Click and see who they hired.
Tells you all you need to know about that obsolete collection of elitist socialist assholes.
Canadian, Conservative and Sour. Satire, Cynicism, Snark and Sarcasm is Often the Best Medicine............... Stephen Harper's Favorite Blog
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Toronto Earth Hour Big Time Flop
Click to expand - Darker??? Only CN Tower. Everything else looks alit to me - saving the lives of hundreds of birds.
Monday, March 30, 2009
The Star Reader Wants Secret Enviro Police
Sorta like they have in Cuba but with colder weather.
Perhaps we need to have neighbourhood wardens, like the air-raid wardens we had during World War II, who knocked on doors to remind offenders to shut off their lights.click
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Toronto Star Features "Skeptic"
From the Man Bites Dog section...
At the core of the climate debate, Dyson says, is "a deeper disagreement about values" between those who think that "nature knows best" and that "any gross human disruption of the natural environment is evil," and "humanists" like himself who insist that protecting the existing biosphere is not as important as fighting more repugnant evils such as war, poverty and unemployment.But maintains the hammer in the conclusion:
He cares little for the preservation of wilderness. Humans, he says, have a duty to restructure nature for their survival and must not apologize for doing so.
Humans can't keep increasing consumption and avert climate change. We must conserve and shift to low-carbon technologies, and help others – China included – do the same.But consider the source.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Frum Nails it....
David Frum in National Post
But for many environmentalists, the whole point of the exercise is to change those lifestyles, to supplant the culture of consumption with a Birkenstock republic. For them, the high cost of wind and solar power is a feature, not a bug.Make no mistake, people. Environmentalism is a socialist movement aimed at taking your money and giving it to others.
For these environmentalists too, opposition to nuclear power — regardless of its practical merits — is a foundational ideological principle. (They do not much care for hydro either — it was the fight against the Hetchy Hatchie power dam that transformed John Muir’s Sierra Club from a ramblers’ society into a political lobby.)
On March 28, from 2030 to 2130 Celebrate Human Achievement
Look at what we have done by harnessing light and power:
ht Gore Lied, Credit Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Alarmists want us to sit in the dark.
ht Gore Lied, Credit Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Alarmists want us to sit in the dark.
Earth Hour - Bigger Joke Than the Leafs . . .
2009 Update - Bjorn Lomburg: Aussie's Water Down Requirement
And Malaysia??
From Last Year: How important does the Toronto Star think this "Earth Hour" thing is?
Important enough for FOUR front page stories...
And when I look at the picture of a dark Sydney Harbour, what do I see? Well, lights.
In Australia last year, Earth Hour's organisers required participating businesses to pledge to reduce their emissions by 5 per cent during the following year. This year, that requirement has been dropped.(That's maybe why the picture below doesn't actually show much by way of Darkness in Sydney Harbour - businesses actually had to make a commitment...)
And Malaysia??
From Last Year: How important does the Toronto Star think this "Earth Hour" thing is?
Important enough for FOUR front page stories...
And when I look at the picture of a dark Sydney Harbour, what do I see? Well, lights.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
The Greatness of Democracy - AGW Debate Won by Realists
It's been well said by others how eCotistical Civil Servant and AGW Alarmist, James Hansn regrets that we have a system of democracy which prevents him from chaining us all up in a gulag, to wit:
From Salt Lake Republic: "Hansen said "The democratic process doesn't quite seem to be working"."
Hansen knows that once Obama's Green Bill to Destroy All American Jobs is brought before Congress that it will be trimmed back to something like restricting children under the age of 16 from driving cars.
That Dawg not got no teeth...
He also knows that few congressmen, especially those facing re-election in a mid-term election in a year and a half, are going to put their name to a bill that will threaten jobs.
But, that's not a big deal. The Realists have won. The Alarmists have been defeated. Why?
Well, Gore did buy his bayside condo, and is spewing carbon dioxide like no body else in the world. And, no government in the world is actually DOING anything about Global Warming. If they don't take it seriously, why should anyone else? And as far as politicians:
They may be paying lip service, but they know a scam when they see one.
They are also at least as crafty as the Ecotistical Awarmists in knowing that there will be no consequence of their action in their term of office. They cannot be accused of the earth frying (as if it is going to), nor can they be held accountable when the climate has not catastophically changed in 100 years.
So we Win!!!!
And the world is far better for it.
From Salt Lake Republic: "Hansen said "The democratic process doesn't quite seem to be working"."
Hansen knows that once Obama's Green Bill to Destroy All American Jobs is brought before Congress that it will be trimmed back to something like restricting children under the age of 16 from driving cars.
That Dawg not got no teeth...
He also knows that few congressmen, especially those facing re-election in a mid-term election in a year and a half, are going to put their name to a bill that will threaten jobs.
But, that's not a big deal. The Realists have won. The Alarmists have been defeated. Why?
Well, Gore did buy his bayside condo, and is spewing carbon dioxide like no body else in the world. And, no government in the world is actually DOING anything about Global Warming. If they don't take it seriously, why should anyone else? And as far as politicians:
They may be paying lip service, but they know a scam when they see one.
They are also at least as crafty as the Ecotistical Awarmists in knowing that there will be no consequence of their action in their term of office. They cannot be accused of the earth frying (as if it is going to), nor can they be held accountable when the climate has not catastophically changed in 100 years.
So we Win!!!!
And the world is far better for it.
Suzuki Propaganda Agency Funded by Proceeds of Illegal Activity
Desmog Blog is part of a highly organized and well financed public relations program to continue the money train for David Suzuki and his ideological brothers and sisters dedicated to the destruction of western economies. It's team of full time bloggers try to slander and take down every person or scientist who criticizes their specious theories.
Lately, on Joanne Nova's Blog the old name John Lefebvre has again come up. There is another strong PR campaign out there protesting the smearing of Lefebvre. Well, telling the truth is not smearing. Lefebvre is recognized as a founding contributor of Desmog Blog and he pleaded guilty to getting his money illegally, to wit:
First - his blog work on Desmog:
Here is a collection of Blogs on Desmog Written by John Lefebvre
Second, Desmog Blog Confirms Receiving Funding From Lefebvre
Presumably, as Lefebvre doesn't have any other job except "conspiracy to conduct illegal gambling transactions", then Desmog Blog is at least partly financed by illegal activity.
Third, Lefebvre Pleads Guilty July 10, 2007
Evidently, still has lots of cash to invest in AGW propaganda
Lately, on Joanne Nova's Blog the old name John Lefebvre has again come up. There is another strong PR campaign out there protesting the smearing of Lefebvre. Well, telling the truth is not smearing. Lefebvre is recognized as a founding contributor of Desmog Blog and he pleaded guilty to getting his money illegally, to wit:
First - his blog work on Desmog:
Here is a collection of Blogs on Desmog Written by John Lefebvre
Second, Desmog Blog Confirms Receiving Funding From Lefebvre
Presumably, as Lefebvre doesn't have any other job except "conspiracy to conduct illegal gambling transactions", then Desmog Blog is at least partly financed by illegal activity.
Third, Lefebvre Pleads Guilty July 10, 2007
John Lefebvre, the co-founder of financial transaction service company Neteller, today plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to conduct illegal Internet gambling transactions. Lefebvre is the co-founder of Neteller along with friend, Stephen Lawrence. Lawrence was the first to plead guilty to the same charges last week.Fourth. Macleans writes about him.
Evidently, still has lots of cash to invest in AGW propaganda
Both Lefebvre and Lawrence pleaded guilty in July 2007, avoiding further jail time. “I’m out on bail,” he says, his plea bargain contingent on assisting the FBI “to understand how the business works.” The company and its two founders were also hammered with substantial fines. “Between [Lawrence], myself and the company, we forfeited $240 million. My portion of that was $40 million,” says Lefebvre. “That’s a lot of given’ away money.” Asked if he’s still solvent, he chuckles. “I’m fine,” he says.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Climate Stupidity is as Climate Stupidity Does
They didn't figure on the old zooplankton ate my research study problem.
Climate scientists admit defeat in ocean experiment - Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has "dampened hopes" that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in the Southern Ocean can lessen global warming.
The experiment involved "fertilising" a 300-square-kilometre (115-sqare-mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy -- an immense rotating column of water -- with six tonnes of dissolved iron.
As expected, this stimulated growth of tiny planktonic algae or phytoplankton, which it was hoped would take out of the atmosphere carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas blamed for climate change, and absorb it.
However, the scientists from India's National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) did not count on these phytoplankton being eaten by tiny crustacean zooplankton. (AFP)
ht to Junk Science
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Lemon Registers New Word on Urban Dictionary
Ecotistical: (adj) when a person is so convinced they are right about Global Warming, that they refuse to consider other theories or debate the topic.
example: Al Gore is so ecotistical about his global warming theory that he won't listen to facts.
example: Al Gore is so ecotistical about his global warming theory that he won't listen to facts.
I will give up all worldly goods and devote my life to praising Mother Earth
... if only I never have to look at another picture of Elizabeth May.
Update - I was getting ill so reduced the size of the picture
Unintended Consequences - Note the comments - she doesn't seem to have too many supporters, even in the Red Star.
Meanwhile, she forgets something in her essay today, to wit:
Then former president George W. Bush took the U.S. out of the Kyoto processShe forgets that in 1995 Bill Clinton, in a speech in Philippines said:" Global Warming is a Hoax". And Clinton and his fat lapdog, Al Gore, didn't even bother trying to get Kyoto passed by Congress. And she forgets to mention that the USA reduced carbon emissions during GWB's years in office much more than Clinton Gore and way more than Canada.
Meanwhile, the Master of Ceremonies in Chief of the United States has another TV appearance.
I wonder who writes his material.
Hillary: The Movie & Free Speech
This is really, really rich.
G.W. Bush faced an unprecented barrage of individual and organizational films, shorts, parodies (think SNL) and various other slanders - including a TV show dedicated to make him look ridiculous.
If this decision is passed, the precedent will be set that Free Speech applies when used aby liberals against conservatives, but not the reverse.
The justices' review of the slashing documentary financed by longtime critics of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton could bring more than just a thumbs up or thumbs down. It may settle the question of whether the government can regulate a politically charged film as a campaign ad.What is sauce for the chubby goose (Michael Moore and Fahrenhite 451) ) surely should be sauce for the gander (Republican film makers). But not for the US Supreme Court (I'm too lazy to see who appointed them).
G.W. Bush faced an unprecented barrage of individual and organizational films, shorts, parodies (think SNL) and various other slanders - including a TV show dedicated to make him look ridiculous.
If this decision is passed, the precedent will be set that Free Speech applies when used aby liberals against conservatives, but not the reverse.
Monday, March 23, 2009
The Worst Smack Down of Suzuki's Propaganda Agency Ever
Whole Darn Butt Kickin is here: JoNova
Watch him (Suzuki Blogger set himself up for a ridiculous leap of logic:
“Though [Venus] shares several features in common with our planet, hence its sometimes being called Earth’s “sister planet,” it differs in one crucial aspect: the amount of CO2 in its atmosphere.”
Whoah. Differs in just the one aspect? One? Haul out the old world book encyclopedia and find out that Venus is also 40 million kilometers closer to the sun; it spins backwards; a day lasts longer than a year; it has an atmosphere 90 times denser than earth, and it’s hot enough to melt lead on the surface. All this, AND the clouds are made of sulphuric acid.
It’s one hell of a ’sister’ with acid rain at 475 degrees. (Don’t park the Ford there, it’ll be gone tomorrow. Part gas. Part liquid.)
Jacquot ‘reasons’ (I’m feeling generous) that because the atmosphere on Venus is almost totally CO2 and the planet is hot, therefore, CO2 made it that way. But correlation is not causation, and sadly for the him this reason disappears faster than the interplanetary Ford. Let’s pick just one difference. With an atmosphere 90 times denser than Earth, Venus is ‘like’ the earth in the same sense that Bruichladdich Whiskey is ‘like’ water. They’re both clear liquids, but one will sterilize your bench top.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Why All the Facts About Global Warming Trends are Nonsense
Here's a great article on how the collection of data on weather - temps, precip, winds, etc. are subject to massive deficiencies.
There are three major observations that I make to show the stupidity of much of the data presented to prove this or that about climate change.
1/ If it is imposssible to maintain consistently accurate weather records in a civilized place with dedicated recorders, then what are the chances of doing so anywhere?
2/ All long term climate change projections are within an allowance for error; a prediction of 5 degrees over 100 years has to have an error allowance of plus or minus 0 to 10 degrees, which makes any forecast meaningless.
3/ This method of collecting data is way more accurate on a current and historical basis than any other means such as tree rings or ice cores. If historical records are inaccurate than any forecast based on them will be inaccurate.
There are three major observations that I make to show the stupidity of much of the data presented to prove this or that about climate change.
1/ If it is imposssible to maintain consistently accurate weather records in a civilized place with dedicated recorders, then what are the chances of doing so anywhere?
2/ All long term climate change projections are within an allowance for error; a prediction of 5 degrees over 100 years has to have an error allowance of plus or minus 0 to 10 degrees, which makes any forecast meaningless.
3/ This method of collecting data is way more accurate on a current and historical basis than any other means such as tree rings or ice cores. If historical records are inaccurate than any forecast based on them will be inaccurate.
When the Proof You Provide Doesn't Prove Your Point Shut Down Your Proof
Dig this. The University of Illinois has posted for several years a utility to compare ice levels.
Historically.
Now, all of a sudden, when the news is not so favourable - that arctic ice is actually at it's most robust in at least 30 years, there is a technical problem and the utility has to be shut down.
Looks pretty sketchy and shady to me.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Let's be Clear - Kyoto is and was about Global Domination by Those We Don't Like
How would YOU like to be controlled by the UN??
Jacques Chirac (is he in jail yet) thinks it would be a great idea. He referred to Kyoto as:
the first component of an authentic global governance
American Free Press
Jacques Chirac (is he in jail yet) thinks it would be a great idea. He referred to Kyoto as:
the first component of an authentic global governance
American Free Press
Friday, March 13, 2009
George Bush Was Right on Gitmo Detainees
And Obama seems to be hedging on his plan to free the poor, innocent, brutally tortured prisoners
The Star
Obama still asserts the military's authority to hold detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. But his Justice Department says that authority comes from Congress and the international laws of war, not from the president's own wartime power as Bush had argued.
The Obama administration's position came in response to a deadline by U.S. District Judge John Bates, who is overseeing lawsuits of detainees challenging their detention. Bates asked the administration to give its definition of whom the United States may hold as an "enemy combatant.''
The filing back's Bush's stance on the authority to hold detainees, even if they were not captured on the battlefield in the course of hostilities. In their lawsuits, detainees have argued that only those who directly participated in hostilities should be held.[...]
Attorney General Eric Holder also submitted a declaration to the court outlining President Barack Obama's efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within a year and determine where to place the 240 people held there. He said there could be ``further refinements" to the administration's position as that process goes on.
The Star
Obama still asserts the military's authority to hold detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. But his Justice Department says that authority comes from Congress and the international laws of war, not from the president's own wartime power as Bush had argued.
The Obama administration's position came in response to a deadline by U.S. District Judge John Bates, who is overseeing lawsuits of detainees challenging their detention. Bates asked the administration to give its definition of whom the United States may hold as an "enemy combatant.''
The filing back's Bush's stance on the authority to hold detainees, even if they were not captured on the battlefield in the course of hostilities. In their lawsuits, detainees have argued that only those who directly participated in hostilities should be held.[...]
Attorney General Eric Holder also submitted a declaration to the court outlining President Barack Obama's efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within a year and determine where to place the 240 people held there. He said there could be ``further refinements" to the administration's position as that process goes on.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
More on Suzuki's PR Firm's Smear Campaigning
I published this two years ago on a tip from Ranting Sam. Today David Suzuki's Desmogblog posted a story on how the "Denialists" that's their latest sobriquet for those whom we refer to as us...
Note that Suzuki has a full time paid blogging team of I believe 6 people to influence public opinion and shred the reputations of anyone who disagrees with them.
I wonder - do donations to the Suzuki Foundation ever find their way Hoggan PR which is the Foundation's PR firm and publisher of Desmogblog??
From Feb 2007
In a previous post I brought to CBL readers' attention how the Suzuki Foundation's PR firm is running a blog (www.desmogblog.com) that is dedicated to smearing the reputations of scientists who disagree with the fantasy-based strategies of Suzuki and his ilk.
This smear campaign is being run by Hoggan Public Relations, whose principal, interestingly enough, wrote this article slamming PR firms for doing work for organizations that he refers to as skeptic-scammers (SS). I guess in his world, only one side of a debate (his) can ever be represented by his profession. Hypocrite,
because their side of the debate certainly is calling upon PR pros to manipulate public opinion (as revealed by Ranting Stan).
The duplicitous nature of this exercise is fascinating. They impugn the credentials of every person who draws a different conclusion from available data and go so far as to try and destroy lives for their nevarious cause.
Their enviro-cult is conducting an inquisition on a scale not before seen in the scientific community.
And who are the main inquisitors?
Well, these ones are journalists (who as a group have generally accomplished little more than smoke cigarettes, use up newsprint and eat lots of doughnuts).
The guy who is leading the smear campaign of this impressive group of climate scientists is Richard Littlemore (appropriately enough).
His CV reports on his 20 years working for various dailies and how he wrote the David Suzuki Foundation’s first public information package on climate change. Other than that he appears to have been a passingly successful pisser and moaner from the Enviro-bafflegab side of things. He certainly has no professional credentials that would lead one to think that he has any more ability to interpret the science of climate change than, say, high school drop outs like Babs Streisand or Richard Gere.
His ultimate achievement seems to be that he is "a parent to three teenage boys who... deserve to inherit a world uncompromised by climate change".
Guess that means his kids won't be getting convertibles for grad gifts.
But the closing statement of his CV reveals his lack of knowledge. Even the most vocal "skeptic-scammers" agree that there is climate change. Has always happened and will always happen. That's not what the "SS" is skeptical of. It's whether mankind has any significant role in this change, and whether any actions we take can affect it. And we, the SS (following on their "Denier" label) do not believe that our species has any significant effect on the climate, nor that anything we do can have any effect (unless we invent a means of darkening old Sol).
Note that Suzuki has a full time paid blogging team of I believe 6 people to influence public opinion and shred the reputations of anyone who disagrees with them.
I wonder - do donations to the Suzuki Foundation ever find their way Hoggan PR which is the Foundation's PR firm and publisher of Desmogblog??
From Feb 2007
In a previous post I brought to CBL readers' attention how the Suzuki Foundation's PR firm is running a blog (www.desmogblog.com) that is dedicated to smearing the reputations of scientists who disagree with the fantasy-based strategies of Suzuki and his ilk.
This smear campaign is being run by Hoggan Public Relations, whose principal, interestingly enough, wrote this article slamming PR firms for doing work for organizations that he refers to as skeptic-scammers (SS). I guess in his world, only one side of a debate (his) can ever be represented by his profession. Hypocrite,
because their side of the debate certainly is calling upon PR pros to manipulate public opinion (as revealed by Ranting Stan).
The duplicitous nature of this exercise is fascinating. They impugn the credentials of every person who draws a different conclusion from available data and go so far as to try and destroy lives for their nevarious cause.
Their enviro-cult is conducting an inquisition on a scale not before seen in the scientific community.
And who are the main inquisitors?
Well, these ones are journalists (who as a group have generally accomplished little more than smoke cigarettes, use up newsprint and eat lots of doughnuts).
The guy who is leading the smear campaign of this impressive group of climate scientists is Richard Littlemore (appropriately enough).
His CV reports on his 20 years working for various dailies and how he wrote the David Suzuki Foundation’s first public information package on climate change. Other than that he appears to have been a passingly successful pisser and moaner from the Enviro-bafflegab side of things. He certainly has no professional credentials that would lead one to think that he has any more ability to interpret the science of climate change than, say, high school drop outs like Babs Streisand or Richard Gere.
His ultimate achievement seems to be that he is "a parent to three teenage boys who... deserve to inherit a world uncompromised by climate change".
Guess that means his kids won't be getting convertibles for grad gifts.
But the closing statement of his CV reveals his lack of knowledge. Even the most vocal "skeptic-scammers" agree that there is climate change. Has always happened and will always happen. That's not what the "SS" is skeptical of. It's whether mankind has any significant role in this change, and whether any actions we take can affect it. And we, the SS (following on their "Denier" label) do not believe that our species has any significant effect on the climate, nor that anything we do can have any effect (unless we invent a means of darkening old Sol).
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Media Bias on Global Warming Conference?
CO2 Skeptic features a report on a presentation by Stanley Goldenberg of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division while speaking at the International Climate Change Conference which finishes today in NYC, quote:
And there was ONE, yes ONE report that was published and was positive. So obviously Stanley is wrongly paranoid...
Pittsburgh Tribune Online Version
They're wrapping up the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change today in New York City. And, no, this isn't a gathering of the usual squawking Chicken Littles predicting global warming Armageddon.
Contrary to the "universal conclusion" that the debate over man-made global warming is "over," dozens of esteemed scientists have spent the last three days dissecting, digesting and reaffirming the real science.
Or as Dan Miller, a spokesman for the conference's sponsor, The Heartland Institute, put it, there's "plenty of room for disagreement" and "sound science shows that the Earth is not warming.
"For much of the latter part of the 20th century there's been a mild warming as we come out of an ice age," Mr. Miller notes, "but the planet today is much cooler than it was a thousand years ago."
This commonsense assessment comes amid some pretty good knee-slappers from The Crazy Sect. Chief among them, exhaling effectively contributes to global warming. (It's CO2, right?) Oh, and Britain's Prince Charles, in a speech to be delivered Thursday, is set to tell us we're all doomed in eight years.
Research presented at this week's Heartland conference shows no significant net planetary warming since 1940. And the data suggest insignificant warming over the next two centuries.
Now that's something to really squawk about.
“If you’re here from the media I’d be glad to argue with you from firsthand experience. I challenge anybody from a mainstream media source to take or print a positive report on this conference. They won’t get it past the editor. If they do, miracles do happen.”"Well, I took Mr. Goldenberg's challenge on and Google News Searched the topic and found 279 news reports today, a dozen that actually mentioned the conference.
And there was ONE, yes ONE report that was published and was positive. So obviously Stanley is wrongly paranoid...
Pittsburgh Tribune Online Version
They're wrapping up the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change today in New York City. And, no, this isn't a gathering of the usual squawking Chicken Littles predicting global warming Armageddon.
Contrary to the "universal conclusion" that the debate over man-made global warming is "over," dozens of esteemed scientists have spent the last three days dissecting, digesting and reaffirming the real science.
Or as Dan Miller, a spokesman for the conference's sponsor, The Heartland Institute, put it, there's "plenty of room for disagreement" and "sound science shows that the Earth is not warming.
"For much of the latter part of the 20th century there's been a mild warming as we come out of an ice age," Mr. Miller notes, "but the planet today is much cooler than it was a thousand years ago."
This commonsense assessment comes amid some pretty good knee-slappers from The Crazy Sect. Chief among them, exhaling effectively contributes to global warming. (It's CO2, right?) Oh, and Britain's Prince Charles, in a speech to be delivered Thursday, is set to tell us we're all doomed in eight years.
Research presented at this week's Heartland conference shows no significant net planetary warming since 1940. And the data suggest insignificant warming over the next two centuries.
Now that's something to really squawk about.
Just When You Thought All Was Being Said and Nothing Being Done
They had to say more. How Worser and Worser is to be the Globe unless we don't give them all our money immediately. From Tom Nelson
Remember When Everyone (incl CBL) Thought That The IPCC Were Exaggerating BSing Greedy Idiots?
Turns out that people noticed that their extreme forecasts weren't that extreme after all. Turns out that their projected fever blister would only mean a lot more food growth, a lot less starvation and increased water levels about knee high to a new born wallaby (at worst).
So, knowing that the gig is up, a buncha looneywarmers had to make even more terrible unsubstanciated predictions.
But it turns out, that the IPCC had something to say about Ridiculous Over-Exaggeration on Climate back when they wrote their 2007 report:
Chapter 6; section 6-42
Remember When Everyone (incl CBL) Thought That The IPCC Were Exaggerating BSing Greedy Idiots?
Turns out that people noticed that their extreme forecasts weren't that extreme after all. Turns out that their projected fever blister would only mean a lot more food growth, a lot less starvation and increased water levels about knee high to a new born wallaby (at worst).
So, knowing that the gig is up, a buncha looneywarmers had to make even more terrible unsubstanciated predictions.
But it turns out, that the IPCC had something to say about Ridiculous Over-Exaggeration on Climate back when they wrote their 2007 report:
Chapter 6; section 6-42
In general, the certainty with which this chapter presents our understanding of abrupt climate change is overstated. There is confusion between hypothesis and evidence throughout the chapter, and a great deal of confusion on the differences between an abrupt "climate change" and possible, hypothetical causes of such climate changes.
Monday, March 09, 2009
10 Words to Describe How the PCO Should Be Perceived in Order to Win
I posted the above question in comments, and received the following reply from guest "Steve"
What say others?
"Some words that come to mind:
Reasonable and realistic. Definitely conservative, but moderate. Suburban."
He has more ideas on comments on the previous post.
What say others?
"Some words that come to mind:
Reasonable and realistic. Definitely conservative, but moderate. Suburban."
He has more ideas on comments on the previous post.
Gore Says Over-representation is Okay.
I think the answer to that depends on where your audience's head is. In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
Full Interview
Okay, then Al. I think that you're fatter than a hippo and a bigger liar and fraud than Madoff.
Full Interview
Okay, then Al. I think that you're fatter than a hippo and a bigger liar and fraud than Madoff.
More on the Ontario Tories
Earlier we posted on how the PCO faces a real challenge to regain its position as the natural ruling party of Ontario.
A major factor is that in the 416 and 905 the provincial party is paying for the sins of the federal party which is seen as being anti-city and particularly anti-Toronto.
In reviewing the punditry of the last few days, the general consensus seems to be that the party is going to move dramatically to the right, likely under the stewardship of Tim Hudak, Randy Hiller or Christine Elliot (Flaherty).
But I don't see the PCO returning to government any time soon, especially if it polarizes and gives up the middle.
It's unlikely that McGuinty can be pushed onto ground currently occupied by the NDP and their new leader. And since the middle is where Ontario is at, a move to the right can only further separate the PCs from the mainstream preference of the electorate.
The party braintrust has got to know that they need to rebuild in Toronto et al, and this will not be done overnight. And, to get a friendly hearing from the big middle means separating itself from the Federal party, not getting closer. Really, what have the Federal Tories done for Toronto lately?
Rushing to fill the top job any time soon (ie June in Hamilton) would be disastrous, I think, and accomplish nothing except carve in stone the current negative consensus opinion of the party.
There's over 2 years until another election. Use the next 18 months in getting the prospective leaders to commit to rebuilding the party; raising money, recruiting members and differentiating the PCO from the CPC. Then we'll see who the new leader needs to be; he or she will prove themselves.
A major factor is that in the 416 and 905 the provincial party is paying for the sins of the federal party which is seen as being anti-city and particularly anti-Toronto.
In reviewing the punditry of the last few days, the general consensus seems to be that the party is going to move dramatically to the right, likely under the stewardship of Tim Hudak, Randy Hiller or Christine Elliot (Flaherty).
But I don't see the PCO returning to government any time soon, especially if it polarizes and gives up the middle.
It's unlikely that McGuinty can be pushed onto ground currently occupied by the NDP and their new leader. And since the middle is where Ontario is at, a move to the right can only further separate the PCs from the mainstream preference of the electorate.
The party braintrust has got to know that they need to rebuild in Toronto et al, and this will not be done overnight. And, to get a friendly hearing from the big middle means separating itself from the Federal party, not getting closer. Really, what have the Federal Tories done for Toronto lately?
Rushing to fill the top job any time soon (ie June in Hamilton) would be disastrous, I think, and accomplish nothing except carve in stone the current negative consensus opinion of the party.
There's over 2 years until another election. Use the next 18 months in getting the prospective leaders to commit to rebuilding the party; raising money, recruiting members and differentiating the PCO from the CPC. Then we'll see who the new leader needs to be; he or she will prove themselves.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Why The Global Awarmists Are Getting Away With It
How Digital Media Has Allowed Global Warming to be Embraced
A number of years ago, I had the opportunity of introducing and listening to a futurist, Dr. Stan Davis from MIT. His theme was based on his best seller of the time "Blur"
The BIG IDEA that I left with was his comment on the "Value of the Virtual". His belief, which has largely been proven, is that the imagined value of something would be worth more from a currency perspective (and as it works out philosophically) than the actual obvious economic value of something.
He described a world in which an online TV Guide would be worth more than the combined value of the TV networks (which provide the content for TV Guide). As it works out, the online TV listings has made TV Guide redundent, but for many years Dr. Stan was bang on.
He described a world where a 13 year old prospective Michael Jordan would sell a share of his potential future earnings.
So how does this lead to my theme?
Well, our society mostly exists in the unreal. The world of digital entertainment, virtual social networks, on-line gaming. The BIG Billionaires have made their fortunes on such. Not on trains or logging or mining or real businesses.
It is much easier for people who grew up in the digital age (say 1980+) who have never lived without video games to accept a concept such as a world about to burn, and ignore the obvious - that our climate has not changed in well over 100 years. And there are many oldsters who, I think, wanna date hippy chicks who pretend to buy in as well.
But real old timers - those who are old enough to remember Logan's Run (which is being remade)- almost always have bullshit detectors. Except, of course, those who are making bucks from the fraud.
Which is what it is. The bottom line is that today's climate is almost identical to that of 100 years ago, and the IPCC predicts a future climate a hundred years from now to be almost exactly the same.
A number of years ago, I had the opportunity of introducing and listening to a futurist, Dr. Stan Davis from MIT. His theme was based on his best seller of the time "Blur"
The BIG IDEA that I left with was his comment on the "Value of the Virtual". His belief, which has largely been proven, is that the imagined value of something would be worth more from a currency perspective (and as it works out philosophically) than the actual obvious economic value of something.
He described a world in which an online TV Guide would be worth more than the combined value of the TV networks (which provide the content for TV Guide). As it works out, the online TV listings has made TV Guide redundent, but for many years Dr. Stan was bang on.
He described a world where a 13 year old prospective Michael Jordan would sell a share of his potential future earnings.
So how does this lead to my theme?
Well, our society mostly exists in the unreal. The world of digital entertainment, virtual social networks, on-line gaming. The BIG Billionaires have made their fortunes on such. Not on trains or logging or mining or real businesses.
It is much easier for people who grew up in the digital age (say 1980+) who have never lived without video games to accept a concept such as a world about to burn, and ignore the obvious - that our climate has not changed in well over 100 years. And there are many oldsters who, I think, wanna date hippy chicks who pretend to buy in as well.
But real old timers - those who are old enough to remember Logan's Run (which is being remade)- almost always have bullshit detectors. Except, of course, those who are making bucks from the fraud.
Which is what it is. The bottom line is that today's climate is almost identical to that of 100 years ago, and the IPCC predicts a future climate a hundred years from now to be almost exactly the same.
Following the "God Made Me Do It" Defense
Is the "I Had a Bad Dream Defense"
Which will, I am sure, be followed by the "I had a Bad Hair Day Defense"
and after that the "My Dog Ate My Defense Defense"
After Vincent Li, everyone can claim deep emotional problems
Which will, I am sure, be followed by the "I had a Bad Hair Day Defense"
and after that the "My Dog Ate My Defense Defense"
After Vincent Li, everyone can claim deep emotional problems
Friday, March 06, 2009
What (Who's) Next for Ontario Tories
What irresistible poetry it was - a guy named Tory running a party named the Tories...
And what a shame that due to bad luck, judgment, thinking off message out loud or the wisdom of the masses, that John Tory never became Premier.
I see a few things in Jt's trouncing that threatens the entire future of the PCO:
1/ There are no safe seats. Rural Ontarians will not be taken for granted.
2/ There is a definite schism between red and blue Tories in Ontario. Hardliners are at war with urban dogooders for the heart, soul and moneybags of the PCO.
3/ Ontario Tories are not "taking a rest" at the invite of Ontario taxpayers, as JT said in his leadership campaigning days. They are asleep. Without total renewal, the Grits will run Ontario as long as the Tories did before 1985.
There are lots of old Harris horses out there that I'm sure are all chatting with their campaigners today: Klees (whose denial sounds halfhearted), Runciman, Witmer, Wilson. And Christine Elliot (Flaherty) will almost surely be unable to resist.
Who are some of the unlikelies looking to get in at the top. Garth Turner is always up for anything that involves him having to do nothing for a living except nod and blog.
But who actually has a chance to rebuild and refresh a Tory corpus that is flabby and stuck in the status went?
Peter Shurman is interesting for his communication skills.
I noticed John Tory's protege, Mark Beckles from up Brampton way (Bill Davis-land) in the last election as being someone new to the scene who has a lot of years ahead of him available to rebuild the big blue machine. I think I could get behind him.
What say others??
And what a shame that due to bad luck, judgment, thinking off message out loud or the wisdom of the masses, that John Tory never became Premier.
I see a few things in Jt's trouncing that threatens the entire future of the PCO:
1/ There are no safe seats. Rural Ontarians will not be taken for granted.
2/ There is a definite schism between red and blue Tories in Ontario. Hardliners are at war with urban dogooders for the heart, soul and moneybags of the PCO.
3/ Ontario Tories are not "taking a rest" at the invite of Ontario taxpayers, as JT said in his leadership campaigning days. They are asleep. Without total renewal, the Grits will run Ontario as long as the Tories did before 1985.
There are lots of old Harris horses out there that I'm sure are all chatting with their campaigners today: Klees (whose denial sounds halfhearted), Runciman, Witmer, Wilson. And Christine Elliot (Flaherty) will almost surely be unable to resist.
Who are some of the unlikelies looking to get in at the top. Garth Turner is always up for anything that involves him having to do nothing for a living except nod and blog.
But who actually has a chance to rebuild and refresh a Tory corpus that is flabby and stuck in the status went?
Peter Shurman is interesting for his communication skills.
I noticed John Tory's protege, Mark Beckles from up Brampton way (Bill Davis-land) in the last election as being someone new to the scene who has a lot of years ahead of him available to rebuild the big blue machine. I think I could get behind him.
What say others??
Dammit!!! Climate Change Has Not Occurred!!!!
This morning, it was about penguins who left their antarctic islands to go to South Africa to complain about President Zuma's corrupt government loss of fish stocks. (Sorta sound like Newfies but much cuter).
And what is this blamed on?
Global Warming, of course.
Only problem is, that WE HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED ANY GLOBAL WARMING yet (if ever), or for that matter, ANY SIGNIFICANT CLIMATE CHANGE.
The climate - and the weather - is pretty much as it has been for a couple of hundred years, give or take a degree or two of temperature here or there. Sure, there is not the same level of ice in some places and more in others. But we are basically where we have been climate wise since before Penguins were discovered.
So enough already you Warming idiots. We are not that stupid. You cannot say that every little hot climate event is because of Global Warming but every frozen tushy in London is not due to not experiencing global warming.
Lalalalalalalalalalalalaalalala
Weeee donnnnn't heaaaarrr youuuu.....
Here's a link to 500 other things that the climate nuts blame on Global Warming, EVEN THOUGH WE DO NOT HAVE GLOBAL WARMING.
And what is this blamed on?
Global Warming, of course.
Only problem is, that WE HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED ANY GLOBAL WARMING yet (if ever), or for that matter, ANY SIGNIFICANT CLIMATE CHANGE.
The climate - and the weather - is pretty much as it has been for a couple of hundred years, give or take a degree or two of temperature here or there. Sure, there is not the same level of ice in some places and more in others. But we are basically where we have been climate wise since before Penguins were discovered.
So enough already you Warming idiots. We are not that stupid. You cannot say that every little hot climate event is because of Global Warming but every frozen tushy in London is not due to not experiencing global warming.
Lalalalalalalalalalalalaalalala
Weeee donnnnn't heaaaarrr youuuu.....
Here's a link to 500 other things that the climate nuts blame on Global Warming, EVEN THOUGH WE DO NOT HAVE GLOBAL WARMING.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Prosecutor Laughs and Calls Murder Victim "Tim" --- UPDATE
One more case in which lawyers place themselves above human respect and emotions. The prosecutor - Joyce Dalmyn - in the case has the audacity to call the murdered and eaten victim "Tim" and to laugh on camera. Fire. Her.
Then the defender of the murdering cannibal spouts off:
CBC Report Here
Case after case of those who should never be in public allowed to walk free because it's his right, and slaughter another human being.
And No, Nancy Wilson. This murderer was not "accused" he cut off a young man's head in public. He really, really did it. He massacred a young man in the most cruel way and will pay no penalty.
And when Vincent Li applies for a job he will not be required to divulge his act, because he has no criminal record.
Whenever I see a case like this, or Greenspan get another scumbag off, I hope that they someday get to experience that same role of loved one of a victim and break down in public.
According to this defender of innocent carnival workers: "I had an obligation to bring that to the court's attention and the family understand and respect that."Sure. Dirtbag. Say that the devastated family understands that no one is responsible for killing heir boy. How they will understand why the public needs to allow someone to murder their boy and eat pieces of him without punshment.
Then the defender of the murdering cannibal spouts off:
"Mr. Li will get help," said his lawyer, Alan Libman. "The Canadian public can be assured that the review board will take into consideration the protection of the public. Mr. Li advised me after court that he's going to work with his treatment team because it's his desire to get better."Of course this monster wants to get better - then he'll be able to be released and do it again.
CBC Report Here
Case after case of those who should never be in public allowed to walk free because it's his right, and slaughter another human being.
And No, Nancy Wilson. This murderer was not "accused" he cut off a young man's head in public. He really, really did it. He massacred a young man in the most cruel way and will pay no penalty.
And when Vincent Li applies for a job he will not be required to divulge his act, because he has no criminal record.
Whenever I see a case like this, or Greenspan get another scumbag off, I hope that they someday get to experience that same role of loved one of a victim and break down in public.
The Gore Effect
We were early in noticing this - but maybe not first . . .
Washington Times: Critics claim the Gore Effect is mere coincidence, though one could also argue that coincidence is also the basis for the anthropogenic theory of climate change. Alternative theories, e.g., citing the influence of sun spot activity, have gained increasing credence as scientists have noted global warming in recent years on other planets, which presumably have been human-free. Significant data issues have also arisen, such as the recent discovery of a chunk of Arctic sea ice the size of California that satellites had missed (but which in all probability had been known to polar bears).Credit to Klockar at Al Gore Lies
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Global Awarmists Murder 30 million People in 2008
From comments in Doc Pielke's Blog
To follow the (un)logic cast about by the Goreists, the following statement should be accepted as a huge reason to embrace global warming - 30 million x 100 years = 3 billion.
In 2007 and 2008 there were riots in at least 2 dozen cities around the world over the rising price of food commodities that was at least partly to blame on diversion of food crops to biofuels.
The high price of these commodities also limited the amount of food that could be purchased to provide nutritional supplements to famine prone regions.
It is estimated that 30 million more people starved as a result. For some reason, the human toll and the environmental impact of “renewable” fuel and “green” solutions just gets a pass.
To follow the (un)logic cast about by the Goreists, the following statement should be accepted as a huge reason to embrace global warming - 30 million x 100 years = 3 billion.
In 2007 and 2008 there were riots in at least 2 dozen cities around the world over the rising price of food commodities that was at least partly to blame on diversion of food crops to biofuels.
The high price of these commodities also limited the amount of food that could be purchased to provide nutritional supplements to famine prone regions.
It is estimated that 30 million more people starved as a result. For some reason, the human toll and the environmental impact of “renewable” fuel and “green” solutions just gets a pass.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Separated At Birth
One of these is a female walrus, another is a fictional secretary of defense, and a third is really a secretary of state. Which is which?
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Who was the President and Vice President of the USA in 1995?
HT Tom Nelson
Yes, we are emerging from an era of benign indifference. In 1995 I convened the first global warming conference in Manila. At that point, an American president scorned the persistent voices of concern in the world to organize against global warming and climate change.
He said that global warming was a “hoax.”
Yes, we are emerging from an era of benign indifference. In 1995 I convened the first global warming conference in Manila. At that point, an American president scorned the persistent voices of concern in the world to organize against global warming and climate change.
He said that global warming was a “hoax.”
Friday, February 20, 2009
Sea Level Alarmists Think We're Really Stupid
The point I think that is the stupidist thing about the whole looming global warming catastrophe and the subsequent sinking of Manhattan Island, Great Britain, PEI and Salt Spring Island is the forecasted rises in sea level.
It's about 1 Foot!
Maybe as much as 3 Feet!
So, each year for the next 100 years we are gonna see the beaches rise by about 1/8 to 3/8 of an inch...
And each of us are gonna stand there for 8 years and see the water come up an extra one full inch and drown...
But maybe the best argument against sea level increases is made by Al Gore his-self. He went and bought a condo on San Francisco Bay.......
Speaking of which here's some interesting reading from the Gore Days.
Estimates vs. Observations of Sea Level Changes.
Coming out of the Ice Age, sea levels rose at an annual rate varying from 1/16 to 8/16 inches. Over the last 7,500 years the rate has averaged 1/16 inch per year. The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that there is no evidence of an acceleration in the rate of sea level rise over the past century.
The IPCC report presented a range of estimated rates of rise that average approximately 1/16 inch per year over the past 100 years. The median of the observed rises for the century was approximately seven inches, but scientists' measurements range from as low as four inches to as high as 10 inches. This six-inch range of observed sea level rise is almost as great as the median rise of seven inches; which demonstrates the difficulty of measuring sea level rises. Since it is so difficult to measure past rates of rise, it will surely be far harder to predict future rates.
Explaining Continuing Sea Level Rise.
The IPCC report asks whether the observed rise - however much it is - can be tied to the estimated average global temperature increase of 0.5 to 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit during the century. The IPCC examined five possible sources of sea level rise: thermal expansion of water as temperature rises, melting of inland glaciers, melting of Greenland's ice sheet, melting of Antarctica's ice sheets and changes in surface and ground water levels.
* The IPCC concluded that, except for data from inland glaciers, there were insufficient data to demonstrate a temperature effect on sea level rise for the past 100 years.
* The available data indicated that, based on models, the temperature increase could have caused anything from a 7 1/2-inch decline to a 14-inch rise in sea levels - amounting to a 22-inch range of uncertainty.
Since the 22-inch range of uncertainty in the IPCC's estimates of past sea level change is four times greater than the six-inch range of measured sea level rise, one could argue that our ability to forecast the effects of temperature on sea level rise is so limited as to be virtually worthless.
It's about 1 Foot!
Maybe as much as 3 Feet!
So, each year for the next 100 years we are gonna see the beaches rise by about 1/8 to 3/8 of an inch...
And each of us are gonna stand there for 8 years and see the water come up an extra one full inch and drown...
But maybe the best argument against sea level increases is made by Al Gore his-self. He went and bought a condo on San Francisco Bay.......
Speaking of which here's some interesting reading from the Gore Days.
Estimates vs. Observations of Sea Level Changes.
Coming out of the Ice Age, sea levels rose at an annual rate varying from 1/16 to 8/16 inches. Over the last 7,500 years the rate has averaged 1/16 inch per year. The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that there is no evidence of an acceleration in the rate of sea level rise over the past century.
The IPCC report presented a range of estimated rates of rise that average approximately 1/16 inch per year over the past 100 years. The median of the observed rises for the century was approximately seven inches, but scientists' measurements range from as low as four inches to as high as 10 inches. This six-inch range of observed sea level rise is almost as great as the median rise of seven inches; which demonstrates the difficulty of measuring sea level rises. Since it is so difficult to measure past rates of rise, it will surely be far harder to predict future rates.
Explaining Continuing Sea Level Rise.
The IPCC report asks whether the observed rise - however much it is - can be tied to the estimated average global temperature increase of 0.5 to 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit during the century. The IPCC examined five possible sources of sea level rise: thermal expansion of water as temperature rises, melting of inland glaciers, melting of Greenland's ice sheet, melting of Antarctica's ice sheets and changes in surface and ground water levels.
* The IPCC concluded that, except for data from inland glaciers, there were insufficient data to demonstrate a temperature effect on sea level rise for the past 100 years.
* The available data indicated that, based on models, the temperature increase could have caused anything from a 7 1/2-inch decline to a 14-inch rise in sea levels - amounting to a 22-inch range of uncertainty.
Since the 22-inch range of uncertainty in the IPCC's estimates of past sea level change is four times greater than the six-inch range of measured sea level rise, one could argue that our ability to forecast the effects of temperature on sea level rise is so limited as to be virtually worthless.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Climate Modelling Anyone?
if such assumptions are correct, then the average income of South Africans will have overtaken that of Americans by a very wide margin by the end of the century. Because of this economic error, the IPCC scenarios of the future also suggest that relatively poor developing countries such as Algeria, Argentina, Libya, Turkey, and North Korea will all surpass the United States.
Sounds viable to me - especially after the USA's economy is ravaged by the Climate modellers.
Sounds viable to me - especially after the USA's economy is ravaged by the Climate modellers.
Once Young People Come to the Logical Conclusion that Al Gore is Barking Mad...
...then there is hope for relief from the insanity:
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Global Warming will Save 40,000 lives per year in USA
An Oldie but a Goodie
A somewhat warmer climate would probably reduce mortality in the United States and provide Americans with valuable benefits. Regressions of death rates in Washington, DC, and in some 89 urban counties scattered across the nation on climate and demographic variables demonstrate that warmer temperatures reduce deaths. The results imply that a 2.5 deg. Celsius warming would lower deaths in the United States by about 40,000 per year. Although the data on illness are poor, the numbers indicate that warming might reduce medical costs by about $20 billion annually.This from back in the day when the IPCC suggested a much higher temp increase.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Refuting James Hanson's Denial . . .
Alert: James Hansen Responds to John Theon! - Theon Fires back - Decries Smears on Skeptics
Retired NASA Atmospheric Scientist Dr. John S. Theon’s Response to James Hansen’s Reported Comments – February 5, 2009
NASA’s James Hansen reportedly responded to comments made by retired NASA Atmospheric Scientist Dr. John S. Theon’s . Theon, one of Hansen’s former supervisors, declared himself a skeptic and said Hansen had “embarrassed NASA.” See: “James Hansen’s Former NASA Supervisor Declares Himself a Skeptic: Says Hansen ‘Embarrassed NASA’ & ‘Was Never Muzzled’ – January 27, 2009 - http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
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Hansen’s reportedly responded to Theon via email to M.J. Murphy of BigCityLib blog and wrote the following on February 5, 2009:
Hansen wrote: John Theon never had any supervisory authority over me. I remember that he was in the bureaucracy at NASA Headquarters, but I cannot recall having any interactions with him. His claim of association is misleading, to say the least. What he can legitimately say is that he had a reasonably high position in the Headquarters bureaucracy. A job in that bureaucracy is not considered to be a plum, so we should probably be grateful that somebody is willing to do it, and I don't particularly want to kick the fellow around. You should investigate his scientific contributions to evaluate the degree to which his opinions might be listened to. Of course you are free to quote me. - Jim Hansen - End Hansen Email
Theon fired back at Hansen. “It is absurd that Hansen denies ever meeting me. We have met on numerous occasions. This just demonstrates that Hansen has a poor memory,” Theon wrote on February 5, 2009. [Note: Theon’s complete email response is reprinted below] “I worked with Hansen from about 1983 to 1994 during which time he was at GISS in NYC and I was at NASA HQ in Washington DC. I retired from NASA in 1995. I had completed 37 and 1/2 years of federal service (civilian Navy, USAF, and including 33 years with NASA.)
The money came through me. We were in the Earth Observations Program which later became the Mission to Planet Earth Program. I visited GISS at least once a year to review and evaluate the GISS work. When I visited NYC, to review the research that GISS was funded to do out of the program for which I was responsible, Hansen was most cordial. When I asked him to give a lecture in Japan, he complied,” Theon wrote.
“It was what it was, and no amount of denial will change that,” Theon explained. “I repeat what I wrote to you in January: “I was, in effect, Hansen's supervisor because I had to justify his funding, allocate his resources, and evaluate his results. I did not have the authority to give him his annual performance evaluation,” he added.
Theon also noted the attacks on him by many of the websites devoted to smearing anyone who questions claims of a man-made climate catastrophe.
“Regarding some of the other attacks that have been aimed at me: I am truly appalled at the backbiting, vitriol that is sent by people who have nothing better to do than try to smear other people's reputations because they do not agree with their own thinking. To them, I recommend that they get a life,” Theon concluded.
Retired NASA Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer weighed in on Hansen and Theon controversy on January 29, 2009:
“And now my old boss when I was at NASA (as well as James Hansen’s old boss), John Theon, has stated very clearly that he doesn’t believe global warming is man-made…and adding ‘climate models are useless’ for good measure.” See: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/01/another-nasa-defection-to-the-skeptics-camp/
Even websites devoted to smearing and attacking scientists skeptical of anthropogenic climate fears are finding the attacks on Theon way over the line. At the Deltoid blog -- no friend of climate skeptics -- several readers are lamenting the disparaging remarks against Theon. Some of its readers are now essentially screaming “Enough” in response to the attacks on Theon.
A January 31 comment on Deltoid blog stated: “Theon did some serious work (about 30 papers, some edited books, plus lots of monographs), including a couple of Science papers in the 60’s, so he wasn’t puffing up his accomplishments like some, and an h-index of 6.” Again, these comments are coming from a website devoted to vilifying global warming skeptics.
A February 1 comment on Detloid stated: “This attempt to smear Theon is terribly, terribly thin.”
Here is a Google scholar search on Theon: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="author:JS+author:Theon"
[Morano Note: The question that needs to be answred by those who attack Theon is:
Would you be so quick to slam Theon if he came out and praised Hansen? All of the voices seeking to discredit Theon’s career and reputation would have remained completely silent if Theon had instead praised Hansen and asserted that mankind faced a “climate crisis.” For more information on how scientists skeptical of man-made global warming fears are treated see: 1) A July 2007 Senate report details how skeptics have faced threats and intimidation - http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
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C3F02278F4CF - 2) Climate Skeptics Reveal ‘Horror Stories’ of Scientific Suppression –
March 6, 2008 - http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
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Theon’s Complete Response to Hansen: (Retired NASA Atmospheric Scientist Dr. John S. Theon’s Response to James Hansen’s Reported Comments – February 5, 2009 ) Via Email:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jtheon [mailto:jtheon@XXXXXX]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:01 PM
To: Morano, Marc (EPW)
Subject: Response to Jim Hansen's e-mail
Marc,
It is absurd that Hansen denies ever meeting me. We have met on numerous occasions. This just demonstrates that Hansen has a poor memory. I worked with Hansen from about 1983 to 1994 during which time he was at GISS in NYC and I was at NASA HQ in Washington DC. I retired from NASA in 1995. I had completed 37 and 1/2 years of federal service (civilian Navy, USAF, and including 33 years with NASA.)
The money came through me. We were in the Earth Observations Program which later became the Mission to Planet Earth Program. I visited GISS at least once a year to review and evaluate the GISS work. When I visited NYC, to review the research that GISS was funded to do out of the program for which I was responsible, Hansen was most cordial. When I asked him to give a lecture in Japan, he complied.
It was what it was, and no amount of denial will change that.
I repeat what I wrote to you in January: “I was, in effect, Hansen's supervisor because I had to justify his funding, allocate his resources, and evaluate his results. I did not have the authority to give him his annual performance evaluation.”
Regarding some of the other attacks that have been aimed at me: I am truly appalled at the backbiting, vitriol that is sent by people who have nothing better to do than try to smear other people's reputations because they do not agree with their own thinking. To them, I recommend that they get a life.
John
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End Correspondence from Dr. Theon.
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(See: James Hansen’s Former NASA Supervisor Declares Himself a Skeptic: Says Hansen
‘Embarrassed NASA’ & ‘Was Never Muzzled’ – January 27, 2009 -
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Marc Morano
Communications Director
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) Inhofe Staff
from Co2 Skeptics
Retired NASA Atmospheric Scientist Dr. John S. Theon’s Response to James Hansen’s Reported Comments – February 5, 2009
NASA’s James Hansen reportedly responded to comments made by retired NASA Atmospheric Scientist Dr. John S. Theon’s . Theon, one of Hansen’s former supervisors, declared himself a skeptic and said Hansen had “embarrassed NASA.” See: “James Hansen’s Former NASA Supervisor Declares Himself a Skeptic: Says Hansen ‘Embarrassed NASA’ & ‘Was Never Muzzled’ – January 27, 2009 - http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=1a5e6e32-802a-23ad-40edecd53cd3d320& Issue_id=
Hansen’s reportedly responded to Theon via email to M.J. Murphy of BigCityLib blog and wrote the following on February 5, 2009:
Hansen wrote: John Theon never had any supervisory authority over me. I remember that he was in the bureaucracy at NASA Headquarters, but I cannot recall having any interactions with him. His claim of association is misleading, to say the least. What he can legitimately say is that he had a reasonably high position in the Headquarters bureaucracy. A job in that bureaucracy is not considered to be a plum, so we should probably be grateful that somebody is willing to do it, and I don't particularly want to kick the fellow around. You should investigate his scientific contributions to evaluate the degree to which his opinions might be listened to. Of course you are free to quote me. - Jim Hansen - End Hansen Email
Theon fired back at Hansen. “It is absurd that Hansen denies ever meeting me. We have met on numerous occasions. This just demonstrates that Hansen has a poor memory,” Theon wrote on February 5, 2009. [Note: Theon’s complete email response is reprinted below] “I worked with Hansen from about 1983 to 1994 during which time he was at GISS in NYC and I was at NASA HQ in Washington DC. I retired from NASA in 1995. I had completed 37 and 1/2 years of federal service (civilian Navy, USAF, and including 33 years with NASA.)
The money came through me. We were in the Earth Observations Program which later became the Mission to Planet Earth Program. I visited GISS at least once a year to review and evaluate the GISS work. When I visited NYC, to review the research that GISS was funded to do out of the program for which I was responsible, Hansen was most cordial. When I asked him to give a lecture in Japan, he complied,” Theon wrote.
“It was what it was, and no amount of denial will change that,” Theon explained. “I repeat what I wrote to you in January: “I was, in effect, Hansen's supervisor because I had to justify his funding, allocate his resources, and evaluate his results. I did not have the authority to give him his annual performance evaluation,” he added.
Theon also noted the attacks on him by many of the websites devoted to smearing anyone who questions claims of a man-made climate catastrophe.
“Regarding some of the other attacks that have been aimed at me: I am truly appalled at the backbiting, vitriol that is sent by people who have nothing better to do than try to smear other people's reputations because they do not agree with their own thinking. To them, I recommend that they get a life,” Theon concluded.
Retired NASA Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer weighed in on Hansen and Theon controversy on January 29, 2009:
“And now my old boss when I was at NASA (as well as James Hansen’s old boss), John Theon, has stated very clearly that he doesn’t believe global warming is man-made…and adding ‘climate models are useless’ for good measure.” See: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/01/another-nasa-defection-to-the-skeptics-camp/
Even websites devoted to smearing and attacking scientists skeptical of anthropogenic climate fears are finding the attacks on Theon way over the line. At the Deltoid blog -- no friend of climate skeptics -- several readers are lamenting the disparaging remarks against Theon. Some of its readers are now essentially screaming “Enough” in response to the attacks on Theon.
A January 31 comment on Deltoid blog stated: “Theon did some serious work (about 30 papers, some edited books, plus lots of monographs), including a couple of Science papers in the 60’s, so he wasn’t puffing up his accomplishments like some, and an h-index of 6.” Again, these comments are coming from a website devoted to vilifying global warming skeptics.
A February 1 comment on Detloid stated: “This attempt to smear Theon is terribly, terribly thin.”
Here is a Google scholar search on Theon: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="author:JS+author:Theon"
[Morano Note: The question that needs to be answred by those who attack Theon is:
Would you be so quick to slam Theon if he came out and praised Hansen? All of the voices seeking to discredit Theon’s career and reputation would have remained completely silent if Theon had instead praised Hansen and asserted that mankind faced a “climate crisis.” For more information on how scientists skeptical of man-made global warming fears are treated see: 1) A July 2007 Senate report details how skeptics have faced threats and intimidation - http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=04373015-802A-23AD-4BF9-
C3F02278F4CF - 2) Climate Skeptics Reveal ‘Horror Stories’ of Scientific Suppression –
March 6, 2008 - http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=865DBE39-802A-23AD-4949-
EE9098538277 ]
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Theon’s Complete Response to Hansen: (Retired NASA Atmospheric Scientist Dr. John S. Theon’s Response to James Hansen’s Reported Comments – February 5, 2009 ) Via Email:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jtheon [mailto:jtheon@XXXXXX]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:01 PM
To: Morano, Marc (EPW)
Subject: Response to Jim Hansen's e-mail
Marc,
It is absurd that Hansen denies ever meeting me. We have met on numerous occasions. This just demonstrates that Hansen has a poor memory. I worked with Hansen from about 1983 to 1994 during which time he was at GISS in NYC and I was at NASA HQ in Washington DC. I retired from NASA in 1995. I had completed 37 and 1/2 years of federal service (civilian Navy, USAF, and including 33 years with NASA.)
The money came through me. We were in the Earth Observations Program which later became the Mission to Planet Earth Program. I visited GISS at least once a year to review and evaluate the GISS work. When I visited NYC, to review the research that GISS was funded to do out of the program for which I was responsible, Hansen was most cordial. When I asked him to give a lecture in Japan, he complied.
It was what it was, and no amount of denial will change that.
I repeat what I wrote to you in January: “I was, in effect, Hansen's supervisor because I had to justify his funding, allocate his resources, and evaluate his results. I did not have the authority to give him his annual performance evaluation.”
Regarding some of the other attacks that have been aimed at me: I am truly appalled at the backbiting, vitriol that is sent by people who have nothing better to do than try to smear other people's reputations because they do not agree with their own thinking. To them, I recommend that they get a life.
John
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End Correspondence from Dr. Theon.
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(See: James Hansen’s Former NASA Supervisor Declares Himself a Skeptic: Says Hansen
‘Embarrassed NASA’ & ‘Was Never Muzzled’ – January 27, 2009 -
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=1a5e6e32-802a-23ad-40edecd53cd3d320&
Issue_id= )
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Marc Morano
Communications Director
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) Inhofe Staff
from Co2 Skeptics
How Stupid is Nancy Pelosi
TWICE as stupid
Imagine if a Republican had messed up like this.
Credit Newsbusters
Wind Power vs Nuclear
It would take an area the size of Wisconsin to generate enough wind energy to meet the needs of the USA. More facts here.
And if that happened - where would we get our cheese and who would the Packer fans cheer for?
And if that happened - where would we get our cheese and who would the Packer fans cheer for?
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
This is just so funny I posted the whole thing
Scientists plan emergency summit on climate change
Scientists are to hold an emergency summit to warn the world's politicians they are being too timid in their response to global warming.
Climate experts from across the world will gather in Copenhagen next month to agree a stark message to policy makers, which they hope will break the political deadlock on efforts to curb rising temperatures. The meeting follows "disturbing" studies that suggest global warming could strike harder and faster than expected.
It comes ahead of a year of high-level political discussions on climate change, which climax with international negotiations in Copenhagen in December, where officials will try to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto protocol.
Katherine Richardson, a marine biologist at the University of Copenhagen, who is organising next month's event, said: "This is not a regular scientific conference. This is a deliberate attempt to influence policy."
The meeting will publish an update to the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Richardson said the IPCC report was "wishy-washy" on issues such as sea level rise. "The IPCC talks of a 40cm sea rise this century. Well, if the consensus now is a rise of a metre or more then they need to know that."
A number of studies published since the IPCC report was prepared show that carbon emissions are rising faster than expected and that existing greenhouse gas targets may not be enough to prevent catastrophic temperature rise. Climate experts, including Jim Hansen, of Nasa, have warned about so-called "tipping points" that could lead to runaway warming and rapid sea level rise.
Bob Watson, a former head of the IPCC and chief scientist in the environment department, Defra, said: "Certainly in Defra they're aware of the situation. Whether all governments are aware of it is another matter. Even without the new information there was enough to make most policy makers think that urgent action was absolutely essential. The new information only strengthens that and pushes it even harder."
One issue to be addressed next month is whether it is still possible to limit average global temperature rise to 2C, which the EU defines as dangerous. Richardson said a key question for politicians is the balance between efforts to limit warming and steps to adapt to the likely consequences. Watson has warned that nations should prepare for an average rise of 4C. The IPCC said temperatures could soar by up to 6C by 2100 if current rates of carbon pollution continue.
Martin Parry, a British scientist who jointly chaired the IPCC working group on impacts for the 2007 report, and will attend next month's meeting, said: "I think it's a good idea. I would have thought most of this stuff is out there already but it deserves to be brought together and hammered home in a credible way."
A number of "disturbing" trends seem to have accelerated since the IPCC report was published, he said, such as a decrease in the amount of carbon pollution absorbed in the oceans, and an increase in Greenland ice melt. But he denied that the new findings made the IPCC report obsolete. "They are not so radical as to undermine the report. They reinforce it."
Scientists are to hold an emergency summit to warn the world's politicians they are being too timid in their response to global warming.
Climate experts from across the world will gather in Copenhagen next month to agree a stark message to policy makers, which they hope will break the political deadlock on efforts to curb rising temperatures. The meeting follows "disturbing" studies that suggest global warming could strike harder and faster than expected.
It comes ahead of a year of high-level political discussions on climate change, which climax with international negotiations in Copenhagen in December, where officials will try to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto protocol.
Katherine Richardson, a marine biologist at the University of Copenhagen, who is organising next month's event, said: "This is not a regular scientific conference. This is a deliberate attempt to influence policy."
The meeting will publish an update to the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Richardson said the IPCC report was "wishy-washy" on issues such as sea level rise. "The IPCC talks of a 40cm sea rise this century. Well, if the consensus now is a rise of a metre or more then they need to know that."
A number of studies published since the IPCC report was prepared show that carbon emissions are rising faster than expected and that existing greenhouse gas targets may not be enough to prevent catastrophic temperature rise. Climate experts, including Jim Hansen, of Nasa, have warned about so-called "tipping points" that could lead to runaway warming and rapid sea level rise.
Bob Watson, a former head of the IPCC and chief scientist in the environment department, Defra, said: "Certainly in Defra they're aware of the situation. Whether all governments are aware of it is another matter. Even without the new information there was enough to make most policy makers think that urgent action was absolutely essential. The new information only strengthens that and pushes it even harder."
One issue to be addressed next month is whether it is still possible to limit average global temperature rise to 2C, which the EU defines as dangerous. Richardson said a key question for politicians is the balance between efforts to limit warming and steps to adapt to the likely consequences. Watson has warned that nations should prepare for an average rise of 4C. The IPCC said temperatures could soar by up to 6C by 2100 if current rates of carbon pollution continue.
Martin Parry, a British scientist who jointly chaired the IPCC working group on impacts for the 2007 report, and will attend next month's meeting, said: "I think it's a good idea. I would have thought most of this stuff is out there already but it deserves to be brought together and hammered home in a credible way."
A number of "disturbing" trends seem to have accelerated since the IPCC report was published, he said, such as a decrease in the amount of carbon pollution absorbed in the oceans, and an increase in Greenland ice melt. But he denied that the new findings made the IPCC report obsolete. "They are not so radical as to undermine the report. They reinforce it."
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Yup. Arctic Ice Sure is Melting...
Time for the Gov to buy everyone an SUV - save GM and the Planet in one fell multi-trillion dollar swoop.
Picture:
Monday, February 02, 2009
Groundhogs as Dumb as Gore-Hogs
Frickin Rodents don't get it...
Six more weeks of winter IS an early spring...
Why would we listen to these runty and stubby and runty rats anyway??
(But then again, some are listening to Gore).
Six more weeks of winter IS an early spring...
Why would we listen to these runty and stubby and runty rats anyway??
(But then again, some are listening to Gore).
James Hansen Took Big Ketchup Money in Global Warming Missions
CO2 Skeptic
Al Gore regards Hansen as an 'objective scientist', but in 2004 Hansen received a grant of $250,000 from the Heinz Foundation shortly before publicly endorsing Teresa Heinz's husband, John Kerry, for the presidency. While those who argue the skeptics case are consistently accused of being in the pay of Big Oil, Hansen got a free pass from the liberal media on the Heinz grant. As Senator James Inhofe, of the US Committee on Environment and Public Works put it, "It appears the media makes a distinction between oil money and ketchup money."
Al Gore regards Hansen as an 'objective scientist', but in 2004 Hansen received a grant of $250,000 from the Heinz Foundation shortly before publicly endorsing Teresa Heinz's husband, John Kerry, for the presidency. While those who argue the skeptics case are consistently accused of being in the pay of Big Oil, Hansen got a free pass from the liberal media on the Heinz grant. As Senator James Inhofe, of the US Committee on Environment and Public Works put it, "It appears the media makes a distinction between oil money and ketchup money."
Saturday, January 31, 2009
How Do You Like Change So Far??
Obama To Close US Borders to Trade
Obama Invents Friendly Nostagic History With Islam
Yup - remember those love ins at the Iranian Embassy in 1980?? The fun the US had in funding Al Qaida against the Russkies? And the USA's great friend, Saddam. As opposed to the 4500 American men and women who gave their lives to protect muslims in Iraq and offer the people freedom...
And how about looking after those greedy capitalists too.
(he might have a point here...)
And, of course, he's gonna close down Nuclear and thermal energy plants in favour of highly efficient wind power (not).
File this under the category of don't wish for something you just might get it...
Obama Invents Friendly Nostagic History With Islam
Yup - remember those love ins at the Iranian Embassy in 1980?? The fun the US had in funding Al Qaida against the Russkies? And the USA's great friend, Saddam. As opposed to the 4500 American men and women who gave their lives to protect muslims in Iraq and offer the people freedom...
And how about looking after those greedy capitalists too.
(he might have a point here...)
And, of course, he's gonna close down Nuclear and thermal energy plants in favour of highly efficient wind power (not).
File this under the category of don't wish for something you just might get it...
Friday, January 30, 2009
Who Gave the Germans the Right to Change the Climate?
What - acting without the permission of the United Nations and no protests?
The Story Here
The Story Here
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Blame our Pain on the New Green Commies
I was gonna write a post that explained how Green was the new Red.
And how the Marxists, having blown their opportunity in planting in fertile ground in Russia and China refocussed their attention on destroying western economies and convincing young people that collectivism, practiced in sandals and dungarees was the only way to say the world.
And then I came across the following and realized someone had done my work for me:
Frightening Quotes from Environmentalists
(Attack Of The Socialist-Luddites)
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
—Kenneth Boulding, originator of the “Spaceship Earth” concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)
We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last!
—Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue).
Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…. Capitalism is destroying the earth.
—Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects…. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.
—David Foreman, Earth First!
Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.
—Pentti Linkola
If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won’t give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.
—Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth–Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.
—John Shuttleworth
What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
—Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.
—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.
—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing....This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run.
—Economist editorial
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.
—David Foreman, Earth First!
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
—Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!
If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS
—Earth First! Newsletter
Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets…Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.
—David Graber, biologist, National Park Service
The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans.
—Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.
—Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund
Cannibalism is a “radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.”
—Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
Poverty For “Those People”
We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels.
—Carl Amery
Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.
—Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.
—Lamont Cole
If there is going to be electricity, I would like it to be decentralized, small, solar-powered.
—Gar Smith, editor of the Earth Island Institute’s online magazine The Edge
The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don’t suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them.
—Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population.
—Reid Bryson, “Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man”, (1971)
The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer.
—Paul Ehrlich, in The Population Bomb (1968)
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
—Paul Ehrlich in (1969)
In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.
—Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)
Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity…in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion.
—Paul Ehrlich in (1976)
This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.
—Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976
There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production—with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon… The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it.
—Newsweek, April 28, (1975)
This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.
—Lowell Ponte in “The Cooling”, 1976
If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. … This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.
—Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)
And how the Marxists, having blown their opportunity in planting in fertile ground in Russia and China refocussed their attention on destroying western economies and convincing young people that collectivism, practiced in sandals and dungarees was the only way to say the world.
And then I came across the following and realized someone had done my work for me:
Frightening Quotes from Environmentalists
(Attack Of The Socialist-Luddites)
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
—Kenneth Boulding, originator of the “Spaceship Earth” concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)
We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last!
—Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue).
Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…. Capitalism is destroying the earth.
—Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects…. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.
—David Foreman, Earth First!
Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.
—Pentti Linkola
If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won’t give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.
—Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth–Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.
—John Shuttleworth
What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
—Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.
—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.
—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing....This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run.
—Economist editorial
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.
—David Foreman, Earth First!
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
—Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!
If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS
—Earth First! Newsletter
Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets…Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.
—David Graber, biologist, National Park Service
The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans.
—Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.
—Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund
Cannibalism is a “radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.”
—Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
Poverty For “Those People”
We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels.
—Carl Amery
Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.
—Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.
—Lamont Cole
If there is going to be electricity, I would like it to be decentralized, small, solar-powered.
—Gar Smith, editor of the Earth Island Institute’s online magazine The Edge
The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don’t suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them.
—Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population.
—Reid Bryson, “Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man”, (1971)
The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer.
—Paul Ehrlich, in The Population Bomb (1968)
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
—Paul Ehrlich in (1969)
In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.
—Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)
Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity…in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion.
—Paul Ehrlich in (1976)
This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.
—Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976
There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production—with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon… The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it.
—Newsweek, April 28, (1975)
This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.
—Lowell Ponte in “The Cooling”, 1976
If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. … This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.
—Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)
More Gore Eco-Whore Lore - Best of CBL - February 2007
Who ever writes this book is gonna have a bestseller without having to work very hard...
Gore's hypocrisy is better documented than the evils of marijuana (which he got caught on for doing frequently in the Army).
There are 224,000 hits on Google for "Al Gore" "Hypocrite". I'm not going to link to them all.
Al Gore on Kyoto
“Signing the Protocol, while an important step forward, imposes no obligations on the United States. The Protocol becomes binding only with the advice and consent of the US Senate. As we have said before, we will not submit the Protocol for ratification without the meaningful participation of key developing countries in efforts to address climate change.”
Here
During the 1992 election campaign, for example, a Nashville television station obtained footage proving the existence of a dump filled with aluminum cans, old tires, and filters of waste oil - a dump Gore insisted did not exist - on property owned by Gore's father.
More recently, in March 1996, the Denver Water Department released an extra 96 million gallons of water - enough for 300 families for a year - to improve the backdrop for a campaign photo-op for Gore in front of the South Platte River.
Even though he has supposedly long been a foe of logging the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, shortly after being sworn in as Vice President, Gore added a verandah made of old-growth redwood and Douglas fir to the Vice President's mansion.
Even GNN Had Something to Say
And after pressure from big corporations like chemical giant DuPont, the Clinton administration, with guidance from Gore’s office, cut numerous deals over the pesticide Methyl Bromide despite its reported effects of contributing to Ozone depletion. (Much more at the link)
A Whole Video on Gore Hot Air
And Last: Another Video
Gore's hypocrisy is better documented than the evils of marijuana (which he got caught on for doing frequently in the Army).
There are 224,000 hits on Google for "Al Gore" "Hypocrite". I'm not going to link to them all.
Al Gore on Kyoto
“Signing the Protocol, while an important step forward, imposes no obligations on the United States. The Protocol becomes binding only with the advice and consent of the US Senate. As we have said before, we will not submit the Protocol for ratification without the meaningful participation of key developing countries in efforts to address climate change.”
Here
During the 1992 election campaign, for example, a Nashville television station obtained footage proving the existence of a dump filled with aluminum cans, old tires, and filters of waste oil - a dump Gore insisted did not exist - on property owned by Gore's father.
More recently, in March 1996, the Denver Water Department released an extra 96 million gallons of water - enough for 300 families for a year - to improve the backdrop for a campaign photo-op for Gore in front of the South Platte River.
Even though he has supposedly long been a foe of logging the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, shortly after being sworn in as Vice President, Gore added a verandah made of old-growth redwood and Douglas fir to the Vice President's mansion.
Even GNN Had Something to Say
And after pressure from big corporations like chemical giant DuPont, the Clinton administration, with guidance from Gore’s office, cut numerous deals over the pesticide Methyl Bromide despite its reported effects of contributing to Ozone depletion. (Much more at the link)
A Whole Video on Gore Hot Air
And Last: Another Video
Monday, January 26, 2009
Lomborg et al Batter Opponents in Global Warming Debate
The Gorester and his Accolytes never dare debate the truth of what they espouse.
A couple of followers did last week and got massacred by Lomborg and a colleague.
Listen to the entire debate here!!
Before Debate: For the Motion - 16%
After Debate: For the Motion - 42%
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Respond to Stupid Leftwing Opinions on Nuke Energy
Half the world's population of Birkenstock wearers have vented on CBC's Quirks and Quarks about their misinformed hatred of the only form of energy that can actually save the world - nuclear.
Our chance to vent back: listen to the CBC story and send an email to CBC Quirks and Quarks by clicking here and letting them know the facts. Distribute this link as widely as you want - we can't let the luddites and marxists spread their nonsense (or we'll all be living in the dark).
Our chance to vent back: listen to the CBC story and send an email to CBC Quirks and Quarks by clicking here and letting them know the facts. Distribute this link as widely as you want - we can't let the luddites and marxists spread their nonsense (or we'll all be living in the dark).
Friday, January 23, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Enviro-Nutters Change the Topic to Cope with Cold Weather
Anyone who went outside in the last 11 months has faced about the wettest and coldest weather they have ever seen. How many of us have written or said something like "pshaw, them Global Warming maniacs are nuts. How can they say we're getting hotter and dryer, when I'm freezing my ass off shoveling snow or putting in new drains!"
It looks like those AGW Windbags have noticed. So what did they do? They went and moved the cheese by changing the language. Check this graphic out:
Yup. Back before we had this frigid winter and wet summer the phrase Climate Change was used on the internet only a little more than Global Warming - 1.25 times more.
But, since they've been freezing in their birkenstocks, in the last year, the phrase "Climate Change" is used on the web almost 3 times as often as its toasty friend.
My point - if you can't win on facts, change the topic. Instead of the planet burning, argue that it's burning and freezing.
Who you gonna believe, lunatic left wing idiots, or your lying eyes (and frozen fingers & toes)??
Meanwhile, here's what Elizabeth May has to say about telling lies...
It looks like those AGW Windbags have noticed. So what did they do? They went and moved the cheese by changing the language. Check this graphic out:
Yup. Back before we had this frigid winter and wet summer the phrase Climate Change was used on the internet only a little more than Global Warming - 1.25 times more.
But, since they've been freezing in their birkenstocks, in the last year, the phrase "Climate Change" is used on the web almost 3 times as often as its toasty friend.
My point - if you can't win on facts, change the topic. Instead of the planet burning, argue that it's burning and freezing.
Who you gonna believe, lunatic left wing idiots, or your lying eyes (and frozen fingers & toes)??
Meanwhile, here's what Elizabeth May has to say about telling lies...
Monday, December 08, 2008
More Tom Nelson Revelations
I loath myself for restarting the "dig me and my extreme ideas" gene activity. But here I am. aagain.
Thanks to Tom Nelson who once again shows Tempalarmists for being low level liars...
The thing that pisses me off about all this... this evidence - that increasing CO2 has nothing to do with warming temps, is that I'm happy that the climidiots are wrong - BUT I'M FREEZING MY BUTT OFF!!!
Thanks to Tom Nelson who once again shows Tempalarmists for being low level liars...
The thing that pisses me off about all this... this evidence - that increasing CO2 has nothing to do with warming temps, is that I'm happy that the climidiots are wrong - BUT I'M FREEZING MY BUTT OFF!!!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Springhill Mine Disaster 50 Year Memorial
My Grandfather changed shifts the week before the Bump of 58. It was his crew and those were his buddy's caught down there.
Monday, October 20, 2008
The Global Warming Answer is Simple
From Lorne Gunter in Nat Post:
Take all the bank bail-outs and spend the money on SUV's.
Carrying forward the logic of the Global Warmongers, it would be Good for the environment, Good for the Alberta Oil Fields and Great for the Ontario Auto Industry.
Don Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, says, "It's practically a slam dunk that we are in for about 30 years of global cooling," as the sun enters a particularly inactive phase. His examination of warming and cooling trends over the past four centuries shows an "almost exact correlation" between climate fluctuations and solar energy received on Earth, while showing almost "no correlation at all with CO2."Take the $100 million and BUY 20,000 SUV's (CBL January 2008)
Take all the bank bail-outs and spend the money on SUV's.
Carrying forward the logic of the Global Warmongers, it would be Good for the environment, Good for the Alberta Oil Fields and Great for the Ontario Auto Industry.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Here we go again...
The Gazette
They look like grad pictures from a 1970's nursing school.
There is management of a campaign and then there is control.
The first works, the second gets recognized as freakish and gets push back from electors.
The CPC may or may not win a majority (I'm betting on 135 seats), but that is despite their incompetent campaign leadership, who again turned a majority into a minority.
They look like grad pictures from a 1970's nursing school.
There is management of a campaign and then there is control.
The first works, the second gets recognized as freakish and gets push back from electors.
The CPC may or may not win a majority (I'm betting on 135 seats), but that is despite their incompetent campaign leadership, who again turned a majority into a minority.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Political Animals Learning a Second Language
We have a new Scot Terrier puppy and two cats. They suffer each other and have frequent run-ins, often involving lots of hissing and hopping and barking.
Of course, the puppy just wants to play, and he sincerely makes an attempt to communicate and invite the kitties to play tug or other exciting puppy games, to the degree that he actually has a different bark with the cats - it's kind of yelpy and high pitched. Like he's trying to talk in their meowy feline tongue but just can't get the phrasing right.
Is still likely more comprehensible to its audience, though, than the futile attempt to speak a second language by a certain Party Leader who wishes to be PM.
Of course, the puppy just wants to play, and he sincerely makes an attempt to communicate and invite the kitties to play tug or other exciting puppy games, to the degree that he actually has a different bark with the cats - it's kind of yelpy and high pitched. Like he's trying to talk in their meowy feline tongue but just can't get the phrasing right.
Is still likely more comprehensible to its audience, though, than the futile attempt to speak a second language by a certain Party Leader who wishes to be PM.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Oct. 10th 2008
From the Daily Bayonet - All the Important Hypocritical Global Warming Theorist Case Studies in One Place
Welcome to the weekly round-up of all things a growing climate skeptic needs. This week might be more linky than snarky, I reached a personal high of being Snark McSnarky of the Snark People last week, and I'm not quite over it yet.Hat Tip to Tom Nelson
Lots of good stuff for you this week, and if you've ever read a round-up before, you're going to love this week's return hottie. Don't forget to return up here to read the good stuff after you've gone and had your sneaky early look at her. You're so predictable.
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