A reminder to PM Gillard: you are a carbon based life form. Here’s the entire slide show online from Philip R. Wood in Australia given July 14th.
Here’s the slide show link – it may take a bit to load on your PC as it is large.
While there are some good points in the presentation, there are a couple of slides that are questionable due to them not showing the most current data, such as the UAH satellite plot taken from my blog in April. The most recent one is here:
Well, the ACS hasn’t gotten the message that climate change isn’t happening either. Susan Soloman is featured prominently in the agenda for the August meeting in Denver.Climate Change at the Fall 2011 ACS National Meeting
Climate change – a complex phenomenon involving physical, chemical, and biological processes affecting the atmosphere, land and fresh water surfaces, and the oceans – is encompassed by the Denver thematic program of Chemistry of Air, Space, and Water. The Kavli Lecture (Monday) by Dr. Susan Solomon on the “Enduring Challenges of Ozone Depletion and Climate Change” will review the key scientific questions and critical research areas regarding the phenomena involved in ozone depletion. Allen Townsend will examine the role of nitrogen in climate dynamics during his Plenary Lecture, “Nitrogen and the Human Endeavor” (Sunday), which also serves as a keynote for the full-length symposium, Nitrogen and the Human Endeavor: Chemistry, Effects, and Solutions (Monday).
Related symposia covering climate change in Denver:
• Atmospheric Aerosols: Chemistry, Clouds, and Climate (Tuesday – Thursday, ENVR)
• Breakfast and Conversation with Climate Experts (Sunday, SCHB)
• A Critical Look at Global Warming Data: An Examination of Driving Factors in the Wickedly Complex System Called Climate (Sunday, SCHB)
• Global Climate Change (Sunday, ENVR)
• A Sustainable Future: Interface of Energy, Food, Water, and Climate Sustainability (Tuesday, COMSCI)
• Air-Surface Interactions: Chemistry from Molecular to Global Climate Scales (Sunday & Monday, ENVR)
• Interactions between Ionizable Organic Chemicals and Organic Matter (Wednesday, ENVR)
• Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Change, and Mitigating Impacts (Thursday, ENVR)
Learn more about these and all sessions in the technical program
Thanks Anthony. I had problems getting onto wordpress for a couple of weeks, so am getting my WUWT fix for the next few days….
We are fighting against this carbon tax. Most Australians know that if we don’t beat it now, it will be difficult to survive for the next two years.
The Greens have the balance of power in the Senate here, so their anti human, anti science stance on everything is going to bite.
They are trying to pump carbon tax by saying that public support is up to 36% now. I guess the 64% against isn’t worth mentioning. 😉
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=2069952166
I’m sure they would prefer politicians who spew less carbon pollution too, but somehow that never seems to work out…
Gillard like the other wise Australian, Murdoch, knows that there is much mileage in pandering to stupidity. Associating carbon reduction with ‘organic’ food is truly inspired. I would also anticipate Page 3 endorsements, and perhaps collectible CO2 abatement tokens given away with McDonald’s happy meals, and breakfast cereals.
” … less carbon pollution … ”
Hay-sus H. Kriist! This is sheer IDIOCY!
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“Carbon Pollution????” Guess I have to stop using pencils. What’s next, “Oxygen Pollution”?
With fiends like Julia, who needs allies?
And it’s about time we started doing something to eliminate dihydrogen monoxide as well. There is an entire web site dedicated to this dangerous substance:
http://www.dhmo.org/
Excellent slide show, though, I’d expect some warmistas to take exception to a couple of the assertions.
This slide show is an excellent and logical representation of the facts concerning this Planets Climate. No part truths, no half truths, nothing taken out of context and no outright lies.
Vaclav Klaus talk at press club video
http://samuelgordonstewart.com/2011/07/president-klaus-address-to-the-national-press-club
Looks like the Australian MSM is beginning to change slowly but now surely
“A reminder to PM Gillard: you are a carbon based life form.”
I demand a chemical analysis!
holy carp!! That many people really believe that Tsunamis and earthquakes are caused by “carbon pollution”?? Didn’t any of them have a science class in school? I’m appalled!!!
Carl Bussjaeger says:
July 26, 2011 at 2:07 pm
“A reminder to PM Gillard: you are a carbon based life form.”
I demand a chemical analysis!
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100% pure Welsh slate. Not born, quarried
“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”
— Carl Sagan
If power is legitimately delegated by the people to governments, is this not the time for the people to reconsider the legal concept of sovereign immunity and hold politicians personally accountable for acts of national and economic suicide. If a politican were to have to legally defend their actions in court when they intentionally or neglegently destroy lives and industry based on faulty science they might take an entirly different approach to the issues at hand.
Question re: slide 12.
I keep coming across numbers like this (that only 3% of CO2 production is down to humans) but surely that doesn’t add up. If we’ve gone from 280ppm to 390ppm in 130 years, and this is due to human activity, then surely we must be contributing more than 3%. Or is the 3% figure misleading/irrelevant?
Wendy says:
July 26, 2011 at 2:11 pm
holy carp!! That many people really believe that Tsunamis and earthquakes are caused by “carbon pollution”?? Didn’t any of them have a science class in school? I’m appalled!!!
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Obviously, public education isn’t what it is suppose to be. Or, perhaps, it is doing exactly what it was intended………..
Crito says:
July 26, 2011 at 2:31 pm
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Agreed. Holding politicians and civil servants to account for their actions is long overdue. It would make them think twice about the merits of any action that they seek to pursue.
We are currently being bombarded with millions of dollars worth of Gillard greenhouse propaganda on radio and TV. Funny how people now see “greenhouse” as a dirty word yet farmers still use greehouses, together with CO2 enrichment, to improve plant growth.
Even before the introduction of the carbon (dioxide) tax, electricity prices are going through the roof. I have recently received the new rates in SA from AGL, effective 29th July 2011, and the figures for just this year are frightening.
Since 9th Feb 2011 the rate changes include (ex-GST in c/KWh):
Summer peak
1st 1,200KWh/annum – 17.93 to 25.3 – up 41.1%
next 2,800KWh/annum – 20.15 to 27.97 – up 38.8%
next 6,000KWh/annum – 23.32 to 30.76 – up 31.9%
all additional KWh/annum – 23.68 to 31.34 – up 32.4%
AVERAGE RISE 36%
Winter peak
1st 1,200KWh/annum – 19.43 to 24.82 – up 27.74%
next 2,800KWh/annum – 19.79 to 25.08 – up 26.73%
next 6,000KWh/annum – 23.34 to 27.83 – up 19.24%
all additional KWh/annum – 23.62 to 28.41 – up 20.3%
AVERAGE RISE 23.5%
NOTE: these increases are only since 9th Feb 2011, 6 months. Who knows what the increases will be once the effects of the carbon tax are added?
Derek Sorensen says:
July 26, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Question re: slide 12.
I keep coming across numbers like this (that only 3% of CO2 production is down to humans) but surely that doesn’t add up. If we’ve gone from 280ppm to 390ppm in 130 years, and this is due to human activity, then surely we must be contributing more than 3%. Or is the 3% figure misleading/irrelevant?
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Derek, the 3% is probably accurate as best as can be determined. However, the argument is the 3% accumulates. That stated, just because we’ve gone from 280ppm to 390 ppm doesn’t mean we(humans) are the source. In spite of what people would have you believe, the 280 ppm is not a constant, not now, nor was it ever. During the earth’s history, atmospheric CO2 has dramatically changed both much higher, and somewhat lower. BTW, if atmospheric CO2 drops much lower than 280ppm our plants are in trouble, and thus, so are we. As to various contributions to the GH effect, and an explanation of our contribution, here’s a good page….. http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
Derek, the sources and sinks of CO2 are too many to know all of the ins and outs to determine if we’re contributing or if the rise is an out-gassing.
The fact is, humans are also carbon sinks. And, we create carbon sinks. So, if we’re going to hold humans responsible for the CO2 out there, we need to factor in all of the possible ways, we are sinks, also. 🙂 No one knows the net contribution of anything, much less of mankind.
“A reminder to PM Gillard: you are a carbon based life form.”
Maybe she is a Horta, a silicon based life. That would explain everything.
Ongoing warming from the little ice age, warmer ocean temperatures, outgassing from this huge reservoir of CO2, for starters,