News Snippets From All Beats

Because it hasn’t happened, and according to the global warming conspirators’ predictive time line we can tell that it’s not going to happen, now would be a good time to reflect on exactly what anthropogenic global warming was supposed to be.  Global warming was something we were destined to witness, experience, and suffer under if we didn’t obey every word that came out of Al Gore’s mouth, give all our money to the UN, and go agrarian (greens eating greens).  Americans were decried as the obstructionists who were in large part responsible for impending doom because we wouldn’t knuckle under and commit civilizational suicide.

So what was global warming supposed to do, that is be doing, by now? Christopher Booker at the Telegraph.uk in England reminded his readers a few days ago that the fear mongers and conspirators threatened climate change on the order of “the destruction of Himalayan glaciers and Amazonian rainforest; famine in Africa; fast-rising sea levels; the threat of hurricanes, droughts, floods and heatwaves all becoming more frequent.”¹  None of these climate changes are happening as the warmists claimed they would, and some activity, such as falling sea levels and the occurrence of hurricanes are actually moving in the opposite direction from their predictions.   Booker takes time to point some of this out because the exposed conspirators are attempting to wiggle.

The contention is being heard from some that just because they got a few of the facts wrong, the science is, as the EPA recently put it, “settled.”²  Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for who is suing the EPA in court over that ‘settled’ science to block the EPA from using it to ruin our lives.³

We also owe the English newspapers for keeping the heat on the warmists and getting the facts out in what is the biggest scandal in history.  It is not merely matter of warmists getting a few facts wrong; it is the discovery that conspirators knowingly suppressed evidence that refuted their climate claims, acted to prevent other scientists from having their studies that contradicted global warming from being published, manipulated computer models to get the results they wanted, and did all of this in order to lie to the world to get the political and financial policies they desired for prestige and profit.  That is what global warming was.

Notes:

^1. Christopher Booker, “A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC,” Telegraph.co.uk, February 27, 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7332803/A-perfect-storm-is-brewing-for-the-IPCC.html

^2. Molly Henneberg, “EPA, Countering Critics of Greenhouse Gas Findings, Says ‘Science Is Settled,” FOXNews.com, February 19, 2010.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/19/epa-countering-critics-greenhouse-gas-findings-says-science-settled/

^3. Rex Springston, “Va. challenges EPA’s stance on global warming,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 17, 2010. http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/article/CUCC17_20100216-222005/324766/

The English government is spending approximately $92 million dollars to purchase carbon credits as a consequence of surpassing their CO2 emissions cap.  The Certified Emissions Reduction (CER) credits will be brokered by Barclays, JP Morgan and company who will earn about $13 million in fee for the transaction.¹  The CER program is run by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and England is forced to pay this emissions fine because they are a signatory to the Kyoto climate treaty.  In addition to making bankers richer, the millions of taxpayer dollars go from the pockets of England’s taxpayers to the pockets of corporations in China and India.  What England gets in return for all that money is nothing, unless you count the feeling some global warming theorists get for believing they are saving the planet from anthropogenic global warming; which, as Climategate has revealed, is still nothing.  America would suffer nearly the same fate as England if we let cap-and-trade legislation pass into law.  Eventually, every economy tied to the UN style scam will collapse.  Even if Englishmen came to their senses tomorrow and somehow bailed out of the UN’s global warming hoax, they will have as much luck getting their money back as they would chasing a postage stamp in a hurricane.

^1. Christopher Booker, “L60 bill for the CO2 of our political class,” Telegraph.co.uk, February 20, 2010.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7280348/60m-bill-for-the-CO2-of-our-political-class.html

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), working closely with the Obama administration, declared last December that green house gases, including carbon dioxide, are dangerous to human health.  This gives the EPA the ability to act alone in setting emission standards that would begin to strangle industry and send America’s economic downturn into a complete nose-dive.  Obama is threatening to turn the EPA lose to do just that if he doesn’t get his cap-and-tread legislation from congress which will virtually do the same thing.  This ‘damned if you do, and damned if you don’t’ alternative, coupled with the exposure of the global warming hoax still unraveling in the press, has finally prompted states to take action in court.  Texas has filed a petition in federal court to challenge the EPA’s authority, and the state of Virginia has done the same.  Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli noted that the anticipated action of the EPA would put a “staggering burden” on Virginians.¹  He’s right.  That’s what the EPA wants to do, and that is what Obama wants to do, and they need to be fought until they stagger out of the ring and retire.

^1. Molly Henneberg, “EPA, Countering Criics of Greenhouse Gas Findings, Says ‘Science Is Settled’,” Fox News.com, February 19, 2010. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/19/epa-countering-critics-greenhouse-gas-findings-says-science-settled/

Large energy companies that have been reaching back to cover their behinds, have recently reached back and found their spines.  ConocoPhillips, the third largest integrated energy company in America, and BP, the largest oil company in Europe, bailed out of United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) on Tuesday.  The common reason, as BP puts it, is “to spend time addressing the issues that impact our shareholders and consumers.”¹ Their involvement in USCAP, organized in 2007, was to cooperate with governments in seeking ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they have suddenly lost faith in the legislation that squeaked through the House, but is now stalled-out in the Senate.   The reason the cap-and-trade bill has run out of gas is because the jig is up.  The global warming hoax is unraveling so fast that it’s created its own vortex.  The most recent conspirator to get sucked off the stage is U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer.  Dr. Boer announced on Thursday that he has quit, and will be quietly phasing himself out until his disappears in July.  In a dispensation of poetic justice, things just got too hot for Boer.  Now, that’s warming we can appreciate.

^1. Shelia McNulty, Anna Fifield, “BP deals blow to Obama fight on climate,” Financial Times, FT.com. February 16, 2010.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/844be172-1b3a-11df-953f-00144feab49a.html

Phil Jones, Former director of climate research at University of East Anglia, has been suicidal over the reaction to his emails that were published showing his manipulation of data in order to support global warming theory.  Jones also lamented that he lacked public relations skill that could have helped him to weather the scandal.¹  No one in their right mind would wish Jones to take his life.  The only hope serious people have is that he would end his support for the failed theory of global warming.  It would be the honest thing to do.  And this word of advice: repentance will take you much further than PR skills.

^1. Time Online, “I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones,” February 7, 2010.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7017922.ece

Photo: The Washington Post. 

Climate just won’t cooperate with global warming conspirators.  On top of all the other record breaking rain and snow, now a record storm is scheduled to hit the east coast and drop 30″ of snow in D.C. area alone.  The National Weather Service is warning of “extremely dangerous winter weather conditions” as they track possibly the biggest storm to hit the region since records were kept.¹  The president may not want to admit it, and the lying scientists are still lying, and Al Gore is still, well, Al Gore, but the informed man on the ground is redefining the term Cap-and-Trade to mean: make sure to wear a cap, and trade almost anything for a good snow shovel.

 ^1. Watches, Warnings, & Advisories, The National Weather Service, February 5, 2010.

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=DCZ001&warncounty=DCC001&firewxzone=DCZ001&local_place1=Washington+DC&product1=Special+Weather+Statement

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is refusing to apologize.¹  The issue this time is a factual error in the Panel’s 2007 report claiming that the Himalayan glaciers were very likely to melt as a result of global warming by 2035.  It turns out the information cited in the report actually came from observations made by some hikers, and a school paper writing by a geography student.  Dr. Pachauri said he can’t be held responsible for every word in the 3,000 page report.  That’s alright.  Many of us are refusing to apologizing for correctly identifying global warming theory as nothing more than a socialist plan to redistribute wealth under false pretenses held together by conspiracies; because we’re not responsible for global warming.

 ^1. David Adam and Fred Pearce, “No apology from IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri for glacier fallacy,” guardian.co.uk, February 2, 2010.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/02/climate-change-pachauri-un-glaciers

News reports on climate change are now telling many what they already knew.  The decadal oscillation of ocean currents and other climate cycles have been naturally taking their course without any influence from mankind, and are now entering into to a period of global cooling.  This fact has put a chill on the excitement of some scientists who followed the evidence and not the party line.

When thinking back ten years ago to his work in the global warming campaign, scientist Dr. David Evans recounts: “It was great. We were working to save the planet.”¹   Since that time, Evans has been disabused of that euphoria as he has honestly faced the evidence that carbon emissions simply don’t cause the sort of warming governments are being told they do.  Not even close, for that matter.

According to Evens, “There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None.”²  He should know, he’s the scientist who authored the carbon accounting model for the Australian government, and today he is making the case against anthropogenic global warming conspiracy.

Perhaps other proponents of global warming that were only a few years ago so vociferous in accusing dissenters from the theory of being “deniers” for purely political and monetary reasons will also come forward and change their views to match the evidence.³  Or maybe they’re waiting for spring, it is pretty cold out there.

Notes:

^{1 - 2.} David Evans, “No Smoking Hot Spot,” The Australian, January 18, 2010. 

^3. Sharon Begley, “Global Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine,” MSNCB.com, (accessed August 20, 2007). Originally pubublished as  “The Truth About Denial,” Newsweek, August 13, 2007. citations are from the MSNBC title. http://www.newsweek.com/id/32482.

^{see also:} David Dansker, “The Truth - About the Truth About Denial,” TheNewsBeats.com, News Snippets from All Beats (August 20, 2007).  http://www.thenewsbeats.com/news/2007/08/20/the-truth-about-the-truth-about-denial/

Superman: Man has thought he has become powerful enough to destroy the world in his own time; man must become powerful enough to save it in his own eyes.

Several articles have appeared here chronicling the global warming hoax and the motivations for perpetuating that hoax. Many developments in the scandal have made the news lately, and the unraveling of the fraudulent science and associated conspiracies has been rapid fire.  The following link is provided here for a concise topical overview:

Copenhagen and “ClimateGate“

China is reportedly in the grip of global cooling.  Hail storms have killed 14 people thus far and injured 180, with more dangerous weather in the forecasts.  In Beijing, day literally turned to night as another storm lashed the city at about noon today.  The footnote that makes this story news?  This is June 16, 2009.

With the President handing out billions unabated by a Congress that’s gone swimming in the pork barrel, and the Federal Reserve making secret trillion dollar loans to people they refuse to identify, for terms they refuse disclose, the printing presses can’t keep up.  The tailor made solution for these irresponsible socialists  is the fairy tale of global warming.  This is where the citizens are blamed for climate change and then bled to death with taxes so that the spending and the fascist takeover can continue.  Put another way: a one hundred percent profit for selling something that doesn’t exist, and passing laws which force everyone to buy it.   Here comes Energy and Climate Czar Carol Browner (always loved those Russian titles on American bureaucrats) to collect 2 Trillion for the environment.¹

The Green Evangelists and the Green Reich can be counted on to sing their hymns to Obama over the cry from the bloodletting, but this pretense that these are only taxes won’t last very long.

With the world economy crashing, even Russia is ready to throw in the ruble and is pushing for a world currency now.  Why? Lets look at it from the dollar’s perspective.  The American dollar is only backed by a promise to pay, and supported by the faith of its holders.  With equity and pension and retirement funds having vaporized in the last few months, that faith is vanishing too.  A one world currency would put all politicians and tyrants in a unique position as it would be backed by fear.  There would be no escaping, and no looking back to bring those in government responsible for this melt down to justice, and, more importantly, no corrections to ensure that freedom continues.

It would be illegal in a one world currency to barter or trade in anything other than the official currency, and penalties would include confiscation of wealth and property.  A one world currency would also be a great equalizer, or an irresistible opportunity to for the reigning socialists to redistribute wealth.  The assets conversions codes would be written in such a way as to transfer most private wealth and property to the hands of government, and leave everyone equally poor, and starving, and communists.  At last.  Now here’s change we can heave in.

^1. Tom LoBianco, “Obama Climate Plan Could Cost $2 Trillion,” Wahsington Times, March 18, 2009.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/18/obama-climate-plan-could-cost-2-trillion/

The Heartland Institute will be hosting the second International Conference on Climate Change in New York City March 8 - 10, 2009. Over 70 leading scientists are scheduled to confront the global warming theory with new research that contradicts it.¹ Also invited to attend is geologist and former astronaut Harrison Schmitt who resigned from the Planetary Society after it blamed mankind for warming the planet.  According to Schmitt, the “global warming scare is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.”²  With perspective like that you’d think the guy stood on the moon and looked back; and he did.

Note:

^1. The Heartland Institute, “Global Warming: Was It Ever Really A Crisis?” International Conference on Climate Change, March 8 -10. February 15, 2009. http://www.heartland.org/

^2. Associated Press, “Former astronaut speaks out on global warming,” February 15, 2009. http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view/2009_02_15_Former_astronaut_speaks_out_on_global_warming/srvc=home&position=recent

Here is how it would work: 1) huge new green taxes are to be levied on everyone and everything that moves or stands still. 2) the money goes to Washington for politicians to spend it on stimulus packages to bail out businesses that have gone broke because of the cost the new taxes have added to doing business. 3) this further stains on the economy causing industry to implode and collapse. 4) the dramatically reduced industrial activity has no affect on climate change due to the main factors responsible: such as volcanic activity, cyclical changes in ocean temperature, and the influences from outside the solar system such as the impact that cosmic rays have on cloud production.  5) politicians determine the reason for failing to control the climate is that taxes were not high enough, and the new little ice age we are experiencing is more global warming.

You can get this ridicules stuff here, or you can get from people who work at NASA.  No joke.  According to NASA scientist Jim Hansen, a leading climate expert, Barack Obama has only four years to save the earth, and he is calling for the precipitous actions outlined above by demanding step one be taken immediately.

Economy - The federal budget deficit will climb to $1.2 trillion dollars this year.  President-elect Obama is pledging to provide an economic stimulus package starting at $775 billion (before Congress ratchets it upwards from there), and that is not counted yet towards the deficit.  With the proposed tax cuts and spending programs, where is the money going to come from?  One approach to keeping the spigot running without running the printing presses overnight would be to put the money in one pocket and then take it out of the other pocket.

Cutting income taxes would temporally free up disposable income, but the government could recoup the revenue by implementing Green taxes by which it could regain the tax cuts at every transaction.  Things are so bad that the government may even start collecting the Green taxes at no transaction at all.  The FDA is currently proposing a greenhouse gas tax on livestock due to the fact that they produce carbon dioxide and methane gas, and this would be passed on in food prices.  Interestingly, people also fall into this greenhouse gas-production category, and a tax on breathing would arguably be far more insidious than the income tax.

Global Warming - “Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.” In the first place, computer models touted to be near inerrant failed to predict the current plunge in temperatures.  The global warming faithful no doubt hoped that the dropping mercury and rising snow levels which began last winter would be an anomaly and minor inconvenience to their inconvenient spoof, but the cooling continues through this winter.  Secondly, natural forces such as ocean currents, which man cannot find a dial to control, have rightly diminished the idea of humans affecting climate.  Thirdly, hundreds of scientists, including meteorologists, are finding the nerve and resolve to speak out openly against the politics of fear and intimidation that under gird the preposterous lie that mankind is driving the weather to his detriment, and only government mediation in the form of oppressive taxes and lifestyle restrictions can save the planet.