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This city is alive 24/7. It's amazing. I've never felt so much pride to be Canadian, and to live in Vancouver during the world's best Olympic Winter Games ever. GO CANADA!
Only 35% still believe in man-made global warming
That sound you hear is Al Gore sobbing. A new Rasmussen study that shows only 35% of Americans still believe in man-made global warming. When you subtract out all the people who make money off this colossal scam, we estimate that the resulting figure is about 2%. Here are the details from Rasmussen:
Questions continue to mount over the science behind years of studies that say humans are chiefly to blame for global warming. But reflecting a trend that has been going on for more than a year, just 35% of U.S. voters now believe global warming is caused primarily by human activity.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 47% think long-term planetary trends are mostly to blame, down three points from the previous survey in January. Eight percent say there is some other reason, and 10% aren’t sure.
But 56% say President Obama still believes that human activity is the main cause of global warming. That’s the highest finding on that question since last March.The president went to a United Nations summit in Copenhagen in December in hopes of reaching an international agreement that would limit human activities that some scientists say contribute to global warming.
Thirty-five percent? Hell, Al, you could find a higher percentage of people who believe in flying saucers. And with good reason.
Source: Rasmussen via IHateTheMediaThe Jig is Up! Climategate U-turn as Phil Jones admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
Oops. UK Times: 'World may not be warming, say scientists' -- UN IPCC 'faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably' - -'Popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development' -- 'IPCC's climate data are contaminated with surface effects from industrialisation and data quality problems. These add up to a large warming bias'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
Watch Now! Climate Depot's Morano in MSNBC TV Debate with Daniel Weiss of Center for Am. Progress: Morano: 'The whole entire [warming] industry has been exposed as sub-prime science'
Morano: 'Now [the warmists] are trying to say global warming causes blizzards, that's the level of climate astrology -- it's like a daily horoscope -- nothing that happens falsifies the [warming] theory' -- 'He (Weiss) need's Tarot cards, that is what he needs, he is peddling astrology'
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/
Hebrew University Scientists publish study in Nature: 'AGW is refuted' -- 'Claims that carbon emissions permanently increase global temperature are false'
'Because the greenhouse effect is temporary rather than permanent, predictions of significant global warming in the 21st century by IPCC arenot supported by the data' More info here.
http://economics.huji.ac.il/
Reuters on UN IPCC Train wreck: 'Admitting yet another flaw': UN climate panel admits sea level flaws
http://www.reuters.com/
Via email
You can light up Vancouver's skyline
This is uber rad. Just log onto the Vectorial Elevation Website and design your lightshow.
Once you're done just give them your email and you'll recieve a bunch of shots of your design. My design will hit the clouds at 7:02pm tonight. Justin Credible. Like, srsly.
UPDATE: Here's mine!
How to blame humans for anything
By Andrew BoltNiche modeller David Stockwell is profoundly unimpressed with what’s billed as the latest “proof” of man-made warming - that winds are now pushing rain away from Western Australia, and dumping snow on Antarctica. And the funny thing is that not even the man spruiking this ”proof”, Professor Tas van Ommen, seems to have much faith in it:
The basic conclusion is that if this is being driven by human impact then you would expect it to continue but as climate change continues to change, the current situation changes too.
So if this keeps going, that’s evidence of man-made warming. And if it doesn’t, that’s evidence of climate change. It’s a win-win. And when you see van Ommen’s reasoning for assuming man is to blame you see exactly the same kind of heads-I-win-tails-you-lose reasoning:
This pattern has strengthened in the past 30 years and some of the computer models that reproduce this are showing that it looks like it has happened because of greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide – and also ozone (being depleted).
The models that reproduced this warming must be believed, but the blame-man ones that didn’t should be ignored.
And here’s the seal to the deal: this great change in the Antarctic oscillation just brings us to where we were in 1960. From Jones, J. M. and M. Widmann, 2004. Early peak in Antarctic oscillation index. Nature, 432, 290–291:
Here we reconstruct the austral summer (December–January) Antarctic oscillation index from sea-level pressure measurements over the twentieth century5 and find that large positive values, and positive trends of a similar magnitude to those of past decades, also occurred around 1960, and that strong negative trends occurred afterwards. This positive Antarctic oscillation index and large positive trend during a period before ozone-depleting chemicals were released into the atmosphere and before marked anthropogenic warming, together with the later negative trend, indicate that natural forcing factors or internal mechanisms in the climate system must also strongly influence the state of the Antarctic oscillation.
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Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Feb. 4th 2010
Big Green gets an endorsement from global terrorists, Al Gore pretends Bill Gates is his friend and ripples from Climategate continue to harsh hippie mellows. All this, a beach hottie and 10% more snark in your weekly round-up.
Part One: Al Gore & Friends
Here’s a simple question. How can you tell that Al Gore’s schedule isn’t as crowded as it was? Answer: Al posts on his blog 10 times in a week, that’s how. Let’s see what the profiteer prophet had on his mind:
He don’t like Sen. Murkowski one little bit, and he thinks that the noughties were the warmest years evah. He still reads the New York Times (so that’s who it is!) and likes it when they write fawning editorials on global warming. He quotes Bill Gates, but only where it suits him (more on that later), and goes on to find the one poll that suggests his AGW hoax isn’t deader than the average Ted Kennedy date.
You’ll be happy to know that Al found time to attend the launch of the new iTampon, or whatever its called, but unfortunately for Mother Earth, Al took a plane. Why, oh why can’t he take the bus?
Have savings? Not if Al has any say in it you won’t. He’d like them invested in Green things. Preferably green things controlled by Al Gore, natch.
The Goreacle’s oddest blog post became the subject of one of my own posts, in which readers waded in with woeful tales of lives destroyed by global warming. Feel free to add your own to the list, there might even be a prize for the best entry. Or not.
Conspiracy? Al Gore, Al Jazeera and Al Qaeda, united in greenity? Tell me that’s not fishy. Al Gore’s self-detonating AGW hoax received some much needed support in a brand new live-from-the-cave special from Osama Bin-Laden himself. Osama’s wars have gone about as well as Al’s recent battles, so he’s figured out it’s time to encourage the great Satan to self-immolate. Good luck with that, you evil hippie-bearded goat f-f-fancier.
Part Two: AGW Scaremongers
The Securities and Exchange Commission has decided that corporations must provide details to investors of the business risks of climate change. I wouldn’t worry too much, if the SEC is as competent at monitoring global warming as they are Madoff, Enron, Lehman et al, this initiative can be filed under idiotarian greenwashing.
KalliVornya might be bankrupt, but the valiant state lawmakers can still reach out and make a difference. So, take that, evil Free Parking. wait, what?
David Suzuki tries to hijack the Olympics
By Justin CredibleWhen it rains, it pours. And in the environmental movement, it's a torrential downpour of idiocy!
With the recent Climategate and Glaciergate scandals, the so-called science of global warming has been rapidly crumbling into oblivion faster than anyone could have ever hoped for. The head of the IPCC has been called out for being just as fraudulent as Al Gore's claims. Scientists and media have been demanding his resignation and the public is quickly realizing the climate change farce. But somehow, a few stubborn eco-terrorists are still making their crazy claims.
It was bad enough that someone actually blamed global warming for the Haiti earthquake, and now we have an even better funny farm minute for the 2010 Olympics.
Here in the one Canadian city famous for warm winters we are about to begin the Winter Games. There is little snow on Cypress Mountain, which happens every few years normally. I know, I worked there for years. The mountain is less than 20 minutes from Vancouver beaches. Warm? Huh? It's not
And sure enough, we just got it! The predictable alarmist (not climatologist) David Suzuki jumped all over the chance to make the absurd AGW claim. And the reactions have begun:
David Suzuki, the local rabid hippie totalitarian hasn’t gotten the memo that blaming everything on global warming is so 2009, and beclowns himself trying to hijack the Olympics to the global warming hoax.Thankfully the people aren't buying his garbage anymore. Every time Suzuki's articles are published online, hundreds of readers leave their comments, and very few of them are kind to the senile old hippie.
Meteorologists predicted last July that El Nino was coming and that warm weather would hit us in January and February of this year.
Mr. Suzuki, you claim to be a scientist, so please don't tell me you've never heard of El Nino, the natural weather pattern that circulates warm air from Hawaii up to the Canadian west coast? Or the fact that 30 years ago there was NO snow on the local mountains for most of the season and Vancouver's Grouse Mountain went bankrupt? Perhaps you were too stoned at the time to remember that. Clearly you still haven't quit smoking it either.
And how come you conveniently brush off the fact that the rest of the entire top half of planet earth is currently experiencing the coldest winter in a century? Your press releases claim that the coldness everywhere else is a result of "local weather patterns, not climate". So how come when we get a WARM spell in one area - Vancouver - you suddenly blame it on "global climate change", and not local weather??? LMFAO. How convenient. You and your foundation are hilariously stupid. Your attempts at fear mongering for support and funding are absolutely disgusting.
And you also ignore the fact that average global temperatures are dropping and have been dropping for a decade.
Oh that's right, I forgot. Global cooling is also because of global warming. And CO2 aka plant food is poison.
OMG UNPLUG YOUR CELLPHONE CHARGERS! DESTROY YOUR CARS! WE MUST ALL CHANGE OUR LIFESTYLES, PAY GREEN TAXES, AND WRECK THE ECONOMY BEFORE WE MELT AWAY!!!1!!1!
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David Suzuki and the Olympics: Stuck On Stupid
When it rains, it pours. And in the environmental movement, it's a torrential downpour of idiocy!With the recent Climategate and Glaciergate scandals, the so-called science of global warming has been rapidly crumbling into oblivion faster than anyone could have ever hoped for. The head of the IPCC has been called out for being just as fraudulent as Al Gore's claims. Scientists and media have been demanding his resignation and the public is quickly realizing the climate change farce. But somehow, a few stubborn eco-terrorists are still making their crazy claims,
It was bad enough that someone actually blamed global warming for the Haiti earthquake, and now we have an even better funny farm minute for the 2010 Olympics.
Here in the one Canadian city famous for warm winters we are about to begin the Winter Games. There is little snow on Cypress Mountain, which happens every few years normally. I know, I worked there for years. The mountain is less than 20 minutes from Vancouver beaches. Warm? Huh? It's not
And sure enough, we just got it! The predictable alarmist (not climatologist) David Suzuki jumped all over the chance to make the absurd AGW claim. And the reactions have begun:
David Suzuki, the local rabid hippie totalitarian hasn’t gotten the memo that blaming everything on global warming is so 2009, and beclowns himself trying to hijack the Olympics to the global warming hoax.Thankfully the people aren't buying his garbage anymore. Every time Suzuki's articles are published online, hundreds of readers leave their comments, and very few of them are kind to the senile old hippie.
Meteorologists predicted last July that El Nino was coming and that warm weather would hit us in January and February of this year.
Mr. Suzuki, you claim to be a scientist, so please don't tell me you've never heard of El Nino, the natural weather pattern that circulates warm air from Hawaii up to the Canadian west coast? Or the fact that 30 years ago there was NO snow on the local mountains and Grouse Mountain went bankrupt? Perhaps you were too stoned at the time to remember that. Clearly you still haven't quit smoking it either.
And how come you conveniently brush off the fact that the rest of the entire top half of planet earth is currently experiencing the coldest winter in a century? Your press releases claim that the coldness everywhere else is a result of "local weather patterns, not climate". So how come when we get a WARM spell in one area - Vancouver - you suddenly blame it on "global climate change", and not local weather??? LMFAO. How convenient. You and your foundation are hilariously stupid. Your attempts at fear mongering for support and funding are absolutely disgusting.
And you also ignore the fact that average global temperatures are dropping and have been dropping for a decade.
Oh that's right, I forgot. Global cooling is also because of global warming. And CO2 aka plant food is poison.
OMG UNPLUG YOUR CELLPHONE CHARGERS! DESTROY YOUR CARS! WE MUST ALL CHANGE OUR LIFESTYLES, PAY GREEN TAXES, AND WRECK THE ECONOMY BEFORE WE MELT AWAY!!!1!!1!
UPDATE: The Olympic Global Warming Onslaught is Starting (Watts Up With That?)