This Valentine’s Day is a cold one. Despite being Wednesday, my place of employment is closed… for the first time since I can remember. I just got done snow blowing my 150ft driveway and it took me twice as long as usual because the snow was coming up over the top of my Briggs & Stratton beast. The snow is still pouring down and I’ll have to blow again in a couple hours or my wife won’t make it into the garage.
I am utterly tired of hearing about so-called man-made global warming. Why? Not because I’m in the middle of a snowstorm. Not because of any weather pattern I’ve seen in my own lifetime. More than anything… I am sick of hearing about it because I firmly believe it is exaggerated to the extreme… and when I research into the politics and money-trail of it the smell intensifies.
The hoax of the doctrine of man-made global warming that is being foisted upon the world by decree, and the junk science that is manipulated to support it, represents a creeping fascism whose agenda to stifle open debate betrays the fact that climate change hysteria is a farce intended to crush freedoms and further centralize global power.
~ Paul Joseph Watson from a post at PropagandaMatrix.com
You see, there are mountains of evidence showing our climate to be driven by very, VERY large forces outside our control as a society. The sun’s complex cycles control our climate more than anything else combined times several orders of magnitude. The research exists… but it is boring, you see, because the reality of not having control of the climate renders politicians, militant environmentalists, and grant-hungry researchers powerless and cashless. Like anything else, simply follow the money.
There is something quite horrible about the complete failure of America’s journalists to even acknowledge there might be something terribly wrong about the theory of Global Warming. So far the published science that purports to support the theory has been severely challenged and even disproved to the point of having deliberately falsified data.
~ Alan Caruba from an article in the Canada Free Press
Now I know that climatologists can reasonably discern that over the short-term temperatures give indications of a slight increase in overall global temperatures… but they also know that temperatures follow many complex cycles that include “mini”-ice-ages and “mini”-meltdowns and such. We also know that the ice caps regulate some of this activity much the same way a buffer moderates a chemical solution. And while it is evident that people have an effect on the environment it is rather alarmist to assert that the current warming trend (which appears to be solar-related) is man-made.
Yet alarmism seems to rule the day, and hysteria drives big lies. The big problem with hysteria is that it is lucrative. Lobby groups and politicians use it to gain political capital. Environmentalist wackos use it to push a social agenda. Researchers use it to scare up big grants. The mainstream media uses it to drive big advertising revenue. Plainly… hysteria sells. In fact, it sells so well that anybody daring to disagree is immediately attacked by hysteria’s cunning benefactors. I’ve too often heard the term “denier” thrown about lately with regard to man-made global warming. I hold a viewpoint highly suspect whose supporters so venomously and irrationally attack the dissenting opinions.
All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.
~ Adolf Hitler as written in Mein Kampf
A great rule of thumb to follow is to not immediately believe anything you read or hear from people who benefit from your belief in what they are printing or saying. Did you get that, because that was a biggie. Ok, I’ll repeat it louder. A great rule of thumb to follow is to not immediately believe anything you read or hear from people who benefit from your belief in what they are printing or saying. Do your homework and use extra common sense, especially when something is being touted as “potentially catastrophic”… after all, how many pieces of mail do you receive that say “extremely urgent - open immediately” only to find out that it’s junk mail? Man-made global warming… yeah, that’s probably junk mail, too. 
Two New Books Confirm Global Warming is Natural; Not Caused By Human Activity
Tue Jan 30 2007 10:02:32 ETTwo powerful new books say today’s global warming is due not to human activity but primarily to a long, moderate solar-linked cycle. Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years, by physicist Fred Singer and economist Dennis Avery was released just before Christmas. The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and former BBC science writer Nigel Calder (Icon Books), is due out in March.
Singer and Avery note that most of the earth’s recent warming occurred before 1940, and thus before much human-emitted CO2. Moreover, physical evidence shows 600 moderate warmings in the earth’s last million years. The evidence ranges from ancient Nile flood records, Chinese court documents and Roman wine grapes to modern spectral analysis of polar ice cores, deep seabed sediments, and layered cave stalagmites.
Unstoppable Global Warming shows the earth’s temperatures following variations in solar intensity through centuries of sunspot records, and finds cycles of sun-linked isotopes in ice and tree rings. The book cites the work of Svensmark, who says cosmic rays vary the earth’s temperatures by creating more or fewer of the low, wet clouds that cool the earth. It notes that global climate models can’t accurately register cloud effects.
The Chilling Stars relates how Svensmark’s team mimicked the chemistry of earth’s atmosphere, by putting realistic mixtures of atmospheric gases into a large reaction chamber, with ultraviolet light as a stand-in for the sun. When they turned on the UV, microscopic droplets—cloud seeds—started floating through the chamber.
“We were amazed by the speed and efficiency with which the electrons [generated by cosmic rays] do their work of creating the building blocks for the cloud condensation nuclei,” says Svensmark.
The Chilling Stars documents how cosmic rays amplify small changes in the sun’s irradiance fourfold, creating 1-2 degree C cycles in earth’s temperatures: Cosmic rays continually slam into the earth’s atmosphere from outer space, creating ion clusters that become seeds for small droplets of water and sulfuric acid. The droplets then form the low, wet clouds that reflect solar energy back into space. When the sun is more active, it shields the earth from some of the rays, clouds wane, and the planet warms.
Unstoppable Global Warming documents the reality of a moderate, natural, 1500-year climate cycle on the earth. The Chilling Stars explains the why and how.
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I did not immediately believe anything I just read here……..
should we believe some guitar player or an important person like vice president gore? al gore made a movie. al gore has a private jet, just like oprah. he flies around warning people about global warming. do you have a private jet just like oprah? did you make a movie? I don’t think so. al gore cares, not like some guitar player who is mean and calls people environmentalist wackos, just like that big fat drug addict right wing nazi rush limbaugh. oprah cares too - she gives people free cars.
Al Gore is a GOOF!!!!!!!!
Intelliegent scientists will make money no matter what subject they study. They get nothing extra from telling people what their research indicates is a very important problem.
The only people who benefit from denying climate change is BIG OIL and corporations who would lose profits if they had to address the problem of pollution.
Getting harder to to confuse people, huh?
First, temperatures are rising, easily observed. What is more difficult to say is how much is natural and how much is man-made. Human activities add 6 to 7 gigatons (in carbon equiv) of CO2 to the atmosphere a year, and the gas certainly can add to heat trapping. So how much is natural and how much is man-made? AS I said, hard to say for sure, but all that CO2 can’t be helping matters. And, I’m sorry, but I just can’t bring myself to believe that the measurements of glacial retreat and ice lose from Greenland are part of an attempt to put one over on the world.
Ultimately it doesn’t matter. Environmental conservation is a worthy end unto itself. Also we are using up non-renewable resources to fuel our world, and as ‘non-renewable’ suggests this cannot continue indefinitely. If this is the prod that gets us to stop relying on fossil fuels, then good.
Terri :: Al Gore is indeed a goof!
Chris and Montane ::
Let me talk about scientists and researchers. I had some exposure at RPI to research work, grants, and how it all plays out… I’m no expert but I had some exposure. I also have contacts who work for an institution that handles grant management and allocation for many, large medical research facilities. Now, if you’re a climatologist who specializes in global warming then environmental alarmism with regard to global warming benefits your wallet… and if you’re not then it’s a little harder for you to get your grants… a little harder for your paper to get published in the front of your field’s journal… etc. It reminds me of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton… their money flow is predicated on racial tensions, and when racial tensions die down they lose their gin & juice… so whenever I see those clowns yelling about race issues I have to be very skeptical (which is unfortunate because some of what they say may have some truth in it).
A good book to read is called Selling Science by Dorothy Nelkin. If you truly think that scientists have nothing to gain from media hype and drummed-up public hysteria then you really need to open your eyes.
As far as the big oil thing… if you think I’m going to say that oil companies are sincerely looking out for everyone you’re wrong. I wouldn’t want them, too, anyway… that wouldn’t be good capitalism. I want them to do whatever they can to be the most competitive (within law). However, being a nuclear engineer gives me a very unique perspective. I’ve heard every hollow complaint and faulty line of thought about why nuclear power is BAD for the environment… and it’s all claptrap cloaked in subterfuge. If people really wanted to help free us from big oil and reduce pollution they would embrace nuclear power (which is actually starting to happen) but many choose to merely echo hysterical calls for anti-capitalist legislation rather than trying to actually SOLVE the problem.
One thing that the big oil thing reminds me off is the multi-year saga still playing out in the Hudson valley over the dredging of the Hudson River. GE dumped a *LOT* of PCBs in it back in the day when it was legal… and since then it’s been buried pretty securely in the riverbed. But enviro-nuts want to punish the big evil mean GE company and have them pay mega-cash to dredge it all up to “clean” it. Forget the fact that the majority of the people who actually live closest to the river DO NOT want this AT ALL! Forget the fact that this was legal for GE at the time. Forget the fact that this will severely crap up the river for years after stirring everything up. Now, of course, GE is fighting this (and I would, too) but they are doing it because they don’t want to pay big money (and I don’t blame them). When I hear a dredging opposition ad from GE on the radio or on TV I maintain my skepticism… but that doesn’t mean I don’t agree that dredging is a terrible idea and terrible for the river.
I agree that being an environmentalist (even though that has connotations of economic ignorance) is a good thing at heart. I even consider myself a Green Conservative. But I also hold high levels of skepticism when dumb college students who’ve never left the States scream and yell about how much the US is killing the planet. I am skeptical of Al Gore flying jets to talk about the damage flying jets does to the Earth. I am skeptical of a Virgin Airways tycoon who touts environmentalism but says he won’t give up his airline because if he does someone else will fill the void. Oh… so then why should I not by that SUV, because then someone else will buy it, right? Hypocrisy and hysteria.
Oh, I tempered my original post a bit when i saw that nowhere did I acknowledge the climate actually getting hotter or that man can have an effect.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2007/02/meet_daisy_the_cow_global_climates_enemy_number_on.html
You had to know that eventually the Greenpeacers and Peta-nuts would find a way to reach common ground here.
Well said WarAxe
Humans exhale 724 pounds of carbon a year…we should just start rationing breaths.
Montana: Global temperature has stayed the same since 2001. And you also failed to mention that the South Pole is actually thicker in places.
Chris: Did you know that the Exxon oil company actually paid more than it made in taxes? And did you know that BIG OIL (the US companies the mainsteam media usually lists) only control 5% of America’s oil?
Al Gore has made the Nobel Prize a joke. If i ever obtain it (VERY unlikely) i will refuse it citing this instance.
According to Toth, the crap in the Hudson River will naturally get swirled back to circulation slowly for a long time if it’s not dredged out. So it’s either constant PBC at low levels for near enough to forever, or massive blast and clean water in a short amount of time (short in a relative sense; I suspect that means like 20 years or something). I haven’t paid as much attention to this issue since I moved farther downstream where they won’t be dredging.
Either way, I do think it’s crap for people to whip around like a snake and bite GE for doing what it was told it could do in the first place. I feel the same way about banks that invested in slavery a hundred years ago being made to cough up money now. Yeah, it sucked but this is a terrible precedent. First, because then we live in an unstable world where every law is suspect because you have to assume that it could be reversed at any minute and you’ll be penalized. And second, because it sets the stage for suing anyone at any timxe for any connection to something that at some time did something unpleasant to someone. Did I have an uncle who beat somebody up in the 1920s? Sue me now. Why not? SUE EVERYBODY!
A mild chuckle to Secret Squirrel. Managing to work Oprah in was the best part.
Big oil, big oil… blah blah blah. Are there people who actually think we should not use the oil? It’s an amazing substance that has so many uses. I don’t doubt there will be other things down the road. But what’s the point of saving it? The renewable argument just doesn’t work for me. When it’s gone, you use something else. Are you going to lament that we have no oil? Only if we have no replacement. It’s not like watching the last rare animal die in a zoo. And then there’s the pollution angle. Does anyone realize how much we have reduced pollution caused by using oil? Now of course, everything we have done is being undone quickly by the billions of Chinese who have cars now and don’t give a hoot about the environment or much of anything else for that matter. I laugh at anyone who acts like we’re the evilest country in the world. Ha.
Steve, I actually read a book recently that made reference to (though I believe not quite using the term) “Big Beef.” I kid you not. They were not being funny, either. Or fresh, or cute.
And last but not least: global average temperature… I seem to recall that the average global temperature of the earth has gone through monstrous changes throughout the many, many (many many many many many) years our blue and white globe has be twirling through the heavens. Can someone please tell me how you (or anyone) knows what the “right” temperature is supposed to be. Which is not to say that we’re not clever people who may be able to try to make the environment sit up, beg, and fetch sticks for us. You know, if they have to put some big beach umbrellas in orbit to give us some shade, that’s fine by me. But I am really unwilling to take blame or feel guilt for something that happens whether I do anything at all, or not.
Ha ha! Big Beef! I KNEW IT!!! We’ve got to bring them down.
Or we could use them for our “greener” purposes. Maybe we could start running our cars on moose gases? Every night you’d plug your car into the rear of a moose, and it’s anal energy would be sucked into the “gas” tank while you slept soundly knowing “you so greeeen”.
I’d love for Pelosi to be told to “get her OWN oil!” It’s like those screwballs in Nantucket who don’t want those “loud, ugly, oil-belching, enviro-toxic” windmills in their water… but yet they definitely want energy! Make them a deal… what energy they make, they can use. We’ll see how fast they put up windmills… and oil rigs, and nuke plants.
I have yet to meet an intelligent, honest person repeating anything from Al Gore.
The climate-alarmists have yet to explain why - if man is the cause of this - do our fellow planets warm and cool right along WITH us!