Nature, not Humans, rules the Climate

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This little email arrived today.

from: Al Gore

to: maggie

subject: Skeptical propaganda

My disciples in Sweden have urged me to make You stop Your skeptical propaganda machine. Have You no heart? What about these cuddly polar bears drowning? What about the polar ice sheets? What about the ever increasing number of wild fires, droughts, orcanoes? What about the rising sea-level? I know it’s all crap but why would You deny me my standard of living? You are free to start Your own AGW- campaigns! As of matter of fact, we are offering, right now, a package on a franchise basis, where You will be able to scare the hell out of people and make a buck! Let me know if You’re interested. I’ve sold a whole bunch to Sweden. (Nice watches by the way).

Faithfully Yours,

Al Gore, saviour of the Earth

Here’s Cato Institute’s climate ad signed by 100 scientists who claim that climate change has been grossly overstated. Of course, the AGW side has already dismissed this action. Same old, same old, they say. No new names on the list. Just the usual suspects, getting more and more desperate.

According to Amato Evan, a researcher with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, most of the warming in the Atlantic Ocean is largely due to reductions in airborne dust and volcanic emissions during the past 30 years.

His study results suggest that only about 30 percent of the observed Atlantic temperature increases are due to other factors, such as a warming climate. While not discounting the importance of global warming, Evan says this adjustment brings the estimate of global warming impact on Atlantic more into line with the smaller degree of ocean warming seen elsewhere, such as the Pacific.

The new paper is coauthored by Ralf Bennartz and Daniel Vimont of UW-Madison and Andrew Heidinger and James Kossin of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and UW-Madison, and was published in Science on March 26.

Another AGW-proof that bites the dust…

It is high time for enlightment!

Let there be as much light as possible on Saturday March 28, between 8.30-9.30 pm (local time).

We don’t need more darkness! Let there be light (Genesis 1:3)!

PS But remember to turn off the light when you don’t need it.

Cato Institute is planning a newspaper ad campaign to counter the proposed restrictions on greenhouse gases. Several hundred of scientists have received an email inivitation to sign this ad and thus fight climate regulation.

The invitation goes like this:

Subject: global warming ad IMPORTANT
Date: 23 Mar 2009 12:51:40 -0400
Dear colleague,

Attached is an ad that Cato Institute will be placing in major newspapers in the U.S. as soon as possible. It is the same format as one we sent out last month attacking a statement that all economists agreed with the need for the stimulus package. That one was highly successful and helped to frame civil discourse on the subject.

We believe we can do the same with respect to the notion that “the science is settled” on climate change, and I am asking your permission to use your name and affiliation in our ad. Please also note if you have an advanced degree in a pertinent field. We NEED YOUR RESPONSE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE DEADLINES.

Many thanks ,

Pat Michaels
Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies

Cato’s aim is to show that there are several respected scientists in climatology and related fields who do NOT believe that the facts are clear and that the science concerning global warming is settled. But as I said, Andrew Revkin, reporter at the New York Times, doubts that Cato and Michaels will succeed to find enough scientists to sign the ad.

“[M]y guess is it’d be hard to find more than a handful of scientists working on the intertwined climate and energy challenges who would say that fossil-fueled business as usual is the best approach to getting humanity through its 21st-century growth spurt in great shape”, he writes.

But then again, this wasn’t really the question, was it?

Your life is at steak.

Remember Mr Pachauri? He wanted us to stop eating red meat to save the earth. Meat comes from cows that burp methane. Methane is making the world bake. So meat is bad for the climate.

But now, a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests another solution to the global warming problem. According to the study results, high intakes of red meat may increase the risk of mortality. Thus, red meat can cause early death. And remember, one human less is one human carbon footprint less.

So now, we just need to do some math. What’s better for the planet? To eat methane-burping cows and die prematurely, or to live long enough to make up for all that lost methane by higher CO2-emissions? Any volunteers?

Al Gore’s ambitious propaganda tool - The Climate Project - now presents its youngest US-trained presenter. His name is Alex Loorz and he’s 14, a Freshman at El Camino High School in Ventura, California.

“Feeling the weight of the global situation”, Alex founded  Kids vs Global Warming when he was 12 years old, right after watching “An Inconvenient Truth.” Now he’s been officially trained (read: further indoctrinated) by Al Gore and his Climate Project. He will be continue to travel around and “spread the word” to other school children.

What is the world coming to?

Being it weekend and all, I’d like to introduce you to a totally carbon neutral beer. The Cascade Green is made by the Cascade Brewery in Tasmania, using Tasmanian ingredients wherever possible. The beer is also low on carbs (go figure).

100 percent carbon neutral

My favorite are the ants marching over the screen. And as for beer, well, I’ll take a Bass Pale Ale.

Coventry climate change funeral march, featuring Jim Hansen. Fortunately, only a few hundred participated. Perhaps even the British are growing tired of Hansen’s alarmism?