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The 912 Project - Glenn Beck

912 Group of Central Ohio

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[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Remember kids..only carbon dioxide generated by humans melts the glaciers.  Everything else doesn't matter.

Volcano erupts in Iceland, hundreds evacuated
Flights canceled, state of emergency declared in nearby communities

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Authorities evacuated hundreds of people after a volcano erupted beside a glacier in southern Iceland, Iceland's civil protection agency said Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The eruption occurred around 11:30 p.m. Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET) beside the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, the fifth largest in Iceland. Authorities initially said the eruption was below the glacier, triggering fears that it could lead to flooding from glacier melt, but scientists conducting an aerial survey in daylight located the eruption and said it did not occur below ice.

"The eruption is a small one," said Agust Gunnar Gylfason, a risk analyst at the Civil Protection Department.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35968232/ns/world_news-europe/

Reply #3138 on: July 23, 2009, 12:27:30 PM »

WRONG AGAIN TONY
Of course he's blind -- he doesn't read my critical posts.

As Tony puts it, the highly-regarded Journal of Geophysical Research has accepted a paper that shows this one is wrong in every important aspect. The authors of the original paper de Freitas,  John McLean and Bob Carter were invited to reply to the critical review but were unable to find any problems with it.

Such much for Tony's objectivity. I'm sure he won't respond to this
 
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    Three Australasian researchers have shown that natural forces are the dominant influence on climate, in a study just published in the highly-regarded Journal of Geophysical Research. According to this study little or none of the late 20th century global warming and cooling can be attributed to human activity.

    The research, by Chris de Freitas, a climate scientist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, John McLean (Melbourne) and Bob Carter (James Cook University), finds that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a key indicator of global atmospheric temperatures seven months later. As an additional influence, intermittent volcanic activity injects cooling aerosols into the atmosphere and produces significant cooling.

    "The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Niño conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and cooling La Niña conditions less likely" says corresponding author de Freitas.

    "We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts for at least 80% of the observed global climate variation over the past half-century. It may even be more if the period of influence of major volcanoes can be more clearly identified and the corresponding data excluded from the analysis.”

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/2117/New-PeerReviewed-Study-Rocks-Climate-Debate-Nature-not-man-responsible-for-recent-global-warminglittle-or-none-of-late-20th-century-warming-and-cooling-can-be-attributed-to-humans

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Climategate: the whitewash continues

The Royal Society (Motto: Nullius in Verba Unless It’s About Global Warming In Which Case We’re Happy To Believe Whatever Unsubstantiated Drivel We’re Fed By Michael Mann, Phil Jones, et al) has announced who’ll be chairing its “independent” inquiry into the science behind the Climategate scandal.

And guess what? The man could scarcely be more parti pris if they’d given the job to Al Gore.

His name is Lord Oxburgh and, as Bishop Hill reports, he is:

    * President of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association
    * Chairman of wind energy firm Falck Renewables
    * A member of the Green Fiscal Commission

So the chairman of this “independent panel” has a direct financial interest in the outcome.

Oh and here, Bishop Hill has also noted, is another member of the panel – Kerry Emanuel – at an MIT debate already showing the kind of open-mindedness we can expect in his judgement on the significance of the Climategate emails:

    “What we have here,” says Kerry Emanuel, are “thousands of emails collectively showing scientists hard at work, trying to figure out the meaning of evidence that confronts them. Among a few messages, there are a few lines showing the human failings of a few scientists…” Emanuel believes that “scientifically, it means nothing,” because the controversy doesn’t challenge the overwhelming evidence supporting anthropogenic warming. He is far more concerned with the well-funded “public relations campaign” to drown out or distort the message of climate science, which he links to “interests where billions, even trillions are at stake…” This “machine … has been highly successful in branding climate scientists as a bunch of sandal-wearing, fruit-juice drinking leftist radicals engaged in a massive conspiracy to return us to agrarian society…”

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100030905/climategate-the-whitewash-continues/

The French government on Wednesday said it would abandon its plan to introduce a carbon tax on domestic energy and road fuels unless there was agreement for a European Union-wide levy.

The U-turn on the controversial environmental tax come two days after the governing UMP party of President Nicolas Sarkozy suffered a heavy defeat in regional elections. Senior UMP politicians have blamed the defeat in part on the proposed tax, which was due to come into effect on July.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1b000010-3686-11df-8151-00144feabdc0.html

The Main Criticism of the IPCC is that it is Too Conservative

Several papers showing that IPCC estimates of ocean level increases are low have been published recently.

Another paper has just come out on the probably effects of 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere.

It looks bad for the Greenland ice shelf.

http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/4/233/2010/tcd-4-233-2010.html

Abstract includes a link to the paper available at no charge.

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

This is the blithering idiot that wanted to ban chlorine.  Did I forget to mention that she is a socialist?

Obama’s energy advisor to speak at conference

Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, will present the Obama Administration's energy policy priorities at Moving Ahead 2010: Sustainable Transportation Solutions for the 21st Century, to be held May 2-4 at Ohio State. Moving Ahead 2010 aims to bring together industry leaders, policymakers and researchers to analyze how advanced transportation technologies, fuels and strategies will impact job creation, environmental protection and national security. Browner, who joined the Obama administration in January 2009, served as EPA director under President Clinton and has a background in environmental protection, law and management consulting. View: http://www.movingahead2010.com/unite/

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Oops: Chief Climategate investigator failed to declare eco directorship

'Dracula's in charge of the blood bank'

By Andrew Orlowski

Exclusive The peer leading the second Climategate enquiry at the University of East Anglia serves as a director of one of the most powerful environmental networks in the world, according to Companies House documents - and has failed to declare it.

Lord Oxburgh, a geologist by training and the former scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defence, was appointed to lead the enquiry into the scientific aspects of the Climategate scandal on Monday. But Oxburgh is also a director of GLOBE, the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/24/climategate_oxburgh_globe/

Climate gate  /  Slime it gate


The House of Commons report on the emails stolen from CRU has vindicated Phil Jones -- he has "no case to answer":

    The focus on Professor Jones and CRU has been largely misplaced. On the accusations relating to Professor Jones's refusal to share raw data and computer codes, we consider that his actions were in line with common practice in the climate science community. We have suggested that the community consider becoming more transparent by publishing raw data and detailed methodologies. On accusations relating to Freedom of Information, we consider that much of the responsibility should lie with UEA, not CRU.

    In addition, insofar as we have been able to consider accusations of dishonesty--for example, Professor Jones's alleged attempt to "hide the decline"--we consider that there is no case to answer. Within our limited inquiry and the evidence we took, the scientific reputation of Professor Jones and CRU remains intact. We have found no reason in this unfortunate episode to challenge the scientific consensus as expressed by Professor Beddington, that "global warming is happening [and] that it is induced by human activity"

See: http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2010/03/uea_circus_continued.php

http://rabett.blogspot.com/2010/03/cru-inquiry-report.html

http://climateprogress.org/2010/03/30/house-of-commons-exonerates-climate-scientist-phil-jones/

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2862717.htm

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Stossel had a great show on junk science.  Try to catch it in a rerun if you can.  The best part of the show was Roy Spencer who said (paraphrasing) an increase in CO2 has more benefits than liabilities.  Bingo.

Here is an article introducing the topics..
http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/01/what-we-know-that-isnt-so

Clearly, there are more plants than people so the number of plants benefited will be larger than the number of people harmed.

In any disaster some groups are harmed and others are benefited.

For small warming (e.g., 1 deg C over the next 50 years),  harms and benefits are largely comparable, although it is estimated that harms still outweigh the benefits. As the warming increases, the harms get much bigger, and begin dominating over benefits somewhere around 2-3 deg C of warming.

Recently Emails were stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The head of the unit Phil Jones was embroiled in the controversy that followed.

After extensive investigations it turns out that the media frenzy following release of the emails was nothing more than smoke and mirrors fueled by numerous lies about the emails generated by dishonest critics of global warming.

Don't expect any apologies. These guys never admit their lies.


    * Bret Stephen in the WSJ hinted that global warming scientists were "closet Stalinists"? (The seems to have been removed, but did he apologise for it?) 12/8/2009
    * Andrew Bolt in the Melbourne Herald Sun: "Climategate: Warmist conspiracy exposed?" 11/20/2009
    * James Dellingpole in the Telegraph: "The Final Nail in the Coffin of Anthropogenic Global Warming" 11/20/2009
    * Leo Hickman and James Randerson in The Guardian: "Files stolen.  Evidence of collusion among scientists"
    * Lauren Morello writing for Climatewire and picked up in the NYTimes: "Stolen E-Mails Sharpen a Brawl Between Climate Scientists and Skeptics" 11/24/2009
    * The Freakonomics blog on the NYTimes: "Phil Jones, the scientist at the center of the Climategate  scandal, answers questions from the BBC." 2/18/2010
    * Fred Guteri in Newsweek: "Climate scientists who play fast and loose with the facts are imperiling not just their profession but the planet." 2/19/2010

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Lyin' for Climate Indoctrination

By Paul Chesser

Last fall I alerted Spectator readers to the start-up nonprofit Alliance for Climate Education, which spreads the global warming alarmism gospel to students one school assembly at a time.

It turns out that the slick ACE lecturers are more than just preachers; they are recruiters too. After they dazzle teens with hip talk, animation and jokes, they work to sign them up for their anti-consumption (Americans are to blame) cause, often collecting cell phone numbers and email addresses without parents' knowledge.

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/04/13/lyin-for-climate-indoctrinatio

Thank you TonyBlair -- ACE sounds like a worthy organization deserving of our support.

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

This is short notice, but I understand this guy, whatever his politics, is an entertaining speaker..

Richard Alley to discuss ice cores & climate change

Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, will present "Bungee jumping on the climate roller-coaster: Ice cores and abrupt climate change" from 3:30-5 p.m. today (4/14) in 1120 Thompson Library (Ohio State University). Alley chaired the National Research Council on Abrupt Climate Change and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Hmm..this must not be a peer-reviewed paper since the phrenologists say that the sun has little influence on climate.  But let's say that it does come to pass...will the yappy lapdogs finally shut up?  Never.  They will move on to 'ocean acidification' as if nothing has ever happened.
Also, imagine extremely cold winters with artificially high energy costs (imposed by liberals).   Instead of fake, imagined violence, there will be real and justified violence.


Quiet sun puts Europe on ice

BRACE yourself for more winters like the last one, northern Europe. Freezing conditions could become more likely: winter temperatures may even plummet to depths last seen at the end of the 17th century, a time known as the Little Ice Age. That's the message from a new study that identifies a compelling link between solar activity and winter temperatures in northern Europe.

The research finds that low solar activity promotes the formation of giant kinks in the jet stream. These kinks can block warm westerly winds from reaching Europe, while allowing in winds from Arctic Siberia. When this happens in winter, northern Europe freezes, even though other, comparable regions of the globe may be experiencing unusually mild conditions.
Northern Europe freezes, even though comparable regions experience unusually mild conditions

Mike Lockwood at the University of Reading in the UK began his investigation because these past two relatively cold British winters coincided with a lapse in the sun's activity more profound than anything seen for a century. For most of 2008-9, sunspots virtually disappeared from the sun's surface and the buffeting of Earth by the solar magnetic field dropped to record lows since measurements began, about 150 years ago.

Lockwood and his colleagues took average winter temperatures from the Central England Temperature dataset, which extends back to 1659, and compared it with records of highs and lows in solar activity. They found that during years of low solar activity, winters in the UK were far more likely to be colder than average. "There is less than a 1 per cent probability that the result was obtained by chance," says Lockwood, in a paper to appear in Environmental Research Letters.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627564.800-quiet-sun-puts-europe-on-ice.html?full=true