The stupid, it burns. OTOH, he’s with Gore and Hansen and there’s press with him, so maybe he’s just being sociable . Get a load of this from Richard Branson’s blog, CO2 can apparently contradict solar forcing due to the Earth’s precession wobble and orbit:
Here’s the money quote:
The good news is we now know how to heat up the world. We just release an excess of carbon into it. So any time we’re heading to an ice age again that is what we can do to stop it.
Yeah, sure, that’ll go over well with the people that think Branson, Gore, and Hansen are heroes. And walking from Scotland to North Africa? Really?
But I agree with Sir Richard on one point; warmth is far preferable to an ice sheet. You can’t dodge ice sheets but you can take steps to stay cool.
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SIDC Sunspot number for January is down at 58 from Dec 73 and Nov 96
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/NFC7a.htm
It is highly unlikely ice came further south than 40 degrees N during ice ages and probably less in the southern hemisphere.
I can find no reference to glaciers reaching N Africa – It seems that glaciers did not extend into southern England and half of Germany remained ice free.
So walking to Africa ??
I don’t know what “god complex” Sir Richard suffers from but I doubt he can walk on water.
Another alarmist pronouncementeasily debunked a simple search.
Here’s a link to a website with all kinds of Ice Age material
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nercEUROPE.html
formerpilot says:
February 1, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Richard wanted to find an aeroplane and pilot who could fly up to the balloon, fly alongside it and resupply it in flight.
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That might work with a nicely executed hammerhead stall… for a brief second….
Although, the balloon would probably get sucked into the engines, along with the gondola.
bye bye resupply.
The English channel and strait of Gibraltar where probably dry during the last glacial. I think that’s what he means. 🙂
Oh, my bad. He actually wrote ice! 😀
Why isn’t Dick heading over with his mate Burt Rutan, so Burt can hammer some sense into him ?
Another “Sir” who should be stripped of his knighthood, on the grounds that he’s too stoopid to be a knight of the realm.
They do breed em thick as the proverbial in the warmist camp.
He’s a business man, hunting for opportunities: geoVIRGINeering could become another big thing
At last I can take a stand against this corrupt cartel! I can’t stop funds getting to Hansen, or Gore, but I can boycott Virgin, and so can you!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/StopVirginMedia/
just cancelled Virgin as my mobile (that would be “cell” to some of you) provider, I will encourage all my friends and family to do the same.
one way or another the message will get through, I think it more likely the message will get through easier if I withdraw my financial support for them wherever possible.
With all the silly comments about USA being somewhat abnormally warm this winter (the average from COLA looks like its about normal when you add the west, is it not time to point out the EXTREME COLD in ALL of Europe and Russia etc (which also occurs from time to time and is “normal”
I am flabbergasted about the fact that Branson trusts Burt Rutan for the development of all the hardware that’s going to be used by Virgin Galactic but obviously doesn’t trust Rutan’s view about CAGW which he regards to be a scam.
That’s where Sir Richard is making an ass out of himself.
On the other hand Rutan now know he’s dealing with a scam artist.
You can’t be picky in his line of business.
Brent Hargreaves wrote:
“Is there a blogger out there who can pin down the truth of the matter and the source of the Gomera myth if that’s what it is?”
Can you link to what Branson said? I could not find it on his webpage.
He must be referring to the Laurisilva, see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurisilva
La Gomera has one of the best remaining examples, but there are more, including in Portugal and Spain. There are plenty of floras that were vastly changed, nearly eliminated, etc., during the Pliocene and Pleistocene, so I would be curious what Branson thought was so interesting about the Laurisiliva.
“We just release an excess of carbon into it. So any time we’re heading to an ice age again that is what we can do to stop it.”
Wouldn’t it be ironic .. if the world ended because people like these three stooges, Hanson, Branson & Gore, advocated interfering with the climate to try and stop an ice age … resulting in some (unintended of course) catastrophic climate reaction that causes a mass extinction? I can her them now .. “But we were just trying to do the right thing”
Richard Sharpe says:
February 1, 2012 at 9:40 am
Well, you’ve got to admit, he and we will be long dead before he is found to be wrong, so there is little downside for him.
Well – I hope that I won’t live to experience an ice-age. But I don’t have the trusting faith in the new god CO2 that seems to have swept the AGW community. Just an O/D or Bond event would be a little unsettling to say the least. The world _has_ entered ice-ages with much more CO2 in the atmosphere than at present, so what makes todays’ CO2 different?
Britain is in debt 10 times GDP and the royal family was so desperate and ill-equipped to manage anything in this day and age that they hired ‘D’ Gore and just(to be on the safe side) propped up Sir Richard “drugs? me?” to use their faded star power to push this hoax. Breivik and Norway, and now this. It doesn’t look good.
Eimear says:
February 1, 2012 at 9:45 am
cui bono says:
How *does* he get on with Burt Rutan??
That is a good question.
Errrrm could it be cui bono?
She don’t lie. She don’t lie. She don’t lie. Cocaine.
The three stooges on blow. Al ‘D in Natural History’ Gore, Sir Richard “punk rockers don’t do heroine” Branston, and Hansen signing on as ‘anchor man’ with God knows what to live down.
I can’t see any parallel with the issue of smoking, the fact is for the last ten years AGW has controlled all science and governments but their theory is so weak that it is falling apart anyway.
I’m with Dick, at least in this sense: the world is indeed heading into another Ice Age glacial period. Neoglaciation has been ongoing for over 6,000 years.
Note also that the Wisconsin Glaciation was the coldest glacial period of the Pleistocene (commonly referred to as the Ice Ages), and that the Pleistocene (the last 1.8 million years) is the coldest epoch since the Karoo Ice Age of 250 million years ago.
In other words, a mere 20,000 years ago during the Older Dryas was the coldest point that Mother Earth has experienced in the last quarter of a billion years. And we are slip-sliding back in that direction.
I submit to you all that the climate of the Pleistocene is NOT the normative condition of our planet, nor is it the desirable future condition. Whether bumping up atmospheric CO2 can avert the impending crisis is another question, but it’s worth a try.
WARMER IS BETTER — FIGHT THE ICE
PS — if you need some confirmation of the above, may I suggest
Graham, Alan (1999) Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic History of North American Vegetation: North of Mexico. Oxford University Press.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/019511342X
This book synthesizes the history of NA vegetation over the last 70 million years, including the boreo-tropical rainforest on island arcs off the coast of proto-Alaska in the Eocene, the polar broad-leaved deciduous forest, and the crushing blows to Life Itself of multiple Pleistocene glaciations. BTW, Graham’s book is plastered with thousands of scientific references.
Branson is the new Gore.
“hundreds of feet of ice from Scotland to N. Africa” is the new “several million degrees 2 kilometers down”
Are we missing the obvious…
Hansen has always wanted NASA to be the head honcho in charge of Billions of Climate Geoengineering tax dollars. Branson is the clever “useful idiot” testing, stretching, greening the framing of the debate, with a whole host of invitee’s to sell the glorious “green good” message we can fix climate, for the new world order. The start of a new Al Gore enrichment bandwagon strategy?
I work for a Virgin company and for anyone who is not a naiive school leaver, the environment is as oppressive as Stalin’s Russia. We have effective re-education of attitudes, there is the propaganda about how you should be yourself but to get your bonus or payrise you have to show you have complied with specific behaviours. We have the redistribution of wealth from the staff to the shareholders (I have lost many hundreds of pounds a month due to the unilateral changes to my contractual terms and conditions.
He is certainly the embodiment of a champagne socialist where he thinks we should give up our standards of living whilst his companies provide him with great wealth and together have probably one of the biggest carbon footprints per worker in the world.
The movie I mentioned above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Zero_%28film%29
Sounds like more like Branson and his Group than I first realized….
“David Koch…, a climatologist employed by Inter Sci, proposes a theory… and he is sent to Antarctica to find out what is happening.
Once there, he discovers a frozen body of a human which is at least 10,000 years old. What is interesting is his appearance—he looks as if he was instantly frozen in place… A sudden blizzard then destroys a base camp and kills some members of his team.
When the weather in Miami starts getting colder and colder,… in a couple of hours, everything from 30° north and south of the equator turns to absolute zero (–273°C) turning the Southern United States, Mexico, Central America, north of South America, and Africa into an ice desert.”
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Now that really sounds like the Al Gore Effect !!! Watch out Antarctica and Florida too !!
(Hey, it’s only a movie….)
Excellent example of impaired logic… me, I’d use the redistributed taxes to…. buy more fuel.
The Gilbratar Strait was narrowed by a few miles, but nobody walked across it! Oh by the way, Richard, the LGM terminated 18kya.
“Let us judge ahr-Richard not by what he is saying, but by what he is doing: He has an airline, a Formula 1 team, and planes that fly into outer space. ”
Hence the saying.. I’ll believe CAGW is a catastrophe, when the people telling me CAGW is a catastrophe, staring behaving like it’s a catastrophe.