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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“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.”
I disagree with that, and have reserved my name for future glacier removal or ice-sheet removal services. Investors welcomed, gullible investors moreso. The UK has already started planning for re-glaciation. We have installed large fans around our coastline and on many hills. In the event of ice accumulation, we’ll just add heating elements to those fans and set them to blow, melting the ice and saving the UK from cAGC. Power might be expensive, but if the public is willing to pay more to prevent warmth, I’m sure they’ll happily pay to prevent being cold. Or in the UK, it’s not as though the public has any choice but to pay more.
JimF says:
February 1, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Is there any way to add those Milankovitch Cycles to form one curve, the movements of which would give a better picture of how they relate to the glacial stages?
First, note that the image is from here:
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/File:Milankovitch_Variations_png
. . . and would not be accepted if one follows the standards of Mrs. Henninger, Willis E.’s high school science teacher.
But, do have a go at these two things:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-defense-of-milankovitch-by-gerard.html
The above is Luboš Motl (trf) ‘The Reference Frame’ on July 6, 2010 (and a bit more on 1/9/212) comments on this paper . . .
In defense of Milankovitch, Geophysical Research Letters (backup), Vol. 33, L24703, doi:10.1029/2006GL027817, 2006 (full text PDF)
Find here:
http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/roe/GerardWeb/Publications_files/Roe_Milankovitch_GRL06.pdf
What’s to come? Well, that remains to be seen…..
The Eemian (MIS-5e) ended with quite a bang. As may have MIS-11, the Holsteinian, the most recent post-MPT interglacial also occurring during an eccentricity minimum. It remains to be observed if the recent grand solar maxima was the “last gasp” of the Holocene. Solar cycle 25 occurring within the negative shifts of the AMDO/PDO….a tipping point?
What might also participate in such a thing one can only imagine…….
Russ in Houston says: “How does someone that inept become so wealthy?”
Oh, that one is easy. As you know, Power = Work/Time. As you also know, Time is Money, and Knowledge is Power. Substituting and doing the maths you get Money = Work / Knowledge. As knowledge approaches zero etc., you get the picture. In Bransons case, being “stupid rich” is thus a proven fact.
This is the guy that discovered VAT carousel fraud as a means of underpricing his competitors. So it’s really not surprising that he would be involved in the CAGW fraud.
Lazy Teenager says:
Depends on how you parse the original sentence. If it means you, could walk from Scotland to north Africa and for part a large part of the journey you would be walking on ice: then that would be fine. The map seems to be saying the sea level fall has allowed a land bridge at Gibraltar.
Apart from tha fact that 10,000 years ago was right in the middle of the warmest part of the Holocene, no , not even at the Glacial Maximum 20000 years ago could one walk on ice “a large part of the way” to North Africa, not even in winter. If one includes snow as ice it would probably have been possible to get as far as southern Spain, but there most certain was no land-bridge at Gibraltar, and hasn’t been for 5 million years. If you headed east around the Mediterranean instead you could have stayed on snow (not ice) as far as northern Syria, but then it would be desert sands the rest of the way. Incidentally you could walk on snow from the English Channel to northern Syria today, February 2 2012:
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow_asiaeurope.gif
Shame he’s not in Ukraine right now…….
Richard, that funny taste is the dog doo you stepped in yesterday.
Matt Skaggs: Branson’s statement about ice extending to North Africa appears above, below the penguin picture. He didn’t refer explicitly to La Gomera, and I apologise for suggesting that he did. I surmise that he’s regurgitating the claim that the icecap extended to North Africa at the end of the Tertiary (1.8m years ago) which appears here and elsewhere:
http://www.gomeralive.com/gomera-regions/the-centre/garajonay.html
GeoLurking: You say that La Gomera didn’t even exist at the end of the Tertiary. If, as you say, La Gomera is 12m years old and the Tertiary ended 1.8m years ago, maybe the Gomera-on-the-fringe claim is valid.
Branson’s claim that the icecap extended to N. Africa 10ky ago would still be wrong.
I surmise that he’s regurgitating the claim that the icecap extended to North Africa at the end of the Tertiary (1.8m years ago)
The last time there was an icecap in North Africa was in the Ordovician 440 million years ago (while there was 10-20 times as much CO2 in the atmosphere as today).
Hiring the three stooges, Gore, Branson, and Hansen to pump the ‘global warming and CO2 rackets for queen lizard would be like the internet universally accepting a has-been cocaine addicted Bart Simpson to push education with emphasis on high tech and esoterica concerning the world’s main religions and those exploiting the texts to control large bodies of people. Utter gibberish when you get right down to it.
All the talk about ice bridges aside, the man is an idiot. He could show the courage of his convictions tomorrow by shutting down his airlines and converting all of the media/radio/tv/film to broadcasting Ommmm. But he won’t. Chances of that happening lower than the land bridge reappearing in the next 200 years.
Am I the only one that felt that he was being snide and sarcastic to get his point in sideways… “under the radar” as it were? Just a different tact to say, “You people are causing global warming!” Because if his statement is true, then the converse, we somehow have to stop putting out CO2, is true also.
It’s strange how the almighty CO2 can trump ice ages etc, yet cannot seem to stop whatever has stopped the warming in the last 15 yrs.
I hope Branson is alright, that blog entry was just a lot more incoherent than I’d expect from a businessman of his stature; stroking out in Antarctica is probably a very bad thing.
Rhys Jaggar said February 2, 2012 at 12:47 am
“….Shame he’s not in Ukraine right now…….”
I am here, keeping an eye out for Richard!
Minus 15 to 19 for the last week ….. locals (in Kiev) don’t seem to think it is too unusual though…
If only the famous Green warriors Gore, Branson, and Hansen could be permanently encased in Antarctica ice. One must have dreams.
Let us suppose for a moment that a ribbon of ice did survive the last glacial termination c.10,000 years ago,and that it stretched all the way from Scotland to North Africa.This imaginary ice-sheet would get thinner and thinner towards the warmer south,so that our intrepid long-distance walker would,on reaching the African coast, be walking on very thin ice indeed.Thin as this ice would be, it is not nearly as thin as the ice that Branson is now walking on( no,not the thick Antarctic ice-sheet) but the metaphoric thin one,when he seems to suggest that just the correct dose of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere would keep the Earth a bit like Goldilock’s porridge : not too hot and not too cold,but a perfect lukewarm.
I wonder; is J. Hansen going to chain himself to a penguin and wait for someone to arrest him? Getting arrested seems to be his new hobby. Just because you’re away in Antarctica doesn’t mean you have to give up the activities you love.
Clearly Sir Richard Branson was Knighted for being a complete Stupid – there can be no other reason!
Reblogged this on riversmoon416.
It takes a Nobel Prize winner to round up a group of some of the largest consumers of fossil fuels, to take a fossil fueled trip to some far away remote area to promote the idea that everyone else should not be allowed to use fossil fuels. Skeptics need to emulate such intelligent Nobel winning thought if they hope to ever be taken seriously.
These three give concientious environmental consideration the brush off. I hear Branson donated a hefty chunk to some great groups who have cognitive skills above these three. They should stick to donating money and not buying the podium for social dominance.
@Tom G(ologist) says:
February 1, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Response to GeoLurking
It was a quick read, you are rightly confused. Even with the error it still amounts to over 70% of the period occurring before La Gomera even existed. The whole region is Jurassic era sediment overlain by the islands as each formed.
My bad.