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A Dangerous New Global Warming Law

Let us begin by understanding that the entire basis for declaring the second most vital gas on Earth, carbon dioxide, a “pollutant” that requires regulation and is the object of a proposed elaborate “cap-and-trade” scheme is the generation of enormous amounts of money for the government while allowing it to exercise complete control over the use of any energy for any purpose.

Carbon dioxide is said to be the chief cause of “global warming”, but there is NO global warming. The Earth continues to COOL—ten years since the completely natural cycle began in 1998.

Nor is the Earth running out of energy sources such as oil, natural gas or coal. Here in the United States, however, Americans have long since run out of access to the extraction of the vast amounts that reside under the states and the offshore continental shelf.

Since around the 1970s, America has been systematically starved for access to its own energy reserves and forced to rely on imports, most notably of oil. Politicians and Greens who keep calling for “energy independence” are lying through their teeth. No nation on Earth is energy independent,

When you control energy, you control people’s lives and the entire economy. Simple example; a blizzard causes power lines to fail. All of a sudden people served by those lines are at risk of freezing to death. Another example, power fails during a heat wave. The elderly and ill are at risk of death for lack of air conditioning or even an electric fan. In 1995, a heat wave in Chicago killed over 600 people.

So, when House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman, Henry A. Waxman, a California Democrat, and Rep. Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, conjure up an energy/climate bill designed to curb carbon dioxide emissions alleged to be causing “global warming”, they are perpetrating a massive fraud on Americans.

When that bill includes a provision that would permit anyone, absolutely anyone, to sue the government as victims of global warming and in anticipation of suffering as the result of global warming, Waxman-Markey have opened the door wide to a deluge of lawsuits that have no merit whatever in scientific fact or truth.

As reported in The Washington Times, “The measure sets grounds for anyone ‘who has suffered, or reasonably expects to suffer, a harm attributable in whole or in part’ to government inaction to file a ‘citizen suit.’ The term ‘harm’ is broadly defined as ‘any effect of air pollution (including climate change) occurring or at risk of occurring.’”

In practical terms, this means everyone with shorefront property can sue the government for a predicted loss due to rising sea levels. The fact that they have been rising naturally at a rate of a few insignificant millimeters a year for centuries will surely be ignored.

The law as currently written—but subject to change as it goes through the standard legislative practice when the two houses of Congress seek to achieve agreement—would allow citizens to seek up to $75,000 in damages from the government each year, but would cap the total amount paid out each year at $1.5 million.

It is a little known fact that many environmental organizations reap vast amounts of money suing the government over the enforcement of various laws affecting clean air, clean water, and endangered species.

The Western Environmental Law Center is just one example. It just sent “an urgent letter to Lisa Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, asking her to “speed issuance of regulations aimed at restricting greenhouse pollution to include black carbon, or soot, among climate forcing agents to be regulated.” Soot!

The Greens are now prattling about “unmanageable and calamitous disruption of the climate system.”

Can anyone cite a single example of how human activity could possibly cause or prevent “unmanageable and calamitous disruption of the climate system”?

As this is written, Mount Redoubt in Alaska is threatening a huge volcanic explosion and there is nothing the good citizens of Alaska can do about it. In Italy, whole villages were wiped out by a recent earthquake and there was nothing they could do about it. A tsunami hit Indonesia some years ago, killing thousands, and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

At the White House, the new science advisor to the President is proposing an utterly crazed scheme to shoot “pollution” into the Earth’s atmosphere to reflect back the Sun’s rays to stave off global warming. The Sun, meanwhile, has gone scarily “quiet” for several years with virtually no magnetic storms (sunspots), thus reducing its production of solar energy to warm the Earth.

Yet there is a new law making its way through Congress that posits that the federal government can do something about a “global warming” that is not occurring and permits any one of the 310 million Americans to sue the government for failing to take action.

The end result of the Waxman-Markey law would be to vastly enrich the many environmental organizations that would be filing hundreds of thousands of suits and ultimately collecting millions, if not billions, of dollars on the basis of something that is not occurring and the alleged inaction of the government to stop it!

Only the collected stupidity and indifference of the American people will permit this new law to reach the desk of the President who will surely sign it. It is a death warrant for our lives, our economy, and our nation.

Blowing smoke: The Obama White House spews climate hysteria

Washington Times Editorial
Not even the sky is the limit to crackpot environmental theories these days. On Wednesday, presidential science adviser John P. Holdren told the Associated Press that it might be necessary to blow pollution into the atmosphere to shield the sun’s rays and stave off global warming. His hyperbole is even scarier than his science. According to Mr. Holdren, the planet is in so much trouble that it is like a “car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog.” Not only is the world at a “tipping point,” but we also face “really intolerable consequences” if drastic action isn’t taken immediately. The hysterics could be humorous if so much were not at stake. Mr. Holdren’s humble recommendation is to try to engineer the world’s climate. One idea is to manufacture a giant artificial volcano big enough to envelope the world with its ash cloud. Behind all this weird science are government plans that will cost billions of dollars. Already, President Obama has proposed a radical cap to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 80 percent, which White House staffers have estimated could cost the economy as much as $2 trillion over the next eight years alone. Mr. Holdren is a habitual harbinger of doom, and his past record on apocryphal predictions is abysmal. In 1980, he joined environmentalist Paul R. Ehrlich in betting economist Julian L. Simon that five natural resources – chromium, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten – would be more expensive 10 years later. Mr. Holdren and Mr. Ehrlich, who picked the five elements, argued that the world was running out of natural resources and that prices would soar as the supply disappeared. Mr. Simon reasoned that technological innovations would increase discovery of the metals and make it cheaper to extract them from the ground. Both factors tend to lower metal prices over time. Mr. Holdren and Mr. Ehrlich lost the bet. In all five cases, prices dropped. Three of the materials declined in nominal terms, and all five declined after accounting for inflation. The faulty predictions are nothing new. In the mid-1970s, fears of global cooling were all the rage. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists pointed out that average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere fell by half a degree between 1945 and 1968. From 1964 to 1972, NOAA claimed that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground had fallen by 1.3 percent. In 1975, publications such as Newsweek quoted experts fretting that we were on the verge of another “Little Ice Age.” Back then, all kinds of schemes were concocted to try to warm things up. Among the bizarre remedies was one similar to today’s volcano solution. According to Newsweek, it was imperative to try to heat up the globe by “melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers.” The news magazine cited the “almost unanimous” fear among experts of impending disaster due to global cooling, including drops in food production. Like previous alarmist climate predictions, today’s global-warming scare is devoid of cold facts. Temperatures were supposed to keep increasing, but they haven’t. None of the alarmist climate models predicted recent trends in which global temperatures have either fallen or remained unchanged over the last decade. Not only are the existence and dangers of global warming unproven, but there is little chance that a bunch of mad scientists can save the world with geoengineering even if there were a crisis. Mr. Holdren should be prepared for the artificial-volcano theory to blow up in his face.

Sunburned: Solar's Dirty Little Secrets

By Jan Hughes, Mac Life

Green gadgets make our collective heart go pitter-patter. We feel good when we can be part of the solution. Solar-powered gadgets have become de rigueur in our attempts at shrinking our carbon footprint. And utilizing the power of the sun is the one bright shining beacon of the alternative-energy movement. But there is a dark side to solar energy.

Materials used in solar panels are toxic.
Because solar is the hip, happening alt-energy trend du jour, the number of photovoltaic cells produced globally has increased dramatically in the past few years. But unfortunately, many of the solar panels manufactured today are made with cadmium, a highly toxic carcinogen that can cumulate in plant, animal, and human tissues. The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition has recently published a 45-page report, “Toward a Just and Sustainable Solar Energy Industry,” claiming that many of the environmental risks associated with the production and disposal of solar panels are not currently being addressed by the industry. And because solar panels have a shelf life of 20 to 30 years, the Coalition claims that the panels have the potential of creating the next wave of hazardous e-waste when they “die.” What to do? Clearly, as the solar industry grows, environmentalists and consumers must demand that manufacturers develop systems to ensure that solar panels are recycled and their hazardous toxins kept out of our ecosystem.

China is dumping hazardous waste from solar factories in fields.
According to the Washington Post, in the race to cash in on the world’s demand for solar products, China been leading the charge in producing polysilicon, a key component in sunlight-capturing wafers. Unfortunately, China is not enforcing environmental regulations, and many of the new factories are dumping toxic silicon tetrachloride (a byproduct of polysilicon production) directly into nearby farmlands. (Just for perspective, 4 tons of this toxic byproduct is produced for every ton of polysilicon.) Because it is expensive and time-consuming to set up systems to recycle the hazardous materials, companies are instead dumping indiscriminately, and people close to these sites are complaining of illness, crop failures, acrid air, and dead fields. How to proceed? Alt-energy companies around the globe need to make sure the factories from which they acquire their solar components are practicing environmentally responsible manufacturing.

We use fossil fuels to make green energy.
Yes, solar power produces clean energy, but it requires utilizing our current resources to produce it. For the green movement to be truly sustainable, we need to make sure we are not trading one environmental problem for another. Yes, the world needs renewable energy as our fossil fuels dwindle, but we need to make sure we are not polluting and depleting to acquire and perfect the new technology. The good news.
Greensters can take heart, though. There is a still bright side to solar. According to recent studies cited in the Scientific American, while it takes resources and energy to make solar panels, we could still reduce our greenhouse gasses by 90 percent if photovoltaic power replaced fossil-fuel-based power. And in the meantime, there are organizations popping up to prevent and monitor rampant e-waste in the solar industry. PV Cycle, for example, is a European company dedicated to collecting and recycling end-of-life modules in solar panels. Smarty-pants tech institutes are exploring the use of carbon electrodes, as opposed to using the earth’s rapidly depleting indium tin oxide, to make LCDs and solar panels. And watchdog organizations such as the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (mentioned earlier), which is dedicated to “creating social, economic, and environmental justice and promoting sustainable technology,” are keeping a much-needed eye on the industry. Finally, is there gold in them thar hills? Perhaps reclaiming the precious materials used in solar panels will provide the incentive needed for more recycling/refurbishing companies to crop up and help keep the waste out of our landfills.

H/T to CCF.

John Coleman tells Congress: Man-Caused Global Warming Is False

Testimony of John Coleman before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands of the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States Congress on April 7, 2009

Thank you to the Committee for the invitation to appear here today. And to any who listen to my remarks or read them later, thank you for your consideration of my testimony.I come before this Subcommittee with no allusions or expectations. I am aware that for the majority of the Committee and most involved government officials my conclusions will run counter to your interests and agenda and will be ignored. None-the-less, I have made the effort to be here today because I feel what I have to contribute should at least be in the record.

Here is what I know as scientific fact: There is no significant man-made global warming or climate change at this time, there has not been any in the past and there is little reason to fear any in the future.

I did not say that the activities of man do not alter the weather and climate, because it is clear they do. What I said there is no significant man-made climate change and none should be reasonably expected to occur in the future.

I have visited most of the National Parks in the United States and love them. I have enormous appreciation for the efforts to protect our environment and provide places and ways for the citizens to enjoy the amazing beauty and powerful natural forces at work around us and interact with the thousands of species that live in those parks and related natural areas. Clearly, it is a huge task to balance between access and protection. I honor that.

But here is crux of what I can contribute to the issue before us. The science behind this current global warming, man-made climate change commotion, has failed to verify. The hypothesis that our carbon footprints produced by our use of fossil fuels is producing a significant greenhouse effect that will lead to climate calamity has failed to verify. So I repeat, there is no significant man-made global climate change.

I have studied the research papers of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and examined the science presented by Al Gore in his books, his movie and his power point. I have traced the history of the development of the concept of carbon dioxide in the exhaust from our cars, power plants and industrial plants entering the atmosphere and interacting with the primary greenhouse gas, water vapor, to magnify warming. It all collapses into a failed theory when examined with scientific care. I am not alone in reaching this conclusion. In the past year, 34 thousand scientists, 10 thousand with PhDs, have signed a statement debunking global warming.

There is solid scientific evidence that by burning fossil fuels our civilization increases the amount of carbon dioxide, CO2, in the atmosphere. However, even after 150 years of burning fossil fuels, CO2 remains a tiny trace gas. To be precise only 380 molecules out of every one million are CO2. Scientists with an anti-fossil fuel agenda developed a theory of radiative forcing to explain how this trace gas could create runaway greenhouse warming. They put that theory into general circulation computer models. Their models then projected a continuous rapid rise in global temperatures year after year. In the 1980s and 1990’s the models seemed on track as temperatures climbed. But in 1998 the warming stopped. By 2002 a rapid cooling had begun. That cooling continues today. The computer proof has failed. It has become clear the warming in the 80s and 90s was at the peak of a solar cycle and now that the sun has gone very quiet, cooling has gripped the planet. Yet the models continue to predict warming that is not happening. There is no significant warming from CO2.

I am painfully aware that global warming has become a political issue. I deeply regret that. The latest Gallup Poll documents the wide divide on the issue: 66 percent of Republicans are of the opinion that the claims of global warming are exaggerated; only 22 percent of Democrats are of that position. I want to make very clear my conclusion is in no way politically based.

I was a science reporter for ABC News in the 1970’s when there was a similar flurry of excitement about a coming Ice Age. Thankfully our government and political parties didn’t get involved so when the science got things straightened out, the frenzy faded away. Unfortunately, this time people with the anti fossil fuel agenda had jumped on the global warming bandwagon and just won’t let go. They have calmed the rhetoric to climate change, but they are still all wrapped up in cap and trade to tax our use of fossil fuels. This will do great harm to our economy but do nothing of consequence to protect the environment.

My advice to the National Park Service and the Subcommittee is: Do nothing to mitigate man-made global warming or climate change, because there is none. Reject the extremist agendas and concentrate on your wonderful work protecting our natural resources and making natural experiences available to us citizens of today and generations to follow.

To any who have an interest in pursuing the sources behind my scientific conclusions I provide a list of internet links with my written testimony.

Again, thank you for allowing me to present my testimony and place it into the record.

Two Palm Springs TV stations were there. Their coverage also accepted the dominate line of the day, but both did include me in their reports. Links to their video are below:

KESQ CHANNEL 3

KPSP CHANNEL 2

Links referenced in John Coleman’s remarks

http://icecap.us/

http://www.ipcc.ch/

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/1782/

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/

http://www.nrdc.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

http://www.climateaudit.org/pdf/

http://www.climateaudit.org/

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/

http://climatesci.org/2008/02/08/

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/MM.JGRDec07.pdf

http://surfacestations.org/

http://climatesci.org/2008/01/21/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/

http://images.bimedia.net/documents/

http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/

http://worldcoolers.org/co2map/

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/other/

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Evans-CO2DoesNotCauseGW.pdf

http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/mclean/

http://nzclimatescience.net/

http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?

http://www.petitionproject.org/

http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner

From Pete’sPlace

Antarctic sea ice gain outstrips Arctic loss

By Heliogenic Climate Change

“According to the University of Illinois, Antarctic sea ice area is nearly 30% above normal and the anomaly has reached 1,000,000 km2. …

According to NSIDC, over the last 30 years Antarctic sea ice extent has been growing at a rate of nearly 5% per decade, and set a record maximum last year. …

Sadly though, biologists using computer models have forecast that some Penguins are headed for extinction due to loss of Antarctic sea ice. …

The 30% excess of ice has not been widely reported, but there has been lots of talk in the press the last couple of days about ice breaking off the Wilkins Ice Shelf – the broken area being about one pixel in the NSIDC image above. Looking at the Wilkins picture below, I’m having a very tough time seeing any evidence of melting around the fractures, or any evidence of water pooling on the surface. Normally, such fractures are caused by tensile or shear stress, likely due to a change in currents. Ice melts from the edges towards the center, and that ice is very thick – up to 200 metres. Blaming the clean fractures seen below on warming and melting seems highly questionable – at best. I suggest bringing some actual structural and mechanical engineers into the discussion – how’s that for a novel idea in the AGW world?

Meanwhile in the Arctic, sea ice area is about 500,000 km2 below normal, which means that global sea ice area (Arctic + Antarctic) is about 500,000 km2 above normal. … Sounds like a real global meltdown, doesn’t it?” “Polar ice worries — north and south“

Marc Morano's Climate Depot is now officially up and running

By Justin Credible

Marc Morano’s highly anticipated “climate and environmental clearinghouse” is now online and promises to be an outstanding source of valuable information, education, and news releases.

Congratulations Marc, we wish you all the best and pledge our full support.

ClimateDepot.com

Marc Morano is the executive editor and chief correspondent for ClimateDepot.com, a global warming and eco-news center founded in 2009. Marc Morano served for three years as a senior advisor, speechwriter, and climate researcher for U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), and managed the award-winning communication operations of the GOP side of the EPW Committee. Morano joined the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee as the majority Communications Director in June 2006 after a decade and a half as a working journalist, documentary maker, radio talk show host, and national television correspondent. Morano’s Senate website won the coveted 2007 Gold Mouse Award for being the “Best of the Best.” The award was made possible by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the National Science Foundation. Morano’s website got so many readers in January of 2007 that the volume shut down the entire Senate website, including every Senator’s personal websites. Morano spearheaded the 2007 groundbreaking report of 400-plus dissenting scientists and the follow-up 2008 report of 650-plus scientists dissenting from man-made global warming fears. Gallup polling organization essentially recognized the impact of the U.S. Senate EPW website in a May 29, 2008 analysis. “Republican spokespersons and conservative commentators have long challenged IPCC reports as reflecting the ‘scientific consensus’ on global warming by highlighting the views of a modest number of ‘skeptic’ or ‘contrarian’ scientists who question the IPCC conclusions.” Gallup concluded: “Growing skepticism about news coverage of global warming clearly goes hand in hand with Republicans’ declining belief that it is already occurring.” (LINK) Morano, who has spent years researching climate change, environmental, and energy issues, traveled to Greenland in 2007 to investigate global warming claims. As Senate staff, Morano also attended the United Nation’s climate eco-conferences held in Kenya, Indonesia, and Poland in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Morano has held both White House and Capitol Hill Press credentials and was a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has attended and reported on numerous international eco-conferences and the 2002 UN-sponsored Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. Morano was the investigative reporter for Cybercast News Service in Washington, DC. He has also served as a reporter/producer for the nationally syndicated television newsmagazine “American Investigator.” His reports have included an exposé on the Free Willy Keiko Foundation, an exclusive report on the safety of organic foods, and reports on the endangered species act and property rights. In 2000, his investigative television documentary “Amazon Rainforest: Clear-Cutting the Myths” created an international firestorm. Morano served as the television reporter/producer for the nationally syndicated “Rush Limbaugh, the Television Show,” during the show’s four-year run (1992-1996). Morano, referred to by Mr. Limbaugh as “Our Man in Washington,” had the dubious distinction of being the first journalist in history to have his television camera seized at the Clinton White House while on assignment with the Limbaugh show. His reporting has made international news, including appearances and coverage on CNN, Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes, BBC TV, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, US Weekly Magazine, web links from the Drudge Report, the entertainment show Extra TV, and Politically Incorrect w/ Bill Maher. Morano was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in McLean, VA. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at George Mason University. Contact: Marc Morano

Valley Times Readers Not Falling For the CO2 Scam

Letter to the Editor, April 6, 2009

Warming scam
This regarding the April 2 headline “Hot state, extreme dangers.”Global warming caused by CO2 and cap-and-trade are con games, worse than Bernie Madoff. They have been created by the left wing to lead the world to a socialist world government financed by the U.S.CO2 makes up less than 0.04 percent of our atmosphere (386 ppm). And, 500,000 years of temperature and CO2 data have proved that CO2 increases have FOLLOWED temperature increases by an average of 800 years. There is absolutely no actual evidence that CO2 causes global warming.For the past 10 years, the Earth has been cooling, while CO2 has increased about 20 ppm (0.002 percent). There are more than 31,000 U.S. scientists who have signed a petition to our government that agrees with this view.CO2 is a beneficial element in our atmosphere and increases the growth rate of crops and forests, as many scientific studies have shown.The way to derail and then stop this swindle of the American people is to let your Congress person know that we’ve caught on to the scam and then vote out the remaining congressional supporters of CO2 reduction.Richard GibbsDublin
Read more here.

Climate change propaganda brainwashing kids, says Senator Cory Bernardi

By Mark Kenny, Political Editor, Canberra

LIBERAL Senator Cory Bernardi has accused Climate Change Minister Penny Wong of pushing “extreme propaganda” on the nation’s schoolchildren. Senator Bernardi, who does not disguise his view that man-made climate change is a myth, has attacked a new climate change awareness competition for schoolchildren launched by Senator Wong yesterday. The competition “Think Climate, Think Change,” asks students in years 3 to 9 to use short stories, poems and art work to answer the question “what does climate change mean to me?” First prize is a trip for two to Canberra (the winner and a parent), a Nintendo Wii console, sports kit and Wii Fit pack, and books for the winner’s school. Senator Bernardi slammed the competition. “Encouraging children to look after the environment is laudable aim but this seems to have more in common with the ministry of propaganda than the balanced education of our children,” he told AdelaideNow. “One can only guess that the only children eligible to win this competition will be those who conform to the Rudd Government and Minister Wong’s extreme political propaganda about climate change. “I doubt the competition materials will include any discussion of how the Rudd Government ETS (emissions trading scheme) will export Australian industry overseas and result in hundreds of thousands of job losses for Australian workers.” Ms Wong said the competition came about because children are naturally concerned about the environment and their future. “Schoolchildren from all over Australia have written to me asking about climate change and sharing their ideas,” she said. “Young Australians are very well informed when it comes to the issue of climate change – they understand that we need to take action now.” The national competition will open on Tuesday April 24 and close two months later on June 24. Senator Wong said the winner would be invited to pass on their ideas to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and other senior ministers when they are flown to Canberra.

Strike two for David Suzuki's lies: Outdoor hockey alive and well in Gretzky's birthplace

By Bob Mackin, 24 Hours Vancouver

The Canadian winter tradition of outdoor hockey is alive and well in the birthplace of the Great One, despite comments by David Suzuki at a Vancouver news conference on Monday.After releasing his foundation’s On Thin Ice: Winter Sports and Climate Change report, Suzuki told 24 hours: “The one sport in Canada that Canadians respond to is hockey, the folklore of Canada is Wayne Gretzky, learning how to play in the backyard. Do you think in Brantford now you could learn to play hockey in the backyard? I don’t think so.”Brantford, Ont. Mayor Mike Hancock said kids are still honing their skills on natural rinks.”We still maintain approximately 22 outdoor rink locations each year and the duration of rink operations is generally an eight to 10 week period,” Hancock said.Hancock said area winters have been less harsh than they were 20 years ago and the outdoor hockey season isn’t as long as it once was, but “the last couple have been quite severe, I can tell you by my snow-ploughing budget.”The comment around is ‘damn, I wish we had more global warming.'”In January, the Brant County Health Unit issued four cold weather alerts when temperatures dipped below -15 degrees Celsius without windchill. Environment Canada said January weather was 7 degrees Celsius colder than normal.—-
(Thanks for the heads up, Bob!)See strike one HERE.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, April 10th 2009

By The Daily Bayonet

Editor’s note: ILCD would like to extend a special thanks to The Daily Bayonet for the extra special endorsement this week!
Sincerely,
Justin, AKA the tree.

Holy Thursday it’s Easter already, and how better to enjoy a good Good Friday than with some climate skepticism. Enjoy your weekly summary, I know I did.

Part One: Al Gore and Friends

Al Gore, profiteer prophet and leader of the cult of climate crisis met privately with Mormon leaders this week. I suspect he’s giving them tips on how to send the Church of LDS mainstream.Credulous morons watched Al’s slideshow and were immediately terrified of catastrophic sea level rise that has been long discredited. Spare a thought for Al, he lost this year’s Hypocrite of the Year Award to Peta. Does he ever finish first, ever?Klockarman’s Al Gore /AIT Index falls again after a hopeful uptick last month.

If only he could swim. oh, wait.

Coral Ridge Ministries, another religious outfit, has a short piece on Al Gore Rhythms. Heh.

David Suzuki, Canada’s own cuddly eco-totalitarian is getting attacked. By other environmentalists. If you think I’m hard on Suzuki, you should see how vicious the green-on-green action can get.

Joe Romm Special Section
Joe Romm is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress and writes alarmist end-of-the-world nonsense at Climate Progress. He has been in the green news this week because he suffered the embarrassment of having his head handed to him in a television debate with Marc Morano, former spokesman for James Inhofe.

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(this is Part 2, for Part 1 click here)

See the difference between an alarmist and a skeptic? The alarmist is the name-calling emotional clown and the skeptic is the calm dude. Having science on your side will do that. Anyhow, not content with being embarrassed by his defeat, Romm decided to banish Morano from his site in a petty act worthy of any 13 year old girl. He also attacked Newsbusters for calling him out on a silly claim that wind power employs more people than the coal industry. They debunk that claim here.Joe Romm, far more entertaining than James Hanson, if not quite as dangerous. With alarmists like this leading the AGW scam, it won’t be long before the whole thing collapses in a heap of wailing asshats.

Part Two: AGW Scaremongers

Emma Watson is a young actress famous for playing Harry Potter’s wannabe main squeeze with the awkward name of Hormonia, or something. She once wrote a school project on Hurricane Katrina and global warming, so naturally Greenpeace wants her to become their global ambassador. It’s magical.Nice wind farm you got there, shame if something should happen to it. Greens in the US have drawn up a map to show renewable energy producers where not to go.Greenpeace Canada, giving kids the radiation pills they need.IPCC predictions ‘A Classic Case of Alarmism’:

anyone for a game of hockey stick?

Barack Obama, President of the World, may limit the size of cruise ships around Antarctica. This is bad news for greens as the cost of luxury jaunts on carbon-spewing clunkers is likely to go up, on the other hand it will reduce the number of rescues required each year.

Hillary Clinton, a woman so smart that she lost the Democratic primaries to President Neophyte, is now a climate expert. More on the Wilkins ice hysteria at ACM.Never mind the science, it’s more alarmism we need. A ‘scientist’ proclaims that there is a correlation between the disappearing Arctic ice and AGW. Inconveniently, his own organization’s research finds otherwise. CCF has more on the story here.Tom Nelson catches the WWF making stuff up. Oddly, the wrestlers that the WWF sued for the rights to the acronym now have more credibility than the panda cuddlers.The Obama administration is looking into geo-engineering to block the sun’s rays. Which is odd, because the greens claim that the sun has nothing to do with global warming, it’s a trace gas that’s to blame. Pen Hadow’s Catlin expedition is in trouble. The global warming in the Arctic has caused frostbite and hypothermia. Perhaps Hadow will require another rescue that puts lives in danger? Or, they could leave him there. Just an idea.Richard Branson, entreprenuer and global ego, believes in AGW:

“Sadly, global warming is a reality”, he said. “The vast majority of scientists believe it, I believe it. Even if they are wrong, as an insurance policy we need to assume the worst”.

Branson is behind green initiatives like launching rockets into space for profit and supporting race cars that sip gas at a miserly 3 miles per gallon. But he’s not a hypocrite, just an idiot.

Branson, powerful enough to launch tiny rockets into orbit

Global warming causes killer heatwaves. In Summertime. In Australia. Who knew?Pity the smokers. I used to be one. Not only have smokers been forced outside (not fun in Canada), now greens want to ban the heaters that keep smokers alive. The comparison of greens to puritans is becoming undeniable:

A Puritan Green —someone who is desperately afraid that somebody, somewhere might be having a good time.

President Obama (him again?) wants to ramp up the ethanol industry. Inconveniently the ethanol industry is too busy going out of business to ramp up. Is this what stimulus means?

Part Three: Inconvenient Truths

AGW skeptic Chris Horner appeared on Pajama TV and talked alarmist blasphemy for 15 minutes; unfortunately they ran out of time to announce if he won the Anderson Cooper look-alike competition.

Horner and Cooper… ever seen in the same room?

How to frame an argument even a hippy can understand.

More on the inconvenient ice statistics:

Sea ice at Antarctica is up over 43% since 1980 and we hear nothing in the news, yet Arctic ice is down less than 7% and they’re all over it! We’ve been waiting for the main stream media to pick up on the increase of Antarctic ice but so far they’re been totally absent.

Fred Singer, climate skeptic, on video at Gore Lied. Stick with it, only the first few seconds are in not Austrian.It’s the sun, stupid. Part the first.Bloggers, doing the job the MSM won’t do and tell the other side of the global warming hoax. You’re welcome.Global warming is so bad that snowfall records are being beaten all over North America. It’s the Gore Effect on steroids.Barry Hawaii 5-O’s attempt to fast-track his cap and trade socialist agenda took a swift kick in its soft parts when 26 Democrats joined GOP senators to defeat a prosedural motion.

With the earth cooling at present, the pressing question is not whether Washington saves the planet from global warming. The pressing question is whether Washington destroys the American economy. Thirty-one Democratic senators just voted to do so. The fact that 26 Democratic Senators crossed party lines to vote against quick passage of cap-and-tax is a very good sign for America’s economic future.

Dr. Roy Spencer, still talking sense about the real science of global warming, and this week’s must read link.It’s the sun, stupid. Part the second.

The Sun. Larger than CO2. By a factor of a lot.

AGW denier and hippy head-popper Marc Morano has launched a new blog aimed at ‘redefining global warming reporting. The dark underbelly of the AGW alarmist agenda, we’re losing freedoms for climate change.New(ish) blogger I Love Carbon Dioxide lays out his manifesto for fighting the greens. There is no truth to the rumor that the blogger behind the site is, in fact, a hungry tree.

Not Justin, just a tree. Really.

You know what else causes global warming? Aerosols, that’s what. Oh, and NASA research discovered this inconvenient truth. NASA’s spokes-moron James Hanson was unavailable for repeatable comment.Prescient Obama (not a typo) is being called out by pork producers to study the effects of his ethanol love fest. And by pork producers I mean farmers that raise pigs, not Congress.

Makin’ Bacon

It’s the sun, stupid. Part the third.

Livestock, tasty carbon sinks, not planet-destroying fart machines. Cows everywhere celebrate.and in a perfect segway…. Wind power is the future. Oh, wait. Nevermind.Green death cultists want the Earth’s population to be decreased (yet fail to lead the way), while capitalist lackeys at Monsanto just keep making better crops. You just know that hippies everywhere will be angered by farmer’s abilities to keep an inconvenient number of people alive.Wind power is viable and good for the environment. Oh, wait, no it’s not.Aussie greens want old people to die. No, really.Tom Nelson uncovers the self-supporting carbon-trading industry. It’s scammerific!

Part Four: AGW in the News

A Swede blows a raspberry at the newspaper industry for spreading the exaggerated views of a human impact on climate.

Proving the above Swede’s point, in fine style, the LA Times imagines the entire globe as Australia. Which would be pretty cool if it meant we had more Nicole Kidmans around, but that’s not what the LAT has in mind:

“Suicide is high. Depression is huge. Families are breaking up. It’s devastation,” he said, shaking his head. “I’ve got a neighbor in terrible trouble. Found him in the paddock, sitting in his [truck], crying his eyes out. Grown men — big, strong grown men. We’re holding on by the skin of our teeth. It’s desperate times.”

The Irish Times, not to be outdone by Hollywood journo’s cites the old standard of melting arctic ice. Never let a fact spoil a good story, begorrah. Now pour me a Guiness and pass me a freshly oiled Leprechaun.The National Post’s David Dias does some global warming denying of his own and tries to convince himself and depressed hippies everywhere that their AGW scam is not failing. A hint, the corporations he cites as ‘bought in’ will drop the green agenda like a hot rock as soon they’re sure people don’t care. And people don’t care.Canada’s Prime Minister popped some hippy heads with his choice of clean energy envoy to the US. You just know he’s still giggling about that one.A nuclear prof. takes on the AGW crowd:

The computer models used to predict global warming can not duplicate actual conditions in the atmosphere. While carbon dioxide has been increasing at the rate of about one part per million annually the past century, global temperatures have risen, fallen, risen, and now falling the past ten years.

Some news outlets are bucking the trend and still asking awkward questions. Even Newsweek has a nagging doubt.Vanity Fair goes green by cancelling its annual Green Issue, which they claim to be no indicator that people don’t care about the green issues. Sure, OK, whatever.The Globe and Mail’s Rex Murphy points out the inconvenient truth of what is the inevitable outcome if we follow the AGW believers:

“…if people believe the planet is on the path to apocalyptic ruin because of the world’s dependence on petroleum – and that, without exaggeration, is the message of the global warming advocates – then the world’s economies must radically shrink. We must do and have less of everything. We must make less, travel less, buy less – and endure the deeper hardship of more people out of work.”

Part Five: Global Hottie

This week’s hottie is a fair Aussie maiden. So, with apologies to Simon of ACM and his cohorts of antipodean readers, chuck another tinny on the barbie and slather vegemite over yer favorite ‘roo, it’s Nicole Kidman.

That’s a wrap for another week. Have a safe and eggciting Easter weekend, here’s an irreverant bonus video for you: