by GENE MCNALLY
The stupidity of global warming claims and actions is reaching new heights. Europe is considering banning sports cars such as Ferraris and Porsches, claiming they have high CO2 emissions. What a joke.
There are not enough Ferraris and Porsches on the road to have any global impact. On a recent trip to Europe, I witnessed 20 to 30 airplanes at every airport waiting to take off, each with four engines running and spewing out CO2. The airports are far greater sources of CO2 than Ferraris and Porsches combined.
Global warming is likely the greatest hoax of our time. The people who say CO2 causes global warming don’t seem to be able to explain why in the period of 1940 to 1975 CO2 emissions increased significantly, while the global temperature decreased.
The Keeling curve, which is widely used to show the increase in CO2 emissions, is based on data from the top of Mount Mona Loa in Hawaii. Mona Loa is a volcano and it doesn’t seem to me that a volcano is the best place to be taking CO2 measurements.
Several law firms have lined up to handle global warming lawsuits and many companies are planning to use this latest “scare” to their benefit. Politicians such as Al Gore have made a second career out of global warming, offering slick productions with no scientific proof. As the old rule says “follow the money.”
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Pretty soon there’ll be a law against farting because of greenhouse gas emission. Or we’ll have to pay for the privilege; $.50 for a standard fart, $1 for an especially long one. Silent farts will become an important and money saving skill highly valued. Special classes will spring up teaching this skill in sphincter control. Algorians will counter with surreptitious fart sensors to catch those who try to beat the system. Political action committees comprising Porsche owners and gaseous people will spring up. There’s no end to this nonsense!
Actually, the mid-century cooling is well understood and due to sulfate aerosols that create “global dimming” – by reflecting incoming sunlight, it has a cooling effect. Aerosol levels increased mid-century due to sulfate pollution then when clean air laws came in, the aerosol increase slowed down. The dimming effect reversed itself in the mid 80’s.
As for rising CO2 levels, they’re based not on one station on a volcano but over 300 stations in 66 countries which all report the same rising trend. You can download all the station data from the World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases.
List of global warming activists, now skeptics
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idarticle=9469
Top scientist debunks global warming
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21542331-1702,00.html
“It is extraordinarily difficult to argue that human-induced carbon dioxide has any effect at all,” he said.
There had even been periods in history with hundreds of times more atmospheric carbon dioxide than now with “no problem”, he said.
The professor, a member of the Australian Skeptics, an organisation devoted to debunking pseudo-scientific claims, denied his was a minority view.
“You’d be very hard pushed to find a geologist that would differ from my view,” he said.
My 911 was taken from me because a child I birthed reached driving age. I will not allow another Porsche be taken based on psuedo-science.
Ok, I’m over my self absorbed moment. Climate change will very likely be as everything else: cyclical.
This is the IPCC 2007 position: “An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system… There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities”.
These are organizations that concur with the IPCC position
o Joint science academies’ statement 2007
o Joint science academies’ statement 2005
o Joint science academies’ statement 2001
o U.S. National Research Council, 2001
o American Meteorological Society
o American Geophysical Union
o American Institute of Physics
o American Astronomical Society
o Federal Climate Change Science Program, 2006
o American Association for the Advancement of Science
o Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London
o Geological Society of America
o American Chemical Society
o Engineers Australia (The Institution of Engineers Australia)
Not surprisingly there is only one major scientific organization that presently rejects the finding of significant human influence on recent climate is the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Global Warming Impact Day 1 –
Some say the full brunt of the global warming storm will hit on the day we least expect it!
http://www.ecopayday.com
“Mona Loa is a volcano and it doesn’t seem to me that a volcano is the best place to be taking CO2 measurements.”
And you think you were the first one to think of the obvious, I’ll bet. First, the scientists are twenty steps ahead of the bloggers, that’s why they are scientists. They know volcanoes make C02 and have accounted for that in their methodology with a mechanism for removing the C02 coming from volcanoes:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980114152259/http://mloserv.mlo.hawaii.gov/publish/steve/VolcCO2.htm
Second, if there was no global warming and they were just detecting the C02 coming from the volcanoe, we would see a flat line (with possibly a spike every now and then for heightened volcanism activity) We do not see that, we see an ascending line.
The Mount Loa site was chosen because it was far away from continents and industry and high up enough in the atmosphere. They also did measurements at the South Pole.
Agreed. The world is getting dumber. No sane or honest person believes in global warming.
There are three questions to ask anyone who believes in global warming.
Question one: How many trillions of dollars will it take to solve global warming?
Question two: How will we know when we have solved global warming?
Question three: What is the temperature for which we should be aiming?
I have yet to receive an intelligible answer to any one of of these questions.
A fan of global warming did answer the last question for me once. He said “14 deg C”. Hilarious!!!
[…] Pomiary CO2 są nierzetelne „Krzywa Keelinga, której często używa się dla pokazania wzrostu emisji CO2 oparta jest na danych ze szczytu Mauna Loa na Hawajach. Mauna Loa to wulkan, a moim zdaniem wulkan nie jest najlepszym miejscem do prowadzenia pomiarów CO2. (disinter) […]