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Desperate Days For Global Warm-ongers
IBD Editorials ^ | November 9, 2010 | Staff

Posted on 11/09/2010 6:09:09 PM PST by Kaslin

Environment: The United Nations wants $100 billion a year in taxes to deal with climate change. Two groups of researchers plan to go on the offensive against global warming "denialists." When will the madness end?

The U.N.'s craving for money it hasn't earned is insatiable. So it's no surprise that one of its panels has proposed to raise $100 billion a year from taxes on carbon dioxide emissions and international transportation, and possibly on financial transactions as well, to mitigate the effects of climate change.

This isn't the first time, of course, that the U.N. has proposed a global warming tax that would chill the world economy more than the Earth's temperatures. Taking $100 billion out of private hands and making it available to unelected bureaucrats who would channel money to unproductive, but politically favored, uses can't help but be a drag on growth.

Remember the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill? Under different versions of that legislation, real aggregate GDP losses by 2035 ranged from $7.4 trillion to $9.4 trillion and job losses from 844,000 to 2.48 million a year.

Fighting global warming is not only useless, it's expensive.

At roughly the same time the U.N. announced this plan to dig deeper into our pockets, a group of researchers led by John Abraham of St. Thomas University in Minnesota said it was mobilizing a "climate rapid-response team" that would also mount a media campaign to defend its position.

The researchers, the Tribune News Service reports, are even willing to appear before "potentially hostile audiences on conservative talk radio and television shows."

According to Scott Mandia, a professor of physical sciences at Suffolk County Community College in New York, this team will "not only communicate science," but also "aggressively engage the denialists and politicians who attack climate science and its scientists."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: agw; algorewarming; climatechange; deniers; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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To: VeniVidiVici
Found this chart on an Accuweather blog page via a google search.

1911-1914 is a close match, but looking at these charts I would have to guess that the solar cycle in 1790 is similar to cycle 23 followed by the cycle in 1805 (solar cycle 5) that may be similar to cycle 24. A fairly strong cycle followed by an extended minimum and a peak that is around 50. So our current winter should be similar to 1802-1803 winters. That would be similar to the start of Dalton Minimum territory.


21 posted on 11/09/2010 11:02:28 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape
I think this guy also agrees. He goes into some detail analysis.

From his web page Laymen's Sunspot Count.

My predictions show that SC24 will be similar to SC5. The same Solar system forces are in play at similar timings and strength (SC24 perhaps showing a stronger disruption strength, which indicates that SC24 should be a smaller cycle than SC5). This graph using the SIDC monthly count from Jan 1798 will compare the Layman's Count from Jan 2008. The Layman's Count is the only count that can properly compare with the old SIDC (Wolf) measures. SC14 has been added for interest (starts Jan 1901) all 3 records beginning at the end of their previous cycle (where the downramp meets the bottom). The unsmoothed numbers showing the big swings in SC14.

You are probably referring to Solar Cycle 14 from the early 1900's. So 24 could be similar to either 5 or 14. Interesting. See the approximate 10 cycle intervals. Cycle 5 or Cycle 14 compared to Cycle 24.

22 posted on 11/09/2010 11:10:03 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: Kaslin

Seems like defunding the UN, or at least paring it down to a couple million bucks a year maximum is another no brainer way to save money. Between the ‘human rights’ nonsense and the Gorebal Warmers we are funding people who are doing far more harm than good. Why continue?


23 posted on 11/10/2010 4:21:01 AM PST by Da Mav
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To: SaraJohnson
LOL. I’m stealing that!

My pleasure :-) They give pygmies everywhere a bad name.

24 posted on 11/10/2010 7:17:39 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Defund National Peoples Radio!! Democrats are for free speech. Just not for you.)
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To: boop

When I was in New Mexico back in April, the mountains were obviously melting.


25 posted on 11/10/2010 7:41:07 AM PST by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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To: oyez
the mountains were obviously melting.

You shouldn't have eaten that cactus.

26 posted on 11/10/2010 2:10:48 PM PST by bigheadfred (wogga la hooga)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
a group of researchers led by John Abraham of St. Thomas University in Minnesota said it was mobilizing a "climate rapid-response team" that would also mount a media campaign to defend its position... According to Scott Mandia, a professor of physical sciences at Suffolk County Community College in New York, this team will "not only communicate science," but also "aggressively engage the denialists and politicians who attack climate science and its scientists."
Those who deny that the climate is 100 percent natural 100 percent of the time *are* the denialists, and their view are 100 percent political in origin, with no scientific basis whatsoever. The attacks, so to speak, against their positions are self-defense, and should involve keeping them under constant litigation over their fraud, breaking their tenure, and getting them blackballed, and their phony research banned. Thanks Kaslin for the topic and neverdem for the link.


27 posted on 11/10/2010 3:33:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: bigheadfred

That caused a Hellova’ case of indigestion, too.


28 posted on 11/10/2010 6:24:26 PM PST by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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