The Amazing Kerry

Kerry ‘Amazed’ That Some Americans Still Don’t Grasp Urgency of Global Warming

Johnny Carson used to play Carnac The Magnificent on the Late Night Show. He would hold an envelope to his forehead and provide a silly answer to the unknown question inside. People who predict when the Arctic will become ice free are the real life incarnation of Carnac. It was John Kerry’s turn this year (among others).

the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013

- John Kerry, US Secretary of State

John Kerry: We Can’t Ignore the Security Threat from Climate Change

Well, that didn’t work out very well for Kerry.

“I am amazed after all these years that we’re still struggling here in a very educated country to get a lot of people to embrace and understand why this is not a matter of theory, a matter of mere policy, but a matter of urgency for life itself on the planet as we know it.” ~John Kerry

Maybe people aren’t as stupid as you think, John because they live in a very educated country.

It could be you who does not understand what is going on with the climate.

"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance."

—Albert Einstein        

John Kerry has both.

Bad Times in LA

As the German media(Wirthschaftswoche,Der Spiegel, FAZ) wise up to the nonsense spewed by the IPCC which even the IPCC is beginning to realize as it backs away from its doomsday scenarios to statements of less certainty the LATimes is battening down the hatches to keep reality at bay.

Los Angeles Times endorses censorship with ban on letters from climate skeptics | Fox News

Americans are so lucky. It is comforting to know that the omniscience occupying the WH has been ported to the LATimes. Now people on both sides of the country will not have to worry about exposure to ‘factual inaccuracies’.  The self appointed, self anointed and self revered guardians of the truth pompously make America the new Comedy Central. Enjoy!

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” – Albert Einstein

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts -- Bertrand Russell

There is no doubt at the LATimes about their ability to know the truth when they see it. We leave them to the delusions in their own minds. They seem happy there. What’s that smell?

Sydney Morning Herald on not printing letters from "deniers"

Looks like the Aussies don’t like being left out of the joke. They want some of that omniscience too. Oz. let me introduce you to Voltaire.

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” -- Voltaire

Here Is What You Need To Do

Here's what AGW believers need to do to convince me to lose my AGW skepticism in favor of alarmism.

Show me these things, my fear will grow.and you will have won my allegiance to the cause.

Show me a Global Climate Model(GCM) that assigns the demon CO2 a starring role and that tracks the global temperature as CO2 continues, unabated, to be emitted into the atmosphere. For example, let us take Scenario A of the James Hansen model which assumed that CO2 would continue to rise at current rates - his Business As Usual (BAU) model. CO2 has certainly met that criterion in reality. But, alas, temperatures have not followed his dire prediction. They aren’t even close after 20 years.

Show me that maximum daily temperatures in the US have been increasing as CO2 has continued, unabated, to accumulate in the atmosphere. Anyone?

Explain to me why, with CO2 at levels not seen in 3 million years, our supercharged atmosphere on steroids cannot break the world record for hottest temperature on Earth?

If CO2 drives temperature then explain the ice age 450 mya when CO2 was at much higher concentrations in the atmosphere.

Show me that extreme weather is becoming more frequent and severe. For example, can anyone show me the data that prove that the worst hurricanes, the category 5 monsters, constitute a larger share of hurricanes and are occurring more frequently? Would that do it for you? It would do it for me. Anyone?

Show me that extreme weather is becoming more frequent and severe. For example, can anyone show me the data that prove that the worst tornadoes, the F5 bombs, constitute a larger share of tornadoes and are occurring more frequently? Would that do it for you? It would do it for me. Anyone?

Show me how floods over 50,000-60,000 square miles are becoming more frequent? Anyone?

Show me the studies that show that droughts are becoming more severe and are of longer duration than those of the 1930s and 1950s in the US. Anyone?

Show me how snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere in winter is becoming less extensive as CO2 has continued, unabated, to increase its concentration in the atmosphere. Anyone?

Show me a sea level rise so frightening that it stops the development of hotels, resorts and airports in the Maldives. Anyone?

Show me the mechanism by which CO2 ‘decides’ to trap heat from one year to the next. Remember the US heat wave, drought and number of days over 100F that occurred in 2012? Where did that heat go? Why didn’t CO2 trap some of it and give us a warmer winter? We got a cold and snowy winter/spring in 2012-2013. What happened to that summer 2012 heat? Is CO2 broken? Does it only trap heat in the summer? It can only find seasonal employment? Can’t find a full time job? It hopped the jetstream to a warmer clime? It lost its heat trapping superpowers? The air is full of kryptonite which zaps CO2’s superpowers? There is a hole in our CO2 blanket?

The Arctic reached its lowest sea ice extent on record in September 2012. Warmists tell us this was due to global warming although analysis suggests it had more to do with wind blowing the ice to warmer waters where it melted. And one year later the Arctic is covered with more ice than has been seen in a decade. It is a record recovery. So why didn’t CO2 trap the heat of summer 2012 and set another record low sea ice extent in 2013? Where did the heat go?

So, show me the mechanism by which CO2 ‘decides’ to trap heat. Tell me how much heat CO2 will trap this year. How and where will that heat show up? What will be its magnitude? CO2 obviously does not trap heat all the time. Sometimes it escapes. Show me what triggers its heat trapping abilities. Predict it.

Show me these things and you will create another devotee of climate alarmism. Until then, adios. You are left to entertain the fears and anxiety in your own mind. You seem happy there.

CO2, an invisible trace gas essential to life on Earth, has been exhaled during the creation of this post. No living thing was harmed. Some even liked it.

The Psychology of CAGW Alarmists

New Research: The Psychology of Conspiracy Theorists and Climate Change Deniers : The New Yorker

bring a bunch of climate change doubters into a room together, and they will leave the room even more skeptical than before, more confident and more extreme in the their views.

And this would not be true of a roomful of climate alarmists??

But the alarmists have the science on their side.

But do they? Recent observations would beg to differ.

Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry: ‘It is becoming increasing difficult not to downgrade the estimates of climate sensitivity

Yes, Let’s Please Have More Conversations About Global Warming

At Long Last The Mainstream Media Are Paying Attention To Climate Skeptics

Reuters explodes the idea of global warming consensus: We don’t know how the planet would respond to doubled CO2; we don’t know if more clouds cause warming or cooling; maybe Chinese coal burning is cooling the planet; we don’t know if the heat is hiding in the oceans, etc.

Climate changing for global warming journalists — ‘beginning to reassess their position on global warming’        

‘When Will Green Journalists Learn Their Lesson?’ — ‘The overwhelming consensus on global warming among journalists may be cracking’

The Great Green Edifice is Crumbling: ‘The old guard of the environmental movement is passing from the scene and the entire edifice of the global warming hoax is crumbling’

Geologist Dr. David Deming mocks ‘The real deniers of climate change’ — the warmists!    

Unlike the atmosphere the public debate seems to be warming up and the free ride heretofore given to alarmists to be cooling off. Alarmists lay claim to the science before the scientific silent majority decided to speak out. Now the game is up. The alarmists will have to earn their claim to have the science on their side while people are learning that:

1. There is no hot spot despite the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Here is another paper that reaches the same conclusion. They keep piling up. Is it hiding?
2. World temperatures have been flat for the last 16 years despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Consensus is lacking.
3. Extreme weather is not getting worse despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Sandy was not due to AGW.
4. Sea level rise (SLR) is not accelerating despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
5. Water vapor is not increasing in the atmosphere despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
6. US has been cooling for the last 15 years despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Kinda takes the GLOBAL outta GLOBAL warming don’t it?
7. Himalayan glaciers expanding contrary to prediction and despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
8. The melting Arctic? We have heard it all before. We are still here and still waiting for the disastrous rise in sea levels despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
9. Antarctica is cooling despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
10. IPCC Global Climate Models (GCMs) can’t predict squat despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Some warmists are beginning to recognize this. Here is more grist for their mill.

Bonus: plants grow better, stronger, faster because of the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

The only voice that counts in science is that of Mother Nature and she is saying loud and clear that CO2 does not have much if anything to do with climate change. After all, if you have extreme weather in times of lower CO2 concentration and bad storms in times of higher CO2 atmospheric concentration then isn't the correct conclusion that CO2 has nought to do with it?

People are learning that CO2 has nothing to do with the temperature or the climate.

The evidence mounts as a new study shows that tropical storms have decreased in frequency since 1872. Weather was more variable  and extreme in the past.

Did you realize that deaths due to severe weather trauma are way down because of our early warning systems? Isn’t that great?

If we are a warming world then why was snow cover at a record level in December 2012? As the world warms are we not supposed to see less snow and more rain in the winter? Why were 2012 winter temperatures so cold in a warming world?

Mother Nature has given warmists the finger. And hers is the only finger that counts.

Does the term delusion fit the alarmist psyche?

Delusion: a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.

It is difficult to see the truth when your eyes are closed.

We owe CO2 an apology.

We need to stop all activities aimed at decreasing human emissions of CO2.

CO2 is green. We need more of it not less. CO2 has been exhaled during the creation of this post. No living thing was harmed. Some even liked it. Let the plants dance.