Guest opinion; Dr. Tim Ball
At the Paris Climate Conference of the Parties (COP21) we witnessed the biggest display of failed leadership in history from 195 countries. They established incorrect and misdirected policy based on failed and falsified science. It is a classic circular argument on a global scale. They invented the false problem of anthropogenic global warming/climate change and now they want to resolve the problem, but with a more disastrous solution.
Most countries were puppets that aspired to lead the deception but lacked the power so they contributed by serving as lackeys. Either way, all were purchased with promises of money. The majority receives money from successful countries, but all of them have an excuse for another tax. As George Bernard Shaw said,
“A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul.”
These leaders are all examples of Lord Acton’s dictum that,
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
In fact, the entire quote is even more revealing.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you add the tendency or certainty of corruption by full authority. There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
Obama used the Paris to advance his personal agenda regardless of the evidence. John Kerry said this when he admitted the agreement was not binding. Rules or agreements are meaningless without enforcement mechanisms. Kerry said it was unenforceable because Congress would not approve it. This allowed Obama to blame Congress when it was Russia, India, and China who wanted a non-binding agreement. Kerry knows Congress wouldn’t approve it because as a Senator he voted against the Kyoto Protocol, arguing it would cost jobs and hurt the economy. Of course that did not prevent him claiming the Paris Agreement would create jobs and economic opportunity against all evidence.
The Climate Green Fund (GCF) was a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol. As a Senator in 1997 Kerry voted against Kyoto. Technically, they did not vote directly against Kyoto. They voted on the Byrd/Hagel resolution explicitly that said the US Senate would not approve anything that harmed the US economy. Kerry and the Senators agreed 95-0 that Kyoto was harmful. Their green image was faded but intact.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) requires COP act on the science created for them by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This is why the leaked emails exposing the scientific corruption were so effective in diverting them away from Kyoto at COP 15 in 2009. They recovered quickly because the following year at COP 16 in Durban they introduced the replacement GCF that became central to the Paris Conference.
What is the situation post-Paris? They created a global policy to take money from a few developed nations and give it to the developing nations. The Paris communiqué says,
Among these concerted efforts, advanced economies have formally agreed to jointly mobilize USD 100 billion per year by 2020, from a variety of sources, to address the pressing mitigation and adaptation needs of developing countries.
Governments also agreed that a major share of new multilateral, multi-billion dollar funding should be channeled through the Green Climate Fund. At the G7 Summit in June 2015, leaders emphasized GCF’s role as a key institution for global climate finance. Many developing countries, too, have explicitly expressed their expectations from the Fund in their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs).
The acronym INDC is bureaucratese at its best. This charade is an unnecessary waste of taxpayer’s money based on the false IPCC science exposed by the leaked emails. The falsifications continued because the public didn’t understand and as the Senator Cruz hearings demonstrated it is a widely accepted and essentially unchallenged story. The redistribution of wealth continues almost exactly as the Kyoto schemers planned. But the problem is worse than that because the money is to offset warming when all the natural mechanisms of climate change indicate the world is cooling and will get colder.
IPCC proponents realize that this is the trend so they did what they always do, produce a paper claiming another human activity is likely to make their predictions invalid. Gavin Schmidt and the NASA GISS gang did this recently in a paper titled, “Implications for climate sensitivity from the response to individual forcings.” It produced the intended headlines such as Climate change shock: Burning fossil fuels ‘COOLS planet’, says NASA” in the UK Express. Maybe they could blame the government Chemtrail program?
The final socio-economic cost of Paris is almost incalculable. For example, how do you put a value on the loss of credibility of science? What are the lost opportunities for improving the quality of life through science and technology restricted by the extremism of a few Green Luddites?
I recently participated in a Skype interview on a live Nigerian broadcast about Climate Change. I don’t know how the producer got my name, but it was immediately evident that they were not aware or welcoming of my views. Fortunately, they couldn’t shut me off because it was live. However, they did shuffle me off quickly and went to another guest. The other person, as I understand, was a representative of the Nigerian government promoting the real danger of global warming and the dire need for action – send the money.
He began his rejoinder with the phrase, “With all due respect to the good professor…” a euphemism for “What you just heard is completely wrong.” The person is saying I am not qualified to say this, but if I don’t make this argument, my job is gone. I did not hear his entire response, but it was built around the precautionary principle that even if the “good professor” is right, we should act.
Maurice Strong and the drafters of Agenda 21 anticipated such a situation when they wrote Principle 15.
Principle 15: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.
This means don’t let facts get in the way of policy. You don’t need evidence just “threats” are adequate reason. My portion of the Nigerian interview began with the host referencing the University of Notre Dame ND – Gain Country Index study that lists the countries of the world and their preparedness for climate change. Figure 1 shows those countries deemed best prepared and Figure 2 those least prepared. Others produced similar measurements and show the results in world maps (Figure 3).
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3 shows the ND – GAIN index on a world map. It shows that prepared countries are middle and high latitude while unprepared are in the tropics. Some produced similar indices but with a different emphasis (Figure 3). The map shows regions “most” or “least” at risk. In other words, they need to be the best prepared, but the ND-GAIN index shows they are the least prepared.
The IPCC claim global warming is almost certain, so their policies are designed for that inevitability. They also claim that the greatest warming will occur in high latitudes, so Figure 3 is incorrect. Figure 1 shows that those high latitude countries are best prepared, but that is also incorrect because they prepare for warming.
The predominant message says global warming is a potential worldwide disaster with only negative impacts. Thirty years ago global cooling was presented in a similar singular way. Lowell Ponte wrote in his 1976 book The Cooling
It is cold fact: the global cooling presents humankind with the most important social, political, and adaptive challenge we have had to deal with for ten thousand years. Your stake in the decisions we make concerning it is of ultimate importance; the survival of ourselves, our children, our species.
Change one word “cooling” to warming and the governments are exploiting the same fears. On the cover of The Weather Conspiracy prepared by a team of investigative journalists in 1977 it says,
What does it mean? Many of the worlds leading climatologist’s concur. We are slipping towards a new Ice Age. Why is this so? How will it affect food scarcity, rising costs? How much is it a threat to the quality of life – the very fact of our existence on this planet? What is going to happen? What can – and can’t – we do about it?
In the 1970s political pressure for action only came from a general concern about adapting and preparing for the future. In 1973, the US Office of Research and Development (ORD) was confronted with the forecasts of global cooling. Statements like Ponte’s required further research and planning. The CIA produced two reports, one titled “Potential Implications of Trends in World Population, Food Production, and Climate” (Office of Political Research – 401, August, 1974). The report notes,
“The precarious outlook for the poor and food – deficit – countries, and the enhanced role of North American agriculture in world food trade outlined above were predicated on the assumption that normal weather will prevail over the next few decades. But many climatologists warn that this assumption is questionable; some would say that it is almost certainly wrong.”
The CIA used the word climatocracy to describe the role of climate in political action. (Amusingly and perceptively, the spell checker tried to replace climatocracy with cleptocracy). Climatocracy is more applicable today. Political involvement in climate research is global and profound. Demand for action is very strong. Frighteningly, the demand is for action to deal with only one possibility based on the false assumption that today’s forecasts for the next 50 and 100 years are more accurate and certain than the belief in 1970 that cooling was inevitable. That forecast was wrong, as was every forecast the IPCC made since anthropogenic global warming became the scare in the late 1980s.
The sensible policy when you lack understanding is to do nothing. The proper course of action is for governments to face the truth and admit the science is wrong. Unfortunately, the lack of leadership they’ve already demonstrated guarantees that will not happen. They are obliged to do something in response to the hysteria they created.
There is a policy that can salvage something out of this self-inflicted chaos. It is a classic game theory challenge based on the knowledge that cooling is a much greater threat than warming, especially for middle and high latitude countries. It is important for those nations listed as “well prepared” in Figure 1 because they prepare for warming when the probability of cooling is much higher and more threatening. All nations, but especially them, must ready for cooling. If you prepare for cooling, and it warms the adaptations are much easier. If you prepare for warming and cooling occurs the adaptations are difficult and in some instances impossible. But don’t expect any such logical, rational, leadership from the Paris world leaders, they only like games they create and control to improve their image of saving the planet and humanity.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become more important in the eyes of more trivial men.
George Jean Nathan
climate change – a cross between religion and politics; its credo – blame the victim for not sacrificing enough and conforming to the wise guidance of the political elite.
Put another way .. heads they win, tails you lose.
Yet another example of why so-called “Climate Change” is an Anthropomorphic phenomenon, and not an Anthropogenic catastrophe.
Wealth to a very few.
In 1974 I listened as my economic professor told us about climate change and the negative effect it would have on the world economy. Pretty good professor, not only did I gain an appreciation for economics, I also started following climate change. If the people on this planet weren’t so busy arguing with each other about what to call it i.e global warming/climate change/global cooling/THERE IS NO PROBLEM blah blah blah we could have all gotten together by now and forced TPTB to identify and work on resolving the problems climate change is and will create. Last year I nearly froze to death in NYC, this winter we are out walking around with no coats on, couple of years ago Sandy liked to kill us us all! ALL you brilliant people commenting in this forum (and others) need to shut up and do something to IDENTIFY what the heck is going on, and then make sure something is done about it, If you don’t like your government and their policies band together and CHANGE the government and their policies. If everything is KUM BA YAH that sounds great to me too! I’m 61 years old with two grands and would love to hear it, but for pete’s sake lets figure this thing out already.
Dru says:
…we could have all gotten together by now and forced TPTB to identify and work on resolving the problems climate change is and will create.
Dru, the government is behind the climate alarmists who are feeding you all that nonsense. What you describe is LOCAL or REGIONAL weather. But the scare is global warming.
Their climate alarmism has turned out to be a false alarm. The past century and a half has been the mildest, most benign, flattest temperatures in the entire historical/geologic record:
Who are you gonna believe? The climate alarmists? Or Planet Earth?
One is right and the other is wrong.
Which?
dbstealey,
Thanks for that. I never get tired of seeing that graph posted. 🙂
Dbstealey,
Thanks again for that reminder, I send it repeatedly to my friends to document the CAGW is about wealth redistribution and progressive control of us, not catastrophic climate.
mark & cat,
Since you liked that graph, here’s one in ºK:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lPGChYUUeuc/VLhzJqwRhtI/AAAAAAAAAS4/ehDtihKNKIw/s1600/GISTemp%2BKelvin%2B01.png
And in ºF:
http://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2015/10/Global-2-copy.jpg
And this chart in Watts:
http://s30.postimg.org/40mvrxtld/Earth_Surface_Temp_Watts_m2.png
Some others:
http://catallaxyfiles.com/files/2012/05/Mean-Temp-1.jpg
And then there’s Marcott’s scary ‘realclimate’ chart:
http://www.realclimate.org/images//Marcott.png
You can send them to friends, to show them the difference between actual temperature measurements and government sponsored alarmist propaganda.
When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary to not make a decision.
“Dru
December 27, 2015 at 6:15 pm
In 1974 I listened as my economic professor told us about climate change and the negative effect it would have on the world economy.”
The world is a much nicer place than it was in 1974. It’s warmer and cleaner. I would not pay too much attention to an economics professor when they start blabbing on about climate change (It was global warming back then matey), and in 1974, they would have been blabbing on about an ICE AGE!
“Dru
December 27, 2015 at 6:15 pm
In 1974 I listened as my economic…”
Do you know how many times economists have been wrong about predictions? Mostly all of them, mostly all of the time.
The “architect” of Australia’s “proice ohn cahbon” (The tax that was never voted on, unless you voted for Brown. Thanks Gillard) was Ross Garnout, an economist. He made millions being paid to be on the chair of the Ok Tedi (Sp?) gold and copper mines in Pappa New Guinea (PNG). He was also instrumental, in about the mid 1970’s (Funny that), in negotiating with the PNG Govn’t in SELLING land to MINING companies. Now “carbon” mining is the target. You don’t have to dig anything out of the ground and add value, simply turn on a light and BINGO! You have made some money in the carbon market! To give credit where credit is due he was “involved” in clean up operations in PNG while at BHP.
Dru, there really is no problem with our climate. The climate is doing just fine; it’s the people who are schlonged.
Weather is now being hyped as “climate change”, and you seem to have bought into that. The slight warming we experienced in the 80’s and 90’s is in no way cause for alarm, and entirely within what is to be expected from natural climate variation. In fact, in the coming decades, we can very likely expect cooling. Hopefully, it will not be much, perhaps bringing us back to conditions similar to the 50’s thru 70’s.
DRU says: “In 1974 I listened as my economic professor told us about climate change and the negative effect it would have on the world economy.”
Humor finds it home in the truth and an old joke goes: If you lined up all the economists in the world head to toe they would all point in different directions.
Dru it looks as if your economics professor was pointing in the wrong direction. Although the 21st century hype over climate change has had a positive effect on the growth of government and the enrichment of the few who buy the politicians.
Alternatively, it is said that if you put 5 economists in a room and asked them a question you would get 6 replies because John Maynard Keynes always changed his mind! To be frank, as a retired chemical engineer I would place scant confidence in the prognostications and pontifications of economists and accountants. Their ability to model systems is no better than the ability of climatologists to model climate.
Good one. I will borrow that thank you. Robert Reich and Paul Krugman are both Keynesian’s, both advise the Left on how to spend our way out of recession. Both are consistently wrong. I assure you that your skepticism toward economic models is as warranted at skepticism toward NOAA/IPCC Climate models. Time consistently proves them wrong.
To be fair, the Keynesian theories did work for some places during the Great Depression. Germany was an example. New Zealand was another, where the Government introduced large (for NZ, at least) public works programs, which got the “money-go-round” turning again. I’m not an economist but I doubt that would work in the current economic situation where few countries are insulated from global pressures. Witness the shenanigans in Europe (Greece, for example). If I had been trained in economics I rather think I would be advocating hedging against cooler climates that warmer!
Just as climate science is a very complicate dynamic so are economic systems. I wouldn’t argue that good things have come out Government spending programs. In the U.S. from the TVA, to an interstate freeway system, to moon landings. Upon careful analysis these endeavors would have cost far less to accomplish in a free market environment but that opens a whole can of “supply & demand” worms and whether they could have been accomplished.
There are very compelling arguments that the great depression lasted decades because of FDR’s spending programs and in fact the 2nd World War pulled the U.S. out of the malaise created by excessive Government Spending. Contrary to what primary news outlets will suggest the U.S. economy is sputtering along in a decade long malaise once again thanks to government created programs that created a housing bubble and then a trillion dollar toxic asset relief to bail out the wealth holders with middle class indebtedness followed by a Trillion dollar “stimulus” that on close examination stimulated nothing but trouble government pension plans.
The reality is that in 2007 before the housing bust, the government budget was in the 500 Billion neighborhood. Since then annual spending has escalated to the Trillion dollar neighborhood. U.S. Debt has doubled in the last 8 years. That is Keynesian economics. It can create short term stimulus if very targeted and very limited. When adopted as a permanent economic policy Ala the Reich/Krugman school, it fails miserably. Your children/grandchildren will live to see the devastation created by the next Great U.S. Depression. Unlike CAGW it will be real and it will be deadly.
DRU Says: “Last year I nearly froze to death in NYC, this winter we are out walking around with no coats on, couple of years ago Sandy liked to kill us us all! ALL you brilliant people commenting in this forum (and others) need to shut up and do something to IDENTIFY what the heck is going on,”
Hyperbolic much? DRU you have either drunk too much of their Kool-aide or you are a bell ringing alarmist who peddles fear with every mention of climate change. Never forget that when the condition was called Global Warming the Alarmists would admonish anyone mentioning abnormally cold weather that they cannot conflate Weather with the climate. Yet now that the globe has stopped warming they want you to forget and listen to the new meme that they meant climate change all along and that can be evidenced by, wait for it, the WEATHER! The once non-conflatable weather!
Now here is the truly salient point in your comment. The “…need to shut up and do something to identify what the heck is going on.” point.
Identifying a problem is different then determining the root cause which is different from developing a solution to the identified problem. We have identified the climate changes, no debate. The root cause has been incorrectly identified as a trace element CO2. The government already admits there is nothing they can do, even with all the accumulated worldwide wealth, to stop the climate from changing even if their root cause was correct.
Bottom line: man must adapt to climate change which is naturally occurring and forcing a reduction in the use of fossil fuel energy will only hinder man’s ability to adapt and survive.
Bill Powers, your numbers for the U.S. Federal Budget are incorrect.
The Federal Budget in 2002 it was $2.367 TRILLION, and by 2007 it was $2.962 TRILLION. For 2012 it was $3.563 TRILLION. Your number for 2007 is off by a factor of about 6. But your point that it is ever increasing is correct.
I want people to realize how out of control the Federal spending is.
You are correct and will get no argument from me Steve. But for clarification I wasn’t including mandatory spending which includes Social Security, medicare, et al.
I was talking about the discretionary budget which BOb’s tenure elevated from the 500 Billion range to the 1.5 Trillion neighborhood and is the primary reason that Harry Reid and his gang of crooks never submitted a budget. the NYTimes did a piece in 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/business/economy/federal-deficit-falls-to-smallest-level-since-2008.html?_r=0
touting the budget has been reduced to the 680+ Billion. That is not a reduction in the budget it is in reality less overspending than Obama’s first term when the Democrats controlled the Senate. .
Using your reality of Mandatory Spending the Federal Debt of nearly 20 Trillion is actually at 90 Trillion with the unfunded future liabilities of Mandatory Spending.
So
More like a “Mutant Golden Calf Operation”.
The CO2 crap reminds me of Lysenko under Uncle Joe Stalin
From http://www.britannica.com/biography/Trofim-Denisovich-Lysenko
‘Lysenko’s doctrines and claims varied with the amount of power that he held. Between 1948 and 1953, when he was the total autocrat of Soviet biology, he claimed that wheat plants raised in the appropriate environment produce seeds of rye, which is equivalent to saying that dogs living in the wild give birth to foxes.”
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Beer, soda, and carbonated water are all infused with carbon dioxide gas, which escapes into the atmosphere after the bottle is opened. How many thousands or millions of tons of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere every year because of this? Are Coke and Budweiser destroying the earth?
When are President Obama and the UN going to call for a worldwide ban on carbonated beverages? It seems to me that any global warming alarmist who drinks a carbonated beverage is a rank hypocrite.
I wonder if this will have any effect on beer sales during the Super Bowl.
I like Fig 1 — New Zealand has become part of Scandinavia . . . yippeee!
Do we get one of those all-blonde, six foot tall, women’s volleyball teams? Do we get . . . aaah, what else does Scandinavia have? I know their harness racing is good, but so is ours.
And what if Christchurch became a Malmo . . . I think we’d better pass.
You may want to pass on Malmo http://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-faces-moral-dilemma-over-migration-malmo-refugees-border-checks/
Sothern Sweden has become the rape capital of Europe, I think that it is the 2nd or 3rd worst place in the world for rapes.
That’s why Julian Assange liked to go there for a spot of raping. I’m sure that if he gave himself up he would get off as it appears to be a way of life in S Sweden. However he appears to be too much of a coward and daren’t risk it.
You’re confusing Assange with Muslims.
Did not realise Muslims were being referred to! They certainly do a lot of raping all over England; whilst the authorities stand idly by, in the interest of racial harmony, not wishing to upset them. A fresh scandal crops up nearly every week with no one dare saying boo to a Muslim lest they are offended.
I find it rather interesting (Or should that be worrying for my friends who live there?) that New Zealand (NZ) is ranked No. 2 in best prepared countries to handle climate change and yet the real threat in NZ is earth quakes and volcanos. Lake Taupo (Toe-pour) is, now, a submerged volcano and is a dangerous one at that. In fact standing on the northern point of the lake looking south you can see the peaks of Mts. Tongariro and then Ruhapeu in the central north island along a very active fault zone. Ruhapeu erupted in 1995 when had I just arrived in NZ. The crater wall failed in the 50’s (I think) causing a lahar that destroyed a rail line and caused a train to crash. Well documented disaster in NZ. The crater wall collapsed again a few years back, not sure when it was or what the damage was (I used to work for the company that managed a Windows NT4 server that was used to monitor for lahar risk. Almost every week the server needed, physically, a “digitally induced 3 finger restart”). Then there is Mt. Tarawera on the east side of the same region, near Rotarua, which buried a village in ash in the late 19th century as well as destroying the pink and white terraces. The NZ Govn’t doesn’t seem to be doing anything to mitigate the real and present risks of those events, most recent example of which was Christchurch. A good example of what not to do in a such a high risk area.
NZ *WILL* experience quakes and eruptions in the next 100 years and it is not a question of modelled “if’s”, it *IS* a matter of when. I know that usually Wellington, the Capital, experiences at the very least 1 quake per day, albeit a small one and mostly not felt. Now as for a bit of different/predicted/projected/modelled weather in 100 years? I would not be too worried about that.
The Aussie nickname for New Zealand up to the 1960s, maybe ’70s, was the Shaky Isles. Good name. I’ve felt plenty of earthquakes in my time, most notably 1968 in Wellington — a city, incidentally, just waiting for the big one.
It’s not true that the government is doing nothing. Building codes have been tightened in recent decades and civil defence measures are in place. Christchurch suffered badly for a number of reasons, one of which was a second major shake finished off the work of the initial earthquake, another was because a lot of Christchurch was built way before any earthquake risk was known, and a third reason was, in one large building’s case, incompetent-bordering-on-criminal design work.
But you can’t live in fear. Let an aversion to risk rule your life and you’d never go swimming, never go fishing, never go skiing or skydiving, never get in a car, never get married. And you can’t pull down three-quarters of a city on the off-chance an earthquake will strike — that’s just not practical.
The slight possibility of being caught in an earthquake is a small price to pay for living in the best country in the world.
Christchurch suffered mostly from liquefaction. As has most of NZ in big shakers (Napier). Built on alluvial plains (You can see it from aerial images these days). Wellington is, largely built on rock. Apart from the airport, Killbernie and other places that rose up in the 1809 (? Lambdon Quay?) quake. The Beehive is mounted on “bearings”, so is the National Museum, Te Papa, (And you can go see them too).
“Graphite
December 28, 2015 at 3:58 am
The slight possibility of being caught in an earthquake is a small price to pay for living in the best country in the world.”
Agreed.
“But you can’t live in fear.” You are totally unworthy of living in a modern democratic society. Or any other.
Happy 2016.
“They created a global policy to take money from a few developed nations and give it to the developing nations….”
This is all made possible because all the central banks of every major country can create near-infinite amounts of money as their governments signal the need. Spending is no longer limited by how much in taxes the citizen is willing to send in. It is true: near-infinite money enables near-infinite government.
It would be ironic if the warmists begin to lose their poster child of Arctic ice decline.
Obviously, it is early days, and the AMO may yet turn negative which may have a significant impact on future years, but this year’s recovery from the September minimum has been stark, with ice extent now standing over 10 million square km, which is the highest December figure these past 10 years.
See generally;
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/icecover/icecover_current.png
My goodness. It sure does look like there is some sort of natural variability involved with Arctic Ice cover. Who could have possibly guessed that?
Now you are talking like a scientists, but this campaign is led by activists (in which I include people like Mann, Hansen and the rest of the Team), and PR men, not scientists.
It will be a long time before anyone is interested in the science since the ‘science is settled’ and the ‘debate is over’. It is only when those claims can be shown to be patently false, that the debate will open up, and the science will get reviewed. The continuation and lengthening of the ‘pause’ will obviously help (should the current El Nino result in nothing more than a short lived peak with a following La Nina bringing temperatures down and then should the temperature anomaly settle and continue around the 2001 to 2003 level).
it is easy to adjust the data, but not so easy to adjust everyday experience and photographic evidence. If the world begins to cool, people experience colder winters, photographs show Arctic ice increasing etc, then people en mass, will begin to question the drip fed misinformation forced upon them by the MSM who are in the pockets of the warmists.
Richard – Arctic ice decline can only be a poster child for warmists when it is accepted that its cause is the greenhouse effect, which it isn’t. I showed in 2011 that Arctic warming has nothing whatsoever to do with carbon dioxide greenhouse effect but is caused by a change in the flow pattern of of North Atlantic currents at the turn of the twentieth century. There was no increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide at the turn of the century which makes the greenhouse effect impossible. The warming is due to the change in currents directing the northward flow of the Gulf Stream into the deep Arctic. I estimate that as a result the total ice cover of the Arctic is a third less than it would be in the absence of warm water reaching it. This also explains why the Arctic is warming but the Antarctic is cooling. They would both be cooling if it wasn’t for the warm water carried north by currents. Prior to the start of this warming there was nothing there but two thousand tears of slow cooling. The start of warming was hesitant and was interrupted by thirty years of cooling in mid-century. Warming resumed in 1970 and is still going on. Among other things it is responsible for opening up the northwest passage to shipping. I can understand that warmists would deliberately want to hide these facts but there is no excuse for you not to know my paper in E&E 22(8):1069-1083(2011).
My reply is posted above you. Whoops!
Forcing everyone to pay for clean energy is wealth [redistribution], just like paying allabor workers is wealth redistribution! We must return to both slavery and pillage and plunder as the core of economic activity. Slaves to serve our needs. Pillage and plunder to get the goods we want. We should never be required to pay for anything. We should never be forced to pay people to work.
Liberals are destroying the world with the nonsense that paying more for what we want will benefit everyone.
No, we are better off when we take what we want from whoever has what we want without paying for it!
[Then again, perhaps if “reducpstribution” is “reducing re-distribution” you might have spelled it write the first time. .mod]
How is imposing a carbon tax and giving it to windmill power promoters helping anyone except the windmill operators?
Come back when you have something remotely coherent to say.
[Note: Please include a few words of explanation when posting videos. ~mod.]
“Among these concerted efforts, advanced economies have formally agreed to jointly mobilize USD 100 billion per year by 2020, from a variety of sources, to address the pressing mitigation and adaptation needs of developing countries. ”
100 billion is a drop in the ocean compared to what gets spent on WAR. If your going to spend this much https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/ on military funding , then you better have wars to justify your spending. When a leading nation only has military equipment to sell to the world, then said nation is responsible for the disruption to peace and happiness . It’s not that hard to understand that , if I’ve got a bag of marbles and no one else has got any, then I’ll have to give you some of mine so you can play . To create changes in our lives , first you have to stop doing what your been doing first, otherwise nothing has changed .
How much we spend on defense is a separate argument and since it is the only responsibility outlined for the U.S. Federal Government under the Constitution, it is necessary. It is worthwhile to debate how much and on what, tax dollars should be spent but it is not a justification for spending money on non-defense issues.
The most sophomoric comment one can make, in order to justify wasteful spending, is to point to military spending and then say, well if we can spend x to conduct war then no need to worry about spending x-1 to redistribute money for any old cause we can cook up.
You don’t even get “nice try” on that one jmorpuss.
Follow the money and the prospect of treasure too.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pew-americans-the-least-concerned-about-climate-change/article/2579150
Having lived in Norway since 2008 I can say that claiming that this country is the best prepared for climate change is complete and utter bollocks. There have been som heavier than normal rain and snow melding events in the past few years and houses that were built too close to rivers got ripped, cellars inundated, roads and railroads flushed away and closed for days up to months. Nothing has been done, nothing is being done as the social system gobbles up all tax revenues. My choice is my old home country the Netherlands. When you live in a densely populated land with about 30% being below sea level one must be on the alert all the time and generally speaking the authorities are. It is one of the few things these days that go relatively well there.
Thanks for the post. I enjoyed that.
Im Winter das Wetter ist kalt; es regnet oft und es schneit manchmal.
In England due to left wing socialist legally binding legislation (no other country has this not even Deutschland) there is a statutary requirement to reduce CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by 2030. To do this Labour has ensured that the coal and steel industries are both shut down to the great applause of the Green Party
residing in Brighton (as far away from the coalfields and steel plants as you can get) .The socialists used shamefacedly to court the miners and steelworkers but have worked harder than anyone including Mrs Thatcher (who is innocent in all of this) to close their industries down and in the process export their jobs abroad. The socialists also cunningly contrive to ensure that the industry closures take place after they have been voted out of office by the electorate and the Conservatives are in power to conveniently take the blame. The socialists also left the country bankrupt with massive debts and huge borrowings forcing the next Conservative government to reduce spending (except in overseas aid) and make economies. However the heavy winter rainfall mentioned in line 1, unprecedented this year, has caused massive flooding in the Lake District which normally gets >60 inches of rain a year anyway. The socialists then blame the Conservatives by reducing expenditure on flood defences for the flooding conveniently forgetting that it was their bankruptcy policies of profligate government spending on a massive scale that caused the funding problem in the first place.
“Abe32
December 28, 2015 at 4:42 am
And when you use the proper law – the one written for the atmosphere named the Ideal Gas Law – you can, just with a calculator on your desktop, calculate the temperature the surface of Venus should be, if CO2 is a standard, universal gas – what’s called an ideal gas- that operates according to the mathematics of all the other gases, like nitrogen, oxygen, etc –”
When in the 80’s the news that as a result of adding CO2 Earth will experience run-away warming simmilar to that on Venus. Read up on the Venus probes, which I knew about anyway, especially the very first, short-lived, Russian one. So, I too went to find out the gas laws and soon worked out Hansen was talking rubbish! His models were rubbish. His science was demolished right there and then. Why anyone listens to the man is anyone’s guess.
Thank you Tim and Happy Holidays.
Coincidentally, I have been reading “Climate of Hunger” by Reid Bryson and Thomas Murray, published in 1977 about the global cooling that occurred from ~1940 to ~1975.
I think we are due for another bout of global cooling, to commence before 2020, and I suggest we will look back at this brief warmer period with great fondness.
Global warming alarmism has always employed the BIG LIE, and the tactics thereof.
Global warming alarmism is inherently evil, because it misappropriates trillions of dollars in scarce global resources to fight an alleged crisis that does not exist in reality.
These trillions of dollars are confiscated from individual taxpayers and electric power consumers and given to the best friends (and financial contributors) of the warmist politicians – in financial terms, it is probably the largest fraud in the history of our civilization.
Further harm has been done by excessive investment in “green energy” schemes that are not green and produce little useful energy, and also destabilize the electrical grid. If I am (we are) correct about imminent global cooling, this deliberate harm done to the electrical grid could have very serious, even tragic consequences.
Regards, Allan
The chart confirms that if you forgo defense spending you can be most prepared for climate change. I just hope the Russian interest in the Baltic continues to be held back by the hard work and long hours of workers elsewhere. Did these countries make even a micro dent in the last military aggression in that region—— from the Nazi Party?