Wednesday, June 26, 2013

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.
Peter

Jun26

As Obama heats up rhetoric & executive actions about ‘global warming’, the Earth has been COOLING since 2002

Written by Marc Morano, Climate Depot.
Obama at georgetownStatement by Climate Depot’s Marc Morano: “President Obama is still parading his ignorance on climate science, linking bad weather to “global warming”, claiming a mythical 97% consensus, 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.”

Watch Now: Skeptic Chris Horner on Obama’s climate plan: ‘Nothing Obama is proposing would detectably impact the climate according to anybody’

UN IPCC Lead Author Dissents over Obama calling CO2 ‘pollution’: ‘Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, not now, not here, not to us’Dr. Tol: ‘According to this branch of the US gov’t, CO2 in the human body is not dangerous (but lack of CO2 is)‘ – Tol: ‘CO2 concentrations in the human lung reach 37,000 ppmv’ – ‘CO2 concentrations of 100,000 ppmv are immediately dangerous to life.  Atmospheric concentration is about 400 ppmv’

Obama Dresses CO2 in a Big Bad Wolf Costume: The term ‘carbon pollution’ is used a further 13 times. – 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 periodic table. 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 periodic table)’
Obama: ‘I will lead the world in a coordinated assault on a changing climate’
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’ — ‘Claims based on year-to-year temperature data that differs by only a few HUNDREDTHS of a degree’

Obama cites 97% Nonsensus; Claims some skeptics have become warmists
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’

Flashback 2007: Obama claimed CO2 ‘threatens our very existence’; & claimed that ‘no business will be allowed to emit any greenhouses gases for free’

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.’

WH Climate Adviser Daniel P. Schrag: ‘A War on Coal Is Exactly What’s Needed’

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.’

Wash Post’s Juliet Eilperin: ‘Is Obama waging a war on coal? Pretty much. Read my analysis

Networks Fail to Mention ‘Lull’ in Warming in All 92 Climate Change Stories

Warmists upset: ‘Cable news virtually ignores Obama’s major climate speech: MSNBC: 41 seconds; FOX News: &<5 amp="" br="" cnn:="" minutes="">
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.

More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore

The UN and the U.S. Congress do not have the power to legislate, tax or regulate the weather.
 See: 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 – Prominent scientists continue to challenge the alleged “consensus.” See: 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

The global warming movement continues to lose scientists, many formerly with the UN IPCC. See: More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore — See: 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’ – Award-Winning Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, formerly of UN IPCC: ‘We Are Creating Great Anxiety Without It Being Justified’

‘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’ 
      
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’

In February 2013, global warming activists were stunned by the retreat of one of their former UN scientists. 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.”  Bengtsson noted that 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’ — 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.”

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’ – ‘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.’

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 — 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.’

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: ’Mr. President, acts of Congress, the UN or the EPA cannot alter storms or weather patterns’

Obama repeats fallacy of 97% consensus: Background on the fallacy of the new 97% ‘Consensus’ study:
Warmist Dana Nuccitelli Refuses Reality: UN IPCC Lead Author Dr. Richard Tol Calls John Cook’s ‘Consensus’ Survey ‘Silly Idea…Poorly Implemented’

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’
Retraction Watch: Warmist John Cook’s 97% consensus study falsely classifies scientists’ papers according to the scientists that published them — ‘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’

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”: ‘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’

‘The 97% consensus claim – a lie of epic proportions’ – Warmist John Cook’s study exposed
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’ — 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.’

Bjorn Lomborg: ‘Obama should confront climate change fantasies’ — 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.

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.

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.

Delingpole: Obama drives green dagger into the heart of the American dream
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’
Can Obama Restore A Safe Tornado-Free Climate?
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
Obama Can’t Control The IRS Or The DOJ, But He Can Control Global Sea Level
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

Obama’s Climate Speech: Pre-Game Commentary — ‘Renewable energy is costly, intermittent, and unreliable. If it weren’t a bad buy for consumers, Congress would not need to subsidize it (in perpetuity – if President Obama gets his wish), nor would 30 states and the District of Columbia need to mandate it.’

Analysis: EPA climate fiats threaten the U.S. standard of living — ‘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 agency 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.’
Obama promises an end to cheap energy

Analysis: Obama’s Global Warming Plan Telegraphs His Desperation’ — ‘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’

Analysis: The president plans to raise your power bill’ — ‘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’

Analysis: Previewing President Obama’s Climate Change Speech — ‘What you won’t hear: Markets already incentivize Americans to be more energy efficient. Government mandates are inefficient and have unintended consequences.’

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’

New Pew poll: ‘Americans are relatively unconcerned about global climate change’ — ‘Americans among the least concerned about this issue of the 39 publics surveyed’ — 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.’

Pew Poll: Climate Change Viewed As Major Threat Around The World – Except In America
Analysis: Reality already raining on Obama’s climate announcement — ‘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.’

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’
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.’
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’ — ‘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.’ 

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’

Obama climate plan an albatross for 2014 Democrat candidates
White House deletes factual tweet by climate skeptic — New York Times journalist Andrew Revkin calls action ‘disturbing’ — questions claims of an ‘open society’
White House deletes factual Tweet about presidential hurricanes
Obama climate plan likely dooms nomination of Gina McCarthy for EPA chief: ‘It absolutely paints a bigger target on her back’
Dem Senator Whitehouse: Obama climate rules a ‘game-changer’ for carbon tax proposal — ‘Could create traction for carbon tax proposals’
AP: Obama says he’ll unveil climate plan in Tuesday speech ‘for the sake of our children’
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
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′ — ‘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.’
‘Obama to take sweeping action on climate’: ‘Plans to use executive powers to address climate change’

Obama to announce Tuesday he will regulate existing power plants as part of climate strategy — ‘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.’

New Report: ‘Extreme Weather Report 2012′: ‘Latest peer-reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current weather is ‘unprecedented’ or a ‘new normal’
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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.
Peter


Obama: driving a green dagger into the heart of the American dream

Written by James Dellingpole, Telegraph blogs.
        
obamaWhen it comes to pinpointing the nadir of the Obama administration, 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?

Personally, though, I think the one they will eventually plump for is Obama's Climate Action Plan of June 25 2013. 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.

But that's just what President Obama has done with today's Climate Action Plan whose gory details you can read here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."
Oh, and of course, it will create lots of "green jobs." The kind that so far has cost the US taxpayer up to $2 million per job in subsidies.

And more Solyndras. There'll be plenty more of those, too.
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

The Truth About CO2 Destroys The Myth Of Man-Caused Global Warming

CO2

Here are some key points from the following linked article:

Al Gore backlash: Why environmentalists are celebrating rising CO2 levels

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040588_carbon_dioxide_environmentalists_Al_Gore.html#ixzz2VG8CxPBt

#3 - The current level of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere is 400ppm. By comparison, Oxygen exists in the atmosphere at 210,000ppm. 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 reach levels of 3000ppm in homes, schools and offices. 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.)

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.

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.

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 vital nutrient for plant growth 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.

The CO2 scam is nothing more than a global tax moneymaking scheme being pushed by people who hope to get rich off our collective guilt for a problem that's entirely fabricated and fictional.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Man-Caused Global Warming...A Big LIE All Along

"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." 

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.
Peter

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040448_solar_radiation_global_warming_debunked.html#ixzz2U1ePAaAJ

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Lies, Lies, And More Tall Tales About Global Warming And Climate Change

History 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.
Peter

Global warming as real as Obama's jobless numbers, GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher says

Written by Ben Wolfgang, The Washington Times.
       
Dana RohrabacherRep. Dana Rohrabacher - WikimediaIf you believe in man-made climate change — and think the nation’s unemployment rate truly has fallen to 7.5 percent — then Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has a bridge to sell you.

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.

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.

“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.”
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Thursday, April 18, 2013

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Climate Change Dispatch news

Link to Climate Change Dispatch



Posted: 17 Apr 2013 04:20 PM PDT

carboncreditcertificateThe 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, The Daily Telegraph, 16 April 2013

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, National Post,  25 November 2011
"The decision means the end of a European approach to climate policy." --Felix Matthes, Spiegel Online, 17 April 2013

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Interesting 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.

A relevant quote for thought:

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human
freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of
slaves." 
William Pitt (1759-1806)


I post this for the record, mine, yours or whoever. 
Peter

See the original articel and graphics here:

http://www.24hgold.com/english/news-gold-silver-global-warming-and-other-superstitions.aspx?article=4253869694G10020&redirect=false&contributor=Bob+Hoye

 

Global Warming and Other Superstitions
Published : February 20th, 2013
Update: February 13, 2013
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 guidance. 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.
 
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.
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 solar energy, 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.
 
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.
Subject: Livingston and Penn paper: "Sunspots may vanish by 2015″. | Watts Up With That?
In early January, the UK Met Office quietly released their study that temperatures have not increased since 1998
 
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 Maximum.
The latest warming trend seems to have stalled out, naturally, almost 15 years ago. The following chart (1979 to date) plots temperature history (blue line) 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.
Note CO2's remarkably regular seasonal variation. This is explained as due to seasonal variation from plant life (land and sea) changing from emitting CO2, to absorbing CO2. Global commercial and industrial activity does not show the equivalent variation.
Beginning with the 1990s low, the next chart covers Cycles 23-24 when the high count was 170 sunspots with the peak in 2000. So far the high has been slightly less than 100 in 2011. This compares to the high of 254 in 1957.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A couple of pieces we published in 2009 concluded that the mania about "AGW", or "Climate Change" was peaking. These are attached.
 
Other Superstitions
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Essentially on a global scale, when policymakers have discovered that there is no such thing as a "national" economy.
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.

Wrap
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.
The establishment has been boasting that by manipulation of only one gas society can be saved from a self-inflicted climate disaster.
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.
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.
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.
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