Living the Meme

Record lows in Alberta

U.S. – Ice storm knocks out power to more than a million customers

Over two-thirds of the continental USA covered with snow

Winter 2013-2014 has been a cold and snowy one.

IMF Chief Christine Lagarde: ‘Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled’

Perhaps Christine doesn’t realize that CO2 has failed again to trap the summer heat to keep us toasty warm this winter. Natural variability has overwhelmed the ‘trapped heat’ and chased it out of town. Is Christine unaware that Mother Nature stopped raising the global mean temperature over 17 years ago? Is Christine unaware that the climate models have been invalidated and therefore CO2 is not the demon that she has been taught to blame for CAGW?

Professor Goes Green: He’ll Live in Dumpster for a Year ‘to embrace energy efficiency’

The great thing about North America is that anyone can publicly declare his stupidity and follow through on it. Future generations will think him nuts. Why stop at a year? “life will be better,” Wilson says. “I’ll be fulfilling a richer life by living a smaller life.' “Last night was the first night in his new home. Wilson says that in this phase of the project, the only thing he has to keep him warm during the cold Texas nights is his sleeping bag.” Should we ask why CO2 is not keeping him warm? Why isn’t it trapping the daytime Texas heat? You can give him a night off by volunteering to live in the dumpster. So he won’t be in it for a whole year. Bet he secretly enjoys his nights off.

Warmists Urge Parents: Talk Climate Change With Your Kids – ‘They hold the keys to saving the planet’    

There’s an idea. Brainwash the kids and enlist them in the battle against climate change. For God’s sake don’t sit down with them and look at all the evidence to see if it is true. That would be educational. Can’t have that. Got to get the kids ‘livin the meme’.

Former CNN producer laments ‘leading climate denier’ Morano’s TV debates: ‘Morano is a Gatling gun of dishonest sound-bites, all designed to serve climate denial the way O.J. Simpson’s lawyers drew fire away from their clients’

Peter Dykstra: can you successfully dispute any of the statements made by Marc Morano? Or are you merely assuming he is wrong because you are so mired in living the CAGW meme that you have forgotten to consult with the lady whose opinion is the only one that counts - Mother Nature? You say dishonest. Where is your proof? You attempt a guilt by association argument rather than presenting scientific data to dispute Marc’s claims. That doesn’t help your credibility. Neither does the gap between climate model predictions and reality. If Marc is using dishonest arguments get on the TV with him and show us. Put your data where your mouth is. It should be a slam dunk for you. Why wouldn’t you want to do it? Shut him up once and for all. Solid scientific arguments will do it, right? You have the science on your side, right?

Dr. John Christy: We have much less understanding than needed to predict climate with any confidence, or determine policy

Common sense still exists in the world. How did that happen? Human control over the weather is science fiction and so is our ability to forecast it accurately beyond a few days. But we know what the climate will be like 100 years from now. Uh-huh! Cue Donna Summer: Who Do You Think You’re Foolin’?

Some people construct a reality in their heads and completely forget to check with Mother Nature to see if their idea of what is going on is true. ‘Scientists say’  therefore it must be true. We will treat information that supports our worldview with less skepticism than speech that conflicts with our world view. But, we must admit, that if we are really interested in the truth all viewpoints need to be on the table for examination. Sometimes we have our view of the world corrected by the dedication of others to the truth rather than to their cherished beliefs. Ask Daniel Shechtman, winner of the 2011 Nobel prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals long believed by the conventional wisdom, the settled science, the consensus to be impossible. To see the truth one must come to the scientific table with both an open mind and open eyes. Sometimes scientists close both in order to protect their life’s work. It must be difficult for a scientist to have his theory, to which he has dedicated his life, tossed on the garbage heap of failed hypotheses. It happens and a contribution to human knowledge is still made with the discovery of a dark alley. It keeps the rest of us in the light and for that we should be grateful to scientific explorers whose theories reach a dead end. They still teach us something.

UN: Global Prosperity is Causing Global Warming

The UN is delusional as per usual.

Mother Nature stopped raising the global mean temperature(GMT) 16+ years ago. So, whatever global prosperity is doing, other than making people prosperous, it is not warming the globe.

Humans have emitted CO2 at rates in excess of those extant in 1988 and yet 25 years later the GMT is no worse than in 1988. So what is the UN talking about?

The UN has to maintain the delusion that humans are the cause of the non-existent global warming otherwise they would be signing their own pink slips. And they know it.

The UN knew something else in 2001:

” … 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.

Their mandate should have ended at that point and with it the CAGW scare.

Instead, the party continues at our expense and they intend to ride it out as long as possible. Truth does not motivate them. Control does.

Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General: "A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed."

If they can convince the world that rampant consumerism is responsible for the non-existent global warming they can move into every aspect of our lives to regulate our consumption. Will a Sheryl Crow law be passed? Will there be cameras in our washrooms so Big Brother can monitor our ‘one sheet’ use of toilet paper?

They will use 1984 as a guidebook not as the warning for which it was intended. Let there be no mistake where the UN would like to go.

"Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level."

Control freaks will flock to be hired. It is a totalitarian dream come true.

Delusions die hard. We can leave the alarmists in their delusional world. They seem to like it there. But the rest of us do not have to take their advice to destroy our standard of living so that they may feel good. Freedom feels better.

It's Unequivocal

Mother Nature is a CAGW denier. The following studies can be found here: c3headlines [dot] com

UK Climate Agency Confirms: Huge Cumulative CO2 Growth Has Little Impact On Long-Term Climate Change, Warming

2013: The NASA/Hansen Climate Model Prediction of Global Warming Vs. Climate Reality

Extreme Climate Change From CO2? No New Continent 'Hottest' Temperature Records Since 1978

Top UK Climate Experts Concur On Warming 'Pause' - Earth Cooler Now Than 1998, 15 Years Ago

Per NOAA: Late 20th Century Global Warming Not "Unprecedented" - Previous Warming Greater

25 Years of Cooling: Climate Science Evidence That "Experts" Would Prefer Not Be Discussed

NASA's 'Climate-Porn' Ruined By Empirical Evidence: Accelerated Warming of Global Oceans Does Not Exist

Those Stubborn Facts: NOAA Confirms U.S. Drought Conditions Lessen, Opposite Of Expert Predictions

US Temps versus NASA 1988 Global Warming Predictions: 25 Years Later, NOAA Documents Embarrassing Failure

Cooling Dominates: Temperature Trends For U.S. States Since The Super El Nino of 1997-98

Per NOAA, Decadal Cooling Dominates In U.S. - Scientists' CO2 "Control Knob" Theory Fails Miserably

Global Cooling Engulfs The U.S. Over The Last 15 Years Says NOAA, -3.8°F/Century

Real-World Climate Science Forces IPCC & Other Climate-Doomsday Cult Alarmists To Face Reality

IPCC-Fail: Tropical 'Hotspot' Refuted By Latest Empirical Evidence - Experts Wrong, Again

Those Stubborn Facts: Satellites Confirm NASA's Failed Prediction of Venus-Like Warming of Earth's Atmosphere

We could throw in the data concerning the sea ice gains in the polar regions in 2013 and the ice sheet mass gains as well. Without net polar ice cap melting Kiribati is safe.

All of the exaggerated fear mongering of the AGW alarmists has been rendered mute by an unpredictable Mother Nature. She rules and our ‘experts’ are hard pressed to understand her weathering ways. It is -20C where I am on Jan. 21, 2014. Where’s my global warming?

Did CO2 forget to trap the heat?

Is CO2 broken?

Is CO2 on strike?

Is CO2 on vacation?

Does CO2 only work part-time? Can’t find a full time job?

Does CO2 only trap heat in the summer? It only works seasonally?

Has CO2 lost its super powers? Is there Kryptonite in the air?

Is there a hole in our CO2 blanket?

Is CO2 discriminating against the Northern Hemisphere?

Of course, the above excuses are nonsensical. Mother Nature, natural causes, controls the climate on this planet, not human induced CO2. CO2 has been falsely accused for reasons that have nothing to do with natural science and everything to do with political science. Make no mistake that ideologists have been running the CAGW show with the following intent:

"Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound

reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world

has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both

governments and individuals and an unprecedented

redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift

will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences

of every human action be integrated into individual and

collective decision-making at every level."

- UN Agenda 21

And that is the unequivocally true goal.

It is long past time to set aside our fears of snow in the winter, rain in the spring, heat in the summer and falling leaves in autumn. CO2 has nothing to do with any of it although rumor has it that my fruits and veggies love the stuff.

Strange Delusions in the Human Mind

Bad weather has not changed in kind from that of the past. We have. We are different. It is not that contemporary storms are more offbeat from those of the past. Current examples of extreme weather are not unprecedented, unequivocal or more frequent or severe. It is that we are more aware of their presence because of our infatuation with climate change and our modern communication and detection systems. We have satellites and doppler radar. There are more of us and we have more stuff so present storms seem more devastating than past storms and we imagine future storms will be even worse in terms of the damage they do to property. Perhaps they will but the damage they do to human lives is less because of our early warning systems that have been brought to us by our genius and our use of oil to produce the products of modern technology. We could prepare even better for the inevitable future occurrences of bad weather in order to mitigate their impact upon our communities. However, reducing CO2 emissions is not a productive strategy in that regard. As CO2 has increased in the atmosphere unabated temperatures have not. That is a disconnect between theory and reality. When that happens science says: modify or abandon the theory.

Drivel from the POTUS on CC in the SOTU 2013

But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Yes, it’s true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science – and act before it’s too late.

Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue: 'Are climate scientists bothered that President's speech on 'extreme weather' climate change doesn't jive with the last IPCC SREX report?

If the leader of the free world can lie with such impunity we are doomed – Telegraph Blogs

Obama's war on climate change is a war against a chimera. He is enlarging the state, holding back the economic recovery, restricting freedoms, driving up the price of energy and killing jobs in order to deal with a problem which only exists in the discredited computer projections of a shameless cabal of grant-troughing activist scientists increasingly out of touch with real world data.

So why, outside the internet, has no one called him on it?

The ignorance displayed by the POTUS in the 2013 SOTU is disgraceful.  His words convey misrepresentation of the latest science and stand as an example of poor leadership that the parents will have to explain to their children. His remarks at Georgetown University on June 25, 2013 repeated the same errors. It is difficult to defend the president and hold him up as a role model to emulate. You want your children to be proud of their country and their president but the disappointment with his wilful misinformation gives both science and politics a bad name. The president is wilfully pursuing a delusion rather than showing strong leadership and correcting the course that the country is on to be in concert with the knowledge we now have about our changing climate. There is no crisis although there are things that certain areas of the country can do to prepare for the inevitable future climate catastrophes that are going to happen because humans still do not know how to control the weather. Reality is always best faced head on rather than tripping in the twilight zone of human hubris and ignorance.

The POTUS wants to implement policies to address a problem that is not happening. This is madness. And when the cooling already evident in the data becomes more pronounced so that no one can deny it he will take the credit. The leadership of this president is contrary to what the US needs. It is destructive and delusional.

Questions are being asked: ‘What if man-made climate change is all in the mind?’

Will the POTUS spew more man made climate change nonsense in the SOTU of 2014?

That was a rhetorical question.

MEM

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics." Michael Crichton 17 January 2003 speech at the California Institute of Technology

Mother Nature continues to make Michael E. Mann irrelevant although with this piece in the NYT Opinion page MEM shoehorns himself into irrelevancy.

He relies on the old and irrelevant canard that there is a consensus among climate scientists that climate change is real and that we need to do something about it like reducing GHG emissions into the atmosphere. This implies that it is all our fault.

Was it Aquinas who advised: Ask not who made the claim ask if the claim is true? If we were able to resurrect Aquinas and bring him into our century he might want to add a corollary to his epithet. Ask not how many made the claim, ask if the claim is true. The who and how many are red herrings designed to draw our attention away from whether or not the claim is true. Who would use such an argument and why would they need to?

While the theory upon which CO2 based climate models have been founded failed to predict that Mother Nature would stop raising the global average temperature about 17 years ago MEM and fellow travelers like James Hansen continue to assert the power of heat trapping CO2 to change the climate. CO2 had plenty of opportunity to demonstrate the prowess of its heat trapping superpowers during the US heatwave and drought of summer 2012. And yet 2012 has been followed by a cool 2013. Are we to believe that CO2 has a hot/cold switch similar to a hot/cold faucet? So who/what turns it on or off? And where did all that 2012 heat from the ‘warmest year evah’ evaporate? Does the image of a hot air balloon provide a clue?

We are told by the ‘experts’ that we are creating a supercharged, overheated, CO2 laden atmosphere on steroids by burning our fossil fuels. Earlier this summer we read about the heatwave in Alaska which alarmists screamed was due to global warming. Now we read about people freezing to death in the streets of Fairbanks. Good job, CO2. Way to trap that heat.

Seems to me that either CO2 traps heat or it doesn’t. The behaviour of Mother Nature would seem to indicate that it does not trap enough heat to worry about and can just as easily rid itself of ‘excess’ heat as retain it. CO2 seems to be rather fickle that way. No wonder the climate models have fallen off the runway and lay in tears at the tears in their computer code. The climate models are broken and thus, so too, the theory behind them.

Mother Nature is elevating her middle finger at MEM and his ilk and hers is the only opinion that counts. They are wrong because Mother Nature never is. Our grandchildren may have to deal with a cooling world which might pose graver problems than a warming one.

Mother Nature is laughing at those who think that humans control the climate. Once upon a time we realized that we don't.

” … 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.

MEM thinks we can control the climate through managing our CO2 emissions. To avoid complete irrelevancy MEM must accept the challenge. It is what a scientist would do.

We are about to find out who is really full of hot air and who is really anti-science.

Ball is in your court, Michael. Whine or spine?

CO2 Convention in Australia

Heat stops play at Australian Open

Frazzled Sharapova fumes over murky heat policy

Play to resume on all courts after extreme heat

Insanely high temperatures in Melbourne have forced players and fans to adapt

Climate Realists ‏@ClimateRealists 45m

Latest World Temperature Chart using my MeteoEarth App shows Australia as Earths one and ONLY hot spot pic.twitter.com/uUGdTDQNtz

Looks like their carbon tax isn’t working.

Meanwhile, in the Northern Hemisphere where it is winter:  Record snow and cold across Canada

So, in terms of the heat trapping gas CO2 how do we account for this?

Can we say that CO2 is holding its Conference of the Molecules(CoM) in Australia this year? Even CO2 wants to be where it is warm? With a preponderance of CO2 in the air of Oz a heatwave resulted?

Since all the CO2 is ‘down under’ Canada and much of the rest of the Northern  hemisphere is left out in the cold?

Such explanations are silly. CO2 is everywhere but it doesn’t trap the heat of summer in the NH so record cold arrives instead and this coincides with the peak of a weak solar cycle 24 - weakest in over 100 years. This is not what is supposed to happen. Under the AGW meme our burning of fossil fuels is supposed to be producing warmer winters. Can we conclude that solar influences outrank CO2 as a determining factor in temperature?

Heatwaves during the Australian summer are not new. Newspaper articles uncovered by Steven Goddard  report on the plus 100 degree temperatures in 1906 when atmospheric CO2 concentration was about 100 ppm lower than it is now. High temperatures were also reached in 1896, 1897 and 1898. Australia’s hottest temperature occurred in 1889. Does that cause one to wonder what CO2 has to do with setting the temperature? High temperatures seem to be independent of CO2 concentration.

Hot there; cold here - heat distribution not so rare. There is nothing happening in the world right now that is outside the bounds of natural variability. We have seen it all before. Perhaps because the climate is cyclical and outside the control of humans? Our job is to learn to adapt so we invented air conditioning and heaters to mitigate the inevitable extremes.

Mother Nature is not supporting the expected scenarios of the AGW meme as described by the Global Climate Models. She is behaving more like an AGW denier. It does not matter what the consensus thinks because Mother Nature is thumbing her nose at them, she is elevating her middle digit in their direction, she is flipping them the bird.

Is it time to stop promoting snow in the winter, rain in the spring, heat in the summer and falling leaves in the autumn as examples of man made climate change?