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?

James Hansen’s Former NASA Supervisor Declares Himself a Skeptic

From Marc Morano.

"Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist, Dr. John S. Theon, the former supervisor of James Hansen, NASA’s vocal man-made global warming fear soothsayer, has now publicly declared himself a skeptic and declared that Hansen “embarrassed NASA” with his alarming climate claims and said Hansen was “was never muzzled.” Theon joins the rapidly growing ranks of international scientists abandoning the promotion of man-made global warming fears."

“Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA's official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind's effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress,” Theon wrote."

Another Nail in the AGW coffin.

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.

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?

Global Warming Freeze?

Dr. David Deming is a geophysicist, an adjunct scholar with the US National Center for Policy Analysis and an associate professor of Arts  and Sciences at the University of Oklohoma.

Writing in the Washington Times:

"A preliminary estimate by the British Met Office says 2008 will be the coldest year in the last 10. The extant of global sea ice is at the same level it was in 1980. The mean planetary temperature, as measured by satellite, also is the same as in 1980.

Last March, NASA reported the oceans have been cooling for the last 5 years. Sea levels have stopped rising and Northern Hemisphere cyclone and hurricane activity is at a 24 year low......

Now that global warming is over, politicians are finally ready to enact dubious solutions to a non-existent problem."

Over to you, Kevin747 and Penny Wong, Barack Obama and Stephen Chu, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband.