepayers? It is just wrong, it is shortsighted and wrong, and I will fight it until the end,’ Mancin said. He said EPA wants to impose standards “that can’t be met” with today’s technology.’<br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/22/obama-to-take-sweeping-action-on-climate-plans-to-use-executive-powers-to-address-climate-change/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘Obama to take sweeping action on climate’: ‘Plans to use executive powers to address climate change’</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/22/obama-to-announce-tuesday-he-will-regulate-existing-power-plants-as-part-of-climate-strategy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Obama to announce Tuesday he will regulate existing power plants as part of climate strategy</a> — ‘Obama will couch the effort not only in terms of the nation’s domestic priorities, but as a way to meet the administration’s international pledge to reduce the country’s greenhouse-gas emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels.’<br />
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<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2012/12/06/new-report-extreme-weather-report-2012-latest-peerreviewed-studies-data-analyses-undermine-claims-that-current-weather-is-unprecedented-or-a-new-normal/" rel="bookmark" target="_blank" title="Permanent link to New Report: ‘Extreme Weather Report 2012′: ‘Latest peer-reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current weather is ‘unprecedented’ or a ‘new normal’">New Report: ‘Extreme Weather Report 2012′: ‘Latest peer-reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current weather is ‘unprecedented’ or a ‘new normal’</a><br />
<a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/06/25/as-obama-heats-up-rhetoric-executive-actions-about-global-warming-the-earth-has-been-cooling-since-2002-climate-depot-reaction-to-obamas-climate-plan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Source</strong></a></div>
Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-65418187147327116642013-06-26T20:37:00.000-05:002013-06-26T20:37:24.250-05:00<em>Well said. Obama's new attempt to vilify someone, anyone else for the woes of the American economy is shameful. He wants to in effect increase taxes on industry and blame on this nebulous concept of controlling "climate change" for every one's benefit. He is bypassing Congress with his "executive orders". If this is not totalitarianism, or dictatorial communism, what is it? We are in deep trouble friends, and heading down hill.</em><br />
<em>Peter</em><br />
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Obama: driving a green dagger into the heart of the American dream</h1>
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<img alt="obama" height="184" src="http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/images/pics2/obama-crazyman.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="301" />When it comes to pinpointing <a href="http://bogpaper.com/2013/05/17/delingpole-on-friday-obama-the-irs-and-the-fuhrer-prinzip/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the nadir of the Obama administration</a>, future historians are going to suffer a serious case of option paralysis. Was it Benghazi? The NSA? His use of the IRS to harass the Tea party? The various scandals involving his black ops department, the EPA? Obamacare?<br />
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Personally, though, I think the one they will eventually plump for is <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/25/the-presidents-climate-action-plan-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Obama's Climate Action Plan of June 25 2013</a>. The economy, after all, is everything. Without an economy you can't afford a domestic policy, let alone a foreign policy. So you'd think the very last thing any president would do as his country began to show the first vague signs of slow – and quite possibly illusory – recovery after a long recession would be to jeopardise it with a whole new raft of utterly pointless regulation and wasteful government expenditure. Why it would be like seeing a man drowning and, instead of throwing him a life line tossing him a lead weight.<br />
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But that's just what President Obama has done with today's Climate Action Plan <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/presidents-climate-action-plan.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">whose gory details you can read here.</a><br />
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It promises another $2.7 billion for "Actionable Climate Science" (whatever that is) – almost all of which, we know from bitter previous experience, is going to end up in the sweaty palms of junk-science troughers in the tradition of Michael Mann and NASA's James Hansen rather than seekers-after-truth who genuinely care about the scientific method.<br />
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It promises to accelerate Clean Energy permitting: so that's going to make it harder for people to oppose the ruination of their local landscape, their favourite views, their health and their sleep with all the hideous new wind factories which will now spring up – at massive taxpayer expense – on federal owned land.<br />
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It promises to "expand and modernise the grid" – as it will have to do in order to enable it to cope with all that unreliable, erratic, mega-expansive "renewable" energy being pumped (or more often not pumped) into the system by all those lovely pointless solar panels and wind turbines.<br />
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It will promote "Clean Coal" using a technology – Carbon Capture and Sequestration – which has not been tested successfully anywhere in the world, which is massively expensive, monstrously energy-inefficient and potentially quite stupendously dangerous.<br />
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It will give still more power to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a hard-left political organisation swarming with deep-green ideologues fully committed to reducing living standards, killing consumer freedoms and hamstringing business with ever-more-stringent, scientifically-ill-founded environmental regulations based on nothing more than the "precautionary principle."<br />
Oh, and of course, it will create lots of "green jobs." The kind that so far has cost<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100102917/green-jobs-wot-green-jobs-pt-242/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> the US taxpayer up to $2 million per job in subsidies.</a><br />
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And more Solyndras. There'll be plenty more of those, too.<br />
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-56796753371576432922013-06-04T09:52:00.001-05:002013-06-04T09:55:29.246-05:00The Truth About CO2 Destroys The Myth Of Man-Caused Global Warming<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
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Here are some key points from the following linked article:<br />
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Al Gore backlash: Why environmentalists are celebrating rising CO2 levels</h1>
Learn more: <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/040588_carbon_dioxide_environmentalists_Al_Gore.html#ixzz2VG8CxPBt" style="color: #003399;">http://www.naturalnews.com/040588_carbon_dioxide_environmentalists_Al_Gore.html#ixzz2VG8CxPBt</a><br />
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#3 - The current level of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere is 400ppm. By comparison, <b>Oxygen exists in the atmosphere at 210,000ppm</b>. When you exhale, your own breath contains 40,000ppm of CO2, and if you know anything about emergency first aid, then you know that breathing this 40,000ppm of CO2 into another person's body (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) is a lifesaving action. It's not uncommon for CO2 to <a href="http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pns/faq_othr.html">reach levels of 3000ppm in homes, schools and offices.</a> OSHA allows workers to work in environments with up to 5000ppm of CO2. (Because, again, oxygen is present at 210,000ppm, vastly out-weighing the CO2.)<br />
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So all this talk of carbon dioxide threatening the entire planet at just 400ppm -- less than one-half of 1/1000th of the air -- is pure nonsense. Total quack science fearmongering.<br />
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In fact, most of what we've all been told about CO2 over the pat few years is a complete lie. It's time to stop believing these lies and wake up to reality. Most importantly, stop defending the CO2 / global warming hoax. Yes, CO2 is rising, but it's mostly from non-human activity, and rising levels actually support forests and plants everywhere.<br />
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How did I "wake up" to this information? It's simple: I used to be a believer in the CO2 hoax until I really began to study plant physiology and aquaponics production. Only then did I discover that CO2 is a <b>vital nutrient for plant growth</b> and that levels of CO2 in the atmosphere were radically deficient for optimal reforestation and plant biology. My awakening to this in no way means I endorse coal or oil industries, both of which are dirty polluters of the planet. But I am no longer allowing myself to be conned by the likes of Al Gore who has successfully convinced far too many people that their own breath is a global pollutant that needs to be regulated and taxed.<br />
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The CO2 scam is nothing more than a <b>global tax moneymaking scheme</b> being pushed by people who hope to get rich off our collective guilt for a problem that's entirely fabricated and fictional.<br />
<br />Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-64824577430478962062013-05-22T08:26:00.000-05:002013-05-22T08:29:41.500-05:00Man-Caused Global Warming...A Big LIE All Along<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Practically everything you have been told by the mainstream scientific community and the media about the alleged detriments of greenhouse gases, and particularly carbon dioxide, appears to be false, according to new data compiled by NASA's Langley Research Center. As it turns out, all those atmospheric greenhouse gases that Al Gore and all the other global warming hoaxers have long claimed are overheating and destroying our planet are actually cooling it, based on the latest evidence." <br />
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<em>Al Gore isn't a fraud, is he? Our government wouldn't lie and cover up the truth, would they? Scientists wouldn't tweak the data a bit to get continued funding , would they? Obama wouldn't use the EPA to enforce his agenda, would he? Or the IRS? No, our government couldn't possibly be that corrupt.</em><br />
<em>Peter</em><br />
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Learn more: <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/040448_solar_radiation_global_warming_debunked.html#ixzz2U1ePAaAJ" style="color: #003399;">http://www.naturalnews.com/040448_solar_radiation_global_warming_debunked.html#ixzz2U1ePAaAJ</a>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-49055462306002504832013-05-07T23:11:00.000-05:002013-05-07T23:11:16.095-05:00Lies, Lies, And More Tall Tales About Global Warming And Climate ChangeHistory will show most of the work done and efforts made to convince the public of a relationship between the burning of fossil fuels and global warming and/or climate change is based almost completely on faulty science, doctored data, and politically motivated lies. It is and has been a shameful record of mixing so-called science and politics. It is worse that Soviet-style central planning, the kind that lead to the failure of the Soviet Union and the suffering and deaths of millions of people. More and more people are belatedly coming to the same sad realization.<br />
Peter<br />
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Global warming as real as Obama's jobless numbers, GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher says</h1>
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At a Tuesday-morning House hearing on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the outspoken Mr. Rohrabacher, California Republican, took aim at environmentalists’ claims that mankind is fueling global warming by continuing to use fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal.<br />
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That notion, he suggested, is as false as the idea that the U.S. jobless rate really is as low as the just-announced 7.5 percent. The Labor Department on Friday reported that the U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs in April and that the unemployment figure fell to its lowest level in five years.<br />
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“The American people understand how fragile we are economically, even with a supposed 7.5 [percent] unemployment rate. Anybody who believes that probably also believes in global warming,” Mr. Rohrabacher said. “I believe the global warming theory that mankind is impacting climate change has been so exaggerated, … that it will bring down the standard of living of the American people.”<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;"><a href="http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/images/stories/pics3/carboncreditcertificate.jpg" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><img alt="carboncreditcertificate" border="0" height="219" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/images/stories/pics3/carboncreditcertificate.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" width="286" /></span></b></a>The European Union’s
climate change policy is on the brink of collapse today after MEPs torpedoed
Europe’s flagship CO2 emissions trading scheme by voting against a measure to
support the price of carbon permits. The price of carbon crashed up to 45 per
cent to a record-low €2.63 a metric ton, after the European Parliament rejected
a proposal to change the EU emissions-trading laws to delay the sale of 900m
CO2 permits on the world’s biggest carbon markets. --Bruno Waterfields, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9997868/EU-climate-change-policy-in-crisis-after-MEPs-vote-against-high-CO2-prices.html"><b><span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Daily
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 140%;">Given the manifest reluctance of the
world’s big emitters to accept any legally binding carbon targets and in face
of our deepening economic crisis, Europe should undertake a comprehensive
review of its economically damaging carbon targets and — in the absence of an
international agreement — should consider the suspension of all unilateral
climate policies that threaten Europe’s economic recovery. –Benny Peiser, <a href="http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/11/25/durban-downbeat/"><b><span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">National
Post, 25 November 2011</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">"The decision means the end of a European approach to climate
policy." --Felix Matthes, <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/european-parliament-rejects-reform-of-carbon-emissions-trade-a-894842.html"><b><span style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Spiegel Online,
17 April 2013</span></b></a></span>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792460740514151650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941560477618551520.post-24386697909643220312013-02-21T01:57:00.000-06:002013-03-16T12:35:47.804-05:00Interesting article, repeating and elaborating the general theme I've pursued on this blog since the beginning. The game of lies and deception about global warming, now called "climate change" is not over. The powers that be are determined to use "climate change" to increase their power and control over people and our economy. Scientific "debate" or study is simply a cover, a distraction. They use scare tactics with current extreme and local weather events as examples to stimulate the passage of legislation serving their purpose.....all in the name of necessity, or the "common good". The same is done by using the horrible, random, insane murder and violence involving guns being to justify increased gun control. The common word and goal here is CONTROL. That is what this is ultimately all about.<br />
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A relevant quote for thought:<br />
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"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human <br />
freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of <br />
slaves." <br />
William Pitt (1759-1806) <br />
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I post this for the record, mine, yours or whoever. <br />
Peter<br />
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See the original articel and graphics here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.24hgold.com/english/news-gold-silver-global-warming-and-other-superstitions.aspx?article=4253869694G10020&redirect=false&contributor=Bob+Hoye">http://www.24hgold.com/english/news-gold-silver-global-warming-and-other-superstitions.aspx?article=4253869694G10020&redirect=false&contributor=Bob+Hoye</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Update: February 13, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Each of the three great experiments in
authoritarian government in the senior economy included some promotional
inspiration. As Rome was corrupted from a republic to a police state the
"Genius of the Emperor" provided compelling <a href="http://www.24hgold.com/24hpmdata/articles/"><span style="color: blue;">guidance</span></a>.
In the Sixteenth Century "Papal Infallibility" provided the front
for a venal and corrupt bureaucracy. The current financial experiment started
around 1900 and essential dogma has included the omniscience and omnipotence
of central bankers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The wonders of extremely intrusive
government under the label of Communism was rejected by an always
dissatisfied and, in 1989, suddenly critical public. The fall of the Berlin
Wall was the symbol. Just as suddenly, full-on socialism could not be sold to
the public by control freaks. "The Freeman" in the early 1990s had
an article that named the names that turned to environmentalism as a possibly
more successful way to impose control. The most successful and at the same
time the most dangerous within this political movement has been
"Anthropogenic Global Warming" (AGW). Then, the promoters
discovered that the climate has been warming for some 12,000 years and the
pitch was morphed to "Climate Change". The labels also included
"Greenhouse Effect" and no matter what the weather event the
"cause" has been the evils of free-market economies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Research behind the effort was quite
limited - the assumption has been that there has been only one influence upon
the climate and that is atmospheric carbon dioxide. This was an IPCC
selection from all of the influences upon climate. The main ones are <a href="http://www.24hgold.com/24hpmdata/articles/" title="Click to Continue > by Text-Enhance"><span style="color: blue;">solar
energy</span></a>, which is variable, and the amount received at the Earth's
surface, which also varies. Both variations are periodic - as are consequent
warming phases and cooling phases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">On the nearer-term, Solar Cycle 23-24
has been the weakest since 1913. Solar physicists, Livingston and Penn, have
been working on the possibility of diminishing solar output since the
mid-1990s. A link to the 2008 review of their updated paper follows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Subject: Livingston and Penn paper:
"Sunspots may vanish by 2015″. | <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/02/livingston-and-penn-paper-sunspots-may-vanish-by-2015/"><span style="color: blue;">Watts Up With That?</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In early January, the UK <a href="http://www.24hgold.com/24hpmdata/articles/"><span style="color: blue;">Met
Office</span></a> quietly released their <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2259012/Global-warming-Met-Office-releases-revised-global-temperature-predictions-showing-planet-NOT-rapidly-heating-up.html"><span style="color: blue;">study that temperatures have not increased since 1998</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The chart below clearly shows the
"Maunder Minimum" and the "Modern Maximum", which is the
period of unusually high output that prevailed from the 1940s to the 1990s.
Prof. Solanki at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich states that
this is the sun's brightest period in a thousand years. Temperatures have
been at the highest in a thousand years, but not as high as with the Medieval
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The latest warming trend seems to have
stalled out, naturally, almost 15 years ago. The following chart (1979 to
date) plots temperature history (blue <a href="http://www.24hgold.com/24hpmdata/articles/" title="Click to Continue > by Text-Enhance"><span style="color: blue;">line</span></a>)
trending sideways. CO2 (green line) is still going up. If the Left's theories
about CO2 were valid the rise in global temperature would be getting steeper.
It isn't. As in "paper covers rock", solar energy trumps CO2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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compares to the high of 254 in 1957.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Solar activity has been diminishing
since and recently solar physicists have provided the research that explained
and anticipated the decline to the lowest minimum since 1913. The current
cycle has been scheduled to reach its best this year (one review expects this
leg up to peak at 84 in August) and then turn down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Livingston and Penn called for a significant
decline in solar activity and the numbers are confirming it. Within a couple
of years it could be concluded that the Modern Maximum is over. That the
trend could continue to another minimum that would be as severe as the
Maunder Minimum is uncertain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The main thing is that IPCC was run by
a political caste that selected theories about climate disaster and when
necessary data were cooked to "prove" otherwise unsupportable
notions. The goal was to create hysteria that could only be remedied through
massive increases in taxation and intrusion upon private life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The advance of science has always
depended upon skepticism, sound data and logic. This authoritarian age has
created some interesting departures. Throughout mankind's history we have
thrived during climate warming and suffered during extensive cooling. The
IPCC insists that for the first time in history warming is harmful. Oh well,
it goes with the ideology - the Berlin Wall was the first wall ever built to
keep the people in rather than the bad guys out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The last time the authoritarians made
it dangerous to hold scientific theories that denied the politically correct
ones was at the end of the last great experiment in intrusion. In the early
1600s Galileo was condemned for denying that the solar system rotated around
the Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">A couple of pieces we published in 2009
concluded that the mania about "AGW", or "Climate Change"
was peaking. These are attached.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Other
Superstitions<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Ambitious authoritarians promoted that
only one thing was influencing climate change and that is the amount of CO2
in the atmosphere. That it makes up only 0.038% of the gases surrounding our
planet does not matter. Nor does the long history whereby the amount of CO2
lags temperature change by some 400 to 800 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Of course, ambitious governments using
one focus for control have not been limited to climate hysteria. Beginning in
the early 1900s financial adventurers touted that a US central bank would end
financial panics and disguised as the Federal Reserve System it was imposed.
Original and subsequent promoters seem to have overlooked that the tout
behind the formation of the Bank of England in 1694 was that it would
"infallibly" lower interest rates. Naturally, to prevent financial
disasters. There have been many since - usually two or three big ones per
century. Sometimes severe enough for the establishment to distress itself
about the inadequacies of the prevailing banking system. The other part of
the pattern is that the same establishment during a financial mania boasts
the current government financial agency will prevent things from going wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In the 1873 Bubble enthusiasms were
assured because the US did not have a central bank and the Treasury System
was proof against contraction. At the crest of the 1929 Bubble enthusiasms
were supported by the tout that the old and dreadful Treasury System was gone
and replaced by a "scientific" Federal Reserve System.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The Fed was the first of over-rated
concepts that were selected to serve authoritarian ambition.. The next was
the grand idea that a central agency can and should "manage" a
"national" economy. Keynesian theories were selected because they
enabled a massive expansion of government, which extended its power through
mainly one thing - the amount of money in circulation. Warm-mongers have been
obsessed about atmospheric CO2 and policymakers have been obsessed about M1,
M2, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Financial history has a long record of
dynamic economic expansions turning into eras of magnificent asset inflations
- including financial assets. After the huge expansion of credit a long
post-bubble contraction has followed. The feature of which has been severe
recessions and weak recoveries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Essentially on a global scale, when
policymakers have discovered that there is no such thing as a
"national" economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The financial mania that climaxed in
2007 virtually replicated all of the great bubbles since the first one in
1720. Ours was number six and 1929 was number five. And the record is that
the senior central bank has never been able to keep a bubble going and has
never prevented the lengthy post-bubble contractions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
Wrap<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The next few years are going to be very
interesting. Solar activity and its influence upon the warming trend that
began out of the exceptionally cold winters of the late 1600s is ending. The
Maunder Minimum became the Modern Maximum and the latter is ending. This
would be supported by the sunspot count resuming its downtrend in the fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The establishment has been boasting
that by manipulation of only one gas society can be saved from a
self-inflicted climate disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In 2007 the establishment boasted that
through manipulation of interest rates a financial calamity was impossible.
They had a "Dream Team" of economists. Then the same establishment
admitted that it was the worst recession since the last Great Depression.
Then they boasted that without their "stimulus" the 2008 Panic
would not have ended. Now they admit that this has been the weakest recovery
since the 1930s. This is the basic pattern of a post-bubble contraction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The first business expansion out of the
Crash is becoming mature and any weakening will be dangerous to an economy
still over loaded with debt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">It should be understood that great
financial manias and their consequent contractions have been regular events,
as has been an unusually active sun and its recent decline. Mother Nature
will continue to prevail. Implacable market forces will insist that debt be
contracted and solar physics has arranged for a significant decrease in solar
output.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Fads in "Science"
"During the last 20 to 30 years, world temperatures have fallen,
irregularly at first but more sharply over the past decade. Judging from the
record of past interglacial ages, the present time of higher temperatures
should be drawing to an end...leading into the next ice age." - National
Academy of Science (NAS), 1974 - as quoted in Forbes, December 5, 2009
"The overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree that human
activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), are
responsible for most of the climate change currently being observed." -
National Academy of Science, Website, February 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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