Monday, December 10, 2007

The Science of Gore's Nobel

What if everyone believes in global warmism only because everyone believes in global warmism?


http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/hjenkins/?id=110010947

Sunday, November 25, 2007

We are set on a course of 'planet saving' madness

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/25/nbook125.xml


The latest US satellite figures show temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Dolphins ‘planning to move into our houses after global warming’

http://newsbiscuit.com/article/dolphins-planning-to-move-into-our-houses-after-global-warming-221

Global Warming Delusions at the Wall Street Journal

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/global-warming-delusions-at-the-wall-street-journal/

Inhofe Warns of Global Warming Laws

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/news-desk/2007/10/23/inhofe-warns-of-global-warming-laws.html

"At a hearing on human health effects of global warming, Inhofe implied that Democratic Chairwoman Barbara Boxer was distracting members with studies of what might happen from global warming rather than focusing on "what will happen if we legislate global warming." Inhofe believes that any mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions will bear too great a cost for the economy for too little benefit."

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Over 500 scientists published studies countering global warming fears...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. More than 300 of the scientists found evidence that 1) a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours since the last Ice Age and/or that 2) our Modern Warming is linked strongly to variations in the sun's irradiance. "This data and the list of scientists make a mockery of recent claims that a scientific consensus blames humans as the primary cause of global temperature increases since 1850," said Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Dennis Avery.


Other researchers found evidence that 3) sea levels are failing to rise importantly; 4) that our storms and droughts are becoming fewer and milder with this warming as they did during previous global warmings; 5) that human deaths will be reduced with warming because cold kills twice as many people as heat; and 6) that corals, trees, birds, mammals, and butterflies are adapting well to the routine reality of changing climate.


Despite being published in such journals such as Science, Nature and Geophysical Review Letters, these scientists have gotten little media attention. "Not all of these researchers would describe themselves as global warming skeptics," said Avery, "but the evidence in their studies is there for all to see."

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,176495.shtml

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Each State's High Tempature Record

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wheat7.htm

Funny how only one State (South Dakota) has broken it's record for high tempature in the last twelve years.
State high temperature records
State    Temp    Date          Station                   Elevation (feet)
Ala. 112 Sept. 5, 1925 Centerville 345
Alaska 100 June 27, 1915 Ft. Yukon 420*
Ariz. 128 June 29, 1994 Lake Havasu 505
Ark. 120 Aug. 10, 1936 Ozark 396
Calif. 134 July 10, 1913 Death Valley N/A
Colo. 118 July 11, 1888 Bennett 5,484
Conn. 106 July 15, 1995 Danbury 450
Del. 110 July 21, 1930 Millsboro 20
Fla. 109 June 29, 1931 Monticello 207
Ga. 112 July 24, 1952 Louisville 132
Hawaii 100 April 27,1931 Pahala 850
Idaho 118 July 28, 1934 Orofino 1,027
Ill. 117 July 14, 1954 E. St Louis 410
Ind. 116 July 14, 1936 Collegeville 672
Iowa 118 July 20, 1934 Keokuk 614
Kansas 121 July 24, 1936 Alton 1,651
Ky. 114 July 28, 1930 Greensburg 581
La. 114 Aug. 10, 1936 Plain Dealing 268
Maine 105 July 10, 1911 N. Bridgton 450
Md. 109 July 10, 1936 Cumberland and Frederick 623, 325
Mass. 107 Aug. 2, 1975 New Bedford and Chester 120, 640
Mich. 112 July 13, 1936 Mio 963
Minn. 114 July 6, 1936 Moorhead 904
Miss. 115 July 29, 1930 Holly Springs 600
Mo 118 July 14, 1954 Warsaw and Union 705, 560
Mont. 117 July 5, 1937 Medicine Lake 1,950
Neb. 118 July 24, 1936 Minden 2,169
Nev. 125 June 29, 1994 Laughlin 605
N.H. 106 July 4, 1911 Nashua 125
N.J. 110 July 10, 1936 Runyon 18
N.M. 122 June 27, 1994 Lakewood N/A
N.Y. 108 July 22, 1926 Troy 35
N.C. 110 Aug. 21, 1983 Fayetteville 213
N.D. 121 July 6, 1936 Steele 1,857
Ohio 113 July 21, 1934 Gallipolis 673
Okla. 120 June 27, 1994 Tipton 1,350
Ore. 119 Aug. 10, 1898 Pendleton 1,074
Pa. 111 July 10, 1936 Phoenixville 100
R.I. 104 Aug. 2, 1975 Providence 51
S.C. 111 June 28, 1954 Camden 170
S.D. 120 July 15, 2006 Kelly Ranch/Usta 2,339
Tenn. 113 Aug. 9, 1930 Perryville 377
Texas 120 Aug. 12, 1936 Seymour 1,291
Utah 117 July 5, 1985 Saint George 2,880
Vt. 105 July 4, 1911 Vernon 310
Va. 110 July 15, 1954 Balcony Falls 725
Wash. 118 Aug. 5, 1961 Ice Harbor Dam 475 475
W. Va. 112 July 10, 1936 Martinsburg 435
Wis. 114 July 13, 1936 Wisconsin Dells 900
Wyo. 116 Aug. 8, 1983 Basin 3,500

*Elevation estimated.

Source: U.S. National Climatic Data Center (last updated August 2006)

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Red Faces at NASA over Climate Change Blunder

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/246027

In the United States, the calendar year 1998 ranked as the hottest of them all – until someone checked the math.

After a Toronto skeptic tipped NASA this month to one flaw in its climate calculations, the U.S. agency ordered a full data review.

Days later, it put out a revised list of all-time hottest years. The Dust Bowl year of 1934 now ranks as hottest ever in the U.S. – not 1998.

More significantly, the agency reduced the mean U.S. "temperature anomalies" for the years 2000 to 2006 by 0.15 degrees Celsius.

NASA officials have dismissed the changes as trivial. Even the Canadian who spotted the original flaw says the revisions are "not necessarily material to climate policy."

But the revisions have been seized on by conservative Americans, including firebrand radio host Rush Limbaugh, as evidence that climate change science is unsound.

Said Limbaugh last Thursday: "What do we have here? We have proof of man-made global warming. The man-made global warming is inside NASA ... is in the scientific community with false data."

Before Gore

Article from The Washington Times: http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070814/NATION02/108140063


Library of Congress Marcus Aurelius' remark that "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane" was quoted by a British scientist skeptical of global-warming nostrums.

Before Gore


D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: "Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."


The 1922 article, obtained by Inside the Beltway, goes on to mention "great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones," and "at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared."


"This was one of several such articles I have found at the Library of Congress for the 1920s and 1930s," says Mr. Lockwood. "I had read of the just-released NASA estimates, that four of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. were actually in the 1930s, with 1934 the hottest of all."

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Hydrogen Highway Revisited

http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=17108

Is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to fill California highways with hydrogen-fueled cars visionary — or just hot air?

Monday, July 9, 2007

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Original Draft

One murky winter, morassed in a half failed experiment of sucking out bits of low income housing marrow; I uneasily drifted off to sleep until about 2 a.m... Somehow as it was becoming unusually warm, I dreamt that I was gulping down water -squeezing it from grainy 70 lb. sandbags. Suddenly I wobbled awake, realizing I’d left the stove on half the night to temper my wool blanket shivering.

The next day’s paper said in pieces that global warming was falling from the sky. How intriguing an idea, part of me dare said, “Global Warming –Bring it on!” Now Stanley will really become that destination resort some have been shooting for. Redfish Lake –colored no more by fish but by flame. The paper spouted like cold water, “How dare anybody question the scientifically funded facts!” Ten thousand experts shouted down one whispering “But what if the lone star pointing at the sun was right all along about natural ebb and flow of ice age come and go?”

Am I off my elliptical orbit to think about the larger picture, about what happens if the earth starts a funny wobble towards the tightening asteroid belt? It wouldn’t take much. If the Chinese army jumping jacks and jills simultaneously leapt up and down them thar hills we’d be up Snakes Creek with a paddled frown. Similarly if a comet hailed, by bopping us out another Crater Lake, it would spill everyone’s drink in an Isosceles Bellevue triangle extended betwixt Borah and Pickles Place.

I was reminded by this vision of an old Twilight episode. A lady dreamt that the earth was becoming too much of a Sun Valley. Water, water was not everywhere and drops to drink, were about out. After soothing her with some scrabbly lemonade, the futuristic subjects wondered if they should tell her the truth. In fact the earth had been glanced by a meteor and we were wobbling backwards toward a dead planet named Plutonium.

Many science fiction writers believe that mankind will ultimately survive even the suns extinguishing. In what form you may ask. Well we could start shaking up our technological bottles vibrating full of profiteering genies, and flip flop some research into healing ways.

What’s it going to take for nations leaders to get together and realize that we have no more time to waste? We need to start cooperating yesterday.

Ready break!

Research scientists you’re the man, you can do it nobody can.