You Were So Warm?

He doesn't want to get into personally criticizing the rich phonies, like himself, who have a bigger carbon footprint in one year than you and I have in a lifetime.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

However, Al Gore equates you to a racist and homophobe if you don't believe him on Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change.

When I mentioned this to my wife, Chris chided Gore as a hypocrite.

I said I thought hypocrite wasn't a strong enough word for someone who has privately jetted around the world.

Someone who leaves a Lincoln Town Car idling, with the air conditioning on, for 20 minutes, so Tipper and his daughter Karenna are cool.

Someone who, in one home, used enough electricity in one year that would have powered 232 homes for a month.

Someone who, sold his Current TV Network to Al Jazeera, which is funded by the Qatari government, for $500 Million.

Chris suggested HYPERcrite and I thought that was closer to the truth.

Gore has previously stated that the science is settled on global warming and that 97 to 98 percent of the worlds’ scientists attest to its veracity

It must be unsettling to find that scientists are 95 per cent sure that humans are to blame for climate change

Gore also stated, The hurricane scale used to be 1-5 and now they’re adding a 6.

BUZZ--WRONG!

According to Chris Vaccaro, director of the National Weather Service’s office of public affairs --

No, we’re not pursuing any such change. But with his penchant for overstatement, Gore will continue to be a divisive and less than credible voice in climate change discourse.

Because Gore is okay with fudging the facts --

"Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is..."  

Some of those 90+ percent of scientists must be confused by facts as to whether the planet is warming or cooling.

On one hand we're told, the Earth steadily continued to heat up, but in the same article we're advised that cloud-dwelling pollutants block the sun's heat, keeping the surface temperature of the Earth from rising.

What difference does it make anyway, NBC tells us that even if we stop producing carbon emissions now, climate change will persist for hundreds of years.

If that's the case, it's past time to start worrying about stopping climate change and change the focus to Improvise, Adapt and Overcome.

Hot Fun In The Summertime

Hot off the presses is this Ragister Opinion piece by two professors on the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change.

Iowa View: More extremes seen as climate changes

It's not an Iowa View when one of the authors, Don Wuebbles wobble but they don't fall down,  is from Illinois and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The opening paragraph does nothing to make their case -- Summer 2012 is barely a week old, but already Iowans are wondering if we’re headed for a record setting season. Temperatures in Des Moines have flirted with 1934’s record of 102 degrees. It’s been a hot start to 2012.

The record was from 78 years ago, which shows it's not unprecedented.

Not only did Des Moines not hit 102, the warmest it has been this summer is 100.

That's the first time the Capitol City has reached the century mark in nearly 6 years (2006).

The rest of the piece by the Chicken Little's tries to blame climate change for extreme weather and the damage caused by storms.

However, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Extremes, released on March 28 and states, “There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized [property] losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change.” 

This just in -- June was below normal for tornadoes.

The warning coordination meteorologist for National Weather Service office in Johnston says, We really are below normal. We haven’t had any so far in the state.

Damn you climate change, oh the humanity.

The opinion piece concludes with the usual fiberal talking points -- renewable energy, powering more homes with wind and solar energy; build a Midwest high-speed passenger rail system and make bicycle riding a safer option for commuters.

In lieu of the extreme weather, that last option doesn't appear to be a safe one.

Heat-err

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has updated its findings(?) stating -- scientists are 95% certain that humans are the "dominant cause" of global warming.

How do they arrive at that 95% figure regarding the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change?

The 95% is basically expert judgment, it is a negotiated figure among the authors.

I'm 1,000% sure that is bullshit and the scientific community is united in that fact.

This appears to be the procedure the IPCC uses for reaching all of its conclusions.

At a closed-door meeting in Stockholm this week, each paragraph of a document written by scientists is being projected onto large screens. Delegations from scores of nations participate in the editing: Words will be substituted, emphasis will be added, entire sentences may well be inserted or deleted. 

After four days of haggling, the media will be summoned by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to a news conference on Friday where the final version of the document—known as the "Summary for Policymakers"—will be released along with a solemn announcement that "science" has spoken.

Or has it?

There have been repeated complaints about unqualified individual members and that there are "far too many politically correct appointments" involving people with "insufficient scientific competence to do anything useful."

The U.N. has charged the IPCC with weighing the evidence on climate change in an objective manner. The problem is that numerous IPCC personnel have ties to environmental groups, many of which raise funds by hyping the alleged dangers of climate change. This relationship raises a legitimate question about their objectivity.

Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC's chairman since 2002, has repeatedly said that the IPCC bases its conclusions solely on peer-reviewed source material. Yet many of the sources cited by the 3,000-page 2007 IPCC report were press releases, news clippings, discussion papers and unpublished master's and doctoral-degree theses.

This all leaves me with a big chill.

Seasons Change

Somebody missed the memo from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Extremes.

The report was released on March 28 and states, “There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized [property] losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change.” 

That's not news to CNN's Alexandra Steele who shared this about the recent tornadoes in Texas --

That’s kind of the climate change we are seeing. Extremes are ruling the roost and what we are seeing, more become the norm.

The mind like a steel trap, nothing in/nothing out, continued -- this global warming is really kind of a misnomer. Global climate change—so the colds are colder and warms are warmer, and the severes more severe.

One can see how that kind of thinking fits right in at CNN and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Why the Weather Channel canned Alexandra Steele, if that's your real name, in the first place is beyond me as that fits their Modus Operandi.

(Pop)Ular SciencE

The online Omaha World-Herald reports that Five University of Nebraska-Lincoln climate scientists released a joint statement Friday calling for action on climate change.

But it's not this year's debilitating weather that prompted the statement, the scientists say.

Rather, it's the ongoing public confusion over the degree of scientific certainty surrounding climate change.

These 5 note -- The time for debate is over.

That sounds an awful lot like the King of Climate Change, Al Gore... If you look at the peer reviewed scientific literature, the debate is over

The Cornhusker crew also says -- The scientific community is behind this.

It sounds like it, it's called Climategate.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

The climate scientists said they've been asked frequently if this year's extreme weather is being caused by climate change. Making that tight of a connection isn't possible, they said. “This year does add urgency”.

But, I thought it's not about this year's debilitating weather?

Sandy

The Iowa chapter, led by Rob "Boss" Hogg, of the First Church of the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change is commemorating the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy with a series of events in the eastern half of the state today through Tuesday.

Boss Hogg claims, We are seeing more of these disasters with greater severity and that climate change is “settled” science.

All praise Al Gore, who's been spouting the science is settled routine for six years.

As for Sandy, NOAA meteorologist Martin Hoerling attributes Sandy to "little more than the coincidental alignment of a tropical storm with an extratropical storm"

Boss Hogg then goes on to lecture, Even if you are an Iowan who for whatever reaason just doesn’t believe that climate change is real…that doesn’t take away your obligation to remember the victims, to support the survivors or to commit to prevent future disasters. They are happening.

Of course natural disasters are going to happen, now that's settled science and the scientific community is united in that fact.

As for our obligation, we've already committed to a $50 billion recovery package for states hit by Hurricane Sandy and the President has requested $2.7 billion for climate change for 2014.

In addition, the world invested almost a billion dollars a day in limiting global warming last year.

So, Back Off Boogaloo!

I Just Want To Celebrate

The news is full of Earth Day activities, most of which don't take place on this day.

Friday Central Iowa held a Trash Bash and it was a good thing that the sun was shining on that day because rain would delay it 3 days.

There's some commitment to Mother Earth for you and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Valley Junction is holding Earth Day in the Junction 5K Run Walk, be sure to click for driving directions.


Eastern Iowa chose to kick off their Earth Week Fair yesterday, with three special workshops appropriate for adults, children, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.

That's an interesting breakdown.

One of the workshops is called “Get Geocaching!” and geocaching expert John Morgan gave the basics of the treasure-hunting game that’s played using GPS devices.

It looks like cars are required as simple caches are often called "drive-bys," or "park 'n grabs".

Another workshop was “What on Earth? Climate Change & Severe Weather Safety”.

This premise is completely wrong as “There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized [property] losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change.” 

The Big Lug Nut was brought back into the news with a story on one of his pet projects, the Iowa Power Fund.

The BLN  called the program to support renewable energy research and development a resounding success by pointing to an algae production plant.

Algae? Isn't that President Obama's fuel of the future?

According to the BLN, the $4 million from the fund will grow substitutes for fish oil and proteins for feedstock.

Where's the power come into being?

Other Power Fund highlights(?) include, One company accidentally wasted most of its $1 million grant ordering equipment from an out-of-state supplier that went bankrupt and $2.8 million was spent studying a proposal to store wind energy that was later determined not to be feasible.

Don't forget the $19,000 given to Consumer Energy to study a plug-in hybrid electric car owned by Consumer Energy.

Results of the nearly two years of study found the plug-in battery used in the vehicle does not work well in the cold.

At the Statehouse two state senators got into a heated discussion about climate change, with Dummycrat Rob Boss Hogg playing the part of Al Gore -- “‘Scientists, including those representing 28 Iowa colleges and universities who recently released a statement, have warned us that changes in global climate patterns are brining more extreme weather events to Iowa, the United States and our world.’”

To which Republican Senator David Johnson responded -- “I’m on the side of the scientists I served with in Antartica and Greenland and I’m the only member of this body that has done that. And there is no agreement in the scientific community, no consensus that things have really changed because change happens.”

Johnson schooled the lawyer, who earned a master's degree in energy policy from the Hubert Horatio Hornblower...Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs.

Speaking of schooling, second grade students at Sunset Heights Elementary School in Webster City, and their teacher, will be on a Shower Strike this week.

They're promising to not take a shower or a bath until we’ve raised a thousand dollars to help build a well for a school in Kenya.

Here's hoping the winds blow out of the South until then.

Hysteria

As I look out my window and witness a winter that will not die, I wonder if we're in a year without summer.

I will fear not, because I will take into consideration  the words, earlier this week, of Rob "Boss" Hogg -- Don’t buy into the hysteria

Albeit they weren't on this topic, but "Boss" Hogg should heed his own advice and the scientific community is united in that fact.

You see "Boss" Hogg has bought into the "hysteria" of the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change.

"Boss" Hogg believes it is responsible for the drought Iowa recently experienced, even though a federal study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Drought Task Force places the blame on natural variations in weather.

Don't buy into the hysteria, "Boss".

"Boss" Hogg believes it's not a hoax and not just nature.

However, a leading climatologist, MIT’s Dr. Richard Lindzen, wrote, “The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in (a) global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound future generations.”

“Such hysteria,” warned Dr. Lindzen, “simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the substitution of repetition for truth, and the exploitation of these weaknesses by politicians, environmental promoters, and, after 20 years of media drum beating, many others as well. Climate is always changing.”

Don't buy into the hysteria, "Boss".

New science indicates that the threat posed by human-caused climate change is substantially less than previously thought and that climate projections have been exaggerated on the high side.

Increasingly, both Mother Nature and the science of her behavior are telling us that climate change and its impacts will be moderate, making global "lukewarming" the more apt description. Adaptation is a more preferable course than mitigation.

New science is telling us that the old science was unjustifiable and overly extreme.

Don't buy into the hysteria...Period.

Extreme Ways

On the same day I read

New Study: ’2013 ranks as one of the least extreme U.S. weather years ever’– Many bad weather events at ‘historically low levels’

The Ragister reported

Iowa scientists: Spring floods, summer droughts more likely with global climate change

The Capitol Square Crapper quoted Gene Takle

“In the scientific community, we have debates on the details, But there are very, very few scientists who are active in studying climate science who deny the existence of the role of heat-trapping gases in raising our global average temperatures, and the fact that these heat-trapping gases are produced by humans.”

This group didn't get the memo

50 international scientists released a comprehensive new report on the science of climate change that concluded that evidence now leans against global warming resulting from human-related greenhouse gas emissions.

Six years ago, Takle didn't sound convinced himself about the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change.

"If the climate is changing, you can't stop it over the next 50 years, What's coming is coming and we better be prepared to adjust to it."

IF?

Nearly ten years ago, Takle was part of a group that told us, global warming might not be as severe in the central United States as in other parts of the country because of a ‘hole’.

There's a hole alright and the scientific community is united in that fact. 

In The Summertime

It was so hot last week that I think I melted from 6'8" to 5'10".

The Ragister ran an AP piece that wondered

Climate change or just Mother Nature?

Naturally, the CONsensus among the cozen was Climate Change.

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

The one person, John Christy, who stated, “The guilty party, in my view, is Mother Nature” was labeled a global warming skeptic and was the only person not identified professionally.


Dr. John R. Christy is the Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where he began studying global climate issues in 1987. Since November 2000 he has been Alabama's State Climatologist.

Must have been some sort of oversight, probably a typo.

Of the four days that Des Moines reached triple digits (7/4-101, 7/5-101, 7/6-102, 7/7-100) not one set a record, although Des Moines tied the 1936 record of 100 on July 7.

On Saturday, Des Moines’ temperature marked the first time a record high in the city was matched or exceeded during the month of July since 1955, according to the National Weather Service.

The other records for those dates, 109 on 7/4 & 106 on 7/5, go back to 1936.

The record on 7/6 was 104 in 1886.

Hardly virgin territory.

It looks like the whole Climate Change caboodle needs to chillax.

Pen & Paper

How many trees died for State Senator Rob "Boss" Hogg's new 120 page book?

Iowa Sen. Hogg pens book warning of climate change dangers

According to Boss Hogg --  ”America’s scientists have concluded that climate change is real, is primarily caused by human activity, and poses real dangers for our future. It is time for Americans to move out beyond slogans to understand why this issue is so challenging and what we need to do about it. We need to unite to make 2013 the year of climate action.”

Hey Mr. Lawyer, the jury is still out on the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

With each passing year, it is becoming increasingly clear that global warming is not a scientific theory subject to empirical falsification, but a political ideology that has to be fiercely defended against any challenge

The Ragister noted the book is selling on Amazon for $10.95, but we've found it's already been reduced to $9.66.

It's a bestsell-err.

The Liter trusts that Boss Hogg will be utilizing environmentally friendly transportation as he travels the state for his book tour.

A Long Walk

Weather.com, the online site of the Weather Channel, has devoted an article to Comrade Ed Fallon's Long March...err Great March for Climate Action.

Will A 3,000-Mile 'Great March For Climate Action' Change Minds On Climate Change?

Short answer and spoiler alert -- NO!

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

The March1 to November 1 trek about the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change  will miss most of the winter weather, but I have no doubt there will be some sort of ironic weather event that will be good for a chuckle or two.

Something on the order of Global Warming Scientists Trapped in Antarctic Ice.

Although, if 2013 is any indicator, weather-related disasters in the US are all way down this year compared to recent years and, in some cases, down to historically low levels.


Marchers should also note, the number of 100 degree days across the country during 2013 is not only down for this year, but it is perhaps going to turn out to be the lowest in about 100 years of records.

That should be welcome relief after spending so much time on their dogs. 

Ants Marching

Looks like the Ragister, and Jennifer Jacobs, mislead readers when they reported Ed Fallon was running for public office because he said he was going to announce a campaign.

The Ed-ster announced a campaign, but he’s not running for public office.

Fallon wants to find 1,000 people to march coast-to-coast with him to demand action on climate change.

The Great March for Climate Action will set-out from the West Coast a year from Friday and arrive in Washington, D.C. the weekend before the mid-term election

Why wait, and the scientific community is united in that fact, if it is possibly the deadliest crisis humanity has ever faced?

The Ed-ster then went on to compare his over 3,000 mile March with historical Marches --

“In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led the 240-mile Salt March to defy Britain’s imperial power. In 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. led the five-day (54 Mile) march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery.”

The Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change  has not occurred and cannot have caused extreme weather of past few years': 'Climate changes naturally all the time, sometimes dramatically. The hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused, or will cause, dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence. The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increase.

Might as well March into a volcano as they have more impact on earth’s climate than previously thought and are a reason the planet has not heated up as much as expected.

When all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way

Change?

Boss Hogg and the Iowa Climate Advocates are bringing their climate act to the metro tonight.

Energy/pollution reduction meeting Wednesday in Windsor Heights

The group is billed as Iowans working to educate the public about the dangers of climate change and who advocate for change.

Maybe it's my education, and the scientific community is united in that fact, but how do I know the change they advocate is not a danger?

Time For Action?

Speaking in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union at Iowa State University, State Senator Rob "Boss" Hogg promoted his book on the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change.

State senator calls for climate control action

"Boss" Hogg droned on for an hour, contributing to the higher levels of carbon dioxide by expelling copious amounts of CO₂ and the scientific community is united in that fact.

It's a good thing for "Boss" Hogg that there isn’t the slightest evidence that more carbon dioxide has caused more extreme weather.

As for extreme weather, caused by global warming, it is not supported by science.

“General statements about extremes are almost nowhere to be found in the literature but seem to abound in the popular media,” climate scientist Gavin Smith of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies said last month. “It’s this popular perception that global warming means all extremes have to increase all the time, even though if anyone thinks about that for 10 seconds they realize that’s nonsense.”

It turns out that the overall effect of climate change will be positive for humankind and the planet.

Like Tornadoes in Iowa, with this year seeing the fewest such storms since comprehensive tracking began 33 years ago. The National Weather Service said that's one less than the previous low of 16 set in 2012.

Climate of Fear

The Ragister ran a less than objective, and mildly confusing, story on Gore-BULL warming...Er, Climate Change.

The most disingenuous part was their characterization that skeptics...

- are financed by oil, gas or coal companies -

The Ragister fails to mention the controversies that cloud their authorities and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Take th U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a U.S. meteorologist (Christopher Landsea) resigned because he saw it "as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound".

The IPCC doesn't even do its own research, instead taking papers and results from other bodies.

Apparently, the IPCC has doubts...man's role is so uncertain that there is a strong possibility that we have been cooling, not warming, the Earth.

Another authority, the Union of Concerned Scientists(UCS).

ABC's John Stossel had this to say about UCS...

The key word in "Union of Concerned Scientists" isn't "Scientists" — you don't need any particular degree or experience to join — but "Concerned," and the concerns in question are decidedly left wing. Its own website reveals that it developed out of a campaign to make students think that strengthening the American military was an illegitimate use of technology.

UCS also is pro abortion, I guess babies have too big a carbon footprint for the "Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions".

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) led the scare mongering against the pesticide DDT, useful in eradicating mosquitoes.

As a result the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that malaria, carried by mosquitoes, kills more than one million people a year.

An estimated 30 to 50 million people have died since the ban on DDT was implemented, that certainly eliminates man's possible impact on the environment.

These are the folks that should strike fear into your environment.

Don't Swallow The Cap

Backing up his Boss, The Pickle talked to the press about the “Climate Action Plan” (CAP) President Obama unveiled Tuesday (Planet Earth).

Vilsack mentioned the 2012 drought and blamed the over 21,000 forest fires in the country on “climate change.” 

The 2012 drought?

It was just about a year ago that Vilsack refused to answer questions about the connections between climate change and the drought.

Citing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the administration highlighted Iowa’s average temperature last year was the second-warmest on record since the government began collecting data more than a century ago.

According to NOAA, the warmest year was 1931; 1987 was 3rd; 1921 was 4th and 1998 was 5th.

However, 6 of the top 10 all took place before 1945.

As for the forest fires Boo-Boo, the Forest Service is under Vilsack and cut its budget 5.2 percent and Wildland Fire Management cuts total $125 million because of the President's sequestration.

In addition, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place and President Obama has proposed a 31 percent cut for the fiscal year that begins in the fall.

Federal firefighting officials say there is no question the program prevents some fires and makes others less dangerous to homeowners and firefighters alike. 

It looks like someone needs to put a gag on the Ag Secretary and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Summer, my time of year

The talking heads on TV were complaining about the warm weather the last couple of days.

The weather wench asked the other two wienies if they'd turned on their air and one had!

I'm sure "Gore-Bull" warming has got something to do with it.

I came across this the other day by another phony fiberal eco-nut...

Flogging the British release of his film "Wild Hogs" recently, John Travolta urged everyone to "do their bit" to combat global warming...

...London's Daily Mail, which quickly calculated that Travolta -- who it says owns at least five aircraft of various sizes, which he parks at his private home/airport in Florida -- leaves an annual "carbon footprint" of pollution nearly 100 times greater than that of the average British citizen.

...Travolta said that even though he is sensitive to the environment, he needs his own planes because it's a big hassle to be a movie star and get around. He also told reporters that the answer to global warming might possibly be to build domed cities in space.

Has he been sharing ideas with Sheryl Crow?

So what's the solution?

According to the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) leading scientists are expected to back a major expansion of nuclear power as a way of saving the world from global warming.

Isn't that the same group that got all the press when they said man was to blame for "Gore-Bull" warming?

That's got to scare all of those who genuflect at the altar of the U.N.

There's no chance the U.N. could be wrong, after all the scientific community is united in that fact.

Or is it?

During the last 10,000 years climate has been seesawing between the North and South Atlantic Oceans. As revealed by findings presented by Quaternary scientists at Lund University, Sweden, cold periods in the north have corresponded to warmth in the south and vice verse. These results imply that Europe may face a slightly cooler future than predicted by IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Summertime is the best time anyplace
Cuz its summer, summertime is here
Yes its summer, my time of year

(Words are by WAR, but its my sentiments exactly)

Under the Weather

I've had a cold and have been achy since Tuesday.

I thought I was getting better, but regressed yesterday.

So I'm under the weather...what the hell does that mean?

Isn't everyone, everyday(unless you're in space), under the weather?

It reminds me of a time, a few years ago, when I walked into a clothing store and heard a salesman say..."It's colder than hell."

It was January and it was cold.

Now I'm no Bible scholar, but I'm thinking isn't everyday colder than hell?

I guess I better brush up on hell because it appears that's where I'm headed for denying "Gore Bull" warming!

Ellen Goodman (her slave name?) opined that...By every measure, the U N 's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raises the level of alarm. The fact of global warming is "unequivocal."

The certainty of the human role is now somewhere over 90 percent.

Which is about as certain as scientists ever get.

I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

How the hell do you make that cataclysmic leap?

First, and foremost, that's an insult to those who perished in the Holocaust and those who survived!

The Holocaust is a proven FACT!

"Gore Bull" warming ISN'T!

Where did the 90% figure come from? Out of her ass like the Holocaust statement?

As I stated yesterday, that per IPCC's own findings...man's role is so uncertain that there is a strong possibility that we have been cooling, not warming, the Earth.

That doesn't sound like 90% to me or even unequivocal!

Goodman then divides SCIENCE into Republican and Dummycrats...

There are astonishing gaps between Republican science and Democratic science.

Try these numbers:Only 23 percent of college-educated Republicans believe the warming is due to humans, while 75 percent of college-educated Democrats believe it.

I've been in the college classes with those Dummycrats, they take in every piece of bs that the professor feeds them and never challenge it!

I remember one time, before the prof got to class, one of my classmates asked what I was going to argue with the prof about that day.

I said it depended on whatever bs he was going to try and slide past us.

Another time a prof made an asinine statement and then asked for questions and comments.

I said I didn't agree with his theory and went on to explain my beliefs.

The prof said he didn't agree.

I replied I didn't ask you to agree, you asked for questions and comments.

I just though it important that these kids hear something other than the drivel you're pouring out.

But, I've digressed!

I'll interject an e-mail I received from my brother-in-law-Chris (the rocket scientist).

It comes from an article by James Lewis

Why Global Warming is Probably a Crock

The human-caused global warming hypothesis is completely model-dependent. We can't directly observe cars and cows turning up the earth thermostat. Whatever the human contribution there may be to climate constitutes just a few signals among many hundreds or thousands...

Scientists are always wrong --- they are just less wrong now than they were before (if everything is going well)...

Now there's a basic fact about complexity that helps to understand this. It's a point in probability theory (eek!) about many variables, each one less than 100 percent likely to be true...

Now imagine that all the variables about global climate are known with less than 100 percent certainty. Let's be wildly and unrealistically optimistic and say that climate scientists know each variable to 99 percent certainty! (No such thing, of course). And let's optimistically suppose there are only one-hundred x's, y's, and z's --- all the variables that can change the climate: like the amount of cloud cover over Antarctica, the changing ocean currents in the South Pacific, Mount Helena venting, sun spots, Chinese factories burning more coal every year, evaporation of ocean water (the biggest "greenhouse" gas), the wobbles of earth orbit around the sun, and yes, the multifarious fartings of billions of living creatures on the face of the earth, minus, of course, all the trillions of plants and algae that gobble up all the CO2, nitrogen-containing molecules, and sulfur-smelling exhalations spewed out by all of us animals. Got that? It all goes into our best math model.

So in the best case, the smartest climatologist in the world will know 100 variables, each one to an accuracy of 99 percent. Want to know what the probability of our spiffiest math model would be, if that perfect world existed? Have you ever multiplied (99/100) by itself 100 times? According to the Google calculator it equals a little more than 36.6 percent.

The Bottom line: our best imaginable model has a total probability of one out of three.

That's why human-caused global warming is an hypothesis, not a fact. Anybody who says otherwise isn't doing science, but trying to sell you a bill of goods.

I received his e-mail on February 7 and his conclusion was...

Unfortunately about 90% of the world's population don't study enough math or
science to understand this probability debate.

So that's where the 90% comes from!

Those Distant Bells

Unable to weather the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change latest report on the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change, a meteorologist broke down in tears while on phone with my wife at a boarding area in the San Francisco Airport.

He said, I've never cried because of a science report before.

He has vowed to stop flying and is considering a vasectomy so he can't have children in order to leave a lighter carbon footprint.

Having his tubes tied would be more accurate, maybe a HISterectomy and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Secretary of State John Kerry weighed in on the IPCC findings(?) -- If this isn't an alarm bell, then I don't know what one is.

Lurch should know.

You rang?

FYI -- First picture is Espera Oscar de Corti as Iron Cody Eyes, The Crying Indian.