Antarctica hasn’t warmed as much over the last century as climate models had originally predicted, a new study finds.
Climate change’s effects on Antarctica are of particular interest because of the substantial amount of water locked up in its ice sheets. Should that water begin to melt, sea levels around the globe could rise and inundate low-lying coastal areas. Read the rest of this entry »
Understanding the ocean’s effect on climate took a quantum leap forward in 2003 when the first of 3,000 new automated ocean buoys were deployed, a significant improvement over earlier buoys that took their measurements mostly at the ocean’s surface.
The new buoys, known as Argos, drift along the world’s oceans at a depth of about 6,000 feet constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity, and speed of ocean currents. Every 10 days or so a bladder inflates, bringing them to the surface as they take their readings at various depths. Read the rest of this entry »
Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.
The study was based on sea-surface temperatures of currents that move heat around the world, and vary from decade to decade. This regional cooling effect may temporarily neutralize the long- term warming phenomenon caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases building up around the earth, said Richard Wood, a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, a U.K. provider of environmental and weather-related services… Read the rest of this entry »
Classic interview by John Stossel of Arianna Huffington which shows just how out of touch those on the left really are….and what hypocrites. You can skip the first 5 minutes, just some background on the lady. The good stuff starts after 5 minutes on:
I love it. She complains about welfare reform but John shows her what welfare reform really did. Eight million left the rolls and the income of low-income families are higher while unemployment is down. Yup, how terrible. Read the rest of this entry »
I heard on the news the other day, that some Marines are pissed and that the Time Magazine editor sees nothing wrong on the evocative Joe Rosenthal image photo-shopping, hijacking the symbolic heroism that is burned in the psyche of every red-blooded American.
“It’s an absolute disgrace. Whoever did it is going to hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.”-Donald Mates, 3rd Marine Division veteran of Iwo Jima
“That global warming is the biggest joke I’ve ever known. [W]e’ll stick a dadgum tree up somebody’s rear if they want that and think that’s going to cure something.” - Lt. John Keith Wells, leader of the platoon that raised the flags on Mt. Suribachi and co-author of “Give Me Fifty Marines Not Afraid to Die: Iwo Jima”
I think a Flopping Aces photo-shop contest is in order…
Can anyone think of any other iconoclastic images that is worthy of photo-shop in the spirit of the Time Magazine cover, to point out how ridiculous and offensive the comparative symbolism is? Curt is offering the contest winner an item from the FA store.
If you are not good at photoshopping, perhaps offer image ideas for others to try out.
Excellent article by Kenneth Green about the fact that those who disagree with the Goracles take on global warming are called deniers:
Once upon a time, the media believed in the open exchange of opinions regarding public policy. People who had doubts about one or another claim put forward by activists and crusaders could express those thoughts without fear of censure or ridicule. And, to be fair, that is still the case in many areas of social policy.
But there’s one hot-button issue on which virtually no dissent is allowed: climate change. In a style reminiscent of the old Soviet Union, people disagreeing with any element of the agenda pursued by Al Gore and his climate catastrophists have been derided as “deniers,” a term clearly intended to equate dissent with mental illness, if not post hoc complicity in atrocities (as in “Holocaust denier”). “Fifteen per cent of the people believe the moon landing was staged on some movie lot and a somewhat smaller number still believe the Earth is flat,” Gore says. “They all get together on a Saturday night and party with the global-warming deniers.” Read the rest of this entry »
Envirozealots aren’t very subtle about their attempt to influence the ongoing debate!
When the BBC reported that the UN’s World Meteorological Organization confirmed that global temperature increases have been stalled since 1998, the envirozealots had a cow!
How dare the BBC report the news accurately without spinning it to insist that even though this information is true, global warming is real and man is to blame!
One envirozealot took it upon herself to educate the reporter and via email, repeatedly “demanded” a change in the story. And guess what? After first insisting they wouldn’t change the story, the BBC folded and made the changes demanded by the envirozealot.
Jennifer Marohasy, the global warming skeptic whose views we featured in a post two weeks ago got ahold of the email exchange between the BBC reporter and the envirozealot. Read the rest of this entry »
America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America’s Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western economies the trump card against OPEC’s short squeeze on oil supply and making Iranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted supply irrelevant.
I am absolutely astounded that someone who refuses to publicly debate anyone on this matter and has no training in the field narrated a movie where frames of nuclear explosions were interspersed in a subliminal way in scenes of droughts and flood, among other major gaffes, can say these things and then have them accepted… by anyone.
The list of degreed meteorologists, climatologists, scientists, that signed the Manhatten declaration stating their disagreement with Mssr. Gore’s premises grows by the day.
What gets me most is he goes on unchallenged one-on-one on this. Never in all my years of competition have I seen someone elevated to a level that he is, in any thing, without any face-to-face competition to establish credibility. Read the rest of this entry »
- are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat.Read the rest of this entry »
Another couple of years and the Global Warming hoax will be exposed! Science doesn’t lie even if environmentalists do!
Climate facts to warm to by Christopher Pearson The Australian March 22, 2008
CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.
Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril. [full interview audio here]
John Tierney writes about the money paid to the man-man global warming crowd in his new article for the New York Times. In it he notes the criticism he received for speaking at a event that was funded by the Heartland Institute. The environazi’s were all aghast because they believed the institute to be funded by fossil fuel companies. Nevermind that the money from fossil fuel companies have never been over 5% of their budget, in their minds thats enough to be a tool for big oil. John notes similiarites with this kind of stuff and the “fat is bad” studies done in the 70’s:
These criticisms remind me of what happened to scientists who dissented from the “consensus” on the dangers of dietary fat in the 1970s, which I wrote about in this column about Gary Taubes’ book, “Good Calories, Bad Calories.” The skeptics were eventually vindicated by studies casting doubt on the link between fat and heart disease and cancer, but not before some of them were marginalized by accusations that they’d been corrupted by research grants from food companies. Read the rest of this entry »
