It is no longer global warming because it isn't.

It is climate change because it does.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

— Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859), Essay on Southey's Colloquies

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.


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Sunday, June 12, 2016

CO2 had its chance


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SCIENCE tells us that the current concentration of CO2  in our atmosphere is 400 parts per million (ppm). SCIENCE tells us that over the last 600 million years CO2 has nested in our atmosphere in concentrations 10 to 20 times our contemporary 400 ppm. There was NO TIPPING POINT, NO RUNAWAY GLOBAL WARMING. We are here. This fact alone ought to quell the fears of a CO2 guided apocalypse. CO2 had its opportunity over many millions of years to trap heat and toast our planet but took a pass. Did CO2 fail its climate driving test?

SCIENCE tells us that there were many periods in pre-industrial times when temperatures exceeded or equalled those we experience today. Over the last 400,000 years three of the last 4 interglacials, the Holocene Climate Optimum, the Minoan Warm Period, The Roman Warm Period and the Medieval Warm Period all experienced warmth equal to or greater than our own. Since we are told by climate gurus like Al Gore that pre-industrial CO2 levels remained stable for 800,000 years those periods of warmth could not have been a result of changes in CO2 concentration. Does this not imply that the climate changes independently of the amount of CO2 in the air? Does this make Mother Nature a Man Made Climate Change DENIER?

In a 2013 interview in USA Today a NOAA spokesperson said the following.
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The last time the worldwide carbon level probably hit 400 ppm was about 2 million years ago, said Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
That was during the Pleistocene Era. "It was much warmer than it is today," Tans said. "There were forests in Greenland. Sea level was higher, between 33 to 66 feet."

Would it be impertinent to ask why it isn’t that warm now that we have reached the auspicious milestone of 400 ppm in our air? Why aren’t sea levels 33 to 66 feet higher now like they were 2 million years ago?  Has CO2 lost its MoJo or does it suggest that CO2 has nothing to do with either temperature or sea level rise?

It is not for me know how your mind works but mine concludes that CO2 is NOT the thermostat controlling the climate of the Earth. In which case why would you want to reduce the CO2 concentration in our atmosphere, especially when our planet has been GREENING because of it? CO2 is GREEN. Isn’t that GOOD NEWS? Don’t you want a GREEN planet?


The world is greening. Why would you want to reduce CO2 emissions? You don’t like plants, animals and forests? Don’t you have to eat?

Mother Nature has already performed the high concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere test of CO2 centric global warming theory and failed to ‘roast, toast, fry and grill’ all living things. There was no CO2 BBQ in our past and thus none to fear in our future.

“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.” Richard P. Feynman




                       
Could global warming’s top culprit help crops?                            Warmists struggle with the reality that CO2 is plant food       










They mean climate change at the hands of CO2..
Enjoy your CO2 today. It is keeping you alive!
Perhaps this makes the social BENEFITS of CO2 PRICELESS. What do you think?




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Here is a bit of  truth from the scientific journals.


It is widely promulgated and believed that human-caused global warming comes with increases in both the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events. A survey of official weather sites and the scientific literature provides strong evidence that the first half of the 20th century had more extreme weather than the second half, when anthropogenic global warming is claimed to have been mainly responsible for observed climate change. The disconnect between real-world historical data on the 100 years’ time scale and the current predictions provides a real conundrum when any engineer tries to make a professional assessment of the real future value of any infrastructure project which aims to mitigate or adapt to climate change. What is the appropriate basis on which to make judgements when theory and data are in such disagreement?


Climate change has nothing to do with the human emissions of CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2).

Tell the truth!     Tell the truth!


Quantitative analyses of actual measurements rather than modeling have shown that “global warming” has been heterogeneous over the surface of the planet and temporally non-linear. Residual regression analyses by Soares (2010) indicated increments of increased temperature precede increments of CO2 increase. The remarkably strong negative correlation (r = −0.99) between the earth’s magnetic dipole moment values and global CO2-temperature indicators over the last ~30 years is sufficient to be considered causal if contributing energies were within the same order of magnitude. Quantitative convergence between the energies lost by the diminishing averaged geo- magnetic field strength and energies gained within the ocean-atmosphere interface satisfy the measured values for increased global temperature and CO2 release from sea water. The pivotal variable is the optimal temporal unit employed to estimate the total energies available for physical-chemical reactions. The positive drift in averaged amplitude of geomagnetic activity over the last 100 years augmented this process. Contributions from annual CO2 from volcanism and shifts in averaged geomagnetic activity, lagged years before the measured global temperature-CO2 values, are moderating variables for smaller amplitude perturbations. These results indicated that the increase in CO2 and global temperatures are primarily caused by major geophysical factors, particularly the diminishing total geomagnetic field strength and increased geomagnetic activity, but not by human activities. Strategies for adapting to climate change because of these powerful variables may differ from those that assume exclusive anthropomorphic causes.


Climate change has nothing to do with human emissions of CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2).

Tell the truth!    Tell the truth!

Your climate policies are pursuing a phantom of the atmosphere - trapped heat!

Tell the truth!     Tell the truth!

Perhaps it is old fashioned of me to expect that from politicians. There is a reason why your occupation ranks near the bottom of integrity surveys!

The insane campaign against CO2 and the wild predictions of apocalypse suggest to me that in our time we are living the next chapter of Charles MacKay’s ‘Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.’. 


They mean climate change at the hands of CO2..

Enjoy your CO2 today. It is keeping you alive!
Perhaps this makes the social BENEFITS of CO2 PRICELESS. What do you think?





Clean Technology

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Rising Rates


While you are worried about ‘clean’ technology the developing world intends to plow ahead with innovative job creation by building coal power plants to electrify their countries and raise their poor out of destitution. An admirable goal don’t you think?

Another Paris ‘deal’ signatory





While Canada follows a short sighted policy of closing its coal plants those who recognize a scam when they see it continue to build coal power plants as a pathway to riches for their people. Of course, they will pay lip service to the Paris Agreement just to see if the West is stupid enough to create an annual $100billion Global Climate Fund into which they can dip their chip. Cheap, dispatchable, reliable coal partially financed by those who oppose it. What a deal!

Is the only reason groups play along with the CAGW game because of the money that may be in it for them? They’ll say anything to get the money. You can buy as many bobbleheads as you are willing to pay for. You can create a bubble world of bobbleheads all nodding in agreement about the existence and gravity of any situation you care to name if the bobbleheads are being promised money. When you rob Peter to pay Paul you can always depend on the support of Paul.

And Peter gets robbed twice - once for the taxes required for green subsidies and again in the rising electricity rates that the pursuit of renewables guarantees. Where does Ontario ship its excess green energy at reduced rates? Who is the beneficiary of Ontario’s stupidity?





And there is evidence that wind turbines don’t reduce CO2 emissions or cover the initial expenditure of CO2 to build, transport, install and maintain them over their lifetimes.


The truth about clean technology in Australia is coming out.


“We’ve seen the Environmental Protection Agency staff in South Australia conduct acoustic surveys and there appears to be a deliberate attempt to corrupt the data.”

People with the supporting facts don’t need to diddle them.

In Canada we won’t see any corruption involved in clean technology, right?

In Spain 2.2 jobs were lost for every green job created. That won’t happen in Canada, right?


The Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline will produce jobs and raise tax revenue. And access to world markets.

CO2 is clean and  green. CO2 is a friend with BENEFITS. Must you eat? Then the social BENEFITS of CO2 are PRICELESS. We need more of it not less. The globe is greening. This is a sign that CO2 is benign. CO2 has been exhaled during the creation of this post. No living thing was harmed. Some even liked it. Let the plants dance.

They mean climate change at the hands of CO2..

Enjoy your CO2 today. It is keeping you alive!
Perhaps this makes the social BENEFITS of CO2 PRICELESS. What do you think?

                                   


How to prepare for the impacts of a changing climate

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Adapting to CC

We may wish for stability in good weather but variability is a feature of our atmosphere not a bug. Our atmosphere is not a static environment. It is an anarchic mix of molecules in various states of kinetic frenzy, a whirling, swirling, twirling, fluid, chaotic, ever changing soup of unpredictable turmoil  From this tumult stability does not emerge for long. Once upon a time back in 2001 the IPCC was aware of that truth.

” … In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing
with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the
long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
From the 3rd IPCC report, Section 14.2 “The Climate System”, page 774.
Earth rotates, it tilts, it wobbles, it orbits, it is pushed and pulled by sun. moon and planets. From this, stability is but a pipe dream, an unexpected respite in a world of constant change. We live in atmospheric bedlam buffeted by our ingenuity and will to survive. Weather and climate change can be unpleasant but are not sufficient to wipe us all out.

The climate has always changed so it is no surprise that our generation faces what has always happened. Climate changes continuously. This is not news. When hasn’t it been prudent to prepare for and adapt to the worst weather that an area has ever experienced? Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

    We will weather the weather whatever the weather whether we like it or not.

Economic development allows us the luxury to weather the weather. Rapid fossil fuel exploitation and deployment underwrites the robust development that is our best protection against the vagaries of Mother Nature. Some protective actions that can be taken (list not meant to be exhaustive):

Dredge rivers in areas prone to floods.
Don’t build on flood plains. They got that name for a reason.
Develop water catchment facilities in areas prone to occasional drought. See NAtional Geographic on Ethiopia.
Maintain forest firebreaks and clean out the underbrush in boreal forests near population centers at risk

Reliable cheap electricity provided by fossil fuels will assist low income households to keep the heat on in winter and the air conditioning humming in summer. Fossil fuels are ideally suited to provide electricity  because they create power that is dispatchable, reliable, cheap, portable and doesn’t require backup. They are the backup.

New pipelines are essential for the development of an effective strategy to combat the vicissitudes of a chaotic, unpredictable climate. In Canada, we do not want to be left defenseless against the polar vortex or fires in our boreal forest.

Robust economic development around the world is our best defense against extreme weather. It allows us to rush necessities to areas that experience ruinous weather over which we have no control. Widespread economic development allows the human population to adapt to climate change with stronger buildings and better breakwalls. Global economic development is humanity's best defense against extreme climate change. Fossil fuels underwrote the development of the West. Why deny this to the 1.3 billion of humanity still without electricity? Would that not be immoral?


Do we want  this to happen in Canada? Should we not learn from the mistakes of others?

If CO2 is the cause of extreme weather than how do you explain a cyclone Killa in Manila while in Hawaii it is just another day in paradise. Same amount of CO2 in the air but different results on the same day. What turns CO2 from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde? And when we start asking that question we are no longer looking at CO2 as the primary driver of the climate. Something(s) else must have the prime responsibility for the occurrence of extreme weather conditions and changing local climate. Doesn’t that suggest to you that CO2 has nothing to do with it? The laws of physics are not different in Manila and Hawaii. What conditions were different? Shouldn’t we look for an answer to that question to uncover the secret behind extreme weather occurrences?


They mean climate change at the hands of CO2..

Enjoy your CO2 today. It is keeping you alive!
Perhaps this makes the social BENEFITS of CO2 PRICELESS. What do you think?


Saturday, June 11, 2016

Putting a Price on Carbon


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Sometimes ZERO is the right answer

We want a price of zero. Here’s why.




How much pain have they caused us, the evils that never happened. ~Thomas Jefferson

CO2 is NOT a pollutant. It is not a poison. It is our friend. Try breathing without it.

My rumour mill is atwitter with whispers that my fruits and veggies love CO2. And so do yours.

"In the last 80 years, as CO2 emissions have most rapidly escalated, the annual rate of climate-related deaths worldwide fell by an incredible 98%. This means the incidence of death from climate is 50 times lower than it was 80 years ago," writes Epstein.

It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood. The truth has come out as we knew it would.

We owe CO2 an apology.

CO2, an invisible gas essential to life on Earth, is plant food and if feeding the flora is a dangerous transformation of life on this planet my fruits and veggies are in its debt. We exhale CO2 and help to feed the flora. In return they slip us oxygen of which we are rather fond in a mutually beneficial and amicable symbiotic relationship. From this evil comes?

Future generations will look back at this time and wonder how so many people could be taken in by the ‘hate fossil fuel’ hysteria. It will be the focus of Phd studies on how people could fall for the delusion that CO2 is a toxic pollutant. We exhale it people. It is in your lungs in concentrations approaching 40,000 ppm. How are you feeling? It is in the ambient air at 400 ppm and has been as high as 8000 ppm within the last 570 million years. We are here. There was no tipping point no runaway global warming beyond which the planet became uninhabitable.

Plants grow better, stronger, faster because of the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

In concluding, the U.S. research team declares that "from this remarkable 30-year archive of satellite imagery, we thus see evidence of a greening trend," which clearly indicates that the net result of the climatic and physiological effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on Earth's terrestrial plant life has in the mean been decidedly beneficial.

Apart from that CO2 has no redeeming features

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

CO2 is clean and green. CO2 is a friend with BENEFITS. Must you eat? Then the social BENEFITS of CO2 are PRICELESS. We need more of it not less. The globe is greening. This is a sign that CO2 is benign. CO2 has been exhaled during the creation of this post. No living thing was harmed. Some even liked it. Let the plants dance.

The EPA’s ruling that CO2 ‘endangers health and welfare’ itself endangers health and welfare. CO2 is a trace gas essential to life on Earth. Demonizing CO2 and curtailing human emissions of CO2 will maintain poverty in underdeveloped nations as well as lower the living standards of people in developed countries. It is a ruling that will set us on a path that can do nothing but harm to the health, wealth and comfort of humans. The elite will rationalize their continued use of fossil fuels as essential to the survival of the nation. They will relieve their guilt about fossil fuel use by curtailing your use of it. Since you use less, less is used so the usage of the 1% will be miniscule in comparison to the savings from your impoverishment. You are sacrificed on the altar of elitist guilt. They must oversee your sacrifice for the good of the nation.


Icecap comment. This season beat out 2004 and 2009 for US crop yields with a global glut of produce. Ideal weather conditon(sic) combined with higher CO2 has improved productivity. CO2 is plant food. Even in drought ridden California, CO2 helped to limit losses by enhancing growth and reducing water needs. The losses would have been much greater with lower CO2 levels.







Tell the truth!    Tell the truth!

Ask a commercial greenhouse operator if they would like 800 to 1200 ppm CO2 in the ambient air. It would save them money.

They mean climate change at the hands of CO2..

Enjoy your CO2 today. It is keeping you alive!

Perhaps this makes the social BENEFITS of CO2 PRICELESS. What do you think?


For free minds and free markets,

More people now truly resent,
How warmists will always present,
Their misguided view,
That to fight CO2,
Protects the environment.



Added after posted:


They mean climate change at the hands of CO2..

Enjoy your CO2 today. It is keeping you alive!
Perhaps this makes the social BENEFITS of CO2 PRICELESS. What do you think?

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