Interesting, Could we be wrong about global warming? “In a nutshell, theoretical models cannot explain what we observe in the geological record. There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models.” says oceanographer Gerald Dickens, study co-author and professor of Earth Science at Rice University in [...]
Tax smoking because its unhealthy. Smokers gain weight and they’ll tax fat people next. But.. what if it was banning smoking that started it? Could it be that dreaded law of unintended consequences which tends to thwart congress regularly? It would make for some interesting stats – how many quit smoking over a set time [...]
While the various world organizations and governments make sure this “crisis doesn’t go to waste” there are scientists who see this flu strain as relatively mild. the current outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which emerged in San Diego and southern Mexico late last month, may not even do as much damage as the run-of-the-mill flu [...]
Another article on Antarctic ice growing, not melting. This one includes a comment that the large scale calving everyone was pointing to as a result of global warming may not be unusual.
They finally admit, after years of saying the ice was melting and going to cause sea level rise, that ice is actually growing in the Antarctic. Oh, but it’s still our fault and growing ice is a bad thing too! First we have Global Warming. Then we discover its actually cooling so we rename Global [...]
Great! The non-existent Global Warming has now been declared Irreversible. I find that terribly amusing in light of the continuing cooling trend including snow in Saudi Arabia. But more importantly those cool-aid drinkers in DC can move on to making laws on something that won’t destroy our economy and make us envious of Europe’s energy [...]
In an incredibly obvious cooling trend the past two years the devout continue their drive to “do something now” to save the earth from man made global warming. It was minus 16 this morning and minus 8 yesterday morning, the coldest in 12 years. Yet this morning were I to believe one of the monitoring [...]
While the EPA is looking at taxing livestock to prevent global warming (I don’t know what they’ll do with that money that will counter global warming, but that’s not really the point is it? ) it turns out that Sea Ice at the end of 2008 is at same level as 1979. Thanks to a [...]
The devout have flocked to Poland to negotiate a new climate treaty where the European members of the Kyoto accord are trying to eliminate the penalty bearing milestones we can find some sanity from the least likely place on the planet, the United States Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works. Choice quotes include: “For [...]
So they got the Polar Bear protected over not enough ice yet whales are being trapped by rapidly forming arctic ice. I can’t wait for the dissembling to begin…
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