You must put a lot of work into blogging this much!…

I get so confused about who to believe

From the EU Referendum Blog

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2007/12/keep-watching-sun.html

Dr David Whitehouse, an astronomer and the author of ‘The Sun: A Biography’ writes in The Independent today that we might be about to enter a period of unusually low sun activity. Such periods, in the past, have been associated with low temperatures on planet Earth.

Some members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Whitehouse writes, say we may be at the start of a period like that seen between 1790 and 1820, a minor decline in solar activity called the Dalton Minimum. They estimate that the Sun’s reduced activity may cause a global temperature drop of 1.5C by 2020. This is larger than most sensible predictions of man-made global warming over this period.

This is something we must take seriously, Whitehouse adds. What happened in the 17th century is bound to happen again some time. Recent work studying the periods when our Sun loses its sunspots, along with data on other Sun-like stars that may be behaving in the same way, suggests that our Sun may spend between 10 and 25 per cent of the time in this state.

He moots that the lateness of the expected cycle of sunspots might even be the start of another Little Ice Age. If so, then our Sun might come to our rescue over climate change, mitigating mankind’s influence and allowing us more time to act. It might even be the case that the Earth’s response to low solar activity will overturn many of our assumptions about man’s influence on climate change. We don’t know. We must keep watching the sun.

I wonder if they are watching in Brussels.

Why should I give up my full-size pickup if Al Gore won’t give up his fleet of private jets?

Perfect. (Or SUV, trip to Hawaii, etc.)

By the time it eventually sinks in that they’ve been terribly wrong, they’ll just turn around and blame Bill Clinton for not solving the problem when he was President.

I call bullshit considering the Goremons are always tacking on another 10, 20 or 100 years until our eventual demise. Not only that, if one bothers to pay attention, they contradict themselves almost every day.

Global Warmism is the new Y2K with the added benefit of more taxes and more absolute power for the liberals. You know, the same ass clowns whose only accomplishment this year is the worst approval ratings in history?

Think about it…if they have no clue what a civil war is, how in the hell are they going to save the world? Sucking up to the unions and the trial lawyers ain’t the answer.

AN INCONVENIENT REDUCTION ; U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide fell by 1.8 percent from 2005 to 2006.
ncpa.org ^ | December 3, 2007

Posted on 12/03/2007 7:17:37 PM CST by InvisibleChurch

While thousands of government officials, diplomats, non-governmental organizations and journalists gather in Bali this week for the United Nations’ global warming meeting, it’s likely that little will be said about America’s successful record on curbing emissions without a cap system, says the Wall Street Journal.

Consider:

The Bush Administration announced recently that U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide fell by 1.8 percent from 2005 to 2006. Output of all greenhouse gases was down 1.5 percent last year; all this while the American economy grew by 2.9 percent. Further, the European Union (EU) hasn’t yet released figures for 2006, but from 2000 to 2005, the United States outperformed Western Europe:

Carbon emissions were up 3.8 percent in the so-called EU-15 during those years, versus 2.5 percent in the United States. Over the same period, there has been virtually no difference between the increase in all greenhouse emissions in the United States and EU-15. Critics immediately pointed to the Energy Department’s acknowledgment that the reductions were in part due to higher energy prices and favorable weather, says the Journal. But greater use of lower-carbon energy sources, including natural gas, also played a big role. The U.S. reduction also suggests that letting markets work through higher prices will reduce carbon emissions more than the cap and trade mandates favored by environmental lobbies and most Democrats.

Every time it’s cold or it snows some rightwing idiot remarks that this disproves global warming. You aren’t that stupid. And honestly remarks like that make it very easy for people like me to ignore anythign you might have to say.

We need more pirates.

(Hey, I believe in global climate change and this as good an explanation as any in my book.)

This whole thing is about political control.

Don’t forget money.

Yes, 99% of the world’s climatologists are part of a grand conspiracy to destroy the global economy for what purpose exactly?

Bzzzzzzzt! Wrong answer. In fact, most of the scientists who support AGW Theory are not climatologists. Among actual climatologists, we are far from a “consensus” on AGW.

So do some new research, Houndentenor. Get up-to-date.

Yes, 99% of the world’s climatologists are part of a grand conspiracy to destroy the global economy for what purpose exactly? And you people make fun of the 9/11 conspiracy theorists? LOL

Comment by Houndentenor — December 3, 2007 @ 12:23 pm – December 3, 2007

Oh my.. “the debate is over”… yeah right!

You mean humankind has figured out how Earth’s climate works to the finest detail?

I’m supposed to take this seriously? Give me a break.

Here’s another example of an Leftist who can’t abide someone disagreeing with him. It’s not enough that people have another opinion… no.. no dissent allowed.

Here the Leftist is saying if you’re disputing manmade global warming you are going against 99% of ALL SCIENTISTS. In other words, you are illegitimate.. you should be ignored.. nothing you say should be heeded.

This whole thing is about political control.

China, India, and the other developing economies are not stupid. Purchase American and leftist politicians who are, and you can cripple your greatest competitors by forcing them to accept constraints that you have no intention of accepting yourself.

This is trivial to fix. Build SSTOs. Lots of them. Put up 5000 squares of silvered mylar. Attach control surfaces. If the temperature rises, turn them 90 to the sun-earth axis and reflect sunlight/heat off into space.

If the temperature remains constant, turn them 0 degrees to the sun-earth axis.

If the temperature falls, move them outside the sun-earth axis, and point them 45 degrees to the axis, and import heat.

VOILA, problem solved. For about 1% of the cost of destroying the economies of the civilised world.

I do not believe humans have as yet had an measurable effect on the earths climate. However, as Jerry Pournelle has stated, running an open ended experiment on discharging CO2 into the atmosphere may not be a great idea. But destroying the worlds economy will kill more than any possible GW effects IMNSHO.

Then, in the 1980′s, we were told nuclear war was inevitable unless the US unilaterally disarmed and that AIDS would kill more people than the Black Plague.

Then in the 1990′s, we were told that crack babies would grow up to be “super-predators” and Y2K was going to bring down civilization. (Meanwhile, the threat of terrorism was largely blown off by the same people.)

It’s amazing that so many people are so stupid and so gullible that they buy into every over-hyped media/leftist “crisis” that comes along, no matter how many times they get fooled.