Crazy Calamitous Climate Change Champions

The C5s are blaming everything on us CO2 induced climate change cretins. We emit CO2 and that spoils everything. Here’s what I mean:

Stop The Presses: Carbon dioxide is allegedly causing the geographic north pole to begin "galloping east toward Greenland

Uh, huh. Anything else?

NY Times warmist Justin Gillis on CO2 sensitivity: ‘The fate of the earth hangs in the balance’

That can’t be good but somehow alarmist hyperbole has lost its lustre with me. Maybe it is because the ‘end times’ have this abysmal habit of not showing up at the party.

Here is another doomsayer.

Sec. of State John Kerry: ‘Climate Change’ Is a ‘Life and Death’ Issue — Apologizes in Sweden for America’s lack of action on ‘climate change’

How is $90 billion thrown at clean energy programs a ‘lack of action’? A waste of money maybe but hardly a lack of action.

Coal causes Suicide?! Claim: ‘North Carolina Coal Plant Emissions Might Play Role in State Suicide Numbers’

Oh, OK. We should stop using it right away. CO2 (coal plant emissions) drives people to kill themselves. We must save these people. One wonders if losing one’s job in coal mining will have any effect on suicide rates. Maybe it is OK for those people to take care of themselves.

UK warmist economist Nicholas Stern: Global warming to make ‘armed conflict a permanent feature of life on Earth’

Wow. Like there was a time when armed conflict wasn’t a part of human existence. If only we had known sooner how to stop fighting amongst ourselves. But, wait. We emit CO2. Oh, now all becomes clear. If we all hold our breath together there will be no more armed conflict between humans because we will all asphyxiate ourselves. Brilliant! Give this man an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize. Or, perhaps we need to implement the Nobel Prize for excellence in stupidity   

New Yorker: ‘Everything we use that emits carbon dioxide needs to be replaced with something that doesn’t’. — ‘Does that include our lungs?!”    

Damn, somebody else thought of it first. The alarmists have gone totally batty. And these are our intellectual elite? Maybe they would like to volunteer for that Mars expedition where they don’t come back.     

Can I nominate this fellow?

Joe Biden: ‘Theoretically, it would be nice not to have any carbon fuels’

In other words Joe, it would be nice to be a Neanderthal? They didn’t have fossil fuels and they became fossils. We are on a roll here. And he is among our leaders. Pathetic!

UN: Eat more insects; good for you, good for world — Helps fight global warming        

You eat insects. Some like it hot.

This (theoretical) house is entirely powered by exercise | Grist

Like that is going to happen!

It must be true — the models say so! New UEA climate propaganda: With business as usual, ‘two thirds of the plants and half of the animals will lose more than half of their climatic range by 2080…biodiversity will decline almost everywhere’

And if CO2 doesn’t kill them then they may get wiped out from all the unmanaged wilderness that the enviros are creating when it goes up in flames. Pristine carries dangers. Fire destroys habitat, plants and animals. My suspicion is there is a greater danger to biodiversity from forest fires than from CO2. Would there be fewer fires if humans were allowed once again to earn their living from forestry? Ironically, saving the spotted owl may result in its guaranteed destruction. The law of unintended consequences strikes again.

UK Guardian: Climate change ‘will make hundreds of millions homeless’

CO2 can do nothing right. Extreme weather can be unkind to humans. Except that it has been getting less extreme. An there has always been extreme weather regardless of the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. We will learn to adapt as we always have.

On the Royal Society Publishing website: ‘Dangerous climate change can only be avoided if economic growth is exchanged for a period of planned austerity’

More advocates for the Neanderthal lifestyle of the ditch and heinous. Will they lead by example or only pontificate from the luxury of their ivory towers? That was a rhetorical question.

The Scare Story of 1881: ‘Back in the 19th century, newspapers declared that something had ‘gone wrong” with the climate. The public was told that the telegraph system might cause the destruction of the human race

Looks like our ancestors had their scare mongers too! Well, we got over that one. Fast forward to our age and now we worry about overhead transmission lines and cell phones. Some of us are not happy without an ‘end times’ scenario to worry about. Some people have the strangest hobbies.

All this is especially nutty when you consider the evidence for the beneficence of CO2.

We owe CO2 an apology.

CO2, a trace gas essential to life on Earth, is plant food. 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.

Apart from that CO2 has no redeeming features

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.

Obama Has Had The Fewest Hurricanes Of Any President

This is Obama’s evidence that climate change is out of control.

And Team Obama calls global warming doubters ‘crazy’ ?

The POTUS believes nonsense and that is disturbing.

       

               

Distracted From Reality

It is easy for non-scientists to see that climate scientists have become distracted from reality.

What? Aren’t scientists supposed to be studying reality?

Sometimes scientists get emotionally attached to their pet theories and fail to accept that reality does not support their conjectures. They see and seek only confirming instances of their theory.  They are human. It happens.

Take the case of Daniel Shechtman, an Israeli chemist, who refused to bow to the conventional wisdom, the settled science, the consensus in his profession that believed that quasicrystals did not exist in Nature. Guess who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2011?

Sometimes the consensus is blind. Admittance of cognitive dissonance is denied by the gatekeeper of the mind. It happens.

Are climate scientists who tell us the world is warming and that human emissions of CO2 is the culprit ignoring reality? You be the judge.

Graph complements of C3headlines.com.

IPCC Climate Science Confirmed By NOAA: Global Warming Causes Global Cooling

A pet theory steadfastly adhered to in the face of contradictory evidence presented by Mother Nature will soon be relegated to the dustbin of history. Kinda like the ‘flat earthers’.

Birds Packing Up?

Human fear of emitting CO2 is harming the animal world.

In the era of CAGW, belief in human induced global warming is directly proportional to the growth in the number of wind turbines dotting the landscape.

The Audubon Society in North America believes 60% of birds are heading north because of global warming. In reality, perhaps it is because the birds are trying to get away from those cuisinarts of the sky.

And while conservationists deplore the avian kill by the windmill the government is busy granting a license to kill to wind farm operators

Perhaps the birds are trying to escape our delusions.

Birds are such fun. Cats are despondent. Actions have consequences.

Do You Hear Gomer?

Jay Leno made a joke out of the recent revelations about the leaked IPCC AR5 document finding that the sun may have a greater influence on climate change than has previously been acknowledged.

...Jay Leno: A leak from a new U.N. scientific study says the Sun plays a far

greater role in global warming than previously thought. The Sun and

global warming. Always the last place you’d think.

Well, golllly! Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! So said Gomer Pyle when the obvious dawned on him.

A string of recent findings are already pointing to the important role that the sun has played in the late 20th century warming from 1976 to 1997. It is this warming that has spurred the development of the IPCC to gather and summarize the science of climate change for the world’s governments so that a consistent policy of mitigation could be developed for adherence.

Science shocker! U.N. study sees Sun's heat tied to global warming somehow by Andrew Malcolm - Investors.com

The Global Climate Models (GCMs) that the IPCC rely on for its scary predictions for the future direction of the climate all give a starring role to the heat trapping GreenHouse Gas(GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2). CO2 has been demonized as an enemy of the people and as such it has been targeted for reduction in concentration in the air. As someone pointed out modern humans are the first ones to be living in an era of CO2 concentration of 395ppm. Why that should be a problem remains a mystery to me as our commercial greenhouse operators regularly pump 2 to 3 times that much into their facilities because the plants they are trying to grow develop faster, stronger and better under such high concentrations of CO2. We can see these positive results with increased growth in our forests and increased crop yields in our fruits, grains and vegetables. Increased CO2 concentration has benefits. CO2 is green. But the IPCC seems to think that the heat trapping characteristics of GHGs will generate positive feedbacks within the atmosphere that will enhance the GHE and raise the future temperature to a dangerous level unacceptable for human life. Human emissions of CO2 are seen as the cause and we must act now to curtail those emissions or we will become human fricassee as we cook ourselves in our own atmosphere. Scary! Bummer!

But CO2 is losing favor as the main driver of climate change. The global warming that persisted through the 1980s and 1990s has not continued into the 21st century. In fact, it has been absent for the last 15 years. Thus the GCMs of the IPCC have overestimated the ‘sensitivity’ of the climate to increases in CO2 concentration.

The sun as an important driver of climate change has been increasing in popularity in the scientific journals as a spate of recent studies have confirmed. The sun’s output has tracked the behaviour of global warming over the last century with a very high correlation coefficient that exceeds that of CO2 by a wide margin. Some recent supporting papers are listed below.

A "Rough Guide" to "Man Made" Climate Change and TSI | Climate Realists

NASA on the sun: ‘…tiny variations can have a significant effect on terrestrial climate.”

Paper finds the Sun controls climate & 'gives no support to theory of anthropogenic climate change'

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds another mechanism by which the Sun controls climate

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds climate responds to short and long-term changes in solar activity

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds solar cycle changes Earth temperature

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper finds tiny changes in solar activity explain N Hemisphere temps over past millennium

A series of papers has come out detailing the increased amount of sunshine that reached the surface of the earth in the latter part of the 20th century. This large increase in sunshine has been recorded in North America, Greece and the Balkan Peninsula.

Huge Increase in Sunshine Reaching Earth – 12.5 times the CO2 warming « sunshine hours

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds a large increase in solar radiation in Greece since 1990; dwarfs alleged effect of CO2

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds increase in US sunshine has had 4.4 times more effect than greenhouse gases since 1996

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper shows sunshine on the Balkan Peninsula significantly increased over past 50 years

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper shows solar activity at end of 20th century was near highest levels of past 11,500 years

And what could account for this increase in sunshine? Why a decrease in cloud cover. And is there any evidence for that?

Evidence Points To Declining Cloud Coverage As Real Cuprit For 80's and 90's Global Warming

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds clouds cool the climate

Some scientists think that sunspots can be used as a guide to the effect that the sun will exert on the Earth’s climate going forward. If these scientists are correct the Earth could be entering a period of cooling that will rival that of the Maunder Minimum from 1645-1715. Brrrr!

SOON AND BRIGGS: Global-warming fanatics take note – Sunspots do impact climate | Watts Up With That?

Update on Solar Cycle 24 – Hathaway’s latest predictions show smallest sunspot cycle since 1906 | Watts Up With That?

Other solar influences that can act as moderators on the Earth’s climate include El Nino and the ocean cycles like the PDO and AMO.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper finds El Niño acts as a mediator of the solar influence on climate

High-Frequency Cyclicity In the Mediterranean Messinian Evaporites: Evidence For Solar–Lunar Climate Forcing

And there are those who think we are going to experience cooler times ahead.

AUSTRALIAN SCIENTIST PREDICTS GLOBAL COOLING: “SUN IS THE MAJOR CONTROL OF CLIMATE; LOOK FOR COOLING’

Russian Scientists Warn Global Temperatures To Fall 1.5°C By 2050. Strong Doubts About Warming

The climate affected by the sun. Who’d a thunk it!

Well, gollly!