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May 16 2012
What is it with the “warmists”, Al Gore and his clones who keep insisting the Earth is warming, that too much carbon dioxide (CO2) will be the death of us, and that we have to immediately stop burning “fossil fuels” if we are to save the planet? They are the most relentless liars on the face of the planet.
They want us to cover the surface of the U.S. with solar panels and the mountains with wind turbines to generate the energy needed for everything we do. These Green energy alternatives are so wonderful they are producing a mere three percent of our current needs, require government subsidies and loan guarantees to exist, and tend not to be all that great when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.
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May 16 2012
[h/t to Adam] Across different regions, and different time-spans over the last century, the models fail.
Koutsoyiannis and Anagnostopolous et al show those models can’t model the recent century, and because the models fail to predict regional and smaller scale effects it’s impossible that they could predict longer and global values.[i]
On 30 year time frames, the original observations are nothing like the models projections on a local scale. (Click to enlarge).
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May 16 2012
Dilma Rousseff (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff plans to cut and simplify taxes for electricity producers and distributors, two senior officials told Reuters, as part of a strategy to reduce Brazil's high business costs and stimulate its struggling economy. Brazil has the world's third-highest power costs, and Rousseff is aiming to give relief to consumers as well as companies in energy-intensive areas such as steel and petrochemicals. Internal government studies suggest that, depending on which taxes are cut, electricity costs could fall by between 3 and 10 percent starting as early as 2013, the officials said. --Brian Winter, Reuters, 16 May 2012
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May 16 2012
NASA Scientist James Hansen Arrested, August 29, 2011 Photo Credit: Ben Powless (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Aspiring apparatchiks of the coming world dictatorship, tiring of the hopeless race against facts in their anti-industrial carbon dioxide hoax, have finally given up the pretense of science in favor of pure, old-fashioned doomsday preaching. Having been outlasted by reality in the pseudo-science of "global cooling," undone once again in the pseudo-science of "global warming," and ultimately laughed off the stage in the unfalsifiable quackery of "global climate change," it is apparently time at last for the advocates of tyranny in the name of Gaia to play their last card: global mass hysteria.
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May 16 2012
It is generally accepted that sea levels increased during the 20thC at a rate of about 185mm or about 7”. Furthermore studies suggest that there was no acceleration in this rate during that time. One of the best known studies was by Bruce Douglas, who produced the above graph from Tide Gauge records for 23 geologically stable sites.
Satellite monitoring of sea level, which began in 1993, however, shows that the current rate of increase is about 2.8mm/year.
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May 16 2012
Wildrose Alliance leader Danielle Smith (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
On March 20, 2012, an unelected Canadian representing an unaccountable NGO presented to the U.S. House of Representatives the discredited position that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and that the Alberta government should slap on a carbon emission tax on the oil sands.
Days later, a furor was kicked up in Alberta when Wildrose leader Danielle Smith publicly questioned human-caused climate change theories. One Calgary political commentator mocked Smith expressing the odd view that . . . ”issues of global warming are only questioned in places like Saudi Arabia and Iran.”
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May 15 2012
Andrew GliksonApart from the ubiquitous Will Steffen, the other "big name" at the ANU Climate Change Institute is (warmist, naturally) Andrew Glikson (see here for previous form).
Glikson, who is clearly annoyed that Steffen gets all the limelight, has decided to make a complete and utter twit of himself by writing a huffy letter to Richard Bean, the writer of the climate change play currently showing in Melbourne, The Heretic, in terms that can only be regarded by any normally balanced individual as deeply comic (my emphasis):
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May 15 2012
Reef and fish - (Photo credit: USFWS Pacific)
The following are this week's current Journal Reviews from CO2 Science. Also check out their latest editorial, Biological Microcosms of the Future.
More Floods for Central Europe in a Warming World?: So say some regional climate models. But can one believe them?
The Net Mass Balance of the Community of Karakoram Glaciers: Is it positive, negative or neutral?
Trees and Shrubs at Their Poleward Limits in a Warming World: How have they been responding to rising temperatures?
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May 15 2012
Tim Flannery (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
IT was billed as a public forum for the residents of western Sydney to hear how global warming would affect their lives, but last night's Climate Commission gathering quickly turned into a war of words between the extremes of the climate change debate.
Little was heard from ordinary citizens who had been warned by the Climate Commission this week to expect more heat waves.
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May 15 2012
David Suzuki (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Although he has rarely been willing to discuss or debate energy or environmental issues with those who do not share his views, environmentalist David Suzuki frequently challenges them on other grounds. In his recent article, “Religious Right is wrong about climate change,” Suzuki claims that some US and Canadian scientists hold religious views that are anti-science.
Suzuki asserts that some climate scientists – including me, by name – put “misguided beliefs above rational thought.” His implicit assumption is that conservative Christian views are irrational and incompatible with science, and that I have replaced Almighty God with the “almighty dollar,” believing the economy matters more than the environment.
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May 14 2012
U.N. climate chief Christiana FigueresLong-running arguments over who needs to do what to stop the planet from overheating are back in focus this week as rich and poor countries meet in Bonn, Germany, to resume talks on a new global climate treaty.
It's the first major round of talks since countries agreed in Durban, South Africa, in December to come up with a binding agreement by 2015 that would take effect five years later.
In a webcast news conference Monday, U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres noted that the cuts in greenhouse gas emissions pledged so far fall short of what scientists say is needed to avoid serious effects of global warming.
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May 14 2012
Wind Farm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The wind energy industry has been having a hard time. The taxpayer funding that has kept it alive for the last twenty years is coming to an end, and those promoting the industry are panicking.
Perhaps this current wave started when one of Big Wind’s most noted supporters, T. Boone Pickens, said in an MSNBC interview, “I’m in the wind business…. I lost my ass in the business.” But the industry’s fortunes didn’t get any better when the Wall Street Journal wrote an editorial titled, “Gouged by the wind,” in which they stated: “With natural gases not far from $2 per million BTU, the competitiveness of wind power is highly suspect.” Citing a study on renewable energy mandates, the WSJ noted that states with renewable energy mandates “paid 31.9% more for electricity than states without them.”
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