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A highly publicized folly attracting much worldwide ridicule It should be clear to global warming polar researchers that sea ice at the South Pole is not melting, but in fact has been growing for 37 years, reports Pierre Gosselin. (1) Yet, recently another ship got caught in the Antarctic ice. The Antarctic ‘Aurora Australis’ with 68 people on board became stranded in sea ice in the West Arm in Horsehoe Harbor the last week in February, and rescue efforts were prevented by a snowstorm. They were eventually rescued. The problem: Too much ice! The Aurora Australis may ring a bell....

If those who claim that carbon dioxide has some special insulating properties really believe their claims, why aren’t they encouraging the use of carbon dioxide to insulate buildings in winter. If concentrations of CO2 of only a few hundred parts per million can cause earth to become warmer then pure carbon dioxide used as an insulation for buildings should be even more effective at holding in heat. If CO2 could be used as insulation, CO2 emissions would be collected so the gas could be used to insulate buildings

I've googled and googled and cannot find an answer to this question. Joe Bastardi regularly refers to CIRES maps in his Saturday Summaries. The maps show geographic boundary divisions within each state that look like Counties but are not. Does anyone know what these boundary divisions represent? Some sort of geographic climate designation?Thank-you for your consideration!

Part One is exactly as advertised. If you are going to be offended by Profanity go read something else. There, I've done my part. Profanity serves a purpose in the military. General Patton explained; "When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an Army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An Army without profanity couldn't fight it's...

While CO2, which is not a pollutant, has been steadily climbing to almost 400 parts per million over the last 75 years, temperatures in the 20th century have fluctuated greatly. The Dust Bowl years of the 1930's were very warm, but from 1940-75, the temperatures plummeted, but then rebounded between 1976-1997, but have since leveled off, with perhaps a slight warming thanks to El Nino the last few years. Meanwhile, CO2 was steadily climbing. If there is no one to one relationship/correlation between temperature and CO2 even in the 20th Century, what of the past? The problem only becomes even...

Winter storms hitting most areas of the country, guess being a wild animal can be tough. What's worse-burning alive or freezing to death? Probably go with the latter, as the time it takes for the cold to wrap around your skin, blood vessels, and organs is much longer and more painful that being engulfed in flames. The image of the frozen deer, which was uploaded a while back on reddit, shows a young buck standing in deep snow. It's believed that the buck was propped up by a passerby hoping to cause a fright with the eventual onlookers who would...

The big question is: How many citizens governed by Islam simpatico Western leaders will be able to dig themselves out from the brutal heel of radical Islam? For the longest time now, all people seem to want to talk about is the weather. Politicians and trends come and go but the weather is always there to talk about and is often used by authorities to scare people out of their wits. The weather, global warming’s biggest Public Relations booster, does not just push common sense into unwitting early retirement, it owns the power to knock the Kardashians and the latest...

New abundance of food and fodder in the world is not only a result of genetic modifications. Greening of the world is also the consequence of the atmospheric carbon dioxide level that’s beneficial to plants worldwide The world is going green – literally, in all kinds of places that were desert-like before. Have you ever been in an airplane crossing the semi-arid foot hills of the Rocky Mountains and looking down at the ground? You’ll have seen large green, circular patches between the miles of dry brown land. Those patches are irrigated fields sprouting vegetables and fruits of various kinds....

Time magazine, in it's headlong rush to create alarm over non existent anthropogenic global warming, published a now corrected article that screamed hysterically that temperatures on the North Pole were (OMG!) 50 degrees warmer than usual. Too bad the author of the article confused the actual north pole with North Pole, Alaska. The corrected article. Note their quiet little mention that the article originally misidentified the reading belonging to the north pole. Dumb. Sh*ts. All of them, fact checkers and editors, in all their many and multicolored layers, included. The original, uncorrected article said this: Stormy weather in the...

Opting for that plate of bacon instead of a salad can actually help save the environment. A newly released study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University researchers found that following the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommendations to eat more fruits, vegetables, dairy, and seafood is more harmful to the environment than eating meat. According to the study, a vegetarian diet requires more greenhouse gas emissions per calorie than meat. ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted a video on its website to tell Americans that they should think about how much food they waste during the holiday season if they want to help save the planet. The video is part of the EPA's "Fight Food Waste" campaign. In the video posted on YouTube and in the text accompanying it, EPA claims that food waste contributes to climate change. [...] "Once in landfills, food breaks down to produce methane, a potent greenhouse gas which contributes to climate change," the text states. "So, this holiday season, take steps to cut down your...

This week at the United Nations Paris summit on climate-change, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that "even if every western nation reduced its carbon emissions to zero—a clearly impossible accomplishment—global CO2 will continue to rise." The reason is that the growing emissions from the less-developed nations will easily overwhelm whatever the West does. Still, Kerry pressed for western nations to make the commitment "because it would be a noble gesture. By sacrificing our prosperity we make reparation for the centuries of exploitation and oppression we have inflicted on our victims. Ideally, this sacrifice would earn us gratitude, but...

The big news, or part of the big news of the morning as I got up seemed to focus on Paris, France and the fact that they are apparently near a massive "climate change" international deal. I'll talk a little bit about that today. Also I wanted to talk a little bit about the attacks on Donald Trump, who amazingly I'll defend in a way, as well as Ted Cruz. Finally, with the "genius class" of political, government, and media establishment telling us that everything we think we know or would like to do is wrong, it's probably appropriate to...

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says people should go meat-free one or two days a week to protect the climate. Meat-eating was an environmental problem, with farming creating an estimated 28% of global greenhouse gases, the body-builder and movie star told BBC News. Asking people to go totally vegetarian would be too demanding, he said. It would better to suggest giving up meat once or twice a week, he added. When asked how young men would achieve a body like The Terminator - the cyborg assassin in the film of the same name - without steak, he said many successful...

December 4, 2015Shill Nye The Science Guy Says Global Warming Causes Terrorism by BIgFurHat VIDEO LINK Yes, the Farooks are just overzealous environmentalists, fundamentalist environmentalists, if you will.As idiotic as you think this is, our current president is parroting the same talking points as this moron.By the way, fake burping, or digestive disruption tics, when a person is lecturing, is a tell.It means the person is full of s**t. And Bill Nye is displaying a plethora of tics in this clip. 

November 30, 2015 Climate Change Conference Organizers Hit Buzzer Repeatedly Trying To Stop Dear Leader From Talking by sundance The U.N organizers of the Paris Climate Change summit had requested that each countries leader limit their speech to three minutes. Dear Leader was having none of that. Obama ignores UN request that each of the 140 leaders should speak for only 3 minutes. He spoke for more than 14 minutes. #COP21— Ben Webster (@bwebster135) November 30, 2015 Obama knew inherently that he alone was vastly more important than all other speakers, and he was intent on expressing his magnanimity so...

Another shutdown showdown? Just in case you were under the impression Obama is merely wasting time at the UN Climate Conference in Paris, no, he’s looking to waste a fair amount of U.S. taxpayer money too - with $3 billion set to directly from the U.S. Treasury to the UN Green Climate Fund. Now you might remember that whole thing about how Congress controls the purse strings, which somehow never seems to stop Obama from spending as much as he wants however he wants regardless of congressional disapproval. This time, Republicans swear, things are going to be different: Looking for...

Three questions determine whether that's true. As we all know by now, President Obama is not too inclined to show ISIS what’s what by making the United States the leader of the military effort against them. Obama’s not interested in “American leadership” or “America winning” if you’ll remember. But no matter! Obama has reassured us all that America and its allies are really showing ISIS by having a conference on climate change in Paris one week after the attacks there. His quote was: “What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and...

Caltech and JPL scientists suggest the fingerprints of early photochemistry provide a solution to the long-standing mystery. Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere—one that is far too thin to prevent large amounts of water on the surface of the planet from subliming or evaporating. But many researchers have suggested that the planet was once shrouded in an atmosphere many times thicker than Earth's. For decades that left the question, "Where did all the carbon go?" Now a team of scientists from Caltech and JPL thinks they have a possible answer. The researchers suggest that 3.8 billion...

Yes of course we know the media is an enemy of freedom. Their lies prove that every day; but sometimes it gets a little too old and tired to sit by and make believe we don’t know they are liars. A recent insane lie from the New York Times (naturally) breathlessly announced not only is Greenland melting but when it does fade away, the worldwide sea level will increase by 20 feet! This would, of course, effectively bring about the end of the world for all but a few backward tribes living in mountains somewhere. This claim doesn’t come from...