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The Environmental Spectator
Cluck, It's Cold Outside
"Oh, it's you again," said Ms. Henny-Penny, as I rounded the corner into the farmyard. I wanted to bring her some cheery news that the sky was no longer falling. She is the founder and now recording secretary of The Holy Order Of The Sky Is Falling (whose pontiff is Al Gore). She didn't give me a chance to open my mouth.
H-P: I know you're going to give me one of your climate change-denier lectures. Well let me tell you, after we've have the big U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, we will have solved the climate change problem for good and the sky will be stabilized. We're going to come up with a treaty that will cut production in the industrialized countries to bring down carbon emissions. As you know, these cause climate change."
Me: No. I don't know that, nor does anyone else. Climate is changing all the time and you and your pontiff have appropriated the phrase because your old favorite, "global warming," has been discredited. And, no one has proved that man-made carbon emissions are causing climate change.
H-P: Everyone knows it's true. Besides, it is causing the polar ice caps to melt.
Me: Here's some news for you. The National Snow and Ice Data Center the other day released its data on Arctic summer sea-ice. They showed that "second-year ice" (ice thick enough to have withstood two summers of seasonal melting) this summer made up 32 per cent of the total ice cover on that ocean. In 2007 it was 21 percent and last year only 9 percent. So, you're a year behind.
H-P: I'll bet that's not true of the Antarctic.
Me: Yes, it is. A research scientist at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Marco Tedesco, last month published in a professional journal his report that ice melt in Antarctica was the lowest in three decades during the ice-melt season this year.
H-P: If you're so smart, why is that the Larsen B ice shelf on the western side of Antarctica is falling into the ocean from warming?
Me: That part has been warming for quite some time, but comprises barely 2 percent of the continent. The other 98 percent is cooling. Prof. Don Easterbrook of Western Washington University has done research showing that the most important ocean cycle, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), was in a warming cycle in the 1980s and '90s, but that is now in a cool mode. He says this virtually assures us of three decades of global cooling. Furthermore, many scientists have concluded that the general cooling we are experiencing now coincides with the fact there has been very little sunspot activity over the last decade.
H-P: Our pontiff has not mentioned any of this and he knows everything. I doubt anyone will mention it at Copenhagen.
Me: You're probably right. After all, the conference it not about improving the climate, but about fulfilling the wishes of the devotees of deep ecology who want to ratchet down industrial production, standards of living and reduce the world's population.
H-P. Brr. I'm getting cold just talking with you.
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Louis Jenkins| 10.27.09 @ 8:30AM
From The Times UK On Line:
"People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming. In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”
Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.
Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.
He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”
Lord Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank and now I. G. Patel Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, warned that British taxpayers would need to contribute about £3 billion a year by 2015 to help poor countries to cope with the inevitable impact of climate change."
Can't wait until Obama hands us the tax bill for this one, and signs away our national soverignty to the other signers of the treaty.
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Amen from the Alaska Chapter of
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Serfdumb| 10.29.09 @ 6:21PM
What we need to do is invent a device that captures that nasty CO2 and then converts it into tasty foodstuffs. Ohh Wait, God already did that - they're called plants. Now if we could just invent something that turned those nasty inedible plants into tasty high value protein / fat that would really be something! Ohh Wait, God already did that - they're called Herbivores. Sorry Al Gore - the problem is already solved and apparently you're not actually smarter than God (or Nature, if you prefer).
owyheewine| 10.27.09 @ 9:06AM
The HP crowd is getting desparate. Just this morning there is a story that statisticians have examined "the data" on Global Temperatures and have found that the last 10 years have actually warmed. Do not be fooled, unless the data is properly defined, and such things as last fall's "record heat", when Russian data from the summer was used to calculate October temperatures is removed, who knows what the statistical analysis will show. Every independant analysis of temperatures over the last decade has confirmed a cooling trend, but according to AP they are all wrong.
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ghonadz| 10.29.09 @ 8:02PM
You idiotic, delusional denier cultists are so full of crap, it is pouring out your ears. You dingbats deny reality but reality won't be denied. Anthropogenic global warming is a fact and your ignorant denials are akin to 'flat earther' blather. The world is not cooling despite your propaganda.
Cholly| 11.20.09 @ 8:49AM
Ghonadz, man, you are becoming more shrill and whiny as your AGW house of cards crumbles. It's a joy to have you as part of the global warming propaganda machine. Your defensive, greener-than-thou tone exposes your religion for what it is.
Mr. J. Harbor| 11.4.09 @ 2:58PM
The "Climate" issue is full of folks, that hold their own personal opinions above all else, but the most obvious facts. I do not wish to enter into the debate on this site, but I do believe the "Deniers" need to state their benchmarks, as to when they would admit they are wrong. Of course, the greedy will never admit they are wrong, as long as they money keeps flowing into their pockets. Would they complete melting of the Arctic sea ice be such a benchmark? Or would some "natural cause" theory, then be formulated to explain its disappearance?