Comments on: Be Cool and Prevent Cooling by Reducing Global Warming

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:06:33 +0000

Anyone see the report that the Heathrow airport crash back in January may have been caused by environmental rules? Greenies (nearly) kill!

By: Demesure

Demesure — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:40:42 +0000

ErikTheRed,
Burning witches was an archaic process which was way to cruel and definitive. Drowning witches had been a huge improvment for witches lifes and in some senses is similar to modern head-I-win-tail-you-lose-climatology:
a suspected witch (mostly anybody with unconsensual haircut) was attached with a solid rope to a heavy rock and thrown into the river or pond, or whatever can drown. If she can loosen the rope and resurface, she's been saved by God and hence is not a witch. If she's drowned, the witch hunters were right and can go after the next target.

It may seem farcical but it is (mostly) authentic.

By: Max

Max — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:23:41 +0000

Personally, those alarmists are just opportunists who like to use such stories for their agenda (may it be they work for newspapers who need scare stories, or for a company that profits from it, or they just generally like publicity).
However, scientifically speaking, it would be cool to actually be capable to terra-form weather!!! That’s a scientific leap I would like to see in my days Though there would be a lot of conflict about such a technology (do we want more rain (farmers) or do we want more sunshine (tourism)?)

However, aside from that issue, my dear mother has been to Paris lately and visited the Palais de Decouvertes, which is a prestigeous musée in Paris. They also had a section about Climate Change, but after looking at the exposition, my mom concluded that perhaps Global Warming wasn’t such a big deal and oh-so-deadly. And this comes from my mom, who was rather a fierce defender of it =) That really surprised me, and if I ever come to Paris again, I too will visit the museum. And from the looks of it, I can only encourage it, especially if you have kids, because there are a lot of live experiments in all kind of sciences =)

By: Bobby Lane

Bobby Lane — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:59:24 +0000

I thought you might find this interesting. Remember the Hockey Stick graph by Michael Mann that was so famously discredited and even removed from subsequent IPCC reports? Well, like a zombie in a horror movie, it is back yet again.

Here are a couple of links. One to EUReferendum and one to the New York tines. Watch and behold the Resurrection!

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2008/09/hockey-stick-lives-not.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/science/22cnd-climate.html?_r=2&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

By: Mister Jones

Mister Jones — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:19:00 +0000

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/even-doubling-or-tripling-the-amount-of-co2-will-have-little-impact-on-temps/#more-2769

Please read thoroughly.

By: jnicklin

jnicklin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:45:16 +0000

Tom,

For the greens, good news is a bummer. If things get better, they have less to whine about and their cash flow will decrease. They have to keep the catastrophe alive and well to maintain their own self-worth.

By: Denny

Denny — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:32:51 +0000

Gee, what a surprise. AGW is now claiming cooler than normal temps are the result of Man…When did Man start controlling the Weather??? Does anyone here know?? If Man could, wouldn’t that be a better Weapon than Nukes? Think about it..Mother Nature controls the Weather so enjoy the ride….

By: Tom_in_Mississippi

Tom_in_Mississippi — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:03:12 +0000

If everything observed points to AGW, then what occurrences would point to an improvement in the currently perceived situation? What could be observed by those who steadfastly believe that we are in a “doomsday mode” to make them say something like, “Hooray! Now that we have observed ___________, it appears that our efforts to stop AGW have succeeded and we are now marching towards AGSTS (Anthropogenic Global Staying the Same-ing).

By: Ben Gardiner

Ben Gardiner — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:07:16 +0000

In Sydney, Australia they have just had their coldest August for 60 years. This is a sure sign of Global Warming according to WWF.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24275400-5005941,00.html

By: Sunsettommy

Sunsettommy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:50:29 +0000

jnicklin writes:

"I too have tried to maintain a blog based on the science, but the science is no longer the lead issue."

I never went into blogging much at all at my forum.I just post a lot of skeptical articles with the occasional blog thrown in.

I figure by exposing as much of the AGW bull as I can in this way.Will make it's mark over time with people who tire of the never ending doomsday prophecies.