Christopher Booker had an article in the Telegraph recently, reporting on a major conference which questioned the consensus on global warming. (Climate dissent grows hotter as chill deepens). He refers to an interesting blog by Anthony Watts: Watts up with that. Booker comments that last year, Watts forced Nasa's Goddard Institute to correct a fundamental error in its data on US surface temperatures, to show that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s but the 1930s.
Watts is a meteorologist who promotes energy saving and alternative energy generation and puts this into practice with a solar array on his own home. It's just that he wants to look at the figures responsibly - and has the expertise to do so.
The picture is from the blizzard of the last week which reached as far south as Texas and Arkansas.
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At last! The unravelling of this 'spoof 'n junk science' begins. I wonder what will come out of the woodwork and who will be the sacrificial goats. Bet it won't be Al Gore! Hopefully huge refunds of 'Global Warming & CO2 Emmission' taxes will be forthcoming from the government coffers!
No doubt you'll have noticed that th Gaia-worshippers have taken to referring to it as 'climate change' rather than 'global warming'. That way it can be whatever they want it to be (including unusual snow in Texas, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran). It's all a bit Alice in Wonderland: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." Hence global warming becomes climate change.
BTW did you know they were warning of the catastrophic effects of global cooling in the 1970s?
I just love this quote from Christopher Booker - Telegraph:
'It might have seemed timely that in New York an array of leading climatologists and other experts should have gathered for the most high-powered international conference yet to question the "consensus" on global warming. After three days of what the chairman called "the kind of free-spirited debate that is virtually absent from the global warming alarmist camp", the 500 delegates issued the Manhattan Declaration, stating that attempts by governments to reduce CO2 emissions would "markedly diminish further prosperity" while having "no appreciable impact" on the Earth's warming'.
Or as another eminent non-Global Warmist professor put it 'our CO2 emmissions have about as much impact on global warming as a fart in a hurricane!'
I have no desire to be impertinent but I should hope that everyone is willing to have an open mind on the entire issue - and not fall into the trap that just because the people who have jumped on the bandwagon are in no way our friends and have exaggerated certain exigences; that we do not ignore what is actually happening in the world [one example off the top of my head would be the icy wastes in the himalayas that formed the source of the Ganges - they no longer exist in the space of thirty years !]- Frankly father I should have hoped for a little more objectivity; and a little further research....
Global warming, nuclear winter. I wish they'd make up their damn minds.
It's all a bunch of leftist crap designed to make *you* (not them) feel guilty about enjoying anything.
Those long haired maggot infested dope smoking cretins are just trying to put their grubby fingers in your pockets.
Every so-called "earth day" I make an effort to be as "wasteful" as I possibly can be.
I recall very well the warnings about an imminent 'mini ice-age' some 30+ years ago. Of course, back then we didn't have the Internet (Al Gore would have us believe he was working on it at the time...!) nor the instant global communications we have today. People just believed what they read in the papers.
Like the anti-smoking hysteria that has swept much of the West in recent years - based on contrived 'statistics' - global warming will be shown for what it is: junk science.
Yesterday was unusually clement for this time of year.
The day before was unusually wet.
This morning was unusually warm. I regretted wearing an overcoat.
This evening was cold. I mean really cold. I couldn't wait to get indoors.
But isn't English weather always like this ?
I really don't think plastic bags are the cause of "climate change".
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