Global warming and a tale of two planets June 7, 2009
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Global warming and a tale of two planets
By Christopher Booker
UK Telegraph, 06 Jun 2009
It might well be called “the tale of two planets”. On one planet live all the Great and Good who have recently been trying to whip up an ever greater panic over global warming, as the clock ticks down to next December’s UN conference in Copenhagen when they plan a new treaty to follow the Kyoto Protocol of 1997.
There was, for instance, the three-day gathering organised by Prince Charles at St James’s Palace, at which 20 Nobel laureates (including two African winners of the Peace and Literature prizes) listened to speeches from Lord Stern and Prince Charles, before issuing a declaration which compared the threat of global warming to that of all-out nuclear war. They also heard President Obama’s Energy Secretary, Stephen Chu, solemnly telling them that if all buildings and pavements were painted white, to reflect the sun’s rays back into space, this would be equivalent to taking all vehicles off the world’s roads for 11 years.
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Save the planet! Trap your own methane June 7, 2009
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Save the planet! Trap your own methane
Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun, June 7, 2009
A personal methane collector for the climate catastrophist in your life. An essential gift especially for greens of the mung-beans-eating kind. Extras include a free plastic hose and instructions on where to put it. Order now!
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/save_the_planet_trap_your_own_methane
Come Fly With Me June 7, 2009
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Come Fly With Me
by Phelim McAleer & Ann McElhinney
Bighollywood.breitbart.com
We do admit to being conflicted, sometimes, when writing about the politics of Global Warming hysteria.
It is hilarious that Al Gore’s electricity bill is ten times the national average. However, our idea of a perfect world is when everyone in Africa and the developing world is so wealthy they are using the same amount of electricity as the former vice-president.
If the world were that wealthy it would mean the end of the scourge of needless child mortality. It would mean that people in Africa would live long and healthy lives and get to know the joy of their grandchildren. It would mean that children would know how wonderful it is to see their parents live to an old age.
So our initial reaction to Al Gore’s electricity bill is that we wish it for everyone. But then we are faced with the reality that Al Gore wants legislation to force people to use less electricity and fly less. Then his electricity bill becomes an issue of hypocrisy and freedom. He wants the freedom to use and consume but wants to deny that to ordinary Americans and, perhaps more tragically, to the people of the developing world. So Al Gore’s electricity bill and use of a private jet should be highlighted as part of a belief by the environmental movement that change and deprivation “for the good of the planet” should only be borne by other people. Private jets are essential for eco-celebrities because their work is important. The rest of us have to reduce our carbon footprint because our travel is “frivolous and wasteful.”
Just last week, President Obama and the first lady flew to New York to see a Broadway show. They also flew an entourage of assistants and media in separate planes. In a statement, President Obama said: “I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished.” Well that’s great and we hope they enjoyed the show. But isn’t this the same president who said during the campaign that: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times…and then just expect that other countries are going to say ‘OK.’”?
I know he promised his wife that he would take her to a show but if we all have to make sacrifices for the good of the planet, perhaps he should have started with their little jaunt to New York for a date.
But it seems for President Obama that sacrifice is something only other people (poorer people) make.
Ann McElhinney & Phelim McAleer are the producers and directors of the documentary Not Evil Just Wrong – the True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria.
An Inconvenient Graph June 6, 2009
Posted by honestclimate in Temperature.Tags: climate change, Global Cooling, global temperature, global warming
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An Inconvenient Graph updated for May 2009
Via Gore Lied
Al Gore / AIT Index: Global temperatures plunge further; have dropped .63°F (.35°C) since Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth
The truth is getting ever more inconvenient for Al Gore.
Once again, as we do each month, GORE LIED has taken significant liberties with Dr. Roy Spencer’s monthly UAH globally averaged satellite-based temperature of the lower atmosphere. We’ve marked it up with a red marker to more fully illustrate the really inconvenient truth – that temperatures have dropped significantly, .63°F (.35°C), since Al Gore released his science fiction movie, An Inconvenient Truth at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2006.
Sunspot numbers for May 2009 June 5, 2009
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Sunspot numbers for May 2009
| Month | 2008 | 2009 |
| Jan | 3.3 | 1.5 |
| Feb | 2.1 | 1.4 |
| Mar | 9.3 | 0.7 |
| Apr | 2.9 | 1.2 |
| May | 3.2 | 2.9 |
| Jun | 3.4 | |
| Jul | 0.8 | |
| Aug | 0.5 | |
| Sep | 1.1 | |
| Oct | 2.9 | |
| Nov | 4.1 | |
| Dec | 0.8 |
The new green jobs: 12 bucks an hour June 4, 2009
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The new ‘good’ job: 12 bucks an hour
CNN, June 4, 2009
In the Midwest, communities race to replace dwindling auto jobs with renewable energy ones, but workers will have to sacrifice on their pay.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Massive investment in renewable energy could ultimately create 4 million manufacturing jobs. But for the workers in the bottom rung of this movement, the shift to green jobs could very well mean a pay cut of nearly 60%, a trend spreading across the entire manufacturing sector.
Many of the entry-level jobs making green energy components start at $12 an hour, much less than the now extinct $28 an hour job that had allowed high school-educated workers in the auto sector to achieve middle class status.
“Particularly at the lower end, these are not very good jobs,” said Philip Mattera, research director at Good Jobs First, a labor-friendly research group, also acknowledging that the renewable energy sector paid wages that were “all over the map.”
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Earth’s Atmosphere to Cool and Contract: NASA June 4, 2009
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Earth’s Atmosphere to Cool and Contract: NASA
Jennifer Marohasy, May 31, 2009
THERE is a new forecast from a panel of international scientists who study the sun. In a media release from Science@NASA, Tony Phillips explains they predict that the sun will remain generally calm for at least another year and this means low solar activity which can have “a profound effect on Earth’s atmosphere, allowing it to cool and contract”.
Summarizing comment from the expert panel, Dr Phillips explains that “cosmic rays that are normally pushed back by solar wind instead intrude on the near-Earth environment.
The graph shows yearly-averaged sunspot numbers from 1610 to 2008. Researchers believe upcoming Solar Cycle 24 will be similar to the cycle that peaked in 1928, marked by a red arrow.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29may_noaaprediction.htm
Cool heads and hot claims June 3, 2009
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Cool heads and hot claims
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun
Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 03:35pm
Dr Willem de Lange, a senior lecturer in Waikato University’s Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, explains why he’s a sceptic:
In 1996 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Second Assessment Report was released, and I was listed as one of approximately 3000 “scientists” who agreed that there was a discernable human influence on climate.
I was an invited reviewer for a chapter dealing with the economic impact of sea level rise on small island nations… I was not asked if I supported the view expressed in my name, and my understanding at the time was that no evidence of a discernable human influence on global climate existed.
The chapter I reviewed dealt primarily with the economic consequences of an assumed sea level rise of 1 m causing extensive inundation… I disagreed with the initial assumptions, particularly the assumed sea level rise in the stated time period.
Further, there was good evidence at the time that sea level rise would not necessarily result in flooding of small island nations… Subsequent research has demonstrated that coral atolls and associated islands are likely to increase in elevation as sea level rises. Hence, the assumptions were invalid, and I was convinced that IPCC projections were unrealistic and exaggerated the problem…
What has sea level actually done so far this century? There have been large regional variations, but the global rate has slowed and is currently negative, consistent with measured ocean cooling. Claims to the contrary are exaggerations and not realistic…
Trying to stop or control climate change is akin to stopping ocean tides…. As the latest IPCC report notes, there is no convincing evidence of the impact of CO2 (or any other human influence on climate) at a continental scale…
So, I am a climate realist because the available evidence indicates that climate change is predominantly, if not entirely, natural. It occurs mostly in response to variations in solar heating of the oceans, and the consequences this has for the rest of the Earth’s climate system. There is no evidence to support the hypothesis runaway catastrophic climate change due to human activities.
Contrast that to the CSIRO’s most recent alarmism:
The number of extreme fire days in Victoria will skyrocket by up to 230 per cent in the next 40 years, prompting calls for a catastrophic level of alert, a climate change report warns.
The Victorian government’s green paper on climate change, launched on Wednesday, also warns of job losses and a hefty increase in the cost of living. The report predicts average temperatures to rise by more than three per cent on 1990 levels by 2070…
It also warned of infrastructure in coastal areas becoming inundated by rising sea levels and of a tourism downturn at the state’s ski resorts because of soaring temperatures.
Seems the CSIRO is sticking to its scares despite bumming out in scare-claims on vanishing snow and empty dams.
The modern heresy of true science June 2, 2009
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The modern heresy of true science
Every so often, a book is published which, it is instantly clear, is the definitive last word on the subject. Such a book has just appeared on the global lunacy of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). In his devastating study Heaven and Earth. Global Warming: The Missing Science (Quartet) Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide and previously Professor of Earth Sciences at the Universities of Melbourne and Newcastle systematically shreds the theory and the hallucinatory propaganda industry it has spawned. There is simply nothing left of it when he has finished – and he does so from the perspective of real science which the theory has so shockingly betrayed.
Having painstakingly out the actual scientific facts and evidence involved in the study of climate, he concludes his book with a sustained peroration of fury and contempt at the way such scientific evidence has been dismissed in a breathtaking campaign of ‘cognitive dissonance’. As he says, there is not one shred of actual scientific evidence to sustain the claim of AGW, which rests in its entirety upon charlatanry, fraud, ignorance and ideology. Here are some tasters of this invaluable book.
‘The hypothesis that human activity can create global warming is extraordinary because it is contrary to validated knowledge from solar physics, astronomy, history, archaeology and geology’
he writes. The world has been warming, slightly and intermittently, and also cooling, since the Little Ice Age. Nothing new there. Sea level, ice sheets and life on earth have also changed slightly. Nothing new there. The claims that the seas are rising and the ice retreating in any extraordinary fashion are all demonstrably false. The theory rests on the categorical assertion that rising carbon dioxide levels result in a warming of the atmosphere. Yet although carbon dioxide levels have been increasing, there has been no significant warming since 1995 and none at all since 1998.
That is because the claimed cause and effect between carbon dioxide and global warming is simply false. History shows us that there is no relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature. Proponents of the theory, he writes, have to explain why the Minoan Warming, Roman Warming and Medieval Warming all produced warmer temperatures than now. Why the temperature rose from 1860 to 1875, decreased from 1875 to 1890, rose until 1903, fell until 1918 and then rose dramatically until 1941. Why the rate and amount of warming at the beginning of the 20th century was greater than now despite lower carbon dioxide emissions. Why the world cooled from 1941-1976, the year of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Why the temperature rose from 1976 to 1998, then cooled. And so on.
As he says, the whole theory was created not by the scientific methods of observation and gathering actual evidence but by dubious computer modelling. These models suggested constant warming until the end of time but predicted neither post 1998 cooling nor El Nino events.
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Fear-Mongering 101 June 2, 2009
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Fear-Mongering 101
Written by Thomas Richard
Climate Change Fraud, May 30, 2009
The excerpted article below, Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC, written by Jennifer Peltz of the Associated Press, is a tutorial on how to create a groundless, baseless, fear-mongering hit piece. First, you begin with a frightening opening paragraph just in case the reader wasn’t paying attention to the headline:
When experts sketch out nightmare hurricane scenarios, a New York strike tends to be high on the list. Besides shaking skyscrapers, a major hurricane could send the Atlantic Ocean surging into the nation’s largest city, flooding Wall Street, subways and densely packed neighborhoods.
Continue with a possible, though improbable, solution as ridiculous and embarrassing as the subject itself:
As a new hurricane season starts Monday, some scientists and engineers are floating an ambitious solution: Barriers to choke off the surging sea and protect flood-prone areas. The plan involves deploying giant barriers and gates that would move into place — in some cases rising out of the water — for storms. One proposal calls for a 5-mile-long barrier between New Jersey and Queens.
Glob on some more alarm and what-if scenarios:
New Yorkers are “living under the volcano, and people haven’t thought about it,” says Douglas Hill, an engineer who began discussing the idea several years ago with Stony Brook University oceanography professor Malcolm J. Bowman.
Get a quote from someone with an official-sounding title:
…former National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield told a congressional committee that “it is not a question of if a major hurricane will strike the New York area, but when.”
Tie it all back to global warming, the bogeyman trotted out by journalists, politicians, and grant-seeking scientists with equal aplomb:
Hurricanes aren’t the only flood threat. Nor’easters also have caused storm-surge problems in the city, and scientists have projected that the waters around the city could rise by 2 feet or more in the coming decades because of global warming, making coastal flooding more frequent.
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