Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Arnold Schwarzenegger has joined an unprecedented group of politicians, celebrities and faith leaders gathered at the summit of conscience meeting Paris, who have demanded immediate action on climate change.
According to the Guardian (quoting Schwarzenegger);
“I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.
“I believe the science is in. The debate is over and the time for action is now,” he told an invited audience of intellectuals and spiritual leaders from all faiths. “This is bigger than any movie, this is the challenge of our time. And it is our responsibility to leave this world a better place than we found it, but right now we are failing future generations.”
“This year alone we will dump 40bn tonnes of carbon emissions into our atmosphere. The World Health Organization says that air pollution causes over 7 million premature deaths every year and all over the world we can see flooding, monster storms, droughts and wild-fires that are completely out of control.”
I’m an Arnie fan, but this doesn’t mean I’ll defer my reason to Schwarzenegger’s authority as a climate expert. I don’t doubt Schwarzenegger is sincere, but the grouping now gathered in Paris, whether individual members know it or not, in my opinion represents part of an unprecedented attempt to shackle the global economy, to provide rent seeking renewable corporatists with an open opportunity to enslave and plunder the poor, by driving up the price of food and energy. To drive up prices to the point that some poor people will begin to starve to death.
If there was a climate emergency, the appropriate response would be to decarbonise the economy with nuclear reactors, not to push for renewables which even top Google engineers admit simply don’t work. Since nobody can demonstrate any global warming whatsoever since 1997, without overcooking the numbers, there clearly isn’t a problem urgent enough to justify inflicting unspeakable horror and starvation on the most vulnerable people of the world.
If you want to exercise your conscience Arnold Schwarzenegger, do some more research. Do what Bill McKibben recently did, take a short drive down the road to Chico, CA, and listen to another side to the story. Anthony might or might not persuade you – but at least you will have made an effort, to hear both sides of the story. Don’t blindly place your credibility and good faith into the hands of people who, in my opinion, knowingly or unknowingly represent the interests of unscrupulous rent seeking corporatists.
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Skynet has won. Fact checkers are now extinct. They were crushed by machine-like message management tactics.
“This year alone we will dump 40bn tonnes of carbon emissions into our atmosphere.”
This from a man who used a private jet to commute daily from his home in Los Angeles to Sacramento. Do as I say, not as I do.
‘unprecedented attempt ‘ becasue there is real fear that time is running out , not for the planet nor the climate and especially not for the people . But for those who looked to ride CAGW to personal wealth, professionals positions and ideological dominance .
The bad news , it will by no means will ‘the cause ‘ die quick UN bodies like the IPCC has zombie like qualities, lots of people will still be employed in climate ‘science’ and the greens will go nowhere but perhaps to another cause.
The good news that in reality at Paris although the production of BS mountains is likley to hit new heights, those countries that have democracies show no sees of signing up and commenting electoral suicide, those that do not have already said their doing nothing and others offer nothing but empty buckets their hopping to fill with others cash , the chances of which are poor at best .
Idiot ideas , wasted cash and world class BS , will been seen, but anything with real meaning and therefore impact , no .
7 million premature deaths – OK name them, every one
And list the specific cause of death for each!
Hey stop knocking Arnie
He’s a leading authority,
A scientist of note,
He’s part of the majority
Who talk of science fiction
And pretend it’s science fact,
But we all know that Arnie
Can put on an act!
Pppprrffffllll. No he can’t. Come on. He’s worse than Glen Campbell in “True Grit”. The only time Arnie is even a wee bit talented is when he gets to PRETEND he is acting, like in “Kindergarten Cop”. But acting he cannot do. He is the epitome of a village idiot and only folks in Calilala land could have voted that village idiot into office.
That said, I cannot think of a better spokes person than Arnie. Keep feeding him “roids and broids” and he will be the sole reason for the AGW downfall.
What is best in life? Drive the facts before you. Hear the lamentations of the skeptics.
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They forgot to invite poor people to the Summit of Conscience.
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Bet you bottoms to dollars they didn’t invite any ornithologists either.
You don’t suppose blackened bird was on the menu? That great big BBQ grill serves it up daily.
Even less reason see his pathetic come back attempts.
Arnold, Be sure to fly to Paris and preach to the weepy-eyed choir. You will be using a private jet, yes? Doubtful you’ll fly coach…or even business. Add to the crescendo of hype hype hype hype in support of wealth redistribution, you overly rich, some might call ‘greedy’ buffoon. And please, get a new speechwriter. The one you use is a plagiarist.
When the elite lefties set the example, then only do we see they believe their own zealotry. But since that is not the case, they are all fraud mongers, sucking the wealth from others to their gain in power.
Did you happen to see the RFK Jr. interview after the “Climate March” earlier this year? When asked if he was willing to give up his smartphone for the cause, he looked at the reporter like he wanted to punch her!
http://www.inquisitr.com/1492969/climate-change-activist-robert-f-kennedy-jr-refuses-to-reduce-his-carbon-footprint-video/
Marketing 101
If you have a high value product => sell the value
If you have a low value product, but with some distinct features => sell the features
If you have a sub-standard product across the board => get a celebrity endorsement
legal 101
if you have the facts on your side, pound the facts
if you have the law on your side, pound the law
if you have neither, pound the table
Addendum 101a:
..
In the unlikely absence of a table, substitute sand.
If you have no table, use sand.
The problem with a spokesperson when it especially comes to climate non-science, they never know what it is in climate change that is real.
If anybody has seen 2012 I would be worried if he had said, “the warming is nothing unusual and I expect it to ease in the near future.”
[Tampering] with data adjustments to lower recent strong El Ninos and warm current periods is not climate change. Global warming at dangerous rates to cause human chaos is the old global warming and the new climate change and have any of the spokespersons got the balls to say this.
Tampering^ not tamping
Says the man who lived all his life in the US and struggles to form a sentence in English.
He isn’t much better in his native lingo.
In reply to:
The silly television program which you have provided a link to, asserts that the measured planetary temperature change is worst that the IPCC models.
That is an untruth, a lie.
This is a puzzling graph. How many paradoxes are required to change a scientific theory? There are dozens of paradoxes and known incorrect calculations which disprove CAGW. Only one paradox is required to invalidate a theory.
In the case of CAGW, the theory has become a kind of religion (explaining how it is false, accepting papers that disprove CAGW, can lead to job loss and/or the label of denier) and is hence sacrosanct, unchangeable, until there is in your face abrupt cooling.
As most people are aware, it is a fact that there is cyclic high latitude warming, in all cases followed by cooling in the paleo record (both hemispheres). The cycle warming and cooling correlates with solar cycle changes.
The trillion dollar question (developing countries are lining up to promise to spend trillions of dollars on green scams that don’t work and the planet is about to abruptly cool) is how solar cycle changes modulate planetary cloud cover to cause the cyclic warming and cooling.
Greenland ice temperature, last 11,000 years determined from ice core analysis, Richard Alley’s paper.
http://www.climate4you.com/images/GISP2%20TemperatureSince10700%20BP%20with%20CO2%20from%20EPICA%20DomeC.gif
Stay tuned we will soon have live observations (planetary cooling) which will help answer that question.
The solar cycle has been interrupted which is different than a slowdown in the solar cycle. The sun will have multiple spotless days this year and next year there will be long periods without sunspots.
Roughly 10 years ago solar physicists found that the magnetic field strength of newly formed sunspots was decaying linearly.
As sunspots are formed from magnetic flux tubes that form deep within the sun at the narrow interface between the solar convection zone and the solar radiative zone (the narrow interface between the two solar zones is called the tachocline), the reduce field strength of newly forming sunspots on the surface of the sun means that the magnetic flux tubes that are formed at the tachocline have less and less field strength.
Eugene Parker calculated twenty or so years ago, that the magnetic flux tubes require a field strength of 20,000 to 30,000 Gauss when they leave the tachocline, to avoid being torn apart by the turbulence in the convection zone. The magnetic flux tubes expand as they float up through the convection zone which reduces their field strength so that the field strength of newly formed sun spots on the surface of the sun have a field strength of between 1500 Gauss and 5000 Gauss.
Comment:
There are no sunspots on the surface of the sun that have a field strength less than 1500 Gauss which supports the assertion that the magnetic flux tubes are torn apart in the convection zone if they have less than an certain minimum field strength and supports the assertion the magnetic flux tubes are created at the tachocline rather than in the solar convection zone. The magnetic flux tubes are buoyant, so there is no mechanism to hold them in the convection zone. They must and do float up through the convection zone. If the magnetic flux tubes were formed in the convection zone there would sunspots that had a field strength that is less than 1500 gauss. As Eugene Parker noted as there is no mechanism to hold a magnetic field tube in the convection zone, there is insufficient time for a convection zone amplification mechanism to create high magnetic field strength flux tubes in the convection zone (could not achieve even achieve 1500 Gauss). It is for these reasons the standard solar dynamo model has the magnetic flux tubes formed in the tachocline.
As the field strength of the magnetic flux tubes decayed a portion of the flux tubes were torn apart, so what formed on the surface of the sun was a group of tiny sunspots which the solar physicists call pores, rather than large long lasting normal sunspots. It has possible as there is daily solar summary to watch as the large sunspots were gradually replaced with groups of tiny sunspots. Later in the process, were we are at now, there were no sunspots only a large region of higher magnetic flux on the surface of the sun to show were the ripped apart magnetic flux tubes emerged.
The solar large scale magnetic field is formed from the residue magnetic field flux from newly formed sunspots. As there is a continual removal of magnetic flux from the surface of the sun by the solar wind and by coronal holes, there needs to a continual supply of new sunspots or the solar large scale magnetic field will drop to zero or close to zero.
If the solar large scale magnetic field drops to zero, there is currently no mechanism to restart the cycle (A minimum large scale magnetic field strength is required to penetrate into the sun.) It is assumed the solar large scale magnetic field does not and cannot drop to essentially zero. Don’ worry the solar cycle does restart how the sun restarts the cycle and how the restart of the cycle affects the earth is interesting, a big deal. Let’s wait for the first in your face cooling which should generate some interest in the topic of what the heck is going on.
Additional evidence (in addition to the observational fact that sunspots have been shrinking in size for the last 5 years or so and are now disappearing) for an interruption to the solar cycle rather than a slowdown in the solar cycle is this graph of the solar large scale polar field strength with time. If you look closely you will see the solar northern large scale magnetic field strength is oscillating around zero. The solar southern hemisphere is roughly a year behind the solar northern hemisphere.
http://wso.stanford.edu/gifs/Polar.gif
William Astley July 22, 2015 at 11:02 am
The silly television program which you have provided a link to, asserts that the measured planetary temperature change is worst that the IPCC models.
Are you sure that’s what the silly television program said? You didn’t watch more than the first minute, did you. Watch the whole clip and then part two.
Oops, forgot to link part two:
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I always loved the story he told (I believe on the Mike Douglas show… though I could be mistaken) of one of his first jobs in the U.S. He worked with a bricklayer who would inspect chimneys. If there was no repair needed, he would push the chimney over and create an instant job. I think he’s doing the same thing here.
Annie is a lousy actor. And Annie is clearly ignorant. I now like him even less than I did 1/2 hour ago.
Annie? Did I miss something? Has Arnold come out as a woman, like Caitlyn Jenner, and changed his name to “Annie”?
RE: Arnold Schwarzenegger has joined an unprecedented group of politicians, celebrities and faith leaders …
Let’s be honest here, do ANY of these people have any scientific degree that shows they have researched the subject and know what they are talking about?
Well, duh, climate change is well known to have occurred ever since there was climate.
Who are climate deniers if not those who apparently believe that climate should not be changing and we should wreck economies to attempt to stop it from doing what it has always done?
“To drive up prices to the point that some poor people will begin to starve to death.”
They have already driven energy prices up to the point that poor people have been freezing to death.
‘The World Health Organization says that air pollution causes over 7 million premature deaths every year and all over the world we can see flooding, monster storms, droughts and wild-fires that are completely out of control.’
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completely out of control.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is an actor. Actor, bodybuilder and politician: not a brainbuilder.
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the World Health Organization built on steroids: must be a movie – completely opportunistic and out of control.
Hans
One of my favourite Arni movies is Total Recall. Arni is fighting against the establishment on Mars who is imposing a tax on “air”. Oh what an irony!
Why do Actors try their best to make great movies for me Joe public to go and see and like, Then start the politics and social engineering gig? As soon as I experience an actor doing the Climate change BS I lose interest in any movie or project they have been involved with. Staritng with Arni the list is Soooo long. My advise to Movie stars and actors – JUST SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3 times:
1 actor
2 bodybuilder
3 politician
thats the celtic druids wand.
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‘celtic’ ‘druids’ is tautologic; conceded.
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read in WUWT ’bout the 3 times – here’s explanation.
The white, red, black women;
the young; innocent
the fertile, mature
the old, wise, helpful
that’s celtic, indogerman.
and has direct access to the heart.
1st the lame explanation
2nd to fasten
3rd hammers the nail
full stop
Schwarzenegger is right: climate change is not science fiction. However, I’m unware of anyone who asserts it to be science fiction. That there are people who assert it to be science fiction is the basis for a strawman argument. Schwarzenegger has made himself a disseminator of this argument.