Our real manmade climate crisis

I will say again: If people want to be full of superstition regarding weather and climate, so much so that they essentially take leave of their senses, that has real consequences on grown-ups around the world. However, among the ways that this holiday from reality does the very most damage is the effect that it has on children! No one exemplifies the AGW comfort level with terrorizing the very young than James Hansen with his unconscionable Storms of My Grandchildren.
Is it too much to ask that the young be given an accurate idea of the storms of their great-great-grandfathers? Is it too much to ask that grownups be grownups? (I know it is.)

These Gestapo style tactics must be highlighted.
The worst catastrophy imposed on the environment is the environmentalist Nazis.

Mr Kerry hasn’t gone down too well here in England after his visit. Not only did he fail to take the opportunity to chastise Argentina over its Falklands stance, but failed to show any support at all for the islanders right to vote! He is, what would unpolitely be called here, a pratt.

Anthony,
This is one of the best opinion pieces you have ever written.
The out of control NGO industry and hiding incompetence and malfeasance behind climate excuses are damaging us all.
You have summed it up- with documentation- very well.

I’m glad that nothing about this post is in any way alarmist.

Modern environmentalism. . . All the democracy you can buy.

I see a boat heading up a **** creek to the sound of the Doors’ ‘The End’.
“The Horror… the Horror…”

A better Met Office link – to the article itself, rather than the comments :
http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/met-office-in-the-media-14-october-2012/

lurker passing through, laughing says:
March 8, 2013 at 5:09 am
Anthony,
This is one of the best opinion pieces you have ever written.
The out of control NGO industry and hiding incompetence and malfeasance behind climate excuses are damaging us all.
You have summed it up- with documentation- very well.

Anthony didn’t write this. It’s a guest post.

John F. Hultquist says:
March 8, 2013 at 7:07 am
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None of the comments so far support what he’s doing either, lol. Not that there are many comments, and two of them are yours and mine 😉

Ilma-350 is affiliated with the New Economics Institute that used to be known as the Schumacher Society. NEI and the Global Transitions 2012 agenda that carried over after the new year gets Ford Foundation funding.
A lot of the research I have done into the real definitions of Global Citizenship and systems thinking and a new type of capitalism that is in no way, shape or form about free markets or consumer choice always seems to track back to a prof with a Ford endowed professorship at some well-known institution. In fact if I had the time I might cross reference who has those endowed professorships with what they are really pushing.
Also the Aspen Institute pushes a lot of these ideas but it in turn gets funded by the big foundations. But it sounds better to say something is supported by the Aspen Institute rather than the Annie B Casey or Hewlett Foundation.

lsvalgaard says:
March 8, 2013 at 6:51 am
Since we elect the politicians the fault is our own. We get the policies we deserve.
Amen…

Kerry is a self-absorbed idiot. It’s why he got the job. Or else he’s in cahoots with the Goreacle, lookin’ for a big payday.

lsvalgaard says:
March 8, 2013 at 6:51 am
Since we elect the politicians the fault is our own. We get the policies we deserve.
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Nowhere on the ballot does it say “none of the above”. Instead we have a choice between a crook or an incompetent. The tens of millions it costs to run a political campaign to win a job that pays a hundred thousand effectively prevents the honest citizen from entering politics.
Every ballot should have “none of the above” as the last item on the ballot. If “none of the above” wins, then everyone else on the ballot should be barred from holding public office for a period of 10 years. This would very quickly clean up the political system.
Electoral reform starts with giving the people voting a real choice. “None of the above” would do this. If all candidates are bad, then you should be free to reject all of them.

[snip – too snarky to bother with given your history here -mod]

If someone was to legally change their name to
None_of_the_Above Zzzz
Then they would appear as the last selection on the ballot as;
Zzzz, None_of_the_Above

This may be a cheap shot, but it’s not often a caricature is better looking than the real thing.

The situation that is described by Mr. Driessen is a product of the deceptive argument called the “equivocation fallacy.” To draw a conclusion from an argument in which a term changes meanings in the middle of this argument is the equivocation fallacy. By logical rule, to draw such a conclusion is improper.
An example is:
Major premise: A plane is a carpenter’s tool.
Minor premise: A Boeing 737 is a plane.
Conclusion: A Boeing 737 is a carpenter’s tool.
That the term “plane” has the dual meanings of “carpenter’s plane” and “airplane” leads to the false conclusion that “A Boeing 737 is a carpenter’s tool.”
Climatologists use the equivocation fallacy in making arguments about the methodologies of their studies. A consequence is for people like Secretary of State Kerry to be duped into concluding that the methodology of science is being employed in climatological studies when this conclusion is not true. Scientists and skeptics are among the many who are duped by the same deceptive argument.

As the US dollar disappears into Zimbabwe equivalencies, more people will pay attention,for abstract policies, that sound odd but do not seem to effect me, are ignored until they hurt.
Good post, nice commentary, I’m with Rocky Road on this, Genocide for sure.
Poverty is a vicious wake up call. The longer the one world bureaucracy, anti-humanist eco-phonies, believe they are winning the more we get to see their true nature.
Their religion(the cause) runs contrary to human nature, history and physical nature.
But faith will overcome and the end justifies the means?
Seems like after all that money spent on promoting the cause, protecting the message and persecuting inquirers, communicating the cause, is still failing.
The most recent posts here on WUWT indicate the promoters of the “Cause” are doubling down on their message, displaying an obsession with the message, a contempt for the intelligence of the public and a desperation that indicates they know they are failing but do no comprehend why.
The best expression of that was a statement, last year, complaining about sceptics obsession with discussing the science, as if that was idiotic behaviour.
I may be wrong, but I love the smell of desperation inherent in these hysterical proclamations from the media, academia and selected politicians.
Extreme weather??
When caught on a series of lies, restore credibility by lying louder, faster, more repetitiously?
The “Cause” was cloaked in a thin veneer of science, due to their contempt for the taxpayer, the team “knew” that no one would check or could check,i.e.; we lost the data?
Now that pretence of science has come back to bite the faith, nature cycles on and human nature says payback will happen.
I can understand the desperation of the faithful, a policy of abuse, personal attack and deceit could leave one suffering from projection terrors. Given the behaviour they have displayed, one can only imagine the savagery they fear.
I wonder if the UN has computer models, projecting the reaction of the taxpayers to their revealed mendacity ?

“highflight56433 on March 8, 2013 at 7:47 am
lsvalgaard says:
March 8, 2013 at 6:51 am
Since we elect the politicians the fault is our own. We get the policies we deserve.
Amen…”
Hate to say it but I wouldn’t be quite so certain about that. Remember, Obama got his start in Chicago. He was lured here by the ‘fixer’ Tony Rezko who arranged for Obama’s purchase of a home in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. Rezko’s now in prison. In his formative years in Chicago, Obama was taken under the wing of Alice Palmer; Illinois State Senator in the capital in Springfield. Her district was the poor south side ghetto and, I believe, Hyde Park. Mel Reynolds was the U.S. Washington congressional rep for that district. He had to vacate his seat ’cause he went to prison. Alice Palmer maneuvered to run for Reynolds’ seat but was deterred when Jesse Jackson Jr. announced his candidacy. Palmer couldn’t compete with the Jackson name or war chest so she went to return to her state senate seat (Jackson now appears headed for prison). Barack Obama barred his former mentor from returning to her seat by allegations of voter fraud on Palmer’s part (the Chicago way) so her slithered into her senate seat un opposed. A few years later Illinois’s governor, Rod Blagoyevich would go to prison for attempting to sell Obama’s seat when he vacated it for the presidency. Got any ideas about Illinois politics? I don’t think these are the voter’s choices.
I don’t have the numbers in front of me anymore so I’m relying on my ageing memory but I believe 59 precincts in Philadelphia delivered around 16,000 votes to Obama and not one…not one…to Romney. That’s a physical impossibility. That’s fraud. In Chicago, I believe 37 precincts delivered about 13,000 votes to Obama and not one…not one…to Romney. A friend of mine who works for a bordering village of Chicago told me he had a co-worker tell him he voted 3 times for Obama. Now let’s talk about what’s been emerging from Ohio: double votes, triple, gosh, even sextuple votes.
Do you really think the voters have spoken?

I hereby commit to use no more electricity than John Kerry and his wife use in their five or so mansions, no more fuel than he and his wife use in their private jet and yacht.
God, I feel virtuous.

tony nordberg says:
March 8, 2013 at 9:03 am
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Can anybody point to such a report?
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A great point. I have often wondered about the predictable sinusoidal rise of the CO2.
Years ago, about 1978 to be exact, I was doing CO2 measurements with an old “sniffer” device. I was testing boiler flue gases. Even though the fuel flow was constant, I had a hard time getting consistent CO2 readings. Maybe I did not have the “latest and greatest” equipment, but the rising CO2 graphs seem a little too perfectly repeatable to me.
Just look at the inaccuracies that been found with temp data….

oldspanky says:
March 8, 2013 at 4:13 am
The political class seem to have no qualms at all about ripping up the sacred trust not to burden our children and grandchildren with a monstrous debt that exists beyond any shadow of a doubt. Why then do they get all dewy-eyed about taking care not to “burden” them with scarely discernable changes in the weather which in any case seem not to be developing? ”
Very well said!!!!

But, wanted to add on “Meanwhile back at the Farm”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_dei_Paschi_di_Siena#Hidden_losses_and_Bank_of_Italy_bailout_.282013.29
http://www.4-traders.com/BANCA-MONTE-DEI-PASCHI-DI-70626/news/Banca-Monte-dei-Paschi-di-Siena-SpA-Autopsy-points-to-Monte-Paschi-spokesman-suicide-source-16513127/
Talk about dramatic!

Fred Berple: Emancipation proclamation was in 1862, not 1865. Big difference.

I think Kerry is the same as Romney.
In love with the dollar and so self-justified in their upper-crust existence.
Two peas in a pod.
Bland with no swagger.
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That this money has caused widespread pernicious and corrupting effects should surprise no one.

It certainly doesn’t surprise me. Money corrupts. Al Gore made a documentary telling the world about a planetary emergency caused by c02, He then takes oil money from Qatari oil backed Al Jazeera and buys 2 large homes is not a surprise. It’s always been about the money, scientific status and the green agenda. An unholy alliance of bankers, big oil, greens, journalists and politicians. Never in World history have so few been up against the might (and money) of so many and yet the many are failing so miserably.

Must look!!
Rowan Atkinson on free speach…
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/rowan-atkinson-england-and-freedom-speech

By far the worst climate crisis, however, is eco-imperialism perpetrated against African and other poor nations………………….South Africa’s critically needed, state-of-the-art Medupi coal-fired power plant, which the Center for American Progress, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club and other radical groups stridently opposed.

Imagine in your home town if you had electricity but your 3 friends had not access to electricity. Imagine the same for the USA? Here are the shocking figures [no pun intended].

WORLD BANK
Low access and insufficient capacity – Some 24 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa has access to electricity versus 40 percent in other low income countries. Excluding South Africa, the entire installed generation capacity of sub-Saharan Africa is only 28 Gigawatts, equivalent to that of Argentina.
Poor reliability – African manufacturing enterprises experience power outages on average 56 days per year. As a result, firms lose 6 percent of sales revenues in the informal sector. Where back-up generation is limited, losses can be as high as 20 percent.
High costs – Power tariffs in most parts of the developing world fall in the range of US$0.04 to US$0.08 per kilowatt-hour. However, in Sub-Saharan Africa, the average tariff is US$0.13 per kilowatt-hour. In countries dependent on diesel-based systems, tariffs are higher still. Given poor reliability, many firms operate their own diesel generators at two to three times the cost with attendant environmental costs.
http://tinyurl.com/c3lesz7

I want to hear from some of our regular green alarmist friends what they have to say about this scandal and what they propose as a viable solution. Solar? Wind? It’s smoke and mirrors with lots of hot air. Grrrrrr.

tony nordberg says:
March 8, 2013 at 9:03 am
Given that the climate has stopped changing, the only other measurement that the Great Hoax now depends on, is the series of CO2 readings from the Mauna Loa volcano. As I understand it, there is one instrument used for producing the reference gas, and another one on the top of the volcano.
As the world’s economy is directly affected by the readings of these two instruments, plus the post-processing of the data, it would seem obvious that there has been a really critical study of the the design and performance of these instruments and their place in the whole process of CO2 measurement and reporting.
There are actually multiple sites measuring CO2 and even some satellites – so you are looking in the wrong place.
Whenever you are given a hypothesis or a paper/report on scientific research, always look for assumptions; they should be listed but they are often glossed over.
The prime assumption made by CAGW proponents is that before ‘industrialization’ taken as AD1750 the atmospheric CO2 levels were low ~250ppm and the current levels of CO2 are ‘unprecedented’. This is based on cherry picked metrics.
The low levels of CO2 claimed to be ‘normal’ or ‘before the industrial age’ are based on bubbles in ice cores where the chemistry and diffusion of CO2 under pressure in ice for hundreds or thousands of years has been ignored as has the possibility of bubbles forming by gassing off as the cores were brought up to atmospheric pressure. There was also quite a lot of ‘Mike’s Nature Trick’ type playing with the dates of the cores to get the CO2 levels from the cores to match with the measured CO2 levels (one report was 75 years slip had to be ‘found’).
But there were many measurements of atmospheric CO2 before the ice cores. The levels can be found from plant remains by the density and size of stomata in their leaves and in the 19th and early 20th century many scientists including Nobel laureate chemists among others measured atmospheric CO2 using chemical means. These scientists had results showing concentrations that were not dissimilar to the current levels.
A German scientist Ernst George Beck collated these CO2 metrics (and that is all he did – collate other scientists metrics) and pointed out that the fundamental claim of ‘unprecedented CO2 levels’ since AD1750 appeared to be flawed. Thus the basis of the CAGW hypootheses was fatally flawed. For this Beck was excoriated by ‘the team’ to a level that even now truly scientific skeptics avoid using any references that include his name. This was totally unfair as it was not his research he was publishing but a collation of previous research.
See:
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/180_years_accurate_Co2_Chemical_Methods.pdf
http://rense.com/general75/0223_inconvenient_gore.pdf
http://www.philosophical-investigations.org/Historical_CO2_levels
The CAGW community would love to debate Mauna Loa as it obfuscates a major and fundamental flawed assumption in their CAGW hypothesis.
(I would expect any response to my post here to be litttered with ad hominem against Ernst Beck but have no scientific arguments against the multiple historic metrics from other scientists that he reported. )

Great article, Paul. The thing that keeps me optimistic is knowing that although the alarmists are still raking in the cash, they are losing on-the-ground support hand over fist. We know this, or they wouldn’t have to fudge their viewing numbers, send out their bots or have their trolls come in, each pretending to be more than one person.
More and more ordinary citizens are waking up to the sham every day, so it’s only a matter of time.
Frankly, I’m waiting for the masses to rise up. It will be ugly, but I fear necessary. I hope I’m wrong, but I cannot see any other way to get those mitts out of the cookie jar. These people are not going to willingly pull back.

I read above about the following:

Over the past three years, the Tides Foundation and Tides Center alone poured $335 million into environmentalist climate campaigns, and $1 billion into green lobbies at large, notes Undue Influence author Ron Arnold.

Does it do similar funding programs as the following:?

The Climate Works Foundation, though, is of special interest as it was in 2008, awarded $460,800,000 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a grant-making organisation with assets of $7.2 billion, which disbursed $353,400,000 in grants in 2011. It has made another grant to Climate Works only last week of $100 million – bringing the total grants to this organisation to just short of $600 million
http://mrworthing.blogspot.com/2012/02/funding-imbalance.html

I think we need a financial flow chart to show how the hundreds of millions are flowing into green eco-fascist propaganda. I’m sure Heartland’s large $6.5 million will feature prominently.
In today’s world there are at least 2 groups who know what’s going on in this global financial scam. The global warming sceptics and the establishment of climate scientist whores, bankers, oil companies, governments, hypocritical ‘greens’ and Hollywood ‘stars’. There is a third group, they are known as the ordinary members of the public – worldwide. They are being screwed for all its worth.

Tom J says:
March 8, 2013 at 9:17 am
A friend of mine who works for a bordering village of Chicago told me he had a co-worker tell him he voted 3 times for Obama. Now let’s talk about what’s been emerging from Ohio: double votes, triple, gosh, even sextuple votes.

Some people will believe anything anyone tells them, as long as it suits their preconceived notions.