Showing posts with label Climate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Climate. Show all posts

Friday, October 24, 2014

Climate change PROVED to be 'nothing but a lie', claims top meteorologist

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 23JAN08 - Rajendra K. Pacha...
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 23JAN08 - Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva, captured during the 'Opening Remarks' at the Annual Meeting 2008 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

THE debate about climate change is finished - because it has been categorically proved NOT to exist, one of the world's leading meteorologists has claimed.

John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel, shocked academics by insisting the theory of man-made climate change was no longer scientifically credible. Instead, what 'little evidence' there is for rising global temperatures points to a 'natural phenomenon' within a developing eco-system.

In an open letter attacking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he wrote: "The ocean is not rising significantly.  "The polar ice is increasing, not melting away. Polar Bears are increasing in number.  "Heat waves have actually diminished, not increased. There is not an uptick in the number or strength of storms (in fact storms are diminishing).  "I have studied this topic seriously for years. It has become a political and environment agenda item, but the science is not valid."


(What will continue to amaze are the number of people who will still argue that it's all real.)

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Friday, October 17, 2014

Va. makes minimal progress on its climate change plan

English: Flooding of ravine Blanche during hur...
 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

(Thank Goodness For Small Miracles:)


By Tamara Dietrich, Daily Press (Newport News, Va.)
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services


Oct. 10--Virginia is one of only 14 states with a finalized plan to prepare for and adapt to climate change, but so far it has completed only two of its original 43 goals.

That's the assessment of the Georgetown Climate Center, which launched an online tool Thursday for the public to track where each state stands in addressing the widespread effects that scientists predict will come with a changing climate. The center is part of the Georgetown University Law Center in D.C.

"People want to know what their leaders are doing to prepare for climate change impacts, such as storms and rising seas," Vicki Arroyo, the center's executive director, said in a release. "This tool provides transparency and enables individuals and communities to track state progress."

(This crap is pretty funny until you realize these morons are serious about this stuff.)


Link to the rest of the story.  Beware, it has a front end advertisement that you have to click past to read the rest.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Europe Goes Orange And Scraps Green Initiatives

Europe is going orange and scrapping green initiatives.  We said it before and we will say it again, none of it ever made any sense unless of course you are purposely trying to raise costs.

  See the link below for the entire story.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/european-commission-move-away-from-climate-protection-goals-a-943664.html

  There is no possible way that we can create substantial damage to the climate based on burning fuels.  Now we can make local air difficult to breathe while burning toxins, but complete climate change?  A volcano does more in one eruption to the overall climate than every person on the planet can do in 100 years of modern living.  So exactly how are we contributing to climate change?  We are not.  We are being sold a bill that causes the prices of everything to constantly go up from what we see.  The real climate change that industry is probably guilty of?  Water pollution.  That is where our biggest issues are.  And who gets to foot the bill for the cleanup?  That's right, you do.  They create the pollution but you are to blame and therefore it's your expense to have to pay for the cleanup of the mess they make.

  Ya gotta love how these plans are put into place.
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Friday, September 20, 2013

New study says threat of man-made global warming greatly exaggerated

Mean surface temperature change for 1999–2008 ...
Mean surface temperature change for 1999–2008 relative to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Doug McKelway
Published September 19, 2013
FoxNews.com

A peer-reviewed climate change study released Wednesday by the
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change finds the threat
of man-made global warming to be not only greatly exaggerated but so
small as to be “embedded within the background variability of the
natural climate system” and not dangerous.

Armed with the new findings, Republicans on the House Energy and
Commerce Committee grilled administration environmental policy
officials about the economic consequences of its aggressive regulatory
crackdown on the fossil fuel industry.

The 1,000 page study was the work of 47 scientists and scholars
examining many of the same journals and studies that the United
Nations International Panel on Climate Change (UNIPCC) examined,
producing entirely different conclusions.

 "This volume provides the scientific balance that is missing from the
overly alarmist reports from the IPCC, which are highly selective in
their review of climate science," the authors write.

The study was done under the auspices of the Heartland Institute,
which claims it "has no formal attachment to or sponsorship from any
government or governmental agency."

The Heartland Institute’s president, Joseph Bast, said of the study,
"The big issue in the global warming debate is how large is the human
impact on climate. And this report shows that it is very small, that
natural variability, the variability that's caused by natural cycles
of the sun and other factors, way outweigh anything the human impact
could have."

The report comes in advance of the expected release later this month
of a new U.N. report on climate change. Leaked drafts of that report
show surface temperature increases have been statistically
insignificant for the last 15 years, and that Antarctic sea ice is
increasing, not decreasing.

In addition, new satellite measurements of Arctic sea ice show it has
increased this year.

At the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday,
Republicans particularly wanted to know what President Obama planned
to do to address those fossil fuel workers who've lost their jobs as a
result of administration policy.

 In a major address at Georgetown University last June, Obama promised
there would be a special plan for those workers.

"So I would ask either one of you what are the special plans in the
president's action plan to help address these people who are losing
their jobs, " Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) asked EPA Administrator Gina
McCarthy and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.

"I'm not familiar with the details of those plans, but I am familiar
from reading the climate action plan that the president sees this as
both a challenge and an economic opportunity," McCarthy replied.

That exchange led to a testy retort by Ralph Hall (R-Tex.). "You got a
better answer than I received from Mrs. McCarthy about a year ago
before the science committee," Hall told McCarthy. "I may have asked
you a question you didn't like and your answer was, ‘I'm not in the
business of creating jobs.’”

Committee Democrats, along with McCarthy and Moniz, set out to counter
Republican skepticism about the impact of climate change.

"The evidence is overwhelming and the science is clear," said Moniz.
"The threat from climate change is real and urgent. The basic science
behind climate change is simple. Carbon dioxide makes the earth
warmer, and we are admitting more and more of it into the atmosphere."

Moniz added that any stabilization of surface temperatures in recent
years was an indication of a "hiatus" of global warming, not an end to
global warming.

Told of Moniz's remarks, astrophysicist  Willy Soon, one of the
NIPCC's leading scientists, reacted incredulously. "So tell us when is
it going to rise again?” he asked. “This is a question that not only
me, as a scientist, is asking , but all the lay persons should begin
asking."

The Heartland Institute's Bast told Fox News that there are no climate
models used by proponents of global warming that predict a lull in
warming.

 "Point to the model that predicted this hiatus," he said. "No
increase in violent weather , no increase in hurricanes. All of this
and we're still supposed to believe the models... models they picked
because they supported their political interests, not because they
represented good science."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/19/new-study-says-threat-global-warming-greatly-exaggerated/  Link back to original story.


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