Climate Change Explained

Professor Bob Carter uses the scientific method on the popular theory with global warming being linked to CO2 levels. He examnines the hypothesis and it fails the test. Does this surprise you?



Climate Change - Is CO2 the cause?- pt 1


Climate Change - Is CO2 the cause?- pt 2


Climate Change - Is CO2 the cause?- pt 3


Climate Change - Is CO2 the cause?- pt 4

PMBR The Next Big Thing In Nuclear Power

The technology is advances and Pebble Bed Modular Reactors(PBMR) are showing great promise. And where is it being developed? The US is participating, but other countries are doing the research. The PBMR is a High Temperature Reactor (HTR), with a closed-cycle, gas turbine power conversion system. Although it is not the only HTR currently being developed in the world, the South African project is internationally regarded as the leader in the power generation field. Very high efficiency and attractive economics are possible without compromising the high levels of passive safety expected of advanced nuclear designs.

The goal is a safer power generation technology, not capable of weapons production, and safe from meltdown. A admirable goal, that looks like it is within grasp. Light water reactors, are still the mainstay of nuclear power, but that could change as the newer PBMR and Westinghouse's AP1000 nuclear generating units comes on line. Currently the AP1000 is getting a lot of attention, China has ordered six generating units and is beginning ground breaking.

There is no denying it, electricity is key to modern society, without it there would be no modern society. What has retarded growth in Africa is mostly the absence of electricity, and of course the various tin-pot Marxists who are generally supported by Western leftists. China is right out front, with US helping ...

China begins groundwork for the 'world's most advanced nuclear reactor'

Mumbai: China has started groundwork for building what it claimed to be the most advanced nuclear reactor in the world, using technology from a US-based consortium.

The reactor, to be built at the eastern city of Sanmen, would use the third generation AP1000 technology from the Westinghouse Consortium, the Xinhua news agency quoted a sources at the State Nuclear Power Technology Corp (SNPTC).

China has signed an agreement with Westinghouse Electric Co. to build four nuclear power plants - two in Sanmen in eastern Zhejiang province and another two in Haiyang city in eastern Shandong province.

Sanmen Nuclear Power Corp will install six AP1000 nuclear generating units, each with a power capacity of 1.25 million kilowatts, before becoming self-sufficient in the AP1000 technology.

The AP1000 had never been employed in any operating power plant anywhere in the world, the report said, adding that the plant will begin commercial operation in 2013.

China currently has eleven nuclear generating units employing second-generation technologies - three using domestic technologies, two Russian, four French and two Canadian-designed.

China has set a target of an installed nuclear power capacity of 40 million KW by 2020.

Why is this being done in China and not the US? To be fair, several proposals are in works for about 19 US reactors, several are of the AP1000 type.

We are trying, there are two AP1000 reactors being proposed, one right down the road from me at Turkey Point, south of Miami and another north of Tampa. Both are receiving good reception from Florida Republicans. If CO2 is the problem, nuclear is the answer, and reprocessing the spent fuel recycles the highly radioactive nuclear material by reusing it. The US is now reprocessing the nuclear weapons material in old Soviet weapons, and France has been reprocessing their spent nuclear fuel for some time. The Clinton administration moved to shut down U.S. reprocessing research and development, along with other cute things like making a National Monument of the USA's low sulfur coal so we could buy our coal from his pal Riady in Indonesia.

In 1996 Clinton issued an executive order creating the 1.7 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, rendering the "low sulfur" coal deposit off limits for commercial mining. The move, for all practical purposes, gave Beijing control of the world's only sulfur free coal through its Lippo Group partner.

It's All Going Wrong

For the alarmists. The powerful effect, NOT!, of CO2 green house gases are being swamped out by measly natural effects. First it was the sun who decided to forgo it's spots, then the land temperature fraud was exposed, then the ARGO sea buoys said it's cold, then the PDO flipped to cold, the AMO is flirting with following ... what next?

Will a volcano blow it's top? Why yes it might, one is giving it a try ... Volcanoes are notorious for blowing their ash and aerosols high into the atmosphere, blocking out the sun's warmth and causing worldwide cooling. When Mt Pinatubo blew it's top June 1991 it was said global temperature plunged. While this event does not look to be of the same magnitude, once they go off who knows if this is just the beginning of a long stretch of activity or will the big one come soon.

In Chile the Chaiten volcano has erupted suddenly, it was thought the Chaiten volcano was extinct, last known eruption was 1000s of years ago. Not so extinct anymore. Some vulcanologists are now warning that a cataclysmic eruption is possible, many more are being evacuated from the danger area. Chile is loaded with volcanoes, so this isn't really that unusual for them.

The 3,550-foot Chaiten volcano belched fire and ash Thursday night, causing more than 60 small tremors in the Los Lagos region, 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) south of the capital, Santiago, the government's Emergency Bureau said.

Who knows what effects this will have, but it likely will add to the cooling in the Southern Hemisphere at least. Volcanoes are in continuous eruption somewhere on Earth, so their effects are mostly factored into the baseline climate. A large even like the Mt. Pinatubo Eruption can change that, but we will have to see how this plays out.

Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)

What is it? Short answer -- Just one variable in the Earth's climate change equation.

For the past century at least, global temperatures have tended to mirror the 20-to 30-year warmings and coolings of the north-central Pacific Ocean. We don’t know just why, but the pattern of the last century is clear: the earth warmed from about 1915 to1940, while the PDO was also warming (1925 to 46). The earth cooled from 1940 to 1975, while the PDO was cooling (1946 to 1977). The strong global warming from 1976 to 1998 was accompanied by a strong and almost-constant warming of the north-central Pacific. Ancient tree rings in Baja California and Mexico show there have been 11 such PDO shifts since 1650, averaging 23 years on length.

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The "Pacific Decadal Oscillation" (PDO) is a long-lived El Niño-like pattern of Pacific climate variability. While the two climate oscillations have similar spatial climate fingerprints, they have very different behavior in time. Fisheries scientist Steven Hare coined the term "Pacific Decadal Oscillation" (PDO) in 1996 while researching connections between Alaska salmon production cycles and Pacific climate (his dissertation topic with advisor Robert Francis). Two main characteristics distinguish PDO from El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO): first, 20th century PDO "events" persisted for 20-to-30 years, while typical ENSO events persisted for 6 to 18 months; second, the climatic fingerprints of the PDO are most visible in the North Pacific/North American sector, while secondary signatures exist in the tropics - the opposite is true for ENSO. Several independent studies find evidence for just two full PDO cycles in the past century: "cool" PDO regimes prevailed from 1890-1924 and again from 1947-1976, while "warm" PDO regimes dominated from 1925-1946 and from 1977 through (at least) the mid-1990's. Shoshiro Minobe has shown that 20th century PDO fluctuations were most energetic in two general periodicities, one from 15-to-25 years, and the other from 50-to-70 years.

There is a tracked Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) Index defined as the leading principal component of North Pacific monthly sea surface temperature variability (poleward of 20N for the 1900-93 period). Digital values of the PDO index are available from Nate Mantua's anonymous ftp directory.

Coincidence?

The PDO Index switched negative at about the same time the sun's geomagnetic averaged planetary index(AP) dropped off in October 2005 and has stayed more or less negative since then. Is it just a coincidence that the PDO Index went negative about the same time as the sun's geomagnetic averaged planetary index dropped. Curious.


The folks that track the PDO Index are located here.

Is the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) the next to shift? And what about the ... ?? Settled science my ass.

Isn't It Curious

UK Astronomer Dr. David Whitehouse, who authored the 2004 book The Sun: A Biography, said on May 1, 2008:

"Isn't it curious that over the next decade man-made global warming will be cancelled out by natural cycles. It's nice that Mother Nature (not the journal) is helping us this way but it does beg the question as to whether the man-made effect was all that significant if it can be nullified this way."

Curious indeed.

When the PDO changed in 1977 from cold to warm, the "ice age is coming" scare melted with it -- Only to be reborn as "we are all toast" as the warm cycle continued. And now the PDO has shifted back to "the next ice age is coming". I wonder if anyone understands how bad they have been had.

Now that the sun has joined in by going quite, the next years are going to be really interesting. Warm is good, cold is not so good. Learn to live with it, the natural variability of our planet.

The only thing CO2 drives is increasing taxes and fear mongering.

Engineer Joke

Being an Engineer, I like good engineer jokes

An engineer, a scientist, and a global warming modeler were all interviewing for a job. The interviewer calls in the engineer first. The interviewer tells the engineer, "I have one question, what is 2+2"? The engineer replies, "I can tell you with exact certitude the answer is 4.00000". The interviewer makes some notes, lets the engineer go and then calls in the scientist. "I have one question", says the interviewer. "What is 2+2?". The scientist thinks for a moment then replies, "I can tell you that the answer lies somewhere between 3.998 and 4.002.". The interviewer lets the scientist go and then calls in the global warming computer modeler. The interviewer tells the modeler, "I have one question, what is 2+2?". The modeler thinks for a moment, looks to the left of him, then looks to his right. Then he lowers his head, leans in and whispers to the interviewer, "What answer do you want it to be?"

The Farce That Was

Recall that Al Gore has predicted global destruction in less than 8 years from now...

OK, let's pick up the narrative at where we left off. In time gone by, not much time actually, the UN IPCC said that positive feedback's were going to swamp the planet and Earth will become a hot house in a mere matter of (you got pick it) years. But then the cooling started, The silliness progresses, but the data lagged behind. In fact the data downright misbehaved and went negative on them. Well what to do is the question of the hour.

How could the computer models that predict the future be so wrong in so short of time. Well, first the sun decided it had had enough of those nasty sunspots and decide that zero was a nice round number for sunspots since about fall 2005. Sure there have been a few, but many would say that the small ones, the Tiny Tims", that there were would not have been counted under instrument conditions that existed during the Maunder Minimum, i.e. the last min-Ice Age.. Then comes the pronouncement from NASA that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation(PDO) has reversed from a warming period to now a cooling period -- It does this naturally on about a 30 year cycle.

The last bit of linguistic jujitsu and nonsensical analysis comes our way in the realist community via this, the scientists are now saying, the whacky-doodle alarmist ones at least, that natural variability will swamp out the man made global warming and result in global cooling. Well Duh, the natural variability? You mean the climate naturally changes? No it impossible, isn't it?

Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said.

OK, I say so much for the AGW hypothesis and the future predictions -- If you can't predict the future until it actually happens then what good are the computer models in the first place.

Note I correctly call the predictions of catastrophic global warming computer models, because that is all the hoax is based on. Do you know what GIGO is? It is a term used by engineers, and probably others, to express computer models and their outputs, Garbage In, Garbage Out -- GIGO. Exactly what this hoax is based on. No empirical evidence whatsoever, just fabricated computer models and a whole lot of arm waving. Anybody can cook you up a computer model to prove anything you want. Here is the twisting and turning trying to save the AGW hypothgesis ...

Writing in Nature, the scientists said: "Our results suggest that global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic [manmade] warming."

The study shows a more pronounced weakening effect than the Met Office's Hadley Centre, which last year predicted that global warming would slow until 2009 and pick up after that, with half the years after 2009 being warmer than the warmest year on record, 1998.

Commenting on the new study, Richard Wood of the Hadley Centre said the model suggested the weakening of the MOC would have a cooling effect around the North Atlantic.

"Such a cooling could temporarily offset the longer-term warming trend from increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

"That emphasises once again the need to consider climate variability and climate change together when making predictions over timescales of decades."

But he said the use of just sea surface temperatures might not accurately reflect the state of the MOC, which was several miles deep and dependent on factors besides temperatures, such as salt content, which were included in the Met Office Hadley Centre model.

If the model could accurately forecast other variables besides temperature, such as rainfall, it would be increasingly useful, but climate predictions for a decade ahead would always be to some extent uncertain, he added.

Bailout time, the models are not complete, of course everyone knew the most important parts were missing, the results cannot predict anything, hence the UN forbidding the use of predict in future discussions, the models now provide guidance only ... Huh? Time to be honest, if the models could they would? So precipitation and clouds are left out, they are too hard to model, and now precipitation is thrown over the transom, because it's not modelled. Does anyone know what happens during a rainstorm -- Yes you in the back "it gets cold" -- Yes you are right.

The whole house of cards is not going to remain standing much longer. There are enough scientists to take down the hoax, like with DDT before, it will fail the smell test shortly.

Read the rest here.

BTW: The time is quickly arriving where reputations will be irreparably damaged by supporting the hoax. Think about it, mke sure you are on the right side, the data is piling up that it's a hoax.

For some real laughs, the piece's author leaps into action, spinning and twisting while jumping, you got to read this article, global warming causes global cooling. They really are concerned that people might see through the hoax and then the backlash against the tax tax tax to say you can control the weather might really kick in. They really are trying to protect their hoax industry and alGore's carbon credit scam.

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As a footnote: The difference between a theory and a hypothesis is that a hypothesis is UNPROVEN, it's a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences. The empirical data taken and testing that has been done to date, has all come back negative. Whereas a theory is a scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena. Don't allow people to confuse the two in order to win the upper hand in a debate with you. Words mean things.

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Global Warming Update

Global Warming Update

What with catastrophic global warming proceeding at such an alarming rate, regular updates are required for people to stay up to date on our planet's sweltering doom. From Science Daily:

The Antarctic deep sea is getting colder, which might stimulate the circulation of the oceanic water masses. This is the first result of the Polarstern expedition of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association that has just ended in Punta Arenas/Chile. At the same time satellite images from the Antarctic summer have shown the largest sea-ice extent on record.

Ninety percent of the ice currently on this planet is in the Antarctic region. If ice is growing there, that means we can forget about the rising seas scenario Al Gore and the environmental whacka-doodles have used to frighten money out of the gullible.

So far the only tangible symptom of the global warming crisis is rising food prices caused by the biofuels boondoggle and rising fuel prices because the very same whacka-doodles won't allow any more drilling and refining — Unless you count global warming having killed the Loch Ness Monster.

Climate Change

Predictions of environmental doom have been with us for a long long time, as the Washington Policy Center reminds us:

•“...civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind,” biologist George Wald, Harvard University, April 19, 1970.

• By 1995, “...somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” Sen. Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, Look magazine, April 1970.

• Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor “...the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born,” Newsweek magazine, January 26, 1970.

• The world will be “...eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age,” Kenneth Watt, speaking at Swarthmore University, April 19, 1970.

• “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” biologist Barry Commoner, University of Washington, writing in the journal Environment, April 1970.

• “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from the intolerable deteriorations and possible extinction,” The New York Times editorial, April 20, 1970.

• “By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half...” Life magazine, January 1970.

• “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April 1970.

• “...air pollution...is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone,” Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April 1970.

• Ehrlich also predicted that in 1973, 200,000 Americans would die from air pollution, and that by 1980 the life expectancy of Americans would be 42 years.

• “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes, The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970.

• “By the year 2000...the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America and Australia, will be in famine,” Peter Gunter, North Texas State University, The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970.

When I was in College in the 70s, we were all going to die because of global cooling. Then it started getting warmer and we are all going to die because of global warming. See a pattern? When it was getting cooler, we were all going to freeze into little itty bitty ice cubes. Then it got warmer and we were all going to toast brown on all side because of global warming. Then we finally recognized that we had to change the lingo and call it climate change, because we couldn't tell if we were going to die because we were all going to freeze, or toast.

Learning from our missteps ...

Now we call it climate change, run around like our hair is on fire, and try and convince people that whatever the natural forces effecting planet does, we are all going to die. Easier this way, since you just have to yell 'we are all going to die' and not worry about the details.

As the endless winter drags on, don't you feel better that it's covered by climate change?

Peru Hit With Severe Global Warming

It's now fall, pushing into winter, in the southern hemisphere and the 'fall crops' should be coming in ... But. Winter has come early and with a vengeance since March, which would be the northern hemisphere equivalent of September.

Climate Change: hail and freezing temperatures forecast for Puno and southern highlands

Climate change continues to wreck havoc in Peru’s southern altiplano, where the arrival of freezing temperatures since March — almost three months earlier than usual — have killed more than a dozen people.

The extreme cold has claimed the lives of 16 people so far in Puno, and 5,053 others are suffering from respiratory ailments, most of them children under 5, Elsa Paredes, of Puno’s Regional Health Institute, told Enlace Nacional.

Moderate hail storms are predicted over the next several days over a wide area of the southern department of Puno, according to Senamhi, the national weather bureau, and temperatures are expected to drop in June, July and August to as low as -27º C (-16º F) in areas that lie above 4,000m (13,000 ft). The cold is also affecting the departments of Cusco and Arequipa.

There are reports of alpacas and guanacos, which are not protected in barns or sheds, dying in the higher areas of the altiplano.

Climate change is the 'new word' after it became obvious to the UN that global warming wasn't going to survive the northern hemisphere winter. we now have worldwide crop failures starting in the southern hemisphere.

Of course the climate change they are talking about is caused by the quite sun, which is still resting from the last sunspot cycle and shows no signs of initiating the next cycle. This is the exact reasons behind the last mini-ice age.

Quinua is a cereal like crop grown for it's seeds and leaves and is a primary human food crop of the Andean region of South America.

Crop Failures On The Horizon?

I am no better at predicting the future than the UN IPCC dopey computer models, but I am unencumbered with an agenda. The cold winter of 2006 and now 2007 has left farm lands reeling under the pressure. You can find out what is going on with the google news search string "+late +crop +planting +2008". When you do that, you find a long list of news stories pertaining to crops and the late planting in spring 2008 -- That's right now. Here is one such news story from Saskatchewan Canada.

One per cent of Saskatchewan crops seeded

According to Bedard, one of the biggest concerns for farmers right now is the current cold snap.

"Besides getting the land warmed up for seeding, the hay and pasture lands really need that warm weather. If they don't get growing in late April or early May, they just don't do as well," she said.

If you pay attention to the weather, we live in hurricane country so it becomes a natural for us, you find the steady stream of late season cold front to be an interesting anomaly. They just keep coming, as old man winter refuses to go away this year. The northern hemisphere growing areas of North America, and presumably the rest of the world, are simply not warm enough and not dry enough for crop plantings. The season is delayed. How long can it go before trouble? It varies with latitude so it depends. We may not know until the fall when the crops come in how it went. Then it will likely be too late.

But early indicators are it's not going to be all that good of a growing season. The futures markets are reacting by bidding up commodity prices for food staples, and of course we have the nutty ethanol craze siphoning off food for fuel. Food panic is slowly creeping into the news worldwide as shortages begin to show in many third world countries and now some in the US. Rice, a world staple crop, is becoming in short supply worldwide. Wheat and corn prices are sky-rocketing as supplies tighten.

A word to the wise with all the nuttiness about the global warming hoax going around, cold is much much worse than warm. It effects crop yields and eventually the world the food supply for one thing. Crops don't grow well under glaciers or in cold wet ground. So stay tuned, it's going to be interesting.

The above example might be a good search term to keep an eye on in the coming months. The final results should come in around election time --- HeHeHe ....

UPDATE: For the wine crowd comes word

Chilly nights leave vineyards frozen

Subfreezing temperatures overnight in the Mother Lode and some areas of the San Joaquin Valley damaged vineyards with tender growing shoots and flowering buds, growers and farm officials reported Monday.

There's no way to tell immediately how extensive or costly the overall damage might be, experts said.

But potentially heavy damage was reported in foothill vineyards in areas where overnight temperatures dropped into the mid-20s and even as low as the high teens, by some reports.

Stephen Kautz, president of Ironstone Vineyards outside Murphys, said he saw damage in all grape varieties on 30 to 40 acres of grapevines he had examined, except perhaps cabernet sauvignon vines, whose buds had not yet fully emerged.

"I'm seeing from anywhere between 60 and 75 and up to 80 percent damage, and I'm hearing the same reports from numerous other vineyards in the area," said Kautz, who is also president of the Calaveras Winegrape Alliance.

Maybe this will get some attention. If it weren't that the current left's cause-du-jour were warming, this would be front page news. Liberals got to have their wine. Hey, at least they won't starve.

Pine beetle Turning Forests Into Greenhouse Gas Gushers

Nature has it's ways, and pine beetles have been around for a long time, enjoying their lifestyle, caring little what they are doing to the planet. They also don't seem to care a wit about Canada's CO2 budget.

VANCOUVER -- The tiny mountain pine beetle has transformed British Columbia's vast pine forests into a major source of greenhouse gases, federal scientists say.

By the time the unprecedented infestation ends, the rice-sized beetles will have killed so many trees an extra billion tonnes of carbon dioxide will be wafting through the atmosphere, researchers from the Canadian Forest Service report in the journal Nature on Thursday.

That is five times the annual emissions from all the cars, trucks, trains and planes in Canada, says lead author Werner Kurz, who warns the beetle's impact goes far beyond the B.C. border.

Of course, CO2 is a minor greenhouse gas, and not a major contributor of anything except photosynthesis. Photosynthesis, in case you don't know, is the process by which plants take in CO2 and water add sunlight they then produce growth and give off oxygen. Mmmmm oxygen, animals love oxygen, plants love CO2. The cycle of life for carbon lifeforms.

You can read the rest here, but I caution you it is full of global warming drivel.

They Ignore Oil

Democrat President Jimmy Carter stated repeatedly that by the year 2,000 all the oil on Earth would be used up and we needed to invest in sweaters now and prepare ourselves for the inevitable. Misery and malaise spread across the USA, we even invented a "misery index" to show how bad things were. Jimmy conducted fireside chats to help people adjust. Most people just laughed at the fool, but since he ran the government, he could do real damage to the economy and the economic well being of the country.

During the Presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic candidate, Jimmy Carter, made frequent references to the Misery Index, which by the summer of 1976 was at 13.57%. Carter stated that no man responsible for giving a country a misery index that high, had a right to even ask to be President. Carter won the 1976 election. However, by 1980, when President Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the Misery Index had reached an all-time high of 21.98%. Carter lost the 1980 election to Reagan in a landslide -- People had had enough of fireside chats to last them the rest of their lives.

Carter was a false prophet and turned out to be the problem, not the solution. There are a lot of Carter parallels to the current crop of Presidential wanna-bees.

Meanwhile ...

Here we have the biggest head in sand that has ever infected our political leadership in the USA. Not since Democrat President Jimmy Carter did his one man wrecking ball act on the US economy has there been so much ineptitude in Washington. In the mad dash to return the US economy to the pre-civil war days, the politician's ignore the obvious. The US economy runs on oil, and will for the foreseeable future -- Period. Nothing is going to change that.

All in the name of an obvious hoax, science education being what it is these days ...

Do you know how the hoaxers draw those scary looking graphs? Do you know what positive feedback is? No, then it's how you draw the scary graphs. It's not science it's fear mongering.

As for CO2 as a greenhouse gas, CO2 is a minuscule part (0.038%) of the Earth’s atmosphere, but the politicians don’t want anyone to know that. Why? Are they afraid that even stupid people will put one and one together and come up with two, that the hoax is based on a minor insignificant part of the atmosphere, a part that allows our carbon based lifeforms to thrive? Without CO2, plants would die, ever heard of photosynthesis? Photosynthesis is the process by which plants convert sunlight, light energy, into chemical energy by living organisms. The raw materials are carbon dioxide and water; the energy source is sunlight; and the end-products are oxygen and (energy rich) carbohydrates, for example sucrose, glucose and starch. This process is arguably the most important biochemical process, since nearly all life on Earth either directly or indirectly depends on it. It is a complex process occurring in higher plants, phytoplankton, algae, as well as bacteria.

In other words, our very life depends on the conversion of CO2 and water to plant material and oxygen, which we and other animals then eat and breath. Read that again before you condemn CO2.

I wonder, is education in government run schools this bad that processes like photosynthesis are not taught in school these days? Doesn't anyone in the general population understand physics and chemistry anymore?

So why ignore oil, and drilling and refining new oil. Simple, for 60 years politicians have searched for ways to control people in the USA. They are too free, they use too much they produce too much, was the cry. So now, they have developed a scare monger's approach to the whole affair, scare people by claiming the planet is doomed, unless we act now. The fight is coming in June, when the McCain-Lieberaman "cap and trade" fiasco is coming up for a Senate vote in June. Oh yeah, I forgot, it is now called Warner-Lieberman, since McCain is running for President and doesn't want you to know he was the original sponsor. This stupid bill will cap the CO2 emissions and make many people very rich. Power companies stand to gain from this farcical piece of legislation. Many other companies will try and get filthy rich of this scheme. Companies like Al Gore's, stand to profit enormously from this climate hoax. How someone goes out as a public speaker for a policy that then stands to gain from the policy is beyond me.

In the UK the high court has labeled his movie fiction, and cannot be shown in schools without so noting and showing other views which correctly portray the Earth's Climate.

There is plenty of oil, 95% of the US shoreline is off limits to new drilling. Other wastelands are now called wildlife refuges and declared off limits, like ANWR. ANWR was called the WASTELAND OF THE NORTH, nothing is there but a few people who go there to see that nothing is there a few months out of the year, when it thaws out.

So the task that has been accep[ted by Liberals, like Jimmy Carter before them, is to destroy US capitalism. Liberals hate it, it empowers people, listen to what Obama and Hillary say, not what you think they say, they are MARXISTS in every definition of the term. MARXISTS seek control over over people. Here is a dictionary definition ...

... the political, economic, and social principles and policies advocated by Karl Marx; notably a theory and practice of socialism including the 'labor theory of value', dialectical materialism(A Marxian term, look it up), the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society

Karl Marx's most famous writings, the "Communist Manifesto". The people must be ruled, fairness is the methodology, and the end result, which never seems to show up, is a classless society.

Class warfare, which party exposes class warfare? Democrats, they use the language of we need to make Walmart pay, we need to "tax the rich" for the public good. Class warfare is all they are preaching and Karl Marx handed down the doctrine of their religion.

Obama when asked about lowering the capital gains tax, specifically that it had produced higher revenues to the treasury, he said "It's not about the money, it's about the fairness". You should stencil that on your forehead if you are an Obama voter. Wear it proudly, they will probably make up some song you can sing.

I have one that I am saving for the occasion ... a short verse goes like this ...

Hey Hey
Ho Ho
Where do my job go

Sing it you will need it. Jimmy Carter would be proud.

Meanwhile, if you want something to watch that should give you a chuckle, here is the 1970s version of global warming, global cooling. Yes that's right, the first try was we are all going to die because the ice age is coming and we are causing it. some of the cures, like spreading carbon black over the poles might seem a little humorous but it was real. Note some of the people named in the video are the very same who are now pushing the global warming hoax -- Yes same ones. They just hope you are young enough to not know.

Earth Day At The UN: Abolish Capitalism

From the BBC:

Two Latin American leaders have issued warnings about the effects of biofuel production on food supplies.

Speaking at the UN in New York, Bolivian President Evo Morales said the development of biofuels harmed the world's most impoverished people.

And President Alan Garcia of Peru said using land for biofuels was putting food out of reach for the poor.

Meanwhile UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is hosting a meeting to discuss European policy encouraging biofuels.

Ahead of the meeting, Mr Brown said that the UK should be "more selective in our support" for biofuels, which convert cereals into fuel.

Campaigners say providing a renewable alternative for conventional fuels could help stop global warming.

But as food prices climb worldwide, there is a fear that development of biofuels could reduce the production of badly-needed basic foodstuffs.

Ethanol production is on course to account for some 30% of the US maize crop by 2010, dramatically curtailing the amount of land available for
food crops.

The EU has meanwhile come under criticism for its target of getting 10% of road transport fuel from crops by 2020.

The head of the UN World Food Programme and the chief of the African Development Bank chief are among those attending the London meeting.

Bio-ethanol project

Opening a UN forum on the global impact of climate change on indigenous peoples, Mr Morales said that capitalism should be scrapped if the planet is to be saved from the effects of climate change.

"If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system," he said.

And what would we replace freedom, captilism and liberty with? MARXISM, like that being preached by Mrs Clinton and ever deft Barrack (no middle name) Obama.

Hmm this sounds familiar, I wonder what Bolivia's President did recently, oh yeah, I remember ...

Bolivian President Seizes Gas Industry
Troops Deployed In Move to Block Foreign Influence

Bolivian President Evo Morales seized control of the country's natural gas industry Monday, sending soldiers to occupy fields that he contends private companies have plundered for years.

Morales said that unless foreign energy firms agreed to give Bolivia's state oil company oversight of production and a majority of their revenue generated in Bolivia, the government would evict them from the fields.

Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth’

Newsbusters has the story right here. Is anyone surprised? Yes I am, shocked that ABC would expose it. This comes after the UK High court issued the printed record of the items in the film which was in fact false. The story about the ruling was run on October 7, 2007, but then there were virtually no stories in the US media about the lies Al Gore told.

Is it OK to use computer generated movie scenes to try and make a fact that you cannot find in nature to try and fool the public?

U.S. Not Panicked By Global Warming

And rightly so, computer models are not reality and even the UN IPCC has acknowledged that their 'predictions' are not to be viewed as 'predictions' anymore, just scenarios. Scenarios of what? Ignorance is your enemy, science and the truth is brings will set you free. Al Gore, a failed politician and charlatan getting rich off the hoax has no credential to talk about anything science. In fact, he bars all press from his high cost talks.

Is it any wonder that the polls show that Americans are educated enough to realize the hoax when they see it.

A new Gallup Poll shows a high level of awareness among Americans about global warming, but a far lesser degree of worry about the phenomenon.

The survey released Monday reported that while 80 percent of Americans said they understood the issue, only 40 percent believed it would become a serious threat in their lifetimes.

About a decade ago, a poll showed that 25 percent feared climate change would be a serious problem in their lifetimes.

Two-thirds of Americans say they worry a great deal or a fair amount about global warming. Only 17 percent said the issue doesn't worry them at all.

"The trend data suggest that despite the growing attention to and emphasis on global warming in recent years, there has been no consistent increase in worry about it since Gallup began asking the question way back in 1989," Gallup said in a written statement.

using the Saul Alinsky model, it's time to pick another subject, because you have failed with the global warming panic play.

The telephone survey was conducted March 6-9 and surveyed 1,012 Americans 18 years or older. The margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points.

Environmentalism is the lefty's new Communism, on the war on capitalism.

All people think that we should balance our actions, endless strip malls lining the roads, maybe the planning commissions should just say no to some of this. But the nonsense spewed by the left is just, well, it's just nonsense.

Real science tests their models, if the models are so accurate run a simple demonstration, set the initial conditions for 1979 data and predict the climate in 2007. Why these end dates, 1979 is the first year where reliable satellite data is available and 2007 is the last year that the record is complete. May the best model win ... LOL.

Why the 'LOL', they have done this, hence the scenario designation. It doesn't work.

Earth Day, Watch Out For Loons

Get a copy of Iain Murray's timely new book. The New York Post had a glowing review yesterday.

Tuesday is Earth Day, the calendar's High Holy Day of Green theology. With each passing year, environmentalism more clearly assumes the trappings of a secular religion. Now, along comes Iain Murray to assert that the Green God is dead.

Murray's new book, "The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About - Because They Helped Cause Them," clarifies the difference between caring for the environment - a reasonable and virtuous belief that people rightly harbor - and the modern-day movement known as environmentalism. The latter, Murray notes, has amassed a shameful legacy over a half century that has killed millions of people and consigned billions of others to backbreaking poverty. "Environmentalism deserves to be as discredited as Marxism," Murray argues. His book does a superb job of doing just that.

Murray, an energy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, lives a low-carbon lifestyle. He loves nature and the outdoors. He's practically a tree-hugger. Nevertheless, he makes clear, "I am not an environmentalist."

Why? Because, as he explains, environmentalism has become a socio-political movement exploiting people's genuine regard for nature as a smokescreen for expanding government and exercising power. And the results have been disastrous for both humanity and the environment.

Murray chronicles seven environmental catastrophes, and shows the hand of the professional environmental movement in each one.

Thanks to the efforts of Green patron saint Rachel Carson, environmentalists have succeeded in curbing the use of DDT, which, Murray writes, is "highly effective in controlling malaria and thereby lifting millions out of poverty." While it's unclear if banning the pesticide has had much in the way of environmental benefits, it has been unquestionably harmful to humankind. Unchecked malaria has killed tens of millions of people, particularly in Africa, and continues to cost people their lives each year. "In 2005 alone, across Uganda, 50,000 children died from malaria," Murray notes. "That is the true Silent Spring."

Environmentalism, the new home of modern Communism.

Cool It

Did you know that if everything recommended in the UN IPCC AR4 report were done, that it would have virtually no effect on global warming? Yes that's right, the expenditure of trillions will do virtually nothing. But if we started building nuclear power plants today, CO2 would be reduced with every nuclear power plant built and cheaper electrical energy would be provided. It is also true that most CO2 is due to fixed power plants, not automobiles.

Technology will advance, and when cheaper, better, lower polluting, more effecient forms of energy become available, they will be used. The market will speak. For now, nuclear power is the option that needs to be used where ever possible.





Danish economist Bjørn Lomborg's book is Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.

The Left And DDT

Rachel Carson, name ring a bell? Do you know who she is, what she did? She died in 1964 and has become a goddess to the environmental leftists -- Showing them the way of Gaia. Her book Silent Spring was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962. The book caused the panic, started the whole process of lies about how DDT was destroying the world, hence the title "Silent Spring" -- When all things are dead. The book is a fairy-tale, not based on science, but fiction -- "Silent Spring" was not even close to scientifically accurate. All Rachel Carson did was what modern day leftists are doing today, they demonize an industry, in the case of DDT it was the chemical industry, accusing them of spreading mis-information, when in fact the chemical companies were trying to get the truth out. It took over thirty years to expose this hoax and get the truth out. Even today, the leftists are holding conferences and meeting to try and put the DDT genie back in the bottle, but no one is listening to them this time.

DDT is just one of many scares and silly wars perpetrated against objects, thoughts and diseases by leftist that are designed to panic the people into taking actions they would have otherwise avoided. In this case, banning of an insecticide based on no scientific data. In case you are wondering, WHO, yes that UN group, has removed the ban on DDT September 15, 2006. After over thirty years and millions of dead African children, the ban has been lifted and DDT has gone back into production to fight malaria. Yeah, they say it's only for indoor use, but who thinks that will stand the test of time. Why did millions have to die for a leftists fairy tale? There motives were clear, DDT allowed the pushing back of man's habitable boundaries and the leftists want to contain humanity to preserves of their choosing.

... And now we come to Al Gore, his fictitious movie "Inconvenient Truth" and global warming, just the latest in the long line of leftists scares and their sycophant perpetrators who are trying to tell us we can control the sun if we will only pay enough taxes and live like they want us to live. You figure that one out for yourselves.

OK, I'll provide my answer ...

The scam never changes, only the targets. Yes, the "Silent Spring" hysteria WAS similar to the present "global warming" hysteria -- as the real process of science was perverted by a social/political movement.

Remember what Saul Alinsky said ... and you will understand the current state of continuous panic being spewed by the left.