I busted out laughing when I saw this on Tom Nelson’s blog.
His title was “For climate hucksters, two inconvenient Google trends”.
I never think about this sort of stuff, but it was darn funny.
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Imagine if Alexa used Mannian math….
Don’t forget the musical accompaniment!
Hmmmm – carbon offsets — crash & burn?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/AR2009061203453.html
I don’t know – this pap says we can’t afffect the “warming” that has already occurred…..what am I to think? LOL
Hunter -great video!
You mean to tell me that Watts Up With That has put the big chill on Global Warming?
The rising sea level of skepticsim has inundated the Make-believe world of IPCC with science. The Goremobile is totaled.
Imagine…
(Warning… this video contains the “D” word.)
I’m sure they’ll have to ‘adjust’ the number of carbon offsets sold before 1900 – lower, of course – so the slope of the trend continues to rise. Hmm… could be a problem there.
Oh, wait! Just plot $Pre-1900 $Carbon $Offsets. See? No problem.
P.S. What [sarc] genius [sarc/] voluntarily bought the first carbon offset and what were they thinking?!?!
hmmm interesting correlation.
The spike of carbon offsets in early 2007 was probably due to purchases by Al Gore and Joe Romm…. they were “priming” the pump. It didn’t work…
I’m sure they’ll have to ‘adjust’ the number of carbon offsets sold
Or find the right proxy.
How about the number of vehicles sporting ‘This vehicle is carbon neutral’, or similar, stickers.
That will conclusively show an expotential rise in the number of offsets sold.
Multiplying by the IQ of the driver will make doubly sure they have the right proxy.
OT… http://www.physorg.com/news164077824.html
Recent paper published June 1 in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
“Although the planet’s greenhouse gases . . . have become the villain in global warming scenarios, they’re crucial for a habitable world.”
“As the sun has matured over the past 4.5 billion years, it has become both brighter and hotter, . . . ”
“. . . we’re nearing the point where there’s not enough carbon dioxide left to regulate temperatures . . .”
WUWT?
Mike Bryant,
Abso-friggin-lutely hilarious video.
M4GW is a great group, and I hope to hear more from them.
I do enjoy Tom Nelson’s website. That man is a machine. How does he manage so many posts? Keep up the good work Tom!
To my feeble mind Carbon Offsets are a wonderful invention and marketing opportunity.
When you close down a plant you can sell the carbon offsets.
When you go broke you can sell the carbon offsets
When you get a permit to build a plant and don’t you can sell the carbon offsets
Your country can go broke and the politicians can sell the carbon offsets, several times if they wish.
Check how many times the Ukraine has sold carbon offsets.
Carbon offsets are the highest quality marketing opportunity.
– They never existed!
– They have no identification marks!
– They have no serial number!
– They can be sold many times!
– And most important – There is no reputable regulator!!!!!
– Asset Backed Paper is a better investment opportunity. (If
you want to get some money back)
PSST – You wanna buy some carbon offsets???? I’m gonna someday plant an acre of trees and I’ll sell you the carbon offsets now real cheap.
That WaPo report is scary:
Even if the international climate treaty due to be negotiated in Copenhagen in December is vastly more stringent and effective than the Kyoto Protocol, it will take decades to eliminate net global emissions. Warming seems inevitable; the only questions are its timing, distribution and severity. The effects may prove to be modest — but they could be severe or perhaps catastrophic.
Even strong advocates of limiting emissions have concluded that global emissions controls are likely to take effect too slowly and too unevenly to avoid substantial risk of severe damage — and that it would be prudent to pursue research on geoengineering.
Tom in Texas,
The climate treaty is pointless because there is no problem for it to save us from.
Imagine being rail roaded into a dangerous brain surgery for a cancer that was not there. And then you are told that the surgery was not radical enough to help.
Gordon Ford, CARBON FUTURES
Hunter: “Imagine being rail roaded into a dangerous brain surgery for a cancer that was not there. And then you are told that the surgery was not radical enough to help.” QOTW (Quote…)
Tom in Texas (20:32:53) “Gordon Ford, CARBON FUTURES”. And there you have the reason that no one is going to stop the Cap & Trade and carbon offset economy. It is too juicy a plum, an avalanche of “green ” as it were. No self respecting business man would pass on an opportunity to forge down this path to that cash cow (which does not even require an exchange of goods for that cash), which I believe is the point Gordon Ford was making. Makes me wonder if the modern day hippies realize they are responsible for lining the pockets of businessmen who claim to be able to fix this “climate problem”. Now don’t get me wrong, I believe that a business should be profitable and capitalism is great and all, but paying money for what amounts to nothing (as nothing is returned other than the promise that some shlub is “going to plant some trees somewhere” . Then those trees will uptake C02 and produce oxygen over the lifetime of that tree ( that is what they tell you they are doing). The dollar signs are flashing in the eyes of the business juggernaut, and it seems unstoppable at this point. Poor maligned carbon (dioxide). Framed and sentenced to life for a crime it did not commit,…………
Yaaay….. The Minnesotans FOR Global Warming.
Cool dudes that desperately wanna get warm-ing for real.
Minnesota is cold, damn cold…. I’ll chuck an extra fire brickette on the barbie for ya guys:-)
Tom in Texas
I’m afraid there will be no changing of minds in Copenhagen even if we could skate across the Atlantic to attend. These guys are real upset about the horrifically cold winters lately and they don’t like being cornered. They are staring out at a forest of accusatory immobile windmills just offshore and not far away to the north of them there were a brace of Nobel prizes handed out. I understand that the prizes were left over from the bunch printed up for Arafat, Peres and Rabin for bringing peace to the Middle East and for Koffi Annan for preciding over the Rawandan Massacre and “Iraq Oil for Graft Program” run by his son, and there is no way to back out gracefully. I can’t see any other way out for them but to put together a mean wrathful document. Like the Global Warming, its too late to do anything to cool them off now.
Oops, change presiding for “preciding”.
I believe I have discovered a way to make carbon sequestration plausible and save the economy at the same time. It’s simple really. Every man, woman and child in the world buys a 12 pack of Coke and buries it in the backyard. Think of the impact of 96 billion cans of Coke being sequestered underground. Not only that, but at, let’s say, 33 cents a can, that’s a whopping $32 billion in incremental sales for the Coca Cola Company. Think of the jobs! And gosh knows it’s available. If there’s any country outside of North Korea that doesn’t have Coke I’d be stunned. OK, maybe everybody can’t afford it – those of us lucky enough to have luxury of feeling guilty can buy two 12 packs. A sure ticket to heaven.
The real genius of course is that when the globe cools everyone can go out to the background, pop open a now frosty one, and help to warm the planet with all that buried CO2. It works, or doesn’t, both ways. Is next year’s Noble prize still available?
[REPLY – Bury the Pepsi instead and I’m sold. ~ Evan]
Ya know guys, my company produces virtual stock exchange software, who wants to have us set up a truly honest carbon trading system (i.e. not one that is really a carbon tax posing as cap and trade) to show how carbon futures will drop over time naturally by market action?
Dear Anthony, I kow this is O/T but are you aware of the latest book from New Zealand titled
AIR CON The seriously inconvenient truth about global warming by Ian Wishart.
I have just finished reading it and it’s the best reference to climate realism I have come across.
WUWT and CLIMATE AUDIT are mentioned frequently and a number of your surface station photos are shown.
If I had the money, I would send a copy of this to each of your congressmen to put a stop to this nonsense.
The publishers are “Howl at the Moon Publishing Ltd” and their Email address is
editorial@investigatemagazine.com
Kind Regards
Dennis George
REPLY: Haven’t seen it yet. – Anthony
Good ideas coming from Cambridge Professor David Mackay on his site: http://withouthotair.com/
Here’s an extract:
The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone
charger, 0.01kWh, is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an
average car for one second. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t switch phone
chargers off. But don’t be duped by the mantra “every little helps.” Ob-sessively switching off the phone-charger is like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon. Do switch it off, but please be aware how tiny a gesture it is.
All the energy saved in switching off your charger for one day
is used up in one second of car-driving.
The energy saved in switching off the charger for one year is
equal to the energy in a single hot bath.
Your charger is only a tiny tiny fraction of your total energy consumption.
If everyone does a little, we’ll achieve only a little.
He’s got a great writing style and really spells out that we need some numbers and some calculations – not adjectives and feelings.
He does claim to be “right on” and in support of the global yawning hypothesis – but I wonder. Maybe he feels he’ll get a bigger and more receptive audience by playing along but trying to bring some realism. Softly, softly, catchee monkey.