Guest venting by Bob Tisdale
This post is intended as a starting point for a glossary of terms that speaks freely about the realities of the climate change/global warming crusade, or, if you prefer, the anti-fossil-fuel-producing-and-exporting-country crusade. In no way should it be considered to be an all-inclusive glossary at this point. Please add your choices for terms and their definitions in the comments.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS – CLIMATE CRISIS/CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Climate Activists – Persons who are trying, and succeeding in some places, to force their misguided beliefs on everyone else. Their limited successes here in the U.S. and elsewhere has led to even greater tantrums from them…thus the well-orchestrated Climate Strike and Extinction Rebellion protests.
Climate Feedback – Phenomenon that enhances global warming (positive feedback) or suppresses global warming (negative feedback), the sign of which is still unknown as it relates to the climate of the real world. It is assumed by climate modelers to be positive.
Climate Models – Very expensive fantasy computer games that are abused to make an international “anti-growth, anti-capitalist, anti-American” crusade appear to be based on science. (Quote source – Margaret Thatcher’s Statecraft, under the heading of HOT AIR AND GLOBAL WARMING)
Climate Scientists Whose Work Output Sustains the IPCC – Paid propagandists (a.k.a. eco-profiteers) and celebrity wannabes whose livelihoods depend on supporting the agendas of politicians and UN bureaucrats, not for researching the truths and realities behind global warming and climate change.
Developed Nations – Prosperous countries that created or joined the fossil-fuel-powered industrial revolution early and have been reaping the economic, technical, social, and health benefits of those innovations for decades, if not centuries.
Developing Nations – Countries in this category include those that failed to join the industrial revolution early, if at all, but now want to share the economic, technical, social, and health benefits of the Developed Nations (without having to expend their own time, moneys, and efforts or their own tears, sweat, and blood to achieve the present levels of prosperity of the Developed Nations) through the distribution of wealth (from developed to developing nations) via international agreements created by power-hungry unelected bureaucrats of the United Nations. Also included in this category are more recently industrialized nations that are looking for handouts from those countries that industrialized early.
Extinction Rebellion, Climate Strike, and Other Fossil-Fuel-Protest Groups – Overindulged, immature, ungrateful, naïve, and gullible children (and adults behaving like children) who have been brainwashed by decades of ever-scarier catastrophe propaganda about fossil fuels.
Green New Deal and Democratic President Candidate Plans to Magically Create Weather Stasis – Socialist manifestos based on contrived science and unrealistic economics.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – Political (not science) entity founded by the United Nations in the 1980s to make an international “anti-growth, anti-capitalist, anti-American” movement seem, via smoke and mirrors, to have a foundation in science. (Quote source – Margaret Thatcher’s Statecraft, under the heading of HOT AIR AND GLOBAL WARMING)
IPCC Assessment Reports – Propaganda prepared for and by UN bureaucrats that repeat the same misinforming and disinforming crystal-ball-like prognostications of the future in each edition but with ever-increasingly desperate-sounding certainties.
Mainstream Media – Propaganda purveyors.
Paris Agreement – International Treaty intended to control the prosperity, mobility, lifestyle choices, and well-being of the citizens of developed nations, while transferring wealth from developed to developing nations.
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, They Say – Actually intended to undermine the economies of fossil fuel producing and exporting countries.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ) – A series of failed and failing international agreements that hide behind the very-transparent veils of catastrophic-human-induced global warming/climate change with the overall intent of advancing “worldwide, supra-national socialism”. (Quote source – Margaret Thatcher’s Statecraft, under the heading of HOT AIR AND GLOBAL WARMING)
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FULL QUOTES FROM MARGARET THATCHER’S STATECRAFT
I wouldn’t want the trolls to claim I was misquoting Margaret Thatcher, so here are the full quotes from her magnificent book Statecraft – Strategies for a Changing World, which was published in 2002, almost 2 decades ago. Both are from Chapter 11 – Capitalism and its Critics. The first paragraph under the heading of HOT AIR AND GLOBAL WARMING reads (my boldface):
The doomsters’ favorite subject today is climate change. This has a number of attractions for them. First, the science is extremely obscure so they cannot easily be proved wrong. Second, we all have ideas about the weather: traditionally, the English on first acquaintance talk of little else. Third, since clearly no plan to alter climate could be considered on anything but a global scale, it provides a marvellous excuse for worldwide, supra-national socialism.
Also, next is another paragraph written by the Iron Lady in Statecraft under the heading of HOT AIR AND GLOBAL WARMING (my boldface):
Actually, President Bush was quite right to reject the Kyoto protocol. His predecessor had supported it for international effect, while knowing its provisions made it a dead letter at home: the US Senate had voted unanimously on the matter. The protocol would have placed all the burden for reduction of CO2 on developed countries, while leaving the developing countries — including India and China — to keep producing it at a rapidly growing rate. America’s target for cuts was totally unrealistic — a 7 per cent reduction of overall emissions of greenhouse gases below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012. And all this is before anyone considers the scientific arguments about why and to what extent global warming is occurring. Kyoto was an anti-growth, anti-capitalist, anti-American project which no American leader alert to his country’s national interests could have supported.
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Again, this post is a starting point for a glossary. Please add your choice of terms and their definitions in the comments, or modify mine in the comments as you wish.
That’s all for this post. Have fun!!!
Bob
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“Its only the weather” a favourite cry from global warmests when a cold event happens, like 2018/19 winter in north America which saw a prolonged winter smashing cold records, were as a few days of high temperatures in Europe (not a heat wave according to Wmo) is a sign of CAGW.
The 2018/19 winter in the USA was definitely a result of climate change, due to jet stream changes resulting from melting arctic ice.
The heatwaves in Europe were not a few days of hot weather but of exceptionally hot weather: the UK saw temps 10 degrees Celsius more than the point considered a really hot day
Melting artic ice you say, when would that be have a look more ice than there has been for a decade
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php check the winter months that I and you specifically stated.hey did you see the total mass snow budget for the time period in question
L A, has to be cool for Percipitatation even cooler for snow with the unprecedented snow cover this year glaciers gained in there ice budgets that means they move they calf were do they calf in the sea, theres a big difference between calving and melting ,not that the scaremongering MSM draws a distinction,
Do you know who WMO are,it would seem not as you avoided that point world meteorological organisation, what MSM class as a heat wave was not a heatwave theres some home work for you, as for your claim abnormally hot, heres how and why the MSM LIED TO YOU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Npn-8H_F3H8
As I said there was no heat wave a duration of 3 hot days do not amount to a heat wave and the video shows why you and many others were conned yet again, I really do thank you for your post because you allow me without hesitation to put my statement into a clear light with observerd data which people like you never do, you rely without quantifying what the MSM tell you to believe.
Please griff, seek professional mental help.
Griff never replies back after leaving a bold satement that is 99.9% false or based on gossip. So I conclude he is a troll.
If I am mistaken Griff then I do apoligize, but answer me this: the last time the jet stream did a meandering and brought even colder or as cold weather was that also from climate change? Same for hurricanes, droughts, floods and tornadoes.
United Nations = cesspool that needs to be drained
🙂 Using stronger words, I’ve been saying the same thing about the U.N. for years. BTW – you’ve gotta love how stupid they are to send their monitors and “enforcers” into areas of conflict wearing powder-puff-blue helmets. The U.N. is a dangerous group to The United States of America.
The BBC “a supposedly unbiased neutral news organisation, that has at any one time at least 3 articles running on its web news site telling us were all going to die because of global warming, the enviromental correspondents who bring this doom and gloom ignore any opposing science any cold events any investigation style journalism, with the blessing of the editorial team who told the above the “science is settled “and not to report any opposing views. British b—s –t corporation
The CBC: Ditto except with worse grammar.
You can add NPR to that list…
Climate Justice: Street protest wording twisted for the climate crusades.
Thanks to Bob Tisdale for a number of quotable definitions and some very entertaining writing. There is a lot of re-usable stuff here.
“The Conversation” A web site where monologues with an approved viewpoint on “Climate Change” are allowed.
Carbon Pollution: Used as scary imagery; coal miners with black lung; being forced to suck on the tailpipe of a 1960s bus, London pea soup fog from coal fireplaces. It’s not always known if the user is erroneously referring to CO2 or has a carbon-free brain and is convinced that CO2 is a sooty pollutant.
Climate Model:
dT=dCO2*[wiggly box]*ECS. (ECS …. estimated climate sensitivity)
…. where dCO2*ECS gives the trend line of the output
….. [wiggly box] provides the wiggle in the trend line to make it look like a legitimate computation.
+42×1042
BUFFALO FARTS: methane from buffalo that somehow did not participate in atmospheric altering greenhouse effects (in contrast to cow farts, which have deadly power). Fun Fact: Only Greta can see cow farts!
Takes one to know one…
That entity is now known as her holiness, St. Greta.
United Nations Headquarters NYC: Site of the coming Trump Towers Condominiums development.
I have another term: Reprehensible
We have the court stenographer’s transcript of the judges oral remarks in dismissing Mann’s suit. link
Mark Steyn has brilliantly skewered Mann. link Steyn quotes the judge:
Mann obviously had no interest in proceeding to the court room. He merely wanted to put Ball through the wringer for as long as possible. In my opinion, he would have been happy for Ball to die before the matter could be resolved. Indeed, we can infer that having the case heard would have exposed his hockey stick as a fraud.
If Mann’s conduct isn’t reprehensible, I don’t know what is.
Mainstream Media – Publishers and broadcasters that disseminate false propaganda supportive of socialist political objectives while misrepresenting, intimidating,condemning, suppressing, and censoring the free speech of non-socialist political opponents; e.g. the Global Warming and Anthropogenic Climate Change pseudoscientific hoax and fraud.
Green Slime: the cabal of billionaires, billionaire families, and public employee retirement funds who are deeply invested in wind and solar ventures to harvest tax credits for more riches. The “green slime” is symbolic of the trail of money they leave in their wake for politicians and academics to feed off, who then become subservient to more slime from the billionaires. The green slime also fuels the well-organized propaganda media campaigns through the multiple layers of non-profit organizations that can receive these tax-deductible donations.
Green Blob: cabal of enviro-climate bed-wetters who are mostly too ignorant to realize they are the tools of the Green Blob billionaires. Those that do realize they are tools of billionaires — they like the money and notoriety that being seen as “climate virtuous” brings from their membership in an otherwise ignorant cult.
carbon pollution: a term for life giving carbon dioxide that both the scientifically illiterate and intentionally deceptive Left uses to confuse and deceive the ignorant masses about a non-problem.
You missed out on Paris Climate that it Did Not Reduce CO2 emissions, it agreed to massively increase them. It was agreed that China and India would respectively Double and Treble their emissions – causing a near 50% INCREASE in global CO2 EMISSIONS by 2030!!
Regardless of whether or not the EU manages to reduce to zero emissions, the reduction will be dwarfed by the Increase from China and India !
Yet the IPCC Falsely claimed the Paris Climate Agreement REDUCED CO2 emissions.
Leaving aside all of the other errors that Nick and others have pointed out there still seems to
be a glaringly obvious error in Dr. Frank’s paper. Starting with Eq. 1 which reads:
ΔTt(K)=fCO2×33K×[(F0+∑iΔFi)/F0]+a
which can be easily rewritten as:
ΔTt(K)=fCO2×33K×[1+(∑iΔFi)/F0]+a
where the important terms are
F0 which is ” the total forcing from greenhouse gases”
and
ΔFi which is ” the incremental change in greenhouse gas forcing”
Now note that nowhere in the emulation equation is there an explicit term for
the Longwave cloud forcing term. Nor do any of the items in Eq. 1 have explicit
physical meaning – rather they are numerical factors designed to give a best fit
to the output of global climate models. As Dr. Frank states about fco2 it “has no
necessary relevance to the physical climate, nor to the response of the physical climate to CO2 emissions.”
What this means is that there is no reason to suppose that a physical factor with a
real size of X would enter equation 1 with magnitude X.
So the question then is what numerical factor in Eq. 1 best represents the effect of
Longwave cloud forcing. Dr. Frank claims with no justification that it is ΔFi whereas it
should be F0 since in the absence of any rise in CO2 levels ΔFi=0 but F0 remains. Then
Dr. Frank’s equation 5.1 is wrong and it should read:
ΔTi(K)±ui=0.42×33K×[1+ΔFi/(F0±4Wm2)]
we can then calculate the error as
0.42×33K×4Wm2/F0^2
which is different from Dr. Frank’s equation 5.2 by a factor of F0 (trivially since the derivate of 1/x is -1/x^2)
this means that Dr. Frank’s results are out by about a factor of 30. And hence if you accept
his method for the propagation of errors (which is wrong as both Nick and Dr. Spencer have shown) then
over 100 years the error due to long wave cloud forcing is only about 0.5 degrees and significantly smaller
than the forcing due to CO2 levels.
What’s that got to do with this post?
I have not read Thatcher’s book, but it looks like the evil old witch had distanced herself from the fact that it was she that put “money on the table” for anyone that could lend plausibility to the flaky theory that CO2 caused “global warming”.. maybe she thought people would forget her part in this crime against humanity. If it wasn’t for her the world wouldn’t be having this discussion.
Anyways, my contribution to the glossary:
Journalism.. a once noble profession that now is reduced to inventing stories that make young children suicidal.
I think there needs to be an entry for the “Innocently Gullible”.
Innocently Gullible – Those who have no agenda but just accept what they’ve been told by MSM proclaimed “Climate Scientist”. (In Marxist terms: “Useful Idiots”.)
As per BD Clark , certainly the BBC, a once trusted source of news, especially
during WW2, when people in occupied parts of Europe risked their lives to hear it,
has now been when and truly taken over by the left wing.
To make it worse its a compulsory payment system by its viewers and
listeners having to pay once a year for a licence.
Its charter clearly states that it must be a balanced news source, so why do
even Conservative UK governments let them get away with it ?
MJE VK5ELL
Same reason the typical republican in the states do. …. they are there to suck up to the government teet …and that is all. Lip service to conservative ideals.
Enter Trump …. nobody knows what to do with him, cause he calls it as it is.
Even worse in the States what with NPR/CPB where they just suck the general fund teet while taxpayers foot the bill whether or not they listen or watch.
Well said. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stopbbcbias/
NGOs:
Non Governable Organisations
The news that climate change is causing kids to turn to drugs makes me feel that a
Climate Warrior should be known as a Climate Worrier.
Climate Religion…..see Bible
earthquakes, pestilence, billions dying, floods, droughts, etc….and if you don’t believe…burn in hell …fireball earth
Going on strike to get others to reduce their CO2 emitting activities has all the rationality & self-harming characteristics as the guy who went in his own car to a drive-in movie, hated the show, so to vent his disappointment, he slashed the leather seats.
My two favorites are the “certainty” renewable energy advocates demand which I see as a euphemism for guaranteed profits. The other is “ambition” promoted by the proponents of the Paris accord which I would really classify as “clueless ruthlessness” since it often severely raises green regressive taxes on the poor and woke politicians somehow think the poor won’t notice.
“It is assumed by climate modelers to be positive.”
And larger than can realistically be justified.
As for the fantasy computer games, that they emulate rather than simulate still bugs me. They should be simulating the result of a quatitave description of the atmosphere as measurable characteristics that can be checked against reality. The shouldn’t be designed to look like the climate in the future.
Eco-terrorists- Green liberals that believe the end justifies the means !