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Five Truths About Climate Change

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Robert Bryce wrote a pretty good article in today’s Wall Street Journal. He breaks down the state of the climate change movement with these five truths:

  1. The carbon taxers/limiters have lost.
  2. Regardless of whether it’s getting hotter or colder—or both—we are going to need to produce a lot more energy in order to remain productive and comfortable.
  3. The carbon-dioxide issue is not about the United States anymore. Sure, the U.S. is the world’s second-largest energy consumer. But over the past decade, carbon-dioxide emissions in the U.S. fell by 1.7%.
  4. We have to get better—and we are—at turning energy into useful power.
  5. The science is not settled, not by a long shot.

Read the entire article for complete expansions on these five truths.

07 Oct 2011 by Global Warming

69% Polled Believe Scientists Lying About Climate

Seven out of ten Americans surveyed in a Rasmussen poll say it’s likely that scientists are falsifying climate data. Keep in mind that most of them are being subjected to a very warm summer. Go figure.

The debate over global warming has intensified in recent weeks after a new NASA study was interpreted by skeptics to reveal that global warming is not man-made. While a majority of Americans nationwide continue to acknowledge significant disagreement about global warming in the scientific community, most go even further to say some scientists falsify data to support their own beliefs.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows that 69% say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs, including 40% who say this is Very Likely. Twenty-four percent (24%) don’t think it’s likely some scientists have falsified global warming data, including just six percent (6%) say it’s Not At All Likely. Another 10% are undecided.

Of course scientists activists ignore the actual science.

03 Aug 2011 by Environment Global Warming

Carborexia — AGW Psychotic Disorder

An unwanted (or maybe wanted by Gore, et al) side effect of global climate change hysteria is a new class of over-reacting nutjobs developing psychosis based on the misconception that humankind is actually capable of destroying the planet by burning fossil fuels.

I read this article published on the CO2 Science website about Austrailian scientists diagnosing “Carborexia,” The Debilitating Disease of Climate Alarmism. Excerpt:

Writing in the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Searle and Gow (2011) say “there is a growing consensus that increased awareness about climate change is leading to negative emotional reactions in certain individuals (Fritze et al., 2008),” while noting that “expressions of negative psychological states relating to climate change appear in popular commentary, public opinion polls and increasingly in the medical and psychological literature (Searle and Gow, 2009).” And they add that “doctors are reporting that more and more patients, presenting with anxiety and depression, are citing climate change news as something that they are having difficulty coping with” and that “leads to distress and/or interferes with daily living (Fritze et al., 2008).”

The two Australian researchers note that “other climate related pathologies are also emerging,” citing the work of Wolf and Salo (2008), who “described a patient with climate change delusions and visions of apocalyptic events who believed that his personal water consumption could lead to the deaths of millions of people,” while they write of “an increase in climate-related obsessive compulsive checking behaviors such as checking: gas and power meters to monitor their usage; taps for leaking water; and petrol consumption via the car’s odometer reading.” In fact, they report that displays of climate change related obsessive and depressive behaviors has led to the creation of the term “carborexia,” which “refers to individuals who have a fanatical desire to reduce their personal carbon footprint, to the point where it severely affects their lifestyle and normal daily activities.”

Emphasis mine. Read the rest of the article.

13 Jul 2011 by Environment Global Warming Greenbats

State of Fear – A Book Report

big-stateoffear.jpgI recently finished Michael Crichton‘s “State of Fear” novel. Although it is fiction, Dr. Crichton, as usual, did the supporting research into the topic of global warming and the hysterical reactions of climate fascists. There is an author’s message and a complete bibliography at the end of the book.

This passage is on the foreword to the novel:

This is a work of fiction. Characters, corporations, institutions and organizations in this novel are the product pf the author’s imagination, or, if real, are used fictitiously without any intent to describe their actual conduct. However, references to real people, institutions and organizations that are documented in footnotes are accurate. Footnotes are real.

It was a hell of a novel. All the time indicting the alarmists for what they are: extremists and carbon tax and fund raising profiteers. I highly recommend this novel not only for entertainment, but to educate the reader with some of the actual facts about climate change from reputable scientists.

From the State of Fear website:

This is Crichton’s most wide-ranging thriller. State of Fear takes the reader from the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly jungles of the Solomon Islands, from the streets of Paris to the beaches of Los Angeles. The novel races forward on a roller-coaster thrill ride, all the while keeping the brain in high gear. Gripping and thought provoking, State of Fear is Michael Crichton at his very best.

Finally, here is a quote from Dr. Crichton in his presentation,“Aliens Cause Global Warming,” to Jet Propulsion Laboratories in 2003:

“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.”

— Michael Crichton

11 Jul 2011 by Environment Global Warming

Science Triumphs Sensationalism – Once Again

NemoThe BEEB came up with a BS theory that CO2 is “Killing Nemo,” the clownfish from the popular Disney cartoon feature. It seems that the fish are losing hearing due to increased acidification of the oceans due to CO2 absorption. However, the Blogprof debunks the story in the following paragraph:

Now, what interested me about the article the most is the above argument is a tacit admission that any extra CO2 in the atmosphere doesn’t stay in the atmosphere but is rather absorbed by various surfaces and media including the ocean. This undermines the alarmists claim that extra CO2 produced by man remains in the atmosphere and causes global warming. you cannot have both. Either the extra CO2 remains in the atmosphere or it does not. It turns out that the acidification of the oceans is more backed by science than non-existent global warming: News: CO2 levels in atmosphere haven’t changed in at least 150 years
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Via: Planet Gore

13 Jun 2011 by Environment Global Warming Greenbats

STEREO Spacecraft at Solar Opposition This Weekend

Why would that be significant? Well, it would allow for a full 4PI (360×360°) view of the sun. The animated movie of the sun on STEREO’s Website currently has a gap in the coverage of the sun. The spacecraft are in a heliocentric orbit drifting away from the Earth, one leading and one lagging. This diagram shows the current position of spacecraft A (ahead) and B (behind). The scale is in astronomical units, the average distance between the earth and sun.

Sun-monitoring instrumentation on spacecraft like SOHO and STEREO have gone a long way in discovering what makes the sun behave in mysterious ways. Also, the data coming back (when not intentionally distorted by the IPCC, the CRU or NASA’s James Hansen) can be used to chart the relationship between solar activity and global climate.

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NOTE: This is the second posting of this article (the original article posted June 16, 2010) because the actual opposition will take place this weekend on Sunday, February 6, 2011. I updated the position graphic for Ahead and Behind and added a NASA STEREO Teaser Video.

04 Feb 2011 by Aerospace Astronomy Global Warming Science

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