Category — Global Warming

The Carbon Curtain

What we really need from the climate modelers is an accurate 50-year projection of global politics.

[snip]
A number of influential people in Russia, China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam say the planet is now entering a 30-year cooling period, the second half of a normal cycle driven by cyclical changes in the sun’s output and currents in the Pacific Ocean. Their theory leaves true believers in carbon catastrophe livid.

To judge by actions, not words, the carbon-warming view hasn’t come close to persuading a political majority even in nations considered far more environmentally enlightened than China and India. Europe’s coal consumption is rising, not falling, and the Continent won’t come close to meeting the Kyoto targets for carbon reduction. [snip]

Not by coincidence, the carbon curtain tracks a schism between stagnation and growth. The lethargy side includes the American Northeast and upper Midwest, the European Union, Japan and eastern Canada. The high-growth states, provinces and nations are the ones embracing the development of domestic fuels, the construction of power plants and transmission lines, the import of fuels and technologies needed for enterprise and economic growth and the export of fuels and technologies to like-minded partners. They have nothing against energy efficiency and renewables; they just don’t focus on them much.

Uranium is the only carbon-free fuel liked by fast-growing nations. Some 439 nuclear power plants are currently operating in 31 countries. China plans to build another 100 for itself in the next 20 years. By 2020 or so a new reactor will be starting up somewhere in the world every five to six days, compared with one every 17 days in the 1980s. China is building coal and nuclear plants in Pakistan, and Russia in Iran, Bulgaria and India.

No serious student of global politics can accept the notion that the world will soon join ranks behind Brussels, Washington and the gloomy computer and its minders. Dar is surely right when he says, “The U.S. and Japan will not tell Asia and Africa to choose poverty, disease, hunger and illiteracy over electricity.” [snip]

So does the climate computer have a real audience, or is it really just another bag lady muttering away to herself in a lonely corner of the intellectual park? That the computer is heard in Hollywood, Stockholm, Brussels and even some parts of Washington is quite beside the point–they have far less global power and influence than they vainly imagine. Vinod Dar is right: “Contingency planning should entail strategic responses to a warming globe, a cooling globe and a globe whose climate reverberates with laughter at human hubris.” (emphasis added)

This gets the BIG AMEN.

Question: If China has a nuclear meltdown, will they call it “The American Syndrome?” Do you think they care? LMAO

Gore sets ‘moon shot’ goal on climate change

[snip]…Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace. [snip]

Here Gore peers out at his small gathering of moonbats as he drones on about his megalomania.

Rarefied atmosphere in which he lives.

Yes–India still uses coal for locomotives! Here is a DHR Locomotive 791 with the afternoon ’school train’ to Kurseong. The locomotive is taking water at the Darjeeling water tank. 21th February 2005–Photographer - A.M.Hurrell

About a pack or two a day’s worth isn’t it? Why aren’t the green whining weenies over there screeching and sticking forks in their eyes?

Vermonters of all political persuasions can get behinds this novel and green innovation. Rechargeable batteries in series connected to a capacitor delivers proper amperage with a short cycling time.

Solar-Powered Electric Chair

AUSTIN, TX—Garrett Durning of the Texas Environmental Defense League has spent the last three months campaigning tirelessly for the installation of solar-powered electric chairs in state prisons. “Texas wastes more than 500,000 watts of electricity on every criminal it executes,” Durning told reporters Monday. “We live in the 21st century, and it’s high time we acted like it. Let’s stop depleting our non-renewable fossil fuels. Solar power is a more energy-efficient way to execute the condemned.” Durning added that wrist and ankle restraints should be made of hemp rather than leather, the use of which is cruel.

Furthermore, by using found and recycled materials the state can save a tree. I’m sure the Burlington/Middlebury peoples artist collectives will create a suitably shaped device honoring the victims and all with no carbon footprint.

Toss aside a harmonic convergence of this level dispassionately. I should say not!

Perhaps the courts are a place to crush this bit of silliness. That cuts out the media and Hollyweird along with most of the pinkos in congress.
The destruction of the world’s economy through burning food as fuel combined with strangling fossil fuel production is here. Witness $4/gal gas, corn and wheat prices and a serious spike in stupidity in politicians.
This makes for interesting reading as well as enlightenment. Of course, there are some who prefer to sit in dark closets.

Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas

You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas. It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline. [snip]

Most of the clowns running for office have this climate nonsense hook firmly in the gullet. Help them get it out by voting them out of office.

Don’t you just hate this when it happens

Mud, snow to greet Memorial Day hikers

At 5 p.m. Tuesday, 18 inches of snow remained on the ground near the top of Mount Mansfield, Vermont’s highest peak. The snow cover includes some of the 3.5 inches of fresh fluff that descended on the mountaintop Monday. More light snow is likely over northern Vermont summits today and Thursday, the National Weather Service in South Burlington said. [snip]

No snow will fall in the valleys this week, meteorologists said. Instead, chilly rain showers are forecast with temperatures in the low- and mid-50s. That’s about 15 degrees colder than normal for this time of year.

So how is Algore going to fix this?

Good SURF

Good SITE

Good PARODY (to the tune of “Camelot”)

When the Democrats takes over we will no longer have to worry about global warming

It’s true! It’s true! The Democrats have made it clear,
The climate must be perfect all the year.

A law will be made in Congress that:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there will be a legal limit to snow here
with Democrats.
The winter is forbidden until December
And exits March the second on the dot
By order, Summer lingers through September
With Democats!
Democrats! Democrats!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
But with Democrats, Democrats
That’s how conditions are.
The rain may never fall til after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
In short there’s not a more congenial spot
for happy-ever-aftering than here
with Democrats.

Democrats! Democrats!
I know it gives a person pause,
But with Democrats, Democrats,
Those will be the legal laws.
The snow may never slush upon the hillside.
By nine PM the moonlight must appear.
In short there’s simpy not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
With Democrats.

(By Richard Nieporent, at Roger Simon’s blog)

 This article isn’t long; it is based on science with none of the fearmongering of the GW idiots. Go here for the article.

THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.

What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot. [snip]

For the Gorbots, this isn’t good news, no not at all. For the sane among us this is a very interesting site. Here’s one photo from the past few days.

The image of the Earth added to give scale to the size of the sunspot.

I visit this site every day, have seen many photos of the sun; this spot is small compared to others.

In hope of re-election, many RINO’s have signed on to this idiocy.

Projections from the power producers show am increase for residential electricity of between $800.00 and $2200 per annum for each household.

The trading “fees” for all companies that exceed a to be determined level shall go to renewable generation; included are all sources that are unsustainable without massive government largess: Wind, organic waste (excluding incinerated municipal solid waste); biomass and hydroelectric, geothermal, solar thermal, photovoltaic, tidal, wave, or other nonfossil fuel, nonnuclear source.

Most of the aforementioned methods fell to the wayside as either inefficient, unreliable or extremely expensive. The square miles essential to install wind farms or solar panels able to generate the power mandatory for the country is immense. Unless we are returning to the Bronze Age, then power needs radically ebb.

Of course, large corporations such as GE will profit from strong-arming the taxpayers by promising magical inventions for the Gaian believers.

And you thought the era of cottage industries ended.

S.317

Electric Utility Cap and Trade Act of 2007 (Introduced in Senate)

TITLE I–GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

SEC. 101. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE.

(a) In General- The Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

`TITLE VII–GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

`SEC. 701. DEFINITIONS.

`In this title:

`(1) AFFECTED UNIT-
`(A) IN GENERAL- The term `affected unit’ means an electric generating facility that–
`(i) has a nameplate capacity greater than 25 megawatts;
`(ii) combusts greenhouse gas-emitting fuels; and
`(iii) generates electricity for sale.

`(B) INCLUSIONS- The term `affected unit’ includes–
`(i) a cogeneration facility; and
`(ii) a facility owned or operated by any instrumentality of–
`(I) the Federal Government; or
`(II) any State, local, or tribal government.

`SEC. 712. SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF THE SAFE CLIMATE LEVEL.

`(a) Definition and Objective of Maintaining the Safe Climate Level-
`(1) FINDING- Congress finds that ratification by the Senate in 1992 of the UNFCCC, commitments which were affirmed by the President in 2002, established for the United States an objective of `stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system’.
`(2) DEFINITION OF SAFE CLIMATE LEVEL- In this section, the term `safe climate level’ means the climate level referred to in paragraph (1).
[…]
`(3) COMPOSITION-
`(A) IN GENERAL- The Panel shall be composed of 8 climate scientists and 3 former Federal officials, as described in subparagraphs (B) through (D).

`(B) CLIMATE SCIENTISTS- Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this title, the President of the National Academy of Sciences shall appoint to serve on the Panel 8 climate scientists from among individuals who–

No call for a climatologist in this mob.

`(i) have earned doctorate degrees;
`(ii) have performed research in physical, biological, or social sciences, mathematics, economics, or related fields, with a particular focus on or link to 1 or more aspects of climate science;
`(iii) have records of peer-reviewed publications that include–
`(I) publications in main-stream, high-quality scientific journals (such as journals associated with respected scientific societies or those with a high impact factor, as determined by the Institute for Scientific Information);
`(II) recent publications relating to earth systems, and particularly relating to the climate system; and
`(III) a high publication rate, typically at least 2 or 3 papers per year; and
`(iv) have participated in high-level committees, such as those formed by the National Academy of Sciences or by leading scientific societies.

You can read the whole article here, it isn’t too long. The schadenfreude quotient in this piece is delightfully high.
By the way, why haven’t we seen his fat face anywhere, pontificating his point of view?

Climate facts to warm to

CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.
Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.

Duffy asked Marohasy: “Is the Earth still warming?”

She replied: “No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years.” [snip]

If Marohasy is anywhere near right about the impending collapse of the global warming paradigm, life will suddenly become a whole lot more interesting.

A great many founts of authority, from the Royal Society to the UN, most heads of government along with countless captains of industry, learned professors, commentators and journalists will be profoundly embarrassed. Let us hope it is a prolonged and chastening experience.

With catastrophe off the agenda, for most people the fog of millennial gloom will lift, at least until attention turns to the prospect of the next ice age. Among the better educated, the sceptical cast of mind that is the basis of empiricism will once again be back in fashion. The delusion that by recycling and catching public transport we can help save the planet will quickly come to be seen for the childish nonsense it was all along. [snip]

THE Age published an essay with an environmental theme by Ian McEwan on March 8 and its stablemate, The Sydney Morning Herald, also carried a slightly longer version of the same piece.

The Australian’s Cut & Paste column two days later reproduced a telling paragraph from the Herald’s version, which suggested that McEwan was a climate change sceptic and which The Age had excised. He was expanding on the proposition that “we need not only reliable data but their expression in the rigorous use of statistics”.

What The Age decided to spare its readers was the following: “Well-meaning intellectual movements, from communism to post-structuralism, have a poor history of absorbing inconvenient fact or challenges to fundamental precepts. (emphasis added)[snip]

The missing sentences do not appear anywhere else in The Age’s version of the essay. The attribution reads: “Copyright Ian McEwan 2008″ and there is no acknowledgment of editing by The Age.

Why did the paper decide to offer its readers McEwan lite? Was he, I wonder, consulted on the matter? And isn’t there a nice irony that The Age chose to delete the line about ideologues not being very good at “absorbing inconvenient fact”?

With all the above going on, we get these fools:

At island retreat, Branson and friends seek to save a world ‘on fire’

“So, do we really think the world is on fire?” Branson, the British magnate and adventurer, asked several guests, as a manservant scurried off to fetch him another glass of pinot grigio. [snip]
Branson does - and so did most of his guests. So on this recent weekend on his private hideaway in the crystalline waters between the islands of Tortola and Anegada, they tried to figure out what to do about it and perhaps get richer in the process.

Yeah, like with the Gorbot, it is all about money.