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100 Months left. Here is how to save the world

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:52:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hmmm. Looks familiar.

"a structural transformation of the regulation of the financial system"

"breaking up discredited financial institutions that have only survived through the injection of vast sums of public money"

"clamping down on tax havens and obfuscatory corporate financial reporting"

"to prevent inflation, we want to see much tighter regulation of the wider financial environment"

"establishment of an Oil Legacy Fund, similar to a highly successful Norwegian government initiative, paid for by a windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies"

"More realistic fossil fuel prices, raised to include their cost to the environment"

"make available the low-cost capital needed to fund the UK's green economic shift whilst having controls in place to prevent inflation" [Price controls? Seriously?

Proposals like these published in supposedly serious forums give credence to the concerns of the rest of us that climate change hysteria is just the latest justification for socialism.

Climate Change is racist

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:09:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.businessandmedia.org

Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue. It’s now an issue of race, according to global warming activists and policy makers.

“It is critical our community be an integral and active part of the debate because African-Americans are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change economically, socially and through our health and well-being,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., said July 29.

Emotion and Confirmation Bias

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:09:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Where there is no skepticism and clear-thinking, we have the emotional attachment of those worshiping theory and living in a hypothetical world. Theirs is a devotion to an idea, which is actually a faith. Hope and change, anyone? Climate Change?

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

The neuroimaging results, however, revealed that the part of the brain most associated with reasoning--the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex--was quiescent. Most active were the orbital frontal cortex, which is involved in the processing of emotions; the anterior cingulate, which is associated with conflict resolution; the posterior cingulate, which is concerned with making judgments about moral accountability; and--once subjects had arrived at a conclusion that made them emotionally comfortable--the ventral striatum, which is related to reward and pleasure.

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Skepticism is the antidote for the confirmation bias.

Deja Vu

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:57:18 GMT

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Clip Source: wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com

NYT: Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea

“Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared if Change Occurs”

You can read the entire article in PDF form at this link

There’s just one thing wrong with this article, besides that it is flat wrong. Oh I know, there will be those that insist it may come true. However, there’s one bit of context that is worth exploring.

The article, as seen above, was published February 20th, 1969

See the date stamp at the bottom of the PDF

On the flip side, here is an article from 1922 where the ice is actually melting fast:

Deja Vu all over again: climate worries of today also happened in the 20’s and 30’s

The CO2 extractor

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:09:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Every living thing relies on CO2 being in the atmosphere.

That said, why do environmental alarmists oppose the CO2 scrubber? The argument that it is inefficient just doesn't fly because all technology becomes cheaper and more efficient over time.

I think we all know the reason why they oppose it. The CO2 scrubber does not allow them to control your life.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

It has long been the holy grail for those who believe that technology can save us from catastrophic climate change: a device that can "suck" carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, reducing the warming effect of the billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas produced each year.

Now a group of US scientists say they have made a breakthrough towards creating such a machine. Led by Klaus Lackner, a physicist at Columbia University in New York, they plan to build and demonstrate a prototype within two years that could economically capture a tonne of CO2 a day from the air, about the same per passenger as a flight from London to New York.

More bad news for alarmists

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:28:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For example, the recent summary by Fred Singer and 22 expert contributors to “Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate” makes some extraordinary statements about computer models. (In addition to the many excellent contributors, this summary also contains 167 references to the scientific literature).

This is important since computer models are being improperly, yet extensively, used by state legislatures as the basis of policies for greenhouse gas mitigation, rather than using actual climate data taken from the real world. These statements include:

Computer models do not consider variations of irradiance and magnetic fields of the sun

Computer models do not accurately model the role of clouds

Computer models do not simulate a possible negative feedback from water vapor

Computer models do not explain many features of the Earth’s observed climate.

Computer models cannot produce reliable predictions of regional climate change.

Clip Source: www.hawaiireporter.com

The issue of global warming rages on is some minds. Remarkably, there really hasn’t been much of a debate, not a serious science debate anyway. There have been shouting and screaming, predictions of doom, and the willingness to destroy our energy sources and our economy to “save the planet”. But as P.J. O’Rourke noted, there are a lot of people who would do anything to “save the planet”, except take a science course.

While there hasn’t been a true debate, there has been a hugely one-sided angry monologue, heaping scorn upon those who dare ask for evidence.

The world of science is moving quickly past these questionable events in an expanding universe of new evidence, which is showing that the current state of the global warming theory is in serious decline.

Fraud Against Humanity

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:01:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.rightsidenews.com

The oil money's paltry contribution pales in comparison to the well funded alarmist industry. (LINK)

Earth has COOLED since Hansen’s Dire Climate Warning in 1988 (LINK) See 1988 vs. 2008 temperature chart here:

Hansen’s Anthropogenic Global Warming hypothesis challenged by UN Scientists and new peer-reviewed studies. (LINK) & (LINK) & (LINK)

Hansen who alleged Bush administration muzzled him -- did 1,400 on-the-job media interviews (LINK)

Media Ignores Skeptical NASA Scientists' Claims of Censorship (LINK) & (LINK)

Reality Check: Senator Admits Hot Day and AC Failure during Hansen’s 1988 Testimony was ‘Stagecraft’ (LINK)

An August 2007 NASA temperature data error discovery has lead to 1934 -- not the previously hyped 1998 -- being declared the hottest in U.S. history since records began. (LINK)

Media Darling Hansen Assailed by NASA Colleagues (LINK)

Hansen conceded that use of “extreme scenarios" to dramatize climate change “may have been appropriate at one time” (LINK)

Astrophysicist Dr. Nir Shaviv

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:21:30 GMT

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Clip Source: epw.senate.gov

recanted his belief that man-made emissions were driving climate change. "Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media. In fact, there is much more than meets the eye," Shaviv said in a February 2, 2007 Canadian National Post article. According to Shaviv, the CO2 temperature link is only "incriminating circumstantial evidence." "Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming" and "it is unlikely that [the solar climate link] does not exist," Shaviv noted, pointing to the impact cosmic- rays have on the atmosphere. According to the National Post, Shaviv believes that even a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere by 2100 "will not dramatically increase the global temperature."

Tags: global warming, climate change

Global Warming Scientist Comes Clean

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:17:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most... We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming.

2. There is no evidence that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. ...

3. The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year

4. ice cores show that in the past... half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon.

Clip Source: www.powerlineblog.com

David Evans was a consultant to the "Australian Greenhouse Office" from 1999 to 2005. He is a former global warming alarmist; however, he is also a scientist who goes where the evidence leads him. In this important article in The Australian, he blows the whistle on the fraud that many of the world's governments are in the midst of perpetrating:

When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.

But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

Tags: global warming, climate change, scientism

Polar Bears in Antartica?

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:09:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They could be pals with the pinguins

Clip Source: www.wired.com

Last-Ditch Resort: Move Polar Bears to Antarctica?

So why not pack a few off to Antarctica, where the sea ice will never run out?

Once dismissed as wrongheaded and dangerous, assisted colonization -- rescuing vanishing species by moving them someplace new -- is now being discussed by serious conservationists. And no wonder: Caught between climate change and human pressure, species are going extinct 100 times faster than at any point in human history.

Interesting Info about Sunspots and Solar Cycles

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:59:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.intellicast.com

SOLAR CYCLES AND TEMPERATURES

When the sun is more active, it is brighter than when it is quiet. This difference in brightness or irradiance over the 11 year cycle is about 0.1%. The irradiance change though since the little ice age may be as high as 0.4 or 0.5% and has been used to explain the ice age and recovery since. Even on the shorter term, there are other solar factors at play besides simple brightness or irradiance changes.

While irradiance changes just 0.1% over the 11 year cycle, ultraviolet radiation changes 6 to 8% and shorter wavelengths even more. Ultraviolet radiation destroys ozone, an exothermic process which produces warming in the higher atmosphere in low to mid latitudes that works its way down to the middle troposphere in time.

MAUNDER MINIMUM

Since the solar cycle length correlates inversely with the magnitude and the magnitude directly with temperatures, it is not surprising that solar cycle length has been shown to correlate very well with temperatures.

Tags: global warming, climate change, solar, sun, sunspots

Green Poetry Slam

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:27:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ecorazzi.com

The Sundance Institute in partnership with Youth Speaks, is reaching out to the younger generation by inviting slam poets to Sundance to perform global warming poetry. Robert Redford has a long history of commitment to the environment, and he feels in this year of pending change it is a critical time for the youth to get involved. Art is the medium he’d like to see them express their priorities for the environment, and a poetry slam with a theme of global warming is just the ticket.

Many of the participants are first time voters, and the hope is that through expressing their ideas about this mammoth concept of a changing climate, poets and audience members will want to take a more active role in shaping their future

Isn’t it exciting when youth are really passionate about something, especially when it’s the environment?

Drilling officially begins in ANWR

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:11:37 GMT

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Clip Source: newsminer.com

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering professor came to check on ice core samples from McCall Glacier, located in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

More than 150 ice cores were collected during a two-week period. An ice core 150 meters long was extracted during the drilling work and is the longest extracted ice core from an Arctic glacier in the U.S. The core, which is longer than 1 1/2 football fields, could hold 200 years of the glacier’s history, Nolan said.

The samples will be studied in the fall to gain more information about climate change and how it affects Arctic regions.

Nolan said the cores are like layered cakes. Each section can be studied for information about a certain time frame.

At the ice museum, Nolan held up a core and said it represented a four- or five- year period 300 years ago.

James Hanson refuses to discuss views at William & Mary

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:40:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's tough finding outlets when you are censored.

Clip Source: media.www.vainformer.com

Dr. James Hansen, NASA climatologist and major figure in the debate on global climate change, recently refused a paid invitation to speak and debate at the College about his positions on global warming. Braum Katz ('09) -- secretary for the College's Department of Student Rights, director of the newly-created William and Mary Society for Academic Freedom and Diversity and Informer writer -- invited Mr. Hansen via e-mail.

"For this fall," Mr. Katz wrote in his e-mail to Mr. Hansen, "we are hoping to host a debate on global climate change and its implications. Patrick Michaels has agreed to come, and my organization would like you to come and debate Dr. Michaels in Williamsburg. The date is very flexible, and we can tailor the day of the debate completely to your schedule. We will be able to pay for your travel expenses and offer you an honorarium for your time. Please let me know if you would be interested."

Mr. Hansen's response was, simply, "not interested."

"Formal" climate change "declaration"

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:57:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.spaceandscience.net

“After an exhaustive review of a substantial body of climate research, and in conjunction with the obvious and compelling new evidence that exists, it is time that the world community acknowledges that the Earth has begun its next climate change. In an opinion echoed by many scientists around the world, the Space and Science Research Center (SSRC), today declares that the world’s climate warming of the past decades has now come to an end. A new climate era has already started that is bringing predominantly colder global temperatures for many years into the future. In some years this new climate will create dangerously cold weather with significant ill-effects world wide. Global warming is over – a new cold climate has begun.”