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Richard Feyndman:
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

So, when we look at the dramatic turnaround of US emissions, and add to that the reduction in EU emissions over the last 20 years, then look at the GLOBAL CO2 levels, as measured in Hawaii, can we see any effect, at all, from our reductions? If not, why not? Have we not been told that all of the increase in CO2 is manmade? And that the extra CO2 in the atmosphere is all ours? Did the growth in 3rd world CO2 emissions just happen to balance our reductions perfectly, just as it’s claimed that all natural warming stopped in 1947, and all of the warming since has been due to mankind’s burning of fossil fuels?
Excellent question, actually. If one visits a site that lists at least the party-line accepted carbon budgets over the last 60 years or so, though, there is no visible peak — it is an “almost” perfectly monotonic increasing function.
Which means, interestingly enough, that the “leveling” of the curve above was in fact miraculously canceled by increases elsewhere in the system. Or perhaps that the numbers at the site I found are cooked in some way to agree with Mauna Loa — as estimating things like this seem very likely prone to large errors.
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TonyG, yep… frightening.
Anthony, do you all recall how a Canadian newspaper published a letter of mea culpa on fracking from a supposed Calgary engineer… just to be debunked as a fake by Ezra Levant last fall?
“… Telegram newspaper in St. John’s published a column entitled “Some truth about fracking wouldn’t hurt,” written by an oil and gas engineer from Calgary named Syd Peters.
It was a devastating personal confession by a fracking industry insider who said he had spent 28 years polluting the environment across the U.S. and western Canada, and then “coercing landowners” and “silencing” towns to keep the industry’s dirty secrets. “This is what is coming to Newfoundland if fracking is allowed,” he wrote.
Except there is no oil and gas engineer from Calgary named Syd Peters. APEGA, Alberta’s association of professional engineers, has no record of him. He’s not in the Calgary phone book. His stories were fake, just like he is. After I raised these questions, the Telegram acknowledged they did not follow standard editorial procedures, and could not verify the author.
But the identity of “Syd” as an evil oilman was essential to the whole column. If anyone else — say, a professional environmental protester — had made the shocking allegations, he would have been asked for proof. By creating “Syd,” that credibility problem was solved. It was his personal confession.”

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James Bradley: “I think everyone should send Sam their stories just for balance – I am certainly willing to share how the Australian Carbon Tax has destroyed our motor and allied manufacturing industry…”
The car manufacturers were planning their exit strategies years ago. Nothing to do with the carbon tax or minimum wage. I believe in evidence before politics. I hope you do!

Bruce Cobb says: March 20, 2014 at 1:45 pm
Are we dealing with a religion? Let’s see;
Soulful, poignant “confession”. check
Doubts and angst creeping in. check
Hopelessness and fear taking hold. check
Then, a revelation, or divine inspiration appears, in the form of a graph. check
The graph brings renewed hope and great joy. check
Salvation is regained, and a renewed vigor in evangelism takes hold. check
Hallelujah! And may the Gore be with you. Amen.
You forgot the threat to those little souls, our children, for whom we can hope again as Salvation does indeed become possible (when funds are sent). But yes, absolutely, blatant memetic content to hook and push emotive hot-buttons just as religions do.

Yeah, I have a confession. I used to think Gina McCarthy, the head of the EPA, really believed all that clap-trap she dispensed about saving the world for Gaia, and everything. I mean, I figured someone with her grim, humorless, mono-maniac, zealot-freak public persona just had to be a true-believer in the lefty, party-line, eco-flake hive-crapola she was always spouting. Boy was I wrong!
I’ve gotta tell yah–reading recently that Gina has been secretly using her EPA headquarters building as some sort of giant, diabolical, merde-express injection-device to shoot her raw, untreated, privileged-white-Philosopher-Queen, crawlin’-with-who-knows-what “poop” (sinker? floater?) into the Potomac River, has just destroyed my confidence in my ability to size people up!
It’s all just a game with these enviro types! I mean, like, it’s obvious that they just don’t give a “shit” about the environment–not really! Not to mention that I’m, like, totally creeped-out by this whole deal!