I’m getting ready to produce a definitive guide to disprove the theories of global warming, but I have planned to do this for a long time so I thought I’d write a blog post. Simple question for anybody who believes in global warming…Why? Seriously, this is a question you can ask politely and with genuine curiosity because it’s fairly certain the vast majority of supporters will not have any coherent answer beyond the conviction similar to any religion. Pardon my impertinence but any rational person has to admit that in scientific terms the existence of God can neither be proved nor disproved and therefore is an article of faith, or not. The other answer is from someone involved who will spew mindless data that causes any rational person to nod off. You remember being told about not seeing the forest for the trees.
My point about those people who can’t tell you why they believe something is that I can tell you why I don’t believe. However if we do believe in AGW then we need to trash our industry and create a massive carbon trading system which admittedly won’t have any effect on carbon in the end, but will transfer trillions of dollars from the little guys, through the chump companies and to the ordained like Al Gore. Since it seems civilization is supposed to be at stake it must be our duty to respond, not simply snicker and point and call true believers funny names.
The reason people believe for the most part is because they were told to. I should have titled “I hate ism’s” as “I hate orthodoxies”. Orthodoxy allows you to state a position as ordained fact. Any position contrary to it is heresy and of course people were killed for heresy during the Spanish inquisition. They still are under Sharia law in Islamic theocracies. After all it is the duty of the orthodoxy to protect deities from humans with opinions. Note that it is never a bolt of lightning, but a righteous pillar of the orthodoxy who burns the heretic. But I digress. Let’s examine the excuses because the first thing you must do to subscribe to an orthodoxy is suspend the rational questions, like how the population grows if we all had past lives…
Of course the first thing to ask is if the AGW believer knows who Dr Phil Jones is. Being the disgraced head of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit his recent interview with the BBC pretty much debunked everything including no warming for 15 years, similar warming over history and previous warmer climates in Europe. That’s pretty much game over, and remember this guy also has been found to have violated England’s Freedom of Information ACT, although since it was over 6 months since the last request he cannot be tried and convicted. Nice statute of limitations. I wonder how long it takes to forgive a parking ticket there.
Of course Phil Jones still thinks man caused the last warming period, even though it seems he isn’t saying man caused the current cooling trend. Of course some people point out 2009 was the second warmest year on record. That’s why we should ask if they know who former IPCC lead author John Christy is. Christy resigned from the IPCC and had to threaten a law suit to get his name removed when he realized they were not actually about science. He was recognized by NASA for retasking satellites to check temperatures at high altitude to look for the warming effect of the greenhouse barrier. It wasn’t there. Christy has recently released a peer reviewed report about irregularities in temperature measurement stations in the US. You see cities tend to capture more heat during the summer because roads and buildings absorb heat. Foliage not only doesn’t absorb as much but also photosynthesizes and releases water vapor as a byproduct. Oh, lest we forget, it needs the paltry 0.4% of CO2 in the air to do that. Of course it was easy for Christy as there have been reports that as many as a third of US weather stations didn’t meet standard to insure accurate measurements. Add to this a study in England underway, statements from Russia and China about manipulation of data the provided and many colder recording stations being dropped off recording and it is easy to see how no warming at all could look like an alarming warming trend. Climate record? It’s a cook book!
Of course the big question is why we are even afraid of warming at all. Look up the Holocene Optimum. 8,000 - 10,000 years ago it was a lot warmer than today and the name for that time has referred to optimum climate. Of course the medieval warming period saw the Norse farming Greenland and leaving graves in what is now permafrost. It would be near impossible to dig a grave there by hand now, let alone farm. So look at what we know. The greatest biodiversity is in the tropics. The least is in the polar regions. Why do you suppose that is? Even stranger, 10,000 years ago the Sahara was tropical rain forest. A recent documentary pointed out that the earth shifted North one degree on it’s axis and this caused a slightly shorter day. That meant less time to photosynthesize which meant less water released into the air. Less condensation means less clouds, less rain and less cooling.
So why do we assume bad things will happen with warming? Well they plug it into the models using a positive feedback. As yourself how warmer temperatures had a tropical rain forest in the Sahara. Heat causes condensation. Sunlight on foliage causes photosynthesis. Moisture makes clouds. Clouds reflect sunlight. That is a negative feedback, which is how things work to stay in balance. How does nature recognize whether or not an effect is caused by man and respond differently? Nice trick!
Of course the question is why would scientists and politicians lie. Okay that was a really stupid question. Why would scientists lie? Well prior to this emergency the climate scientists working at universities weren’t rock stars and didn’t get to buy super computers and get huge grants. In the US there were millions of dollars going into climate science before the IPCC reports. Afterward there were billions of dollars, supercomputers and rock star status. Politicians had a different goal. Remember Enron? Maybe you just remember in the 90s they were an energy company that was utterly disgraced and were scamming everyone and not even making energy. Well they were working on something truly grand and Al Gore was right there with them… Carbon credits. Carbon credits work like this. If you exceed your cap of allowed carbon production you have to buy credits. If you are below you sell your credits.
The UK is really familiar with this. Carbon credits are a unique commodity because you don’t get something with a purchase, you get nothing but paper. They are also not worth anything in some places and worth a lot in others. Thus a large portion of the trading in the UK is fraud. That is to say people bought credits where they were cheap and sold them where they were expensive, then lied about how much they made. It’s important to note the observed result is no appreciable difference in emissions with cap and trade but it would make Al Gore a billionaire if we passed the law. Of course he has no private jet in this race.
But carbon is still bad isn’t it? Actually no. If you look at the total atmosphere it is a fraction of a percent and if you add up all that man puts in then you have about 5% of total CO2 production. Never mind the fact that there isn’t even any demonstrable proof of a greenhouse effect as the boundary layer can’t be located. In fact there is an observed fixed temperature gradient that allows you to calculate the temperature at any altitude given the ground temperature. I ask you, do you believe it is the air or the ground that has the radiative mass to affect this? If you said ground has the radiative mass rather than a molecule making up a fraction of the air mass you just refuted the greenhouse effect. Welcome friend! The explanation for the temperature gradient is ignored, but it is gravity on giga tons of gas speeding up the molecules. After all even though you don’t perceive it there is 14 pounds of pressure on every square inch of your body. The average man has an estimated 1.9 square meters so roughly 2 yards at 9 square feet per yields 18 square feet at 144 square inches. Say 2,500 square inches at 14 pounds each? So you don’t freak out let’s just use a square foot… 144 x 14 = 2,016 pounds per square foot. Frightening but true. 35,000 pounds of total pressure on a body? Well how much does the atmosphere weigh? German physicists have used this to calculate the temperature of Venus which utterly makes no sense to people using the greenhouse theory.
Of course none of this is what it seems. Ever since the United states offered a free government where people could make their own choices elitist megalomaniacs have dreamed of finding a way to get humanity to relinquish power to them so that they could rule the world by fiat and edict. It was the spirit of the American patriot who refused the edicts of King George III and were willing to give their fortunes and their lives for their freedom. Today it is the elitists attempting to lead those easily led to give up their hard won freedoms for lies. It is not just Americans who are patriots now, but every man woman and child who will rise up against the intolerant orthodoxies, elitists and tyrants of the world and speak with a voice that says we will not accept lies.
As the orthodoxy of global warming continues it’s wailing cries and death throes and we scorn those who spread the lies we should show mercy to those poor souls who were sucked in. They deserve our compassion as they come to grips with the fact that they have lived a lie. We should not scorn them but enlist them to become champions of freedom, reason and questioning the authority of the orthodoxies that seek to enslave us for their profit and power. And in this moment we should pause to consider how close we came to our own economic destruction and how our government is not yet ready to accept reason and relinquish pursuit of this evil agenda. We must enlist the fallen to redeem themselves and secure our future. It is we the people who will drive the final nails in the coffin of this scam. No quarter! Global warming, may you rest in hell.
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R.I.P. Global Warming (1988-2010)
I’m getting ready to produce a definitive guide to disprove the theories of global warming, but I have planned to do this for a long time so I thought I’d write a blog post. Simple question for anybody who believes in global warming…Why? Seriously, this is a question you can ask politely and with genuine curiosity because it’s fairly certain the vast majority of supporters will not have any coherent answer beyond the conviction similar to any religion. Pardon my impertinence but any rational person has to admit that in scientific terms the existence of God can neither be proved nor disproved and therefore is an article of faith, or not. The other answer is from someone involved who will spew mindless data that causes any rational person to nod off. You remember being told about not seeing the forest for the trees.
My point about those people who can’t tell you why they believe something is that I can tell you why I don’t believe. However if we do believe in AGW then we need to trash our industry and create a massive carbon trading system which admittedly won’t have any effect on carbon in the end, but will transfer trillions of dollars from the little guys, through the chump companies and to the ordained like Al Gore. Since it seems civilization is supposed to be at stake it must be our duty to respond, not simply snicker and point and call true believers funny names.
The reason people believe for the most part is because they were told to. I should have titled “I hate ism’s” as “I hate orthodoxies”. Orthodoxy allows you to state a position as ordained fact. Any position contrary to it is heresy and of course people were killed for heresy during the Spanish inquisition. They still are under Sharia law in Islamic theocracies. After all it is the duty of the orthodoxy to protect deities from humans with opinions. Note that it is never a bolt of lightning, but a righteous pillar of the orthodoxy who burns the heretic. But I digress. Let’s examine the excuses because the first thing you must do to subscribe to an orthodoxy is suspend the rational questions, like how the population grows if we all had past lives…
Of course the first thing to ask is if the AGW believer knows who Dr Phil Jones is. Being the disgraced head of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit his recent interview with the BBC pretty much debunked everything including no warming for 15 years, similar warming over history and previous warmer climates in Europe. That’s pretty much game over, and remember this guy also has been found to have violated England’s Freedom of Information ACT, although since it was over 6 months since the last request he cannot be tried and convicted. Nice statute of limitations. I wonder how long it takes to forgive a parking ticket there.
Of course Phil Jones still thinks man caused the last warming period, even though it seems he isn’t saying man caused the current cooling trend. Of course some people point out 2009 was the second warmest year on record. That’s why we should ask if they know who former IPCC lead author John Christy is. Christy resigned from the IPCC and had to threaten a law suit to get his name removed when he realized they were not actually about science. He was recognized by NASA for retasking satellites to check temperatures at high altitude to look for the warming effect of the greenhouse barrier. It wasn’t there. Christy has recently released a peer reviewed report about irregularities in temperature measurement stations in the US. You see cities tend to capture more heat during the summer because roads and buildings absorb heat. Foliage not only doesn’t absorb as much but also photosynthesizes and releases water vapor as a byproduct. Oh, lest we forget, it needs the paltry 0.4% of CO2 in the air to do that. Of course it was easy for Christy as there have been reports that as many as a third of US weather stations didn’t meet standard to insure accurate measurements. Add to this a study in England underway, statements from Russia and China about manipulation of data the provided and many colder recording stations being dropped off recording and it is easy to see how no warming at all could look like an alarming warming trend. Climate record? It’s a cook book!
Of course the big question is why we are even afraid of warming at all. Look up the Holocene Optimum. 8,000 - 10,000 years ago it was a lot warmer than today and the name for that time has referred to optimum climate. Of course the medieval warming period saw the Norse farming Greenland and leaving graves in what is now permafrost. It would be near impossible to dig a grave there by hand now, let alone farm. So look at what we know. The greatest biodiversity is in the tropics. The least is in the polar regions. Why do you suppose that is? Even stranger, 10,000 years ago the Sahara was tropical rain forest. A recent documentary pointed out that the earth shifted North one degree on it’s axis and this caused a slightly shorter day. That meant less time to photosynthesize which meant less water released into the air. Less condensation means less clouds, less rain and less cooling.
So why do we assume bad things will happen with warming? Well they plug it into the models using a positive feedback. As yourself how warmer temperatures had a tropical rain forest in the Sahara. Heat causes condensation. Sunlight on foliage causes photosynthesis. Moisture makes clouds. Clouds reflect sunlight. That is a negative feedback, which is how things work to stay in balance. How does nature recognize whether or not an effect is caused by man and respond differently? Nice trick!
Of course the question is why would scientists and politicians lie. Okay that was a really stupid question. Why would scientists lie? Well prior to this emergency the climate scientists working at universities weren’t rock stars and didn’t get to buy super computers and get huge grants. In the US there were millions of dollars going into climate science before the IPCC reports. Afterward there were billions of dollars, supercomputers and rock star status. Politicians had a different goal. Remember Enron? Maybe you just remember in the 90s they were an energy company that was utterly disgraced and were scamming everyone and not even making energy. Well they were working on something truly grand and Al Gore was right there with them… Carbon credits. Carbon credits work like this. If you exceed your cap of allowed carbon production you have to buy credits. If you are below you sell your credits.
The UK is really familiar with this. Carbon credits are a unique commodity because you don’t get something with a purchase, you get nothing but paper. They are also not worth anything in some places and worth a lot in others. Thus a large portion of the trading in the UK is fraud. That is to say people bought credits where they were cheap and sold them where they were expensive, then lied about how much they made. It’s important to note the observed result is no appreciable difference in emissions with cap and trade but it would make Al Gore a billionaire if we passed the law. Of course he has no private jet in this race.
But carbon is still bad isn’t it? Actually no. If you look at the total atmosphere it is a fraction of a percent and if you add up all that man puts in then you have about 5% of total CO2 production. Never mind the fact that there isn’t even any demonstrable proof of a greenhouse effect as the boundary layer can’t be located. In fact there is an observed fixed temperature gradient that allows you to calculate the temperature at any altitude given the ground temperature. I ask you, do you believe it is the air or the ground that has the radiative mass to affect this? If you said ground has the radiative mass rather than a molecule making up a fraction of the air mass you just refuted the greenhouse effect. Welcome friend! The explanation for the temperature gradient is ignored, but it is gravity on giga tons of gas speeding up the molecules. After all even though you don’t perceive it there is 14 pounds of pressure on every square inch of your body. The average man has an estimated 1.9 square meters so roughly 2 yards at 9 square feet per yields 18 square feet at 144 square inches. Say 2,500 square inches at 14 pounds each? So you don’t freak out let’s just use a square foot… 144 x 14 = 2,016 pounds per square foot. Frightening but true. 35,000 pounds of total pressure on a body? Well how much does the atmosphere weigh? German physicists have used this to calculate the temperature of Venus which utterly makes no sense to people using the greenhouse theory.
Of course none of this is what it seems. Ever since the United states offered a free government where people could make their own choices elitist megalomaniacs have dreamed of finding a way to get humanity to relinquish power to them so that they could rule the world by fiat and edict. It was the spirit of the American patriot who refused the edicts of King George III and were willing to give their fortunes and their lives for their freedom. Today it is the elitists attempting to lead those easily led to give up their hard won freedoms for lies. It is not just Americans who are patriots now, but every man woman and child who will rise up against the intolerant orthodoxies, elitists and tyrants of the world and speak with a voice that says we will not accept lies.
As the orthodoxy of global warming continues it’s wailing cries and death throes and we scorn those who spread the lies we should show mercy to those poor souls who were sucked in. They deserve our compassion as they come to grips with the fact that they have lived a lie. We should not scorn them but enlist them to become champions of freedom, reason and questioning the authority of the orthodoxies that seek to enslave us for their profit and power. And in this moment we should pause to consider how close we came to our own economic destruction and how our government is not yet ready to accept reason and relinquish pursuit of this evil agenda. We must enlist the fallen to redeem themselves and secure our future. It is we the people who will drive the final nails in the coffin of this scam. No quarter! Global warming, may you rest in hell.
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