Global Warming Wrapup: Lack Of Oxygen The “New” Crisis, Bugs The “New” Cause Of Global Warming, Green Fatigue, IPCC Not Unanimous, The New AGW Religion, The Ice Not Melting, Head Doctors Pissed About AGW Debate

(h/t Tom Nelson)

Behold the new environazi crisis…..lack of oxygen on the earth:

The inventiveness of the Greens, when it comes to creating a new crisis after an old one has run its course, is truly extraordinary.

Since the 1980s we have been living with and refuting the notion that carbon dioxide (CO2) has so filled the Earth’s atmosphere that we are all doomed if we don’t shut down every industry known to man and God. The name given to this invented crisis is “global warming.” The problem for the Greens is that the Earth, since around 1998, is not warming. It’s cooling.

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Peter Tatchell published an article in The Guardian, a very liberal British newspaper, entitled “The Oxygen Crisis”…The August 13 article suggested that there had been a “long-term fall in oxygen concentrations” around the Earth. The basis for the next great crisis, an Earth with less oxygen, was being tested to see if it had any legs.

Dr. Roy Spencer, a NASA scientist, summed up the reaction of his colleagues. “It doesn’t get much more stupid than this.”

The latest cause of global warming….bugs:

More than 600 insect killers and entymologists from Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand convened in a Bangkok hotel for the biannual event to share their knowledge of the latest killer chemicals and techniques. The industry is worth an estimated 3.5 billion dollars this year to Thailand alone.

But this year’s summit brought with it a global message — insects cause climate change.

Suchart [Leelayuthyotin, director of the Thailand Pest Management Association] said bugs are one of the main contributors to global warming because of the CO2 they emit when passing wind.

“Every termite will emit CO2 from their gut because when they consume the wood and digest it they get wind,” Suchart explained.

Some are getting smarter:

But there is evidence to suggest that all this green noise is leading to green fatigue — everybody is just getting a little bit eco-exhausted.

In a recent survey conducted by the Shelton Group, a Texas-based ad agency, 49% of US consumers said the environment was an important consideration when they purchased a product. But only 21% said that environmental considerations had led them to choose one product over another.

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And the survey found that in 2007, 20% fewer consumers deliberately bought an environmentally friendly product than in 2006. Consumers seem to be figuring out that most eco-friendly claims are just a lot of marketing bluster.

Wishing away the skeptics:

Another withering attack has come over the IPCC’s extraordinary use of a vital, but since discredited, use of data falsely claiming the world hadn’t been this warm in human history.

The UN panel reports were developed by about 500 scientists, reviewed by another 2000, then sanitised word-by-word at the whim of bureaucrats from about 120 countries until it was a conservative, policy-neutral document with no recommendations. Yet they still came out with the conclusion it was a 90% likelihood humans were causing climate change.

Morton/Karoly mislead if they are suggesting all 2500 IPCC scientists stand by the IPCC conclusion on man’s effect on the climate. A number, in fact, do not. Many others were not even consulted over the conclusions.

When the dissenting scientists are so casually wished away, and the believing scientists just as breezily exaggerated in number, I start to wonder how cavalier Marto and/or Karoly might be with other evidence that doesn’t suit them, either.

The new religion:

I think sharing the planet and making sure there is lots left over for the next generation is a good thing too.

But I think it’s a little much when there isn’t a single thing that isn’t pointed out as the result of global warming. A hot day in the summer — global warming. A cold day in the winter — global warming. Too much rain — global warming. Not enough rain — global warming. Didn’t finish your school homework — global warming.

The human effect on global warming with all its variations has become the new religion.

Actually, it’s become the new big business of activists, consultants, pundits and others who have grasped it with both hands as a way of being taken seriously.

Melting ice….or is it really melting?

Just a few weeks ago, predictions of Arctic ice collapse were buzzing all over the internet. Some scientists were predicting that the “North Pole may be ice-free for first time this summer”. Others predicted that the entire “polar ice cap would disappear this summer”.

The Arctic melt season is nearly done for this year. The sun is now very low above the horizon and will set for the winter at the North Pole in five weeks. And none of these dire predictions have come to pass. Yet there is, however, something odd going on with the ice data.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado released an alarming graph on August 11, showing that Arctic ice was rapidly disappearing, back towards last year’s record minimum. Their data shows Arctic sea ice extent only 10 per cent greater than this date in 2007, and the second lowest on record.

The problem is that this graph does not appear to be correct. Other data sources show Arctic ice having made a nice recovery this summer. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center data shows 2008 ice nearly identical to 2002, 2005 and 2006. Maps of Arctic ice extent are readily available from several sources, including the University of Illinois, which keeps a daily archive for the last 30 years. A comparison of these maps (derived from NSIDC data) below shows that Arctic ice extent was 30 per cent greater on August 11, 2008 than it was on the August 12, 2007.

Americans wising up:

The latest ABC News/Planet Green/Stanford University poll on “global warming” suggests more Americans are beginning to understand they are being manipulated by one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of the world.

Though one must read carefully between the lines of this survey conducted by three entities entirely committed to perpetuating the fraud, it’s clear fewer Americans are buying in to the notion that the world is on the precipice of man-made, catastrophic climate change.

For starters, clear majorities support offshore oil drilling (63 percent) in currently restricted waters and production in off-limits wilderness areas (55 percent).

Next, 64 percent rate “finding new energy sources” more important than improving conservation – which is not good news for Barack Obama’s energy plan of inflating tires and getting more tune-ups.

Though 80 percent of Americans believe global warming is happening, that number is down 5 percent from 2006. And because the highly subjective pollsters do not make any distinction between mere cyclical, naturally occurring global warming and the man-made, catastrophic variety, it’s actually a puzzlement the number is so low.

Keep in mind the way Americans have been hammered relentlessly, night and day, in schools and universities, in the news media, in entertainment programming, Madison Avenue, not to mention both major presidential campaigns as well as the current president that man-made, catastrophic global warming is a fact.

Fewer Americans consider themselves environmentalists than in polls dating back to 1989 – suggesting the activists may have overreached and overextended in their zealotry.

Businesses and government are rated equally in trust to reduce global warming among those who believe in it.

Only 25 percent of Americans identify global warming as the single biggest environmental problem in the world. That is simply astonishing given the overwhelming amount of one-sided information that has been spoon-fed to the public by elitists trying to manipulate the general populace into giving up their rights and emptying their pocketbooks. That percentage, by the way, is down 8 points from last year.

There’s another 8 percent drop in the number of Americans who think global warming is caused mainly by man’s activity. Only 47 percent say global warming is important to them personally, a drop of 5 percent.

About half of Americans distrust scientists – with good reason given the way so many have lined up like lemmings to get government grants to affirm the hoax. Also interesting is that 57 percent recognize there’s “a lot of disagreement” among scientists about whether the threat is real.

The psychologists no longer want to explore the human mind but rather how to change the minds of those who are skeptics:

Those who make human behavior their business aim to make living “green” your business.

Armed with new research into what makes some people environmentally conscious and others less so, the 148,000-member American Psychological Association is stepping up efforts to foster a broader sense of eco-sensitivity that the group believes will translate into more public action to protect the planet.

“We know how to change behavior and attitudes. That is what we do,” says Yale University psychologist Alan Kazdin, association president. “We know what messages will work and what will not.”

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News stories that provided a balanced view of climate change reduced people’s beliefs that humans are at fault and also reduced the number of people who thought climate change would be bad, according to research by Stanford social psychologist Jon Krosnick.

His presentation will detail a decade of American attitudes about climate change. His new experiment, conducted in May, illustrates what he says is a public misperception about global warming. He says there is scientific consensus among experts that climate change is occurring, but the nationwide online poll of 2,600 adults asked whether they believe scientists agree or disagree about it.

By editing CNN and PBS news stories so that some saw a skeptic included in the report, others saw a story in which the skeptic was edited out and another group saw no video, Krosnick found that adding 45 seconds of a skeptic to one news story caused 11% of Americans to shift their opinions about the scientific consensus. Rather than 58% believing a perceived scientific agreement, inclusion of the skeptic caused the perceived amount of agreement to drop to 47%.

Oh, the horror. Showing both sides to a debate is bad……

Yeah….

Because we know the science is settled right. Al Gore told us that the ice and snow on Mount Kilimanjaro will be gone soon due to AGW. Turns out that settled science was wrong once more:

A scientific theory has linked the loss of snow on Mount Kilimanjaro to deforestation and dismissed suggestions that the dwindling of glaciers on Africa`s highest peak was due to global warming.

The theory is highlighted in a recent study report compiled by two researchers from Britain`s Portsmouth University, Nicholas Pepin and Martin Schaefer, who surveyed the mountain`s glaciers for 11 days.

The researchers, who revealed their findings at a news conference in Dar es Salaam yesterday, said the mountain`s glacier surface had shrunk from 20 km in 1880 to a mere two kilometres in 2000.

They said the development was caused more by local than regional factors, with Pepin suggesting that deforestation mainly due to extensive farming as the major cause.

“Deforestation of the mountain`s foothills is the most likely culprit because without forests there is too much evaporation of humidity into outer space.

The result is that moisture-laden winds blowing across those forests have become drier and drier,“ he explained.

Those psychologists would be pissed to learn that a newspaper dared to show how wrong the environazi’s were…..beware the angry head doctors!