Climate Change

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‘97 percent’ claim on global warming a hoax




by ED BERRY

“Piltdown Man Hoax Is Exposed,” announced the New York Times on Nov. 21, 1953. Yet many people believe the global warming hoax because their environmental religion requires it.

To further support their belief in global warming, they perpetuate a second hoax, namely, that 97 percent of scientists believe human CO2 causes significant global warming."

http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/...cle_6807ccd4-3a8d-11e4-8195-2711ab08722c.html

 

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"Science is never settled, but the current state of “climate change” science is quite clear: There is essentially zero evidence that carbon dioxide from human activities is causing catastrophic climate change."

http://nypost.com/2014/09/14/leo-v-science-vanishing-evidence-for-climate-change/

 

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‘97 percent’ claim on global warming a hoax




by ED BERRY

“Piltdown Man Hoax Is Exposed,” announced the New York Times on Nov. 21, 1953. Yet many people believe the global warming hoax because their environmental religion requires it.

To further support their belief in global warming, they perpetuate a second hoax, namely, that 97 percent of scientists believe human CO2 causes significant global warming."

http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/...cle_6807ccd4-3a8d-11e4-8195-2711ab08722c.html

but it IS 97%.

 

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"Science is never settled, but the current state of “climate change” science is quite clear: There is essentially zero evidence that carbon dioxide from human activities is causing catastrophic climate change."

http://nypost.com/2014/09/14/leo-v-science-vanishing-evidence-for-climate-change/

Ha ha ha. The NY Post. What's next, a comic book?

Annnnnd it's written by Tommy Harris. Who is Tommy Harris?

Tom Harris is a Canadian mechanical engineer, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) [1] and former executive director of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project.[2] Harris has 30 years’ experience working as a mechanical engineer, project manager, and in science and technology communications. [3] From May to September 2006, he was Ottawa operations director of the High Park Group, a public relations and lobbying firm active in the debate over global warming.[4]

oooooo a MECHANICAL ENGINEER !!!! He must really know what he is talking about regarding climate science.


Tom Harris is the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), a group of climate change skeptics that has received funding from the Heartland Institute. Before starting work with ICSC, Harris was the Executive Director of the now-defunct Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP).

Prior to working with the NRSP, Harris was a Director of Operations of the Ottawa office of a Canadian PR and lobbying firm called the High Park Group (HPG). Harris has also worked with APCO worldwide, a group known for creating The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) which worked to advance tobacco industry interests.

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So basically you want us to believe an unqualified hack lobbyist for the fossil fuel industry.

And this is what you trot out as expert opinion.


Maybe you believe this shit but anyone who is NOT a moron does not.

 

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Ha ha ha. The NY Post. What's next, a comic book?

Annnnnd it's written by Tommy Harris. Who is Tommy Harris?

Tom Harris is a Canadian mechanical engineer, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) [1] and former executive director of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project.[2] Harris has 30 years’ experience working as a mechanical engineer, project manager, and in science and technology communications. [3] From May to September 2006, he was Ottawa operations director of the High Park Group, a public relations and lobbying firm active in the debate over global warming.[4]

oooooo a MECHANICAL ENGINEER !!!! He must really know what he is talking about regarding climate science.


Tom Harris is the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), a group of climate change skeptics that has received funding from the Heartland Institute. Before starting work with ICSC, Harris was the Executive Director of the now-defunct Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP).

Prior to working with the NRSP, Harris was a Director of Operations of the Ottawa office of a Canadian PR and lobbying firm called the High Park Group (HPG). Harris has also worked with APCO worldwide, a group known for creating The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) which worked to advance tobacco industry interests.

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So basically you want us to believe an unqualified hack lobbyist for the fossil fuel industry.

And this is what you trot out as expert opinion.


Maybe you believe this shit but anyone who is NOT a moron does not.

You mean instead of Al Gore the blowhard ex politician and the guy from skeptical science who was a cartoonist? That's who the real go-to guys are?

rofl

 

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You mean instead of Al Gore the blowhard ex politician and the guy from skeptical science who was a cartoonist? That's who the real go-to guys are?

rofl

No, I mean the guy you are using to support your absurd position is beyond a doubt an unqualified hack lobbyist for the fossil fuel industry that only denier idiots like you would give any credence to.

 

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FRIDAY, OCT 10, 2014 11:13 AM EDT
A massive cloud of methane is hovering over the Southwest, and it’s bigger than anyone expected

LINDSAY ABRAMS


(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Michigan)

Well, this isn’t good: Researchers have discovered a massive “hot spot” of methane emissions above the southwestern U.S. As pictured above, it stretches 2,500 square miles over New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona. It’s the size of Delaware, and more than triple the size of previous estimates.

Methane, a greenhouse gas, is some 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a century and even more damaging to the climate in the short term. Over the seven-year period measured, the hot spot produced about 10 percent the EPA’s estimation of all U.S. methane emissions. It’s currently producing the rough equivalent of all the methane being produced by the U.K.’s entire oil, gas and coal industry.

The methane cloud, detailed in a study by NASA and University of Michigan scientists, was actually discovered years ago, but researchers assumed it must have been a mistake. ”We didn’t focus on it because we weren’t sure if it was a true signal or an instrument error,” Christian Frankenberg of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explained in a statement. Using satellite data, the team calculated that the area released about 0.59 million metric tons of methane into the atmosphere each year from 2003 to 2009.

It’s important to note that this isn’t a fraccident: the emissions were measured before fracking took off in the region. Eric Kort, the study’s lead author, said they should instead be attributed to leaks from production sites in New Mexico’s natural-gas rich San Juan Basin.

“The results are indicative that emissions from established fossil fuel harvesting techniques are greater than inventoried,” Kort explained. “There’s been so much attention on high-volume hydraulic fracturing, but we need to consider the industry as a whole.”

It’s a good reminder that it’s not just “unconventional” drilling techniques like fracking that are bad news. Plain old-fashioned oil and gas extraction has significant problems too — even before we start talking about the pollution that comes from burning the stuff. What these new findings show is that we’ve significantly underestimated the methane emissions from our energy infrastructure as a whole.

 

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Scientists lay out how melting sea ice may destabilize the Arctic atmospheric circulation

This past year, the U.S. Midwest and Northeast suffered through a long, cold winter. The West, in contrast, saw a warm, dry season. Yet both were symptoms of the same cause—a leaky polar vortex. This situation gets even more counterintuitive, too. A contentious idea that's been kicking around for a while posits that, as backwards as it seems, a weak polar vortex (and the resulting cold winter) might actually have been a sign of global warming. And now a new study adds evidence that this may, in fact, be the case.

Here's how it works. Normally, cold Arctic air is confined to the polar region by a strong atmospheric circulation around the pole. (That's the polar vortex.) Last year the polar vortex weakened, and the cold Arctic air spilled south, flash freezing the eastern half of the continent.

The key to making sense of how a leaky polar vortex could be tied to global warming lies in the rapid recent decreases in Arctic sea ice cover. As the sea ice melts, some researchers think, it changes how the jet stream crosses North America. The warming Arctic can mean the jet stream blows more slowly, and when that happens, the jet stream can get wobbly and “trap weather systems — including both heat waves and cold snaps — in place for an unusually long time,” says Michael Lemonick for Climate Central. (A wobbly jet stream could have consequences not just for the polar vortex, says Seth Borenstein for the Associated Press, but for a whole range of extreme weather events.)

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...#iymid0Al6dQQ7OAd.99

Add to this the drought in California, the heat wave in Australia, and we are starting to get some idea of what we are going to see more of. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.


The savage heat waves that struck Australia last year were almost certainly a direct consequence of greenhouse gases released by human activity, researchers said Monday. It is perhaps the most definitive statement climate scientists have made tying a specific weather event to global warming.

Five groups of researchers, using distinct methods, analyzed the heat that baked Australia for much of 2013 and continued into 2014, briefly shutting down the Australian Open tennis tournament in January when the temperature climbed to 111 degrees Fahrenheit.


and now...

Winter 2014 set to be 'coldest for century' Britain faces ARCTIC FREEZE in just weeks
WINTER 2014 is on track to be the coldest for more than a CENTURY with Britain just weeks away from a crippling ARCTIC FREEZE.
Heavy and persistent snow, freezing gales and sub-zero temperatures threaten to grind the country to a standstill for up to FIVE MONTHS, horrified long-range weather forecasters have warned.

 

[Lucrum]

FRIDAY, OCT 10, 2014 11:13 AM EDT
A massive cloud of methane is hovering over the Southwest, and it’s bigger than anyone expected

Simple solution, just tax and regulate the problem into nonexistence. Works for everything else, doesn't it?