NASA's GISS is constantly issuing climate data in a form "edited" by
James Hansen and his alarmist cohorts. The "before and after" graphs
below would appear to show how remarkably the editing transforms the
raw data. The two graphs seem to be for exactly the same temperature
recording station in Vermont.
Segment cites climate change, ignores other factors as reason for increase in wildfires.
It
was only a matter of time before the media began using the wildfires
ravaging California as a means to advance global warming alarmism.
ABC’s July 7 “World News with Charles Gibson” candidly suggested global warming is playing a role in the fires that have hit 558,738 acres in California.
“Temperatures
[are] running into the 90’s inland,” correspondent Brian Rooney said.
“But also what’s happening here may be part of what scientists say is a
trend in wildfires occurring across the country. In recent years,
scientists have said that global warming has contributed to the length
and damage of the fire season.”
Rooney’s
report isn’t the first time a journalist has blamed global warming for
severe weather. Alarmists and reporters have blamed climate change for
bigger hurricanes, tornadoes and flooding in the Midwest. And in 2007, CNN warned of a possible “century of fires” due to global warming.
The MMTS system introduced by the National Weather Service in the
mid 1980’s continues to be the Achilles heel of the surface observation
network. Intrepid surfacestations volunteer Don Kostuch finds another
poorly sited USHCN station in America’s midwest.
"You deplorable denizen of indecent depravity! Can't you feel the CO2 everywhere!"
PSYCHIATRISTS
have detected the first case of "climate change delusion" - and they
haven't even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru.
Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children's Hospital say this delusion was a "previously unreported phenomenon".
"A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at
Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of
depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events."
(So have Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery, Profit of Doom Al Gore and Sir Richard Brazen, but I digress.)
"The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate
change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths
of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies."
A proposal in California to require emissions-rating stickers on new
cars is another example of "government overreach," according to
Business & Media Institute Vice President Dan Gainor.
Gainor
told "America's Election HQ" host E.D. Hill on Fox News Channel July 7
that California's decision could affect other parts of the country
because of its influence on environmental policies.
"California
already affects the nation," he said. "At least 12 states copy their
environmental regulations. California has the highest [gas] taxes at 75
cents a gallon and the second-highest overall cost of gas," Gainor
noted.
Food Inflation:
In advance of the G-8 meeting, a new World Bank report blames rising
global food prices on the mandated use of biofuels, including ethanol.
G-8 leaders may be forced to relax their mandates. Will we?
The report, actually completed in April, likely will make
interesting reading as leaders of the G-8 industrialized countries meet
in Hokkaido, Japan, this week. One of the topics of discussion is the
global food crisis. The report concludes that biofuel mandates intended
to fight global warming in Europe and the United States are the prime
culprit in a 75% rise in food costs between 2002 and 2008.
President Bush has been among those blaming increased demand in
China and India as well as rising fertilizer and energy prices. The
U.S. government has said that plant-derived fuels have contributed to
less than 3% in food price rises. Not so, says the report, a copy of
which was obtained by the British paper The Guardian.
Energy:
A prominent journalist doesn't just want our air conditioners turned
down. He wants them off. This is the sort of nonsense we're getting
from the anti-energy, global-warming-is-making-us-sick left.
Time's Joe Klein probably thought he was being clever when he wrote
his late June essay on the evils of cooling headlined "Kill Your Air
Conditioner." Instead, he wrote yet another chapter in the left's book
of environmental silliness.
"The unnecessary refrigeration of America has become a chronic
disease," said Klein. "Air conditioning is bad for the planet, and for
national security, and for our balance-of-payments deficit."
Just how bad it is for these things, he doesn't say. But so sure of
his point is he that he even included a fact that refutes his entire
premise: At 4%, cooling is but a small part of our energy use.
The new score is based on emissions and fuel consumption. This includes emissions produced by the vehicle when in use and emissions created by the production of the fuel needed to run it.
A car will be rated on a scale of 1 to 10 based on how it stacks up against other vehicles manufactured in the same year: the higher the score, the “cleaner” the vehicle.
The new score will be displayed next to the currently mandated smog score that rates cars on emissions produced. And don’t forget the federal EPA estimate of fuel consumption for city and highway driving that’s posted on the window of new cars in the showroom.
Try out Wikipedia’s entries on say, Roe v. Wade or Intelligent Design, and you will see that Wikipedia is the people’s encyclopedia only if those people are not conservatives, writes The National Review.
Ever wonder how Al Gore, the United Nations, and company continue to
get away with their claim of a “scientific consensus” confirming their
doomsday view of global warming? Look no farther than Wikipedia for a
stunning example of how the global-warming propaganda machine works.
As you (or your kids) probably know, Wikipedia is now the most
widely used and influential reference source on the Internet and
therefore in the world, with more than 50 million unique visitors a
month.
In theory Wikipedia is a “people’s encyclopedia” written and edited
by the people who read it - anyone with an Internet connection. So on
controversial topics, one might expect to see a broad range of opinion.
Not on global warming. On global warming we get consensus,
Gore-style: a consensus forged by censorship, intimidation, and deceit.
June
satellite information is out on Antarctic sea ice and yet again we see
record amounts. Arctic ice is off less than 10% in the past 28 years
yet we continue to hear stories about "record" ice loss.
The
June 2008 Sea Ice satellite images are out from The National Snow and
Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, CO. As expected
Antarctic sea ice is still running in record territory. The following
numbers are from 1980 when satellites first started accurate
measurements.
18% more Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration (from 9.6 to 11.2 million square km)
10% greater Antarctic Sea Ice Extent (from 13.2 to 14.5 million square km)
According to the laws of thermodynamics, the mid to
upper levels of the troposphere should be warming faster then the
surface. This is because this is where the CO2 is supposed to be
trapped. Co2 absorbs more heat then it reflects. Since it retains its
heat, the area in which it is “trapped” has to be warming faster then
an area where it is not “trapped.”
Please notice the areas that would be considered mid to upper levels
of the troposphere, 850 – 100 mb. The temperatures have not increased
in a manner consistent with the laws of thermodynamics and AGW theory.
This is the exact opposite of what should be happening.
The author goes on to discuss the ability of carbon dioxide to
absorb heat to infinity. Just another piece of science to be dismissed
and ignored by John McCain. Source
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It
was only a matter of time before the media began using the wildfires
ravaging California as a means to advance global warming alarmism.
Behold: Starting in 2009, 
