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Science fraud

Posted on November 21, 2009 | Comments Off on Science fraud

The anthropogenic global warming guys have been whacked again and again and, now, again. But these scientific fraudsters (in it to keep their research funding and salaries healthy) keep rolling on. Barry may be sliding on Cap & Trade, but the EPA still is penalizing emitters of carbon dioxide and trying to put the coal industry out of business. So even if Copenhagen now deserves to be stopped in its tracks, the "climate-change" circus likely will keep traveling on for a while longer.

Via the Seablogger and Power Line.

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Specious argument

Posted on September 2, 2009 | Comments Off on Specious argument

I have often, foolishly, commented that the climate modeling of anthropogenic global warming can’t be accurate since weather forecasting is so fallible. It’s a poor argument, as Andrew Dessler at Texas A&M shows:

"Predicting the weather is like predicting what the next roll [of the dice] will be. Predicting the climate is like predicting what the average and standard deviation of 1000 rolls will be. The ability to predict the statistics of the next 1000 rolls does not hinge on the ability to predict the next roll. Thus, one should not dismiss climate forecasts simply because weather forecasts are only good for a few days."

On the other hand, it’s a good argument to say that the climate models are too weak to be trusted, because the physics of the atmosphere isn’t fully understood. In other words: garbage in, garbage out.

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Pap & Tax

Posted on August 1, 2009 | Comments Off on Pap & Tax

While the Dems proceed with their potentially economy-busting climate change taxation scheme, the so-called Cap & Trade, more scientists are fleeing from the global warming fraud behind it. The latest are some members of the American Chemical Society, which bills itself as the world’s largest scientific society. And more on it here.

Via The Seablogger

UPDATE:  Meanwhile, a new Henrik Svensmark paper out today concludes that "a link between the sun, cosmic rays, aerosols and liquid-water clouds appears to exist on a global scale," meaning that an active sun decreases the amount of low-lying clouds which influences the warming of the earth far more than any CO2 increases. The sun’s recent inactivity thus may have influenced the current global cooling, and the northeast’s Year Without A Summer.

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Carbon Dioxide Mapping

Posted on July 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Carbon Dioxide Mapping

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You might think, with all the AGW hysteria, and the Dems rushing to double our electric bills, that the whole globe would be saturated in CO2. You would be wrong. Sure, this satellite mapping of the earth’s atmospheric distribution of carbon dioxide is a year old. But it’s also the first one ever made, and was assembled from data collected between ’02 and ’08. The first one ever made. Think about that for a minute. I’m no great hand at graphics, but it sure looks to me like the major culprits are California and China. So how about it Speaker Pelosi? How about starting by doubling your energy bills?

Via Baby Troll.

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Hairnet and giveaway

Posted on June 27, 2009 | Comments Off on Hairnet and giveaway

"As the U.S. House of Representatives [narrowly passed] a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country’s carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming."

Well jolly good for them. Finally some common sense. Not that it will have any influence on our political crooks. Now to see whether the Senate has more honesty. I suspect not. Some think the American electorate will not remember who done this deed when their electricity bills double and the economy craters. I think they will, and the Dems will pay big time.

Hairnet and giveaway is the translation of the bill’s cap and trade title by Steve Hayward at No Left Turns who suspects the last-minute bill has so many loopholes for favored (read big contributor) outfits that it will have no measureable effect on "the risks of global warming." But, come on, we can’t change the climate. How smart do you have to be to figure that out?

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Remind me NOT to eat at Burger King

Posted on June 9, 2009 | Comments Off on Remind me NOT to eat at Burger King

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Burger King apparently quashed the right of franchisee Mirabile Investment Corporation (MIC), which owns more than 40 Burger Kings across Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, to continue these signs. Nice try, Mirabile. Way to conform, Burger King. No wonder Wendy’s has you beat.

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AGW heretic

Posted on June 9, 2009 | Comments Off on AGW heretic

It doesn’t do most people any good to question the assertions of the acolytes of the First Church of Global Warming. Except, uh, when you’re a famous physicist named Freeman Dyson:

"The change that’s now going on is very strongly concentrated in the Arctic. In fact in three respects, it’s not global, which I think is very important. First of all, it is mainly in the Arctic. Secondly, it’s mainly in the winter rather than summer. And thirdly, it’s mainly in the night rather than at the daytime. In all three respects, the warming is happening where it is cold, not where it is hot."

You’re still mocked and shouted down, of course. But, uh, you know, you don’t care. Good thing heretics are no longer burned. Yet.

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