From SMH, 17/3/09 in an article without a byline - what no-one would claim credit for this tosh?
"One of the country's top scientists has told politicians to act quickly on climate change or devastate the lives of unborn generations. Penny Sackett, the Government's Chief Scientist, delivered her blunt message to politicians at a dinner at Parliament House on Tuesday night."
So Prof Penny, what was your message?
"Professor Sackett warned the actions of this generation "may deny the next generation the prosperity that we have enjoyed and endanger the lives of millions".
I'm confused. Was it you, Penny, that warned the actions of this generation? Or was it sloppy journalism and it should have read...
Professor Sackett warned this generation that their actions....
"She said slashing carbon emissions now was "the only real future that a baby born today has".
So, how does a baby slash carbon emissions?
What effect will slashing emissions ( presumably you mean Co2 emissions?) have?
Do you, our chief scientist understand that CO2 has been found innocent?
Vostok Ice Core samples have proven that CO2 does not cause globalwarming.
I notice that the report says: "The politicians left midway through Professor Sackett's speech.."
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Jobs for the "Working Families"
In a column by Andrew Bolt re Peter Costello:
"Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last November boasted he had a $10.4 billion stimulus package that would “create up to 75,000 additional jobs over the coming year”. The same month he produced another “$15.1 billion package to create 133,000 jobs”, and weeks later he gave us a $4.7 billion “nation-building program” to “help create up to 32,000 Australian jobs”.
So where are those 240,000 new jobs now? And if those billions were so well spent, why is Rudd now spending a colossal $42 billion more? Then count all his other big-dollar pledges piling up as our economy tanks—paid maternity leave, a new tax on emissions, a rise in pensions. . ."
So, the Co2 spewing Kevin747 is creating 240,000 jobs? And yet, in an AAP report:
"The government has been up front about the fact that Australians will be affected, growth will slow, unemployment will rise given the deteriorating global outlook," Rudd was quoted as saying in an AAP report.
Honto Kana? He is creating 240,000 jobs yet umemployment will rise?
"Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last November boasted he had a $10.4 billion stimulus package that would “create up to 75,000 additional jobs over the coming year”. The same month he produced another “$15.1 billion package to create 133,000 jobs”, and weeks later he gave us a $4.7 billion “nation-building program” to “help create up to 32,000 Australian jobs”.
So where are those 240,000 new jobs now? And if those billions were so well spent, why is Rudd now spending a colossal $42 billion more? Then count all his other big-dollar pledges piling up as our economy tanks—paid maternity leave, a new tax on emissions, a rise in pensions. . ."
So, the Co2 spewing Kevin747 is creating 240,000 jobs? And yet, in an AAP report:
"The government has been up front about the fact that Australians will be affected, growth will slow, unemployment will rise given the deteriorating global outlook," Rudd was quoted as saying in an AAP report.
Honto Kana? He is creating 240,000 jobs yet umemployment will rise?
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Flat-Eath IPCC: Warning of wildfire threat to tropical forests
Chris Field, co-chair of the UN's Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago that the panel's report on climate change in 2007 had underestimated the severity of global warming this century.
Does that mean that their GCM's were wrong? Does that mean the, despite saying the contrary, the IPCC does predict future temperature and weather?
"We now have data showing that from 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions increased far more rapidly than we expected, primarily because developing countries, like China and India, saw a huge upsurge in electric power generation, almost all of it based on coal," Field said.
But, with respect, Mr Field, you do not as yet have data linking Greenhouse gases with Global Warming despite Billions spent over twenty years.
In fact, your flat-earth society IPCC has ignored, or chosen to not take into calculations, the Ice-Core samples that show that rise in CO2 follows temperature rise.
The next report, which he will oversee, is due in 2014 and will now include future scenarios where warming is more serious than previous reports have suggested.
Will; you even issue AR5 if there has not been warming for 16 years?
Does that mean that their GCM's were wrong? Does that mean the, despite saying the contrary, the IPCC does predict future temperature and weather?
"We now have data showing that from 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions increased far more rapidly than we expected, primarily because developing countries, like China and India, saw a huge upsurge in electric power generation, almost all of it based on coal," Field said.
But, with respect, Mr Field, you do not as yet have data linking Greenhouse gases with Global Warming despite Billions spent over twenty years.
In fact, your flat-earth society IPCC has ignored, or chosen to not take into calculations, the Ice-Core samples that show that rise in CO2 follows temperature rise.
The next report, which he will oversee, is due in 2014 and will now include future scenarios where warming is more serious than previous reports have suggested.
Will; you even issue AR5 if there has not been warming for 16 years?
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Heads I win, tails you lose, Penny Wrong
Simon on Australian Climate Madness has pointed out that:
As inevitable as night follows day, scientists have claimed that the worst winter snow in London for thirty years is consistent with climate change. The UK's Telegraph newspaper reports this under the faintly amusing headline:
Meanwhile, at the same time, our own dearly beloved Ms Penny Wong has said that the heatwave gripping south-east Australia is part of what scientists predicted would happen.
http://talbyv.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-penny-wong-or-right-3.html
At the time that she said that (28/1/09) ,the BOM issued a chart that showed the more than two thirds of Australia was experiencing lower than normal temperatures. Most of the Northern Hemisphere was also experiencing record lows.
Can it be - honto kana - that record low temperatures indicate global warming?
When will these clowns apologise?
As inevitable as night follows day, scientists have claimed that the worst winter snow in London for thirty years is consistent with climate change. The UK's Telegraph newspaper reports this under the faintly amusing headline:
Snow is consistent with global warming, say scientists
Meanwhile, at the same time, our own dearly beloved Ms Penny Wong has said that the heatwave gripping south-east Australia is part of what scientists predicted would happen.
http://talbyv.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-penny-wong-or-right-3.html
At the time that she said that (28/1/09) ,the BOM issued a chart that showed the more than two thirds of Australia was experiencing lower than normal temperatures. Most of the Northern Hemisphere was also experiencing record lows.
Can it be - honto kana - that record low temperatures indicate global warming?
When will these clowns apologise?
Monday, February 2, 2009
Al Gore and Venus Envy
From Fox News' Junk Science by Steven Milloy
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Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday with yet another one of his infamous slide shows, Gore observed that the carbon dioxide (CO2) in Venus’ atmosphere supercharges the second-planet-from-the-sun’s greenhouse effect, resulting in surface temperatures of about 870 degrees Fahrenheit. Gore added that it’s not Venus’ proximity to the Sun that makes the planet much warmer than the Earth, because Mercury, which is even closer to the Sun, is cooler than Venus. Based on this rationale, then, Gore warned that we need to stop emitting CO2 into our own atmosphere.
Incredibly, not a Senator on the Committee questioned -- much less burst into outright laughter at -- Gore’s absurd point. In fact, each Senator who spoke at the hearing, including Republicans, offered little but fawning praise for Gore.
Milloy points out that the Venusian Atmosphere is 97% CO2 whilst earth's is 0.038%. Milloy goes to to say Mercury doesn't really have greenhouse gases
"As a result, the daily temperature on Mercury varies from about 840 degrees Fahrenheit during the day to about -275 degrees Fahrenheit at night. Mercury’s daily temperature swing actually belies Gore’s unqualified demonization of greenhouse gases, whose heat trapping characteristics tend to stabilize climate and prevent wild temperature fluctuations."
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Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday with yet another one of his infamous slide shows, Gore observed that the carbon dioxide (CO2) in Venus’ atmosphere supercharges the second-planet-from-the-sun’s greenhouse effect, resulting in surface temperatures of about 870 degrees Fahrenheit. Gore added that it’s not Venus’ proximity to the Sun that makes the planet much warmer than the Earth, because Mercury, which is even closer to the Sun, is cooler than Venus. Based on this rationale, then, Gore warned that we need to stop emitting CO2 into our own atmosphere.
Incredibly, not a Senator on the Committee questioned -- much less burst into outright laughter at -- Gore’s absurd point. In fact, each Senator who spoke at the hearing, including Republicans, offered little but fawning praise for Gore.
Milloy points out that the Venusian Atmosphere is 97% CO2 whilst earth's is 0.038%. Milloy goes to to say Mercury doesn't really have greenhouse gases
"As a result, the daily temperature on Mercury varies from about 840 degrees Fahrenheit during the day to about -275 degrees Fahrenheit at night. Mercury’s daily temperature swing actually belies Gore’s unqualified demonization of greenhouse gases, whose heat trapping characteristics tend to stabilize climate and prevent wild temperature fluctuations."
The Groundhog named Gore by Alan Caruba
On Alan Caruba's blog, he writes
"The ability to hold two totally opposite thoughts in one’s head, a winter storm and imminent destruction by sizzling hot weather, is a kind of schizophrenia or just plain stupidity. In Gore’s case, it has a lot more with lining his pockets with millions of dollars in the sale of “carbon credits” purchased to continue emitting carbon dioxide, the gas that Gore insists will destroy the world.
Carbon dioxide is the gas on which all plant life on Earth depends for growth. Without CO2 every single piece of vegetation dies and we die with it because a lot of critters we eat are herbivores. Happily, humans exhale about two pounds of CO2 every day. Burning anything, including calories, produces CO2. Even if there is more CO2, it has little to do with climate change."
Pre-election President Obama said that, when elected, he would declare CO2 a "dangerous pollutant." No more bread, cakes, wine, beer. When will this stupidity end?
"The ability to hold two totally opposite thoughts in one’s head, a winter storm and imminent destruction by sizzling hot weather, is a kind of schizophrenia or just plain stupidity. In Gore’s case, it has a lot more with lining his pockets with millions of dollars in the sale of “carbon credits” purchased to continue emitting carbon dioxide, the gas that Gore insists will destroy the world.
Carbon dioxide is the gas on which all plant life on Earth depends for growth. Without CO2 every single piece of vegetation dies and we die with it because a lot of critters we eat are herbivores. Happily, humans exhale about two pounds of CO2 every day. Burning anything, including calories, produces CO2. Even if there is more CO2, it has little to do with climate change."
Pre-election President Obama said that, when elected, he would declare CO2 a "dangerous pollutant." No more bread, cakes, wine, beer. When will this stupidity end?
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom-Vaclav Klaus
From AFP -DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) — Czech President (and President of the European Union) Vaclav Klaus took aim at climate change campaigner Al Gore on Saturday in Davos in a frontal attack on the science of global warming.
"I don't think that there is any global warming,"
Referring to the former US vice president, who attended Davos this year, he added: "I'm very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them."
"Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom."
"I'm afraid that the current crisis will be misused for radically constraining the functioning of the markets and market economy all around the world," he said.
"I'm more afraid of the consequences of the crisis than the crisis itself."
Klaus makes no secret of his climate change scepticism -- he is also a fierce critic of the European Union -- and has branded the world's top panel of climate experts, the UN's IPCC, a smug monopoly.
"I don't think that there is any global warming,"
Referring to the former US vice president, who attended Davos this year, he added: "I'm very sorry that some people like Al Gore are not ready to listen to the competing theories. I do listen to them."
"Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom."
"I'm afraid that the current crisis will be misused for radically constraining the functioning of the markets and market economy all around the world," he said.
"I'm more afraid of the consequences of the crisis than the crisis itself."
Klaus makes no secret of his climate change scepticism -- he is also a fierce critic of the European Union -- and has branded the world's top panel of climate experts, the UN's IPCC, a smug monopoly.
BBC abandons 'impartiality' on warming
From the UK Telegraph - article by Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 6:19PM GMT 31 Jan 2009
After part sponsoring a global warming stunt with a mock up polar bear on an ice-berg in the Thames, and doctoring film of President Obama's Inaugural speech,their Newsnight's science editor, Susan Watts, was even more bizarre. It was no more than a paean of gratitude that we now at last have a president prepared to listen to the "science" on climate change, after the dark age of religious obscurantism personified by President Bush.
At last, after years when they could not speak openly on this subject, chirped Ms Watts, "scientists calculate that President Obama has just four years to save the world". She failed to explain (although she was later forced to clarify this on her blog) that the only scientist to say anything so silly was Dr James Hansen of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, whose utterances on climate change have lately become so wild and extreme that they have made him a laughing stock. (He was last week publicly disowned by his old boss Dr John Theon, who said that Hansen's unscientific claims had been an embarrassment to Nasa ever since he joined Al Gore in whipping up panic over global warming back in 1988.)"
http://talbyv.blogspot.com/2009/01/doom-4-years-left-last-chance-jim.html
In Australia, our equivalent ABC uses the same rules, recently excising Bill Kininmonth (William Kininmonth has a career in meteorological science and policy spanning more than 40 years. For more than a decade (1986-1998) he headed Australia's National Climate Centre with responsibilities for monitoring Australia's changing climate and advising the Australian government on the extent and severity of climate extremes) from a podcast and transcript of a broadcast.
Last Updated: 6:19PM GMT 31 Jan 2009
After part sponsoring a global warming stunt with a mock up polar bear on an ice-berg in the Thames, and doctoring film of President Obama's Inaugural speech,their Newsnight's science editor, Susan Watts, was even more bizarre. It was no more than a paean of gratitude that we now at last have a president prepared to listen to the "science" on climate change, after the dark age of religious obscurantism personified by President Bush.
At last, after years when they could not speak openly on this subject, chirped Ms Watts, "scientists calculate that President Obama has just four years to save the world". She failed to explain (although she was later forced to clarify this on her blog) that the only scientist to say anything so silly was Dr James Hansen of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, whose utterances on climate change have lately become so wild and extreme that they have made him a laughing stock. (He was last week publicly disowned by his old boss Dr John Theon, who said that Hansen's unscientific claims had been an embarrassment to Nasa ever since he joined Al Gore in whipping up panic over global warming back in 1988.)"
http://talbyv.blogspot.com/2009/01/doom-4-years-left-last-chance-jim.html
In Australia, our equivalent ABC uses the same rules, recently excising Bill Kininmonth (William Kininmonth has a career in meteorological science and policy spanning more than 40 years. For more than a decade (1986-1998) he headed Australia's National Climate Centre with responsibilities for monitoring Australia's changing climate and advising the Australian government on the extent and severity of climate extremes) from a podcast and transcript of a broadcast.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Anthropogenic Global Warming: The Greatest Fraud in History?
by James Lewis From Pajamas Media, January 30, 2009 on "An Honest Climate Debate."
Some Extracts:
"But what worries me most is that the credibility of science may never recover — and perhaps it shouldn’t. Credibility has to be earned, and once it’s squandered may never be recovered. By now far too many scientists have knowingly colluded in an historic fraud.... We are seeing political larceny here on a truly planetary scale. Why should scientists who’ve gambled their own reputations on this fakery ever be trusted again? They shouldn’t."
" Like most scientists I rarely judge what others do in their fields. And yet it’s been flamingly obvious for years now that the hypothesis of human-caused global warming violates all the basic rules and safeguards that protect the integrity of normal, healthy science. That’s why AGW (anthropogenic global warming) looks like a massive fraud, the biggest fraud ever in the history of science."
"If that’s true, anybody who cares about science should be outraged. Even if you don’t care about that ask yourself if you want your next medical exam to be honest. Or the next time you drive across a traffic bridge, do you want the engineering tests to be falsified? If scientific corruption becomes endemic, we risk losing one of the great jewels of our culture.
Some Extracts:
"But what worries me most is that the credibility of science may never recover — and perhaps it shouldn’t. Credibility has to be earned, and once it’s squandered may never be recovered. By now far too many scientists have knowingly colluded in an historic fraud.... We are seeing political larceny here on a truly planetary scale. Why should scientists who’ve gambled their own reputations on this fakery ever be trusted again? They shouldn’t."
" Like most scientists I rarely judge what others do in their fields. And yet it’s been flamingly obvious for years now that the hypothesis of human-caused global warming violates all the basic rules and safeguards that protect the integrity of normal, healthy science. That’s why AGW (anthropogenic global warming) looks like a massive fraud, the biggest fraud ever in the history of science."
"If that’s true, anybody who cares about science should be outraged. Even if you don’t care about that ask yourself if you want your next medical exam to be honest. Or the next time you drive across a traffic bridge, do you want the engineering tests to be falsified? If scientific corruption becomes endemic, we risk losing one of the great jewels of our culture.
Friday, January 30, 2009
New Report Says Climate Change Irreversible for Next 1,000 Years
From Voice of America:
The study published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that even if carbon dioxide emissions are reduced the effects on global temperature could remain high for generations.
Could? Could or on the other hand, could not! As we know, the growth in CO2 follows the rise in temperature. Google- Vostok Ice Core Samples. I'm sick of supplying references and these clowns just post their lies. The Fools
The study led by researchers at the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that possible climate changes include global sea level rise and reduced rainfall in certain parts of the world.
Possible - not definite, only possible, or maybe, possibly NOT!
Scientists said those changes could decrease water supplies, increase the frequencies of fires, expand deserts and affect agriculture.
Could decrease water supplies, increase the frequencies of fires, expand deserts and affect agriculture. Or, then again, Maybe Not. Bloody alarmists will not actually make a definite statement, but by their inferences, doom and gloom. If it doesn't happen (and I guarantee that it won't) well, they will say we didn't say it WILL happen!
"In the past five years Greenland has been melting at rates that are higher than they consider in this paper, and it's been adding about 0.5 millimeters per year to sea level rise," he said.
Well, Sorry. Greenland's Glacier has been growing since 2005 - I can post the references, but these clowns should not be telling porkies.
The study published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that even if carbon dioxide emissions are reduced the effects on global temperature could remain high for generations.
Could? Could or on the other hand, could not! As we know, the growth in CO2 follows the rise in temperature. Google- Vostok Ice Core Samples. I'm sick of supplying references and these clowns just post their lies. The Fools
The study led by researchers at the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that possible climate changes include global sea level rise and reduced rainfall in certain parts of the world.
Possible - not definite, only possible, or maybe, possibly NOT!
Scientists said those changes could decrease water supplies, increase the frequencies of fires, expand deserts and affect agriculture.
Could decrease water supplies, increase the frequencies of fires, expand deserts and affect agriculture. Or, then again, Maybe Not. Bloody alarmists will not actually make a definite statement, but by their inferences, doom and gloom. If it doesn't happen (and I guarantee that it won't) well, they will say we didn't say it WILL happen!
"In the past five years Greenland has been melting at rates that are higher than they consider in this paper, and it's been adding about 0.5 millimeters per year to sea level rise," he said.
Well, Sorry. Greenland's Glacier has been growing since 2005 - I can post the references, but these clowns should not be telling porkies.
O-Obama -Isn't this waste?
Stayed tuned we'll have a Pop-eye cartoon along in a minute - Roger Miller.
A quote from Roger's classic - Kansas City Star.
And speaking of Kansas City Star ( the Newspaper): From: Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist:
"Another nugget from the stimulus bill passed by the House:
Backers of NASA sought $2 billion to help finance the costs of the next manned-space program. Instead...
NASA was allotted $600 million by the House - none of it for space-related activities. The biggest chunk of the money, $400 million, went to "put more scientists to work doing climate change research."
NASA backers are hoping the Senate will aim some money at NASA for what the agency exists to do: Explore space. "
More money wasted on the scam that is Anthropogenic Global Warming. O-O-O-Obama...What are you doing?
A quote from Roger's classic - Kansas City Star.
And speaking of Kansas City Star ( the Newspaper): From: Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist:
"Another nugget from the stimulus bill passed by the House:
Backers of NASA sought $2 billion to help finance the costs of the next manned-space program. Instead...
NASA was allotted $600 million by the House - none of it for space-related activities. The biggest chunk of the money, $400 million, went to "put more scientists to work doing climate change research."
NASA backers are hoping the Senate will aim some money at NASA for what the agency exists to do: Explore space. "
More money wasted on the scam that is Anthropogenic Global Warming. O-O-O-Obama...What are you doing?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Is Penny Wong or Right (2)
Penny Wong on 4BC:
"The consensus science is that climate change is occurring."
Well, sorry, Penny, Science doesn't work on "Consensus." and if it did, look at petitionproject.org and the more than 31,000 scientists that do not believe in AGW. I'll take your consensus and raise you...
"What I say is, have a look at what the IPCC said – that is not a radical group…"
Pardon, that biased and disgraced POLITICAL body???
When asked about the 31000 of the petition project, she, as usual dodged the question and answered "and... and... and I... to be honest with you.. think that most Australians do have a view that this is real ..."
Have you seen recent polling, Penny... oh yes, of course you have. Don't tell porkies!
"Are you willing to take the risk in terms of the reef, in terms of all of the economic impact of climate change. We see this as an economic responsibility issue."
I say- Ms Wong, Are YOU willing to initiate a CRIPPLING carbon (Dioxide) tax (aka ETS- aka Penny's new HAT [hot air tax])
on an unproven theory which is slowly sliding into oblivion?
"The consensus science is that climate change is occurring."
Well, sorry, Penny, Science doesn't work on "Consensus." and if it did, look at petitionproject.org and the more than 31,000 scientists that do not believe in AGW. I'll take your consensus and raise you...
"What I say is, have a look at what the IPCC said – that is not a radical group…"
Pardon, that biased and disgraced POLITICAL body???
When asked about the 31000 of the petition project, she, as usual dodged the question and answered "and... and... and I... to be honest with you.. think that most Australians do have a view that this is real ..."
Have you seen recent polling, Penny... oh yes, of course you have. Don't tell porkies!
"Are you willing to take the risk in terms of the reef, in terms of all of the economic impact of climate change. We see this as an economic responsibility issue."
I say- Ms Wong, Are YOU willing to initiate a CRIPPLING carbon (Dioxide) tax (aka ETS- aka Penny's new HAT [hot air tax])
on an unproven theory which is slowly sliding into oblivion?
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Gore Hearing Put on Ice - Drudge report.
Because there is a winter storm watch in Washington, the drudge reports states that "But Mother Nature seems ready to freeze Al Gore's scheduled hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning to once again testify on the 'urgent need' to combat global warming."
Also from the Drudge Report: " Global warming advocates have suggested this year's wild winter spells are proof of climate change."
Like I've said in a previous recent post; the alarmists are making wilder and wilder statements.
Also from the Drudge Report: " Global warming advocates have suggested this year's wild winter spells are proof of climate change."
Like I've said in a previous recent post; the alarmists are making wilder and wilder statements.
As the world cools, the alarmists claims get wilder.
Although there has not been a scientific link made between CO2 and "Global Warming" with 20 years of research, and although science has effectively proven that the world is now in a cooling cycle; the alarmists are predicting wilder and wilder fantasies.
From Today's Washington Post:
Long Droughts, Rising Seas Predicted Despite Future CO2 Curbs, By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 27, 2009.
"....if carbon dioxide concentrations peak at 600 ppm, several regions of the world -- including southwestern North America, the Mediterranean and southern Africa -- will face major droughts as bad or worse than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Global sea levels will rise by roughly three feet by the year 3000, a projection that does not factor in melting glaciers and polar ice sheets that would probably result in significant additional sea level rises."
Sea level rises of three feet? There goes the neighbourhood!
Hey! How about proving the CO2 causal link before going off half-cocked!
From Today's Washington Post:
Long Droughts, Rising Seas Predicted Despite Future CO2 Curbs, By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 27, 2009.
"....if carbon dioxide concentrations peak at 600 ppm, several regions of the world -- including southwestern North America, the Mediterranean and southern Africa -- will face major droughts as bad or worse than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Global sea levels will rise by roughly three feet by the year 3000, a projection that does not factor in melting glaciers and polar ice sheets that would probably result in significant additional sea level rises."
Sea level rises of three feet? There goes the neighbourhood!
Hey! How about proving the CO2 causal link before going off half-cocked!
Stern Appointed Climate Change Envoy: Just for Money?
Via the Washington Post: Article by Garance Franke-Ruta:
This morning, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that (Todd) Stern will be the special envoy for climate change.
"With the appointment today of a special envoy, we are sending an unequivocal message that the United States will be energetic, focused, strategic and serious about addressing global climate change and the corollary issue of clean energy," Clinton said at the announcement.
"Containing climate change will require nothing less than transforming the global economy from a high-carbon to a low-carbon energy base. But done right, this can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and become a driver for economic growth in the 21st century," Stern said after Clinton spoke.
How about proving a causal link between carbon (Dioxide) and Climate Change before going off half cocked!
Scientists analysing the Vostok Ice core samples have shown rise in CO2 FOLLOWS global warming by 800 years +/- 200 years.
Recent Satellite Global temperature records have shown that, despite atmospheric Co2 rising average global temperatures have been falling.
Are you going to look like gooses as temperatures keep going down.
Is it just for the money, Mr Stern?
This morning, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that (Todd) Stern will be the special envoy for climate change.
"With the appointment today of a special envoy, we are sending an unequivocal message that the United States will be energetic, focused, strategic and serious about addressing global climate change and the corollary issue of clean energy," Clinton said at the announcement.
"Containing climate change will require nothing less than transforming the global economy from a high-carbon to a low-carbon energy base. But done right, this can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and become a driver for economic growth in the 21st century," Stern said after Clinton spoke.
How about proving a causal link between carbon (Dioxide) and Climate Change before going off half cocked!
Scientists analysing the Vostok Ice core samples have shown rise in CO2 FOLLOWS global warming by 800 years +/- 200 years.
Recent Satellite Global temperature records have shown that, despite atmospheric Co2 rising average global temperatures have been falling.
Are you going to look like gooses as temperatures keep going down.
Is it just for the money, Mr Stern?
Monday, January 26, 2009
Despite the hot air, the Antarctic is not warming up
Christopher Booker in the UK telegraph says "A deeply flawed new report will be cited ad nauseam by everyone from the BBC to Al Gore."
Antarctica has long been a major embarrassment to the warmists. Al Gore and co may have wanted to scare us that the continent which contains 90 per cent of all the ice on the planet is heating up, because that would be the source of all the meltwater which they claim will raise sea levels by 20 feet. However, to provide all their pictures of ice-shelves "the size of Texas" calving off into the sea, they have had to draw on one tiny region of the continent, the Antarctic Peninsula – the only part that has been warming.
Actually they had to rely on fake computer generated footage -http://talbyv.blogspot.com/2009/01/gore-fraud-fake-footage-in-inconvenient.html
One of the first to express astonishment was Dr Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a convinced believer in global warming, who wryly observed "it is hard to make data where none exists". A disbelieving Ross Hayes, an atmospheric scientist who has often visited the Antarctic for Nasa, sent Professor Steig a caustic email (http://icecap.us/index.php/go/they-said-it/with_statistics_you_can_make_numbers_go_to_almost_any_conclusion_you_want_i/) ending: "with statistics you can make numbers go to any conclusion you want. It saddens me to see members of the scientific community do this for media coverage."
But it was also noticed that among the members of Steig's team was Michael Mann, author of the "hockey stick", the most celebrated of all attempts by the warmists to rewrite the scientific evidence to promote their cause.
The World was much warmer during the Mediaeval Warm Period. Dr David Deming has confirmed to me that he was told in an email from one of the IPCC lead authors that they had to get rid of the MWP. Subsequently Mann, Bradley and Hughes produced the fraudulent "hockey stick." Steve McIntyre fed in telephone numbers and it still produced the same graph!
Antarctica has long been a major embarrassment to the warmists. Al Gore and co may have wanted to scare us that the continent which contains 90 per cent of all the ice on the planet is heating up, because that would be the source of all the meltwater which they claim will raise sea levels by 20 feet. However, to provide all their pictures of ice-shelves "the size of Texas" calving off into the sea, they have had to draw on one tiny region of the continent, the Antarctic Peninsula – the only part that has been warming.
Actually they had to rely on fake computer generated footage -http://talbyv.blogspot.com/2009/01/gore-fraud-fake-footage-in-inconvenient.html
One of the first to express astonishment was Dr Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a convinced believer in global warming, who wryly observed "it is hard to make data where none exists". A disbelieving Ross Hayes, an atmospheric scientist who has often visited the Antarctic for Nasa, sent Professor Steig a caustic email (http://icecap.us/index.php/go/they-said-it/with_statistics_you_can_make_numbers_go_to_almost_any_conclusion_you_want_i/) ending: "with statistics you can make numbers go to any conclusion you want. It saddens me to see members of the scientific community do this for media coverage."
But it was also noticed that among the members of Steig's team was Michael Mann, author of the "hockey stick", the most celebrated of all attempts by the warmists to rewrite the scientific evidence to promote their cause.
The World was much warmer during the Mediaeval Warm Period. Dr David Deming has confirmed to me that he was told in an email from one of the IPCC lead authors that they had to get rid of the MWP. Subsequently Mann, Bradley and Hughes produced the fraudulent "hockey stick." Steve McIntyre fed in telephone numbers and it still produced the same graph!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
How the world was bullied into silence
Canada Free Press article by Dr Tim Ball
One of the most disturbing aspects of the global warming scam is the number of prominent people and entire segments of society bullied into silence.
He described the case of ex NASA employee Dr. Joanne Simpson (the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology)
who said“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical...The main basis of the claim that man’s release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models."
Dr. Ball goes on to mention Jim Hansen's Obama letter of Doom detailed on this site yesterday. http://talbyv.blogspot.com/2009/01/doom-4-years-left-last-chance-jim.html and follows with:
"Hansen must know that if the cooling trend continues, as many scientists anticipate, he is in a dangerous position. When a bureaucrat convinces a politician of a scientific position, as Hansen has so forcefully done with Gore and Obama, and they make it a major part of their political positions he is on a treadmill. He has to keep spinning the story and avoid the facts while increasing the threats. Further, Hansen must make sure political actions he advocates, such as carbon taxes, must be implemented before more cooling occurs and Obama’s four-year term ends. "
Gore will still push because of his trade in carbon credits. Obama, almost freezing at his inauguration might already be changing his mind. Well worth reading from link in title.
One of the most disturbing aspects of the global warming scam is the number of prominent people and entire segments of society bullied into silence.
He described the case of ex NASA employee Dr. Joanne Simpson (the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology)
who said“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical...The main basis of the claim that man’s release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models."
Dr. Ball goes on to mention Jim Hansen's Obama letter of Doom detailed on this site yesterday. http://talbyv.blogspot.com/2009/01/doom-4-years-left-last-chance-jim.html and follows with:
"Hansen must know that if the cooling trend continues, as many scientists anticipate, he is in a dangerous position. When a bureaucrat convinces a politician of a scientific position, as Hansen has so forcefully done with Gore and Obama, and they make it a major part of their political positions he is on a treadmill. He has to keep spinning the story and avoid the facts while increasing the threats. Further, Hansen must make sure political actions he advocates, such as carbon taxes, must be implemented before more cooling occurs and Obama’s four-year term ends. "
Gore will still push because of his trade in carbon credits. Obama, almost freezing at his inauguration might already be changing his mind. Well worth reading from link in title.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
DOOM! 4 years left - Last Chance- Jim Hansen
After making doom and gloom predictions for years, (we should all be dead by now) Jim Hansen has made another.
Mark this date - Sunday 18 January 2009.
'We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead' Quote from Hansen.
"(Obama's) four-year administration offers the world a last chance to get things right, Hansen said. If it fails, global disaster - melted sea caps, flooded cities, species extinctions and spreading deserts - awaits mankind."
melted sea caps?? Does this mean melted ice caps when both poles have more ice now than 1980?
Flooded cities?? A paper by Cazenave et al (http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/files/Cazenave_et_al_GPC_2008.pdf) can be summarised as follows :
since 2003, sea level has continued to rise but with a rate (2.5+/-0.4 mm/yr) somewhat reduced compared to the 1993-2003 decade (3.1+/-0.4mm/yr).
So, at the rate of the latest decade, the rise over a full century would be ~254mm or,even by using the previous decade's rate, over a full century the rise would be ~310mm.
Less than a third of a metre, around one foot in the old currency!
How many cities will be flooded in the next 100 years? Even more importantly, Mr Hansen, how many cities will be flooded in the NEXT FOUR YEARS?
Mark this date - Sunday 18 January 2009.
'We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead' Quote from Hansen.
"(Obama's) four-year administration offers the world a last chance to get things right, Hansen said. If it fails, global disaster - melted sea caps, flooded cities, species extinctions and spreading deserts - awaits mankind."
melted sea caps?? Does this mean melted ice caps when both poles have more ice now than 1980?
Flooded cities?? A paper by Cazenave et al (http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/files/Cazenave_et_al_GPC_2008.pdf) can be summarised as follows :
since 2003, sea level has continued to rise but with a rate (2.5+/-0.4 mm/yr) somewhat reduced compared to the 1993-2003 decade (3.1+/-0.4mm/yr).
So, at the rate of the latest decade, the rise over a full century would be ~254mm or,even by using the previous decade's rate, over a full century the rise would be ~310mm.
Less than a third of a metre, around one foot in the old currency!
How many cities will be flooded in the next 100 years? Even more importantly, Mr Hansen, how many cities will be flooded in the NEXT FOUR YEARS?
Hudson Air Crash Caused by Global Warming - NOT
Time Magazine ( I used to get Time every week and respected the articles found in it!) blamed the bird-strike that brought down an Airbus passenger aircraft in the Hudson River, New York, on "global warming".
Christopher Monckton on Right Side News put out a more realistic argument.
"The Time article said that "Wildlife mitigation" was the official term for avoiding bird strikes. A report published in June 1988 by the Federal Aviation Administration had found that since 1990 the number of bird strikes had quadrupled, from 1,759 in 1990 to a record 7,666 in 2007. According to Time, "Officials cite a number of possible causes for the increase", including "habitat destruction and climate change", which "have disrupted migratory patterns". Time adds, "Al Gore should be very proud of himself."
The truth: As the article also points out (though not in the headline), most commercial airlines are replacing three-engine and four-engine aircraft with twin-engine aircraft. The newer engines are quieter, so birds are less likely to detect and avoid them. Also, aircraft with fewer engines are less able to survive bird-strikes."
Lord Monckton lists the 7 worst fatalities due to bird strike. They occurred in Oct 60(Boston); Nov 62 (Maryland); Sept88 (Ethiopia); Apl90 (Off Panama); Sept95 (Alaska); Apl2000 (Congo); Jan07 (France).
"The geographical spread of the bird strikes shows that there is no basis whatever for the suggestion that "global warming" has aggravated the problem. Bird strikes have occurred in all parts of the globe, from the tropics to the Arctic, and they have involved birds of all kinds. Birds, like most species on earth, are necessarily tolerant of different climates. This tolerance of varying temperatures is essential to survival, since the temperature difference between a summer's day and a winter's night, in the same location, can be at least 100 times greater than the 0.74 °C (1.3 °F) difference between mean global surface temperature 100 years ago and today."
Another spurious article incorrectly attributing something unrelated to (anthropogenic) global warming?
"Al Gore, mentioned with approval in Time's article, complains in the entertaining fiction book that accompanies his inaccurate movie An Inconvenient Truth, that pied flycatchers can no longer hatch at the right time to feed their young on the customary species of caterpillar, which "hatch two weeks earlier after 20 years of ‘global warming'". He is careful not to point out that "global warming" has been happening not for 20 years but for 300. He is also careful not to point out that, even if the caterpillars were indeed becoming available a couple of weeks later in the year than previously, the birds would merely have to fly a few miles further north to find caterpillars that hatched at a more convenient moment.
Christopher Monckton on Right Side News put out a more realistic argument.
"The Time article said that "Wildlife mitigation" was the official term for avoiding bird strikes. A report published in June 1988 by the Federal Aviation Administration had found that since 1990 the number of bird strikes had quadrupled, from 1,759 in 1990 to a record 7,666 in 2007. According to Time, "Officials cite a number of possible causes for the increase", including "habitat destruction and climate change", which "have disrupted migratory patterns". Time adds, "Al Gore should be very proud of himself."
The truth: As the article also points out (though not in the headline), most commercial airlines are replacing three-engine and four-engine aircraft with twin-engine aircraft. The newer engines are quieter, so birds are less likely to detect and avoid them. Also, aircraft with fewer engines are less able to survive bird-strikes."
Lord Monckton lists the 7 worst fatalities due to bird strike. They occurred in Oct 60(Boston); Nov 62 (Maryland); Sept88 (Ethiopia); Apl90 (Off Panama); Sept95 (Alaska); Apl2000 (Congo); Jan07 (France).
"The geographical spread of the bird strikes shows that there is no basis whatever for the suggestion that "global warming" has aggravated the problem. Bird strikes have occurred in all parts of the globe, from the tropics to the Arctic, and they have involved birds of all kinds. Birds, like most species on earth, are necessarily tolerant of different climates. This tolerance of varying temperatures is essential to survival, since the temperature difference between a summer's day and a winter's night, in the same location, can be at least 100 times greater than the 0.74 °C (1.3 °F) difference between mean global surface temperature 100 years ago and today."
Another spurious article incorrectly attributing something unrelated to (anthropogenic) global warming?
"Al Gore, mentioned with approval in Time's article, complains in the entertaining fiction book that accompanies his inaccurate movie An Inconvenient Truth, that pied flycatchers can no longer hatch at the right time to feed their young on the customary species of caterpillar, which "hatch two weeks earlier after 20 years of ‘global warming'". He is careful not to point out that "global warming" has been happening not for 20 years but for 300. He is also careful not to point out that, even if the caterpillars were indeed becoming available a couple of weeks later in the year than previously, the birds would merely have to fly a few miles further north to find caterpillars that hatched at a more convenient moment.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Global Warming’s Last Gasp
From Newsmax.com's Phil Brennan:
In a hysterical report, "Obama left with little time to curb global warming," AP writer Seth Borenstein warned that global warming "is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid."
"How can this guy call himself a ‘science reporter?’” asked David Deming of the University of Oklahoma. "He is perhaps the worst propagandist in all the media, and that's stating something. In his latest screed, he screams: 'global warming is accelerating.'
“How then does he explain the fact that the mean global temperature [as measured by satellite] is the same as it was in 1980? How can global warming be 'accelerating' when the last two years have seen dramatic cooling? Is this guy totally removed from all reality? He completely ignores any evidence contrary to his personal beliefs, and twists everything to meet his preconceived notions."
And from one of their own
Richard S. Courtney, a U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expert reviewer and a U.K.-based climate and atmospheric science consultant snorted, "Rubbish! Global warming is not 'accelerating.' Global warming has stopped. There has been no statistically significant rise in [mean global temperature or MGT] since 1995 and MGT has fallen since 1998 . . .
"Arctic ice advances and recedes over decades. 2007 saw a minimum in Arctic ice cover in the short period that it has been monitored using satellites. But 2008 saw the most rapid growth in Arctic ice cover in that same period and Arctic ice cover is now back to the average it has had in the period.
“Also, 95 percent of polar ice is in the Antarctic, and Antarctic ice is increasing. Nobody can know if the recent halt to global warming is temporary, permanent, or the start of a new warming or cooling phase. But it is certain that anybody who proclaims that 'Global warming is accelerating' is a liar, a fool, or both."
In a hysterical report, "Obama left with little time to curb global warming," AP writer Seth Borenstein warned that global warming "is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid."
"How can this guy call himself a ‘science reporter?’” asked David Deming of the University of Oklahoma. "He is perhaps the worst propagandist in all the media, and that's stating something. In his latest screed, he screams: 'global warming is accelerating.'
“How then does he explain the fact that the mean global temperature [as measured by satellite] is the same as it was in 1980? How can global warming be 'accelerating' when the last two years have seen dramatic cooling? Is this guy totally removed from all reality? He completely ignores any evidence contrary to his personal beliefs, and twists everything to meet his preconceived notions."
And from one of their own
Richard S. Courtney, a U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expert reviewer and a U.K.-based climate and atmospheric science consultant snorted, "Rubbish! Global warming is not 'accelerating.' Global warming has stopped. There has been no statistically significant rise in [mean global temperature or MGT] since 1995 and MGT has fallen since 1998 . . .
"Arctic ice advances and recedes over decades. 2007 saw a minimum in Arctic ice cover in the short period that it has been monitored using satellites. But 2008 saw the most rapid growth in Arctic ice cover in that same period and Arctic ice cover is now back to the average it has had in the period.
“Also, 95 percent of polar ice is in the Antarctic, and Antarctic ice is increasing. Nobody can know if the recent halt to global warming is temporary, permanent, or the start of a new warming or cooling phase. But it is certain that anybody who proclaims that 'Global warming is accelerating' is a liar, a fool, or both."
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