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Greenbats Exposed

The blogosphere, (but not the major media) is buzzing with news of the newly-exposed climate fraud. Cybertons (I just made that word up – there are tons of it but all in cyberspace) of emails and other data reveal the alarmists for what they are: GREENBATS!

You can depend, however, on politicians and the doomsayers to try and shoot the messenger by the usual attempts to discredit the data as being contrived and/or make disingenuous accusations against “the deniers.” The general tactic of the left is to make ad-hominem attacks on truth-tellers when they are unable to refute the truth.

Remember the conclusions we came to when evaluating some actual science:

  • The media will print or broadcast sensationalized headlines to sell copy regardless of scientific value
  • The media will print or broadcast manipulated science with half-truths and invalid conclusions to damage politicians with whom they do not agree
  • Politicians seize on these unverified claims in order to blame their opponents
  • Uneducated/uninformed people are as gullible as ever

You can add the following to the above:

  • Unscrupulous profiteers will attempt to conceal the truth about the climate

We see this principle at work at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit as they generate their “Fiction Science.”

By the way, head Greenbat Al Gore demonstrated his complete ignorance of science (or did he lie?) when he claimed the interior temperature of the Earth to be “millions of degrees.” That would be “Thousands of degrees,” you moron.

23 Nov 2009 by Global Warming Greenbats

The Gore Minimum Continues

The Sun is a star – a main sequence star whose business is to fuse hydrogen atoms into helium atoms. Fusion is a steady but somewhat unstable and potentially violent thermonuclear process. During fusion, solar mass, heat and pressure force hydrogen atoms to combine to become helium atoms. This transformation of atomic states produces energy in the form of multispectral photons (visible light, heat, x-rays, ultra-violet, cosmic rays, magnetic flux, radio-frequency emissions and more). We all know the effects of UV on skin disease, and lately, the effects of magnetic flux on the electrical grid. The Sun, like fire, can be good and bad.

The current Solar Minimum has been exceptionally quiet much to the despair of climate alarmists. They are being forced to re-invent the so-called ‘climate crisis.’ But, don’t relax just yet, because we know their tactics:

  1. The media will print or broadcast sensationalized headlines to sell copy regardless of scientific value
  2. The media will print or broadcast manipulated science with half-truths and invalid conclusions to damage politicians with whom they do not agree
  3. Politicians seize on these unverified claims in order to blame their opponents
  4. Uneducated/uninformed people are as gullible as ever

Meanwhile, Old Sol refuses to cooperate: From SOHO Pick of the Week:

The Sun had no sunspots for 51 days in a row July 11 – Aug. 30, 2009 — just nearly breaking the record of 52 days for the longest quiet period for this solar cycle. That record was set last summer. As we watch 50 days of that period with STEREO (Behind) in a wavelength of extreme UV light, we see some activity, such as prominences popping about here and there, but no active regions strong enough to form a sunspot.

Late on Aug. 31, a little sunspot emerged (not shown in the clip that ends on Aug. 28th) to interrupt the long string of quiet days. Even so, this little sunspot measured about nearly 3000 km (1800 miles) across. Nevertheless, it is likely that the current year’s number of blank days will be the longest in about 100 years. It is not shown many signs of picking up the pace so far.

07 Sep 2009 by Environment Global Warming Greenbats

Solar Prominence in Stereo

The STEREO project, a constellation of two identical solar probes, one ahead of the Earth (STEREO A) and one behind the Earth (STEREO B), simultaneously imaged a solar prominence from their divergent perspectives. This video was featured on NASA’s SOHO Pick of the Week.

The video below shows the mass ejection in synchronized timing from ahead and behind the Earth.

In the left panel (behind), you can see the event emerging from near the top of the solar disk, while on the right panel (ahead) it is occurring above the solar horizon. In these times when there are few sunspots, the old solar machine is still cranking out the good old nuclear fusion.

30 Aug 2009 by Aerospace Global Warming Rocket Science

SOHO – Solar Wind Illustrated

Even in the doldrums of an extended solar minimum, our nearest star continues to be dynamic in it’s (mostly) unseen behavior. This week’s SOHO Pick of the Week illustrates some of this unseen activity in this animation.

A few areas of this rather unremarkable solar image taken in extreme ultraviolet (UV) light on August 4, 2009, provide good starting points for explicating some of the unseen features of the Sun. For one thing, the darker polar coronal holes at the Sun’s poles (top and bottom) are the source of open magnetic field lines (red) that head way out into space. They are also the source regions of the fast solar wind, which is characterized by a relatively steady speed of approximately 800 km/s.

A more variable slow solar wind (gray) flows from all other areas of the Sun, carrying particles out into space. The solar wind defines the breadth of our solar system, the heliosphere. The image also shows a dark coronal hole at lower latitudes, just about facing towards Earth. The high speed solar wind particles (white) blowing from there will likely reach Earth in a few days and may spark some auroral activity. Lastly, magnetic loops (yellow) above the one sizeable active region arc out and connect back to an area of opposite polarity. Hot particles in these loops make them visible in UV light.

Safe to say, there is more than meets the eye when studying the Sun.

Nobody knows for sure, but the lack of sunspot activity could continue and make the next solar cycle one of the longest minimums in modern times. Shall we call it the Gore Minimum?

08 Aug 2009 by Aerospace Global Warming Science

Have a Nice Nuke

have a nice nukeThe Democrats and the Obamadministration think it’s OK for Iran to enrich nuclear fuel for that country’s energy needs, yet the moratorium on new nuclear facilities for the US continues. Why is it OK for them and not OK for us?

At least some members of the U.S. House and Senate are trying to get some traction for nuclear energy by leveraging the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) myth.

Via Planet Gore

We Need 100 Nukes by 2030 [Carl Shockley]

After fumbling over the Waxman-Markey initiative for several months, Republicans have finally hit their stride. Both House and Senate members are quickly falling behind the rallying cry, “100 New Reactors by 2030.”

“I think global warming is a real problem but I don’t think the solutions the Democrats are coming up with are going to accomplish anything,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), head of the Senate GOP caucus. “The only thing that’s going to allow us to cut carbon emissions is clean nuclear energy. We built 100 reactors between 1970 and 1990. We can do the same thing now. If global warming is the inconvenient problem, then nuclear power is the inconvenient answer.”

Alexander and three other Tennessee legislators were on hand Wednesday morning as Babcock & Wilcox introduced its new “mPower” 125-megawatt modular reactor that it will submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2011. The $750 million reactor will be built in a factor and shipped to the site by rail, where it would be completely buried underground and refuel only once every five years. “Everything in this reactor would be made in America,” said Republican Bob Corker, Tennessee’s other senator.

Congressman Zach Wamp (R., Tenn.) warned that the United States is falling behind other countries in nuclear technology. “What we’re talking about here isn’t just a revival of the nuclear industry,” he said. “We’re talking about an American industrial renaissance.

Power generation using conventional coal technology has been mathematically proven to have little effect on AGW. We should continue to use coal powerplants. In addition, we should resume nuclear generation, as it is clearly a better and more efficient method of producing the energy our nation needs, regardless of whether it actually does anything to improve the environment.

10 Jun 2009 by Environment Global Warming Whacko Politics

Your CO2 Footprint and the “Magic Number”

The following has been excerpted from World Climate Report. Using the ‘magic number’ they developed with exhaustive back of the envelope calculations, they have arrived at a way that you, as a ‘polluter,’ can actually see to what extent you are causing (or ‘preventing’) temperature change.

Of course, this assumes that the Sun has little or nothing to do with climate change. Click on the link below if you want to see WCR’s complete analysis.

“What You Can(‘t) Do About Global Warming”

magic.pngThis is a handy-dandy and powerful piece of information to have, because now, whenever you are presented with an emissions savings that some action to save the planet from global warming is supposed to produce, you can actually see how much of a difference it will really make. Just take the emissions savings (in units of million metric tonnes (mmt) of CO2) and divide it by 1,767,250.

We are always hearing about ways that you can “save the planet” from the perils of global warming—from riding your bicycle to work, to supporting the latest national greenhouse gas restriction limitations, and everything in between.

In virtually each and every case, advocates of these measures provide you with the amount of greenhouse gas emissions (primarily carbon dioxide) that will be saved by the particular action.

And if you want to figure this out for yourself, the web is full of CO2 calculators (just google “CO2 calculator”) which allow you to calculate your carbon footprint and how much it can be reduced by taking various conservations steps—all with an eye towards reducing global warming.

However, in absolutely zero of these cases are you told, or can you calculate, how much impact you are going to have on the actual climate itself. After all, CO2 emissions are not climate—they are gases. Climate is temperature and precipitation and storms and winds, etc. If the goal of the actions is to prevent global warming, then you shouldn’t really care a hoot about the amount of CO2 emissions that you are reducing, but instead, you want to know how much of the planet you are saving. How much anthropogenic climate change is being prevented by unplugging your cell phone charger, from biking to the park, or from slashing national carbon dioxide emissions?

Why do none of the CO2 calculators give you that most valuable piece of information? Why don’t the politicians, the EPA, and/or greenhouse gas reduction advocates tell you the bottom line?

How much global warming are we avoiding?

Embarrassingly for them, this information is readily available.

Let’s say that you decide to stop driving your SUV for a year. According to NativeEnergy.com, you would circumvent causing 24 metric tons of emissions.

Wow! That’s a lot!

Now, let’s do the magic number thing. First, convert 24 metric tons in terms of million metric tons = 0.000024 mmt. Divide that by 1,767,250 = 0.0000000000136°C/year.

If you lack the fortitude to actually make these sacrifices to prevent one hundred billionth of a degree of warming, for $364 each year, NativeEnergy.com will offset your guilt.

Talk about Ponzi schemes . . .

Given the draconian Waxman–Markey bill before the House of Representatives, this magic number will show just how little carbon caps will help. Just consider how devastating to the economy these Congressional Ponzi schemes will be if the bill passes.

See “The Waxman-Markey ‘Climate’ Bill Does Nothing for the Climate“

07 May 2009 by Environment Global Warming

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