New blockbuster paper finds man-made CO2 is not driver of global warming: ‘Published today in Global & Planetary Change — finds changes in CO2 follow rather than lead global air surface temps’
‘Instead, just as in the ice cores, CO2 levels are found to be a lagging effect ocean warming, not significantly related to man-made emissions, and not the driver of warming. Prior research has shown infrared radiation from greenhouse gases is incapable of warming the oceans, only shortwave radiation from the Sun is capable of penetrating and heating the oceans and thereby driving global surface temperatures.’
More here.
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1974: CIA blamed extreme weather on Global Cooling: ‘Within a single year, adversity had visited nearly every nation on the globe’
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Michael Mann lawsuit? ‘The Climate Change racket: Finally a day in court?’ Is the day that non-alarmists have long awaited finally upon us? The climate change racket on trial in a court of law?
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Sad state of peer-review: ’20 more retractions for scientist who made up email addresses so he could review his own papers’
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Flashback 1974 – Der Spiegel: ‘Temperatures Over Last 20 Years Have Dropped Faster Than At Anytime In The Last 1000 Years’ — Blamed expanding deserts on man-made cooling
Rebuttal: Climate changed naturally throughout history. But since about 1900, it’s all man’s fault. We live in an age of technical charlatans.
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Is prayer more effective than carbon taxes for controlling the weather? Claim: Group Says Prayer Moved Issac Away From Tampa to protect GOP Convention
Is prayer more effective than carbon taxes for controlling the weather? Claim: Group Says Prayer Moved Issac Away From Tampa to protect GOP Convention: Jesten Peters of Keys of Authority Ministries who said that her organization’s prayer efforts helped steer Tropical Storm Isaac away from Tampa in order to protect the Republican National Convention. But while Peters and CBN celebrated, Isaac is now heading to Louisiana and Mississippi with potential devastating consequences. CBN’s Pat Robertson in 1985 said that his prayer moved Hurricane Gloria away from Virginia Beach, were CBN is based, and towards New York’
Climate Depot Response: Global warming activists are attempting to mock the idea that prayer can control the weather, but first warmists’ need to explain why they believe Congress, the EPA or the United Nations can control the weather through carbon dioxide regulation.
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NYT urges us to tax our way to the climate we want! A carbon tax would result in ‘climate stability’ & prevent an ‘end [to] life as we know it’ — ‘A tax that might raise gasoline prices by 70 cents a gallon – would eventually result in climate stability’
Which is backed by more convincing hard data: The idea that God uses natural disasters to punish pro-gay people, or the idea that Gaia uses natural disasters to punish the GOP? — Warmists: ‘Wouldn’t it be poetic justice if GOP convention was hit by climate change-fueled severe weather?’ [retweeted by warmists, Kate Sheppard & A Siegel] —Rebutted: ‘Now, now. [Warmists are] starting to sound like Pat Robertson’
Climate Depot’s Morano: G8 Leaders embrace ‘climate astrology’ – Trying to control Earth’s thermostat is ‘madness of our age’ – July 10, 2009 – Morano Excerpt : ‘Who needs to be educated here? Ugandans who blame bad weather on angry gods — or is it Western leaders who actually think they can control the climate?’
Which is more plausible? Ugandans blame drought and disease …
Flashback: NYT urges us to tax our way to the climate we want! A carbon tax would result in ‘climate stability’ & prevent an ‘end [to] life as we know it’
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NYT’s Andrew Revkin: ‘I wouldn’t bet that ‘the Arctic is all but certain to be virtually ice free within two decades,’ as some have proposed…’death spiral’? Not by my standards’
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