Climate change

[Pete McCluskey.]

Steven Goddard and Anthony Watts:

Barring an about face by nature or adjustments, it appears that for the first time since 2001, Arctic Sea ice will hit the “normal” line as defined by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) for this time of year.


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It’s one of the IPCC most popular scare-claims:

Seas ‘threaten 20m in Bangladesh’
Bangladesh: 20 million at risk from climate change
Rising seas threaten 20 million in Bangladesh
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And 20 million drowning Bangaldeshis was an underestimation, according to Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth:

Worse still, Calcutta, and to the east Bangladesh, the area covered includes 50 million people. Think of the impact of a couple of hundred thousand refugees when they are displaced by an environmental event and then imagine the impact of a 100 million or more.
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But a new study by Bangladeshi scientists accuses the IPCC of alarmism, saying the deposit of sediment will counter much of the effects of any rising seas:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under fire for errors in the 2007 report, had said a one-metre (three-foot) rise in sea levels would flood 17 percent of Bangladesh and create 20 million refugees by 2050.,,,
But IPCC’s prediction did not take into account the one billion tonnes of sediment carried by Himalayan rivers into Bangladesh every year, which are crucial in countering rises in sea levels, the study funded by the Asian Development Bank said.
“Sediments have been shaping Bangladesh’s coast for thousands of years,” said Maminul Haque Sarker, director of the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), who led research for the study.,,,
Even if sea levels rise a maximum one metre in line with the IPCC’s 2007 predictions, the new study indicates most of Bangladesh’s coastline will remain intact, said Sarker
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[domtoni]

From Fox News:

Jon Stewart-Fox News Feud Heats Up - Video - FoxNews.com

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

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For all of you out there in America and across the globe who have fought so hard to tackle the hideous enemy of our planet, namely carbon emissions, that bogus god you worship named "Climate Change" or "Global Warming", there is some really bad news that will be very painful for you to process. But it is my duty to pass it on to you anyway. <o></o>
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Okay, here's the bombshell. The current volcanic eruption going on in Iceland, since it first started spewing volcanic ash a week ago, has, to this point, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet. Not only that, this single act of God has added emissions to the earth estimated to be 42 times more than can be corrected by the extreme human regulations proposed for annual reductions.<o></o>

I know, I know.... (have a group hug)...it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving your Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up til midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, going on vacation to a city park instead of Yosemite, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your $1 light bulbs with $10 light bulbs ...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just the past week.<o></o>

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in the past week has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And, those hundreds of thousands of American jobs you helped move to Asia with expensive emissions demands on businesses.. . you know, the ones that are creating even more emissions than when they were creating American jobs, well that must seem really worthwhile now.<o></o>

I'm so sorry. And I do wish that there was some kind of a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the brush fire season across the western U.S.A. will start in about two months and those fires will negate your efforts to reduce carbon emissions in our world for the next two years.<o></o>

So, grab a Coke, give the world a hug, and have a nice day!

 

[Keith]

That's it. I vote for Volcanic Change.:evil:

 

[Garry]

Pete +1!!!
Garry

 

[Al Wohlstrom]

Gore has been spewing at about the same rate as the volcano!

 

[Chris P.]

I found a different article yesterday but didn't reply. Here's one I found today: Icelandic volcano won't affect the world's climate Environment Blog (ABC Environment) . Where did you get that information Pete?

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

I found a different article yesterday but didn't reply. Here's one I found today: Icelandic volcano won't affect the world's climate Environment Blog (ABC Environment) . Where did you get that information Pete?

It came to me via email from a normally reliable source, I cannot confirm its veracity but there is no denying its humour.

 

[Chris P.]

"inconvenience and expense of driving your Prius hybrids" - what's inconvenient and expensive about a Prius? They cost the same as any other everyday car (at least here in the states) and they're no more inconvenient than any other typical sedan. Sorry Pete - I don't see the humor. Why do people have to be so bull headed towards these people? So they thought they were doing something good - maybe they need to be more selective about what they're being good about?

So let's see - a season of brush fires (which sums up that calender year's worth of fire pollution) will negate 2 years of mankind's addition - so give up mankind's efforts and add even more. YEAH!:laugh:

 

[Al Wohlstrom]

"inconvenience and expense of driving your Prius hybrids" - what's inconvenient and expensive about a Prius? They cost the same as any other everyday car (at least here in the states) and they're no more inconvenient than any other typical sedan. Sorry Pete - I don't see the humor. Why do people have to be so bull headed towards these people? So they thought they were doing something good - maybe they need to be more selective about what they're being good about?

So let's see - a season of brush fires (which sums up that calender year's worth of fire pollution) will negate 2 years of mankind's addition - so give up mankind's efforts and add even more. YEAH!:laugh:

I don't think the problem is with green cars etc. The problem is with a BS Cap and Trade bill that will tax us into oblivion.

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

Come on Chris fess up, you drive a Prius don't you?

 

[Chris P.]

Nope - but I would if I was into buying new cars. I admire the engineering behind it and the idea that you can do pretty much the same thing as so many cars yet much quieter. I drive a 1985 BMW 535i - great car. Of course, if I had a GT40 replica or something similar I'd have that as my daily driver.:thumbsup:

 

[domtoni]

From Newsmax.com today 2 June 2010:

4. Climate Change Skepticism Rising in Britain

Concern about man-made global warming has been plummeting in Britain among politicians and the general population as well.

Nowhere has the shift in public opinion from concern to skepticism “been more striking than in Britain, where climate change was until this year such a popular priority that in 2008, Parliament enshrined targets for emissions cuts as national law,” The New York Times observed.

A February survey by the BBC showed that only 26 percent of Britons believe that “climate change is happening and is now established as largely man-made” — down from 41 percent as recently as last November.

A poll in January of 141 Conservative Party candidates found that “reducing Britain’s carbon footprint” was the least important of 19 issues they considered.

London’s Science Museum has decided to change the name of what it had planned to call the Climate Change Gallery to the Climate Science Gallery.

David Cameron, Britain’s new prime minister, was “strangely muted” on the climate change issue in pre-election debates, according to Britain’s Daily Telegraph.

And former Prime Minister Tony Blair has acknowledged that the science supporting man-made global warming may not be “as certain as its proponents allege.”

The change in attitude can be traced at least in part to the so-called “climategate” controversy that arose in November — the leaking of e-mail messages from British climate scientists at the University of East Anglia that global warming skeptics pointed to as evidence that researchers were exaggerating the evidence for global warming.

An article in The Telegraph after the scandal erupted stated that the global warming “myth” has been “suddenly, brutally, and quite deliciously exposed.”

Then in January, The Times of London criticized a report from a United Nations climate panel for an erroneous claim that glaciers in the Himalayas could disappear by 2035. The U.N. apologized for the error.

Other media sources said the report also claimed that 55 percent of the Netherlands is below sea level, when in fact it’s half that amount.

“Legitimacy has shifted to the side of the climate skeptics, and that is a big, big problem,” Ben Stewart, a spokesman for Greenpeace, acknowledged.

There has been a shift in opinions about climate change in the U.S. as well. A Gallup poll in March found that 48 percent of Americans believe that the threat of global warming was “generally exaggerated,” up from 41 percent a year ago.

Editor's Note:

Al Gore Shocked by Global Cool-Down

 

[Keith]

Interestingly Mrs "Stripper" Gore is seperating from her Nobel husband. She has spent a lifetime concerning herself with Mental Health Issues and is a noted expert on the subject.

I rest my case....

 

[Al Wohlstrom]

Well Tipper finally is exhibiting some common sense. How she ever lived with that pompous ass for 40 years is beyond me.

 

[domtoni]

Have not yet read it but here it goes. From the AP.


The Associated Press: After 40-year union, Al and Tipper Gore separate

 

[Randy V]

Well Tipper finally is exhibiting some common sense. How she ever lived with that pompous ass for 40 years is beyond me.

Methinks there was a Climate Change in the bedroom at the Gore Mansion...

Decidedly cooler perhaps??? :stunned:

 

[Al Wohlstrom]

Methinks there was a Climate Change in the bedroom at the Gore Mansion...


Decidedly cooler perhaps??? :stunned:

A weight change probably didn't help, he's a carrying quite a bit of blubber!

 

[Keith]

A weight change probably didn't help, he's a carrying quite a bit of blubber!

Save the Whale! :laugh:

 

[Jack]

Keith,

Save the whales, "Collect the whole set"!