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Earth Day: We are now told that obesity causes global warming. Maybe that’s why belief in human-caused climate change is at an all-time low. That and the fact that Antarctic ice is growing, not melting.
Over the past decade, as the earth cooled, the sun grew quiet and snow fell in Malibu, the disconnect between the computer models of Al Gore and the warm-mongers grew more apparent than ever. So much so that they started talking about “climate change” instead of “global warming.”
That way, everything from drought to floods was covered, even record cold winters and snowfalls.
Even that’s not working on an ever more skeptical public, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports national survey showing that just one of three voters — a new low — now believe that global warming is caused by human activity.
Nearly half (48%) believe the cause is naturally occurring planetary trends. Just a year ago, only 34% said warming was a natural phenomenon, while 47% said human activity was placing the planet at risk of disastrous climate change. That’s a huge shift.
Excerpts:
Interestingly, a growing number of Americans (58%) say we need to build more nuclear power plants, with 63% saying that finding additional sources of energy is more important than reducing the amount of energy Americans currently consume. They recognize that a growing economy requires more energy, not less, and that nukes are a pollution-free way of getting it.
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Overweight people eat more steaks and burgers, we are told, and that means more cows and more barnyard emissions. They walk less and drive more, usually to fast-food emporiums, where every additional condiment brings us closer to planetary doom. The answer presumably would be fewer people, or at least more vegetarians.
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Australian Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison says sea ice losses in West Antarctica over the past 30 years have been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of East Antarctica. “Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally,” Allison says.
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So enjoy your burger and fries, and chill out. It’s the warm-mongers who are endangering us with their whoppers. And Happy Earth Day.
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Note that the Obama group is hitting Capital Hill pretty hard today. Big push for Cap&Trade and Obama has a very pleasant, breezy day here in Iowa to talk about wind powder and alternative energy. Lots of big names in Government talking AGW. The only point of contention appears to be who gets to spend the money.
It’s time to crank up those card, letters, and e-mails to your representatives!
So what do you do on urth day other than get dirty. I went out shopping for some coal; which I figure is all natural, and better to use than fake anthropogenic “charcoal”. If particulates are bad for you, why would you press them into eggs with a little epoxy or some other binder; when Mother Nature already supplies coal in chunks that are nice and shiny (well if you buy the good anthracite coal, instead of that lousy western low sulphur lignite).
Somebody should explain to the EPA that when you say “low sulphur”, you really intended to mean low sulphur per joule of energy; not per ton of material. Limestone is “low sulphur”, but the BTUs per ton is simply awful.
So I actually found some coal, which I am going to use to partially incinerate some dead cow slabs tonight; well we are going to do some New Zealand lamb too, which has more fat; and also a better aroma when you add some mint sauce, and green peas, along with roast potatoes. My neighbors will be able to enjoy my cookout from their yards; so they won’t have to light their Propane engines to warm up their gardenbergers.
Why don’t we make our food out of rocks like Mother Nature does, then we wouldn’t have to replace all those nice native California weeds with edible plants or feed them to domestic bovines. How cool would that be; then we can just use all our spare ground to grow urth’s natural wonder plant; hemp; which is good for almost anything, including tying up your horse outside the saloon.
Yes we should have an urth day every month; and a talk like a pirate day too. Did you know that some place back east they are having a talk like Shakespeare day; evidently they don’t understand plain English, so they have to find some English that nobody can understand.
George
Aron (07:37:16):
Consider these three little factoids:
1. Most large animals are herbivores. Becoming a vegan is no guarantee of anything except lower blood iron levels.
2. A vegan also needs to eat more volume of food to meet protein and calcium requirements. It is increased protein and calcium intake, as well as sanitation, that has increased life spans considerably, the consequences of which are lower birth and death rates.
3. Those beloved polar bears and whales eat more meat than most carnivores. Should we force them to become vegan and have them pay some kind of penalty?
True… Besides, vegans substitute meat proteins with soya; however, soya can cause serious health problems; for example, soya contains glycosphingolipids which could reduce the risk of acquiring intestinal cancer; nevertheless, the problems with soya start here because glycosphingolipids cause Glaucher disease, which consists of important damages on liver, spleen, blood tissue, skeletal system and nervous system; the latter reduces life expectancies to only two years once the disease is acquired. Soya can cause breast cancer because it contains two phytoestrogens, genistein and daidzein, which are used as mimetic sexual hormones in cases of hormone therapy during menopause, instead of synthetic or animal estrogens.
Aron, I have asked you three times to handle this information “CONFIDENTIAL”
under the Secrecy Act!
WakeUpMaggy (10:41:32) :
It would be easier to use the average density and weight of people. You can then get a volume.
WakeUpMaggy (10:41:32),
The total volume of humanity is really quite small. A back of the envelope calculation:
Assume 6ft x 2ft x 1.5ft per person. [There are bigger people, but there are a lot of smaller people, too, and children.] This is a generous 18 cubic feet per average earthling.
Multiplying by a population of 6.5 billion = 117 billion cubic feet of humanity.
Next, a cubic mile is 5280 cubed: 5280′ x 5280′ x 5280′ cubic feet = 147.2 billion cubic feet. So all the people on Earth could easily fit within one cubic mile. With wiggle room.
“David S (10:09:48) :
BTW What about all those pudgy polar bears? They’re two or three times the size of most chubby humans. Will the warmers have them moved to re-education camps where they will be taught to give up meat eating and learn to dine on the vegetation native to the region?”
Here’s a polar bear having a salad!
http://www.pbase.com/mortenmojo/image/75705904
When I was attending the University of Wyoming, about 1965, there was a lot of news about eastern power plants and industries buying and using Wyoming low sulfur coal. Being an engineering student and curious, I looked up the sulfur content per BTU for eastern and Wyoming coals. Turned out that the sulfur content of eastern coal was three times that for Wyoming coal, but you had to burn three times as much Wyoming coal for the same heat.
More recently, my wife and I took a trip to Guatemala where we saw lots of green jobs. They involved tilling fields by hand to raise food and stripping the surrounding wooded areas of fuel with which to cook and heat. The wage is about $ 2.50 per day. I can hardly wait to see that catch on here.
Aren’t fat people just giant carbon sinks?
I’m confused.
Cold Play (09:30:24) :
Yes the ice in Antarctica is increasing but this is because of the hole in the ozone layer and once the hole in the ozone layer is repaired the ice will melt rapidly.
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“But the team from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Nasa warned the ozone hole was only delaying the impact of greenhouse gases on the climate of the White Continent.
If ozone levels recover as expected over the next 100 years, thanks to the international ban on damaging CFCs, weather patterns will return to normal and Antarctic sea ice will shrink rapidly, they said.
1. Ice absorbs UV, ,which
2. Increases the internal energy (i.e. raises the temperature), and
3. Ozone “blocks” UV, so that
4. Closing the ozone hole will reduce the UV reaching the ice, which will
5. Cause it to melt, because
6. It isn’t absorbing as much energy, so
7. It’s staying colder.
What have I missed?
You guys are so polite. I, on the other hand, am an asshole. And as such, celebrating differently.
[snip bridge too far ~ charles the moderator]
http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/living-green/staticslideshowgreenchan.aspx?cp-documentid=18995580>1=34129
Good grief.
My vote for Quote of the week:
M White (11:20:18) :
Aren’t fat people just giant carbon sinks?
Another piece of the jigsaw falls into place in the greater picture of the quickly asembling new world order, an order that seeks to impose a soviet command economy on the world.
The state, the central command authority governs from a centralised authoritarian monolith, the state that demands obedience from the masses, you eat what they tell you and in the quantities they decide you need and you work where they so decide and order
They decide what your consumer requirements are and what you can buy and where you can travel, the state will ration your energy usage and how much you pay. Any who rebel are labelled deniers/anti social elements/greedy&selfish reactionary subversives.
This can no longer be viewed as some kind of paranoid reds under the bed type stuff can it? These AGW/NWO believers wish to control every aspect of your life from what you eat to where you can travel.
AGW/MMCC is a cloak used to cover for groups who wish for the world to enter a new global USSR Mk11.
In reality the AGW/MMCC believers only have guilt,hatred,jelousy and fear to offer when you strip away the cloak of pious holier than thou preaching, as always history repeats itself doesn it? the inate urge of certain groups to rule over the mass of humanity.
You have to give credit to the wolf for fooling the sheepdog though, the AGW/MMCC/NWO believers chose a very cunning disguise to sell their particular brand of an authoritarian Marxian utopian workers collective, I mean how do you go about persuading a free and prosperous people to willingly give up their wealth and hard won freedom voluntarliy and even eagerly to don the shackles of poverty and serfdom to a marxist state monolith?
Its said that there is a sucker born every minute? the AGW belivers have certainly tapped into that source alraight.
“I can hardly wait to see that catch on here.”
If our young and the rest of the world are in a snit about materialistic capitalism now, just wait a few more years for the full effect of the green economy to take hold.
We are in for a persistent global downturn; I know the Prez will be unhappy with my tax return–I’m asking for half the wages withheld to be returned.
Ray (11:01:48) :
WakeUpMaggy (10:41:32) :
It would be easier to use the average density and weight of people. You can then get a volume.
Smokey (11:02:05) :
So what is the average size and weight?
I’m guessing wordwide about 5′, 100# including children.
WakeUpMaggy (10:41:32),
The total volume of humanity is really quite small. A back of the envelope calculation:
Assume 6ft x 2ft x 1.5ft per person. [There are bigger people, but there are a lot of smaller people, too, and children.] This is a generous 18 cubic feet per average earthling.
Whoa! Very generous! A cubic foot of water is 62#. Say I’m average and weigh twice that. We are about 86% water I think. I forget specific gravity for peple. So two to three cubic feet an average human could pour themselves into if they weren’t full of hot air?
“An inspiring Yahoo text!”
It’s a reprint from “IBD,” which stands for “Investor’s Business Daily.”
“So all the people on Earth could easily fit within one cubic mile.”
How much space would they take up if they were compacted? :o)
Hah – someone hit my trigger…
I AM buying a Challenger with the 5.7L Hemi… did my test drives on the weekend and monday. It’s going to be TorRed with the Classic package (fancy badges and stripes, shiny chrome wheels, and 6-speed manual transmission: 376 HP).
Unfortunately, delivery time is going to be horrid. Dealers are selling for thousands over retail and have either base model or overloaded. I might be looking at 6 months! I sure hope the company lasts long enough.
“John W. (11:21:40) :
I’m confused.
1. Ice absorbs UV, ,which
2. Increases the internal energy (i.e. raises the temperature), and
3. Ozone “blocks” UV, so that
4. Closing the ozone hole will reduce the UV reaching the ice, which will
5. Cause it to melt, because
6. It isn’t absorbing as much energy, so
7. It’s staying colder.
What have I missed?”
Phew!
I thought it was just me. LOL
DaveE.
Ed Zuiderwijk (07:49:39)
Thanks for pointing out the article. I get the Telegraph but have only just read it.
Let me get this right. In the article they claim that the ozone hole over the Antartic is causing more ice to form. However, if I remember correctly, there is also concern about the hole in the Ozone layer over the Artic causing a rise in skin cancer, but the Artic ice is, so the media say, reducing.
Now that’s what I call having your cake and eating it. Hole in Ozone layer causing ice cover to grow in the south and shrink in the north. Yeah! Yeah!
Enjoy.
Given that people who exercise burn more calories and thus produce more CO2 than couch potatoes and given that people who eat more vegetables produce more flatulence, it’s clear the only thing we can do is to eat more highly refined foods and move as little as possible.
Thankfully, Al Gore invented the internet which means we don’t have to interact with anyone in person any more, or leave our homes, either. Did Al Gore also invent cable TV? Well blessings upon whoever did!
“The total volume of humanity is really quite small. ”
There are a number of species with a greater biomass than humans; termites come to mind. Of course termites lack our capacity for navel-gazing and self-loathing.
Nuclear?! Has nobody ever heard of the problems of dealing with nuclear waste? Has nobody here heard of Chernobyl? Not quite the same thing as alarmism, I think. Agree that Nuclear power plants produce no CO2, but we all agree here that CO2’s no problem – or do we?
Re:
” Gary Pearse (08:04:27) :
The tide has been turning in the press alright but we have the national w. service buying up old household thermometers and giving out new ones probably graduated in 100’s of a degree F and Al Gore pressing to get rid of the Celsius scale to make the numbers bigger”
Is this true? I read about this yesterday, but I thought it was a joke. Is Gore really pressing to put the Kelvin scale into everyday use?
WakeUpMaggy (10:41:32) :
Well if you take the specific gravity of the human body and average the weight at 70 kg — with a good squashing you would fit in more than 10 billion folk.