Warmist Guide on ‘How to Talk About Climate Change on Thanksgiving’
How to Talk About Climate Change on Thanksgiving
http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/24/talk-climate-change-thanksgiving/
Folks who don’t accept the science can raise a surprisingly large number of misleading points because… The post How to Talk About Climate Change on Thanksgiving appeared first on EcoWatch.
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65% of US population are skeptical that each flood drought or heatwave is mostly ‘man-made’
65% of US population are skeptical that each flood drought or heatwave is mostly “man-made”
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/11/39682/
How big is the Green B-lobby? So big, whole research projects are devoted to better ways to push propaganda onto voters. In this case, it turns out that despite an international PR blitz to unscientifically link your car exhaust to extreme floods in Bangladesh (etc and so forth), 65% of the US public just aren’t buying it. Instead the study finds that people are actually not too bad at judging whether a season was warmer than usual. (Was anyone surprised at this after 500 million years of evolution?). Disappointingly, though, for those pushing the climate propaganda, the meme that man-made global warming is to blame for all heatwaves, snowfalls, floods, hurricanes, and reckless fish is not working. “Only 35 percent of U.S. citizens believe global warming was the main cause of the abnormally high temperatures during the winter of 2012″ This is a cruel blow to climate change activists. They had pinned their hopes on generating fear among voters by trying to associate every storm and bad-hair day to man-made global warming. But two-thirds of the public are not fooled. Even when they “personally experience” abnormally warm winters, or even hear news of a whole series of severe […]Rating: 10.0/10 (7 votes cast)
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The Science is Settled? ‘Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not the main driver of weather or climate’
The Science is Settled?
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-science-is-settled.html
Another Issue of “Carbon Sense” prepared for The Carbon Sense Coalition by Viv Forbes and volunteer helpers. www.carbon-sense.com22 November 2014Governments are running huge deficits, but still spend billions on “climate research” especially trying to model the effect of the atmosphere and its trace of carbon dioxide on surface temperature. Benefits are hard to find. It may have improved weather forecasts by a day or so, but official long-term predictions have not improved in the last fifty years. This is because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not the main driver of weather or climate.“What is referred to reverently as “climate research” is mainly just grubby advocacy supporting the political war on carbon. Why are we still funding scientists who believe that “the science is settled”? If they believe that they know the answers, what are they are doing with their research funds?”Around the world there are five official weather data-bases, about 14 weather satellites (some say there are 88 of them!), 73 climate computer models, at least 30 research groups and thousands of academics receiving grants and attending never-ending climate conferences. Much of this torrent of public money is now focussed on trying to torture a climate confession out of one normally un-noticed and totally innocent trace gas in the atmosphere – carbon dioxide.The major determinants of surface weather are latitude, earth’s rotation, the seasons, the sun with its variable radiations and orbital changes; and nearness to the oceans which maintain the water cycle, moderate temperatures and house massive volcanic chains.Earth’s mighty oceans cover 70% of the surface. Evaporation of water and convection in the atmosphere transfer large quantities of solar heat from the surface to the stratosphere. This process creates clouds, rain and snow and also forms low pressure zones which are the birthplace for cyclones and hurricanes. Wind direction and strength are related to sun-generated convection in the atmosphere, the transfer of solar heat from the equator to the poles, and the Coriolis effect of the rotation of the earth. Carbon dioxide plays no significant part in these processes.Oceans also conceal most of the volcanic ring-of-fire and are home to huge numbers of volcanoes, many of which are active. The mighty weather-changing ENSO/El Nino starts with a pool of warm water in the eastern Pacific. Carbon dioxide plays no part in creating such hot-spots, but periodic eruption of undersea volcanoes may do it. …
Interstellar: Hollywood leaves AGW in a gravity well.
Interstellar: Hollywood leaves AGW in a gravity well.
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2014/11/interstellar-hollywood-leaves-agw-in.html
by Anthony CoxHollywood has been a staunch supporterof AGW. In fact with Russell Crowe’s Noah any suggestion Hollywood had an open mind on the subject went down the gurgler as fast as that flightless turkey could sink.But now, despite DiCaprio’s grotesquely hypocritical alignment with the UN [if Noah had been on DiCaprio’s monster luxury ship they would never have got off], with Interstellar being full of hilarious puns and critiques of AGW, it seems the AGW mania in Hollywood may not be all black hole rubbish after all.Interstellar is set on a doomed Earth with a blight which eats all plants. It’s caused by nitrogen which in itself is a wickedly witty reversal of the role played by the trace gas, CO2, in the AGW fantasy. Nitrogen is 80% of the Earth’s atmosphere and along with oxygen the bulk of the atmosphere. The point being made is that the idea that humans through their tiny emissions of an already tiny trace gas could destroy the planet is simply nonsense compared with what nature can do.Our hero Cooper, who is an astronaut, has a hilarious run in with 2 education officials who berate him for his son’s disputation of the validity of the Moon landing. This is a multi-layered joke. Firstly many astronauts including those who were actually on the Moon think AGW is garbage.Secondly, a prominent alarmist, Lewandowsky, who is an educator, has prepared a notorious paper which asserts those who doubt AGW are also likely to doubt the Moon landings. That in the future it is the educators who are now the ones denying the Moon landing is a rather neat reversal of Lewandowsky’s stupid idea and a pointed indictment of the capitulation of education to the lie of alarmism today.Prior to meeting the Lewandowskys of the future Cooper had managed to capture a drone powered by solar which had been wondering aimlessly for decades. Again the joke is multi-layered. The drone is an Indian military one. The point is even if solar can be successful as an energy source it will not be a ‘pure’ energy source as the renewables are presented by alarmism.Secondly India, like China, which has just hoodwinked Obama and all other alarmists with their deal about emissions which allows them to increase emissions until 2030 when their population stabilises, isn’t going down the renewable path …
‘Memo to all Duped Alarmists’: ‘Quasi-religious fervour has replaced any scientific searching for truth’
Memo to all Duped Alarmists
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2014/11/memo-to-all-duped-alarmists.html
Opinion by Michael SpencerIt would seem to me that you all seem to thrive on hearing bad news constantly, delivered by a small and select coterie, and refuse to contemplate the possibility that there could be lots of good news. In fact, my experience to date with people who believe in the falsified AGW hypothesis has one thing in common: such people refuseto look at possible alternatives. Thus an equally-famous quote from one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, Paul Wartson, who said: “It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”Dare I suggest it seems that some sort of quasi-religious fervour has replaced any scientific searching for truth? And that anyone daring to suggest anything that runs contrary to that quasi-religious belief system is automatically branded ‘a denier’ in the same way as extreme religions brand anyone who does not comply with their notion of orthodoxy as being ‘a heretic’, with all the overtones this implies – and one could be forgiven to comparing such actions as being akin to the actions of ‘the authorities’ in Mediæval times. (Or perhaps the ISIS death cultists doing their evil things in the Middle East right now!) ‘Groupthink’anyone?Harsh words perhaps, but I fear this is not too far from the truth of the matter!But yes! There is good news of which it appears quite clear Alarmists all seem to be blissfully (?) unaware! And it’s no wonder this is so if you rely on the general Media for your information because, after all: “Good news does not sell newspapers” – well-known old adage, and proven true over time. Furthermore, you are unlikely to get any contrary news from anyone who is riding a most comfortable ‘gravy train’; after all there is another adage: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” (Upton Sinclair, 1935)So, why can’t Alarmists start to look at a few facts for a change? And yes! I know you will say that everything that does not agree with your belief system is ‘misinformation’. So, let me just suggest perhaps an occasional contrary viewpoint that you can then proceed to prove wrong could really spice things up!Try some of these, just by way of example:1. Levels of atmospheric CO2 follow temperatures and not the other way around – as …
Matt Ridley on How Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet
Matt Ridley on How Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2014/11/matt-ridley-on-how-fossil-fuels-are.html
Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist and other books, dropped by Reason’s studio in Los Angeles last month to talk about a curious global trend that is just starting to receive attention. Over the past three decades, our planet has got greener!About 20 years ago Charles Keeling noticed that the amplitude of change of the CO2 was increasing. In other words, in the Northern Summer the Co2 level fell and in the winter it went up again and this change was growing. More Co2 was coming into the atmosphere every Winter but more was going out of it every Summer.He could understand why more was coming into the atmosphere because of industry and so on. Why was more going out of it every Summer?The answer Keeling came up with was – there was probably more green vegetation on the planet. Satellites show that for the last 30 years the planet’s vegetation has been increasing.
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