A Cooling Trend Toward Global Warming
Written by Ed Hiserodt
Wednesday, 01 April 2009 00:10

Over the past several years, it appeared that our society was doomed to
succumb to what Weather Channel founder John Coleman has described as "the
greatest scam in history": anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming
(AGW). For two decades there has been an incessant drumbeat of propaganda
attributing every weather-related event to an increase in carbon dioxide
caused by the burning of fossil fuels. With the election of a president who
is solidly in the global-warming-alarmist camp - and with many high-level
appointees who are bona fide climate-change alarmists - coupled with a
Democratic legislature anxious to please their environmentalist and media
benefactors, the passage of legislation causing some form of
economy-crippling energy taxation seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

But then came the unexpected: a recession brought on and exacerbated by the
heavy hand of government, and a second consecutive severe winter. Indeed, we
may look back and see that our current financial crisis and Mother Nature
were the saviors of free-market capitalism. They may have slowed the statist
steamroller long enough for the proponents of climate realism to make such
socialistic schemes as "cap and trade" understood for what they are and what
they are not. They are not about anything to do with global warming or
climate change. They are instead a massive transfer of wealth from the
productive to those who will not adopt free markets.

While the primary promoters of the warming hoax have not "broken and run"
yet, there is much evidence that there is an increasing tide of defectors
and that climate catastrophists have completely run out of dry powder.

Temperatures Stopped Increasing

Satellite data from NASA shows no increase in average global temperature
since 1998, a year when El Niño caused a worldwide spike having nothing to
do with carbon dioxide. Alarmists contend this is just a pause in a
continuous rise in temperatures and that it will begin to increase again.
Ironically that is the same argument that the warming skeptics have been
using for years. There was warming for the first 40 years of the 20th
century - until the very time CO2 began to climb significantly - and then
came cooling, which sparked concerns in the '70s about a looming Ice Age.
Then rising temperatures resumed until 1998 and now we're back on a cooling
trend. This fits well with a general planetary warm up, but is in conflict
with climate forcing by CO2 that calls for a continuous upward temperature
movement.

Unfortunately for the alarmists, nothing seems sacred these days. It has
long been known that the disintegration of the Soviet Union ended
temperature data from large parts of that country, especially Siberia.
Without massive re-calculations to exclude temperature readings from these
stations during the Soviet era, a significant increase in global
temperatures would be seen from the absence of this data during the
post-Soviet period. From available literature there is no indication that
any meteorological body went to such trouble. But what about the weather
data from the United States - the "best in the world"?

In his presentation at the International 2009 Conference on Climate Change,
25-year veteran meteorologist Anthony Watts showed alarming data for the
global-warming alarmists. But first we should note that the global
temperature rise that we are supposed to be concerned over was less than 1°C
for the entire 20th century, meaning minor errors in measurements can
contribute significantly to an apparent warming trend. Watts was certainly
aware of the "urban island" effect that causes cities like Tucson to have
temperature increases three times those of surrounding rural measurement
stations. But how have reporting stations, "urbanized" by a spreading
population, been affected? With 650 volunteers, more than 860 of the
National Weather Service's 1,221 climate-monitoring stations were inspected
and photographically documented. Of these, 89 percent did not meet the
Weather Service's own requirement of being 30 meters away from artificial
heating or reflecting sources such as pavements or building.

Public Opinion Is Shifting

According to a January Rasmussen poll, 44 percent of U.S. voters now say
"long-term planetary trends are the cause of global warming - up from 35
percent two years ago, while only 41 percent blame it on human activity,
down from 47 percent. The remainder either attribute global warming to some
other reason or are unsure. This means that only about 4 in 10 of the polled
"expected voters" are still falling for the "greatest scam."

For the alarmists to pass their "cap and trade" or "carbon tax"
legislation - the purpose of all this turmoil - they must do so before the
awakened voters reach the 70-percent level, at which point some political
analysts believe that even many liberal Democrats will abandon a sinking
ship.

When people are more informed on the issue, the tide swings dramatically
away from the alarmist position. In the Czech Republic where President
Vaclav Klaus, a speaker at the climate-change conference and current
president of the European Union, is educating his countrymen on the climate
debate, a mere 11 percent believe in anthropogenic global warming. The more
informed people are, the less likely they are to be in the alarmist camp.

This was evidenced by a 2007 Oxford-style debate in New York sponsored by
National Public Radio, a more difficult venue being hard to imagine for
warming skeptics, or "deniers" as they were popularly referred to. The issue
under debate was "Global Warming Is Not a Crisis." Prior to the debate about
30 percent of the audience agreed with the motion, and 57 percent were
against, with 13 percent undecided. After the debate 46 percent agreed,
while 42 percent were opposed with 12 percent apparently still unsure, a
swing of 19 percent of those with an opinion toward the climate-realist
position.

More and more scientists are also publicly coming out against the
anthropogenic global-warming hypothesis. On March 21, 59 additional
scientists from NASA, the EPA, the Navy, the Air Force, the Defense and
Energy Departments, and major universities joined the previous 650 who
disagree with this hypothesis, according to Senator James Inhofe, ranking
Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Goodbye CO2, Here Comes the Sun

Because of undeniable properties of the spectral properties of atmospheric
gases and the wavelengths of solar radiation and terrestrial re-radiation,
all climate predictive models have a "hot spot" in the atmosphere at a
height of 8 to 10 kilometers above the equatorial regions. Sought after for
years as proof of CO2-induced warming, thousands of radiosonde (balloon) and
satellite measurements have failed to find this critical signature or
"fingerprint" of CO2 as a climate-forcing agent. Lack of such evidence
caused the defection of Dr. David Evans from his post with the Australian
Greenhouse Office. But there is other evidence of this disconnect presented
by none other than Al Gore in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Featured in
the video is a large graph with two lines of data, one being temperature as
calculated by the thoroughly discredited and phony "Hockey Stick" graph,
while another plots the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The
data are separated for a reason: if you put them together, it is evident
that a rise in temperature precedes the increase in CO2, as if the oceans
give up the gas when they are heated. Which they do.

On the other hand, the controversy has brought to light a correlation that
seems to have been lost in history: temperature change versus solar
activity, not only solar irradiance that can account for only a small change
in temperature, but activity that includes solar winds and magnetic fields.

Let us take two end points: first the coldest temperatures of which we have
a historical record, the depth of the Little Ice Age from about 1645 to
1715, and the second being today's global temperatures. Next to this we plot
the lowest sunspot activity, a period known as the Maunder Minimum where
there were no sunspots for five decades, and then the solar activity that
occurred at the end of the 1900s, estimated to be the highest in the last
11,000 years.

It is interesting that the lowest temperature is associated with the Maunder
Minimum while the highest is found in the late 1900s temperatures.
Unfortunately while this may bring thinking people to discount the warming
hoax, there is a possible downside for the human race. In the last two years
there have been almost no new sunspots while scores, if not hundreds, were
expected in a new solar cycle. Not wanting to sound like an alarmist,
nonetheless, this condition bodes ill for a continued warming trend and is
likely the precursor of significant cooling - the real problem for the human
race.

One can imagine a scene 10 years hence when government has shut down
coal-fired power plants while global temperatures are plunging toward those
last seen in the mid 1800s.

Alarmist Leaders Avoid Questions

The two most vocal and quoted leaders in the campaign to convince the public
that global warming is both caused by human activity and is a threat to
mankind are former Vice President Al Gore and NASA employee James Hansen.
Both were invited to speak at the March 8-10 Conference on Climate Change.
Neither accepted.

In his closing address to the conference, producer of the informative DVD
Apocalypse, NO!, Lord Christopher Monckton remarked: "Gore's speaking
contract stipulates that he will not debate, he will not answer unscripted
questions, and he will not be interviewed except by journalists acceptable
to him. Which journalists are they? The dim ones that don't know any
science, and the prejudiced ones that don't care. Just about all of them."

Gore appeared before the U.S. Senate a few weeks ago in a "public" hearing,
except the public was not invited. The former V.P. showed "science slides"
to the senators. Would you like to know what they were about? Me too. Sorry,
but they are secret, and the Senate is exempt from the Freedom of
Information Act. Fancy that.

Meanwhile Chief Alarmist James Hansen wasn't too busy to lend a hand at a
March 2 demonstration, self-proclaimed as "Mass Civil Disobedience at the
Coal-Fired Capitol Power Plant in Washington D.C." The nation anxiously
awaited Capitol Climate Action's report proclaiming: "Courageous activists
have now occupied three of five gates at the Capitol Power Plant. The march
of thousands is continuing to circle the plant." The report didn't mention
that the plant no longer generates electricity and is already slated to be
changed over to natural gas.

At this point the entire cabal of global-warming alarmists must realize that
all it would take is a single mainstream news organization to opt for truth,
and their entire house of cards would come tumbling down. Through public
pressure on our legislators and through letters to the editor, we can hasten
this glorious day.

----------------------------------------

Climate Realists Gather

The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change was held in New York
City on March 8-10. Over 800 people from 40 countries attended lectures
chosen from a smorgasbord of 80 topics in paleoclimatology, climatology,
climate-change impacts, and economics & politics. Featured keynote speakers
included European Union President Vaclav Klaus, MIT Professor Richard
Lindzen, Hon. John H. Sununu, Willie Soon, Astronaut Harrison Schmitt,
Arthur Robinson, Jay Lehr, NASA retiree John Theon (former boss of James
Hansen), Lord Christopher Monckton, and Joe Bast, president of the
sponsoring organization, the Heartland Institute.

On Apr 1, 9:43 am, "Ms. 2"
wrote:
A Cooling Trend Toward Global Warming
Written by Ed Hiserodt
Wednesday, 01 April 2009 00:10

Listen to these bunch of AGW deniers! There ought to be a law that
puts anyone denying AGW in jail!
But then on the other hand given the date of this piece, it's clear
that it was only an April fools joke!

Ha Ha. Pretty funny!

Hey, if you can't trust the media, your president and PBS, who can you
trust?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...-humanity.html

I AM shocked, truly shocked," says Katey Walter, an ecologist at the
University of Alaska in Fairbanks. "I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I
am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast
all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up
out of them."

Back in 2006, in a paper in Nature, Walter warned that as the permafrost in
Siberia melted, growing methane emissions could accelerate climate change.
But even she was not expecting such a rapid change. "Lakes in Siberia are
five times bigger than when I measured them in 2006. It's unprecedented.
This is a global event now, and the inertia for more permafrost melt is
increasing."

Continues..

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:16:24 +0100, "Cwatters"
wrote:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...-humanity.html

I AM shocked, truly shocked," says Katey Walter, an ecologist at the
University of Alaska in Fairbanks. "I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I
am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast
all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up
out of them."

Back in 2006, in a paper in Nature, Walter warned that as the permafrost in
Siberia melted, growing methane emissions could accelerate climate change.
But even she was not expecting such a rapid change. "Lakes in Siberia are
five times bigger than when I measured them in 2006. It's unprecedented.
This is a global event now, and the inertia for more permafrost melt is
increasing."

Continues..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B36EoEuKjVg
"Farting Ice"

Ms. 2 wrote:
A Cooling Trend Toward Global Warming
Written by Ed Hiserodt
Wednesday, 01 April 2009 00:10

Over the past several years, it appeared that our society was doomed to
succumb to what Weather Channel founder John Coleman has described as "the
greatest scam in history": anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming
(AGW). For two decades there has been an incessant drumbeat of propaganda

A lie! Stopped reading: Q

attributing every weather-related event to an increase in carbon dioxide
caused by the burning of fossil fuels. With the election of a president who
is solidly in the global-warming-alarmist camp - and with many high-level
appointees who are bona fide climate-change alarmists - coupled with a
Democratic legislature anxious to please their environmentalist and media
benefactors, the passage of legislation causing some form of
economy-crippling energy taxation seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

But then came the unexpected: a recession brought on and exacerbated by the
heavy hand of government, and a second consecutive severe winter. Indeed, we
may look back and see that our current financial crisis and Mother Nature
were the saviors of free-market capitalism. They may have slowed the statist
steamroller long enough for the proponents of climate realism to make such
socialistic schemes as "cap and trade" understood for what they are and what
they are not. They are not about anything to do with global warming or
climate change. They are instead a massive transfer of wealth from the
productive to those who will not adopt free markets.

While the primary promoters of the warming hoax have not "broken and run"
yet, there is much evidence that there is an increasing tide of defectors
and that climate catastrophists have completely run out of dry powder.

Temperatures Stopped Increasing

Satellite data from NASA shows no increase in average global temperature
since 1998, a year when El Niño caused a worldwide spike having nothing to
do with carbon dioxide. Alarmists contend this is just a pause in a
continuous rise in temperatures and that it will begin to increase again.
Ironically that is the same argument that the warming skeptics have been
using for years. There was warming for the first 40 years of the 20th
century - until the very time CO2 began to climb significantly - and then
came cooling, which sparked concerns in the '70s about a looming Ice Age.
Then rising temperatures resumed until 1998 and now we're back on a cooling
trend. This fits well with a general planetary warm up, but is in conflict
with climate forcing by CO2 that calls for a continuous upward temperature
movement.

Unfortunately for the alarmists, nothing seems sacred these days. It has
long been known that the disintegration of the Soviet Union ended
temperature data from large parts of that country, especially Siberia.
Without massive re-calculations to exclude temperature readings from these
stations during the Soviet era, a significant increase in global
temperatures would be seen from the absence of this data during the
post-Soviet period. From available literature there is no indication that
any meteorological body went to such trouble. But what about the weather
data from the United States - the "best in the world"?

In his presentation at the International 2009 Conference on Climate Change,
25-year veteran meteorologist Anthony Watts showed alarming data for the
global-warming alarmists. But first we should note that the global
temperature rise that we are supposed to be concerned over was less than 1°C
for the entire 20th century, meaning minor errors in measurements can
contribute significantly to an apparent warming trend. Watts was certainly
aware of the "urban island" effect that causes cities like Tucson to have
temperature increases three times those of surrounding rural measurement
stations. But how have reporting stations, "urbanized" by a spreading
population, been affected? With 650 volunteers, more than 860 of the
National Weather Service's 1,221 climate-monitoring stations were inspected
and photographically documented. Of these, 89 percent did not meet the
Weather Service's own requirement of being 30 meters away from artificial
heating or reflecting sources such as pavements or building.

Public Opinion Is Shifting

According to a January Rasmussen poll, 44 percent of U.S. voters now say
"long-term planetary trends are the cause of global warming - up from 35
percent two years ago, while only 41 percent blame it on human activity,
down from 47 percent. The remainder either attribute global warming to some
other reason or are unsure. This means that only about 4 in 10 of the polled
"expected voters" are still falling for the "greatest scam."

For the alarmists to pass their "cap and trade" or "carbon tax"
legislation - the purpose of all this turmoil - they must do so before the
awakened voters reach the 70-percent level, at which point some political
analysts believe that even many liberal Democrats will abandon a sinking
ship.

When people are more informed on the issue, the tide swings dramatically
away from the alarmist position. In the Czech Republic where President
Vaclav Klaus, a speaker at the climate-change conference and current
president of the European Union, is educating his countrymen on the climate
debate, a mere 11 percent believe in anthropogenic global warming. The more
informed people are, the less likely they are to be in the alarmist camp.

This was evidenced by a 2007 Oxford-style debate in New York sponsored by
National Public Radio, a more difficult venue being hard to imagine for
warming skeptics, or "deniers" as they were popularly referred to. The issue
under debate was "Global Warming Is Not a Crisis." Prior to the debate about
30 percent of the audience agreed with the motion, and 57 percent were
against, with 13 percent undecided. After the debate 46 percent agreed,
while 42 percent were opposed with 12 percent apparently still unsure, a
swing of 19 percent of those with an opinion toward the climate-realist
position.

More and more scientists are also publicly coming out against the
anthropogenic global-warming hypothesis. On March 21, 59 additional
scientists from NASA, the EPA, the Navy, the Air Force, the Defense and
Energy Departments, and major universities joined the previous 650 who
disagree with this hypothesis, according to Senator James Inhofe, ranking
Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Goodbye CO2, Here Comes the Sun

Because of undeniable properties of the spectral properties of atmospheric
gases and the wavelengths of solar radiation and terrestrial re-radiation,
all climate predictive models have a "hot spot" in the atmosphere at a
height of 8 to 10 kilometers above the equatorial regions. Sought after for
years as proof of CO2-induced warming, thousands of radiosonde (balloon) and
satellite measurements have failed to find this critical signature or
"fingerprint" of CO2 as a climate-forcing agent. Lack of such evidence
caused the defection of Dr. David Evans from his post with the Australian
Greenhouse Office. But there is other evidence of this disconnect presented
by none other than Al Gore in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Featured in
the video is a large graph with two lines of data, one being temperature as
calculated by the thoroughly discredited and phony "Hockey Stick" graph,
while another plots the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The
data are separated for a reason: if you put them together, it is evident
that a rise in temperature precedes the increase in CO2, as if the oceans
give up the gas when they are heated. Which they do.

On the other hand, the controversy has brought to light a correlation that
seems to have been lost in history: temperature change versus solar
activity, not only solar irradiance that can account for only a small change
in temperature, but activity that includes solar winds and magnetic fields.

Let us take two end points: first the coldest temperatures of which we have
a historical record, the depth of the Little Ice Age from about 1645 to
1715, and the second being today's global temperatures. Next to this we plot
the lowest sunspot activity, a period known as the Maunder Minimum where
there were no sunspots for five decades, and then the solar activity that
occurred at the end of the 1900s, estimated to be the highest in the last
11,000 years.

It is interesting that the lowest temperature is associated with the Maunder
Minimum while the highest is found in the late 1900s temperatures.
Unfortunately while this may bring thinking people to discount the warming
hoax, there is a possible downside for the human race. In the last two years
there have been almost no new sunspots while scores, if not hundreds, were
expected in a new solar cycle. Not wanting to sound like an alarmist,
nonetheless, this condition bodes ill for a continued warming trend and is
likely the precursor of significant cooling - the real problem for the human
race.

One can imagine a scene 10 years hence when government has shut down
coal-fired power plants while global temperatures are plunging toward those
last seen in the mid 1800s.

Alarmist Leaders Avoid Questions

The two most vocal and quoted leaders in the campaign to convince the public
that global warming is both caused by human activity and is a threat to
mankind are former Vice President Al Gore and NASA employee James Hansen.
Both were invited to speak at the March 8-10 Conference on Climate Change.
Neither accepted.

In his closing address to the conference, producer of the informative DVD
Apocalypse, NO!, Lord Christopher Monckton remarked: "Gore's speaking
contract stipulates that he will not debate, he will not answer unscripted
questions, and he will not be interviewed except by journalists acceptable
to him. Which journalists are they? The dim ones that don't know any
science, and the prejudiced ones that don't care. Just about all of them."

Gore appeared before the U.S. Senate a few weeks ago in a "public" hearing,
except the public was not invited. The former V.P. showed "science slides"
to the senators. Would you like to know what they were about? Me too. Sorry,
but they are secret, and the Senate is exempt from the Freedom of
Information Act. Fancy that.

Meanwhile Chief Alarmist James Hansen wasn't too busy to lend a hand at a
March 2 demonstration, self-proclaimed as "Mass Civil Disobedience at the
Coal-Fired Capitol Power Plant in Washington D.C." The nation anxiously
awaited Capitol Climate Action's report proclaiming: "Courageous activists
have now occupied three of five gates at the Capitol Power Plant. The march
of thousands is continuing to circle the plant." The report didn't mention
that the plant no longer generates electricity and is already slated to be
changed over to natural gas.

At this point the entire cabal of global-warming alarmists must realize that
all it would take is a single mainstream news organization to opt for truth,
and their entire house of cards would come tumbling down. Through public
pressure on our legislators and through letters to the editor, we can hasten
this glorious day.

----------------------------------------

Climate Realists Gather

The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change was held in New York
City on March 8-10. Over 800 people from 40 countries attended lectures
chosen from a smorgasbord of 80 topics in paleoclimatology, climatology,
climate-change impacts, and economics & politics. Featured keynote speakers
included European Union President Vaclav Klaus, MIT Professor Richard
Lindzen, Hon. John H. Sununu, Willie Soon, Astronaut Harrison Schmitt,
Arthur Robinson, Jay Lehr, NASA retiree John Theon (former boss of James
Hansen), Lord Christopher Monckton, and Joe Bast, president of the
sponsoring organization, the Heartland Institute.





--
The only thing to fear is invisible stupidity.

"Ms. 2" wrote:

A Cooling Trend Toward Global Warming
Written by Ed Hiserodt
Wednesday, 01 April 2009 00:10

Over the past several years, it appeared that our society was doomed to
succumb to what Weather Channel founder John Coleman has described as "the
greatest scam in history": anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming
(AGW). For two decades there has been an incessant drumbeat of propaganda
attributing every weather-related event to an increase in carbon dioxide
caused by the burning of fossil fuels. With the election of a president who
is solidly in the global-warming-alarmist camp - and with many high-level
appointees who are bona fide climate-change alarmists - coupled with a
Democratic legislature anxious to please their environmentalist and media
benefactors, the passage of legislation causing some form of
economy-crippling energy taxation seemed to be a foregone conclusion.
[snip]

The Carbon Tax on Everything will Save our Children! - at least the
ones who are arbitrageurs of Carbon Credit indulgences.

http://www.spaceweather.com/
on left, below the red sun (hydrogen-alpha emission)
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm
http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/spotlessdays.htm?PHPSESSID=33glgcq7a6kfqio5csj285v im1

"Looking back at the last ten solar minima (not including the ongoing
minimum), we can count the total number of spotless days in each and
calculate an average: 485 spotless days. The average exceeds the
number of days in a year because solar minima last much longer than
one year. The fact that the ongoing solar minimum has already racked
up 590+ spotless days with no end in sight tells us that it is much
deeper and longer than average."

Next stop is frenzied backpedaling apologia for catastrophic Global
Cooling, the collapse of the Green Revolution, and excess deaths by
starvation of Second and Third World tens of millions/year. Those who
renounce the rule of reason do not avoid its consequences.

Pookie pookie.

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2