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, September 22, 2015

Gore Self Delusion

   
Gore:'The prominence of the climate-related extreme weather events has caused millions of people to look at their hole cards to examine what the options really are.'

Al must not be aware of these polls:






Perhaps the American public are aware of the data on extreme weather:

As CO2 rises Gaia surprises...

Life expectancy increased

Look at the charts here - death rate from catastrophes orders of magnitude less w/ development. http://ourworldindata.org/data/environmental-change/natural-catastrophes/

Severe hurricanes decreased

Severe tornadoes decreased

Drought is less severe and of shorter duration

Floods are no more prevalent than in the past

Wildfires are down worldwide

Food production has risen

Our standard of living has increased

We have made much progress with many diseases




It’s all good....

No wonder I prefer reading skeptic’s blogs.....the news is so much better

CO2 is a barometer of human wellness - the more we add the better life gets.

How come the people are aware of the data on extreme weather but such knowledge has escaped Al Gore? Besides himself, who does he think he is fooling?




       

Jerry Brown to Ben Carson

Here is the letter:

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Jerry regards the IPCC AR5 report as the be all and end all of climate science. I suspect Ben Carson has used his considerable intelligence to apprise himself of the scientific contents of the report as opposed to the Summary for Policymakers and realized that the science does not support the conclusions in the SPM. No doubt, Jerry has read the report as well.
Jerry’s state is suffering from a drought. It has happened before but this one Jerry wants to blame on man made climate change. So he cites a CU and NASA/GISS study that concludes that climate change has intensified CA’s drought.

And now we have some



NOAA. Jerry, we know you have heard of that government agency.


In other words, far from being settled SCIENTISTS are still arguing over the causes of drought.

Does Jerry realize that the IPCC doesn’t have very high confidence that drought is man made? He read the report, right?

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Low confidence in drought trends in the last 60 years of CO2 rise.

Maybe it is Jerry Brown who needs use his considerable intelligence to read and comprehend the IPCC report. Is Jerry aware of the other retreats from previous IPCC reports contained in the AR5?

From undated pictures only a climate alarmist can tell the difference between a low CO2 and a high CO2 drought.


What is Jerry really certain about?  California’s Climate Change Revolt

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




Thursday, September 10, 2015

Obama's Mount Denial

Obama approves oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean at the same time that he is campaigning for limits to CO2 growth. Then he flies to Alaska on CO2 spewing AF1 to demonstrate how important it is to spew less CO2 in order to push his climate agenda to lower CO2 emissions.


Are climate hypocrites aware of the cynicism they generate?

Obama feels guilty for USA wealth and wants to relieve his guilt with taxpayer money. Nice of him.


Obama believes global warming is melting the ice in the Arctic and yet


If Obama seems a little confused it is because gets a giggle from it.

He uses single instances such as the receding Exit glacier to prove global warming and ignores the equal opportunity logic that an expanding Taku, Margerie or Hubbard glacier can then be used to prove global cooling. His mission is not to educate and put all the facts on display but to table only those that support his view. This is not honesty but it is politics. His staff have knowingly created a carefully scripted Alaska trip to help ‘sell’ their boss’s view.

Obama likes to take selfies and talk about himself as in this example:


He doesn’t want to have to explain the following so he doesn’t mention it.

Alaskan Glaciers Lost Half Their Mass Before 1950 when humans began to add plant fertilizer to the atmosphere in large amounts.

As if the fawning MSM would actually pose the question to him.


Perhaps Obama and his staff don’t read the science journals where climate science is in flux and were unaware of the following new paper.


After all, the sea ice extent has been known to be much smaller than present during the Holocene climatic Optimum over 5000 years ago. They grow and recede quite independently of the amount of CO2 in the air. And since the satellite era record low of 2012 what has happened?


Obama’s Alaska trip was a hodgepodge of contradictions illustrating his power to do as he pleases. He behaves like Little Miss Helpful except that he is not oblivious to the chaos he leaves in his wake. He revels in his Denial.

What’s it all about, Alfie?


The truth is not invited to the show. It would be a hindrance to the anticipated applause which, no doubt, will be accepted with modesty.  

Not everyone agrees that ‘now we see’.


Change is what the climate does because the climate is cyclical. And the human ability to change it has not advanced past the technology of the rain dance and prayer.

As Obama completed his Alaska agenda and left for warmer climes is he aware that he trips out on CO2?

CO2 is clean and green. 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. #ActonClimate Hug a tree.







   

Why is there More than One?


Apparently, the past is malleable, especially if it does not support the global warming hysteria.

Why is there more than one global climate model? Why don’t they agree with one another?

Because the science is settled. Because basic physics.




A Point of Control

Who is in control?

It has been pointed out by global warming alarmists that skeptics like to quote the satellite temperature data because it does not show recent warming but ignore the surface data which does show recent warming.

Yet when it comes to sea level skeptics ignore the satellite data that shows a 3.3mm/yr rise and prefer the surface tide gauge data which shows a lower increase of 1.8mm/yr.

In both cases alarmists prefer the data under the control of NOAA/NASA and skeptics prefer data that is independent of NOAA/NASA.

You be the judge.

Things More Important Than CLimate Change

There are those among us who consider the growth of CO2 in our atmosphere to be an evil that must be stopped. Our flora would disagree. As CO2 has risen during the fossil fuel era our planet has been GREENING. CO2 is a trace gas essential for life on Earth. Our plants grow better, stronger, faster in a CO2 enriched environment. CO2 concentration has been much higher throughout most of the last 600 million years and yet here we are. No tipping point. No runaway global warming. In fact, throughout that period of time the Earth took turns as both a hot house and an ice house quite independently of the amount of CO2 in the air.

Change is what the climate does. Always has. Always will. Yawn!

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Your list might be different.

Governor Perry Outforecasts the Experts

Back(2011) when Texas was experiencing a drought and the usual alarmist ‘experts’ were telling us this is what we should expect as climate change progresses and that the drought will be permanent then Governor Rick Perry calmly recounted some sage advice taught to him by his daddy: the rains will return.

And so, in 2015, they have.
Perhaps Mr Perry should become a climate change guru.
Nothing like a little rain to get rid of the ‘permanent drought’.
There is a reason why Nobel physicist Richard Feynman taught: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts".
Will the alarmist admit his error and pomposity? Don’t hold your breath. Alarmists are never wrong; they just change the cause for their alarm. It’s not dry any more? Now it is wet. See, the climate changes and it is all our fault. Some people aren’t happy unless they can claim that the sky is falling. However, they resemble ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ more than Paul Revere.
Mr. Perry’s Dad knows that the climate doesn’t just change. It is cyclical.



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