Blatant Reality

Sometimes I am at a loss on where to begin debunking some of the claims from Global Warming alarmists. Therefore, please post some of your favorite claims or questions in the comment section and I will hopefully start addressing them one by one as the weeks go on.

These claims/questions can deal with any aspect global warming. Keep in mind that I am just a college student so most of my answers will be based on other people’s research. However, I hope to present these sometimes stale facts in a new/interesting fashion.

Depending on how many comments I get will determine how soon I answer the individual questions. And if I don’t get any comments, well, I guess I will just cross that bridge when I come to it.

You may start your commenting now.

It looks like the ‘green’ democrats at their ‘green’ convention won’t have to pay taxes on the gas they buy during the DNC in Denver, CO. Take a look.

I was wandering around Obama’s website today, looking for anything that might be of interest when I stumbled upon this in the “Kids for Obama” section:

You read that right, that’s a list of 10 things that KIDS can do to help out the Obama Campaign.

Now when you think about it, this section is fairly disturbing. For one, its obviously targeting kids that are way to young to even be thinking about politics. I reached this conclusion just by looking at the picture located on the same page:

I guess Obama is following the same strategy that Tobacco companies used to use (still use?) to get people smoke: if you can get them hooked when they are young, you will have them coming back for more for life.

Anyways, another thing that was a little less disturbing but far more funny was the 4th bullet point in that list that asks kids to draw pictures of Obama in the White House. The only reason that is funny (other than the fact that it is obviously targeting the preteen audience) is because of the whole New Yorker incident that happened last week.

With the way that Obama reacted to that caricature of himself and Michelle, I don’t know if he will be able to handle pictures drawn with much less talent and much less tact.

I mean, these are kids, who knows what they might draw? Think about all the problems you could get if kids don’t get Obama’s skin color just right. I mean kids aren’t that good at blending colors let alone picking them (who in the world has ever seen a polka dotted pig in real life?). Should Crayola make a color called ‘Obama’ to help solve this problem?

What will happen if a picture from one of his ‘kids for Obama’ leaks to the press that portrays him as too black, too white or even too green (in the literal sense, not the environmental)?

And what about those ears? People think that George Bush looks like a monkey but Obama’s ears certainly make him a candidate for animal comparisons. Monkey? Elephant? Bush Baby? The jury is still out but what would Obama do if a kid just happened to draw a picture that made him look something a little bit more…errr…wild?

I mean the New Yorker looks tame compared to some of the pictures kids could draw. At least with the New Yorker you could explain everything away with positive meanings. Take a look:

• Obama could be in that style of clothing because he embraces multiculturalism,
• The picture of Osama is there to help remind him who the real enemy is
• The flag is burning because that’s the the only proper and honorable way to dispose of a flag
• Michelle is dressed like that to symbolize that she is a strong, feminist woman who can take care of herself
• The fist bump is just a way to minimize transmitting germs due to extended physical contact as in a hug, kiss, or handshake

Do you think a kid could put that much thought into a picture that? I doubt it.

Anyways I just wanted to throw that out there. What do you think?

Dr. Don Easterbrook is predicting that for the next 30 years we will experience a global cooling. This all will be caused by, according to Easterbrook, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation Shift.

Addressing the Washington Policymakers in Seattle, WA, Dr. Don Easterbrook said that shifting of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) from its warm mode to its cool mode virtually assures global cooling for the next 25-30 years and means that the global warming of the past 30 years is over.

 

The announcement by NASA that the (PDO) had shifted from its warm mode to its cool mode is right on schedule as predicted by past climate and PDO changes (Easterbrook, 2001, 2006, 2007) and is not an oddity superimposed upon and masking the predicted severe warming by the IPCC. This has significant implications for the future and indicates that the IPCC climate models were wrong in their prediction of global temperatures soaring 1F per decade for the rest of the century.

Read the rest of the article for some great images and graphs of how the Pacific Decadal Oscillation correlates with previous warmings and coolings.

Dr. David Evans has been in the Anthropological Global Warming camp for six years working with the Australian Greenhouse Office. However, after working and seeing how little evidence was actually there to support their alarmist claims, he left. Here are two of the reasons he doesn’t support the whole ‘man is causing global warming’ hysteria:

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

 

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

 

If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.

 

When the signature was found to be missing in 2007 (after the latest IPCC report), alarmists objected that maybe the readings of the radiosonde thermometers might not be accurate and maybe the hot spot was there but had gone undetected. Yet hundreds of radiosondes have given the same answer, so statistically it is not possible that they missed the hot spot.

 

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4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect.

 

None of these points are controversial. The alarmist scientists agree with them, though they would dispute their relevance.

 

The last point was known and past dispute by 2003, yet Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and presented the ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming. In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest and widely questioned the politician’s assertion.

It’s a great article that I would recommend reading the whole thing.

Hat Tip Power Line

Well today is the 1 year mark for this blog. I just want to take this time to thank everyone who has been reading my blog. If it wasn’t for my readers, I probably would have quit doing this a long time ago.

Judging by the successes I have had over the past year, I doubt I will stop blogging anytime soon. Keep reading folks and thanks again!

Al Gore is once again out trying to convert people to his mission, this time he was at a nutroot convention. I’m sure people were just fainting left and right after listening to his devine inspiration. Take a look below
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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/us/politics/20netroot.xml

More and more scientist seem to be agreeing that the age of “Global Warming” has now ended and a new cooler age will begin. Take a look:

Meteorologist Anthony Watts says that the total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65 C up to 0.75 C, a value large enough, he says, to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years.

 

In a news conference held in Orlando, Fla., John L. Casey, director of the Space and Science Research Center, issued a landmark declaration on climate change.

 

“In an opinion echoed by many scientists around the world, the Space and Science Research Center (SSRC), today declares that the world’s climate warming of the past decades has now come to an end. A new climate era has already started that is bringing predominantly colder global temperatures for many years into the future.

 

“In some years this new climate will create dangerously cold weather with significant ill-effects worldwide. Global warming is over — a new cold climate has begun.”

The party’s over…

Take a look at this video that Americans for Prosperity put out:

Hat Tip Say Anything

It seems like nuts are gaining in their popularity, from Jesse’s Jackson saying that he wanted to ‘cut [Barack Obama’s] nuts off’ to now a story highlighting the potential of Amazonian nuts as a biofuel. Take a look:

Algae and nuts are among the alternative sources of fuel being considered by an increasingly skittish aviation industry as an alternative to petroleum, whose price rises threaten airlines with bankruptcy.

 

With oil prices poised to break through the $150 a barrel barrier, biofuels based on sources of energy like these no longer seem far-fetched — but they will take years to develop and no-one will be flying in a farm-fuelled jet any time soon.

 

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Nuts from Amazon rainforests helped fuel the world’s first commercial airline flight partly powered by renewable energy earlier this year.

I’m sure Mr. Peanut is quite happy at these developments.