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Don't tell Al Gore ...
Canada finds Kyoto Underwhelming. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060520/sc_afp/canadaclimate_060520215546)
Canada reportedly wants the Kyoto climate-change accord scrapped in favor of a separate, voluntary deal and will not support efforts to set stricter emissions targets from 2012.
The Globe and Mail newspaper said it had obtained private Foreign Affairs Department instructions to Canadian negotiators in Bonn, Germany, where an international 10-day meeting opened this week to plot the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol.
I was on the Global Warming Gravy Train. (http://www.mises.org/story/2571)
I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions from land use change and forestry. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty conclusive, but since then new evidence has weakened that case. I am now skeptical.
Read the whole thing.
Stop global warming - Don't recycle. (http://www.techworld.com/storage/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=494&blogid=3)
Hold everything ... Now, it's Global Cooling. (http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=597d0677-2a05-47b4-b34f-b84068db11f4&p=4)
Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period, one which may continue well beyond one 11-year cycle, as did the Little Ice Age, should be a priority for governments. It is global cooling, not warming, that is the major climate threat to the world, especially Canada.
Holy Fahrfegnugen! (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=aijQ0.2BMGw8&refer=home)
If one of the more extreme responses to global warming comes true, driving a sports car anywhere but on a racetrack might be relegated to history's dustbin.
Fast, powerful cars within a few years may be outlawed in Europe, an idea that has been raised ostensibly because Ferraris and Porsches produce too much carbon dioxide. For those who abhor sports cars as vulgar symbols of affluence (along with vacation homes, furs and fancy jewelry), such a ban could be a two-fer: Saving the planet while cutting economic inequality.
Couch Potatoes To Save The Earth. (http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/010791.php)
American_Jihad
08-06-2007, 06:04 PM
Holy Fahrfegnugen! (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=aijQ0.2BMGw8&refer=home)
If one of the more extreme responses to global warming comes true, driving a sports car anywhere but on a racetrack might be relegated to history's dustbin.
Fast, powerful cars within a few years may be outlawed in Europe, an idea that has been raised ostensibly because Ferraris and Porsches produce too much carbon dioxide. For those who abhor sports cars as vulgar symbols of affluence (along with vacation homes, furs and fancy jewelry), such a ban could be a two-fer: Saving the planet while cutting economic inequality.
Eurostan (http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1183) will be banning more then that if they let the
islaimic beasts have their way........
I'll state it here and now "Global Warming (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFHNnMwEpw) is a HOAX (http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php)" perpetrated
by the liberals, progressives, the left, vegans and the greens, did
I forget anyone...........lol :happy_11:
Blogger finds Y2K Flaw (http://www.dailytech.com/Blogger+finds+Y2K+bug+in+NASA+Climate+Data/article8383.htm) in NASA data.
http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/5625_Detroit_lakes_GISSplot.jpg
While inspecting historical temperature graphs, he noticed a strange discontinuity, or "jump" in many locations, all occurring around the time of January, 2000.
These graphs were created by NASA's Reto Ruedy and James Hansen (who shot to fame when he accused the administration of trying to censor his views on climate change). Hansen refused to provide McKintyre with the algorithm used to generate graph data, so McKintyre reverse-engineered it. The result appeared to be a Y2K bug in the handling of the raw data.
NASA has released revised figures. (http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt)
The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II.
So does this mean that the Inconvenient Truth is Y2K?
Arctic Ocean Reported Warmer (http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070814/NATION02/108140063) - In 1922.
D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: "Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."
The 1922 article, obtained by Inside the Beltway, goes on to mention "great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones," and "at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared."
"This was one of several such articles I have found at the Library of Congress for the 1920s and 1930s," says Mr. Lockwood. "I had read of the just-released NASA estimates, that four of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. were actually in the 1930s, with 1934 the hottest of all."
Does Leo DiCaprio know this?
A really inconvenient truth. (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/08/15/really-inconvenient-truth-kyoto-protocol-destroying-ozone-layer)
"The biggest emissions-cutting projects under the Kyoto Protocol on global warming have directly contributed to an increase in the production of gases that destroy the ozone layer, a senior U.N. official says."
Paging Leo DiCaprio ...
Send lawyers, guns and ... more lawyers (http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTk1M2E3ODlhZTFjY2RlZjQ3OTA1ZWIwMGViNzI2MDM=)
Modeled on Tobacco litigation, global warming suits against US energy companies may be in the offing.
Good news on the Global Warming Front. (http://www.dailytech.com/Sea+Ice+Growing+at+Fastest+Pace+on+Record/article13385.htm)
Rapid Rebound Brings Ice Back to Levels from the 1980s.
An abnormally cool Arctic is seeing dramatic changes to ice levels. In sharp contrast to the rapid melting seen last year, the amount of global sea ice has rebounded sharply and is now growing rapidly. The total amount of ice, which set a record low value last year, grew in October at the fastest pace since record-keeping began in 1979.
Polar bears were found rejoicing, Seals not so much.
2008 Coldest Year of the Decade. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/05/climate-change-weather)
Apparently Math Skills (http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/195562.php) DO Matter.
The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) has agreed to scale down its calculation for the amount of harmful carbon dioxide emission that can be eliminated by using wind turbines to generate electricity instead of burning fossil fuels such as coal or gas.
The move is a serious setback for the advocates of wind power, as it will be regarded as a concession that twice as many wind turbines as previously calculated will be needed to provide the same degree of reduction in Britain's carbon emissions.
A wind farm industry source admitted: "It's not ideal for us. It's the result of pressure by the anti-wind farm lobby."
For several years the BWEA – which lobbies on behalf of wind power firms – claimed that electricity from wind turbines 'displaces' 860 grams of carbon dioxide emission for every kilowatt hour of electricity generated.
However it has now halved that figure to 430 grams, following discussions with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
George Carlin was right. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOOc5yiIWkg)
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