Greenbats

This week, Former Vice President Al Gore made the trip to Washington to make a pitch to President Elect Obama and Vice President Elect Biden on the path forward for dealing with climate change. At the same time Gore was doing this, new information regarding anthropogenic (man made) contribution to climate change was coming forth from the scientific community and the US Senate.

The United States Senate Minority Report holds that over 650 scientists (a growing number) now disagree with the claims of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. The 231 page report is filled with information discrediting the IPCC’s report. Here are some of the highlights:

• 650 prominent international scientists have now changed their opinions
• over 250 have changed their opinions since the report of 2007
• only 52 UN scientists authored the media-hyped IPCC report and declared it a ‘consensus’

Things that may have contributed to their changing opinions include:

• global temperatures failing to warm
• studies predicting a continued lack of warming
• a failed attempt to revive the discredited ‘Hockey Stick’
• inconvenient developments and studies regarding CO2; the Sun; Clouds; Antarctica; the Arctic; Greenland; Mount Kilimanjaro; Hurricanes; Extreme Storms; Floods; Ocean Acidification; Polar Bears; lack of atmospheric dust; the failure of oceans to warm and rise as predicted

You can view this information on the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Minority Page.

Despite the evidence that the so-called ‘consensus’ is breaking down, you can rely on the incoming administration and the majorities in both houses of congress to ignore the facts and proceed with their untenable climate and environmental agenda for the country.

Be sure to visit our Climate and Global Warming information and resources page for lots of backup information on the real cause of climate change.

Also please read our user-interactive article on Correlating Sunspots to Global Climate. There is plenty of visual information and many comments both pro and con to our viewpoint. Check it out.

While the financial fires are distracting everyone from ‘business as usual’ in Washington, House Democrats Push Climate Tax While Negotiating Fiscal Bailout. Never mind the man behind the curtain, Dorothy . . .

From Senator Jim Inhofe’s EPS blog:

During a week where Americans were focused on perhaps the greatest economic challenges this country has faced in over a generation, House Democrats released a set of principles on October 2nd that outline an aggressive plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions. The plan could be even more economically restrictive than the failed Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, which would have cost $6.7 trillion dollars, according to the bill’s own sponsors. That $6.7 trillion cost would have been passed on to families and workers across the country in the form of higher gas prices, higher electricity and heating/cooling bills, more expensive consumer goods, and higher workplace costs.

As we learned during this past summer’s debate on the failed Lieberman-Warner global warming cap-and-trade bill and with the recent victory on offshore drilling, the appetite of the American people to unlock America’s affordable energy resources is very strong. When it comes to being in touch with Americans, the House Democrats need a reality check. The current financial crisis only reinforces the public’s wariness about any climate bill that attempts to increase the costs of energy and jeopardizes jobs.

There is much more, including links to some very interesting information at the EPS Blog.

April 2008 was the coldest April in 11 years. April also ranked the 29th coldest since record keeping began 114 years ago.

According to the National Climatic Data Center, the U.S. average temperature for the month was only 51 degrees, which is 1 degree below the average from 1901-2000.

Now that the coldest April over the last 11 years is in the record books, it’s probably safe to say that this fellow’s message might be a bit of overkill.

Now would be a good time for this dude to check out these posts on the topic of Global Warming.

• Earth’s Oceans – A Mesozoic Hot Tub — Scientific Evidence that Atlantic Ocean temperatures may have once reached 107° (42°C) – about 25°F (14°C) higher than ocean temperatures today and warmer than a hot tub.
• Ultimate Global Warming – SPF 2 Million Won’t Be Enough — 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.
• The “O” Zone — Think of the ozone layer as Earth’s sunglasses, protecting life on the surface from the harmful glare of the sun’s strongest ultraviolet rays, which can cause skin cancer and other maladies.
• Correlating Sunspots to Global Climate — This is a study in two observations made over the last 400 years: observed annual sunspot numbers and derived global temperatures.
• The Indefensible Hockey Stick — The “hockey stick” (since the shape of the graph resembles one) graph emerged in 1995 and purports to depict average global temperatures over the last 1000 years or so. The basis of this paradigm, however, can be shown to be flawed.
• Cosmic Rays, Solar Flux and Global Warming — When you consider the context of this galactic radiation effect, the impact of CO2 emissions caused by humanity literally fade away into climatic insignificance.

Remember, we’re not against cleaning up the environment and we’re certainly not against lower fuel prices or curing asthma. We’re not sure why SUVs would exclusively attack children with asthma, but for this modern sandwich-sign wearing doomsayer maybe it’s a foregone conclusion and he is beyond reason.

Just saying . . .