Global Warming..oops. I mean Climate Change

Consensus: Global Warming Is Not Man-Made

And by consensus, I mean a consensus among the American people:

There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem – 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 2008.

The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 4 among 1,500 adults reached on cell phones and landlines, finds that 57% think there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades. In April 2008, 71% said there was solid evidence of rising global temperatures.

Over the same period, there has been a comparable decline in the proportion of Americans who say global temperatures are rising as a result of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels. Just 36% say that currently, down from 47% last year.

"The problem is," Obama said about global warming in January 2008, "can you get the American people to say this is really important and force their representatives
to do the right thing?"

We now have a pretty clear answer to that question.

Global Warming - Explained?

Greenhouse gases are going to kill us all! Or not. Maybe. The science is settled.

This is a primer on The Greenhouse Effect. The author shows how the subject is settled, once and for all....

Except for the 280+ comments that can show otherwise....

Go get your brain tired. Very scientific discussion in the comments about this very interesting topic. Be prepared to learn some science.

And if you haven't exhausted your brain cells after that, Cold Facts on Global Warming, will fill in the science that the press and the advocates leave out of the newspaper. Notice that this was published in 2003. But, of course, there's no money in a "no greenhouse catastrophe" scenario...

He Froze to Death

Algore testified before Congress today. About Global Warming. I was supposed to be in a meeting with National Park Service this morning, but the meeting was cancelled due to weather.

It got so hot in DC, the roads froze.


Brings to mind the story about the farmer and his mule. A farmer was plowing a field of popcorn in the middle of the summer. The temperature continued to rise through the day, and suddenly, the popcorn started popping. Well, that old mule saw all that popcorn, thought it was snow, and laid down and froze to death.

Endangered species. Well, sorta.....

SAVE THE ENDANGERED!

Coal industry, 2nd Amendment, Property Rights, Free Enterprise, Free Speech......

We are so Screwed!

Socialism is alive and well in the Obama Administration

But it's a DRY heat.......

Since we seem to be experiencing global warming (summer) these past few days, I thought that I would try to get to the truth. It seems that NASA has been "Painting by numbers."

I notice that this was not in a US news source. I wonder why.

Its hard to believe that I feel hotter here, then I did in Kuwait, during the same time period. And I used to be able to ignore humidity. Being from New Orleans, makes one immune. At least I was....

McCain: "I voted against the Kyoto Treaty before I wanted to vote for it....

Yet again, McCain opens his mouth and drives away the GOP base......

The United States Senate refused to ratify the Kyoto Treaty. It was dead BEFORE arrival. President Clinton, seeing the writing on the wall, did not submit the treaty. Senator McCain was a member of that august body. So, if the Kyoto treaty was bad for America then, why is it such a good idea now, Senator McCain?

The Kyoto Treaty advocated reduced "greenhouse" gas emissions to a certain level below the 1990 levels. Kyoto is a 'cap and trade' system that imposes national caps on the emissions of Annex I countries. On average, this cap requires countries to reduce their emissions 5.2% below their 1990 baseline over the 2008 to 2012 period. Kyoto created a framework and a set of rules for a global carbon market, there are in practice several distinct schemes or markets in operation today, with varying degrees of linkages among them. (And we know how Al Gore made out from that. There's noooo chance of fraud in this scheme.....)

Now here's McCain's take:(sound familiar?)
"I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges. I will not accept the same dead-end of failed diplomacy that claimed Kyoto. (Uh, weren't YOU a Senator that refused to ratify? And what's with this "8 years" crap? Clinton is the one that didn't submit it. Still crapping on your own side to look like one of the cool kids, again....)

McCain's major solution is to implement a cap-and-trade program on carbon-fuel emissions, like a similar program in the Clean Air Act that was used to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions that triggered acid rain.
Industries would be given emission targets, and those coming in under their limit could sell their surplus polluting capacity to companies unable to meet their target.
McCain wants the country to return to 2005 emission levels by 2012; 1990 levels by 2020; and to a level sixty percent below that by 2050.

"As never before, the market would reward any person or company that seeks to invent, improve, or acquire alternatives to carbon-based energy," he said. "More likely, however, there will be some companies that need extra emissions rights, and they will be able to buy them. (Al Gore must be insane with glee......)

More McCain Wisdom:
“We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring.”

“We know that greenhouse gasses are heavily implicated as a cause of climate change. And we know that among all greenhouse gasses, the worst by far is the carbon-dioxide that results from fossil-fuel combustion.” (Apparently he hasn't heard the latest: that the world is entering a cooling period, there is record snow fall and ice coverage, and that CO2 IS NOT the most effective "green house gas", but water vapor is. Idiot)

The worst part is this: McCain has long expressed a belief in global warming, arguing that even if he is wrong, acting as if the planet's temperature were increasing would only benefit the environment if scientists subsequently proved he was mistaken.
(So in other words, "its ok if I destroy the economy on a flawed theory and junk science because I think it will make the environment better."

From Powerline: If McCain is looking for a sensible energy policy, he might start with these recommendations from the Science and Environmental Policy Project:

Our policy recommendation is to phase out natural gas (methane) for electric power generation (now about 20% in US and 40% in UK), replace it with coal/nuclear, and use gas as a clean transportation fuel (in the form of Compressed Natural Gas -- CNG) for buses, trucks, and all fleet vehicles. In the US case it would cut oil imports by 30%. Further cuts would come from the use of plug-in and hybrid-electric cars.

I'm wrong. The worst part is that McCain is STILL the more "conservative" of the three main candidates.......

That's why I bought a shirt with the proper elections message. And I will be wearing it on election day.

Global warming is "Settled science." NOT.

Have you been feeling a little bit chilly lately? I know the weather HERE has been unseasonably warm....but the rest of the country has been under a blanket of snow.

Here's a report about this "global warming" we've all been warned (and warned and warned and berated and guilt tripped, etc) about. They have graphs and everything, just like those other scientists.


Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling


Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

Minnesotans For Global Warming

Apparently, this is Minnesota in the SUMMER!

h/t Theo

Best summary of "global warming"

"Stock up on fur coats and felt boots! This is my paradoxical advice to the warm world."

Check this out. Here is one of the best explanations for global warming I've found. And if anybody wants global warming, its these guys.........

Get your Carbon Offset here....Get your Carbon Offsets .....

Wanna be Green for the REST OF YOUR LIFE?

Get your own Carbon Offsets.

These are just as valuable as the ones you can buy from Al Gore.

Global Wa....whatever.....

Orson Scott Card uses his amazing talent as a writer to expose the new religion of Global Warming.
There are too many good parts to pick just one exerpt. He also lists 2 books at the end that also debunk the "climate emergency", one of which, Unstoppaple Global Warming, I've read. It's excellent.