Paul Budline writes:
This past Tuesday I took my camera to Princeton University to conduct an interview with physicist Will Happer, whose work you probably know. This is a 4-minute video I put together after that interview, which I hope you’ll find interesting. I should be clear that no money or anything else exchanged hands, although Dr. Happer did buy me a cup of coffee.
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The tragedy is that history will be the ultimate arbitrator in the thorny question of so-called ‘Human-induced CO2’ and its alleged contribution (or not) to climate change. I suspect history will not be kind to the CO2 alarmists of today, viewing the current CAGW panic and alarmism as little more than some unfortunate (and desperately expensive) scientific aberration.
By the time this idiocy has fully run its course none of us will be around to suffer the judgment of future generations for our foolishness. I’m not sure whether that’s a good or bad thing. I can think of more than a few of CAGW’s leading evangelists I would very much enjoy seeing being made to face up to their wilful misdirection.
Help the environment? Help China burn coal as cleanly as we do. As Steve Martin used to say: “But noooo!”
Thanks, Paul.
CFACT will send a delegation to Lima where Col. Walter Cunningham, former astronaut, and Marc Morano will be attracting attention to climate reality and contrasting it to the modeled world of the IPCC.
They are making a documentary, “Climate Hustle”. You can see their two trailers at http://www.climatehustle.org/
The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) (David Rothbard and Craig Rucker) is at http://www.cfact.org/
Very well done, Paul!
Thank You,
Mac
George Marshall Institute is a think tank where science is use for better policy. Their website and video talks about other topics which is very relevant to current events. One of the current talks takes jabs at the GOP for the sequestration that took placed months ago.
btw, here’s Happer’s lecture;
The only thing that bothered me was how few people are in the audience during Q&A.
Coach Springer – right on.
Calling CO2 pollution is scientific incompetence. Calling it carbon makes it sound more ominous and distracts from attending to possible real atmospheric pollutants from coal such as particulates, mercury, NOX and sulfur (as the Chinese are experiencing. The US uses precipitators to remove the real pollutants). What’s happening with India?
Sherwood B. Idso is the godfather of CO2 greening. A voice in the wilderness for decades.
nice … thanks Dr Will ….:)
Dynamic thermal equilibrium can’t be maintained by conducting or convecting to space. Anyone disagree?
The only way for excess heat to leave the planet is by radiation. Anyone disagree?
>99% of the atmosphere has near zero effective radiative capacity. Anyone disagree?
CO2 and some other trace gases are radiative.
Join the dots and stop dancing on the head of a lu ke warm pin.
Groucho Marx might say; “Yeah, but they’ve got a theory sewn with a hot needle!”
Also, there’s a great article by Dr. Roy Spencer that reinforces Dr. Happer’s observations at: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/11/a-busted-el-nino-and-the-new-weather-norm/
A solid video. I am posting the link on Twitter and Facebook. The social media is where the battle must be fought these days. Dr. Happer is a hero of mine.
Thanks, John. But this pales in comparison with your CNN tour de force. Paul Budline.
To Mr. Budline: Beautifully done.
I was disappointed in this video showing yet again smokestacks emitting “pollution”. Yet the smoke is white which indicates to me that any particulate pollution has been filtered out or that it is steam being emitted. Practically every night on TV in Australia these misleading images are shown to justify action against global warming and to see these in a video supposedly telling the truth is extremely disappointing. Why were they there at all? They are the hackneyed photo graffiti of the alarmists, along with polar bears and icebergs crumbling.
Worse yet was the Washington Post, which used artful backlighting to make the white steam look like black smoke:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epa-may-delay-climate-rules-for-new-power-plants/2013/03/15/28e9d37e-8cda-11e2-b63f-f53fb9f2fcb4_story.html
http://www.burtonsys.com/climate/Ltr_to_Washington_Post-propaganda_not_emissions_spewing_files/saved_resource.jpg
This is what those same stacks look like under normal conditions:
http://www.burtonsys.com/climate/Ltr_to_Washington_Post-propaganda_not_emissions_spewing_files/saved_resource1.jpg
The WaPo used to have an Ombudsman who would hear complaints about shoddy journalism, and sometimes do something about them. But the WaPo abolished that position, and now they just ignore such complaints, as I found out when I complained about that deceptive photo:
http://www.burtonsys.com/climate/Ltr_to_Washington_Post-propaganda_not_emissions_spewing.html
Where is the 4 min video??? The one I see is over an hour followed by a 2 min McDonalds video.
this is the second time that our government deceives us about a very important science. The first time was when a NON-statistician believed to have found a correlation between consumption of fat and weight in the population of many countries (he left out the countries that did not fit his ludicrous idea). Today we know that the result of the government policies led to our obesity crisis.
Now the government is trying to tell us that, because of the increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere, there should be a warming up of earth with devastating consequences for mankind. Another totally misconstrued concept.
In fact, in order to feed 9 billion people in twenty or so years from now, we should hope that the CO2 levels increase a little more because the food we grow needs it.
No. The first time was the “Ozone Hole” manufactured crisis – and its “successful” banning of Freon and its worldwide replacement with new refrigerants “in the name of global science” ..
The SECOND TIME was the “acid rain” crisis – which CREATE the global circulation models and their market in government laboratory “simulated research with LOTS of government power and international “authority” . The “acid rain” crisis was the funding source and created the labs and the computer small-area simulations that became today’s so=holy=revered global circulation models. It ALSO shut down international commerce and industry (killing, for example, Ontario’s nickel mines for the sake of US forests in PA, NY, and CT) with little or no checking and verification. All was promotions and propaganda!
Didn’t the DDT scam precede all of these? It was so effective at preventing deaths from malaria it spooked the eugenicists. Look it up.