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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Oops. Half a million KM² of ice missing due to "sensor drift"


Marc points us to this hilarious report:

Oops. 500,000 square kilometers of ice goes missing! Arctic Ice Extent Understated Because of "Sensor Drift" – Feb. 19, 2009

"The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has been at the forefront of predicting doom in the arctic as ice melts due to global warming. In May, 2008 they went so far as to predict that the North Pole would be ice-free during the 2008 'melt season,' leading to a lively Slashdot discussion.

Today, however, they say that they have been the victims of 'sensor drift' that led to an underestimation of Arctic ice extent by as much as 500,000 square kilometers. The problem was discovered after they received emails from puzzled readers, asking why obviously sea-ice-covered regions were showing up as ice free open ocean.

It turns out that the NSIDC relys on an older, less-reliable method of tracking sea ice extent called SSM/I that does not agree with a newer method called AMSR-E. So why doesn't NSIDC use the newer AMSR-E data? 'We do not use AMSR-E data in our analysis because it is not consistent with our historical data.'

Turns out that the AMSR-E data only goes back to 2002, which is probably not long enough for the NSIDC to make sweeping conclusions about melting.

Repeated calls to Al Gore and his elite squad of global warming grifters were not returned. Perhaps they're on Gore's monster houseboat searching for missing icebergs.



Monday, February 16, 2009

NOAA: US below average temperature for last 12 months


Here's the original NOAA analysis.

Al Gore and the UN's IPCC global warming grifters could not be reached for comment.

Although I'm sure they'd simply say that the recent spate of global cooling is due, in fact, to global warming.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Photo: sea levels actually lower than 1841!


Global warming alarmists promote several hysterical themes including "rising sea levels". The supposedly rising oceans are "evidence" of the catastrophic effect of humans on global temperatures. Problem is, like most anthropogenic global warming (AGW) marketing, it's an utter fabrication.

Check out this photograph:

This photograph comes from Still waiting for Greenhouse, a site dedicated to the late researcher John Daley (1943-2003):

Originally from Britain, I came to live in Tasmania in 1980, settling near Launceston, and for the last 9 years have been one of the numerous `skeptics' speaking out publicly against the Global Warming scare, which makes exaggerated claims that the earth will warm by +1.5 to +6 deg. C. due to an enhanced Greenhouse Effect.

Climate and climate change has been a lifelong study of mine since my early days as a ship's officer in the British Merchant Navy. I have lived through and traced the progress of the `ice age' scare of the 1970's, the `nuclear winter' scare of the 1980s, and now the `global warming' scare of the present. All these scares have advanced the interests of what was a small academic discipline 30 years ago to become a mammoth global industry today. It is my view that this industry has, through the `politics of fear' which it has promoted, acted against the interests of the public.

Unlike the vast majority of global warming alarmists, Daly actually performed a seldom-rewarded task called "climate research". Visit his site for more details and photos.

Update: For those who asked, note the term "mean sea level".

Update II: High Plains Blogger:

It's an Obamiracle!

"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal!"

Update II: Freepers weigh in:

The land at particular points can go up or down in elevation. So changes in sea level at a given location are essentially meaningless.

A classic (no pun intended) example is the "Temple of Serapis" at Pozzuoli at the north end of the Bay of Naples.

The dark marks in the columns are holes drilled by marine rock-boring mollusks and represent the highest water level around the columns as bradyseismic activity lowered and raised the columns over the centuries.




Tuesday, February 10, 2009

UK Researchers: Windmills are a "carbon-saving" scam


Gee, I wonder if this will affect any "green collar" jobs?

Small wind turbines attached to individual homes work fine unless you have lousy wind.

That's the upshot of a multi-site study called the Warwick Microwind Trial project, a year-long survey on the performance of roof-mounted turbines done in the U.K. done by Encraft, a low-carbon technology consulting firm.

The researchers picked 26 sites in the U.K where microturbines tied to the power grid were attached to people's homes to offset their electricity use. Many of the consumers clearly purchased the turbines to lower their fossil fuel energy use as some already had solar panels and ground-source heat pumps...

...the Encraft study, which came out last month, found that many of the turbines didn't meet manufacturers claims for power generation. Some turbines needed to go offline at times because of technical problems or complaints over noise.

"The gap between average performance (or expectation) and reality is much larger than people could reasonably expect," Encraft managing director Matthew Rhodes said in a summary...

You say the energy production of windmills is vastly overblown (heh)?

And you say the cultivation and production of biofuel requires more fuel than it produces?

And our exhaled Carbon Dioxide really isn't toxic?

And that President Obama just banned all offshore drilling, which could -- by itself -- be a $1.7 trillion stimulus package?

These Democrats are geniuses!


Hundreds attend global warming protest


Related: Al Gore's Testimony before Congress and Columnist converts from 'believer to being a global-warming agnostic' (Orlando Sentinel)

Hat tip: Dave W.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Global warming wrecked my car


With the wisdom of Al Gore guiding my mouse, I offhandedly watch the results of a massive snowstorm on traffic cams. Vehicles spin out of control, sliding into one another, wreaking havoc and further snarling traffic.

Guiding these robotic cameras, I feel like a lord of global warming climate change, watching as man's catastrophic effects on the atmosphere are felt through extreme heat record-setting cold.

Thankfully, no matter how hot or cold it gets, I know that any minute now -- as Al Gore predicted -- the ocean levels will rise and wipe out this virus-like race called "humans."

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Global warming alarmist James Hansen has "embarrassed NASA" according to his former boss


NASA global warming climate change scientist -- and Al Gore ally -- James Hansen received a harsh public reprimand from his former supervisor at NASA. Dr. John S. Theon joined over 650 climate scientists who dispute the anthropogenic (man-made) theory of global warming.

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.”

..."I appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those who disagree that global warming is man made," Theon wrote to the... Committee on January 15, 2009. "I was, in effect, Hansen's supervisor because I had to justify his funding, allocate his resources, and evaluate his results," Theon, the former Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program at NASA Headquarters...

"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...

NASA scientist Hansen has attracted worldwide media attention by calling for trials against scientists who dispute global warming. Does the name Galileo ring a bell?

The UN's pathetic Global Warming bunko scam is unraveling before our very eyes and, with it, Al Gore's plans to monetize the carbon trading industry.

Update: Al Gore's Congressional testimony on global warming will likely be postponed due to inclement cold weather.

Hat tips: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Monday, January 26, 2009

'Gore Effect' Strikes Again! Warming hearing on ice?


Mother Nature just pimp-slapped Al Gore. Again.

GORE HEARING ON WARMING MAY BE PUT ON ICE - Mon Jan 26 2009 17:59:26 ET

Al Gore is scheduled before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning to once again testify on the 'urgent need' to combat global warming. But Mother Nature seems ready to freeze the proceedings. A 'Winter Storm Watch' has been posted for the nation's capitol and there is a potential for significant snow... sleet... or ice accumulations. "I can't imagine the Democrats would want to showcase Mr. Gore and his new findings on global warming as a winter storm rages outside," a Republican lawmaker emailed the DRUDGE REPORT. "And if the ice really piles up, it will not be safe to travel." A spokesman for Sen. John Kerry, who chairs the committee, was not immediately available to comment on contingency plans. Global warming advocates have suggested this year's wild winter spells are proof of climate change.

Developing...

Got that? An extreme, brutal and record-setting cold snap is proof of global warming.

Hat tips: Drudge, via Marc.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

AP continues to market global warming, Billy Mays-style


The Associated Press continued its marketing campaign for carbon trading this morning. Amidst a record-setting cold snap, a distinct non-rise in sea levels, and incessant growth in the polar ice caps, the AP relayed news that 2008 was among the ten warmest years ever.

Last year was the eighth warmest year on record, according to the National Climatic Data Center. The world's temperature in 2008 tied that of 2001 according to the center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Preliminary calculations show the world's average temperature for 2008 was 0.88 degree Fahrenheit above the 20th Century average of 57.0 degrees F.

The ranking means that all of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1997.

Odd. Time Magazine reported that 2008 was one of the coldest years on record.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday released its weather analysis for the year and found that 2008 has been the coolest year since the turn of the century. Using data gathered from Britain's Hadley Centre, the University of East Anglia and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), the WMO reported that the average global temperature in 2008 was 57.74 degrees F (14.3 degrees C), cooler than the past several years.

And initial reports that 2007 was the warmest year on record turned out to be completely false.

An error in RSS data has been identified by John Christy and Roy Spencer, competitors from UAH...... 2007 remains the coldest year of the century according to HadCRUT3 weather stations...

One month ago, we noticed that November 2007 was the coldest month since January 2000. Well, the RSS MSU satellite data prepared by remss.com show that December was even cooler.

And in the U.S., January 2009 is likely to prove among the coldest months in recorded history.

So who would benefit from false data-sets and incessant Billy Mays-style marketing of global warming? That would be Al Gore, the UN's IPCC and Barack Obama's "global warming czar", all of whom have businesses that will allow them to personally profit from carbon trading.

When the World Rainforest Movement and other hard-core environmentalists call cap-and-trade "fraudulent" and "a scam", I think it's safe to say that carbon offsets are a loopy delusion suitable only for a bad science fiction movie.

Related: "Mark your time, hu-mans" and "Al Gore, Laughingstock."

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Laughingstock Al Gore dumbfounded as he tries to explain record-breaking cold around the U.S.


Can you detect the pattern?

• Flint Michigan set a record low Wednesday hitting 19 degrees below zero.

• The windchill in Massena, NY hit 33 below zero.

• Maine residents braced for nighttime readings down to 40 below zero.

• In Tallahasee, Florida, temperatures will hit the mid-20's, the lowest since 1977.

• Sioux City, S.D. hit a record low of 20 below zero.

• Chicago saw a record ninth consecutive day of snowfall with a high of three below.

• In Jackson County, Alabama, lows will hit a record low tonight of zero.

• Columbia, Missouri will see the coldest temperaturs in 23 years.

• Evansville, Indiana saw record cold with temperatures starting in the single digits.

• In Iowa, residents were warned that temperatures could drop as far as 27 below zero, matching the record set in 1972.

• Mt. Washington, New Hampshire air temperatures will hit 35 below with windchills reaching 75 to 80 below. That's a little shy of the record, set in 2004.

• Much of Wisconsin is experiencing near record cold, with 40 below windchills anticipated.

• And Europe is experiencing "the worst cold snap in decades."

• And in Pollock, S.D., the temperature has dropped to a record-setting 47 below zero. A gas station worker said it actually "hurts to breathe."

Laughingstock Al Gore, whose carbon trading bunko scam continues to unravel, was also having trouble breathing:

Gore’s church losing followers -- In 1971, perhaps entertaining thoughts of entering the full-time ministry, Al Gore, raised in and baptized into the Southern Baptist Church, entered the Vanderbilt Divinity School.

His sojourn was relatively brief. In three semesters, he enrolled in eight classes. He received an “F” as his grade in five of those classes. So, having failed out of school, he entered the family business, which was politics. But he apparently never lost his desire to enter a ministry, and since he couldn’t make the grade in the conventional sense, he did the next best thing. He started his own religion.

The result was the Church of Global Warming. With Gore as its high priest, the church was not long in establishing tenets of faith, nor in immediately branding those who refused to worship there as apostate.

[However] Sunspot activity, it appears, is on the wane, and the result has been a gradual cooling of Earth’s climate. Indeed, 2008 may be the first “coldest year” of the 21st century...

And Obama's "Global Warming" Czar -- a socialist who serves as a director for a company linked to carbon trading -- will likely try to proffer the deranged leftist strategy that the record cold is due to global warming.

No one's buying, honey.


Related: Copernicus, Einstein, Newton and Gore. Linked by: Denny, Ice Age Now and Belgium STUDS. Thanks! Hat tips: AP, WZTV, Daily Sentinel, The State, WCTV, JSonline, My Suburban Life and Hollywood Reporter.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Copernicus, Einstein, Newton and Gore


In a Baltimore Sun letter to the editor, Dr. Mark Campbell, a professor of chemistry at the U.S. Naval Academy, offered a stunning comparison.

According to the editorial "A New Year's resolution" (Jan. 2), tens of thousands of scientists like me are "flat-earth types."

I guess my doctorate in chemical physics from Johns Hopkins doesn't give me nearly the qualifications to analyze the science associated with the global climate as an editor with an agenda.

If we are going to stoop to name-calling, an appropriate name for people with the view The Baltimore Sun endorses could be "Chicken Littles." But instead of claiming that the sky is falling, they claim the sky is burning.

The editorial claims that there is a consensus among scientists that man-made carbon dioxide is causing global climate change; however, consensus in science is an oxymoron. From Galileo to Einstein, one scientist with proof is more convincing than thousands of other scientists who believe something to be true.

And I don't even grant that there is a consensus among scientists; it's just that the press only promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those of us who are skeptical. To many of us, there is no convincing evidence that carbon dioxide produced by humans has any influence on the Earth's climate.

Arguing that our country should decrease its use of fossil fuels is a laudable goal, but the reason to do so should be to reduce our reliance on energy from foreign sources, not to reduce the danger from some imaginary boogeyman.

The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice.

Al Gore, who refuses to debate because the "science is settled", was unavailable for comment.

Update: Lou Dobbs and CNN cover global cooling and the global warming grifters.

Via Marc, who adds just a couple of links for the global warming bunko scam artists:

It is growing nearly impossible to keep up with the numerous studies and developments refuting man-made warming fears and the growing number of scientists publicly dissenting. See this small sampling of very recent inconvenient climate studies and real world developments: Sunspots have been predicting major cooling since 2000 - New paper: Sunspot data vital clue to climate change - ‘Record levels’ of Co2 unable to stop record cold! - Pravda: Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age - 'Earth's average temperature showed no detectable warming from December 1978 until the 1997 El Nino' - - Report: Cause of warming solved? Clinton/Gore administration saw temps soar! J (great chart) - Another Dissenter: 'AGW theory has spectacularly failed!' (Frank Tipler, the distinguished mathematical physicist at Tulane University) - Climate models are no more intelligent than the dishwasher in the kitchen, claims South African professor Will Alexander - Greenland ice melt 'may only be a temporary phenomenon' - Ice Core Sites In Greenland Show Snow Levels Rising - Polar Sea Ice Changes are Having a Net Cooling Effect on the Climate - Gaia Hypothesis called 'fairy-tale' – Scientist says 'Natural world is a doomsday device careening from one cataclysm to another' -- 'Earth needs humans to save it! - Pielke Jr.  on peer-review: 'Many studies get far more rigorous peer review on blogs after publication than in journals' - Analysis: The UN IPCC Numbers Game: 4000 scientists = 60 scientistsStudy finds Sea Level Rise Slows by 20% - Lower than IPCC Estimates! - 'No evidence for accelerated sea-level rise' says Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute - Defying Predictions, Sea Level Rise Begins to Slow - MIT & Northwestern U. Study find: Climate Change Wouldn't hurt America's Economy - NCDC: the U.S. cool down by 0.49 °F per decade - 2008 will be coolest year of the decade globally! - Falsifying the Global Warming Hypothesis The global tropical cyclone season of 2008: below average - Canada's forests, once huge help on greenhouse gases, now contribute to climate change - Global Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979 - Claim: 'Right-wing propaganda machine' winning - Setbacks in the Fight Against Global Warming - Reality Check: Politically Left Scientists Now Rejecting Climate Fears - Indians don't believe in global warming! - 'Global warming is natural, enjoy it' Declares Indian Geologist'Global cooling will lead to our extinction' - NASA Moonwalker Joins Climate Skeptics Despite Gore's Claim Skeptics Believe Moon Landing was 'Staged' - Small sampling of recent global cold - January Snow-cover Again Highest Since 1967, Running Ahead of 2008 - No Joke: Air America alarmist Thom Hartmann claims cold evidence of warming! (Audio clip) - Another Dissenter: Meteorologist says CO2 not 'dragging temps up' - Predicts Global COOLING - Atmosphere Scientist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. slaps down UK Met Office - Professor laments climate 'hype' --concedes she is ' increasingly ill at ease about the debate - Singer: Bias in IPCC Reports Exposed by Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Fred Singer - Climate-change alarmism runs into a reality check - Claims of impending marine species extinctions due to CO2 Warming Refuted by real-world evidence - Princeton professor fired by Gore says warming fear promotion ‘has turned into a cult' - U.S. Senate Minority report of over 650 (and growing) dissenting international scientists

Monday, January 12, 2009

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Earth on brink of an Ice Age: Al Gore hits unemployment line


Russian scientists are amassing evidence that the Earth is entering another Ice Age.

The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the Earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years...

...Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years.

...Since the late 1970s, the Milankovich [cycles have] remained the predominant theory to account for Ice Age causation among climate scientists...

What the hell is Al Gore going to do with himself now?

This climate business is making him look like even more of a buffoon than when he embarrassed himself repeatedly in the political arena (Buddhist Temple much?). Wasn't it just a few days ago that he claimed the polar icecaps would be gone in five years?

Hat tip: Jammie Wearing Fool.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Larywn's Global Warming Links: Hot off the Griddle


2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved - UK Telegraph
"Average temperature of the water near the top of the Earth's oceans has significantly cooled since 2003." - NASA
The western tip of Lake Superior freezes over in December for first time in recent memory - Duluth News
"A Scam, With No Basis In Science" - Powerline

"Rare 50 year Arctic Blast Sets Sights On Southern California." - Ventura County Star
750 years of ice core data show sun drove pre-industrial temp changes - Scientific Blogging
South America has coldest winter in 90 years - Gateway Pundit

2008: coldest summer in Anchorage since 1917 (PDF) - Icecap
Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years - DailyTech
Arctic sees 'massive gain' in ice coverage - DailyTech

Gov. Gregoire: Record Winter Storms Lead to Statewide Emergency - MSNBC
Scientist adjusts data -- presto, Antarctic cooling disappears - Heliogenic Climate Change
China struggles to cope with the worst snow storms in over 50 years - BBC

Update on 12/30/08: The Toronto Sun:

This has been another disappointing year for global warming alarmists, which is why you haven't heard much about it in the media.

Global temperatures lately haven't been co-operating with Al Gore's simplistic claim in An Inconvenient Truth that the Earth's temperature rises in automatic lockstep with increasing concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases. Based on that incorrect premise, there hasn't been any warming since 1998...

Linked by: MacBigot. Thanks!

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

300 accidents caused by global warming


A freezing rain caused roughly 300 accidents in the metro area this afternoon. During the three hour commute home, I captured a few photos of the debacle.

This Toyota Four Runner passed me at high speed despite numerous warnings of icy roads. Ten minutes later I caught up with him. Yes, he cleverly pinned his vehicle up on the guardrail.

Black ice: any car hitting more than about 40 MPH was destined for an ugly demise.

One of dozens of multi-car accidents I passed; the Cherokee got the worst of this matchup.

The Mustang, facing the wrong way, lost a battle with a Ford F-150. The firetruck referees the matchup.

Three salt trucks headed in the other direction. This uphill stretch of road was impassable -- literally no vehicles were making it -- until these guys made a pass.

One of the hundreds of cars trashed by the weather.

Lousy photo due to raindrops, but this is an upside-down vehicle. Click to view the closeup.

Memo to newbie four-wheel drive owners: your SUV doesn't stop any quicker on the ice than other vehicles. Learn it, love it, live it.

By the way: I blame global warming.

Update: The rocket scientists in Washington state have decided not to salt the roads... with predictable results.

The Seattle Times has the high-larious headline (hat tip: Pat Riotic). Best comments:

I get such a kick out of all the tree huggers....no salt....dont cut the trees.....until they cant get to the granola store because the Metro 123 is stuck...now its salt it up like a margarita

Free needles for junkies, but road salt for public safety is a big no no.

Salt saves lives. It saves injuries. It prevents accidents. How many people, especially the elderly are going to be injured because of failure to salt sidewalks and streets? People could be permanently cripped from these falls. How many serious car accidents are going to occur? What about emergency crews not being able to get somewhere? ...And using rubber blades to avoid road damage. It's nuts. Tort lawyers may even sue the city because of the damages their clients have suffered.

...the major medical centers for the Northwest are located [on a hill and] a medical response team might encounter huge delays transporting a critically injured patient to one of these centers when traffic is gridlocked due to ice that is three days old. Ice that is present only becuase of the of the mayor's enormous ego... Maybe he could see first hand what I did today on the corner of Madison and Broadway, an ambulance that waited through four stop lights less than two blocks from Swedish medical center. It could not move because there were too many vehicles, too few lanes available and way too much ice to negotiate. Cars were spinning their tires, stuck on the ice. People have to get around, emergency service[s] have to get around, and our mayor needs to come around to see his policies are dangerous, if not down right stupid!

Let me get this straight: You aren't using salt because it would run into Puget Sound? Which, if I recall is a rather large body of SALT water? Are you kidding? This is what passes for good governance in a "reality based" community? I think I'll stay in my little backwoods hick town here where we get 150" of snow per year and where schools don't close unless we get more than a foot in 24 hours. Wow. Good luck!

If anyone is missing chains. I spotted them on 90 E between exit 15 and 17.

Hee hee hee! The thought of all those dreadful SUV's pulling all the little green cars out of the ditches just warms my cockles! Long live the liberals! The entertainment value is priceless.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Bad News Day for the Global Warming Grifters


The guys behind the UN's massive global warming bunko scam must be livid today. A plethora of articles confirm to even the most obtuse observer that the planet is cooling, not warming.

When even Time Magazine says so, things must be getting rough for the IPCC's unique band of climate grifters.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday released its weather analysis for the year and found that 2008 has been the coolest year since the turn of the century...

Brian Sussman, writing at The American Thinker, offers candid evidence of the trend.

Ironically, as Obama yammered [about warming], Louisiana hurriedly prepared for a powerful cold front which would arrive the following night. The wintry storm ultimately dumped 6 inches of snow in Livingston Parish and dusted New Orleans with its earliest snowfall since records were accurately established in 1850. And the deep-south cold snap was not an isolated event.

And scientists are not happy with the Associated Press and its recent report on global warming.

Scientists skeptical of the assertion that climate change is the result of man's activites are criticizing a recent Associated Press report on global warming, calling it "irrational hysteria," "horrifically bad" and "incredibly biased." ([Editor: and that would be out of character for the AP how?)

...They say the report, which was published on Monday, contained sweeping scientific errors and was a one-sided portrayal of a complicated issue... "If the issues weren't so serious and the ramifications so profound, I would have to laugh at it," said David Deming, a geology professor at the University of Oklahoma who has been critical of media reporting on the climate change issue...

"The mean global temperature, at least as measured by satellite, is now the same as it was in the year 1980. In the last couple of years sea level has stopped rising. Hurricane and cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980."

And scientists have even worse news for the scammers: volcanoes, not asteroids, probably killed off the dinosaurs.

[Scientists can] now say more about the life-extinguishing work of a massive series of sulfur dioxide-spewing volcanic eruptions that occurred in what is now India at the time of the dinosaur-destroying K-T mass extinction (the shorthand given to the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction)...

...[these] colossal volcanic eruptions, occurred between 63 million and 67 million years ago. The huge volcanic explosions created the Deccan Traps lava beds in India, whose original extent may have covered as much as 580,000 square miles (1.5 million square kilometers), or more than twice the area of Texas.

And considering that a single supervolcanic explosion can release more greenhouse gases than all of the cars in the U.S. for an entire year, perhaps Al Gore should levy a Volcano Tax. Or create a carbon trading scheme involving Mount Saint Helens, his mouth and his rear end.

Was that too harsh? I'll try and tone down the vitriol, but only if Gore tones down the "science is settled" claptrap. Science, by definition, is never settled. But then, if Gore is a scientist, I'm Bette Midler.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Start the Countdown: Polar Icecaps gone in just 5 years!


Speaking at a museum in Germany, Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore made yet another sales pitch for Global Warming™. You know, that's the problem where humans are spewing too much toxic Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere. And that's the same problem that can only be solved by purchasing roughly $250 billion in "carbon offsets", preferrably from companies he's involved with.

Gore stated that because of man's outrageous use of Carbon Dioxide -- you may remember the molecule from a little-known process called "photosynthesis" -- the entire Polar Ice Cap will have melted in five years. Seriously, he said that.

Gore's statement, in part, was: "The entire polar icecap [will be] gone... ...in five years, the period in which it is now expected to disappear."

You may remember that Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, depicted rising ocean levels due to ice melt. And Gore predicted our shores will flood and coastal cities would sink beneath the water, thereby causing millions of homeless to relocate to Red States. In fact, the movie posits that melting ice could release enough water to cause a 20-foot rise in sea level "in the near future."

Pity that Gore's scientific knowledge is just a couple of notches below that of Britney Spears. Because even Brit-Brit knows that the loss of sea ice by itself can't contribute to a rise in sea levels, just as an ice cube that melts in a glass of water doesn't raise the level.

And, by the way, weren't we warned all this was going to happen by 2008? I guess maybe it took a rain-check and now it's 2013. Put in simple terms for the liberals progressives reading along (moving their lips, I'm sure), global warming appears to be nothing less than a UN-backed bunko scam that aims to regulate and control the U.S. economy.

But just in case, I've created a Polar Ice-Cap Countdown Clock:


If the North Pole really does melt, I'm hoping Santa and his elves take over one of Gore's three mansions. Maybe the one in Nashville that consumes 20 times the average American household's electricity. At least the little toy-makers will be producing something useful.

Related:
The UN's Global Warming Bunko Scam
Al Gore's Inconvenient Fiction: a $250 Billion Scam
Global Warming Frenzy Ignores China and Iran
Crushing Al Gore's Global Warming Profiteers
Al Gore's Carbon Offset Going-Out-of-Business Sale!

Linked by: American Thinker and Brutally Honest. Thanks!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Consensus: 650 Scientists agree Al Gore is a Buffoon


You wouldn't know it from reading the funny papers, but over 650 (yes, six hundred and fifty) respected scientists -- representing climatology, environmental sciences, geophysical sciences and related disciplines -- think global warming is hokum. Bunk. Garbage. Bogus. Fake. Ridiculous. A scam.

A 231-page report (PDF), published by the U.S. Senate, offers an astounding panorama of dissenting opinions that thoroughly debunk the so-called "consensus" on anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming. Some of the highlights:

“I am a skeptic… Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

“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. We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology, and formerly of NASA, who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history... When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

“So far, real measurements give no ground for concern about a catastrophic future warming.” - Scientist Dr. Jarl R. Ahlbeck, a chemical engineer at Abo Akademi University in Finland, author of 200 scientific publications and former Greenpeace member.

“Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.” - Solar physicist Dr. Pal Brekke, senior advisor to the Norwegian Space Centre in Oslo. Brekke has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles on the sun and solar interaction with the Earth.

“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC "are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.

“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri's asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it's hard to remain quiet.” - Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society's Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.

“The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round... A large number of critical documents submitted at the 1995 U.N. conference in Madrid vanished without a trace. As a result, the discussion was one-sided and heavily biased, and the U.N. declared global warming to be a scientific fact,” Andrei Kapitsa, a Russian geographer and Antarctic ice core researcher.

Nature's regulatory instrument is water vapor: more carbon dioxide leads to less moisture in the air, keeping the overall GHG content in accord with the necessary balance conditions.” – Prominent Hungarian Physicist and environmental researcher Dr. Miklós Zágoni reversed his view of man-made warming and is now a skeptic. Zágoni was once Hungary’s most outspoken supporter of the Kyoto Protocol.

For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp... Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.

“The quantity of CO2 we produce is insignificant in terms of the natural circulation between air, water and soil... I am doing a detailed assessment of the UN IPCC reports and the Summaries for Policy Makers, identifying the way in which the Summaries have distorted the science.” - South Afican Nuclear Physicist and Chemical Engineer Dr. Philip Lloyd, a UN IPCC co-coordinating lead author who has authored over 150 refereed publications.

Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

“All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead” - Geophysicist Dr. Phil Chapman, an astronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut, served as staff physicist at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense... The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” - Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata.

“Whatever the weather, it's not being caused by global warming. If anything, the climate may be starting into a cooling period.” Atmospheric scientist Dr. Art V. Douglas, former Chair of the Atmospheric Sciences Department at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and is the author of numerous papers for peer-reviewed publications.

“But there is no falsifiable scientific basis whatever to assert this warming is caused by human-produced greenhouse gasses because current physical theory is too grossly inadequate to establish any cause at all.” - Chemist Dr. Patrick Frank, who has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.

The ‘global warming scare’ is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.” - Award-Winning NASA Astronaut/Geologist and Moonwalker Jack Schmitt who flew on the Apollo 17 mission and formerly of the Norwegian Geological Survey and for the U.S. Geological Survey.

Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC.. .The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium... which is why ‘global warming’ is now called ‘climate change.’” - Climatologist Dr. Richard Keen of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado.

I have yet to see credible proof of carbon dioxide driving climate change, yet alone man-made CO2 driving it. The atmospheric hot-spot is missing and the ice core data refute this. When will we collectively awake from this deceptive delusion?” - Dr. G LeBlanc Smith, a retired Principal Research Scientist with Australia’s CSIRO. (The full quotes of the scientists are later in this report)

Don't send these quotes to your liberal progressive friends. Their poor, abused noggins might explode, sending wooden splinters in unpredictable directions like shrapnel.

And -- whatever you do -- don't tell the Climatards that it snowed in New Orleans today.

Update: GoreWar.

Hat tip: Marc.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

NASA discovers Pollutant on Extrasolar Planet, Humans Blamed


A remarkable find by the Hubble Space Telescope: pollution in the form of Carbon Dioxide on a planet in another solar system.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step toward finding chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial life.

The Jupiter-sized planet, called HD 189733b, is too hot for life. But the Hubble observations are a proof-of-concept demonstration that the basic chemistry for life can be measured on planets orbiting other stars...

...Organic compounds also can be a by-product of life processes and their detection on an Earthlike planet someday may provide the first evidence of life beyond our planet.

In related news Al Gore demanded that the United Nations launch a probe immediately "to determine whether SUVs, Hummers or muscle cars are to blame for this outrageous pollutant."

China and India were heard chortling in the back of the room.