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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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Misinformation

Climate alarmists don’t like it when skeptics present facts contrary to the conventional wisdom on climate change. CO2 is guilty and responsible for all the increasing temperatures and bad weather we are experiencing.That’s their story and they are sticking to it.

Climate alarmists like to claim the science is settled and anyone who disagrees is anti science and paid by Big Oil to spread misinformation. The ‘settled science’ of climate change results in contradictory conclusions like the following:



Channeling Donna Summer: Who do they think they’re foolin’?

Here are samples of the misinformation purveyed by skeptics - all verifiable truths.

Temperatures are in stasis despite rising CO2 - misinformation.

Strong tornadoes are in a downward trend despite rising CO2 - misinformation.

Strong hurricanes/cyclones/.typhoons are in a downward trend worldwide - misinformation.

Droughts are shorter and less severe than in the past despite CO2 rising unabated in the air - misinformation.

There is no trend in floods worldwide despite CO2 rising unabated in the air - misinformation.

Forest fires are down worldwide despite CO2 rising unabated in the air - misinformation.

Sea level rise has decelerated since 2002 despite CO2 rising unabated in the air - misinformation.

Sea ice extent around Antarctica is growing and setting records despite CO2 rising unabated in the air - misinformation.

Santa will have sea ice around the North Pole this year despite expert predictions to the contrary and despite CO2 rising unabated in the air. To point this out is misinformation.

Climate alarmists have read George Orwell’s 1984 and are using it as a guidebook to rewrite reality according to their preferred script. Reality is what we say it is.

Truth is misinformation.

Fewer hurricanes means they are becoming more frequent and more severe.

More sea ice means the ice caps are melting.

A cool summer is the warmest ever.

Fewer 90F days in the summer means the climate is heating out of control.

Record food harvests means we are going to starve and it is worse than we thought.

If it rains it was the worst downpour ever.

Climate alarmists are manipulators with an agenda. They want you in fear and guilt the better to control you with.

Demonize CO2. Present it in pictures as black smoke even though it is invisible. Call it carbon to conjure up images of soot and dirt in your mind even though it is colorless and harmless. Don’t mention its role in photosynthesis. There is to be nothing good about CO2. Humans are bad and their CO2 emissions prove it. They(both CO2 and humans) must be controlled for the good of all.

CO2 traps heat so an atmosphere with increasing CO2 must be the warmest ever. We must reduce CO2 for the benefit of future generations. Focus on rising CO2. We know it is bad so we must reduce. Spin to win.

Ironically, the biggest purveyors of misinformation to the public are the climate alarmists whose bash and trash, slash and smash, slice and dice on harmless beneficial carbon dioxide has to be the biggest scientific fraud ever perpetrated on the many by the few.

And so skeptics fight back by throwing reality in the face of the manipulators. Skeptics are dedicated to truth in science. How else can you discover how Mother Nature really works except by following the data where it leads? And if reality trashes somebody’s political agenda in the process so much for the agenda.

Most humans work to make the world a better place. We do not like to soil our nest and when we do through accident or ignorance we clean it up. The real world is a better place for our being here. In its pristine state it spits on us. As we find out how to protect ourselves from its indifferent uncaring nature our standard of living improves and we want to bring it to all humans. McDonald’s and Apple for everyone.

But some of our species see only evil where humans develop. They worry about our effect on their world. Our enjoyments may conflict with theirs and they have decided that theirs must prevail. So they rig the political process to attain that end. They seek more power and more control unto themselves. The ruling elite want to make the rules for us to live by(less powerful vacuums in Europe) while they grant themselves exceptions to permit the continued existence of their elaborate lifestyles in the face of the austerity preached for us. Lower YOUR carbon footprint while we buy carbon offsets instead.

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose." ~ Club of Rome

Truth can and will be sacrificed as necessary on the altar of resource control.

"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

Totalitarianism for all! Any guess as to whose lifestyle won’t be affected?














Is Climate Change a Communist Conspiracy?

There are those in the anthropogenic climate change movement who do not think that democracy is equipped to handle a global issue such as climate change.



"The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope." - David Brower, a founder of the Sierra Club

Are these trial balloons to gauge the reaction of the public to the idea of centralised control to solve perceived existential issues?

There was a people’s climate march in NYC on Sept 21, 2014. Ostensibly it is designed to demand action on climate change and to show that people want action against CO2 in order to have better weather. Who is joining the march?


Official 'Partners of People's Climate March in NYC:


"Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible." Gus Hall, former leader of the Communist Party in the USA   

"Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance."    Lester Brown, president of Earth Policy Institute

"The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is to be World Government with central planning by the United Nations. Fear of environmental crises - whether real or not - is expected to lead to – compliance” Dixie Lee Ray, former Governor of Washington State

"The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation." UN Commission of Global Governance

Global Governance. World Government. A New World Order with centralised control.

Can you say socialist/communist?






Do we now know who is behind the curtain of man made climate change?

Power hungry eco control freaks who want to micromanage your life. They are deathly afraid that there is someone somewhere doing something without their consent. What size hairdryer are you using? At what temperature is your thermostat? Are you recycling? Can government cameras in the home a la George Orwell’s 1984 be far behind?


Think about it. Is this what you want? It is not just coming in some parts of the world it is already here.

               

Monday, October 6, 2014

There is NO Debate

The ‘settled science’ is all about the human emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels used to power modern industrial civilization. There are those who worry that the buildup of CO2 in the air will cause the planet to overheat making it uninhabitable for humans as ice caps melt, sea levels rise, crops fail due to drought and people die due to the oppressive heat.


CO2 up; temps are flat; there is NO debate about that.

Global Warming ‘Pause’ Extends to 17 Years 11 Months

Ross McKitrick: The global warming hiatus? Climate models all wrongly predicted warming, so let’s call it a discrepancy

Updated list of 38 ‘excuses’ for the nearly 18 year temperature ‘pause’ or standstill in global warming - now 52 as of Sept 2014

Top 5 Reasons The 'Catastrophic Global Warming' Hysteria Has Failed

NASA/GISS Provides Proof That CO2 Growth Does Not Produce Runaway, Tipping Point Global Warming


This unexpected temperature stasis is a problem for the Global Climate Models that are used to produce the scary scenarios of our future climate. The stasis was not foreseen so this invalidates the theory upon which the global climate models are based. The GCMs assume that CO2 is the star of the climate drama and have accorded too much weight to the alleged superpowers of the heat trapping GreenHouse Gas carbon dioxide. But CO2 has been in our atmosphere in much greater quantities in the geologic past than are present today. We are still here which renders moot the idea that CO2 has the power to make the planet unfit for human habitation. It didn’t happen in the past. The experiment has already been conducted in the laboratory of reality.

CO2_temp600MMya.jpg
Throughout most of the last 600 million years CO2 has been at greater concentrations than the 400 ppm we experience today. About 450 mya there was an ice age when CO2 was hovering around 4000 ppm 100 times what we experience. This casts serious doubt on the ability of CO2 to drive dangerous climate change. Other more important factors must be involved that dwarf any contribution from CO2.

Our GCMs are wrong. Mother Nature has demonstrated that for us. We must look elsewhere for the engine of the cyclical climate change that geological history tells us that the planet endures.

The debate about CO2 as the star of the climate drama is over. We must find a new ‘star’ to play the lead role and relegate CO2 to a bit part or perhaps exclude carbon dioxide from the cast altogether.

However, CO2 has a very important role to play in the sustenance of the flora and fauna of the planet.

CO2, an invisible 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. 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 all 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 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. 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.

We owe CO2 an apology.

Mna Made Climate Change is Real and Happening Now

“With the consequences of human-caused global warming already manifesting themselves around the country in the form of droughts, wildfires and ocean acidification, Democrats said, the Obama administration's cardinal piece of climate regulation was a critical first step to begin addressing the problem on a national level.”

The above came from here.

And yet the IPCC does not try to identify extreme weather with man made climate change.

Drought


Wildfires


Ocean Acidification

Climate Change




Some people may believe the title is correct but someone forgot to inform Mother Nature. She is ignoring the CO2 content in the air and writing her own script rather than following the one preferred by the Drama Greens.

Who'll Stop the Rain

Long as I remember the rain been comin' down
Clouds of mystery pourin' confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages tryin' to find the sun.
And I wonder still I wonder who'll stop the rain


CO2?

As CO2 has increased there has been little to no change in severe precipitation worldwide but bad storms like tornadoes and hurricanes have been in decline since that song was published by John Fogerty back in 1970.

Sunshine making its way to the Earth's surface reached its highest levels in the last 9000 years during the latter part of the 20th century causing the world to warm.

Good men have found the sun.


More similar stock images of ` Smiling Sun on blue sky `

Eric and Haiyan

“Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century … No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin” IPCC AR5 WGI Chapter 2
And those conclusions are reached in spite of the rapid rise in atmospheric CO2 over the past century. I don’t know how your mind works when presented with that data but mine concludes that CO2 has nothing to do with the production of hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones.
Eric, you are hysterical.
Gore: Haiyan and Sandy-like storms are 'gamechanger' for public awareness of global warming - 'I think that these extreme weather events which are now a hundred times more common than 30 years ago are really waking people's awareness all over the world [on climate change], and I think that is a gamechanger.'
Reality Check:






Silly POTUS

"There is one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate," Obama said.

Let me correct this for him. This is what the teleprompter should have said. It is what the kids of the future will think.

“There is one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other and that is the stupidity of those who think that the issue is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.”

There, fixed.

As CO2 rises Gaia surprises with temps that are flat. NO debate about that. No need for $90 trillion dollars to get that job done. Mother Nature did it for nothing while alarmists were fretting about it. CO2 is NOT the control knob on a global thermostat. But to see that you need an open mind and open eyes; postures currently lacking in the warmista.

On Tuesday(Sept 23, 2014), Obama said the U.S. would "embrace its responsibility" to lead, and that there should be no doubt about the country "stepping up to the plate."

There is no point in ‘stepping up to the plate’. Mother Nature has already struck out the side. There are many reasons to reject the man made dangerous climate change hypothesis. Mother Nature has the only opinion that counts and here it is:

  1. The CO2 driven global climate models(if the science is settled why is there more than one?) upon which the IPCC rely for their future scary climate scenarios have all failed to forecast the current temperature stasis that has lasted almost 18 years. Hypothesis busted.
  2. The global climate models overestimate the sensitivity of the climate to CO2 and the IPCC has continued to roll back their previous projections because current research keep lowering the estimate for climate sensitivity.
  3. As CO2 rises Gaia surprises with a temperature stasis instead of the expected and predicted steadily increasing temperatures. Hypothesis busted.
  4. As CO2 rises extreme weather suchs as tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and droughts have not become more severe or more frequent. Even the IPCC agrees with that one. Hypothesis busted.
  5. As CO2 rises Gaia surprises and Arctic sea ice has refused to disappear according to the forecasts of the climate experts of the settled science. Some Arctic scientists are now warning against further decrease in Arctic sea ice extent. The 2014 Arctic sea ice extent was the highest in 9 years.
  6. As CO2 rises Gaia surprises and contrary to expert expectations and model predictions sea ice around Antarctica is setting extent records rather than shrinking into oblivion.
  7. As CO2 rises Gaia surprises and sea level rise has seen a slowdown over the last decade or so. If neither the Greenland or Antarctic ice sheet is melting this would explain current sea ice activity. Fears of sea level rise do not appear to affect the tourism plans of low lying islands such as the Maldives as they continue to build airports, hotels and resorts.

Hypothesis busted. Pursuing anti-O2 policies is delusional. We owe CO2 an apology.

Yes we should design our communities to minimize the damage from these unpredictable, uncontrollable, uncomfortable and inconvenient events but let’s not delude ourselves into believing that by tweaking the amount of CO2 in the air we can mitigate the appearance of  unwelcome weather events. Lest we forget, they have occurred in the past when CO2 concentration was much lower. The worst year for hurricanes making landfall in the US was 1886 when 7 cyclones paid a visit. Fortunately, this onslaught has not been repeated since. If today’s atmosphere is on steroids(CO2) can we be forgiven for wondering what the atmosphere was on back in the day when that record was set?  

So what is the REAL reason that the climate change issue is being pushed so hard by Obama? A personal legacy? Future job prospects? World domination? All of the above?

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose." ~ Club of Rome

One invented for the purpose. Truth is not a qualification. Only the end is important. The recent climate march in NYC provided confirmation of the world domination agenda of those who try to frighten others about climate change. All the groups who favor a top down totalitarian solution were front and center. There can no longer be any doubt that man made climate change is a wedge issue for the further encroachment of socialism into the lives of western democracies.

While the POTUS sometimes pays lip service to the great tradition of freedom in the US he is working feverishly to undermine its influence and to elevate tyrannical control over the country into the hands of the executive branch making Congress more irrelevant than ever. This must be stopped by bipartisan action.

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