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The inescapable apocalypse has been seriously underestimated
Spectator Blogs (U.K.) ^ | March 12, 2009 | Melanie Phillips

Posted on 03/14/2009 11:27:57 PM PDT by Schnucki

The atmosphere is cooling, the ice is expanding, the seas are not rising -- even though carbon emissions are increasing. The evidence is now crystal clear to anyone with an unwashed brain that man-made global warming theory is sheer unadulterated bunkum. So how do the warmers react to the ever more embarrassing evidence that they have hitched their reputations to the biggest anti-scientific scam in history? By ratcheting up the hysteria to fever pitch and shrieking that their predictions about the impending irreversible environmental apocalypse have grievously underestimated the catastrophe which is going to be far, far worse.

At the international climate change conference in Copenhagen this week, we were told that the seas would rise by as much as a metre by 2100, that they would turn into acid, and that even the rainforests would be felled not by the loggers’ chainsaws but by the greatest pollutant in the history of the universe, carbon dioxide.

Read these reports carefully and you can see the scam at work. All of these hysterical predictions revolve around a massive ‘if’. They are all based on the assumption that rising carbon dioxide levels produce runaway global warming and inevitable ecological catastrophe. Ignoring the self-evident fact that this theory has already been proved false – as CO2 levels have risen, the climate has stayed pretty flat and in recent years has even cooled -- they then apply this bogus premise to topics not previously covered – the acidity of seas, rainforests – and hey presto, a fresh range of even greater catastrophes is conjured up from their crystal balls computer models.

The Independent reported:

Sea levels are predicted to rise twice as fast as was forecast by the United Nations only two years ago, threatening hundreds of millions

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Religion; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: agw; algore; carboncult; carbonemissions; catastrophism; co2; environment; environmental; globalbullshit; globalcooling; globalwarming; greenreligion; melaniephillips; wereallgonnadie

1 posted on 03/14/2009 11:27:57 PM PDT by Schnucki
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To: Schnucki

No sunspots for you....welcome to another 400 years of cold.


2 posted on 03/14/2009 11:35:36 PM PDT by spokeshave (homeless people can just buy a share of Citibank instead of a lottery ticket)
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To: Schnucki

Devastating. Great read. BTT.


3 posted on 03/14/2009 11:37:03 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Schnucki

Remember when the liberal talking point was, “global warming” heating up the earth’s seas, would result in a catastrophic increase in hurricanes?...

Drudge’s headline (current)
“Global hurricane activity reaches new lows”.

http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/


4 posted on 03/14/2009 11:38:59 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Palin / Limbaugh 2012)
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To: Schnucki

Whew — good one.


5 posted on 03/14/2009 11:41:29 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Schnucki
Even in the face of incontrovertible evidence, the libs simply cannot admit the fallacy of "global warming." To do that, they would have to admit that the guy they handed the Oscar and Nobel to, the one that was "cheated" out of his "victory" in 2000, was not just mistaken, but may well have gotten rich by conning them.

That's something they just couldn't deal with.

6 posted on 03/14/2009 11:52:43 PM PDT by JennysCool (Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action - Ian Fleming)
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To: Schnucki

The best was that carbon dioxide-monitoring satellite crashing during ascent into orbit.


7 posted on 03/14/2009 11:54:43 PM PDT by wastedyears (April 21st, 2009 - International Iron Maiden Day)
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To: Schnucki

8 posted on 03/14/2009 11:58:48 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Dallas59

9 posted on 03/15/2009 12:07:36 AM PDT by Califreak (1/20/13-Sunrise in America)
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To: Schnucki

Oh, ‘H’-’E’-double hockey sticks. I guess somebody goofed!


10 posted on 03/15/2009 12:14:41 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( Dear Mr. Obama - Please make it rain candy! P.S. I like jelly beans.)
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To: Schnucki

Al Gore is currently negotiating with Billy Mays and the Shamwow guy to act as spokesmen for the Global Warming / Climate Change movement.


11 posted on 03/15/2009 1:34:43 AM PDT by Bernard (If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
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To: JennysCool
Even in the face of incontrovertible evidence, the libs simply cannot admit the fallacy of "global warming."

This is a very scary trend among not just liberals today.

There are no "facts" anymore.

As a race, we are ripe for tyranny.

12 posted on 03/15/2009 2:02:22 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Schnucki; Horusra; Delacon; CygnusXI; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

13 posted on 03/15/2009 5:03:12 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: Schnucki
However, from her March 6 article:

Sizer’s participation, however, must be seen in the context of a disturbing realignment in the services of the forces of darkness against the free world: the emergence of an axis between a body of evangelicals, the hard left, the Islamists — and the far right.

So your mileage may vary. (Although she *is* speaking of Mediocre Britain, not the US.)

Cheers!

14 posted on 03/15/2009 6:03:50 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Schnucki
From this week's article:

Prof Mörner was an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is what he said about the process which led the IPCC to make its predictions of alarming (if subsequently reduced) sea level rise:

Then, in 2003, the same data set, which in their [IPCC’s] publications, in their website, was a straight line—suddenly it changed, and showed a very strong line of uplift, 2.3 mm per year, the same as from the tide gauge. And that didn’t look so nice. It looked as though they had recorded something; but they hadn’t recorded anything. It was the original one which they had suddenly twisted up, because they entered a ‘correction factor,’ which they took from the tide gauge. So it was not a measured thing, but a figure introduced from outside. I accused them of this at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow— I said you have introduced factors from outside; it’s not a measurement. It looks like it is measured from the satellite, but you don’t say what really happened. And they answered, that we had to do it, because otherwise we would not have gotten any trend!

Game, set, and match.

Consider yourself *highly* commended, sir.

Cheers!

15 posted on 03/15/2009 6:07:20 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Schnucki

GREAT post! Well worth the read. Great sources in it, too.


16 posted on 03/15/2009 6:32:51 AM PDT by Darwin Fish (God invented evolution. Man invented religeon.)
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To: Schnucki
For this heresy, Prof Mörner is undoubtedly to be damned along with the rest of us for being a global warming ‘denier’ (or even more dementedly, a ‘climate change creationist’ -- yes, I know, I know, but when did elementary logic ever make an appearance in such circles?).

Bravo! Excellent read here. Hopefully it will change a few minds. . . Hey, I can dream.
17 posted on 03/15/2009 6:41:46 AM PDT by stentorian conservative (FUBO!!)
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To: Schnucki

BTTT


18 posted on 03/15/2009 8:44:20 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: Schnucki
Bookmark.
19 posted on 03/16/2009 3:13:58 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: Schnucki; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; 11B40; Uncledave; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; ...
The atmosphere is cooling, the ice is expanding, the seas are not rising -- even though carbon emissions are increasing. The evidence is now crystal clear to anyone with an unwashed brain that man-made global warming theory is sheer unadulterated bunkum.

Laying it on the line...

20 posted on 03/16/2009 6:31:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (CEO:Chief Embezzlement Officer- CFO:Corporate Fraud Officer-CASH FLOW: money down the toilet.)
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To: grey_whiskers
So it was not a measured thing, but a figure introduced from outside. I accused them of this at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow— I said you have introduced factors from outside; it’s not a measurement. It looks like it is measured from the satellite, but you don’t say what really happened. And they answered, that we had to do it, because otherwise we would not have gotten any trend!

It's not science when a lie is needed to get the right conclusion.

21 posted on 03/16/2009 6:34:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (CEO:Chief Embezzlement Officer- CFO:Corporate Fraud Officer-CASH FLOW: money down the toilet.)
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To: spokeshave
No sunspots for you....welcome to another 400 years of cold.

If we are lucky. The "Big Freeze" is really overdue. If this is the beginning of that, it could be a lot longer than 400 years, and a lot colder than the "Little Ice Age". In the chart below, "now" is on the left. Time runs from right to left.

You can also see that we are not as warm now as the peaks of the last few 100,000 year cycles. You can also see that the cooling tends to be just as fast as the warming was, for a while, and then it settles down to slower rate of decent.

22 posted on 03/16/2009 7:32:58 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Schnucki
Don't forget that the Messaih and his synchopants in Congress are going to tax the snot out of "carbon emissions" to prevent what doesn't seem to be happening.

The latest I heard was that businesses will have to buy carbon credits from the government, and then either then give them back when they emit carbon, or sell them to others who wish to emit carbon. Those others would then give them to the government.

Hey, he's gotta pay for all that socialist pork somehow.

23 posted on 03/16/2009 7:38:12 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Schnucki
Don't even really need careful reading to see the parameters of the scam. All it takes is a thoughtful and even unspoken question: What is the overarching goal these little chickens (or Chicken Little's?) hope to achieve?

It always seems to track right back to massive and immediate societal change that creates a modern utopia solidly grounded in Marxist ideals. This "goal" is always accompanied by blather from the liberal elites that we must all make some small sacrifices to our personal liberties for the greater good of society and indeed the entire planet. However close examination also reveals that the only sacrifices being made will be made by you and me, never the limousine or Lear Jet liberals who see it as their sacred task to safeguard the transition from freedom to tyranny.

The exclamation point on this farce comes courtesy of the God of the universe. Notice that the last seven or so of these global warming confabs held here in the USA have been the subject of heavy snowfall and often blizzard-like conditions. Who says God has no sense of humor?

24 posted on 03/16/2009 9:05:24 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: Bernard

“Al Gore is currently negotiating with Billy Mays and the Shamwow guy to act as spokesmen for the Global Warming / Climate Change movement.”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Three of a kind is usually a winning hand. Those other guys may be a little too classy for Al though.


25 posted on 03/16/2009 10:35:15 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Change has come to America and all hope is gone.)
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26 posted on 03/18/2009 3:31:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Yepper: You’ll never get out of this world alive....


27 posted on 03/18/2009 3:33:40 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I've had amnesia as long as I can remember.)
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28 posted on 03/18/2009 3:34:01 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: El Gato

50-150 thousand years of glaciation?

Oh wonderful.

:-(


29 posted on 03/18/2009 4:17:59 PM PDT by fanfan (God, Bless America, please.)
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To: Schnucki
CO2 Breathing
30 posted on 03/18/2009 5:42:14 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: fanfan
50-150 thousand years of glaciation?

That's what the historical record says. Some of those cycles are understood, having to do with the precession of the earth's axis and orbit, others are not. This guy, believes that the 100Kyr cycle is caused by variations in the inclination of the Earth's orbital plane, called nutation.. A 41Kyr cycle is attributed to changes in the earth's obliquity or axial tilt. The 41Kyr cycle dominated until about 1.5 -2 million years ago, while the 100 Kyr cycle has dominated from 1 million year ago to the present.

The whole business is referred to as Milankovitch Variations or cycles.


31 posted on 03/18/2009 9:09:36 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Schnucki

For the record.... Bangladesh is doomed. Don’t buy stock or securities in a Bangladeshi company. When the ice melts the country will disappear.


32 posted on 03/19/2009 5:32:33 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . John Galt hell !...... where is Francisco dÂ’Anconia)
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