Sagan's "Baloney Kit" Generates Debate

Interesting banter going on between some alarmists and myself on the old "Baloney Detection Kit" post; come on by and read it for yourself. Liberals pay attention when you use the words of someone like Galileo, Carl Sagan or Jon Stewart to insult their orthodoxy. And they don't like it. So there's no end to the contorting required to preserve belief in their little sphere of green harmony.

Finally, some DEBATE! Since Al Gore won't debate, it's nice that his minions will, though most do so anonymously.

CO2's Role in Warming Unclear: China

So, China (who has had its share of recent record cold weather) says CO2's role isn't clear but act to cut emissions anyway?

What's really surprising about this story isn't the bit about China, who--having gotten a taste of capitalistic success--isn't about to give up on oil. What's really surprising (or not really surprising) is that Reuters still insists that "most scientists" have the view the CO2 is the culprit in global warming. And that's simply NOT TRUE. That's the BS lie with which our mainstream media continues trying to brainwash us, but where's their evidence that most scientists feel this way? Where's their poll of 100% of the world's scientists to show that >50% believe CO2 is causing warming? There isn't such a poll to demonstrate this claimed consensus. I, however, can point you to an online petition where >31,000 scientists believe CO2 is NOT warming the planet. Where's Reuters' evidence to back up their "most scientists" propaganda claim?

* Cause of global warming not clear, top negotiator says

* World should act to cut carbon emissions anyway

* U.S. must not shirk its responsibilities

By Emma Graham-Harrison

BEIJING, March 10 (Reuters) - China’s top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Xie Zhenhua, vice-chairman of the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, also warned the United States it should not use domestic divisions over climate change as an excuse to pass its responsibilities off onto other countries.

“There are still two different viewpoints in the scientific field about the cause of warming,” Xie told a news conference on the sidelines of the annual session of China’s largely rubber-stamp parliament.

[From Reuters AlertNet - China unsure on warming cause, to stick with CO2 cuts]

Barcelona: Heaviest Snow in 25 Years

Oh, that's right...this empirical data is PROOF of global warming. Until there's no record snowfall...then THAT will be proof of global warming. Get the picture? Al Gore does.

Thousands of commuters were trapped in trains as the blizzards struck with many having to be evacuated to sports halls. Flights were cancelled, schools closed and the entire Barcelona region saw major disruption to its road and rail network. The snow storms that have hit areas across Europe are the worst recorded in 25 years. On the Spanish border with France thousands of lorries were left stranded in sub zero temperatures after 40 roads were blocked by snow over a metre (3ft) deep.

[From Snow Storms Cause Traffic Chaos Across Southern Europe Striking France, Spain and Italy | World News | Sky News]

I'm Not the Only One Noticing, Al Gore

Looks like I'm not the only one noticing that Al Gore is ignoring his own stupidity...but he's doing so for the sake of his bank account, so maybe he's not so dumb after all (he hopes we are all dumb).

In a long op-ed piece for The New York Times the other day, Gore cranked up the doomsday rhetoric. Human beings, he warned, “face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.’’ His 1,900-word essay made no mention of his financial interest in promoting such measures - Gore has invested heavily in carbon-offset markets, electric vehicles, and other ventures that would profit handsomely from legislation curbing the use of fossil fuels, and is reportedly poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire.’’ However, he did mention “global-warming pollution’’ no fewer than four times, declaring that “our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation’’ if we don’t move decisively to reduce it.

[From Gore still hot on his doomsday rhetoric - The Boston Globe]

Methane Released After Warming? CO2 Also?

They're losing the battle. So what do they do? Abandon CO2 as the boogeyman, or at least imply that our increasing CO2 has released long-trapped methane. But wait...if methane can be released from trapped ice during warming periods, this means that CO2 can ALSO be released. And we've seen that atmospheric CO2 increases tend to follow warming...not the other way around.

Don't trust these clowns. They are stained by scandal and they approach climate science with a preordained outcome; they never entertain or propose other theories. There is dissension among scientists (and there a lot of skeptical scientists contrary to what you've been told). Remember Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit.

Concerns about global warming have centered on rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but scientists note that methane can be 30 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.

[From FOXNews.com - Methane Bubbles in Arctic Raise Warming Fears]

Alarmists Want To 'Gut Credibility' of Skeptics

These so-called 'scientists' are just clueless. They're sitting atop scandal after scandal, including the IPCC report that is CHOCK FULL of political BS (not science), and they're going to 'fight back against political skeptics.' Sorry clowns, but in many instances you're fighting back against scientific skeptics (like myself), who are tired of seeing you hijack science to advance a world government takeover of environmental policy (and thus, economies...because as environmental policies advance, economics are harmed).

Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be "an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach" to gut the credibility of skeptics.

In private e-mails obtained by The Washington Times, climate scientists at the National Academy of Sciences say they are tired of "being treated like political pawns" and need to fight back in kind. Their strategy includes forming a nonprofit group to organize researchers and use their donations to challenge critics by running a back-page ad in the New York Times.

[From FOXNews.com - Climate Scientists Plan to Hit Back at Skeptics]

Gore to Get Honorary Degree

That's about the only kind he deserves. Hopefully, students will protest going to hear this moron speak, but I surmise that there are a lot of liberals at UT, even though it's in a state that WOULD NOT vote for Al Gore for president.

MARTIN, Tenn. - Former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore will receive an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee.

The degree - an Honorary Doctor of Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - will be given to Gore at the spring commencement exercises of the College of Arts and Sciences on May 14, where he will be the featured speaker.

[From UT to give Gore honorary degree » Knoxville News Sentinel]