Too Bad, Commies: Global Warming Is Done

The Charleston State Journal ^ | February 18, 2010 | Rob Cornelius

[neverdem]

The latest round of "Climategate" and several states bailing out of regional climate agreements are a sign that climate change fears don't pass the smell test.

Too Bad, Commies: Global Warming is Done

So, a bunch of states in the western U.S. are bailing out on regional climate agreements to burn less of this or do less of that. Congrats this week to Utah and Texas and Arizona and whomever else rebukes tyranny before this paper prints Wednesday night.

Texas is to be lead plaintiff along with energy industry groups in suits to stop the U.S. EPA and its use of the "endangerment" provision among others as a tool to stop alleged "greenhouse gas emissions."

This is pretty cool. States suing the EPA. More global warming "experts" being exposed as bad scientists, for whom "I lost my homework" seems to be their only excuse.

Can't imagine how it would feel to have pinned my whole career and public life to a malicious lie. But that's where these guys seem to be. Even if Americans could afford the energy taxes that come with these ideas, that well has been poisoned.

No one outside a drum circle on a college campus believes that the end of the world is coming thanks to the Gavin Power Plant or me driving a 12-cylinder BMW.

People no longer trust the so-called environmental movement. ... and they never will again. That's the beauty of all this. Trust is built up over years, not days. And once destroyed, you don't get it back.

Despite the kindly old scientists and even your likable 10th grade biology teacher falling for this garbage, the folks that hijacked the conservation/ecology message have lost their credibility.

Science isn't a vote, but they tried to sell us that it is. With lists of names and petitions of those who agreed in exchange for lifetime employment in government and academic life. With phrases like "peer reviewed," which matter not if your peers are a rubber stamp for socialism.

Even the corporations are giving up the ghost. British Petroleum, Caterpillar and Conoco Phillips all announced this week that they were leaving some industry group called the U.S. Climate Action Partnership. If there has ever been a group that sounds more unfriendly to gross domestic product, I'm hard pressed to name it.

CAT has been a frequent target of the coal industry in West Virginia for its past outspoken stands on the need to take on global warming and reduce energy use or emissions. A frequent past whipping boy of Don Blankenship public addresses and a huge supplier to our extractive industries ... well, CAT sees nuclear winter for a plan to put concrete shoes on the United States' economy.

Conoco has been wishy-washy as well, but watching BP voluntarily drop from an economic friction-creating consortium particularly warms my heart. Most politically correct of the oil majors, BP has smugly given us the slogan "Beyond Petroleum" as they've lagged the industry in reserve replacement.

They've made us drive past that solar facility on I-70 in Maryland for going on 30 years - a place where they no longer even make solar equipment. Hilarious.

We'll know that Fonzie has vaulted the global-warming shark when American Electric Power finally admits they were wrong in wanting to make coal more expensive to use or burn. Rent-seeking and going along with the flow of political opinion are going to make a lot of companies look pretty stupid soon.

Rats are jumping off the sinking ship of fake global warming, more everyday. The cat is out of the bag and not going to return to its darkness.

I just love being on the cutting edge of freedom.

This ridiculous winter is just icing on the cake for those folks fighting for the freedom to have cheap light and heat and cars like our parents.

Science is not a vote. But what a company or society or a household chooses to do with that information is.

Companies are quitting. States are quitting. And at homes across America, the folks aware of the news are getting ready to vote against the sort of folks who prayed to Gaia or some such for $5-a-gallon gasoline and a doubling of the electric bill.

Just another power grab from those in government, and I think freedom has thwarted them. I'm going to be right about this, like I've been on this topic since 1990.

Every time this government tries to grab hold of the entire energy industry or health care sector, or anything, ask yourself this question: Does this make my family more safe, more wealthy or more free? It never does.

Rob Cornelius of Parkersburg writes a column for The State Journal. His e-mail address is robcwv@gmail.com.

Copyright 2010 West Virginia Media. All rights reserved.

[neverdem]

The AGW Smoking Gun

A key component of the scientific argument for anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has been disproven. The results are hiding in plain sight in peer-reviewed journals.

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The science behind the AGW hypothesis is that increased amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere (that humans produce by burning fossil fuels) will block more outgoing long-wave IR radiation (OLR) from exiting the atmosphere and thereby warm the surface.

--snip--

So the results of three different peer-reviewed papers show that over a period of 36 years, there is no reduction of OLR emissions in wavelengths that CO2 absorb. Therefore, the AGW hypothesis is disproven.

It should be noted that another paper written by Richard Lindzen and Yong-Sang Choi (both work at MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences -- Lindzen is a professor and Choi is a postdoctoral fellow) reveals the differences between the measured OLR and its impact on temperatures vs. climate models. In the paper, the data showed that OLR increased when sea surface temperatures increased, so this is in direct contradiction to the AGW hypothesis that less OLR should be emitted since more CO2 is absorbing it and warming the planet. Furthermore, in contradiction to the climate models, these results show that OLR is acting like a negative feedback (cooling the surface) instead of a positive feedback (radiative forcing). The Lindzen and Choi paper dealt in general with all OLR wavelengths and didn't show granularity with respect to specific wavelengths that were related to various GHG absorption, but the fact that the entire OLR emission spectrum didn't behave like the eleven climate models' predictions means that "the science isn't settled."

IMHO, the title should have been, "The Four Anti-AGW Smoking Guns."

[Roccus]

PING

[EyeGuy]

Let us hope it is dead.

It sure looked for a while that this hugely dangerous lie was actually going to succeed.

In anticipation of its death, I’m moving a fat, celebratory Maduro into the on-deck circle down in my man cave.

[mjp]

 Northern hemisphere forests may now be growing faster than at any time in the last 200 years as a result of higher levels of CO2 in the air                                                                 

[jpl]

Yep, that sound that the con artists can hear up ahead in the distance is the gravy train pulling out of the station without them on board.

[Major Matt Mason]

AGW may be dying, but don't think for a minute that the leftist moonbats won't give up on this crusade. If anything, they'll become more shrill and aggressive.

[HarleyD]

Now what am I going to do with those funny squiggly light bulbs?

[rightwingcrazy]

It won’t be gone until the multiculti nabobs find a new way to enrich themselves. Bush spoiled their oil-for-food scam, but they might make some mileage leeching off of internet commerce or acting as middlemen in a long-term “reparations” scheme. Whatever it is, it’s sure to cost us trillions.

[Carling]

Our moronic President was just talking about it yesterday in a speech.

[Condor51]

*** Now what am I going to do with those funny squiggly light bulbs? ***

Take them over to a house of someone you don't like when they're not home. Break them all outside their front door. Then call the local EPA office, and scoot.

Their house will be declared uninhabitable. Their property a 'Super Fund' clean up site they'll have to pay for. And they'll lose every penny they have or ever hope to have.

naturally I'm kidding because that would be just a mean and rotten thing to do ;-)

[MrB]

Even if AGW is dead as a vehicle to global fascism,

they’ll find something else.

Be vigilant.

[MrB]

What should you do with them?

Find the nearest person that says you have to have them to save the erf, and shove them in one of his orifices.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link.

[carolinablonde]

That's what I could never understand about why higher CO2 and warmer temperatures would be a bad thing anyway.

Plants love CO2, it's basically fertilizer. So why wouldn't we welcome longer growing seasons and bigger, healthier plants?

Unfortunately, the world looks to be headed into a cold period and, thanks to this group of criminally insane "scientists" and corrupt politicians, we've spent the last few years burning our food instead of storing it.

All the while there's plenty of oil in the ground.

[neverdem]

scandal update

Cuccinelli seeks to block EPA’s global-warming petition Attorney general disputes climate change data

World’s biggest coal company brings U.S. government to court in climate fraud

Yvo de Boer quits UN climate change body

Global Warming? LOL! Revelations of slipshod and sinister “global-warming science.”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Nice summation.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[neverdem]

With a title like that, I couldn’t resist.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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