The fun part of blogging the Global Warming pseudo drama is that the links and stories go in so many wacky directions.

Take this first one for example.  Most Global Warming alarmists are focused on effecting the changes to mankind’s daily CO2 use, as they see that as the only way to stop Global Warming.  To them we caused it and we can not only stop it, but reverse it.

While there is plenty of evidence showing that that theory and the solution they propose is unworkable and unscientific, this bunch takes the alarm and kicks it up about 47 notches.  Not only is Global Warming man made, inevitable and unstoppable, we need planetary rescue of unheard of proportions or we will all die:

The Earth today stands in imminent peril…and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change. Those are not the words of eco-warriors but the considered opinion of a group of eminent scientists writing in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

This reads like a Sci Fi script.  Enter an ensemble cast feature Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones and Bruce Willis to save the day by:

“We conclude that a feasible strategy for planetary rescue almost surely requires a means of extracting [greenhouse gases] from the air.”

Forget Willis and Jones and Eastwood, we need Mel Brooks.  We need Mega-Maid from Spaceballs to wield her mighty vacuum cleaner and suck all that nasty CO2 out.

I am used to Alarmists, but these guys are pros.  I means seriously…they are taking Gore’s exaggerations and raising him all in for good measure.

Speaking of the good prophet Al, he is taking more criticism for his Oscar winning train wreck.

High price for load of hot air

With understandable reluctance, Prime Minister John Howard recently donned the political hair-shirt of a carbon trading system.

On the same day, NASA chief Michael Griffin commented in a US radio interview that “I am not sure that it is fair to say that (global warming) is a problem that we must wrestle with”.

NASA is an agency that knows a thing or two about climate change. As Griffin added: “We study global climate change, that is in our authorization, we think we do it rather well. 

The salient facts are these. First, the accepted global average temperature statistics used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that no ground-based warming has occurred since 1998. Oddly, this eight-year-long temperature stasis has occurred despite an increase over the same period of 15 parts per million (or 4 per cent) in atmospheric CO2.

Second, lower atmosphere satellite-based temperature measurements, if corrected for non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large volcanic eruptions, show little if any global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17 per cent).

Yet Gore points to the last 10 years as being severe in warming trends, with them showing the nine highest temperature averages in that 10 year span.

Third, there are strong indications from solar studies that Earth’s current temperature stasis will be followed by climatic cooling over the next few decades.

In fact, there is every doubt whether any global warming at all is occurring at the moment, let alone human-caused warming.

For leading politicians to be asserting to the contrary indicates something is very wrong with their chain of scientific advice, for they are clearly being deceived. That this should be the case is an international political scandal of high order which, in turn, raises the question of where their advice is coming from.

It is past time for those who have deceived governments and misled the public regarding dangerous human-caused global warming to be called to account. Aided by hysterical posturing by green NGOs, their actions have led to the cornering of government on the issue and the likely implementation of futile emission policies that will impose direct extra costs on every household and enterprise in Australia to no identifiable benefit.

Not only do humans not dominate Earth’s current temperature trend but the likelihood is that further large sums of public money are shortly going to be committed to, theoretically, combat warming when cooling is the more likely short-term climatic eventuality.

In one of the more expensive ironies of history, the expenditure of more than $US50 billion ($60 billion) on research into global warming since 1990 has failed to demonstrate any human-caused climate trend, let alone a dangerous one.

Yet that expenditure will pale into insignificance compared with the squandering of money that is going to accompany the introduction of a carbon trading or taxation system.

The costs of thus expiating comfortable middle class angst are, of course, going to be imposed preferentially upon the poor and underprivileged.

Not that Gore and his cabal of rich and famous friends gives a rat’s ass about the poor.

Of course the US is not the only country embroiled in foolishness. Europe and its green funeral suggestions take the concept of ”give till it hurts” to a new level.

Canadians urged to go green even when they’re gone

North Americans who spend their lives reducing, reusing and recycling can keep doing their bit for the environment after they die, if Europe’s “green funeral” trend makes its way across the Atlantic.

Canadian activists say green send-offs could help the dead contribute to a sustainable environment, with funerals that use shrouds or biodegradable containers and involve no embalming, no headstones and no grave linings.

“Having a green burial is one more thing a person can do to lessen the impact we’re having on our environment,” said Dorothy Yada of the Memorial Society of British Columbia.

Sure.  That will turn the tables on the environment.

But on another serious note, Newsbusters has uncovered a media ignored story that calls into question the very data being used to peddle the tales of woe and doom:

Will Media Ever Investigate Accuracy of Weather Stations?

Assume for a moment there was evidence some weather stations around the country were underestimating mean temperatures. Would a media fixated on expanding climate change alarmism investigate and report this phenomenon to demonstrate that the planet was actually warmer than people think?

“60 Minutes,” “20/20,” and “Dateline” would have all done rather lengthy exposés into the matter, correct?

Well, a former meteorologist for the CBS-TV affiliate KHSL in Redding, California, by the name of Anthony Watts has examined 48 of the 1221 weather stations in the 48 lower states, and found irregularities that could be skewing the data upward.

Watts reported his first startling finding on this subject at his “Watts Up With That?” website on May 9, 2007 (emphasis added throughout):

To get an idea of the measurement environment that exists today at stations used to gather climate data, I visited the Chico State University Fram on Hegan Lane, south of the city, to do a site survey in the format done by Dr. Roger Pielke of Colorado State University. This station is part of the US Historical Climate Network of weather stations that have been used as the source for surface temperature data in many climate models and studies. There were some interesting discoveries.

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1.       There are missing louvers on the north side of the [Cotton Region Shelter] containing the automated data logger and temp/dp sensor

2.       There is clear evidence that both shelters have been repainted with latex paint, including brush marks and drip marks.

3.       There is an asphalt road that curves around the site, from the southwest to the southeast

4.       The surface at the site is  mixture of gravel, soil, and debris. There is no grass.

5.       There is a water filled evapo-transpiration pan within  10 feet of each CRS, its lineage seems to indicate it goes back to the establishment of the site in 1963

6.       The fiberglass composite NEMA electronics enclosure containing the data logger, radio modem, and solar battery charger are placed inside the CRS within 6-8 inches of the temperature/dp sensor. The 12 volt gel cel battery is also inside the CRS. These items may introduce a heat bias from the operating electronics.

Today I visited Marysville’s Fire Station, just off Hwy 70 at 9th and B Street, where they have the station of record for the city using the MMTS electronic sensor installed by the National Weather Service. The data from this station is part of the USHCN (US Historical Climatological Network) and is used in the computer modeling used to predict climate change.

The Marysville station is located behind the fire department building on a patio and is probably the worst site visited so far. In addition to the sensor being surrounded by asphalt and concrete, its also within 10 feet of buildings, and within 8 feet of a large metal cell tower that could be felt reflecting sunlight/heat. And worst of all, air conditioning units on the cell tower electronics buildings vent warm air within 10 feet of the sensor. Oh and lets not forget the portable BBQ the firefighters use a “couple times a week.” The area has been constantly added to, what was once a grass rear yard was turned to a parking lot, then more buildings added, then a cell tower with one, then two electronics buildings and the air conditioners…no report on how long the firefighters were BBQ’ing back there, when they figured out why I was asking all the questions they clammed up.

I can tell you with certainty, the temperature data from this station is useless.

Read the rest at your leisure, but the picture is a typical one.  Stories that expose the hysteria as being contrived and false have no legs and and the stories that are made to scare us are front page high rotation.

I would be happy to attribute such bias to concern were it not for the reality that in doing so the media is contributing to lies and is complicit in a world wide swindle, where the only winners are the scientists and the alarmists with the sham carbon credit schemes and the like.

Once upon a time scientists cared about science.  Once upon a time the truth was important.

Not any more.  I keep saying and I will continue to say it.

The facts don’t matter, just the feel.

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