Here is your global warming update.
US Ski resorts rejoice over the best snowfall in 30 years! Taos , New Mexico got 60 inches of snow in a week…must have been global warming…
frozen iguanas are falling from trees in South Florida because it’s freezing.
Freezing temperatures and snow in Mexico. In Mexico? How about it Mr. Gore, explain that global warming thing again…
Boston Globe Columnist Jake Jacoby asks, where did global warming go? Jacoby points out record snow falls in New Hampshire , and extremely cold weather in places like South America . Buenos Aires received its first snowfall in 89 years! Oh yeah, the global temperature has decreased since 1998.
This global warming news was actually printed in the New York Times?
And now scientists are predicting a "slightly cooler" 2008. Although these scientists still believe that 1998 is the warmest year on record ...
Perhaps 2008 will be the year that we come to realize Al Gore and his global warming scare has been nothing but a scam? One can only hope.
Here's a rational thinking Canadian who understands the implications of the Kyoto protocol and doesn't buy into what the global warming crowd is selling.
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Monday, July 30, 2007
This article gives you something to think about and asks a really good question about “global warming:” If scientists can't get near-future projections in a limited area right, how can they predict the climate decades from now?
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Country Boy's suggested reading and views from around the web.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that politicians who are skeptical of the claims on man-made global warming are traitors and that skepticism toward global warming is treason. It must be nice to be a liberal and make up global threats while ignoring real ones. Hey RFK, more than 10,600 people died from Islamic terrorist attacks through out the world in the last 7 months, how many died from global warming?
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
There is about to be a showdown over “global warming” in Congress…Now that should produce some hot air.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Rockford Rascal suggest a correction, not sure what to correct? Maybe you can make sense of this...
It seems that another blogger, The Rockford Rascal, didn’t like one of the country boy’s suggested reading posts on global warming and wants me to run a correction on my blog. However, I am not sure what to correct???Maybe one of you can make sense of this…
Let me first send thanks to The Rockford Rascal for the plug to my blog, greatly appreciated.
Anyways, here is what I posted in the suggested reading on Tuesday:
It looks like this whole "Global Warming" pitch is not working out for Al Gore and his followers. A new poll says almost 3 out of 4 people believe Global Warming is caused naturally and not by man. Gotta love the bias in this article though...
Now here is some of what the Rockford Rascal wrote in his post titled Global Warming skeptics get suckered:
Let me first send thanks to The Rockford Rascal for the plug to my blog, greatly appreciated.
Anyways, here is what I posted in the suggested reading on Tuesday:
It looks like this whole "Global Warming" pitch is not working out for Al Gore and his followers. A new poll says almost 3 out of 4 people believe Global Warming is caused naturally and not by man. Gotta love the bias in this article though...
Now here is some of what the Rockford Rascal wrote in his post titled Global Warming skeptics get suckered:
A guy named Kevin Tracy was one of them. A guy named Fritz Hereid was another. A guy named Tony Spain happily interpreted the poll results as applying to people in general, not just the Brits. But wait! There's...uh...one little problem. That survey of 4,000 people was conducted online. That means the respondents were self-selected. And that means the poll was worthless. You see, any poll that isn't conducted by time-tested scientific methods is ipso facto pure crapola, if you know what I mean. By the way, Kevin and Fritz and Tony might want to post corrections on their blogs. The Rascal will check back after a while to see if they've done so.
So…I am confused…what am I suppose to correct, the fact that it was just British people polled? Where in the article does it state that it is a British poll? It doesn’t…
In fact the lead to the story reads: ALMOST three quarters of people believe global warming is a 'natural occurrence' and not a result of carbon emissions, a survey claimed today.
Nowhere does it say it was just British people polled. In fact the Rascal later even admits that it isn’t clear in the article if it was only British polled.
That other poll, the crappy one, apparently covers just British folks (although the story isn't really clear on that point).
The Rascal also claims the poll was worthless and unscientific because it was conducted online. Maybe so, I don’t know, I didn’t conduct the poll. The article just states it was an online poll. I never claimed the poll to be scientific either.
However, for such an “unscientific poll” why all the fuss in the article:
This goes against the views of the vast majority of scientists who believe the rise in the earth's temperatures is due to pollution.
Emma Hardcastle, publisher at Pocket Issue which carried out the research, said: "If 71% of people feel that Man has nothing to do with the recent change in our climate then those same people are not going to buy into any movement to reduce their carbon footprint.”"We need to make it clear that there is nothing natural about the significant rise in both carbon emissions and global temperatures since the industrial revolution. "Pocket Issue’s brief is to help people to understand the facts, encouraging them to click through to a carbon counter as a result."Pocket Issue feel that the poll highlights the need for government and influential bodies to concentrate on getting the public to understand the facts about global warming and ‘why’ rather than ‘how’ they should reduce their carbon footprint."The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which represents most scientists, stated earlier that the increase in global temperatures is 'very likely due to the observed increase of man-made greenhouse gas concentrations'. They define very likely as 'more than 90 percent certain'.
Isn’t it interesting that the vast majority of scientists that are funded by government tend to find research to support “man made” global warming, while the vast majority who work independently find research that says otherwise. We will never know the actual truth about “Global Warming” until we get the politics out of it…but I digress….
If it was such a worthless poll, then why all the fuss? Oh, and isn’t it interesting that Pocket Issue, who are promoting a movement to reduce carbon footprints carried out the research…
So, if the poll is worthless and unreliable, then maybe the real suckers are the publishers of Pocket Issue.
Speaking of "Global Warming" or "Climate Change" A pioneer of the study says it is not man made.
I have often said that I am not a meteorologist or climatologist and definitely not an expert on the matters of climate change or global warming and neither is Al Gore and politicians.
I get my information that forms my opinions from actual climatoligists or meteorologists who are not working for or funded by government or politicians with an agenda.
You know, someone like Climatologists Reid A. Bryson who holds the 30th PhD in Meteorology granted in the history of American education. Emeritus Professor and founding chairman of the University of Wisconsin Department of Meteorology—now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences—in the 1970s he became the first director of what’s now the UW’s Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. He’s a member of the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor—created, the U.N. says, to recognize “outstanding achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment.” He has authored five books and more than 230 other publications and was identified by the British Institute of Geographers as the most frequently cited climatologist in the world who has been studying it for six decades. I would think this definitely gives him the credentials to know what he is talking about.
“All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it’s absurd,” Bryson said. “Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air.”
According to Reid Glaciers are retreating. As the glaciers retreat they’re finding evidence of civilizations where those glaciers once stood. In Switzerland they're finding silver mines. They're finding mineshafts and mining tools stacked up which appear to be waiting for the mine workers to return as the winter snows melted. Well one year those winter snows didn't melt. Then as the years passed the snows grew deeper and it became a glacier. It was the little ice age! Now the little ice age is ending, and evidence of civilization emerging where we've known nothing but ice. In other words, yes, it's warmer. One whole degree in the last 100 years, but we've been there before. Warmer than this. And we did it without SUVs and the industrial revolution.
There is a lot more great information in this article. You should definitely read it.
I get my information that forms my opinions from actual climatoligists or meteorologists who are not working for or funded by government or politicians with an agenda.
You know, someone like Climatologists Reid A. Bryson who holds the 30th PhD in Meteorology granted in the history of American education. Emeritus Professor and founding chairman of the University of Wisconsin Department of Meteorology—now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences—in the 1970s he became the first director of what’s now the UW’s Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. He’s a member of the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor—created, the U.N. says, to recognize “outstanding achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment.” He has authored five books and more than 230 other publications and was identified by the British Institute of Geographers as the most frequently cited climatologist in the world who has been studying it for six decades. I would think this definitely gives him the credentials to know what he is talking about.
“All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it’s absurd,” Bryson said. “Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air.”
According to Reid Glaciers are retreating. As the glaciers retreat they’re finding evidence of civilizations where those glaciers once stood. In Switzerland they're finding silver mines. They're finding mineshafts and mining tools stacked up which appear to be waiting for the mine workers to return as the winter snows melted. Well one year those winter snows didn't melt. Then as the years passed the snows grew deeper and it became a glacier. It was the little ice age! Now the little ice age is ending, and evidence of civilization emerging where we've known nothing but ice. In other words, yes, it's warmer. One whole degree in the last 100 years, but we've been there before. Warmer than this. And we did it without SUVs and the industrial revolution.
There is a lot more great information in this article. You should definitely read it.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
It looks like this whole "Global Warming" pitch is not working out for Al Gore and his followers. A new poll says almost 3 out of 4 people believe Global Warming is caused naturally and not by man. Gotta love the bias in this article though...
Monday, June 25, 2007
"Global Warming" out, "Climate Control" in.
What happened to “Global Warming” why is it all of a sudden referred to as “climate change”
Has anyone else other than me realized that the phrase “Global Warming” is quickly being replaced with “Climate Change?” Any ideas why?
Perhaps it is because of the record cold winters we have had around the globe the last couple of years. It kind of makes it hard for the religious environmentalists to sell the warming piece.
Also, the more people read about the subject the more they learn that we are in a time of increased solar activity, solar flares and a hotter sun. It doesn’t take much of an education to understand a warmer sun probably means a warmer Earth.
So, the term has been changed to the vague term of “Climate Change” which is also harder to refute because the climate has been changing in one direction or the other since the beginning of climate.
Also it appears that more and more scientists that once believed whole-heartedly in the “Global Warming” theory are now admitting that they were wrong.
Take one of Israel’s young top scientists Dr. Nir Shaviv, an Astrophysicist who has recently recanted his belief that man was warming up the earth. Shaviv recently wrote: "Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media. In fact, there is much more than meets the eye." Shaviv added , "Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming."
Australian Dr. David Evans is a mathematician and engineer who did the carbon accounting for the government of Australia. Evans spent six years building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions.
Well, guess what? He is now a global warming skeptic. Evans also made this claim: By 2000, the political system had responded to the strong scientific case that carbon emissions caused global warming by creating thousands of bureaucratic and science jobs aimed at more research and at curbing carbon emissions.
But after 2000, the evidence for carbon emissions gradually got weaker - better temperature data for the last century, more detailed ice core data, then laboratory evidence that cosmic rays precipitate low clouds.
He adds: Unfortunately, politics and science have become even more entangled. The science of global warming has become a partisan political issue, so positions become more entrenched. Politicians and the public prefer simple and less-nuanced messages. At the moment, the political climate strongly supports carbon emissions as the cause of global warming, to the point of sometimes rubbishing or silencing critics.
The more government gets involved with science the more Evans worries that it could effect the outcome of true results.
I worry that politics could seriously distort the science. Suppose that carbon taxes are widely enacted, but that the rate of global warming increase starts to decline by 2015. The political system might be under pressure to repay the taxes, so it might, in turn, put a lot of pressure on scientists to provide justifications for the taxes. Or, the political system might reject the taxes and blame science for misinforming it, which could be a terrible outcome for science - because the political system is powerful and not constrained by truth.
He is exactly right, science and government or other ruling authorities should never be mixed and remain separate for this very reason. Does anyone remember Galileo? He was thrown in jail by the Roman Inquisition for his science research which turned out to be right.
Anyways, this is exactly what I have been telling you about “Global Warming” or “Climate Change” the whole time. Global warming, or climate change, if you will, has indeed become a partisan political issue. In fact the whole environmental movement is an issue for the world's leftist anti-capitalists and socialists like Al Gore and company. And just why would that be?
Could it possibly be because these anti-capitalists and leftists see the religion of climate change as a way to bring down or harm powerful nations with economies based on capitalism and free enterprise?
Just something to think about.
Has anyone else other than me realized that the phrase “Global Warming” is quickly being replaced with “Climate Change?” Any ideas why?
Perhaps it is because of the record cold winters we have had around the globe the last couple of years. It kind of makes it hard for the religious environmentalists to sell the warming piece.
Also, the more people read about the subject the more they learn that we are in a time of increased solar activity, solar flares and a hotter sun. It doesn’t take much of an education to understand a warmer sun probably means a warmer Earth.
So, the term has been changed to the vague term of “Climate Change” which is also harder to refute because the climate has been changing in one direction or the other since the beginning of climate.
Also it appears that more and more scientists that once believed whole-heartedly in the “Global Warming” theory are now admitting that they were wrong.
Take one of Israel’s young top scientists Dr. Nir Shaviv, an Astrophysicist who has recently recanted his belief that man was warming up the earth. Shaviv recently wrote: "Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media. In fact, there is much more than meets the eye." Shaviv added , "Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming."
Australian Dr. David Evans is a mathematician and engineer who did the carbon accounting for the government of Australia. Evans spent six years building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions.
Well, guess what? He is now a global warming skeptic. Evans also made this claim: By 2000, the political system had responded to the strong scientific case that carbon emissions caused global warming by creating thousands of bureaucratic and science jobs aimed at more research and at curbing carbon emissions.
But after 2000, the evidence for carbon emissions gradually got weaker - better temperature data for the last century, more detailed ice core data, then laboratory evidence that cosmic rays precipitate low clouds.
He adds: Unfortunately, politics and science have become even more entangled. The science of global warming has become a partisan political issue, so positions become more entrenched. Politicians and the public prefer simple and less-nuanced messages. At the moment, the political climate strongly supports carbon emissions as the cause of global warming, to the point of sometimes rubbishing or silencing critics.
The more government gets involved with science the more Evans worries that it could effect the outcome of true results.
I worry that politics could seriously distort the science. Suppose that carbon taxes are widely enacted, but that the rate of global warming increase starts to decline by 2015. The political system might be under pressure to repay the taxes, so it might, in turn, put a lot of pressure on scientists to provide justifications for the taxes. Or, the political system might reject the taxes and blame science for misinforming it, which could be a terrible outcome for science - because the political system is powerful and not constrained by truth.
He is exactly right, science and government or other ruling authorities should never be mixed and remain separate for this very reason. Does anyone remember Galileo? He was thrown in jail by the Roman Inquisition for his science research which turned out to be right.
Anyways, this is exactly what I have been telling you about “Global Warming” or “Climate Change” the whole time. Global warming, or climate change, if you will, has indeed become a partisan political issue. In fact the whole environmental movement is an issue for the world's leftist anti-capitalists and socialists like Al Gore and company. And just why would that be?
Could it possibly be because these anti-capitalists and leftists see the religion of climate change as a way to bring down or harm powerful nations with economies based on capitalism and free enterprise?
Just something to think about.
Al Gore was booed and heckled at a Canadian university over his global warming hypocrisy. Specifically, some students interrupted him by calling him a liar and asking him about his swimming pools. Priceless... I guess the Indoctrination is just not going so well these days.
The CEO, Bob Murray, of a major coal company is calling out Al Gore for his global warming campaign. He says some wealthy elitists in our country can't tell fact from fiction and environmental legislation has destroyed thousands of jobs, putting people further into poverty. But don't tell that to the media and the left....who have so far ignored his comments…
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Indoctrinating the youth of the world with Global Warming.
This is what happens when Government controls school systems. It’s called indoctrination. It’s in most of our colleges, and making it’s way to a public school system near you.
Here's a high school senior who was shown Al Gore's propaganda film four different times in four different classrooms at a government school in Canada. Amazing, I can’t think of one class that it would be appropriate to show this film. Not even science class, since scientist can’t even agree the film to be true. Even climate experts say many of Al Gore’s claims are wrong.
Canada isn’t the only country pushing the indoctrination of Global Warming.
Hand it to Paramount, the studio behind An Inconvenient Truth, for tapping the classroom market in a way skeptics cannot.
In addition to a companion book written for school-aged children, producers have created a lesson plan, "An Inconvenient Truth” in the Classroom," for teachers to download.
In England, the government has made the movie part of the public curriculum.
In Spain, the government is buying copies of the movie for all of its schools.
In Australia, private donors are buying copies for schools.
When you can find just as many scientist who discredit the theories behind “Global Warming” as there are scientists who promote the theories in support of it. It is not an educational film, and is a matter of opinion.
The only inconvenient truth about this film is there are no hard facts to justify anything in it, other than the Earth is warming. Why it is warming, and what it will do to the future that is still up for a lot of debate that scientist do not agree on.
Can't get the link at the top to work? click here.
Here's a high school senior who was shown Al Gore's propaganda film four different times in four different classrooms at a government school in Canada. Amazing, I can’t think of one class that it would be appropriate to show this film. Not even science class, since scientist can’t even agree the film to be true. Even climate experts say many of Al Gore’s claims are wrong.
Canada isn’t the only country pushing the indoctrination of Global Warming.
Hand it to Paramount, the studio behind An Inconvenient Truth, for tapping the classroom market in a way skeptics cannot.
In addition to a companion book written for school-aged children, producers have created a lesson plan, "An Inconvenient Truth” in the Classroom," for teachers to download.
In England, the government has made the movie part of the public curriculum.
In Spain, the government is buying copies of the movie for all of its schools.
In Australia, private donors are buying copies for schools.
When you can find just as many scientist who discredit the theories behind “Global Warming” as there are scientists who promote the theories in support of it. It is not an educational film, and is a matter of opinion.
The only inconvenient truth about this film is there are no hard facts to justify anything in it, other than the Earth is warming. Why it is warming, and what it will do to the future that is still up for a lot of debate that scientist do not agree on.
Can't get the link at the top to work? click here.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
If you thought our weekend weather was bad look at the weather across the water
There was snow, freezing temperatures and tropical storms across Europe this weekend
Spitzing, Germany brought out the snowploughs for the first time this year and in Austria, Switzerland and even northern Italy there was snow, freezing temperatures and hail where temperatures in May routinely climb into the 80s.
In one Swiss valley, 3,000 were trapped in hotels and guest houses because trains could not reach them in the snow.
On the Mediterranean island of Corsica, two hikers died in freezing fog...
It must be global warming... Where is Al Gore to give a speach???
Spitzing, Germany brought out the snowploughs for the first time this year and in Austria, Switzerland and even northern Italy there was snow, freezing temperatures and hail where temperatures in May routinely climb into the 80s.
In one Swiss valley, 3,000 were trapped in hotels and guest houses because trains could not reach them in the snow.
On the Mediterranean island of Corsica, two hikers died in freezing fog...
It must be global warming... Where is Al Gore to give a speach???
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