another warning shot from mother nature....

[Yssup Rider]

Let me get this straight.

JDIdiot denies climate change, BUT JDIdiot calls someone else a member of the Flat Earth Society.

Right?

Just checking.

[Budman]

Few if any deny climate change. What is in debate is how much if any humans affect the change. Those of us who disagree with "man made climate change" see it as a money grab by a bunch of hypocrites. It is very difficult to take clowns like Al Gore and the hollywood elite seriously when they jet around the world in their private jets and tell us how we need to drive smart cars and pay more in taxes. I remember an article years ago about the difference in AL Gore's home and George Bush's home. How GW's home was so energy efficient and Gore's was extremely inefficient. It's not like Gore didn't have they money to upgrade his house. It's just another example of do as I say not as I do.

[Yssup Rider]

well that sure makes me feel better about Dubya!

[IIFFOFRDB]

How did the IPCC’s alarmism take everyone in for so long?


Christopher Booker By Christopher Booker4:16PM BST 05 Apr 2014


When future generations come to look back on the alarm over global warming that seized the world towards the end of the 20th century, much will puzzle them as to how such a scare could have arisen. They will wonder why there was such a panic over a 0.4 per cent rise in global temperatures between 1975 and 1998, when similar rises between 1860 and 1880 and 1910 and 1940 had given no cause for concern. They will see these modest rises as just part of a general warming that began at the start of the 19th century, as the world emerged from the Little Ice Age, when the Earth had grown cooler for 400 years.

They will be struck by the extent to which this scare relied on the projections of computer models, which then proved to be hopelessly wrong when, in the years after 1998, their predicted rise in temperature came virtually to a halt. But in particular they will be amazed by the almost religious reverence accorded to that strange body, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which by then will be recognised as having never really been a scientific body at all, but a political pressure group. It had been set up in the 1980s by a small band of politically persuasive scientists who had become fanatically committed to the belief that, because carbon dioxide levels were rising, global temperatures must inevitably follow; an assumption that the evidence would increasingly show was mistaken.

Five times between 1990 and 2014 the IPCC published three massive volumes of technical reports – another emerged last week – and each time we saw the same pattern. Each was supposedly based on thousands of scientific studies, many funded to find evidence to support the received view that man-made climate change was threatening the world with disaster – hurricanes, floods, droughts, melting ice, rising sea levels and the rest. But each time what caught the headlines was a brief “Summary for Policymakers”, carefully crafted by governments and a few committed scientists to hype up the scare by going much further than was justified by the thousands of pages in the technical reports themselves.

Each time it would emerge just how shamelessly these Summaries had distorted the actual evidence, picking out the scary bits, which themselves often turned out not to have been based on proper science at all. The most glaring example was the IPCC’s 2007 report, which hit the headlines with those wildly alarmist predictions that the Himalayan glaciers might all be gone by 2035; that global warming could halve African crop yields by 2050; that droughts would destroy 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest. Not until 2010 did some of us manage to show that each of these predictions, and many more, came not from genuine scientific studies but from scaremongering propaganda produced by green activists and lobby groups (shown by one exhaustive analysis to make up nearly a third of all the IPCC’s sources).

Most of the particularly alarmist predictions came from a report by the IPCC’s Working Group II. This was concerned with assessing the impact on the world of those changes to the climate predicted by the equally flawed computer models relied on by Working Group I, which was charged with assessing the science of climate change. The technical report published last week was its sequel, also from Working Group II, and we can at once see, from its much more cautious treatment of the subjects that caused such trouble last time, that they knew they couldn’t afford any repeat of that disaster.


Looking at the Summary for Policymakers, however, we see how the scaremongers are still playing their same old game. On pages 12-14, for instance, they are still trying to whip up fears about extreme weather events, killer heatwaves, vanishing tropical islands, massive crop failures and so on, although little of this is justified by the report itself, and even less by the evidence of the real world, where these things are no more happening as predicted than the temperature rises predicted by their computer models.

This latest report has aroused markedly less excitement than did its hysterical predecessor in 2007. They have cried wolf once too often. The only people still being wholly taken in, it seems – apart from the usual suspects in the media – are all those mindless politicians still babbling on about how in Paris next year they are finally going to get that great global agreement which, if only we put up enough wind farms and taxes, will somehow enable us to stop the climate changing.

They can dream on. But alas, the rest of us must still pay the price for their dreams.

Nigel Farage misses an open goal

What was most terrifying about how Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage came across in their second shoot-out on “Europe” was the realisation that such a sad, and not particularly pleasant, little muppet as Clegg could actually be our Deputy Prime Minister. What was most disappointing, however, was how, when Farage was yet again given the chance to put forward the only practical alternative to Britain remaining in the increasingly dysfunctional EU, he muffed it.

He allowed Clegg to get away with seriously misrepresenting the position enjoyed by the two most prosperous countries in Europe, Norway and Switzerland, as members of the European Free Trade Association (Efta) outside the EU. Instead of correcting Clegg’s errors, Farage’s response was such waffle that David Dimbleby gave him a second chance to put across a clear and simple message: that by invoking Article 50 and joining Efta, freed from the rest of the EU’s increasing political baggage, Britain could not only continue to trade as freely with the single market as we do now, but have much more influence over shaping its rules, too. This would give us all what so many people say they want.

But, offered this open goal, Farage simply kicked the ball gently and rather clumsily into touch. If Ukip wants Britain to leave the EU, why doesn’t Nigel explain the only practical way that this could be done?

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by bigtex

Why can't LLIdiot be both?

Because I'm not either. Duuuhhhh.

Go back to stuffing yourself with 6th Street Burgers!

Just curious: Do you wear your suspenders when you go down there?

[Ducbutter]

This article would explain a lot about the melting of the Thwaites glacier as well as the continental uplift of the Antarctic. The answer is volcanism and , no, we're not talking Mr. Spock here.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/glob...low-140609.htm

I suppose that now the climate alarmists will demand some sort of action to eliminate volcanism from the planet.

[JD Barleycorn]

Why not? They have already called for an end to the "carbon cycle" to save us from CO2. For the uneducated, ending the carbon cycle would life on the earth. My congressman told me this himself and that is why Dennis Moore is no longer in Congress.

[Munchmasterman]

Originally Posted by Ducbutter

This article would explain a lot about the melting of the Thwaites glacier as well as the continental uplift of the Antarctic. The answer is volcanism and , no, we're not talking Mr. Spock here.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/glob...low-140609.htm

I suppose that now the climate alarmists will demand some sort of action to eliminate volcanism from the planet.

Did you miss this part of the article? Or just ignore it?

West Antarctica is also hemorrhaging ice due to climate change, and recent studies have suggested there is no way to reverse the retreat of West Antarctic glaciers. However, the timing of this retreat is still in question, Schroeder said — it could take hundreds of years, or thousands. It's important to understand which, given that meltwater from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet contributes directly to sea level rise

[gnadfly]

It's a scam. Even the most recent IPCC report admitted no appreciable warming in the last 17 years. 20,000 years ago Manhattan was under an ice sheet over a mile thick.

Here another fact Nat Gas emits almost as much CO2 as coal. Obama flip flopped and now calls NG "clean energy."

[herfacechair]

Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

Did you miss this part of the article? Or just ignore it?

West Antarctica is also hemorrhaging ice due to climate change, and recent studies have suggested there is no way to reverse the retreat of West Antarctic glaciers. However, the timing of this retreat is still in question, Schroeder said — it could take hundreds of years, or thousands. It's important to understand which, given that meltwater from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet contributes directly to sea level rise

Actual scientific measurements show that there's a net increase in total Antarctic ice mass:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/1...exceed-losses/

From the article:

"During 2003 to 2008, the mass gain of the Antarctic ice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gt/yr (2.5% of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation change. The net gain (86 Gt/yr) over the West Antarctic (WA) and East Antarctic ice sheets (WA and EA) is essentially unchanged from revised results for 1992 to 2001 from ERS radar altimetry."

The trend has continued. The kind of winter that the southern hemisphere is getting right now indicates a larger ice volume/mass than normal.

Record cold weather is being set, and it's snowing in places where people normally don't expect it to snow. This wouldn't be happening if it weren't getting colder. It wouldn't be getting colder if the ice sheet wasn't gaining in mass.

Antarctic sea ice set another record:

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-...-warming-scare

The man made global warming crowd would argue that the sea ice is growing because the ice on land is melting. That defies physics. Colder air from the South Pole is making it possible to set those records over the surrounding oceans. That air wouldn't be colder if there wasn't more ice each year... generating colder air each year.

[Munchmasterman]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

It's a scam. Even the most recent IPCC report admitted no appreciable warming in the last 17 years. 20,000 years ago Manhattan was under an ice sheet over a mile thick.

Here another fact Nat Gas emits almost as much CO2 as coal. Obama flip flopped and now calls NG "clean energy."

NG emits slightly more than half of the CO2 burning coal does.

Different fuels emit different amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) in relation to the energy they produce. To compare emissions across fuels, you should compare the amount of CO2 emitted per unit of energy output or heat content.
Pounds of CO2 emitted per million Btu of energy for various fuels:

Coal (anthracite) 228.6
Coal (bituminous) 205.7
Coal (lignite) 215.4
Coal (subbituminous) 214.3
Diesel fuel & heating oil 161.3
Gasoline 157.2
Propane 139.0
Natural gas 117.0

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=73&t=11

[Munchmasterman]

Originally Posted by herfacechair

Actual scientific measurements show that there's a net increase in total Antarctic ice mass:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/1...exceed-losses/

From the article:

"During 2003 to 2008, the mass gain of the Antarctic ice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gt/yr (2.5% of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation change. The net gain (86 Gt/yr) over the West Antarctic (WA) and East Antarctic ice sheets (WA and EA) is essentially unchanged from revised results for 1992 to 2001 from ERS radar altimetry."

The trend has continued. The kind of winter that the southern hemisphere is getting right now indicates a larger ice volume/mass than normal.

Record cold weather is being set, and it's snowing in places where people normally don't expect it to snow. This wouldn't be happening if it weren't getting colder. It wouldn't be getting colder if the ice sheet wasn't gaining in mass.

Antarctic sea ice set another record:

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-...-warming-scare

The man made global warming crowd would argue that the sea ice is growing because the ice on land is melting. That defies physics. Colder air from the South Pole is making it possible to set those records over the surrounding oceans. That air wouldn't be colder if there wasn't more ice each year... generating colder air each year.

The article is 2 years old. Things may have changed.

[rodog44]

MOTHERFUCKIN JONES LMFAO

[IIFFOFRDB]

Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

NG emits slightly more than half of the CO2 burning coal does.

Different fuels emit different amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) in relation to the energy they produce. To compare emissions across fuels, you should compare the amount of CO2 emitted per unit of energy output or heat content.
Pounds of CO2 emitted per million Btu of energy for various fuels:

Coal (anthracite) 228.6
Coal (bituminous) 205.7
Coal (lignite) 215.4
Coal (subbituminous) 214.3
Diesel fuel & heating oil 161.3
Gasoline 157.2
Propane 139.0
Natural gas 117.0

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=73&t=11

Let us pray: Marshmellowman
ALGORE is my shepherd; I shall not think.
He maketh me lie down in Greeneth pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still-freezing waters.
He selleth my soul for CO2:
He leadeth me in the paths of self-righteousness for his own sake.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of reason
I will fear all logic: for thou art with me and thinking for me
Thy Gore’s family oil fortune and thy 10,000 square Gorey foot mansion,they comfort me.
Thou preparest a movie in the presence of contradictory evidence:
Thou anointest mine head with nonsense; my obedience runneth over.
Surely blind faith and hysteria shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the house of ALGORE forever..........

[CuteOldGuy]

Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

The article is 2 years old. Things may have changed.

You don't even know how stupid that is!

This place cracks me up!