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Forget Global Warming - it's Cycle 25 We Need to Worry
About.
Daily Mail,
January 29, 2012.
Important!
The release of new temperature data shows the planet has not
warmed for the past 15 years. After emitting unusually high levels of energy
throughout the 20th Century, the sun is now heading towards a ‘grand
minimum’ in its output, threatening cold summers, bitter winters and a
shortening of the season available for growing food. Sunspot numbers [in
Cycle 24] are running at less than half those seen during cycle peaks in the
20th Century…. Cycle 25, whose peak is due in 2022, will be a great deal
weaker still….
There is
a 92 per cent chance
that both
Cycle 25 and those taking place in the following decades will be as weak as,
or weaker than, the ‘Dalton minimum’ of 1790 to 1830. In this period average
temperatures in parts of Europe
fell by 2C.
Note: The global warming hoax is finally being exposed – in a way
that is far worse than global warming. The sun’s hibernation is almost a
certainty now. Whenever that has happened in the past, very cold summers and
winters have followed. Crop failures and starvation were the norm. We may be
witnessing the coming of a perfect storm; record cold, crop failures and a
deliberate, total financial collapse in the Western World. It is time to
prepare. |
Global Warming: The Other Side.
KUSI News, January 16, 2010. KUSI meteorologist John Coleman,
Cofounder of the Weather Channel, interviews a series of climatologists to
explain the real and fraudulent science and controversy surrounding Global
Warming. An excellent 5 part series. |
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Spain Suspends Subsidies for New Renewable Energy
Power Plants. Bloomberg,
January 28, 2012. Spain halted subsidies for renewable energy projects to
help curb its budget deficit and rein in power-system borrowings backed by
the state that reached 24 billion euros ($31 billion) at the end of 2011.
The system’s debts were racked up as revenue from state-controlled prices
failed to cover the cost of delivering power. Note: Spain began to
cut way back on subsidies last year. We knew it would not be enough because
of their financial woes. Spain has led Europe in renewable energy, and
studies have shown it has had a huge negative impact on their economy
(surprise, surprise). Germany and Britain have already began to reduce
subsides for the same reason. A complete suspension is inevitable. Yet,
Obama is still full steam ahead. |
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation Explained.
Nocapandtrade.us,
January 13, 2010. Accuweather's Joe Bastardi provides one of the best
explanations available on the relationship between earth's temperature and
the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and what is happening now that we are
entering the cool phase of the PDO. It explains far more than the CO2 model
of climate change. |
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New Emissions Data Dampen Global warming Fears.
Forbes, January 25, 2012. U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to track
lower than year 2000 levels. The new data rebut assertions that the United
States needs to impose new restrictions on coal-fired power plants and other
sources of carbon dioxide emissions. The primary reason...is the increasing
number of natural gas-fired power plants. U.S. power plants currently
produce 50% more [low-cost] power from natural gas than during the year
2000. Natural gas electricity production reduces CO2 emissions by 40% and
80% for carbon monoxide. This proves that free markets work. Note:
What more can be said other than the government subsidies of hundreds of
billions of dollars for green fuels has been a waste. Yet the agenda-driven
Obama administration continues to promote green energy. |
Data Fraud and Corruption.
To read newspapers and magazines, as well as TV news, it appears that the
data used to prove man is causing global warming is rock solid and not open
to debate. It is not. In fact, the data is so fraudulent and corrupted that
it should never be used to justify cap and trade legislation. Yet, that is
exactly what is happening. These are just a few of the examples of fraud. |
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No Need to Panic About Global Warming.
WSJ, January 27, 2012. Sixteen prominent international scientists have
signed a letter purporting there is no man-caused warming. "The lack of
warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming
over the 22 years since the U.N.'s IPCC began issuing projections—suggests
that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional
CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have
shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything
unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2. Note:
This is only one aspect discussed. It's worth reading. |
What's Wrong With Cap and Trade?
An overview by Kristie Pelletier of the
science and climate models of global warming. The models are wrong and there
has been natural warming and cooling for thousands of years. Cap and trade
legislation is not needed.
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Frequency of Strong Florida Hurricanes Decreased in
Last 600 Years.
Watts Up With That, January
26, 2012. Research has shown that the frequency of “high-magnitude”
hurricanes “peaked near 6 storms per century between 2800 and 2300 years
ago.” These super-storms exhibited a
marked decline,
which “began around 600 years ago” and has persisted through the present
with “below average frequency over the last
150 years when compared to the preceding five millennia.”
It is instructive to note
that over the past century and a half of ever-increasing fossil fuel
utilization and atmospheric CO2 buildup, the frequency of the
most intense category of hurricanes in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico has
been lower than it was over the prior five millennia,
which speaks volumes about the climate-alarmist claim that continued
anthropogenic CO2 emissions will lead to more frequent super
cyclones and hurricanes. Note: Another
alarmist myth bites the dust.
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Cap and Trade
Insanity. Cap and
Trade legislation in the US Senate will destroy the American way of
life--forever. It puts the government in charge of our economy. It forces
the use of renewable wind and solar energy which have serious problems we
are not being told about. Neither are economically feasible with today's
technology and will cost trillions of dollars. The same strategy in Spain
has resulted in huge job losses and escalating costs to Spanish consumers.
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MPs' Bid to Halt Hot Air Christ Huhne's Wind Farms.
Express, January 22, 2012. Britain's
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne wants a major expansion of onshore wind farm
development to help Britain meet green targets. Backbench MPs from all
parties will brand heavily subsidised onshore wind farms inefficient,
expensive and a major blight on the landscape.
They will urge Ministers to re-think a policy which will add
£280 to the annual energy bill of hard-pressed
homeowners by 2020. Note:
British Parliament may be following right on the heels of Germany's decision
to slash subsidies, in this case to wind farms rather than solar farms. The
cost of British electricity has already shot up 75% since it started
subsidizing wind farms. Yet, the govn't continues to push for more. |
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Crippling Cost. Although Congress tells us
that the cap and trade legislation will only cost an average family less
than $200 a year, that is just wrong. Very wrong. It is the biggest tax
increase in the history of the United States. But Congress is hiding it so
you can't see it. Analyses done by independent organizations shows that it
will cost families many thousands of dollars a year and will drastically
lower our standard of living. It hits the poor especially hard, even with
federal rebates. |
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Re-Evaluating Germany's Blind Faith in the Sun.
Der Spiegel, January 18, 2012.
Germany's solar energy thrust has gone from being the great white hope, to
an impediment, to a reliable energy supply. For weeks now, the 1.1 million
solar power systems in Germany have generated almost no electricity due to
short, overcast days. Solar farm operators and homeowners with solar panels
on their roofs collected more than €8 billion ($10.2 billion) in subsidies
in 2011 (€100 billion, $122 billion, since the beginning), but the
electricity they generated made up only about 3 percent of the total power
supply, and that at unpredictable times. Because there are almost no storage
options, the excess energy has to be destroyed at substantial cost. Note:
We have warned for years that with current technology solar power is a
farce, except in niche cases. Solar power is bleeding Europe dry financially
when they can least afford it. But as the Keystone XL pipeline clearly
shows, Obama will do anything to force the U.S. to go to solar and wind. |
The UN IPCC Fraud The
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is supposed to be
the last word on unbiased science concerning global warming. In fact, the
IPCC stifles any science that contradicts its man-caused mantra. It must not
be used to justify cap and trade legislation. |
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Obama's Job Council Report Says 'Drill'.
The Hill, January 18, 2012.
President Obama’s jobs council called Tuesday for an “all-in approach” to
energy policy that includes expanded oil-and-gas drilling as well as
expediting energy projects like pipelines. “The Council recognizes the
important safety and environmental concerns surrounding these types of
projects, but now more than ever, the jobs and economic and energy security
benefits of these energy projects require us to tackle the issues head-on
and to expeditiously, though cautiously, move forward on projects that can
support hundreds of thousands of jobs,” the report says. Note: Obama
has systematically done all he could to destroy all carbon-based energy
sources, putting the national security in jeopardy by making the U.S. more
dependent on untrustworthy foreign oil. There is no reason to expect he will
pay any attention to this common-sense report. |
The Carbon Footprint.
Carbon dioxide is not, cannot be a pollutant. It
is a miracle gas that is essential for life on earth, and was ten times more
abundant in geologic history. Kristie Pelletier explains that increased
levels of carbon dioxide has been a blessing to ecosystems and food
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New study confirms that nature
is responsible for 90% of the Earth’s atmospheric acidity.
WUWT, January 11, 2012. Satellites showing that
nature is responsible for 90% of the earth’s atmospheric acidity shocked
researchers from the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, whose findings
have just been published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Stunned, the scientists approached a team from the University of
Wollongong’s Centre of Atmospheric Chemistry (CAC) to confirm what satellite
readings were telling them. By providing data from a ground-based solar
Fourier transform spectrometer instrument at the University, CAC used
15-years worth of information to verify the satellite’s story: all existing
global models had substantially misjudged the main source of formic acid
levels on earth – its forests.
Note: Another man-caused theory bites the
dust. When will the alarmists admit they were wrong? Never. There are
billions of dollars and an entire global agenda at stake.
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Failure of Climate Models.
Leading international scientists explain why
man-caused global warming cannot be occurring. The entire man-caused global
warming fear is based on climate (computer) models. Climate models cannot
duplicate the complexity of earth's climate. When climate models attempt to
predict the past they fail miserably to predict to predict what actually
happened.
Excerpted from the DVD
Global Warming, Emerging Science and Understanding. |
Scripps blockbuster: Ocean acidification happens all
the time — naturally.
Watts Up With
That, January 9, 2012.
Remember all the end of the oceans stories
about the increasing oceans acidity destroyed coral reef, etc. It turns out
that far from being a stable pH, spots all over the world are constantly
changing. One spot in the ocean varied by an astonishing 1.4 pH units
regularly. All our human emissions are projected by models to change the
world’s oceans by about 0.3 pH units over the next 90 years, and that’s
referred to as “catastrophic”, yet we now know that fish and some calcifying
critters adapt naturally to changes far larger than that every year,
sometimes in just a month, and in extreme cases, in just a day. Note:
One by one all the
end-of-the-earth-because-of-man-caused-global-warming holocaust stories are
proving to be false; just like the skeptics said they would. Another one
bites the dust.
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CO2, Pollutant or Miracle Gas.
These leading scientists
explain how critically important CO2 is to life on earth. Atmospheric CO2
was as much as 10 times higher in the past as it is today, and
concentrations as much as 5 times current levels have not shown any adverse
effects. Plants are CO2 starved and thrive when CO2 levels are elevated. It
is estimated that crop production worldwide has increased already by 12
percent. It is essential to an expanding human population. Excerpted from
the DVD
Global Warming, Emerging Science and Understanding.
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Global
warming caused by greenhouse gases delays natural patterns of
Glaciation.
Watts Up With That, January 8, 2012.
Research shows current
levels of carbon dioxide are trapping too much heat in the atmosphere to
allow the Earth to cool as it has in its prehistoric past in response to
changes in Earth’s orbital pattern. The research team, a collaboration among
University College London, University of Cambridge and UF, said their data
indicate that the next ice age will likely be delayed by tens of thousands
of years. Note: Good news, right? No. These alarmists (after all they
have to get their next grant!) warn that this means glaciers will continue
to melt, raising the sea level dramatically -- even though sea levels have
declined slightly the past 10 years..
Besides, it’s much easier to buy an air conditioner and harvest more crops
(more CO2 & warm = more crops) than to try to plant crops in frozen soil and
get out of the way of spreading ice sheets. |
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UHI in South Korea -- Responsible for Over Half of the
Warming.
Watts Up With That? December 29, 2011. A new study published in the
Journal
of Atmospheric Environment quantifies the different components
of warming there, with UHI (Urban Heat Island) making up over half of the
total warming: "On average, the total temperature increase over South Korea
was about 1.37 °C; the amount of increase caused by the
greenhouse effect is approximately 0.60 °C, and the amount
caused by urban warming is approximately 0.77 °C."
Note: This is a very important study. The IPCC insists the Heat Island
Effect is so small that it is irrelevant. Skeptics have always thought that
the research supporting that conclusion was either fraudulent or was highly
manipulated. Because of the control over what research gets published, the
Climategate scientists have never allowed contrary research to be published
-- until now! |
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Climate Science Reaches a Landmark That Chills Global
Warming Alarmists. Forbes,
December 28, 2011. One of the fingerprints of human-induced global warming
is more rapid warming in the lower troposphere (±
10,000 ft elevation) than at the surface. However, satellites show less
warming in the lower troposphere than is reported by surface temperature
readings. Therefore, one of the following must be true: (1) the surface
temperature data is more corrupted by expanding urban heat islands and
localized land-use changes than the IPCC admits, (2) the warming of the past
33 years is primarily the result of factors other than greenhouse gas
emissions, or (3) longstanding, widely believed assumptions about greenhouse
gas theory are wrong. Note: Very good easy-to-read overview. |
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UN Elitists Hold Delegates Hostage at Climate Change
Conference.
Eagle Forum, December 21, 2011. (There have been
all kinds of mixed messages of the outcomes of COP 17 in Durban, SA. Phyllis
Schlafly explains why) The 17th annual United Nations Climate Change
Conference of the Parties (COP 17) held in Durban, South Africa ended at 5
a.m. on December 11th, running two days past the scheduled conclusion,
making it the longest climate conference in UN history (16 days). … Climate
change conferences have been deadlocked since COP 15 in 2009. The UN was
determined to break that deadlock…. Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres,
chose to keep delegates working overtime through Friday and Saturday nights
until the desired outcome was achieved. Delegates held hostage, suffering
from sleep deprivation and scheduling deadlines (i.e. flights home)
will eventually agree to anything. In desperation the delegates decided to:
- Platform requires a
working group to establish legally binding requirements for all Parties by
2015 to go into effect in 2020;
- Creates the architecture
of the Green Climate Fund (a fund of $100 billion per year to be given to
developing countries by 2020), but it does not name specific funding
sources;
- The commitment period
for the Kyoto Protocol was extended five to seven years past its current
expiration date of 2012;
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Sets up a new UN Climate Technology Center to facilitate technology
transfers to developing nations, finding ways around Intellectual Property
Rights (patents) barriers.
Note:
The UN established a
camel’s-nose-under-the-tent beachhead that prevented the total collapse of
the process, but it did not bind the U.S. to anything. However, it is far
more than the delegates wanted. Be watchful! |
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EU Court Force Airlines Into Carbon Trading Market.
The Daily
Bell, December 22, 2011. It is not enough that there is likely no such thing
as global warming or that, even if there was, humans could do anything about
it. Now, thanks to a lunatic ruling by the top EU courts, airlines around
the world will have to pay a "carbon tax" and participate in a brand new EU
"carbon market." While the ruling may somehow be appealed successfully, it
is indicative of the lunacy that now reigns supreme not just in Europe but
around the world. Human beings have gone mad collectively, not because they
are prone to madness but because Western elites are leading them there. It
begins with the
Anglosphere
power elite that uses fear-based promotions to frighten Western middle
classes into giving up power and wealth to previously created globalist
solutions. Note: Readers should already know this, but it is nice to
see a group tell it like it is. |
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EPA Ponders Expanded Regulatory Power in Name
of 'Sustainable Development'.
FoxNews.com, December 19, 2011. The EPA is giving itself
vastly expanded power to regulate businesses, communities and ecosystems in
the name of “sustainable development.” The recommendations urges the EPA to
“create a new culture among all EPA employees,” and hire an array of new
experts in order to bring the sustainability focus to every corner of the
agency and its operations.” Although the EPA does not define sustainability,
Obama has in an executive order signed in October, 2009, saying
sustainability is the ability “to create and maintain conditions, under
which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit
fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and
future generations.” Within this, the emphasis shifts from anticipating
environmental impacts to whether an activity “might” have
environmental impacts sometime in the next few centuries. Note: This
is huge! It virtually makes the EPA the High Priesthood of all
economic activity in the U.S., since anything we do “might” have an
environmental impact. This is full-blown UN Agenda 21 run amoke without
any constraints. |
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Polar Amplification Works Both Ways.
WattsUpWithThat.com, December 16, 2011.
Potentially breakthrough research using the sun's solar cycle length as the
determinant has showed a statistically significant predictive value using a
temperature data set from the island of Svalbard north of Norway (near the
North Pole). With the hibernation of the sun, “We predict an annual mean
temperature decrease for Svalbard of 3.5°C from solar cycle 23 to solar
cycle 24 (2009–2020) and a decrease in the winter temperature of ≈6°C.” A
6°C (42oF) temperature decrease in under ten years
from the present day! This is significant. It is going to get really cold
very soon. This predicted cooling is calculated to have a 95% confidence
level. Note: More and more research is showing we are heading for a
cold cycle. This is the coldest predicted by two orders of magnitude, yet,
statistically, it is the most accurate. Even a 2oC drop would be
devastating to the world's ability to produce food. While it is doubtful the
temp would drop by 6oC world wide the consequences would be as
bad or worse than the Little Ice Age in the 1700s when it was
±3oC cooler and
the Thames River in London froze solid every winter, accompanied by
significant starvation. Pray this is not correct. |
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Obama's Justice Department Joins Britain's
"Climategate Leaker Manhunt.
The Examiner, December 15, 2011. Attorney Chris Horner has had his FOIA
efforts to obtain public documents that could show criminal activity
thwarted for years by NOAA, NASA and other Federal agencies. Now the federal
government is throwing its full weight to finding and prosecuting the
individual(s) responsible for the 2009 and 2012 release of public
Climategate emails. The DOJ has joined the British government in this
effort. British police have raided the homes of several bloggers skeptical
of climate alarmism in which the police confiscated all the
equipment. Note: This is not good news. The feds block every legal
effort of private citizens to obtain their records that might show criminal
activity, while indiscriminately launching fishing expeditions that violate
Fourth Amendment rights of private citizens. |
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The Durban COPx "Til We Meet Again, Historically.
WattsUpWithThat.com, December 11, 2011.
The negotiations to replace the expiring (after
2012) Kyoto Protocol seemed to have failed. On its face, the rest of the
world agreed to let Europe continue binding itself until some later date.
Yesterday, ClimateWire reported that a fund was established to administer
the fund agreed in Copenhagen two years ago.
AP tells us that “a separate document obliges major developing nations
like China and India, excluded under Kyoto, to bind themselves to bind bind
themselves later. Note: Confused? The conclusion to COP 17 was such a
mish-mash that no one is sure what we have obligated ourselves too. The
final consensus documents have yet to be released so everyone is holding
their breath. Such uncertainty has never happened before. There are some
normally reliable, but unconfirmed rumors that it will not be good for the
U.S. Stay tuned. |
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Report from UN Climate Summit in Durban.
Climate Depot, December 9, 2011.
The
summit is reported to be a failure. However, a push is being made on the
last day to accept a new treaty containing, among the usual goals of
drastically reduced carbon emissions, will create a new
International Climate Court will
have the power to compel Western nations to pay ever-larger sums to
third-world countries in the name of making reparation for supposed “climate
debt”.
The draft also talks of “The recognition and defence of the
rights of Mother Earth to ensure harmony between humanity and nature”.
Note: This is but a sample. After years of failure, the UN hopes the
nations are no longer paying attention to what they are agreeing too. The UN
demands are becoming more radical and obvious. Let's hope this fails once
again. |
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North American Energy Inventory.
Institute for Energy Research,
December 7, 2011. When combined with resources from Canada and
Mexico, the total recoverable oil in North America exceeds 1.7 trillion
barrels. That’s more than the entire world has used in 150 years, and
sufficient to fuel the present needs in the United States for the next 250
years. The total amount of recoverable natural gas in North America is
approximately 4.2 quadrillion (4,244 trillion) cubic feet. That is enough
natural gas in North America to last for the next 175 years at current rates
of consumption. Coal is as abundant. Note: As we have been saying for
several years now, the U.S. could be entirely self-sufficient in supplying
our energy, but the progressives, especially Obama, refuse to do so.
Instead, they are leading us into bankruptcy into trying to convert to wind
and solar which is already proving disastrous in Europe. But then, that is
the entire purpose for the global warming scare and the insane policy to
convert us to green energy. |
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A-Z Climate Reality Check.
Climate Depot, December 7, 2011.
The scientific reality is that on virtually every claim -- from A-Z -- the
claims of the promoters of man-made climate fears are failing, and in many
instances the claims are moving in the opposite direction. The global
warming movement is suffering the scientific death of a thousand cuts.
Note: The only "evidence" warming alarmists can now legitimately use
(although there are hundreds of false claims in the media every month) is
that computer models forecast a rapid rise in temperature. However, the
introduction to this report notes "predictions or projections of 50-100 year
into the future is not evidence." That is especially true when research
published last July clearly showed the basic assumptions used by the models
is false.
Also see
http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/8/1603/. |
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New Hurricane Record--2232 Days and Counting Since
Major Hurricane Made Landfall on the USA.
WattsUpWithThat.com, December 5, 2011.
While the alarmists squall over trying to
control what they perceive as “extreme weather” driven by global warming at
Durban COP17, urging immediate action in the form of coughing up 100 billion
a year to poor countries for “reparations”, a quiet record has gone almost
unnoticed. As of midnight Sunday, it has been 2232 days since a major
hurricane (CAT3 or greater) made landfall on the USA. Irene this year (Cat
1) doesn’t count, and I have doubts it was even a Cat1 hurricane at all
given the low wind speeds when it made landfall. 1900 was the last record.
Note: The media have selective reporting when it comes to global
warming. They will never report this. However, don't get too comfortable.
When we finally get into the strong cooling period that should last three
decade, the number and intensity of hurricanes will probably pick up. |
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November 2011 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly.
WattsUpWithThat.com. December 5, 2011.
Sea Surface Temperature anomalies well within the range of a moderate La
Niña event. Note: Contrary to alarmist news reports, there has been no
warming of the ocean surface since the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
switched from warm to cool around 2000, except in 2010 when there was a
fairly strong El Niño. Sea surface temp. has been declining since 2010. Now
that we are in a cool phase of the PDO, it is highly likely there will be
more La Niña events which will cool the sea surface temperature even more;
along with the earth's temperature. |
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Climategate (Part II); a Sequel as Ugly as the First.
Weekly Standard, December 12, 2011. The stench from Climategate II continues
to get worse. Timothy Carter of the Finnish Environmental Institute wrote in
2000, “It seems that a few people have a very strong say, and no matter how
much talking goes on beforehand, the big decisions are made at the
eleventh hour by a select core group.” decisions at the highest levels
of what specific figures and conclusions were to appear in the short
“summary for policy makers”—usually the only part of the IPCC’s
multivolume reports that the media and politicians read—required
changing what appeared in individual chapters, a case of the conclusions
driving the findings in the detailed chapters instead of the other way
around. Note: We have always known this, but this is the first
time we have proof. The agenda drives the science to the point what science
shows means nothing. |
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Scientists Behaving Badly.
National Review Online, November
28, 2011. Climategate 2 is showing "virtually the entire warmist edifice is
built around a small, tightly knit coterie of persons (so-called scientists)
willing to falsify data and manipulate findings; or, to put it bluntly, to
lie in order to push a political agenda not supported by empirical evidence.
Note: Climategate 2 is gradually uncovering a staggering amount of
data manipulation, personal attacks on opposition and outright lies to
support a green ideology that Climategate 1 hinted at. I am going to include
in this posting some of the statements made. If you don't want to read them
that's fine, but they do tell a very troubling story:
As one states: “The trick may be to decide on
the main message and use that to guide what’s included and what is left
out.”
“I also think the science is being
manipulated to put a political spin on it, which for all our sakes might not
be too clever in the long run.”
“Observations do not show rising
temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one
single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just
downright dangerous. We need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest.”
Note: this warming is the foundation to the entire man-caused theory.
To admit that it is not warming in the tropics is to destroy the theory. It
is the elephant in the room that alarmists deny. No research pointing this
out has ever been accepted for publication (because they spiked it) until
this past summer. The alarmists are now in full retreat.
“The figure you sent is very
deceptive . . . there have been a number of dishonest presentations of model
results by individual authors and by IPCC [the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change].”
“I find myself in the strange
position of being very skeptical of the quality of all present
reconstructions, yet sounding like a pro greenhouse zealot here!”
At one point, Jones (head of the
CRU and of the cadre of scientists controlling the so called science) admits
that the “basic problem is that all of the models are wrong.” |
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UN Mischief from Durban to Rio.
Eagle Forum, November 30, 2011. The United Nations Climate Change Conference
in Durban, South Africa opened on November 28. A climate change treaty is
actually the goal of Chapter 9 of the United Nations Agenda 21. It's a major
goal of Agenda 21 to lower the U.S. standard of living by cutting our use of
energy by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Agenda 21 plans to use smart
meters, smart grids, and smart growth so that our nation's use of
electricity can be controlled, limited, and redistributed. Note: This
is a great easy to read article that quickly summarizes the purpose of
global warming treaty’s and how they fits into the total global agenda
through Agenda 21. |
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China Solar Makers Face 'Suicidal' Prices on Excess
Output.
Bloomberg Businessweek, November 25, 2011.
Losses for China’s largest solar manufacturers,
including Suntech Power Holdings Co. and JA Solar Holdings Co. may continue
through next year as declining shipments prompt them to slash prices and
liquidate inventory. Note: China forced solar companies like Solyndra
out of business because the Chinese government subsidized their industry
more than the U.S. did. The entire fraud is now being exposed and the solar
industry in China may collapse in the next year.
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Climategate 2.0: Shocker — 2007 NRC review of hokey
stick rigged by alarmists.
JunkScience.com, November 25, 2011. In an email exchange between Keith
Briffa (a paleontologist caught up in Climategate I) and Michael Mann
(author of the now debunked Hockey Stick Curve), Mann assures Keith Briffa
that an investigative hearing on the hockey stick scandal is rigged and that
he would appreciate Briffa there to defend him. Mann tells Briffa, "The
panel is solid. Gerry North should do a good job in chairing this, and the
other members are all solid. Chrisy is the token skeptic, but there are many
others to keep him in check." Note:
In other words the investigation has a predetermined outcome (which is
exactly what happened when it was actually held). Wisely, Briffa declined
the invitation and did not go.
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Climategate2: Leaked Emails Show Scientists
Manipulated Data on Global Warming.
November 24, 2011. Climate sceptics demanded a full public inquiry yesterday
after a new set of leaked e-mails appeared to show scientists manipulating
data to show man is causing global warming. The 5,000 excerpts of hacked
e-mails, dubbed Climategate 2, include one that states "What if climate
change appears to be just mainly a multidecadal natural fluctuation? They’ll
kill us probably." Peter Thorne of the Met Office (Britain's National
Meteorological Agency) wrote: "I also think the science is being
manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not
be too clever in the long run." Note: This second batch of hacked
emails reinforces the original Climategate. There has been no warming since
2001, and with the sun going into hibernation, we could be heading into not
just a cool phase of the multidecadal cycle, but a Dalton minimum which
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Draft 2012 IPCC Report Claims Natural Variability Will
Rule Next 20-30 Years. UN
IPCC Draft Executive Summary, November 18, 2011. "Projected changes in
climate extremes under different emissions scenarios generally do not
strongly diverge in the coming two to three decades, but these signals are
relatively small compared to natural climate variability over this time
frame. Even the sign of projected changes in some climate extremes over this
time frame is uncertain." (Bottom of page 9) Note: This is huge! They
probably had to admit it because it is becoming clear the next 2-3 decades
will be much cooler because the sun is going into hibernation. For the IPCC
to admit this should rip the man-caused warming theory to shreds. However,
it probably won't, because the theory has never been based in science, but
is an agenda to create global governance! |
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Scientist Who Said Climate Change Skeptics Had Been
Proved Wrong Accused of Hiding Truth by Colleague.
Mail Online,
October 30, 2011. Professor
Richard Muller, of Berkeley University in California, and his colleagues
from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures project team (BEST) claimed to
have shown irrefutable evidence that man is causing global warming (see post
from Oct 20). However, a leading member of Muller's team has accused him of
trying to mislead the public by hiding the fact that BEST's research shows
global warming has stopped! Note: This is developing into a major
scandal, perhaps to the level of Climategate two years ago. Alarmists have
to lie continuously to keep the deception going. Again, there is absolutely
no empirical scientific evidence man is causing warming! None! |
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Shale Gas Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Woes.
The Express, October 24, 2011. Like a bigot who refuses to listen to reason,
the Lib Dem Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has halted the expansion of
Britain’s gas capacity because, he grandly declares, nothing can “endanger
our carbon dioxide goals…” Green activists have also called for a moratorium
on shale gas drilling…. “We are worried that a shale gas goldmine would take
money away from renewables,” cries Friends of the Earth. The exquisite irony
is that shale gas is less damaging to the environment than the endless
parade of windfarms, which are energy-intensive to build, scar the
landscape, require expensive back-up power stations and threaten wildlife,
especially birds. Note: The development of cheap shale gas is being
blocked in Britain (and some extent, the U.S.) by government politicians and
environmentalists who demand we go to alternative energy that is 5 to 10
times more expensive. It is time to vote out these politicians and deny
environmentalists the incredible power they have garnered for themselves. |
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Scientist Confuses Global Warming with Man-Made
Warming. Climate Depot, October 20,
2011.
Berkeley University Professor Richard A. Muller is a very confused man.
Muller is claiming in a October 21, 2011 Wall Street Journal OPED that
skeptics of man-made global warming fears no longer have any basis to doubt
“global warming” because his new study confirms that the Earth has warmed
since the 1950s! Muller seems to imply that the terms “global warming” and
man-made global warming are interchangeable and any warming is
somehow "proof" of human causation.
Note:
This is a deliberate attempt to muddy the water and mislead people. No one
denies the earth has warmed since 1950. Skeptics claim there is zero
empirical scientific evidence that man caused it! That’s right, zero! |
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Heat Island Effect Has Small
Effect on Global Warming.
Science News, October 20, 2011. Heat emanating from cities -- called the
"urban heat island" effect -- is not a significant contributor to global
warming, Stanford researchers have found. 'This study shows that the urban
heat island effect is a relatively minor contributor to warming, contrary to
what climate skeptics have claimed,' said Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of
civil and environmental engineering. Note: FYI, skeptics have NEVER
made this claim. Urban areas don't occupy enough area to have ANY impact on
overall global temperatures. What skeptics have said is that temperatures
from ground temperature measuring stations located in urban areas with heat
island effect (a significant portion of the total number of stations) are
skewed much higher than the ambient temperature outside the urban area. When
averaged into the total, the average global temperature reported by
alarmists is skewed upward. This is a fact. Yet, Jacobson (deliberately?)
muddies the water for the average person reading his report. His report is
garbage. |
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America's Worst Wind Energy Project.
NCPA, October 17, 2011. The more people know about the wind energy business,
the less they like it. And when it comes to lousy wind deals, General
Electric's (GE) Shepherds Flat project in northern Oregon is a real stinker.
The majority of the funding for the $1.9 billion, 845-megawatt Shepherds
Flat wind project is coming courtesy of federal taxpayers. It will provide a
windfall for General Electric and its partners. GE could easily pay for it
itself. In fact, GE paid no federal income tax in 2011 because of tax
credits from sweetheart deals with the federal government. The cost of
the projected 35 permanent "green energy" jobs will be about $16.3 million
each. Note: Another name for these public/private partnerships is called
fascism. |
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Sen. Inhofe Calls for New Hearings On EPA's Flawed
Endangerment Findings. EPA
Abuse, October 6, 2011. Senator James
Inhofe (R-OK) issued a call for a new investigation into the EPA’s flawed
endangerment findings on carbon dioxide based on the EPA Inspector General’s
report showing that the EPA failed to follow the correct procedures before
it issued its finding that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant. The EPA blindly
used the UN's science to find the endangerment. Climategate emails clearly
showed the UN cooked the books. Note: The EPA's finding led to the
writing of tens of thousands of new pages of very destructive
regulations. Obama has kept the EPA from enforcing them only because they
would destroy the economy during an election year. |
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British Chancellor Vows British UK Carbon Emissions
Cuts Will Not Lead Europe.
Guardian, UK, October 3, 2011. Chancellor George
Osborne has vowed that the UK will not lead the rest of Europe in its
efforts to cut carbon emissions, raising the prospect that the country's
carbon targets could be watered down if the EU does not agree to more
ambitious emission reduction goals. Osborne insisted the government will
only cut emissions in line with its neighbours in order to ensure British
businesses are not put at a disadvantage. "We're not going to save the
planet by putting our country out of business," he said. "So let's at the
very least resolve that we're going to cut our carbon emissions no slower
but also no faster than our fellow countries in Europe." Note:
Reality is finally starting to have an effect in Britain, which until six
months ago was blindly rocketing ahead of everyone else and paying a steep
price for it. Now all they need to do is abolish the economy killing
regulations they have already passed. |
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Extreme Weather Events Are Killing Fewer
People Than Ever Before.
Reason Foundation, September 22, 2010.
Despite concerns about global warming and a large increase in the number of
reported storms and droughts, the world’s death rate from extreme weather
events was lower from 2000 to 2010 than it has been in any decade since
1900. Drought caused 60% of all deaths since 1900. Mortality has dropped
99.9%. Floods caused 30% of all deaths since 1900 have dropped by 98%.
Deaths from storms dropped by 75%. The number of extreme weather events
increased from 2.5 per year in the 1920s to 350 per year recently -- mostly
due to the ability to report them worldwide. Note:
Another source of headlines for wild-eyed fear mongering bites the dust. The
alarmists will never give up, however, because global warming fear mongering
is being used in a political agenda that has nothing to do with science
reality.
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Obama Calls it Right—Sea Levels Are Falling!
Climate Depot,
September 21, 2011. Obama declared in a June 8, 2008 speech, that his
presidency will be “the
moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to
heal.” Earlier this month, the
European Space Agency's
Envisat monitoring, global sea level revealed a “two year long
decline [in sea level] was continuing, at a rate of 5mm per year.” In August
2011, NASA announced that global sea level was dropping and was “a quarter
of an inch lower than last summer.” …. Additionally, “No hurricanes have
struck the US since Obama became president, temperatures and sea level have
dropped, and we have had record snow,” Real Science
noted.
“Reservoirs are filling up – and all of the damage [President George W.]
Bush did to the climate has been healed. Obama should declare 'mission
accomplished' and take credit!” Note: Real Science is manned
by extreme alarmist scientists. Obama’s promise is one of the only one he
has really followed through on. If only he would turn his apparent awesome
powers into finding a job for everyone and get us out of this
recession/depression! |
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EPA Again Delays Greenhouse-Gas Rule.
Wall
Street Journal, September 15, 2011. The Environmental Protection Agency is
again delaying a plan to curb greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants,
saying it needs more time to propose the rule. The move comes amid intense
pushback from business groups and Republican lawmakers who complain a recent
slate of EPA proposals are chilling business investment and hindering the
economic recovery. Note: These thousands of pages of new regs are
economy destroyers designed to kill the coal and refinery industry and force
us to go to wind and solar power. The failure of Solandra and its backlash
has probably scared Obama into delaying the implementation of these regs
again. The EPA is no longer a science-backed organization but a political
arm of the president. |
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Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Resigns from American
Physical Society Over Its Support of Man-made Warming.
Climate Depot. Nobel prize winner for physics in 1973 Dr.
Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS)
on September 13, 2011 in disgust over the group's promotion of man-made
global warming fears. Dr. Giaever wrote to Kirby of APS: “Thank you for your
letter inquiring about my membership. I did not renew it because I cannot
live with the (APS) statement below (on global warming): APS: 'The
evidence is incontrovertible: Global
warming is occurring. In addition to Giaever,
other prominent scientists have resigned from APS over its stance on
man-made global warming. Note: This resignation merely continues the
trend of hundreds of world-class scientists that preceded Giaever that
switched their views. |
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Obama green-tech program that backed Solyndra
struggles to create jobs. Washington Post,
September 14, 2011. A $38.6
billion loan guarantee program that the Obama administration promised
would create or save 65,000 jobs has created just a few thousand jobs two
years after it began, government records show. After spending half of this
plan, the program has only developed 3,545 jobs. Note: Obama has
spent almost 47% of the $38.6 billion to create 5.4% of the promised jobs.
This works out to $5,077,574 per job created! Spain who created green jobs
for 12 years before going belly up only spent $750,000 per green job. Spain
also determined that it killed 2.2 jobs in the normal economy for every
green job created. I think Obama is trying to become the next definition of
insanity. |
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The Myth of Green Jobs.
GWPF Report 3. September, 2011. A new report in Britain has found that the
government target for generating electricity from renewable energy sources
will involve a capital cost that is 9-10 times the amount required
to meet the same demand by relying upon conventional power plants. When
added to the much higher operating costs of green energy, these costs will
bankrupt many manufacturers; likely reduce the GDP by 2-3% (up to 4-5%);
and add 0.6-0.7 percent to the core inflation rate. Note: Spain has
already shown this, and is in fact, one of the major reasons they are now
facing total financial collapse. There is overwhelming evidence that green
jobs NEVER work, yet that has not stopped the absolutely
insane political agenda to allegedly save the world by creating green
jobs.
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White House-Backed Solar Energy Company Collapses.
ABC News, August 31, 2011. Solyndra, a renewable energy firm that became the
darling of the Obama Administration, shut the doors to its California
headquarters today, raising fresh questions from the administration's
critics about political favoritism in the federal loan program. The $500
million government loan guarantee was supposed to spur 1,000 full-time jobs
once Solyndra's solar plant was fully operational. Instead, as the company
announced Chapter 11 bankruptcy today, 1,100 would lose their jobs.
Note: Nothing works for green jobs. The taxpayer is on the hook for
another $500 million (peanuts compared to the trillions of deficit and
debt). Even GE is getting out of the wind turbine business while at the
government subsidy trough. The British are furious as their electricity
prices skyrocket and will soon double. The concept of green jobs was insane
from the very beginning. |
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Texas Wind Energy Fails, Again.
National Review, August 29, 2011. Texas has 10,135 megawatts of installed
wind-generation capacity, which is nearly three times as much as any other
state. And yet, last week, when the state's electricity demand hit 66,552
megawatts, all of the state's wind turbines mustered just 880 megawatts of
power when electricity was needed the most. Why? The wind doesn't blow when
there is a heat wave--every time. Note: The latest data from the
Energy Information Administration show that building a megawatt of new wind
capacity costs $2.43 million -- up 21 percent over the year-earlier costs --
while a new megawatt of gas-fired capacity costs a bit less than $1 million,
a drop of 3 percent from year-earlier estimates. Because of the lack of
dependability, the gas-fired capacity has to be running all the time to
instantly pick up the slack when the wind dies down! This is insanity! |
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Climate Change Reconsidered.
Heartland Institute, August 30, 2011. This
in-depth analysis found that “natural causes are very likely to be [the]
dominant” cause of climate change that took place in the twentieth and at
the start of the twenty-first centuries.” The new analysis also reported a
2007 survey of climate scientists, the majority of whom "say they do not
believe the scientific claims that underlie the theory and predictions
of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change, yet large majorities of those
same scientists say they nevertheless believe in the theory and its
predictions....This cognitive dissonance gives rise to and sustains a
popular mass delusion." Note: What more can I say! |
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Probing the Cosmic-ray--Climate Link.
Physics World, August 24, 2011. The
CERN particle-physics laboratory in Geneva...mimicked conditions in the
Earth's atmosphere. By firing beams of particles from the lab's Proton
Synchrotron accelerator into a gas-filled chamber, they have discovered that
cosmic rays could have a role to play in climate by enhancing the production
of potentially cloud-seeding aerosols.... They discovered that at altitudes
of 5 km or more, where temperatures are below –25 °C, sulphuric acid and
water can readily form stable aerosols of a few nanometres across and that
cosmic rays can increase the rate of aerosol production [needed for cloud
formation] by a factor of 10 or more. Note: This is a
confirmation of the process we have been describing for years and totally
denied by the warming alarmist scientists. These type of clouds cool
the earth. Much remains to be done as other things were discovered
too. |
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British Media Avoids the Facts About the
Wind Farm Scam.
The Telegraph, August 20, 2011. Britain is busy cluttering the land and
seascape with wind farms costing citizens as much as 22 times
more than natural gas power generating stations that have only a small
visual impact. A full third of all energy taxes will go to subsidizing wind
energy! Like American citizens, the citizens of Britain are not being told
about these enormous costs. However, the truth is trickling out. At the very
best the wind farms produce electricity only 30 percent (average 21 percent)
of the time, requiring other wind farms elsewhere where the wind is still
blowing to pick up the slack, or to have gas-fired generating plants on
standby to instantly kick in when the wind stops blowing.
The
government is doing it solely because it promised the EU it would! Note:
This insanity is coming our way. Because the wind only blows 15-30
percent of the time, a gas or coal generating facility still has to be
running to pick up the slack, which doubles the cost!
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Old Report Re-ignites Global Warming 'Flim-Flam'.
OneNewsNow.com, August 17, 2011. The so-called "confirmed" evidence in 2006
that retreating polar ice caused polar bear drownings is now being
investigated as scientific misconduct by the Interior Department. It turns
out the polar bears drowned during storms or because of old age. However,
alarmist scientists blew this way out of proportion and it led to the
listing of the polar bears being an endangered species. This then led to the
EPA issuing thousands of new regulations to cap CO2 emissions that will
ensure the U.S. will never have economic recovery. Note: One more false
claim is debunked. This one, however, was used in a way that is extremely
damaging to the U.S. economy. Hopefully, it will allow the polar bear to be
de-listed as an endangered species, which should then eliminate the
thousands of new EPA regs. |
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Arctic Ice 'Tipping Point" Disproven.
Pajamasmedia, August 5, 2011. Danish
scientists have discovered that during a long-ago warming phase called the
Holocene Climate Optimum, there was actually much less Arctic ice coverage
back then than there is today (or will be in the future under pessimistic
projections). Yet, the ice cap recovered. This disproves the theory that as
the ice cap disappears the loss of its reflectivity will be a tipping point
that will accelerate global warming forever. Note: Another red
herring fear tactic bites the dust. |
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69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global
Warming Research. Rasmussen Reports, August 3,
2011. The debate over global
warming has intensified in recent weeks after a new NASA study was
interpreted by skeptics to reveal that global warming is not man-made. The
latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows
that 69% say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have
falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs,
including 40% who say this is Very Likely. That's up by 10 points from
December 2009, right after Climategate. Note: Finally, the American
people are beginning to doubt the man-caused global warming theory in
significant numbers. |
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UK Faces Green Agenda Backlash as
Energy Prices rise.
Reuters, July 25, 2011. The British government
faces a public backlash against its green energy agenda as consumers are
unwilling to spend more on power and gas bills to pay for investment in
low-carbon forms of energy. 75% of people do not want to see higher energy
prices after utility companies announced another double-digit price
increase. The government's response? The people are too dumb to understand.
We must make it clearer. Note: 25% of the British population already
suffers from "energy poverty" as energy costs have already skyrocketed by 71
% and now companies are threatening to move to other countries. Now the
government is "amazed" at the negative reaction. Like Obama in the U.S.
claiming the people are just too dumb to understand his brilliant heath care
plan, the British government is redoubling its effort to explain why high
energy prices are good. |
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Ice age threat should freeze EPA global
warming regs. Washington
Examiner, July 26, 2011. The U.S. National Solar
Observatory, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and astrophysicists
across the planet report that the nearly all-time low sunspot activity may
result in a sustained cooling period on Earth. the last similar crash
in sunspot activity coincided with the so-called "Little Ice Age" in the
1600s that lasted nearly a century. The EPA, which
has enacted draconian measures will, by President Obama's admission, make
energy costs "skyrocket." The subject of intense litigation, the EPA
regulations were enacted this year without congressional approval. Estimates
put the economic damage of these regulations at $1 trillion over the next 20
years, with a loss of between four and 10 million jobs. Note:
We have been
warning about this for years. It is here. Insanity reigns supreme. |
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Proof that the Government is tilting at windmills.
Sunday Telegraph. July 2, 2011.
If Britain is to spend £100 billion in subsidies
on building thousands of wind turbines, it will require the building of 17
new gas-fired power stations simply to provide back-up for all those times
when the wind drops and the windmills produce even less power than usual.
Two things make this even more absurd. One, it will be amazingly costly and
wildly uneconomical, since the dedicated power plants will often have to run
at a low rate of efficiency, burning gas but not producing electricity. This
will add billions more to our fuel bills for no practical purpose. The other
absurdity, as recent detailed studies have confirmed, is that gas-fired
power stations running on "spinning reserve" chuck out much more CO2 than
when they are running at full efficiency – thus negating any savings in CO2
emissions supposedly achieved by the windmills themselves. Note:
We've been warning about this for years. The inmates in the insane asylum
are now in charge of our governments. |
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New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole in Global Warming
Alarmism. Forbes, July 27,
2011. NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s
atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist
computer models have predicted. This means much less warming than these
models have predicted and supports prior studies indicating increases in CO2
trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.
Note:
This finally proves one of the biggest errors of the alarmist models that
has long been suspected and articulated by skeptics.
Also see
http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/8/1603/. |
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The Goal Is Power: The Global Warming Conspiracy.
Forbes, July 25, 2011. The man-made global warming claim is a fraud, one
that has already cost billions of dollars and is a clear and present danger
to our liberty and democratic traditions — and, ironically, to the
environment itself. Global warming is not about science, but about politics
— that is, about expanding the power of elites using the coercive
instruments of government to control the lives of people everywhere. Just as
the governing class embraces ineffective Keynesian stimulus spending to
justify expansion of government, they now extol AGW as the basis for
increasing their power to rule over the rest of us. Note: Even as the
elite dogmatically use the man-caused global warming fear to drive their
plan to global government, more and more evidence keeps dogging them that
global warming is a fraud. A gigantic fraud. |
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Electric Vehicles Debunked by
Electric Utility Researchers.
Junk Science, July 20, 2011. A new
report from inadvertently the Electric
Power Research Institute (EPRI) exposes Electric Vehicles as pointless even
under the rosiest scenario. EPRI project sales of 65 million electric
vehicles by 2030 (itself highly unlikely), would save 7 billion gallons of
gas. However, that is only 5% of the gas used in 2010, and by 2030 7 billion
gallons would be meaningless. EPRI also claims it would reduce CO2 emissions
by 90 million tons annually -- about 1.2% current U.S. emissions which is
also meaningless. The tens of billions put into developing electric vehicles
is never going to significantly impact CO2 emission. Note: None of
the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions justifies their huge costs of
development and subsidization of implementation. |
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British Jobs Gone with the Wind.
Sunday Telegraph, July 17, 2011.
Crippling new taxes proposed to
subsidise green energy (wind) could force key employers out of business.
Until now, the main controversy about electricity
prices has been to do with driving another 700,000 people into “fuel
poverty”. But the impact on manufacturing could deliver a double whammy by
driving manufacturing out of Britain, and a million jobs with them. Note: We
have been predicting this for years. It has already happened in Spain and
Italy, two of the EU nations that are a hair's breath away from collapsing.
This doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out. Yet,
progressive/socialist politicians seem to be incapable--unless they push
alternative energy as a part of a much larger agenda. |
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The Wind Turbine Backlash.
Mail Online, July 11, 2011. Plans to cover Britain with wind farms are being
thwarted by a growing tide of public opposition. Half of all applications
are being rejected... "It is the inevitable and inexorable consequence of a
costly, unpopular and completely pointless policy that is butchering
Britain's green and pleasant landscape without having any effect on the
climate," notes Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. "These
green projects are only viable because of multi-million subsidies." Note:
As we have said for years, the alternative energy sector could not survive
without political clout and huge subsidies (which we pay for along with
higher energy costs). The British are apparently beginning to see through
the scam. |
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Estimating annual numbers of Atlantic hurricanes.
Journal of Climate 24:1736-1746 in Climate Change Reconsidered, July
5, 2011. A new analysis of the characteristics of Atlantic hurricanes
(tropical cyclones or TCs, whose peak winds exceeded 33 m/s) for the period
1878-2008, showed that the results "do not support the hypothesis that the
warming of the tropical North Atlantic due to anthropogenic (man-caused)
greenhouse gas emissions has caused Atlantic hurricane frequency to
increase." Note: Hurricane scientists have been saying for years that
the physics needed to create hurricanes do not occur in warming periods. Of
course, they are totally ignored by the mainstream media. This research will
also be ignored because it is not about science, it is about the politics of
controlling you and me. |
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A quarter of Brits are living in fuel poverty as
energy bills rocket
London Mirror, June 6, 2011. As energy prices go through the roof due to
forced implementation of alternative energy schemes to stop global warming,
shocking figures reveal one in four families has been plunged into fuel
poverty. At least 18 million people are spending 10% or more of their take
home pay on energy bills. Based on the new way of calculating fuel poverty,
47% of working class families and 22% of the middle classes fall into this
bracket.
Fuel bills have rocketed by 71% in the
past five years rising from £660 a year in 2006 to £1,131 today. Note:
We’ve been forecasting this for years. The same thing will happen in the
U.S. if Obama and the progressives continue down the same path. After all,
Obama did promise that energy prices will necessarily skyrocket if we
implement his energy policy. |
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IPCC Declares Greenpeace in Our Time.
London Telegraph, June 18, 2011. The new IPCC report on renewable energy
reads less like a scientific document and
more like a propaganda puff for the world's renewable industries. It doesn't
mention that the major defect of wind farms is that they only generate, on
average, 25 per cent or less of their nominal capacity, are ludicrously
inefficient and expensive, and they don't work when the wind is not blowing.
The derisory amount of power they produce can make no significant
contribution to meeting the world's energy needs.
The
output of all 12,000 turbines in America equates on average to no more than
that of two large coal-fired power stations.
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Supreme Court Rejects Climate Nuisance Suits.
Junk Science, June 20, 2011. The Supreme Court unanimously
rejected the effort by some states to sue utilities for greenhouse gas
emissions on the basis of the nuisance doctrine, holding that the Clean Air
Act pre-empts federal common law. On the downside, it reaffirmed the right
of the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases based on the Clean Air Act -- albeit
with caveats. Note: This is good news because
there is evidence that activists in many states were gearing up to flood the
courts with nuisance lawsuits. The bad news is that the EPA should have no
right to use the Clean Air Act (CAA) to issue an avalanche of new
regulations to curb greenhouse gas emissions. First, there is no scientific
basis for the EPA to do this, and second the CAA is not designed to handle
this kind of problem.
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Is the Sun Causing Global Warming?
Guardian, UK, April 6, 2011. Alarmists say: "the total solar energy reaching
Earth changes very little over time. Across the 11-year solar cycle, it
varies by less than 0.1%, and even across the period since the little ice
age chill of 1750, solar output climbed no more than about 0.12%...
Subsequent estimates by Judith Lean of the Naval Research Laboratory and
others have pegged the solar contribution to 20th-century warming at 10% or
less." Note: This research is classic misdirection. Whenever the
issue of the sun comes up, alarmists trot out the above fact that total
energy emitted by the sun cannot cause temperature changes. However, it has
NEVER been about the total solar energy output. It is all about the KIND of
solar output. When the sun is active it emits tremendous amounts of solar
wind which interacts with cosmic radiation to warm the earth. When it is
quiet, like is forecast for the next 20-30 years, the opposite happens and
the earth cools. Alarmists never talk about that because it destroys
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Climate change panel in hot water again over 'biased' energy report.
The Independent,
June 16, 2011. The UN's IPCC once again used a Greenpeace campaigner to help
write one of its key reports, which critics say made misleading claims about
renewable energy. The IPCC's report claimed renewable sources (not including
nuclear) could provide 77 per cent of the world's energy supply by 2050. It
was later acknowledged the report was based on a declining use of energy
globally and the most favorable IPCC prediction. Note: This is physically
impossible. The report should totally discredit the IPCC's credibility, but
it won't. This gargantuan fraud won't even be printed by most main stream
media. They'll sweep it under the rug. So the agenda to create a world
government will go on unabated.
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Major Drop In Solar Activity Predicted.
Space Daily, June 15, 2011. Solar cycle 24 is far below
average, meaning much fewer sunspots. As the current sunspot cycle, Cycle
24, begins to ramp up toward maximum, independent studies of the solar
interior, visible surface, and the corona indicate that the next 11-year
solar sunspot cycle, Cycle 25, will be greatly reduced or may not happen.
"If we are right," Hill concluded, "this could be the last solar maximum
we'll see for a few decades. That would affect everything from space
exploration to Earth's climate." Note: The last time this happened Earth
experienced the Little Ice Age when temperatures dropped 3 degrees
centigrade, crops failed, mass starvation occurred, and the Thames River
in England froze every year. Pray this doesn't happen.
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Sun Headed into Hibernation, Solar Studies Predict.
Victoria Jaggard.
National Geographic. Three independent studies of the
sun's insides, surface, and upper atmosphere all predict that the next solar
cycle will be significantly delayed—if it happens at all. The predicted
solar "sleep" is being compared to the last grand minimum on record, which
occurred between 1645 and 1715. Note: This is monumental news,
especially if NASA, NOAA and the National Geographic are reporting it. All
three have been hyping global warming for two decades. NASA and NOAA have
repeatedly been accused with hard evidence of cooking the books. This news
confirms what the skeptics have been saying all along -- its natural cycles.
Still, proponents are still trying to hedge their bets by saying it won't be
serious because all the CO2 we've added will negate its impact. They never
quit! |
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Ten Years And Counting: Where’s The Global Warming?
Forbes, June 8, 2011. Global greenhouse gas emissions have risen even faster
during the past decade than predicted by the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other international
agencies. According to alarmist groups, this proves global warming is much
worse than previously feared. So say scientists at the present climate talks
in Bonn, Germany. But there’s only one problem with this storyline; global
temperatures have not increased at all during the past decade. Note: It is nothing short of astonishing how alarmists
will ignore the obvious evidence that totally destroys their belief. There
is only two choices. Either they have an agenda that they must force through
(which is world government) or they are such ideologues that they are blind
(also true). |
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Wind farms aren't just a blight, they're a folly.
London Telegraph, June 7, 2011. Europe’s manufacturing companies, including
airlines, are demanding their respective governments abandon their carbon
reduction policies. They are already destroying these companies
economically. The enormous subsidies needed to make wind and solar energy
profitable are increasing, threatening economic solvency. Worse, “to produce
the same amount of electricity as one coal-fired power station, you'd need a
wind farm the size of Greater London. And when there is no wind – or even
when there is too much – the power produced is minuscule or the turbine has
to be switched off while fossil-fuel stations take up the slack.” Note:
This is exactly what we have warned will happen for the past 6 years. Yet,
politicians refuse to take off their blinders and ear plugs. |
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Evidence that Cosmic Rays Seed Clouds; Sun,
Not Man Causes Global Warming
Junk Science, June 2, 2011. The more cloud cover occurring around the world,
the lower the global temperature – and vice versa when there are fewer
clouds. Scientists have succeeded for the first time in directly observing
that the electrically charged particles coming from space (cosmic rays) and
hitting the atmosphere at high speed contribute to creating the aerosols
that are the prerequisites for cloud formation. The results suggest that the
total (direct + indirect) solar forcing of earth’s temperature is at least
3.5 times stronger than that due to changing solar irradiance alone.
Note: For decades warming alarmists have discounted the sun as a source
of global warming while skeptics say it is the key to earth’s warming and
cooling. The alarmists only use solar irradiance to discredit the sun and
have refused to consider the sun’s magnetic flux. This research proves that
the sun’s magnetic fluxes and cosmic rays are the driving force.
Expect the alarmists to try to discredit it. |
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Everything You've Heard about Fossil Fuels May Be
Wrong
Salon, May 31, 2011. As the wind and solar power industry collapses in
Europe because of high costs, and the fears of man-caused global warming
subside as proof emerges that CO2 is not a major cause of warming, it is
finally being recognized that there is more than enough shale natural gas
and oil to last civilization for centuries. We are witnessing the dawn of
fossil fuel energy, not its end as thought just a few years ago. Note:
The question now becomes when will the politicians realize this
(especially Obama) and will the global agenda to deny us cheap energy
prevail in suppressing this fantastic news. |
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EU Push for Green Energy Costs Another 1500 Jobs.
Express UK. May 21st.
Britain lost another 1500 jobs yesterday
because of high green energy costs. The
UK’s drive for green energy will send £60billion and 600,000 jobs “up in
smoke” by creating the “highest energy costs in the world”. More wind
farms, green levies and taxes aimed at making Britain a world leader in
cutting greenhouse gases widely blamed for global warming, will “undermine”
Britain’s ability to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by forcing out
innovative companies. Note: I never ceased to be amazed at the
ideological blindness of socialists who continue to rabidly push their
failed programs even when they reality of their failure pushes them to
economic disaster. Tragically the progressives in the US, including our
president, have the same disease. |
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New Tech Allows Vast Reserves of Methane by Replacing
It with CO2. Forbes, May
19, 2011. Scientists have injected carbon dioxide
into the kind of methane ice that underlies vast tracts of permafrost in the
Arctic and lurks on the deep seafloor throughout the world. While the CO2
was sequestered inside the ice, the scientists extracted an energy source
that may exist in nature in greater volume than all other fossil fuels
combined.
Now DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory,
in partnership with Conoco Phillips, will try to repeat that success on the
North Slope of Alaska. Note: If Methane ice can be harvested
economically it would provide as much energy as needed for hundreds of
years. |
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EPA Delays Greenhouse Regs.
Fox News, May 18, 2011. In a concession to Republicans and
moderate Democrats, the Obama administration has delayed two environmental
restrictions on the nation’s power plants. Historically, Obama has fought
every effort to implement the new regs. Critics correctly charge this is a
pre-election political move to defuse criticism the EPA is out of control.
Meanwhile environmentalists are outraged. Note: A more obvious reason
for the radical about-face of Obama is that the economy is in the tank and
these regs would send it off the cliff into a depression during the 2012
election. |
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Former Cabinet Secretary Questions Blind Faith in
Climate Alarmism. The
Global Warming Policy Foundation, May 16, 2011. Lord Turnbull, the former
Cabinet Secretary of the Home Civil Service (2002-2005) has called on MPs
and ministers to question the rising costs and economic risks of Britain’s
unilateral climate policies. In a devastating critique of current policies,
Turnbull also criticses the blind faith in the IPPC’s conclusions because
they do not bear the weight of certainty with which they are often
expressed. Note: If the U.S. is on a suicidal course with its new EPA
regs, England and other European countries are on a death march that is
insane. |
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Research: Global Warming Does Not Increase Hurricanes.
NIPCC, May 15, 2011. New research shows that when the earth is experiencing
rapid warming (the l Niño-Southern
Oscillation, or ENSO) there are fewer and less intense hurricanes than when
the earth is warming very slowly or actually cooling as during the La Niña
cycles (like right now). The warm or cold phase of the Atlantic
Multi-Decadal Oscillation is also important. Note: This is complex, but the
important factor is that global warming DOES NOT increase hurricanes and
their intensity as reported ad-nauseam in the media. In fact, the number and
intensity decline, as skeptics have claimed all along. |
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Heat Waves Much More Severe in the 1930s than Today.
NIPCC, May 13, 2011. It is commonly reported that US heat waves are more
frequent and hotter today than in the past. NOAA has just completed a study
showing that US heat waves were much more frequent and hotter in the 1930s
than today. Note: Another scare story repeated constantly in the
media bites the dust. However, don't expect the fear-mongering in the press
to slow down. Their reporting has nothing to do with the press and
everything to do with ideology for some and an agenda for others. |
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Understanding America’s Financial Crisis, Part IV – Implementing the New
Global Financial Architecture
RescuingAmericaBook.com, May 3, 2011. This is not about global warming, but
you need to know it. It is part of a four part series linked below. The
entire global economy is collapsing. A new global financial architecture has
been developing in the wings to implement in case of just such a
catastrophe. It is part of a plan that has been in the works for a hundred
years. |
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Understanding America’s Financial Crisis, Part III --
Collapsing the Global Economy by Demagoguing Solutions.
Rescuing
America Book.com, May 3, 2011. Globalists have been actively working for
decades to create a single financial system and currency for the world. But
first, they had to create economic chaos in order for the citizens of
various nations, especially the United States, to be willing to abandon
their national currencies. Has that day arrived? |
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Understanding America’s Financial Crises, Part II;
Economics for Dummies 102—Global Collapse.
RescuingAmericaBook.com, May 2, 2011.
Europe’s Economy is
falling like dominos. The situation in America is
rapidly becoming eerily similar
to the dire circumstances that caused Greece,
Ireland and Portugal to fail. It is obvious now Obama is more
concerned about his socialist agenda than he is about the looming abyss of
debt. |
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Don’t Let the Watermelons Kill the Shale Gas
Revolution.
London Telegraph, May 4, 2011. Imagine if we were to discover a new form of
cheap, clean energy so abundant that it will provide our needs at least for
the next two centuries. Imagine how Environmentalists would react if such a
miracle came into being. Actually we don’t need to imagine for the miracle
is already here. It’s called Shale Gas. And how have the Environmentalists
reacted? Why these Watermelons are trying to kill the whole thing stone
dead, of course. Note: Economic progress and commonsense threaten to
be undermined at every turn by an insidious, mendacious and terrifyingly
powerful global green movement. The environmental ideology has virtually
nothing to do with saving the environment and almost everything to do with
an instinctive loathing for economic growth combined with a bullying,
puritanical urge to impose energy policy by diktat rather than by allowing
the market to decide the most effective method. |
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Understanding America’s Financial Crisis, Part 1:
Economics for Dummies 101—Our National Debt.
Rescuing America Book, April 30, 2011. This is not about global warming, but
you need to know it. We are on the verge of a major economic catastrophe.
It’s not a matter of if, but when it will come; and just how bad will it be.
It’s about time you learned the truth. Your future depends on it. Note:
America is in the mess it is in because most American’s eye’s glaze over
when trying to understand the complexity of economics. That has to stop.
Kristie Pelletier and I have written a four part series on our economy and
how blind politics has brought us to the brink of a financial Armageddon
that will shock you. Part I provides an introduction and overview,
especially designed for people who have little knowledge of economics or its
terminology. |
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NOAA Scientist Rejects Global Warming Link to
Tornadoes.
Fox News, April 28, 2011. Greg Carbin, the warning coordination
meteorologist at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center, rejected claims by
environmental activists that the outbreak of tornadoes this year is related
to climate change brought on by global warming. Note: Carbin is one
of the few global warming alarmists that seems to be intellectually honest.
The article hints at this when it mentions that 1974 is the last great
outbreak of tornadoes that even comes close to this year. It was part of the
1945-1975 period of global cooling caused by the cold phase of Pacific
Decadal Oscillation—the same condition we now have. For these tornadoes to
form you need warm moist air ahead of a very cold front—something that
happens frequently in the spring with global cooling, but not with global
warming! |
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Earth's Temperature Continues to Drop.
Dr. Roy
Spencer Blog. April 8, 2011. Earth's temperature as measured by the highly
accurate global satellite system continued to drop in March. Since the most
recent high in Mid 2010 during a strong El Nino, the temperature has dropped
0.65oC, with a drop of 0.1oC in March alone. As with
the 1998 El Nino, the 2010 El Nino produced high global temperatures. Since
the 2010 El Nino has run its course, the global temperature has once again
dropped below the 30 year average. Note: If this decline continues,
it will reinforce the statistical conclusion there has been no significant
warming since 2000. |
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High Prices, Debt Crisis May Doom Obama’s Green Energy
Plans.
Fox News, April 14, 2011.
Obama is asking taxpayers to cough up $8 billion in clean
energy subsidies next year -- $3.2 billion for energy efficiency and
renewable energy programs, $300 million in credit subsidies to promote those
projects, and another $550 million dollars to support "game-changing clean
energy technologies." Except new studies still show deep problems with wind
and solar power. The huge cuts needed to reduce the deficits may require
that these be cut. Note: If this happens it will literally save the
U.S. from the extremely high costs of these alternative sources of energy. |
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Where Have All the Climate Refugees Gone?
Guardian, October 12,
2005. In 2005 the UN warned, "Rising sea levels, desertification and
shrinking freshwater supplies will create up to 50 million environmental
refugees by the end of the decade... Creeping environmental deterioration
already displaced up to 10 million people." Note: Really? 2010 has
come and gone. No climate refugees can be found anywhere. As with all the
doom and gloom global warming scare stories, this one is nothing but hot
air. The "scientist" who made this claim should have never used 2010 as the
date by which this would happen. He should have set a date after he expected
to retire. If you are going to throw terror into people you have to do it in
a way that it doesn't matter if you are proven wrong! |
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Getting Chilly.
Calgary Herald.
April 11, 2011. Unlike global warming, which extends growing seasons, global
cooling, which started in 2002, will shorten growing seasons for at least
the next two decades. Yet, Canada is still attempting to meet the ludicrous
commitments of the Kyoto accord to address the fabricated crisis of
human-caused global warming. Note: As the last several years have
shown, this is true for the U.S. as well. Instead, we are spending billions
of dollars to try to make it even cooler. We are seeing the reemergence of
major winter blizzards, mind-numbing tornadoes and other violent weather
that was common during the last 30 year cooling cycle from 1945 to 1975.
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Water Issues Worry Americans Most, Global Warming
Least. Gallup, March 28, 2011. In its latest
poll this month, Gallup found that global warming ranked dead last out of 9
issues covered in the poll. Only 51% of those polled said they were
concerned a great deal or a fair amount, while 48% said they were not much
or not at all concerned. Air and water pollution ranked at the top in which
72 to 79 of the respondents claimed they were concerned a great deal or a
fair amount. Urban sprawl also ranked at the bottom, with only 57 percent
saying they were concerned a fair to large amount. Note: This poll
reveals Americans are concerned about the environmental issues they should
be concerned about. Yet, the agenda-driven federal government is spending or
costing hundreds of billion of dollars annually on global warming and smart
growth to allegedly control urban sprawl. |
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Obama's All-Out War on America.
Even as Mideast oil supplies are increasingly imperiled by
civil unrest, President Obama is systematically blocking every effort to
develop domestic supplies of oil. If the turmoil in the Mideast escalates,
it could unnecessarily mean $5 or more a gallon gas and the collapse of the
American economy. Note: The U.S. has the largest oil and natural gas
reserves in the world. Yet, President Obama has systematically blocked all
new drilling to access this oil; even as he gives billions to Brazil to
drill. His actions are making us extremely vulnerable to any instability
that would reduce Mideast oil production. It has created an unparalleled
national security issue that could collapse the U.S. economy in a way that
would make the 1929 depression look like a walk in the park. |
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U.S. Has Earth's Largest Energy Resources.
America’s combined energy resources
are, according to a
new report from the Congressional Research Service (CSR), the largest
on earth. They eclipse Saudi Arabia (3rd), China (4th) and Canada (6th)
combined – and that’s without including America’s shale oil
deposits and, in the future, the potentially astronomic impact of methane
hydrates. Note: I have been writing about this for ten years. So why
do we never hear about it in the news and why is President Obama in the
process of locking this oil up so it can never be developed? |
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Global Warming Is Creating Perfect Crop Conditions.
Forbes, March 23,
2011. Global warming is not only producing warmer temperatures, but also
improving soil moisture, and more abundant atmospheric carbon dioxide, which
have helped bring about a golden age for global agricultural production. The
tremendous improvement in global crop production and worldwide growing
conditions during recent decades is one of the most important yet least
reported news events of our time. Note: Hundreds of research studies
have clearly shown that increased CO2 will increase food production by 25 to
50 percent; even higher with warmer temps. |
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$700 Trillion to Drop Earth's Temperature 0.01 Degree.
World Net Daily, March 14, 2011.
New calculations applied to a U.S. Senate
report reveal the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to combat global
warming through regulation of
greenhouse
gases would theoretically take over $700 trillion, seven times the world's
gross production, to drop the earth's temperature only 1 degree Celsius. The
EPA calculates in 75 Federal Register 25,495: "Global mean temperature is
estimated to be reduced by 0.006 to 0.015 degrees Celsius by 2100." At $78
billion in annual costs would cost over $7 trillion. |
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Concerns About Global Warming Stable at Lower Levels.
Gallup, March 14, 2011. Americans
continue to express less concern about global warming than they have in the
past, with 51% saying they worry a great deal or fair amount about the
problem -- although attitudes appear to have stabilized compared with last
year. That current level of worry compares with 66% just three years ago,
and is only one percentage point higher than the low Gallup measured in
1997. Note: This is good news/bad news. The good news is the
percentage of Americans who are very or fairly concerned about the issue is
way down. The bad news is that it seems to be stabilizing at about 51-52%.
It appears that the tremendous media fear campaign by the alarmists in 2010
seems to have worked. |
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European Unconventional Commercial Gas Potential
Rivals North America.
IHS,
March 9, 2011. The size of European unconventional commercial gas reserves
rival that of North America, according to a major new study by IHS Cambridge
Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA). The study, Breaking with Convention:
Prospects for European Unconventional Gas estimates Europe’s total
unconventional gas in place could be 173 trillion cubic meters (Tcm), or
6,115 trillion cubic feet (Tcf). Note: Now that US oil shale is being
developed commercially, similar deposits are being revealed all over the
world. There is enough natural gas and oil in these deposits to last
hundreds of years at current levels. However, globalists, including Obama,
are successfully blocking efforts to developing these supplies using the
false reason of needing alternative energy due to man-caused global warming.
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Helmut Schmidt Calls for IPCC Inquiry.
Quadrant Online, March 7,
2011. Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is calling for a full inquiry
into the credibility of the science provided by the UN’s IPCC. “The
publications provided by the…IPCC…have encountered skepticism, especially
since some of their researchers have shown themselves to be fraudsters.” The
work of the IPCC, continued Schmidt, should be “scrutinized, under the
microscope.” Note: If Schmidt represents the German thinking at all,
the IPCC is history. Real science and truth would have prevailed! |
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Green Savings Plans Under Threat.
February 25, 2011. The British government is about to scrap its green policy
of using private Individual Savings Accounts (ISA) as a means of subsidizing
the enormous cost of green energy. The Tory ISA policy was to help savers
benefit from the growth of the green economy. It was forecast to provide £2
billion into building wind and solar farms. The ISA concept hasn't even been
instituted yet. Note: it has become apparent to all except green
ideologues that it becoming increasingly apparent the green economy was
going bankrupt and that the enormous subsidies must stop if the national
economy was going to be saved. |
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Grab Your Wallet...the UN Wants What's In It.
American Spectator, February 23, 2011. The United Nations yesterday called
for 2 percent of worldwide income to be invested in the green economy. The
investment [sic], which would amount to $1.3 trillion a year, will pay for
itself by providing millions of new jobs, developing new industries, cutting
greenhouse gas emissions, saving money and providing health benefits from
cleaner air, the United Nations said. Note: The UN has just upped the
ante from 1 percent to 2. They have been calling for this for years. This,
in spite of spectacular exposure of the fraud by the IPCC on how they have
manipulated the data to arrive at a predetermined conclusion and the utter
failure of the green economy in Europe. If the UN were ever to get this
money, they would instantly become a world government. |
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Obama Expands His War on Fossil Fuels.
Investors.com, February 17, 2011.
On Tuesday, Interior Secretary
Ken Salazar expanded Obama's war on fossil fuels by announcing that the
Obama administration is going to take a "fresh look" at oil shale leasing
rules put forward in 2008 by President George W. Bush to develop oil-rich
land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. This is exactly what he did to off-shore
oil leasing, in violation of court orders to the contrary. Shale oil/natural
gas deposits are the largest in the world and will supply all
the oil/natural gas the US needs for 200 years. Note: While crying we
need to be more energy self-sufficient, Obama and the main-stream press are
doing everything they can to stop the development of enormous US energy
deposits. One can only assume he is doing this to force us to go with
"alternative energy", ie. wind and solar, which can never amount to a few
percent of US energy needs. It is utterly evil. |
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Dr. Roy Spencer: Defunding the UN IPCC.
Global Warming Blog,
February 19, 2011. Dr. Roy Spencer has been actively involved with the IPCC
for 20 years. This excellent blog explains what he found. "Politicians
formed the IPCC over 20 years ago with an endgame in mind: to regulation CO2
emissions. I know, because I witnessed some of the behind-the-scenes
planning. It is not a scientific organization. It was organized to use the
government-funded scientific research establishment to achieve policy
goals....They have a theory -- more CO2 is to blame -- and they religiously
stick to it." Note: Spencer goes on to condemn alarmist scientists
for letting "their politics, their economic understanding (or lack thereof)
affect their scientific judgment." |
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House votes 244-179 to kill U.S. funding of IPCC.
Climate Watch, February 19, 2010. At 2 AM
Saturday morning the Republicans in the House of Representatives made
history by voting to eliminating all funding for the highly political and
biased UN International Panel on Climate Change, keeping a promise they made
during the 2010 election cycle. Note:
As refreshing as it is, the measure will not survive the U.S. Senate.
However, none of the $80 billion slashed from this years budget will survive
the Senate. A constitutional crisis may result from the standoff between
progressives and conservatives in Congress as neither side will give in
thereby shutting down the federal government. |
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Climate Models Fail to Predict Past Climate History.
Nipccreport.org, February 15,
2011. When comparing climate modeled trends in annual extremes of
temperature and precipitation with real historical data, only a few of the
five models tested even had "moderately" close
projections. "The results mostly show moderate skill for temperature
indices and low skill or its absence for precipitation indices
[italics added]." If climate model results are utilized as the basis for
mandating a complete overhaul of the world's energy system - as the world's
climate alarmists are attempting to do - the models should possess
considerably more than moderate skill at what they do. But they
definitely should not have low skill. And to employ models that have
an absence of skill is the height of folly. Note: Once again,
the climate models fail to adequately predict actual historical data. Yet,
our progressive politicians insist on that we must institute
economy-destroying laws and regulations to fix an unfixable, nonexistent
problem. |
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Republicans Want to Ax Renewable Energy and
Environment.
IBTimes(UK), February 16, 2011. Congressional Republicans on Wednesday
released a budget plan that would impose $4.4 billion in deep cuts on energy
efficiency and renewable energy, scientific research and environmental
protection. Newly elected Tea Party Republicans want to cut $26 billion.
However, polls by the Natural Resources Defense Council alleges 60 to 67% of
Fred Upton’s (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,
constituents want the EPA to implement the new carbon pollution regs.
Note: These include renewable/clean energy boondoggles as well as the
EPA regs. Also, the NRDC’s 60-67% figures are highly suspicious.
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January 2011 Global Temperatures in Freefall.
Roy Spencer,
 February
4, 2011. January 2011 experienced a precipitous drop in lower tropospheric
temperatures over the tropics, Northern Hemisphere, and Southern Hemisphere.
This was not unexpected, since global average sea surface temperatures have
been falling for many months, with a head start as is usually the case with
La Nina. Note: 2010 was an El Nino
year. 2011 is a La Nina and the temps are plummeting--actually a freefall.
They will moderate towards the end of the year and into 2012, but are likely
to be below normal most of the time for the next 15 to 20 years. How are the
alarmists going to spin this? |
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Gore: Increased Heavy Snowfall/Cold Consistent With
Global Warming.
Climate
Depot, February 3, 2010. Gore has been joined by many proponents of man-made
global warming in now claiming that record cold and snow is either
“consistent with” or caused by global warming. The problem for Gore and
others who make these claims, is they are on record claiming decreasing snow
and cold are caused by global warming. The 2007 IPCC Report also claimed
there would be warmer winters and less snow. Note: Climate Depot
cites in this post dozen of examples where those claiming increased
snow/cold insisted just a few years ago global warming would cause just the
opposite. It should be obvious to any thinking person that the entire global
warming scare is a fraud of unbelievable proportions and the alarmists will
say anything to scare you. |
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Senators Vow to Strip Obama Climate Power.
Breitbart, January 31, 2011.
Conservative senators vowed Monday to
stop the
Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases, which
scientists blame for global warming, without explicit approval by
Congress. Note: Such a bill would have little hope of passing the
Senate, and no hope of escaping a veto. It would perhaps throw the spotlight
on the EPA’s draconian action, which would increase public opposition. A
better bet will be the House’s efforts to defund the EPA’s budget to
implement the new regulations. |
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Is 2010 Really the Warmest Ever?
Energy Tribune, January 28, 2011. Both NOAA and NASA
announced 2010 is tied for the warmest year ever.
But after the incredibly cold and snowy winters in 2008/09 and 2009/10 and
so far in 2010/11, those claims are falling on increasingly deaf ears.
Climategate and other evidence of malfeasance has not helped the alarmists
either. Up until a few years ago, every alarmist scientist and news
organization proclaimed snow would disappear in the winter and there would
be massive droughts in the summer. The past three years have produced the
exact opposite, so the alarmists are suddenly saying more snow, cold and
floods are to be expected from global warming. Citizens with better memories
see through the lies. In fact, if the present pace is continued 2010/2011
will be the coldest, snowiest winter in recorded history. Note: This
article by Joe D'Aleo provides an excellent summary of what is happening.
The claim of man-caused global warming is entering the absurd. |
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Black Hole of Global Warming Spending.
Front Page Magazine, January 28, 2011. The
federal government
will spend $10.6
million a day on climate change. Annual expenditures will be about $4
billion on global warming research, despite the fact that there has been
no global warming
since 1998 (even with the warm year of 2010). Warming and cooling is
natural, and there is NO empirical scientific evidence man is causing
warming.
In December 2010, more than 1,000 international
scientists challenged
man-made global warming
claims
made by the United Nations Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Note: Funding
for global warming issues is supposed to increase for 2011, despite a $14
trillion deficit. This is lunacy.
This is a good expenditure to cut to bring down the deficit. |
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Ground Control to Major Obama
In his State of the Union speech Obama returned to the nasty
corporate-bashing message of his first two years by attacking the U.S. oil
industry; implying it was receiving massive subsidies that could be
redirected to clean energy. “I’m asking Congress to eliminate the billions
in taxpayer dollars we’re currently giving to oil companies.” In fact, there
is no money going to oil companies. It’s not a subsidy but a tax deduction
that is used by all U.S. manufacturing corporations. Now Mr. Obama
wants to single out the oil industry for punishment. The oil industry
already pays tax rates up to 43.9%, while the while the jolly green giant
GE, who makes its living off of subsidies, paid a measly 11.5%. Note:
It is simply amazing how progressives can twist a standard tax deduction
for all companies into a massive subsidy, when, in fact, the really massive
subsidies are going to his ‘green’ alternative energy scam which is already
bankrupting European nations that tried the same thing. |
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MPs Slam ‘secretive’ Climategate Probes.
The Express, January 25, 2011. TWO inquiries into claims that scientists
manipulated data about global warming were yesterday condemned by MPs as
ineffective and too secretive. The committee also said the emails
review “did not fully investigate the serious allegation” relating to the
deletion of emails and instead relied on a verbal reassurance that the
messages still exist.
Lord Oxburgh appeared to have a “conflict of interest” because of his links
to green businesses while the Emails Review panel included a former Climate
Research Unit scientist. Note: The British papers were full of this
story yesterday. It is good that the whitewash of Climategate is still being
challenged, but many MPs on this panel just want the issue to go away so
they can get back to the serious work of trying to save the planet from
global warming. So much for reality. |
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Natural Gas Supplies Could Last the World 250 Years!
UPI, January 19,
2011. Supplies of natural gas could last more than 250 years if Asian and
European economies follow the U.S. unconventional reserves, the IEA said.
The abundance of shale gas and other forms of so-called unconventional gas
discovered in the United States prompted a global rush to explore for the
new resource. Note: The IEA's estimate is very conservative. It
should be double that. The same is true for oil. Until China's recent
discovery of huge deposits in the North China Sea, the U.S. had the largest
reserve of oil in the world by far in shale oil and gas. Why have we not
been using it? Congress has had it bottled up with environmental studies.
Now the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) is studying 200 million acres of BLM
land for withdrawal into "wild lands" (read wilderness). Most of the gas and
oil shale strata are on BLM land. Look for most of this enormous resource to
be locked up and unavailable to American citizens. |
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Global Warming "Tipping Point" Theory Bites the Dust.
HauntngTheLibrary.com, January 15, 2011. The methane release tipping point
is the "end of earth" theory that you frequently hear about in the news.
Massive releases of methane in the BP disaster clearly showed that "methane
respiration rates [i.e. oxidation] increased to levels higher than have ever
been recorded, ultimately consuming it and prohibiting its release to the
atmosphere." Note: In other words atmospheric methane is in
dynamic equilibrium and additional methane is oxidized as soon as it is
released. That probably explains why the increase in atm. methane has
leveled off the past few years, despite more cows and industrial activity. |
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BBC Hits UK Govt with FOIA Demand Over the Met’s Cold
Forecast.
Canadian Free Press,
January 11, 2011. The BBC serves Freedom of Information request (FOIA) on UK
Government over cold weather forecast failures secrecy in worst winter for
100 years. In an almighty battle to
salvage credibility, three British government institutions are embroiled in
a new global warming scandal with the BBC mounting a legal challenge to
force ministers to admit the truth that they deliberately suppressed the
Met’s cold weather forecast with one saying to expect a warm fall and
winter. Skeptics accuse the government of lying to the British people so as
not to embarrass the UN’s Climate Conference in Cancun in early December. |
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GOP Strikes Early in Global Warming Battle.
Bloomberg Business Weed, January 6, 2011.
GOP lawmakers have introduced several bills that would hamstring the
Environmental Protection Agency from moving forward with regulations to
reduce heat-trapping pollution from
electric power producers, refineries,
factories and other sources. The
bills are part of a plan by House Republicans to reverse what they consider
job-killing policies of the administration. Note: This is good news
since what the EPA is now doing will hit power generating plants, refineries
and large factories hard, guaranteeing sharp increases in energy costs and
inflation. Although there are other reasons (e.g. economic recovery in the
rest of the world), the anticipation of these new regs is already causing
gasoline prices to skyrocket, just as Obama said would happen if his energy
plan was put into place.
Expect the mainstream press to demonize the GOP for doing this. |
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Met Office 'kept winter forecast secret from public'.
London
Telegraph, January 6, 2011. The Met Office informed the government in
October that Britain was facing an early and exceptionally cold winter but
failed to warn the public, hampering preparations for some of the coldest
weather on record. Instead, they told the public it would be a warm winter.
This is raising questions of why they would do that. Note:
The answer, many believe is that they did not
want to cast doubt on global warming just before the UN's Cancun Climate
Conference in late November/December. It was for naught. The week the
conference was held in Cancun Mexico was the coldest on record. This merely
provides more ammunition for skeptics to claim that alarmists (in and out of
government) of global warming will do anything, I mean anything, to keep the
truth hidden from the public. It has reached the level of absurdity. Climate
alarmists now claim that hot weather/cold weather; floods/droughts; violent
storms/mild weather; any extreme of weather is do to global warming. People
are finally catching on that it is a religion. Now we need to show them that
it is part of an effort to create global governance. |
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Earth's Temperature Finally Plunges.
Roy Spencer's Blog.
January 5, 2011. Note: Dr. Roy Spencer, who developed the satellite
temperature monitoring technology for NASA, shows that the long expected
plunge in Earth's temperature seems to be occurring now that the El Nino is
over and a La Nina is starting.
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