Official statement by ACS: Release of National Climate Assessment demands action

Chemistry has fallen prey to the festering sore of dysfunction once called climate science.
This grotesque parasite metastasizes like cancer, infects like a pandemic and produces institutionalized mendacity on a scale mankind has never seen.
It seems almost like a science fiction evil empire but it’s non-fiction.
And that’s alarming.

OK, here’s my action proposal:
1. Ban all private jets.
2. Ban all homes in excess of 5,000 sq. feet.
3. Ban all ownership of more than one home.
4. Ban all vacation travel in excess of 500 miles.
As soon as Al Gore, the Clintons, the Obamas, the entire US Senate and House and all their staff and every Hollywood actor who has said we need to take action complies with these rules for five years, you can impose them on the rest of us.

“We need to end the ignorant consensus that atmospheric CO2 is the prime mover of weather and climate. The acceptance of that one-dimensional, narrow view of meteorology and climatology by governments, scientific societies, educational institutions and the media in general, constitutes scientific and journalistic malfeasance on a grand scale.
Our common experience with hurricanes, tornadoes thunderstorms, blizzards, floods, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions should lead to the common sense conclusion that weather and climate are controlled by natural laws on an enormous scale that dwarfs human activity. Those laws engender forces and motions in our atmosphere and oceans that are beyond human control. Weather and climate existed long before humans appeared on Earth, and will continue to exist in the same way long after we are gone.
Those forces and motions are driven by the following: First, the motions of the Earth relative to the Sun: the periodic changes in its elliptical orbit, its rotation about its polar axis, changes in the tilt of that axis, and the precession of that axis. Second, the variation in solar activity that influences the radiant energy reaching the Earth and modulates cosmic ray activity which controls cloudiness. Third, the distribution of land and water on the Earth’s surface; which controls its temperature distribution, moisture availability, monsoon effects, hurricanes, and other storm tracks. Fourth, the topography of the Earth’s surface which causes copious precipitation on the windward side of mountains and aridity on the leeward side. Fifth, the fluid motions within the Earth’s oceans that determine moisture availability and ocean surface temperatures (El Nino and La Nina cycles). Sixth, volcanic eruptions that throw large amounts of dust into the atmosphere, increasing the Earth’s albedo and periodically blocking portions of solar radiation from reaching the Earth’s surface.
Water in all of its forms is a main agent through which those forces operate. It provides vapor in the atmosphere, heat transport by evaporation and condensation, and the enormous, circulating mass of the ocean whose heat capacity dominates. And finally it provides the cloud, snow, and ice cover that control the radiative balance between the Sun, the Earth, and free space.
While the presence of 0.04 % of CO2 in our atmosphere is essential for life in the biosphere, the notion that such a minor constituent of the atmosphere can control the above forces and motions, is absurd. There is, in fact, not one iota of reliable evidence that it does.”
Sincerely,
Dr. Martin Hertzberg
http://www.explosionexpert.com
coauthor of “Slaying the Sky Dragon–“, Stairway press, 2011

Dear Janice,
you will find in this very thread, among others:
“Jaakko Kateenkorva says:
May 8, 2014 at 3:49 am
P.S. “Claxon” is how Spanish or Romanian native speakers would spell it.
”
So I do think that was the main issue here.
Thank you for the link, too. I do agree that the expression used is clumsy at best.
Yours,
Cho

Jim Clarke says: May 8, 2014 at 7:47 am
I shun you, and will no longer speak to you, but I will come around for my daily beer, and I will bring my gun, if you get my drift.
No, the current way is to buddy up to some connected lawmakers and get them to pass a few laws and insert some funding for a few sips of any beer it will bring. Lots easier than having to go out and get it your self. Hint, you really need some computer print out to make it work.

1. The ACS should stick to chemistry.
2. Climate alarmism is hurting the credibility of scientists and the perception of science in general.
3. When/If a real climate or weather emergency is identified, it will mostly be ignored as more alarmism. The same goes for any other alarm put out by scientists. (Why is that people in authority feel compelled to frighten the population with false claims of impending doom. Is there something about the lure of power that turns people into liars?)
4. Most people are much more concerned about more immediate things that impact their daily lives, like filling their gas tanks, putting food on the table, and obtaining health care. The cost of health care is skyrocketing, gas prices remain higher than they need to be, and food prices (which are not included in core inflation) continue to rise faster than inflation while wages stagnate, none of which seems to be a concern of the current government. My opinion is that climate alarmism is a manufactured distraction, as indicated by the fact that political affiliation largely determines whether one is an alarmist or skeptic.
5. The “solutions” that the climate alarmists have put forward so far will have devastating impacts on the economies of the developed world, and keep people in the third world in the same or worse poverty than they are now. They apparently regard the intentional starvation of millions as an acceptable trade-off for a feeling of enviro-righteousness, and of course a way to wealth redistribution, the current holy grail of liberalism (as opposed to improving the economy so people can find work)

Klaxon is a trade name. It was the name of the company that invented the klaxon horn. See the etymology provided above. Claxon is an incorrect spelling, notwithstanding what your dictionary says…

The question that enters my mind: do I want to keep sending them my membership dues?

Can someone explain 2 things to me? First, why does the settled science keeps changing? Isn’t that a contradiction? Second, since snow is a thing of the past here, what’s that weird frozen white stuff that keeps falling outside? I have to shovel it off the drive whenever it falls. I’d swear the stuff is snow but I read back in the year 2000 that snow was a thing of the past and that the science was settled so it must be an unknown substance that is identical to snow in every way.. My daughter theorizes that it’s dandruff from the snow queen. We need to buy her some Head and Shoulders. We used to get snow twice a year. Now we get this dandruff fall about every three to four weeks during winter and early spring. I hope she never suffers from scalp itch!

One contra-factual statement after another. The result: a steaming pile.