Even CNN Sees the Light

11,000 years ago, our ancestors survived abrupt climate change Paleoclimatologists, who study climates of the past, know that Earth's climate was not as stable for our ancestors as it has been for us. These abrupt, harsh changes could mean life or death, often forcing whole populations to move if they wanted to survive. For example, one well-studied event 8,200 years ago was a sudden cold shift that lasted over a century, recorded in Greenland ice cores and within the fossil record across Europe, the researchers said. It occurred when the North American ice sheet decayed after the last ice age and released meltwater into the North Atlantic Ocean, disrupting the currents that brought heat to Western Europe. This triggered large-scale population crashes in northern Britain and large cultural changes in southern Europe, they said.  CNN! BONUS: AL GORE: We're Running Out Of Time On Global Warning

CNN: "Gore's film fictional"

NOW A giant iceberg has broken off the shelf of Antarctica. Naturally, the mainstream media is trying as best it can to hint that this is something serious, worrying and probably connected with “climate change.” First we’re invited to marvel at the scale of the iceberg – variously described as “quarter the size of Wales”, “twice the size of Luxembourg”, “one of the biggest icebergs on record”, and “two Luxembourgs, ten Madrids and one Delaware”. It weighs – CNN breathlessly tells us – “more than one trillion tons.” THEN .

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Swamp Turbulence?

Global Warming Poop

Tillerson Signs Docs with Climate Change Statement, Insisting U.S. ‘Still Reviewing’ Policy (Ruh RO?) As a member of the Arctic Council, the United States has signed onto two agreements that include efforts to protect the Arctic from climate change, linking it to human activity and calling on global efforts to reduce its effects, including enforcement of the Paris Agreement.  (via Skoonj) Comments  I agree with (found on FR) Reviewing the policy is a prelude to withdrawal from this agreement. We just brought 9 new science advisers to the EPA after firing 9 of OBotulism’s. They have to follow SOP and will no doubt formalize our withdrawal from this. by DarthVader Trump (and Tillerson ) aren’t there to push an ideology (pro or anti AGW). They are there to MAGA (make Amrica great again). This is a great negotiating chip for that since the agreement obligates us to NO ACTION on global warming but lots of people are hysterical about it and will give a lot to keep up the appearance of a win. (by LostPassword) It’s a junk document. You stay in the group to keep tabs on it.(by broken_clock)

Faster than a speeding bullet!

Be still my pounding heart!

Nobel Winner to Obama ...

The Obamissariat

Nobel Winner to Obama on Global Warming: 'Mr. President, You're Wrong' (CNSNews.com) -- President Obama’s statements on global warming are “dead wrong,” said Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever, who rejected the president's claims that man-made global warming is causing climate change. “I think Obama is a clever person, but he gets bad advice. Global warming is all wet,” Giaever said in a speech entitled Global Warming Revisited he gave on July 1 to scientists from 90 countries attending the 65th annual Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany. Giaever, who was born in Norway and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1964, was one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973. (cuzzin ricky) God bless you Ivar Giaever, but I'm afraid you're pounding sand (and prolly know it).  Obama doesn't give a rat's ass about the truthfulness of anything that would interfere with his globalist initiative to take control.  What the hell, we've been adequately  warned about him and his ilk, so let's hope.

Global warming is bad

KLIEMUTT

Notable & Quotable: Climate Change and War Army major general: ‘Our men and women in uniform are smart and perceptive. They can spot phoniness in a heartbeat.’ One source for connecting war to temperature comes from the political closeness between environmentalists and the antiwar movement.Their logic goes like this: “Global warming is bad. Wars are bad. Therefore they must be connected.” The catalyst for war is the ignorance of leaders that leads them to misjudge. Humans start wars believing they will be profitable, short, glorious and bloodless. These truths never change. None are affected in the least by air temperature. But the myth of climate change as an inducement to war continues to curry favor among Washington elites. One source for connecting war to temperature comes from the political closeness between environmentalists and the antiwar movement. Their logic goes like this: “Global warming is bad. Wars are bad. Therefore they must be connected.” Remember, prior to the 1991 Gulf War, environmentalists warned of a decade of global cooling that would come from burning Kuwaiti oil fields. . . . Because the administration has elevated climate change to the status of a primary threat, the military has become an unwitting agent for propagandizing the dangers of climate change to the American people. . . . Because the administration has elevated climate change to the status of a primary threat, the military has become an unwitting agent for propagandizing the dangers of climate change to the American people. . . . The administration’s contention that climate change is a national-security threat would be just another example of mindlessly applied political correctness if it were not for the potential impact of this silliness on our actual security. The military follows orders and intuitively embraces the spoken intent of their commander in chief. A politically correct embrace of climate change as a national-security threat might in time cause our military to embrace alternative sources of energy before these technologies are proven. Should this happen, our men and women in uniform might well be fighting a war with underpowered and poorly performing weapons. [Full Article] Clap clap

SCOTUS EKES OUT GOODNESS

Supreme Court Halts Obama’s Aggressive Climate Agenda

In a major setback to the Obama administration’s climate agenda, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote blocked the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan from taking effect until the legal challenges from states and industry groups fully play out. Twenty-five states, four state agencies and dozens of industry groups challenged the Clean Power Plan, which would require aggressive carbon dioxide cuts from America’s existing power plants. The Supreme Court’s decision reverses a lower court’s decision two weeks ago not to stay the regulation. The decision is important for states refusing to submit state implementation plans and opposing the Clean Power Plan. If states had to submit plans to meet their respective carbon cut targets, the rule could have taken effect prior to a final court decision. Without the Supreme Court blocking the regulation, the wheels could have already been set in motion to close many of the existing fleet of power plants with little to no hope of re-opening no matter how the legal battle played out. More… Another 5-4 decision. Which gets us to thinking.  Suppose a SCOTUS lefty dies tomorrow?  Will the GOP have the balls to keep any Obama nomination off the floor until he's gone?

Top Physicist Bolts from AGW ....

Global Warming Crap

Top Physicist Bolts from Man Made Global Warming ‘Consensus’ And Says Obama Backed ‘Wrong Side’ .... * Freeman Dyson is a 91-year-old theoretical physicist who was a contemporary of Einstein at Princeton, has received multiple international awards for his scientific efforts, and has published numerous books and papers on a wide range of topics. “That is to me the central mystery of climate science. It is not a scientific mystery but a human mystery. How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to obvious facts? ... I’m 100 per cent Democrat myself, and I like Obama. But he took the wrong side on this issue, and the Republicans took the right side.” Dyson is criticizing scientists who advance what he describes as an ‘agenda-driven’ perspective on global warming. In an interview with The Register, Dyson responded to questions about the forward he just wrote for a scientific paper that confronts the “overrated” concerns about CO2 in the atmosphere: “That is to me the central mystery of climate science. It is not a scientific mystery but a human mystery. How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to obvious facts?” Dyson, who describes himself as 100% Democrat, strongly disagreed with President Obama: “It’s very sad that in this country, political opinion parted [people’s views on climate change]. I’m 100 per cent Democrat myself, and I like Obama. But he took the wrong side on this issue, and the Republicans took the right side.” Part of the issue, according to the interview and the CO2 paper, is that the scientific models that have been used to predict climate outcomes have been wrong: “What has happened in the past 10 years is that the discrepancies between what’s observed and what’s predicted have become much stronger. It’s clear now the models are wrong, but it wasn’t so clear 10 years ago. I can’t say if they’ll always be wrong, but the observations are improving and so the models are becoming more verifiable.” For example, NASA has admitted that it is unable to explain a 17-year hiatus in an average global temperature increase, which has led to 95% of manmade global warming projections being false. Explaining why this refusal of scientists to adjust their opinions when confronted with facts that seemingly refute their manmade global warming hypothesis, Dyson gives a couple of reasons. He suggests that there has been a confusion between “pollution,” something definitely man-made and solvable, and “climate change,” a feature of nature and mostly beyond the control of humanity. Furthermore, he also asserts that there’s not only a “large community of people who make their money by scaring the public,” but an element of groupthink at play, as well: “Real advances in science require a different cultural tradition, with individuals who invent new tools to explore nature and are not afraid to question authority. Science driven by rebels and heretics searching for truth has made great progress in the last three centuries. But the new culture of scientific scepticism is a recent growth and has not yet penetrated deeply into our thinking. The old culture of group loyalty and dogmatic belief is still alive under the surface, guiding the thoughts of scientists as well as the opinions of ordinary citizens.” Dyson concluded with an assertion and an appeal to dispassionately evaluating facts: “Climatic effects observed in the real world are much less damaging than the effects predicted by the climate models, and have also been frequently beneficial. I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.” If anything, Dyson’s disputation of manmade global warming just adds to the list of scientific voices who are bucking the received “consensus” on temperatures.   (cuzzin ricky) At 91-years of age, the very idea that " a whole generation a fair percentage of climate science academia" could be corrupted—as they so utterly have been—by the lure of (Liberal) government grant money (with their acquiescence hinging on it), is too new school for Mr. Dyson to contemplate. Hell, I still have a hard time getting used to it.   * No, Mr. Dyson, Obama is backing his group's side of the AGW gambit.

ICE COLD

GREEN NAZIS                                     Cool! Antarctica From Space.. Cool picture, wot?  But oh-no—and this is why we can't enjoy nice things anymore before some public gadfly tells us why we really shouldn't be happy. Here Al Gore compares satellite pictures of Antarctica taken in 1875 and 2015 to demonstrate how the Earth's atmosphere has been eaten away by aerosol sprays, cow farts and auto exhaustion, causing this extreme meltiness. Oprah is astounded. So are we—at why nobody throws these harpies  down a volcano.

Obama Goes Full Stalin

GREEN NAZIS                                     Barack Obama Goes Full Stalin An actual email from the “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of any anti-science organization?” department and Barack Obama’s “Organizing for Action” front. The level of Soviet style criminal activity at the White House has reached spectacular new lows. On February 20, The White House sent out this E-mail announcing that they were going to start attacking individual scientists who dissented from the White House global warming agenda. Real Science Full After getting the e-mail alert from drummerick I sought confirmation; I checked with the gold standard on climate, Anthony Watts .  This. (Check out the comments from the mostly real scientists.) Friday Funny: Well if I was a ‘denier’ I guess I’d be on notice by Barack Obama In case you think this Obama message is an anomaly—that whack Greens are a minority within the inner Obama Proletariat—here's a sample that ought dissuade you. Arrest Climate-Change Deniers - Gawker Professor Calls for Death Penalty for Climate Change 'Deniers' Prof. Richard Parncutt: Death Penalty for Global Warming ... Climate Change Deniers Must Be KILLED? - YouTube 'Execute' Skeptics! - Climate Depot

AGW, Alger Hiss, and Obama was born in Hawaii

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Beating Dead Horses Because They Aren't Really Dead should be dead, but they ain't But this is how mass hysteria works - and how it always has worked, as the French author Gustave Le Bon observed in his influential 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. One of the key methods by which demagogues work their magic and sell their snake oil to the delusional masses is through the medium of repetition, which acts on people's brains like a virus. "Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is not on our side," said the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon at the launch of the report yesterday in Copenhagen, Denmark. "Those who choose to ignore or dispute the science so clearly laid out in this report do so at great risk for all of us and for our kids and grandkids," said US Secretary of State, John Kerry. What neither appears to have realised is that the report contains no new "science" whatsoever. That is because it is a political document not a scientific one. It merely synthesises the three (heavily criticised) reports released over the last 13 months by the IPCC's three Working Groups, cherrypicks the scariest bits, turns the hysteria up to 11, then asserts on this basis that drastic measures must be taken if disaster is to be averted. Again, what is going here most definitely isn't science. It's pure propaganda. Here, as summarised by the BBC's Environment Reporter Matt McGrath, are some of the synthesis report's key claims: 1. Warming is "unequivocal" and the human influence on climate is clear 2. Since the 1950s the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia 3. The period from 1983 to 2012, it says, was likely the warmest 30 year period of the last 1,400 years 4. Warming impacts are already being seen around the globe, in the acidification of the oceans, the melting of arctic ice and poorer crop yields in many parts 5. Without concerted action on carbon, temperatures will increase over the coming decades and could be almost 5C above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century None of these statements holds up to serious scrutiny. 1. Is so trivial as to be meaningless. Everyone agrees - dependent on timescale - that warming is unequivocal and that humans have an impact on climate, from the farts of beef cattle to the localised warming effects of cities. 2. Is a flat out lie. There have been several recorded instances of temperature rises at least as steep as the one post 1950. The most recent of these was the one between 1910 and 1940. 3. Dishonestly attempts to write off the Medieval Warm Period which - as even Michael Mann once admitted before he fully embraced the alarmist cause - saw average temperatures higher than in the late Twentieth century. 4. Is a litany of half-truths and straw men. Ocean acidification is little more than an urban myth. Arctic melting (or refreezing, as it is doing at the moment) tells us nothing about anthropogenic influences. The crop yields claim is misleading since the one thing we do know about the effects of growing CO2 levels is that they have contributed significantly to the greening of the planet. 5. Is a spectacularly arrogant assertion, giving the paucity of the evidence provided so far to justify it. As for that "5 degrees C by the end of the century" claim: not one of the computer models making such extravagant predictions has had any of its doomy prognostications to date validated by real world evidence. None of this, of course, will prevent the report being enthusiastically trumpeted by the usual suspects across the mainstream media from the Guardian and the BBC to the New York Times as representing incontrovertible truth that climate change is the most serious issue of our time and that we must act now.  [FULL] As I see it, the hallmark characteristic of "Progressives" may be found in this statement of fact; they still preach that communist spy Alger Hiss was an innocent victim.  So, yeah, it is necessary to beat these dead horses incessantly.   They are Demon Screwtape ministering to his nephew Wormwood, a.k.a. the intellectually lazy. skoonj

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Obama's Man Hagel

GREEN NAZIS                                     “ Pentagon unveils plan for military's response to climate change MILITARY READIES FOR 'CLIMATE' WAR... Pentagon Says 'Global Warming' Presents 'Immediate' Threat...  KERRY: 'Life as You Know It on Earth' At Risk... Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel addressed the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas on Monday, unveiling a comprehensive plan for how the U.S. military will address the effects of climate change. Rising global temperatures, increasing sea levels and intensifying weather events will challenge global stability, he said, and could lead to food and water shortages, pandemic disease and disputes over refugees and resources. The Pentagon’s “2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap” describes how global warming will bring new demands on the military. Among the report's conclusions: The President's purge of  the Officer Corps, and reduction in military readiness to the lowest level since post WWII leave us vulnerable to imminent threats from    Coastal military installations that are vulnerable to flooding will need to be altered; humanitarian assistance missions will be more frequent in the face of more intense natural disasters; weapons and other critical military equipment will need to work under more severe weather conditions. BLAH BLAH BLAH WHAT A CLUSTER FK! ”

More Global Warmist Fun

GREEN CRAP 'Stuck in our own experiment':  Leader of trapped team insists polar ice is melting “ Dec. 27, 2013: In this image provided by Australasian Antarctic Expedition/Footloose Fotography the Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy is trapped in thick Antarctic ice 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Australia. (AP) The leader of a scientific expedition whose ship remains stranded in Antarctic ice says the team, which set out to prove climate change, is "stuck in our own experiment." But Chris Turney, a professor of climate change at Australia’s University of New South Wales, said it was “silly” to suggest he and 73 others aboard the MV Akademic Shokalskiy were trapped in ice they’d sought to prove had melted. He remained adamant that sea ice is melting, even as the boat remained trapped in frozen seas. “We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” - Professor Chris Turney, leader of trapped expedition "We're stuck in our own experiment," the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said in a statement. We came to Antarctica to study how one of the biggest icebergs in the world has altered the system by trapping ice. We ... are now ourselves trapped by ice surrounding our ship. "Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up," the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said in a statement. Turney later told FoxNews.com the ice surrounding his ship is old, rather than recently formed, and likely from a particular 75 mile-long  iceberg that broke apart three years ago. Climate change may have prompted the iceberg to shatter and float into the previously open sea where the mostly Australian team finds itself stranded, Turney said. “The ice was swept across to this area by the South-East wind, its pieces creating a knock-on domino effect,” Turney told FoxNews.com, speaking from a tent erected on the stranded ship’s top deck. “We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.” But the situation has global warming skeptics poking fun at the scientists. “Cute how these Warmists who hate fossil fuels take a trip to the Antarctic to show just how horrible fossil-fueled climate change is, then need rescue from their fossil-fueled trip by other fossil-fueled ships and helicopters, which still can’t rescue them,” wrote one blogger on Pirate’s Covehttp://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png. The website Newsbustershttp://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png said much of the media has bent over backward to avoid linking the ship’s current fate with its mission. “Somewhere far, far to the south where it is summer, a group of global warming scientists are trapped in the Antarctic ice,” read a post on the site. “If you missed the irony of that situation, it is because much of the mainstream media has glossed over that rather inconvenient bit of hilarity.” So far, ice breakers have been unable to get closer than 10 miles from the stranded ship, which is surrounded by ice up to 10 feet thick. Stuck since Christmas Eve, it is about 100 nautical miles east of the French base Dumont D'Urville, and about 1,500 nautical miles south of Brisbane. Turney‘s team is studying climate change, as well as how wildlife is adapting to it. He noted that numerous penguins have traipsed across the ice from the nearby mainland to curiously observe the explorers. A Chinese ice breaker was unable to reach the ship, and another vessel, the Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis, got to within 10 nautical miles of the stranded ship but couldn’t see it through a driving blizzard, and had to turn back to open water. Turney told FoxNews.com his team is in good spirits, though it only has 10 days of food supplies. Icebergs pose an even greater danger to the ship than the surface ice that now has the ship in its grip, because they can pierce the hull of a ship like the Akademic Shokalskiy, in a Titanic scenario . Lisa Martin, of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating rescue attempts from their New South Wales headquarters told FoxNews.com icebergs have been seen in the area. ‘There are icebergs around,” agreed Turney. “[The ship] is not a good position.” The Aurora Australis is standing by in open water about 18 nautical miles east of the stranded ship, and could attempt another rescue once weather conditions improve, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. The best scenario for the scientists, agrees Turney, would be that the Aurora would be able to make a path through the ice, and somehow assist the Akademik Shokalskiy’s crew to turn their vessel around – not the easiest task when hemmed in by solid pack ice – so that it could follow the Australian icebreaker back into the safety of open water, and all the expedition’s passengers could stay comfortably on board. But indications are that the 74 will have to be evacuated. Turney says that the captain of the Aurora has already offered specialized storage space for samples collected during the expedition. And a helicopter from a nearby Chinese ship is standing by to land on the ice next to the stranded ship and transfer the team, sources say, probably to the Aurora. [FoxNews.com] "It is so funny to listen to these warmists, who have to be rescued from their own folly.  All the while insisting global warming is melting the very ice they are stuck in.  And now they have to rely on icebreakers powered by the fossil fuels they say is melting the ice!  I wonder who triple dog dared them to go there."  Skoonj Skoonj, this is the second most delicious thing I've seen all day!   Bravo. ”

New Aussie Government Nail it!

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Boris Johnson

GREEN CRAP It’s snowing, and it really feels like the start of a mini ice age Something is up with our winter weather. Could it be the Sun is having a slow patch? “ Off hand I can't think of a (male) American  politician I like and admire more than London Mayor (liberal conservative) Boris Johnson.  I only know him via his appearances on Top Gear, where he spars with Jeremy Clarkson, who is, if we're honest, a friend and constituent) when Johnson was an MP). So, today, as his direct opposite  in scope of intellect, likability, and documented past,  Vows action on 'climate change, Boris takes pen in hand' to say something sensible.   "The Sun is god!” cried JMW Turner as he died, and plenty of other people have thought there was much in his analysis. The Aztecs agreed, and so did the pharaohs of Egypt. We are an arrogant lot these days, and we tend to underestimate the importance of our governor and creator. We forget that we were once just a clod of cooled-down solar dust; we forget that without the Sun there would have been no photosynthesis, no hydrocarbons — and that it was the great celestial orb that effectively called life into being on Earth. In so far as we are able to heat our homes or turn on our computers or drive to work it is thanks to the unlocking of energy from the Sun. As a species, we human beings have become so blind with conceit and self-love that we genuinely believe that the fate of the planet is in our hands — when the reality is that everything, or almost everything, depends on the behaviour and caprice of the gigantic thermonuclear fireball around which we revolve. I say all this because I am sitting here staring through the window at the flowerpot and the bashed-up barbecue, and I am starting to think this series of winters is not a coincidence. The snow on the flowerpot, since I have been staring, has got about an inch thicker. The barbecue is all but invisible. By my calculations, this is now the fifth year in a row that we have had an unusual amount of snow; and by unusual I mean snow of a kind that I don’t remember from my childhood: snow that comes one day, and then sticks around for a couple of days, followed by more. I remember snow that used to come and settle for just long enough for a single decent snowball fight before turning to slush; I don’t remember winters like this. Two days ago I was cycling through Trafalgar Square and saw icicles on the traffic lights; and though I am sure plenty of readers will say I am just unobservant, I don’t think I have seen that before. I am all for theories about climate change, and would not for a moment dispute the wisdom or good intentions of the vast majority of scientists. (Continued) ”