Russell Cook writes of a radio interview with Climate Depot’s Marc Morano:
Fabulous interview as usual with Jan Mickelson yesterday, but if you didn’t catch it, the line by caller “Steve” right after the interview starting at the 1:01:55 point is worth framing:
Caller Steve: Whatever side says ‘oh, well, the debate’s settled, we’re not going to debate anymore’, if I was on the side that I felt like I was armed with live ammo and the other side was armed with blanks, I’d want to debate every chance I got just so I could beat ’em every single time.
WHO radio host Jan Michelsen: Yes! And if they’re ducking discussion, that usually means they’re not up for the task, or they don’t want to acknowledge that anybody disagrees with them, and usually the people who are in authority, the people who have won and captured the flag or the funding streams do not want to risk the ‘buffet’, they don’t want to risk the money trails by even allowing people to question whether they’re proceeding on the basis of sound science.
Bill Nye, Michael Mann, Al Gore, Katherine Hayhoe, etc. are the ones armed with blanks and they know it, they flee from debate and they flee from any interview where tough questions might be asked.
“Bill Nye, Michael Mann, Al Gore, Katherine Hayhoe, etc. are the ones armed with blanks and they know it, they flee from debate”
Interesting that Bill Nye is very happy to debate religion, but not climate change.
“The debate is over” was the mantra back in 2007, popularized, I believe by Gore. I thought “wait, what debate? If I didn’t even hear about one, how can it be over”? And that was my downfall.
So much Hi-falootin’ intellect here.
“One can’t deny the physics. CO2 traps heat so therefore an increase in CO2 must,necessarily make the atmosphere warmer”
What if that absorbed heat in these CO2 molecules simply increases the negative feedback from clouds. Resulting in no warming at all.
This is what the satellite temperature data would suggest.
Who says “The Physics” can’t be denied?
“Polar vortex” in Italy.
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I may be a little out of my element here, there are quite a few pretty smart folks posting here, but I’d like to point this out as it is very instructive to the casual reader about this. A number of years ago I “ran the numbers” on Global Warming™ (or Climate Change™ or Climate Disruption™ or whatever they are calling it this month). After all, the climate scaresters always talk in “millions of tons” and other scary numbers that don’t really easily relate to the average Joe. So, using commonly known percentages, and when in doubt using the numbers the climate scaresters liked the best. I constructed a illustrative graphic (posted on one of my web sites now long gone). The result was thus: If you take a rectangle 6 feet on a side to represent the Earth’s atmosphere (36 square feet), man’s contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere in one year would be represented by a period the size of what you see on the page here.
Pretty tough to imagine that being the cause of all this hubbub. But when 7 series BMW payments and tuition for the kiddies is involved . . .