Thursday, February 11, 2010
Climategate: Obama’s National Climate Disservice
Under the pretext that “Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards,” and that they “increasingly are asking the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for information about climate change in order to make the best choices for their families, communities and businesses,” this week the Obama administration unveiled its National Climate Service (NCS).
Though we can’t rely on a weather forecast that extend more than a few days, the National Climate Service is going to help us plan for micro-changes in climate decades and more into the future.
Climate.gov features a “climate dashboard” with constantly updated graphs showing changes in global temperature, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), incoming sunlight, sea level, and Arctic ice. How any of this information will help anyone make any choice for any family, community, or business is not even suggested on the website. But rest assured, says NOAA:
People are searching for relevant and timely information about these changes to inform decisionmaking about virtually all aspects of their lives.
Climate.gov is more self-lampooning than informative.
No one lives at the mean global temperature, so it’s of dubious relevance to anyone. Moreover, NOAA’s calculation is not very robust. Not only are there not enough surface and atmospheric temperature samplings — by a long shot — but the measurements from the Earth’s surface tend to be biased, generally towards warming by the urban heat island effect.
While the atmospheric CO2 level is slowly rising, NOAA omits that this is an utterly meaningless phenomenon for most of the planet. In tropical and temperate zones, the greenhouse effects of water vapor and clouds essentially block out those of CO2 at current levels. Moreover, each molecule of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere has exponentially less greenhouse warming potential than the preceding molecule. Given current atmospheric CO2 levels, this relationship is why alarmists cannot show that CO2 emissions measurably impact global climate.
Climate.gov shows a measurement of incoming sunlight — but NOAA itself dismisses the link between incoming sunlight and climate change
The sea level change graph? It only represents measured sea level change at the Battery in New York City. Moreover, it fails to indicate whether sea level is rising, or whether New York City is sinking.
While the Arctic sea ice graph dramatizes the increasing summer melt, NOAA omits showing the increase in Antarctic sea ice that has resulted in an overall increase in net global sea ice.
With the information that NOAA presents, the only thing that you can plan on is being confused, misinformed, and frustrated.
The real purpose of the NCS, of course, has nothing to do with education. It has everything to do with the politicization of the natural process of climate change for the unnatural ends of egomaniacal profiteers like Al Gore, and international socialists who want to use greenhouse gas regulation as a means of imposing their political agendas.
The NCS will be led by NOAA’s Thomas Karl, a prominent global warming alarmist. He will report to Jane Lubchenco, another longtime climate chicken little. NOAA’s media release features endorsements from Obama energy/environment czar — and former Socialist International official — Carol Browner, as well as from Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers. Rogers not only lobbied for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, but he admits to tackling climate change at the behest of his grade school-aged grandchildren.
It’s pretty obvious that the NCS and Climate.gov intend to reinflate Al Gore’s “the planet has a fever” theme, in the wake of the Senate death of cap and trade, Climategate, glaciergate, rainforestgate, the failed Copenhagen conference, the exposure of IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri’s financial conflicts of interest, and other recent events that have derailed the alarmist freight train.
If NCS wants to present useful information to the public and decisionmakers, it might try showing the change in the political climate for global warming alarmism. A photo of a falling rock would probably be sufficient.
Steve Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and is the author of Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
How’s That Global Warming Working Out For Ya?
Canada Free Press
By Jim O'Neill
“Few would deny any longer that Communism-Marxism-Leninism and its variants—meant in practice, bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal gulags and forced labor, fatal deportations, man-made famines, extrajudicial executions and show trials, and genocide. It is also widely known that as a result millions of innocent people have been murdered in cold blood.”—R.J. Rummel
“Socialists have to be the stupidest people on the planet.”—R.D. Walker
A new fusion of Marxism and science, that could be called Marxience
“Anthropogenic global
But wait—it appears that the “global warming” cabal is not about to go without a fight. They are now claiming—get this—that “global warming” is the cause of “global
Far be it for me to ever accuse the Far Left of pristine logic, but this latest ploy is incredible even by their moronic standards.
Recently a senior engineer from China’s National Climate Center, Ren Fumin, told the “Beijing Times,” that “The severe coldness this winter can be called an extreme weather event.” Don’t expect a Nobel Prize for that observation, Einstein—then again, given the record of the Norwegian idiots passing out those prizes…
Fumin continues, “The main reason is the emergence of new EI Nino phenomenon caused by global warming.” There you go—“global cooling” is caused by “global warming!” These people never stop. Mere facts and the truth will not deter them.
The key point to the “global warming” scam, of course, is that the Far Left claims that “global warming” is caused by humanity—specifically that evil greenhouse gas CO2, carbon dioxide. The fact that the earth has experienced periods where the CO2 level was much higher than today—totally independent of humanity’s influence—doesn’t register with the Far Left world-view, and therefore is ignored.
The Far Left eco-nutz also blithely ignore the fact that CO2 is a precious life-giving gas, and that almost ALL plant life would quickly die if deprived of its life-giving benefits. To hear them tell it, CO2 is some toxic killer, akin to Zyklon B.
Perhaps the most disturbing element of the “global warming” lie, is that is was fueled by such a relatively small number of “scientists.” The Climategate documents make it abundantly clear that a couple of dozen “scientists,” in collusion with the UN’s IPCC, the liberal press, and academics, were the driving force behind the Big Lie.
These Far Left agenda-driven “scientists,” have combined their ideology and professions, into a new fusion of Marxism and science, that could be called “Marxience”—being nothing more than the same ol’ Marxist wolf, in new sheep’s clothing.
Actually this attack by atheistic ideologues against the truth, is nothing new at all, and its roots can be traced as far back as the ancient Greek, Epicurus (as Benjamin Wiker brilliantly describes in his book “Moral Darwinism”). What’s new about this current Marxience, is its blasé willingness to use lies, manipulation, and subterfuge, to advance its agenda—the truth is merely a useful tool, to be discarded whenever convenient.
Of great concern is the fact that Marxience—Marxist-driven science—is hardly limited to climate scientists. When the Council of Europe elected to look into the world-wide “pandemic” scam, they took special care to mention the collusion of “scientists,” (Marxientists, and greedy scientists just in it for the money).
It has become increasingly obvious that there are a number of Marxientists working in various professional fields, and pushing Far Left agendas, as opposed to searching for the truth. They make a mockery of science as a whole, and their specific field in particular. They are most commonly found in the environmental sciences, helping to move along the Far Left’s cause célèbre, Agenda 21, in whatever way they can. (Source)
Their Marxist game plan is to take the wealth from the richer nations, and redistribute it to the poorer ones. Equal misery for all. That’s the main reason behind the “global warming” scam. The fact that the global elitists are also making money hand over fist, via various eco-scams, is just icing on the cake. (Source)
I should point out that when I use the word “Marxism” here, I’m using it in a broad sense, meant to include all of the “isms” that stem from it: Communism, Fascism, Communitarianism, Socialism, Statism, Fabianism, and all the rest.
They are, each and every one of them, mental, emotional, cultural, political, and spiritual pathologies—pathology meaning an illness, a sickness, a disease. But that’s the subject for another article.
In the meantime, enjoy the “global warming,” and do what you can to help get Scott Brown elected to the Senate.
And keep an eye out for polar bears.
Born in June of 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jim O’Neill proudly served in the U.S. Navy from 1970-1974 in both UDT-21 (Underwater Demolition Team) and SEAL Team Two. A member of MENSA, he worked as a commercial diver in the waters off Scotland, India, and the United States. In 1998 while attending the University of South Florida as a journalism student, O’Neill won “First Place” in the “Carol Burnett/University of Hawaii AEJMC Research in Journalism Ethics Award.” The annual contest was set up by Carol Burnett with the money she won from successfully suing the National Enquirer for libel.
Jim can be reached at: Letters@canadafreepress.com