Natural Disaster Deaths Increase, Blame Global Warming
Dec 29, 2008 Political
Natural disasters killed more than 220,000 people in 2008 making Mother Nature more deadly than the war on terror. The number of natural disasters was lower in 2007 and the “experts” are blaming the disasters on, what else, global warming.
Natural disasters killed over 220,000 people in 2008, making it one of the most devastating years on record and underlining the need for a global climate deal, the world’s number two reinsurer said Monday.
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“This continues the long-term trend we have been observing. Climate change has already started and is very probably contributing to increasingly frequent weather extremes and ensuing natural catastrophes,” Munich Re board member Torsten Jeworrek said. Breitbart
There have been natural disasters for centuries but now they are the result of global warming which is the culprit in every calamity that takes place.
The news is not all grim though as some believe that 2008 will be the year that man-made global warming was disproved. The world has been cooling and many scientists are bucking the trend and denying global warming. Polar ice caps have not melted in any huge fashion and the oceans have not risen. One of the ice caps is getting bigger.
As an aside, even if the ice caps melted they would not raise the level of the water because they displace water equal to their volume.
Many scientists point out that sunspot activity influences the temperatures and the sun has not had sunspot activity for weeks. Thus, temperatures are colder.
This has not stopped the global warming zealots who claim that the colder temperatures are a sign of global warming which would mean that when it is warmer the temperatures are leading to global cooling. No sane person would think that and certainly the global warming adherents do not. They blame everything, hot or cold, on global warming.
Al Gore has gotten very rich by perpetrating fraud on the American public and the world.
Fortunately, people are seeing through this myth and are beginning to buck the trend. That is good news because we cannot afford the measures the warming crowd wants to impose especially since they will not help.
But, until they completely shelve the global warming myth it might prove a good excuse for anything that ails you. Sorry your honor, I was driving drunk because of global warming…
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Tags: al gore, death, global warming, myth, natural disaster
Freezing Out Global Warming
Apr 30, 2008 General
There are millions of people on this planet who have bought into the idea that the Earth is warming up and that mankind is responsible for it. Al Gore has become even richer by making error filled movies and preaching about corkscrew shaped light bulbs (which I happen to like) in order to save our planet, a planet he said had a fever. The global warming movement has a lot of scientists who believe that the Earth is warming and they are sure that man is causing it and that we must do something now. They are willing to bet their government grants that global warming is real.
Of course, there are just as many scientists who have doubts about global warming. Of the scientists on both sides of the issue, many are not geophysicists, or climate specialists, however they do have some idea about the scientific process. That process does not include chanting that something is real over and over until people accept it as fact. Science deals with proving or disproving that which is posited. So far, man made global warming remains a theory because it has yet to be proved. There is no doubt that we have measured an increase in temperature but why is there an increase. The Earth has had cycles where it has been cold and then hot and man has had nothing to do with it. Mars is getting warmer and you can bet the farm that no life form is responsible for that.
The global warming zealots like to point to people who actually deal with the climate as the true authorities and they seem to only pass off those who agree with the issue. Those climate experts who disagree are shunned and castigated because of their views.
While Al Gore and his legions of doom are terrorizing the world with their global warming crusades a geophysicist in Australia says that we might want to rethink the whole warming idea. Phil Chapman states that the Earth cooled in 2007 and that the drop in temperature was the greatest putting our temperature back where it was in 1930. Chapman also states that there has been little to no sunspot activity and that this is the reason we have cooling temperatures. Consequently, increased sunspot activity would cause it to get warmer.
Chapman also discusses what would happen if temperatures continued to decrease and his description of 1.5 m thick ice covering continents for 10,000 years eliminating much of the life on Earth is not appealing at all.
The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years.
The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue. We also know that glaciation can occur quickly: the required decline in global temperature is about 12C and it can happen in 20 years.
The next descent into an ice age is inevitable but may not happen for another 1000 years. On the other hand, it must be noted that the cooling in 2007 was even faster than in typical glacial transitions. If it continued for 20 years, the temperature would be 14C cooler in 2027.
By then, most of the advanced nations would have ceased to exist, vanishing under the ice, and the rest of the world would be faced with a catastrophe beyond imagining. The Australian
Chapman admits that he does not know if this is a trend or a transient temperature drop but given the consequences it should be examined. However, just like global warming, while more study is needed, and it would be foolish to act upon unsubstantiated data, as if man could influence the climate anyway.
The climate debate will press on for some time to come with the global warming believers pushing “their” scientists forward and demanding that we follow in lockstep while they ignore the possibility of an ice age or at least global cooling. They will legislate climate friendly laws that force us to comply while bankrupting us. We will be forced to accept man made global warming as fact despite the lack of proof.
Those who want me to accept the doom and gloom of climate change are asking that I accept as fact a weather prediction for well into the future from people who cannot tell me, for a certain, if it will rain this weekend.
However, if I had my choice I would take a warming trend to an ice age, any day…
Tags: al gore, climate, global warming, ice age
Prince Charles, A Royal Pain
Mar 8, 2008 General
Prince Charles was speaking at a dinner reception and he described as “sheer madness” those who are skeptical on calls for rapid change on the environment. Charles said that the private sector has a particularly important role to play. His remarks about madness were:
“If I may speak plainly among friends, this is sheer madness. The scientific facts are as plain as they are alarming. Worryingly in the last few months we have learnt[sic] that the North Polar ice cap is melting so fast that some scientists are predicting that in seven years it will completely disappear in summer.” Trinidad News
Charles, like Al Gore, has aligned with scientists who have latched onto the teat of the global warming cash cow while disregarding those scientists who are skeptical about the whole idea. The southern ice cap is getting larger, a fact that is ignored when discussing polar bears clinging to life on run away parcels of ice.
Of course Prince Charles would put the onus on the private sector. He is not part of that sector and does not have much of a real job. His family has castles and mansions all over and they jet around all over the world. I imagine the royal family’s carbon footprint is much larger than just about anyone else’s in the UK and yet it is up to others to correct the situation.
There are scientists on both sides of this equation but those who do not believe in the doomsday predictions are castigated by the global warming crowd. The GW supporters stand to make a great deal of money by selling a hoax to the public at large. The state of Maryland has decided that carbon emissions would be reduced by a whopping 90% by 2050 despite the fact that no technology exists to accomplish this task. The answer provided by those who enacted this lunacy is that there will be appropriate technology by 2050. I will more than likely be dead by then but I dare say they will not accomplish this pipe dream.
However, let us suppose that we could spend an unlimited amount of money on the problem. The benefit would be minimal at best. Even if every country were able to reduce emissions the temperature would rise and drop as it has done for millions of years and long before man set foot upon this planet. Warming and cooling trends are part of the cyclic nature of the weather and nothing man does will change that fact.
The sheer madness is allowing someone like Prince Charles or Al Gore to dictate science and set an agenda that is unachievable and costly.
This is what happens when influential people have nothing better to do.
Tags: al gore, global warming, hoax, prince charles
Scientists not Warming to Global Warming
Dec 11, 2007 General
I have written a number of times about the many scientists in the world who do not agree with the idea of man-made global warming. These scientists are ignored and abused by the GW community in order to minimize their message, a message that says; “We do not agree with the conclusions presented by the UN and its scientists.” These scientists also believe that the reason for all the attention to GW is for people to get rich from it. This is not surprising since AL Gore is getting wealthier by the day while touting GW and selling carbon offsets. Interestingly, those attending the meeting in Bali generated more carbon that 20,000 cars in a year. I have been taken to task in the past by people who say there are not as many scientists against GW as there are for it. this, of course, is hogwash. The same people will tell me that the only scientists who disagree are paid by Exxon or some other petroleum company. I have maintained that many scientists who once believed in GW have changed their opinions after doing real research and that many of those who believe in GW are actually the ones being paid to do so. It would appear that a few scientists agree with me:
“Most of the people here have jobs that are very well paid and they depend on the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. They are not going to be very receptive to the idea that well actually the science has gone off in a different direction,” Evans explained. EPW.Senate
The article is full of scientists who do not agree with the GW crowd and have presented scientific evidence to refute the GW community. Unfortunately, these scientists are ignored or castigated because they refuse to jump on the bandwagon and follow the Pied Piper into the abyss.
Take the time to read the linked article and read the references linked in it. I might be a denier in the eyes of the less informed but at least I am in good company.
Tags: al gore, bali, global warming