Wilkins Ice Shelf: Old, Inaccurate News

In the event you didn’t HEAR the ASS-ociated Press when they published this SAME STORY a few weeks ago, here it is again—the Wilkins Ice Shelf fear piece. Make sure you digest this along with the “swine” flu fear mongering that’s rampant in the news right now. Speaking of the swine flu, I wonder when the first lunatic will come out and say that global warming is the cause. I’m sure we won’t have to wait for long.

This particular article, however, is chock full of little delights that are ripe for analysis and digestion. First, just as with the previous article, they fail to mention that the EASTERN ANTARCTIC’S ICE HAS GROWN, such that the total continental ice has increased, even with this western portion breaking up (this is what happens in the spring and summer anyway).

Next, they’re finally admitting HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME that this ice breaking and melting WILL NOT raise sea levels. Yay! Let’s hear it for small victories.

Last, they’re admitting that all this scrutiny of the ice has been made possible by these new satellite images—as he says ‘for the first time…we can see the demise of the ice shelf.’ What that tells me is that the previous billions of years in Earth’s history could have had this situation occur and we wouldn’t have known about it. So should we just accept, given this one time in the billions of years of Earth’s history in which we happen to be paying attention, that it is a first occurrence?!? Again, this question is elementary for any first-year statistics student in college. The answer is no, you should not accept such an assertion.

Antarctic Ice Shelf Beginning to Break Up

BERLIN — Massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 square miles of ice — an area larger than Rhode Island — was in danger of breaking off in coming weeks.

The Wilkins Ice Shelf had been stable for most of the last century, but began retreating in the 1990s. Researchers believe it was held in place by an ice bridge linking Charcot Island to the Antarctic mainland.

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"There is little doubt that these changes are the result of atmospheric warming," said David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey.

The falling away of Antarctic ice shelves does not, in itself, raise sea levels, since the ice was already floating in the sea.

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Researchers said the quality and frequency of the ESA satellite images have allowed them to analyze the Wilkins shelf breakup far more effectively than any previous event.

"For the first time, I think, we can really begin to see the processes that have brought about the demise of the ice shelf," Vaughan said.

Prince Charles Also Hypocrite

Charlie is back in the news and showing his utter cluelessness. Only someone like him could act like a British version of Al Gore—The United States Hypocrite In-Chief.

There is no shortage of hypocrisy posts on this blog that were intended to demonstrate for the sheep out there just how dumb and mythological this global warming garbage is. This world is chock-full of idiot celebrities who champion a scientifically-corrupt environmental cause about which they know nothing; then those same celebrities and politicians proceed to emit carbon like there’s no tomorrow.

'Green initiative' by Charles will cost £80,000 and leave 53-ton carbon footprint as he flies in 12-seat private jet

Prince Charles is being accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed that he is chartering a luxury private jet for a five-day tour of Europe to promote environmental issues.

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According to experts from the Carbon Managers company, which carries out environmental audits, the aircraft's four European flights over 2,200 miles will leave a carbon footprint of 52.95 tons - nearly five times the average person's 11-ton footprint for an entire year.

Each member of Charles's party will leave a carbon footprint of 4.41 tons - 13 times more than if they had used a scheduled flight on the same type of plane, which can carry up to 156 passengers.

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Tomorrow, Charles will give a keynote speech on climate change to the Italian parliament.

From there, the Royal party will travel to the Vatican - again in a fleet of cars - where Charles will discuss the environment with Pope Benedict XVI.

Castro and Chavez: Capitalism Causing Climate Change

I've said it all along; this is what the socialists of our own country have been saying (i.e., cool off our economy to fight global warming). Just read the declarations of Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Geithner, Prince Charles, and Bill Clinton. What they really mean is what these communists of Latin America are bluntly saying: Capitalism is causing the world's ills—including climate change; only socialism will save us, which is what the more clandestine socialists and liberals of this country and the First World secretly desire. They couch it in a particular lingo and symbolism to conceal their intent, but one only has to think and dig just a little bit to see the truth. Any capitalist who says we must cool the economy (to fight a non-existent problem) is no capitalist at all.

I'm hoping America will awaken before we find ourselves living in a totalitarian state that doesn't care about us, our wants, or our desires in the least little bit. An America that doesn't care about your life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness is an America that has tossed the Constitution into the toilet.

The Declaration of Cumaná: Capitalism 'threatens life on the planet'

2. Capitalism has caused the environmental crisis, by submitting the necessary conditions for life in the planet, to the predominance of market and profit. Each year we consume one third more of what the planet is able to regenerate. With this squandering binge of the capitalist system, we are going to need two planets Earth by the year 2030.

3. The global economic crisis, climate change, the food crisis and the energy crisis are the result of the decay of capitalism, which threatens to end life and the planet.

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7. As for climate change, developed countries are in an environmental debt to the world because they are responsible for 70% of historical carbon emissions into the atmosphere since 1750. Developed countries should pay off their debt to humankind and the planet; they should provide significant resources to a fund so that developing countries can embark upon a growth model which does not repeat the serious impacts of the capitalist industrialization.

Democrats Conspire to Protect Climate Idiot-In-Chief

I think this article from the Climate Depot pretty much speaks for itself. Democrats have decided that they don’t want to chance Gore debating someone of an antithetical, intelligent viewpoint, because they understand he’ll have his lunch handed to him.

Global warming is global garbage; it’s hogwash, plain and simple. An intelligent teenager would kick Gore’s butt in a debate on global warming. It’s no wonder that he’s refused to debate anyone, time and time again.

I think this shows exactly what liberals know about manmade climate change—it’s a scam from which they stand to benefit, and they don’t want some intelligent Englishman coming into Congress and making their climate monkey-boy look like a monkey, boy.

Report: Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing

'House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated' - Climate Depot Exclusive

Washington DC -- UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.

“The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”

Eco-Hypocrites, Including Obama

The level of hypocrisy displayed by celebrities and politicians when it comes to being “green” is boundless. Who are the biggest hypocrites? All the biggest alarmists, of course. We have Obama, Gore, McCartney, and Schwarzzenegar all displaying full-on hypocrisy while preaching to us or attempting to enact laws that will restrict our lives. How much carbon do you think Prince Charles puts out compared with the average citizen on Earth? I bet he travels a lot more than the average citizen, yet he won’t shut his trap about what we’re doing to the planet. Pick any average Hollywood celebrity (who likely spouts this manmade climate BS whenever given the chance) and I’ll show you a carbon-spewing fool.

You can be certain of this—the proposed laws and regulations to “fight global warming” won’t restrict the lives of the hypocrites, because they are wealthy and powerful—the elites. You senseless, media-believing sheep will pay for the world’s carbon transgressions, however, because this has nothing to do with carbon and everything to do with power and wealth for the elites at your expense.

Proof? What about Gore’s “carbon credit” business? This is the little scam where he sells himself carbon credits from his own business to “offset” his “carbon footprint.” So, he pays himself to keep living the same way and proclaim a guilt-free lifestyle. You morons buy it, and the media ignores his silly game.

Obama Earth Day Flights Burned More Than 9,000 Gallons Of Fuel

But Boeing says its 747 burns about 5 gallons of fuel per mile. It’s 895 miles from Washington to Des Moines, so a round trip brings the fuel consumption for the fixed-wing portion of the President’s trip to 8,950 gallons.

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President Obama could have saved at least 9,116 gallons of fuel by giving his speech at the White House – but no wind turbines are manufactured here.

Pollution Helps Global Warming?!?

Well, this is a new one. Pollution helps global warming? I thought CO2 is NOW considered pollution and causes global warming! I’m sure this little bit of news will be promptly buried or ignored by the “Green Media.”

Air pollution helps plants blunt climate change: study

Cleaning up skies choked with smog and soot would sharply curtail the capacity of plants to absorb carbon dioxide and blunt global warming, according to a study released on Wednesday.

Plant life -- especially tropical forests -- soak up a quarter of all the CO2 humans spew into the atmosphere, and thus plays a critical role in keeping climate change in check.

Through photosynthesis, vegetation transforms sunlight, CO2 and water into sugar nutrients.

Common sense would suggest that air pollution in the form of microscopic particles that obstruct the Sun's rays -- a phenomenon called "global dimming" -- would hamper this process, but the new study shows the opposite is true.

Sleeping Sun Baffles Dimwits

The quiet sun may be baffling astronomers, but the climate change believers (ahem…fear mongers) among them haven’t been baffled into changing their silly stances on the climate. Yes, the sun has cooled, as has the solar system. And so has our climate. For the past 11 years the global mean temperature on Earth has cooled gradually, mirroring the quiescence of solar energy. If you believe the baseline established by climate psychos (and that 1998 was our ‘hottest’ year), this hard data can’t be ignored, though everyone seems to be doing just that.

Empirical evidence since Hurricane Katrina has accumulated to the point of generating no end of revisionist statements from alarmist camps—from La Nina’s “masking” of warming to this article’s assertion: The sun’s cooling is also masking Earth’s warming, not contributing to the observed cooling. Hurricanes have simply dropped off the radar in comparison to the predictions blasted by Gore and others like him. We’ve had two record winters in a row, with snow storms continuing into this April. The ice melts heralded as ‘horrible’ in the Arctic and Antarctic were exposed as the fear tactics that they are.

This is quite silly to behold, but I guess few seem willing to think their way out of this paper bag into which the media and their manipulators have scooped them. Too many goofy looking, ugly, expensive light bulbs need to be sold. Obama’s dumb, expensive, intrusive climate plans need to be enacted. Scientific and political reputations must be salvaged. Many doubting scientists continue to keep quiet rather than risk evisceration by their colleagues. Too much rests on the continuation of this lie for anyone to admit they are wrong.

I’m sorry to tell this chap what he’s ignoring—the Earth’s global temperature “rise” has already reversed (for more than a decade), and the empirical evidence (and scientific data) continues trumpeting a tune that he prefers not to hear: There is NO GLOBAL WARMING AS A RESULT OF CO2. There never was and there never will be.

'Quiet Sun' baffling astronomers

Last year, it was expected that it would have been hotting up after a quiet spell. But instead it hit a 50-year year low in solar wind pressure, a 55-year low in radio emissions, and a 100-year low in sunspot activity.

According to Prof Louise Hara of University College London, it is unclear why this is happening or when the Sun is likely to become more active again.

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"Others are suggesting we'll be going into another minimum period - this is a big scientific debate at the moment."

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In the mid-17th Century, a quiet spell - known as the Maunder Minimum - lasted 70 years, and led to a "mini ice-age".

This has resulted in some people suggesting that a similar cooling might offset the impact of climate change.

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He added that the current slight dimming of the Sun is not going to reverse the rise in global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

"What we are seeing is consistent with a global temperature rise, not that the Sun is coming to our aid."