Today is Climate Fools Day

OT But dramatic persistent (now around 5 years) cooling of whole South America continues
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp8.html

Vic And Anthony.
This is related to Today is Climate Fools Day.
I received this email from Australia re: Al Gore = the madness continues:
G’day All
I find it very disturbing to read today that AL Gore’s Science Fiction Movie is to be included in Australian Schools Curricula. I sure that you will remember that the British High Court ruled that it was Alarmist and contained nine significant errors. Mr Justice Burton……said that some of the claims were wrong and had arisen in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration”. Quotes from The Times which goes on to detail errors.
Today we read in the MSM that it is going to be included in the curricula of schools around the country. The reports include:
The Herald-Sun (letters hsletters@heraldsun.com.au)
Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth included in school curriculum
There is an on-line poll on that Herald-Sun Page.
The Daily Telegraph (Letters letters@dailytelegraph.com.au )
Climate change film An Inconvenient Truth for Australian schools
I suggest that we all write to the newspapers, but I also suggest that we contact MPs (at least your own local MP) and Senators. Lists attached.
How dare they!
Geoff

I love it! Great idea.
I’ve been looking for a suitable event to mark down on the calendar for that day.

more climate fools in the making:
26 Oct: Marketwatch: Former Vice President Al Gore Hosts Time Warner Cable’s Global Online Town Hall on Student Attitudes toward Math and Science Education
This unique event is part of Connect a Million Minds (CAMM), TWC’s philanthropic commitment to connect youth to ideas, people and opportunities that will inspire them to pursue education and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)…
“In today’s increasingly global economy, America cannot afford to continue to fall behind the world in the very subjects that are going to drive economic growth and development in the coming decades,” said Gore, who is appearing courtesy of Current TV, where he serves as Chairman. “By creating a dialogue that includes not only experts on the subject matter, but the kids who are ultimately affected by this issue, Time Warner Cable’s Global Online Town Hall is likely to provide tremendous insights into the issue and provide a jumping off point for action.” …
About Connect a Million Minds
Time Warner Cable’s (TWC) Connect a Million Minds (CAMM) is a five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to address America’s declining proficiency in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), which puts our children at risk of not competing successfully in a global economy…
TWC’s national CAMM partners are CSAS (Coalition for Science After School) and FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). Local TWC markets are activating CAMM across the country with community-specific programs and partnerships.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/former-vice-president-al-gore-hosts-time-warner-cables-global-online-town-hall-on-student-attitudes-toward-math-and-science-education-2010-10-26?reflink=MW_news_stmp

I find that the Warmists are now avoiding discussion with me. Very interesting.
Fear is in the air.
These people have made fools of themselves.

…British politicians passed with little dissent “The Climate Change Bill” a piece of legislation that future generations will come to accept was “the most absurd Bill that this Parliament has ever had to examine”.
They examined it before they voted for it? All those non-scientific, gravy-train riding, wannabe seen saving the planet intellectual pygmies inhabiting Westminster actually examined the bill before plunging an entire nation into taxation hell? They actually read the Bill before voting to turn off the lights when many of our existing power stations are forced to go offline without sensible replacements in the desperately near future?
That’s news to me…

And the rate of sea-level rise just keeps going down!!!
http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2010/10/going-down.html
Ecotretas

In the UK we have just had a week of unprecedented early frosts, with the night of 24th October being flagged as the coldest October day on record. Does this mean that global warming is happening far more quickly than we thought!!

Rick Bradford says: “One of the constant refrains of the Warmists is the question: “What would it take to make you believe in AGW?”.”
That is an interesting question and one my wife asked which has caused me to think about it. I think the key point is:
You cannot tackle a problem until you admit you have a problem
That affects global warming in so many ways:
– the abysmal instrumentational temperature record and the failure to admit there is a problem which means there never will be any money to sort it out.
– the abysmal quality of people in the climate “elite” and their failure to admit that they can’t do even basic stats without making a cock up.
– the failure of groups like the “scientists” and e.g. Wikipedia to admit they don’t allow open and honest debate so that they perpetuate group-think mentality rather than an open honest assessment of the evidence.
– their failure to properly assess and fund research into other potential causes/explanations of the apparent warming.
All in all, it’s like some motor salesman who pulls the cover off their second hand car just enough for you to see the number plate and the stuck on model number and little else and they say: “look I’ve shown you that it’s a real nice car – have you seen anything that doesn’t make you think it isn’t a real nice car – nothing? – well are you going to buy it or not?”
What will it take for me to buy the car? A saleman who isn’t afraid to show me everything under the cover – and even then given their past behaviour, I’d want a thorough engineering examination!

Tallbloke nails the irony of the first ‘Climate Fools’ Day’ prefectly – first October snow lying in London within almost anyone’s living memory (the year of the previous occurrence was actually questioned as to whether it was 1933 or 1929, as the records weren’t very good). Surely should have given anyone not wedded to the ideas that computers inevitably give you the right answer a chance to stop and think…
2008-09 winter was moderately cold in southern England, with regular hard frosts and a couple of minor snow falls, and was followed by a properly cold winter with quite a lot of snow (by UK standards).
And this Autumn has been pretty cold – heavy frosts a few times in the last couple of weeks, which is about a month earlier than typical.

Probably the biggest climate fool in the UK must surely be our chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne. Last week he announced many sensible but drastic cuts to reduce our record deficit. He also reminded us of the most serious problem facing the world – climate change! Surprise, surprise.
He then proceeded to announce that he intends to donate £1 bn of taxpayer’s money towards developing “world’s first carbon capture and storage demonstration project.” See: http://www.nce.co.uk/news/business/spending-review-2010/osborne-commits-up-to-1bn-for-carbon-capture-and-storage/8607168.article Added to this is another billion for UK’s first Green Investment Bank, whatever that is. He then boasted a further £200 M towards the off-shore windmill business. And this at a time when our nation has just escaped bankruptcy!
But, nuclear power will receive no government subsidy whatsoever.
Unfortunately Mr Osborne is surrounded by nearly 600 other climate fools, of all political persuasions, who make laws in our House of Commons.

Stephan says:
October 26, 2010 at 8:17 pm
OT But dramatic persistent (now around 5 years) cooling of whole South America continues
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp8.html
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How do you manage to arrive at that conclusion, from that figure? It certainly seems to be at odds with the NOAA anomalies (Sept 2010) , that show a very slight cooling of the southerly tip of South America. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-blended-mntp/201009.gif
Please show me some evidence to support your claim.
Thanks.

Australians seem to be the greatest fools. This survey shows they WANT a carbon tax. Please add your vote:
http://www.julie-bishop.com/

It does feel as if slowly, very slowly, the tide is turning. I’m fairly confident that in ten years’ time the nonsensical Climate Change Bill will either be scrapped or, more likely, simply ignored.
One aspect of the Bill is extraordinary. At the time there were no costings from the government, so they were in effect voting for a blank cheque. Months later the government quietly slipped out the costings: 400 billion pounds (around 600 billion dollars). It was guaranteed to be an under-estimate. Not long after, an accountancy firm released their own estimate: 1.2 trillion pounds, three times the government estimate. This is possibly similar to the entire national deficit.
And what will this huge burden achieve? Precisely nothing. Britain could probably put men on Mars with that kind of money. That really would be an achievement.
The ironic thing is that, if CAGW were true, it would still achieve nothing. It seems that when it comes to climate change and energy policy, common sense flies out of the window.
In the past I always voted Conservative, but no longer. I would like to return to the fold, but I will only do so if there are *big* changes in Conservative/Coalition policies on climate/energy and the EU. I simply refuse to vote for climate clowns such as Cameron and Clegg. Looks like I’ll be voting UKIP for some time to come….
Chris

Dave
I was in Aberdeen a couple of weeks ago. Hot? first thing I bought was a winter coat…
One thing to remember with the new nuclear sites is that the originally proposed government money has been withdrawn and these are now to be built using only private funding – the good news is it looks like EDF and Westinghouse are both continuing with their development works.
Of course the gov is still putting money into wind farms, despite the obvious limitations of these in providing consistent and reliable power to the national grid.

It’s easy to poke fun at something this ridiculous – condensing emails to save the planet. It’s better to know that when you see something like this, to keep in mind that this is a suggestion now and will be pushed into law later. Every silly, innocuous thing the Left and their environmentalist wacko allies push starts small and before long it’s mandated.
Never underestimate the Left’s hatred of the human race and their desire to control it.

“We will then see the massive flood of community resources currently being wasted on windmills, solar toys, alarmist junkets, silly subsidies and climate bureaucracy will be more sensibly directed towards preparation for coping with the real natural cycles of heat and cold, floods and droughts, cyclones and earthquakes, vulcanism and ice ages. We will then regret the destruction of industry and wastage of real energy opportunities now taking place.”
Sadly, this is far too optimistic. Before AGW is beaten to death, the real powers behind it will have a new horse to ride. It looks like the new horse will be called “biodiversity”, but the route is the same: a massive wealth transfer from developed nations to everyone else, with lots of opportunity for tapping into the money flow.
AGW has occupied most of a generation. We will now have a new generation of well-meaning youth and and young scientists. Too many of them will fall into this next “save the planet” trap, thinking they are doing good, when in fact they are just being manipulated. Once you’ve seen enough of these cycles, they’re easy to recognize. No wonder us old folk sometimes get cynical…

Climate Fools Day………. I like it!!!
We’ll make a tradition of it, to serve as a cautionary tale for future generations about the fallibility of Science that has been corrupted by political processes…. and the general inclination for people to be sheep and follow, panic and jump imaginary hurdles on a rush to nowhere in particular at great expense.
Climate Fools Day…. a damn good idea.

‘The future of a wind turbine manufacturer which received millions of pounds from the Scottish government to safeguard jobs is in doubt.
The Danish company Skykon, which took over the Vestas wind turbine factory in Kintyre last year, has announced it is suspending payments to its creditors.’
‘The Scottish government agreed £9.2m worth of financial backing for Skykon which was intended to safeguard 100 jobs at the factory and create 300 more.
However so far only £2.4m has been paid out since the money was being delivered in instalments with each batch dependent on Skykon fulfilling a number of conditions.’
‘Meanwhile, Danish firm Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, said it would axe 3,000 jobs and shut some plants to adjust to weaker demand.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-11626680
Looks like the wind has gone out of their sails…

Hey GW buddies!:
As the great George Carlin said:
Pack your sh**s folks….we are leaving!

bradley13 says:
October 27, 2010 at 7:26 am
It looks like the new horse will be called “biodiversity”
Hold your horses Bradley, this could be at least a two horse race. “Asteroid-induced Global Climate Disruption” is at the starting gate.
I must admit though, I’m putting my money on “biodiversity”. The taxation potential for the asteroid thingy is not quite as clear.
http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/white-house-adviser-us-must-prepare-for-asteroid/19687765

Sydney Morning Herald (27th Oct): “Remano brand pure and extra virgin olive oils … had the smallest carbon footprint, with 220 grams of carbon dioxide emitted for every millilitres of oil on the shelf. This means using 100 millilitres of the oil is roughly equivalent to driving a car for one kilometre, in terms of carbon emission.” – Ben Cubby, Environment writer.

More British are openly revolting against being ruled by eco-fascists every day:
British wind-farm revolts blamed for dramatic fall in planning approvals …
Local revolts by British residents against wind-farms are to blame for the number of planning approvals hitting record lows, an industry report has warned.
More than 230 campaign groups across the country are putting plans to generate more than a quarter of Britain’s electricity in jeopardy, it was claimed. New figures show one in three wind-farm applications were approved by councils amid heightened opposition from angry residents. Approvals in England has fallen by 50% half over the past year while the number of new wind-farms coming “on-stream”, or becoming active, has dropped by almost a third.
The report, from RenewableUK, which represents the wind-farm industry, blamed a groundswell of opposition in areas including Kent, Yorkshire and Cornwall and Scotland. The report, to be published next week, casts doubt on the government’s ability to meet its ambition of generating a fifth of Britain’s energy from renewable sources by the end of the decade. “The industry has significant concerns for both the rate and consistency of local decision-making on projects yet to come forward for determination,” the report concluded.
According to the report, it can take seven years to build an offshore wind-farm and more than two years to obtain planning permission. But changes to planning laws, due to be announced later this year, are expected to make it harder for wind-farm to be built as local councils are given more power over decision making.
“The court of public opinion plays a big role here,” said Maurice Cann, head of planning at Hambleton District Council. “I can see the situation getting worse. Some of these structures are 125m high and have a huge visual impact. It does not surprise me at all that so many applications are getting rejected.”
Michael Hird, from the Campaign against wind-farms, said his group’s campaign was working while environmentalists called for a compromise.

m white says:
October 27, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Happy Climate Fools’ Day from James Delingpole…
Did anyone notice that Delingpole only showed the costs and not the benefits in that article?
Overall the Net result is a minimum net benefit of £53billion. Now why would Delingpole pretend otherwise?

Wind Farm Bribes For Councils From UK Taxpayers
“Cash incentives” for councils that sign up for new wind farms
29 October 2010
Local councils are to get extra funding if they give the go-ahead to new wind farms, under plans to stop local communities sabotaging renewable energy projects. Ministers are worried at the vast number of wind farm projects that are being turned down by councilors in the face of local opposition. The number of planning approvals for onshore wind farms is at an all time low, with only one in three applications getting to go-ahead. There are now 233 separate local campaign groups against wind farms. As a result ministers have agreed that local councils should be given incentives to help persuade them to approve more wind farms.
Under the plans councils will be allowed to keep the business rates generated by wind farms – which currently have to be passed to central government. Even a small wind farm with just five turbines pays business rates of around £37,000 a year. The money would come without pre-conditions on how it is spent.”For a small district council who, especially now, does not have large sums to spend without strings attached, this could make a significant difference to the way in which they approach these applications,” said one source familiar with the discussions. “This is money councilors will be able to spend on their own projects. The idea is that it gives them an incentive to say yes.”
Another possibility which has been investigated would require wind farm developers to make contributions to the local economy as a condition of planning approval – either as part of the proposed community infrastructure levy or the existing section 106 rules. Such conditions already apply to some other commercial developments, such as housing developments or supermarkets, although in the case of wind farms it would be more complicated to administer and would pass on the cost directly to the renewables industry.
Clllr Gary Porter, chairman of the Local Government Association’s Environment Board, said it was vital that local communities were given a stake in wind farms. “Councilors are elected to represent the interests and concerns of people in their area and will quite rightly take this into account when making decisions on whether to permit this sort of development,” he said. “People need to see how wind farms will benefit them and their local areas – whether that be financially or by supplying renewable energy to their homes and businesses. It is only when local communities can see clearly the benefits of renewable energy at both national and local level that individual proposals for renewable energy will be welcomed as a matter of course.”
A spokesman for RenewableUK, which represents the wind farm industry said they would be in favour of the business rate proposal: “You need to make the benefits of renewable energy obvious to local communities. Other countries, like Spain, who have mature renewable energy markets do this. It’s not reinventing the wheel.”
But Michael Hird, from the Campaign Against Wind farms, said it the payment amounted to “a bribe”. “This is nothing short of a bribe to get local councils to agree to wind farms. They should be spending money on good green energy and not this.”
A Department of Energy and Climate Change spokesman said: “The UK needs onshore wind in order to help deliver energy security and to combat climate change, however we recognise the concern some local authorities and communities have about hosting wind farms. We are working with communities and Local Government to ensure that communities benefit directly from the wind farms they host – for example through retaining the business rates they generate”.
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The global warming industry has always operated on this basis; resistance to their schemes is overcome by including their opponents in their schemes for massive cash payouts. Up until now, though, in Britain, it has been quite discreet, but such is the desperation of the racketeers in the face of public hostility and fraudulent science that they have now resorted to outright blatant bribery of whole rural communities (which are usually poorer than most) to get their way.

On a longer time scale there is no evidence that the globe’s long history of recurrent ice ages and violent episodes of volcanic and earthquake activity have suddenly ceased.

Yay, the existence of earthquakes disproves global warming!