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“In April, the Associated Press reported that global warming was going to hit beer drinkers in the wallet because the cost of barley would increase, driving up the price of a pint.”
Actually, AGW hysteria will increase the price of beer because farmers are switching from barley to crops more suited for biofuels (or is that biofools?).
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/biofuels-to-blame-as-beer-prices-soar-40-per-cent-in-germany-454376.html
I love the picture of Charleton Heston holding up the incandescent light bulb!
by questioneverything at SC24
The Twelve Days of Global Warming
On the first day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
Al Gore’s cap and trade policy.
On the second day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
Two Clinton thugs,
And Al Gore’s cap and trade policy.
On the third day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
No warming trend,
Two Clinton thugs,
And Al Gore’s cap and trade policy.
On the fourth day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
More falling temps,
No warming trend,
Two Clinton thugs,
And Al Gore’s cap and trade policy.
On the fifth day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
SOLAR MINIMUM,
More falling temps,
No warming trend,
Two Clinton thugs,
And Al Gore’s cap and trade policy.
On the sixth day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
Hanson a-lying,
SOLAR MINIMUM,
More falling temps,
No warming trend,
Two Clinton thugs,
And Al Gore’s cap and trade policy.
On the seventh day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
Climate Models drowning,
Hanson a-lying,
SOLAR MINIMUM,
More falling temps,
No warming trend,
Two Clinton thugs,
And Al Gore’s cap and trade policy.
On the eighth day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
El Nino missing,
Climate Models drowning,
Hanson a-lying,
SOLAR MINIMUM,
More falling temps,
No warming trend,
Two Clinton thugs,
And Al Gore’s cap and trade policy.
On the ninth day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
Scientists a-censored,
El Nino missing,
Climate Models drowning,
Hanson a-lying,
SOLAR MINIMUM,
More falling temps,
No warming trend,
Two Clinton thugs,
And Al Gore’s cap and trade policy.
On the tenth day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
Arctic Ice Recovering,
Scientists a-censored,
El Nino missing,
Climate Models drowning,
Hanson a-lying,
SOLAR MINIMUM,
More falling temps,
No warming trend,
Two Clinton thugs,
And Al Gore’s cap and trade policy.
On the eleventh day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
C02 a-rising,
Arctic Ice Recovering,
Scientists a-censored,
El Nino missing,
Climate Models drowning,
Hanson a-lying,
SOLAR MINIMUM,
More falling temps,
No warming trend,
Two Clinton thugs,
And Al Gore’s cap and trade policy.
On the twelfth day of Global Warming,
my true love sent to me
Twelve years this cycle,
C02 a-rising,
Arctic Ice Recovering,
Scientists a-censored,
El Nino missing,
Climate Models drowning,
Hanson a-lying,
SOLAR MINIMUM,
More falling temps,
No warming trend,
Two Clinton thugs,
And Al Gore’s cap and trade policy!
Actually, if all AGW happens to accomplish is that we stop wasting energy as if tomorrow will never come, I’d be happy with that.
Merry Christmas to all, and just remember-
Ahhhh, it’s a marshmallow world in the winter,
When the snow comes to cover the ground.
It’s the time for play, it’s a whipped cream day,
I wait for it the whole year round!
Those are marshmallow clouds being friendly,
In the arms of the evergreen trees;
And the sun is red like a pumpkin head,
It’s shining so your nose won’t freeze!
The world is your snowball, see how it grows,
That’s how it goes, whenever it snows.
The world is your snowball just for a song,
Get out and roll it along!
It’s a yum-yummy world made for sweethearts,
Take a walk with your favorite girl.
It’s a sugar date, so what if spring is late,
In winter it’s a marshmallow world!
It’s a marshmallow day in the winter,
When the snow comes to cover the ground.
It’s the time for play, it’s a whipped cream day,
And we wait for it the whole year round!
Just you remember that,
Those are marshmallow clouds being friendly,
In the arms of the evergreen trees;
And the sun is red like a pumpkin head,
It’s shining so your nose won’t freeze!
You must remember that,
The world is your snowball, see how it grows,
That’s how it goes whenever it snows.
The world is your snowball just for a song,
Get out and roll it along!
It’s a yum-yummy world made for sweethearts,
Take a walk with your favorite girl.
It’s a sugary date, so what if spring is late,
In winter it’s a marshmallow world…
In winter it’s a marshmallow world…
In winter it’s a marshmallow world…
Marshmallow World
By: Carl Sigman
That’s better than the video, Dr.
Reality strikes deep.
Anthony and all the other Contributors.
Thanks for the great year and Merry Christmas.
Holy Crap do we have a lot of snow for Vancouver, BC. A white Christmas. My children are loving it. My just over 1 niece who’s up from L.A. isn’t quite so sure.
All the best.
OT – Dr. Roy Spencer has a new website up;
http://www.drroyspencer.com/index.php
By the way,
after serveral states got a good chunk of snow – canucks too – maybe
Germany, Denmark, Sveden are the next on schedule:
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsgmeeur.html
take 850 hPa Temperature, 132 (hours ahead)
had ’em before, developing like that : Winter 78/79
good overview on that by Thomas Saevert:
http://www.saevert.de/2winter7879.htm
and a 45 min video (german language)
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-5616993840761940811
For Leif:
Leif, there are some expiriences from Denmark from 78/79, too:
Nytårssnestormen 1978-1979:
http://www.dbhome.dk/snestorm/
Snestormen omkring nytår 1978/1979, “Århundredes snestorm”.
http://home20.inet.tele.dk/eriklind/snestormen78.htm
Denmark had got it much and hard, too.
But the guys just north of Flensbourg always amaze me with their dry sense
of humor:
A guy in our village here, cental Germany, comes from Åbenrå, (deutsch Apenrade),
has a house there still.
After a severe storm in the mid-nineties, he phoned his father, father still living
near Åbenrå:
“Dad, how’s the house looking?” … “Fine, son, somehow littla bitta wet, after storm and rain” … “And how’s the roof ? … “Hummm, don’t know, son, was blown away…. We didn’t find it yet”
Bravo! “…Five Drowning Polar Bears…” LOL!
Dr Alanna Simpson
1997-2000: Bachelor of science, University of Auckland, New Zealand
2000-2002: Master of science for studies in geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
2002-2006: PhD studies in Earth sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane
2007: PhD awarded
2007-present: Vulcanologist, Geoscience Australia
AUSTRALIA’S neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region face an era of “mega-disasters” affecting hundreds of thousands of people as urbanisation, climate change and food shortages amplify the impact of natural catastrophes such as earthquakes and cyclones in coming years, scientific research has shown.
Alanna Simpson, a scientist at Geoscience Australia, said the risk assessments used data for the Asia-Pacific from the past 400 years and modelling to predict the frequency of natural hazards.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/disasters-warning-for-asiapacific/2008/12/25/1229998661989.html
Bruce (09:59:42) :
“In April, the Associated Press reported that global warming was going to hit beer drinkers in the wallet because the cost of barley would increase, driving up the price of a pint.”
I’m waiting for a tax on the CO2 in beer – after all it’s a “dangerous pollutant”.
Now that’s a popular decision for a courageous politician.
Today, here, It just looks like Christmas, you would burn more energy shoveling snow off a solar panel than it would produce once cleared. Pretty sure I am snowed in again.
Merry Merry Ho Ho
Also:
“Whilst the incidence of natural hazards themselves – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the like – hasn’t really changed, the sheer number of people living in the Asia-Pacific region means any earthquake has the potential to affect hundreds of thousands, if not millions,” Dr Simpson said.
Looks like business as usual to me.
@Janama,
yep, there are allways waiting bad things in future…
but, but, the expected – nearly allways – didn’t happen.
The occurences which did happen – were nearly allways – rather not expected.
So what? Shall we be scared about that expected
or shall we face what really will come?
In my whole life – now nearly 55 years – I never had such sum of scaremongering about our future – and personally, I place myself allready among the rather sceptics!
Our future won’t be the black, black NoFuture.
Too, it won’t be “The future is allways bright”.
It will be same kind of gray abyss we know from last umpteeeht centuries.
To fear future, implicts to achieve nothing.
To live through fear and limit it, may not change it,
but it gives a chance, at least.
Better to die for a chance than to survive with the fear.
Fear itself is the way to die “The way of endlessly dying,
the way of thousand deaths”.
To me, one is allready sufficient:
KlausB
I wish all here the very best and a pretty good ’09.
Manmade Global Warming: A Dangerous Urban Legend?
December 23, 2008
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D.
“Only a fool believes we can punish the use of energy, and make the economy grow as a result. T. Boone Pickens makes it sound like an old Oil Man can be turned green, but note his public advertising campaign for wind energy is to get government subsidies (i.e., more of your tax dollars) to make his huge investment in a west Texas wind farm economically viable.”
“Those few dozen bureaucrats and politically-savvy scientists in charge of the IPCC process now exert considerable influence over what kinds of climate research is funded by congress. The government funding and peer review process has been corrupted by a few outspoken scientists, bureaucrats, and politicians who now have a vested interest in the theory of ‘manmade global warming’.”
“In my view, this constitutes gross negligence and misuse of science to advance the political objectives of the IPCC leadership and the United Nations. That political agenda has been embraced by too many U.S. politicians who wrap themselves in the cloak of ‘scientific consensus’ which has been asserted by the IPCC leadership — without any vote from the hundreds of scientists being represented.”
Manmade Global Warming: A Dangerous Urban Legend? http://www.drroyspencer.com/roys-blog.php
Explaining global warming to the crazies on the right.
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The Thom Hartmann Program
http://airamerica.com/content/thom-hartmann-snow-global-warming
[snip]
~ charles the moderator
As one who should not be walking this snowy earth this Christmas,-count your blessings.Merry Christmas to one and all…
Humans started causing global warming 5,000 years ago, UW study says
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/36279759.html
“Global warming didn’t start with the industrial revolution, but began 5,000 to 8,000 years ago with large-scale agriculture in Asia and extensive deforestation in Europe, according to new research by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists.”
“Using powerful supercomputers and advanced climate models, the researchers concluded that methane and carbon dioxide – the building blocks of global warming – began rising with the introduction of rice cultivation and large-scale tree removal.”
“I think that the take-home message is that this hypothesis shows that climates are extremely sensitive to small variations in greenhouse gases,” said Steve Vavrus, a climatologist at UW’s Center for Climatic Research.”
Three different climate models were used. The researchers removed the amount of greenhouse gases that humans sent into the atmosphere, based on the ice core samples. The models show more permanent snow and ice cover in Canada, Siberia, Greenland and the Rocky Mountains.”
charles the moderator
The {snip} was not my contribution, it was from the web site.
[I know, however, it was easily interpreted differently and we have been lax in enforcement] ~ charles the moderator
“Using powerful supercomputers and advanced climate models”
Translation: We can’t predict tommorrow’s weather with any certainty at all, but we can model 5,000 – 8,000 years ago … and you can’t prove any different suckers!
Wikipedia estimates 15,000,000 people 8,000 years ago.
Now … they also suggest 1.2 billion people in the middle of the last little ice age around 1850.
Are they seriously suggesting 1.2 billion people caused the temperature to drop 150 years ago, while 8,000 years ago 15 million made it rise?
Are they insane?
I just finished talking with my son, who manages the race department at Beaver Creek, Co. They have 12 feet of snow on the ground. This fact dramatizes the absurdity of 12/24 posting on ICECAP, “Study: Global Warming Will Challenge Ski Industry”. The authors should be sued for damages caused by their malpractice, fraud and terminal stupidity.
Merry Christmas.
The Final Report on Abrupt Climate Change has been released.
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Final Report
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-4/final-report/default.htm
Abrupt Climate Change Summary and Findings
http://downloads.climatescience.gov/sap/sap3-4/sap3-4-brochure.pdf
Rapid change in glaciers, ice sheets, and hence sea level.
Widespread and sustained changes to the hydrologic cycle, including drought and flooding.
Abrupt change in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a critical component of global climate, characterized by the northward flow of warm, salty water in the upper layers of the Atlantic Ocean.
Rapid release to the atmosphere of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, trapped in permafrost and in ocean sediments.