This week’s global warming round up starts off fun and light hearted, but in reality much of this is just sad.

We start off in Bali where a global warming summit is taking place, but there is a slight problem:  Parking. 

Not Enough Parking for Private Jets Going to UN Climate Conference

As climate alarmists from all over the world head to Bali to talk about the sacrifices regular folks have to make to save the planet from global warming, it seems certain media will ignore all the private jets clogging the tiny airport.

As if it’s not enough that the United Nations Climate Change Conference is being held at what NewsBusters reported as “a truly beautiful tropical island paradise,” the management of the nearby airport has issued a warning to attendees that they are going to have to park their private jets somewhere else.

I kid you not.

As reported by Bali Discovery Tours on November 3 (emphasis added):

Tempo Interaktif reports that Angkasa Pura - the management of Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport are concerned that the large number of additional private charter flights expected in Bali during the UN Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) December 3-15, 2007, will exceed the carrying capacity of apron areas.  To meet the added demand for aircraft storage officials are allocating “parking space” at other airports in Indonesia.

The operational manager for Bali’s Airport, Azjar Effendi, says his 3 parking areas can only accommodate 15 planes, which means that some of the jets used by VIP delegations will only be allowed to disembark and embark their planes in Bali with parking provided at airports in Surabaya, Lombok, Jakarta and Makassar.

Talk about your really inconvenient truths

Have these people ever heard of carpooling to reduce your carbon footprint, you know, what they preach to all of us daily?

No.  They are too important to be bothered by consistency.

The second story is somewhat sad.  We have a new solution to the average families carbon footprint:  Abortion.

Save the planet: Have an abortion

Via Weasel Zippers, a new entry in the pantheon of great abortion rationales. The greatest gift you can give Gaia is the gift of extinction:

At the age of 27 this young woman at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to “protect the planet”…

“Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet,” says Toni, 35.

“Every person who is born uses more food, more water, more land, more fossil fuels, more trees and produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases, and adds to the problem of over-population.”

She met her husband, who’s also a vegan, at an animal rights demonstration, which I guess also makes this an entry in the pantheon of cartoonish cultural stereotypes. Not an isolated example, either:

Most young girls dream of marriage and babies. But Sarah dreamed of helping the environment - and as she agonised over the perils of climate change, the loss of animal species and destruction of wilderness, she came to the extraordinary decision never to have a child.

“I realised then that a baby would pollute the planet - and that never having a child was the most environmentally friendly thing I could do.”…

Mark adds: “Sarah and I live as green a life a possible. We don’t have a car, cycle everywhere instead, and we never fly.

“We recycle, use low-energy light bulbs and eat only organic, locally produced food.

“In short, we do everything we can to reduce our carbon footprint. But all this would be undone if we had a child.”

All we need now is some evidence that environmental fanaticism is genetically influenced and we can break out the party favors. Exit question: Isn’t there an even higher level of social consciousness than saving the planet? My friends, there is.

There is indeed.  This is just another way to devalue life, ironically by claiming you must terminate for the greater good.

Seems to me that slipperly slope was popular in Germany 60 odd years ago.

The sterilization argument, though, well thats fine with me.  I’d personally rather that people like this not have the ability to reproduce.  More on this, as well as another twist:

Stop Global Warming: Get Sterilized and Ride a Horse

Just how much are you willing to sacrifice to stop global warming, assuming of course that you’re drinking Al Gore’s Kool-Aid?

Well, in England, a woman has actually sterilized herself.

And, in France, they’re talking about replacing municipal cars and trucks with horse-drawn carriages.

I kid you not.

As sterilization seems the more extreme measure, let’s begin there as reported by England’s Daily Mail Wednesday (emphasis added, h/t NBer lunaticcringeradio):

Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers - and a voice calling her Mummy.

But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.

Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.

Incredibly, so determined was she that the terrible “mistake” of pregnancy should never happen again, that she begged the doctor who performed the abortion to sterilise her at the same time.

I don’t know about you, but I never felt having children was a selfish act. Quite the contrary, I believe successful members of a species that decline to replicate their genes are being selfish as most of them do it for their own personal interests and not those of the species.

After all, if a majority of any species opted out of the procreation process, said species would cease to exist.

I’m no expert, but on the surface, that doesn’t appear beneficial for that species.

I’m just saying.

Pretty much, yea.  Now, consider this:

Heading across the Channel, the French are considering moving back to the Dark Ages in order to solve global warming as reported by Reuters Wednesday (emphasis added):

Horses are a possible alternative for vehicles such as school buses and refuse trucks, say groups eager to pick up on global concerns about eco-friendly transport.

“It’s all about sustainable development and bringing some humanity back to today’s monotonous, machine-driven jobs,” Stephane de Veyrac, from the French National Stud Organization, said at this week’s annual conference of French mayors.

De Veyrac’s group says it is the first in France to offer consulting on a wide range of horse-powered vehicles that could also haul bottles and aid street sweeping.

[...]

Studies about cost and overall carbon footprint are still underway but supporters say the animals beat cars and trucks on a number of criteria, especially for transport work requiring frequent stops over short distances, like emptying trash bins.

There may be a slight problem there though.

Do you think such studies will factor in the methane released by these horses, which, for those drinking the Kool-Aid, is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide? And what about the other environmental disadvantages reported by NewsBusters in February:

In his piece published Tuesday in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dwight R. Lee wrote (h/t JunkScience.com, emphasis mine throughout): “The motto of all environmentalists should be ‘Thank goodness for the internal combustion engine.’”

[...]

The emissions that came out of the tailpipes of horses were much more lethal pollutants that those now coming out of the tailpipes of cars. Horse emissions did more than make our town and cities stink; they spread fly-borne diseases and polluted water supplies that killed people at a far greater rate than the pollution from cars and trucks ever have.

Well, all for the greater good, eh?

Reminder:  When you let idiots make policy, the laws are understandably stupid.

I’m just saying….

Finally, one of the comments on the newsbuster article had an intriguing information round up.  Check it out by clicking the “more” link below.  Make up your own mind about Global Warming and Climate change, but do so with both sides of the story.

 Trackposted to Sister Toldjah, Perri Nelson’s Website, Rosemary’s Thoughts, Adam’s Blog, Right Truth, The Bullwinkle Blog, The Amboy Times, Chuck Adkins, Pursuing Holiness, DragonLady’s World, The World According to Carl, Blue Star Chronicles, Pirate’s Cove, The Pink Flamingo, CommonSenseAmerica, Dumb Ox Daily News, High Desert Wanderer, and Right Voices, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

Note:  The following links are presented”as is” because I have not had the time to verify all the various links and information.  I make no claims about their accuracy.  Please report any obvious inaccuracies.

Films & TV

1. Film: Global Warming Swindle - New Link <link fixed Sep 11>
2. Film: Doomday Called Off - Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V
3. TV: Exposed: Climate of Fear - Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part IV
4. Film: Climate Catastrophe Cancelled - Link
5. Film: Penn and Teller Bullshxt! - Environmental Hysteria

Global Warming - R.I.P.

1. Global Warming, Rest in Peace: Daily Telegraph - There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998
2. Global Warming, Rest in Peace: Courier Mail - High price for load of hot air
3. Global Warming, Rest in Peace: OISM - 17,000 scientists declare that global warming is a lie with no scientific basis whatsoever
4. Global Warming, Rest in Peace: Business and Media Institute - 77 Skeptical Scientists
5. Global Warming, Rest in Peace: Hudson Institute - Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears

There seems to be a problem with their data and premises

1. Warm is good!: Breitbart - Oldest DNA ever recovered shows warmer planet: report
2. CO2: falsly accused? - Energy Tribune - Global Warming - Is Carbon Dioxide Getting a Bad Rap?
3. Oops! Data collection “issues”: Pittsburg Tribune-Review - Helping along global warming
4. Data used is only from only 1979?: MSNBC - Winter Arctic sea ice near record low
5. Where’s the Beef?: New Zealand Herald - Chirs de Freitas: Evidence must prevail
6. Satelite Data shows cooling: Frontier Center for Public Policy - Dr. Tim Ball, Historical Climatologist On the real danger for Canada, global cooling
7. Only 30 Glaciers are monitored? world glacier monitoring service - glacier mass balance data 2003/2004 and 2004/2005

Glaciers - They just keep growing, and growing . . .

1. Antarctic Ice Growing (USA Today)
2. Greenland’s Ice Sheet Growing 5 cm per year (CO2 Science)
3. Mount Shasta Glacier are Growing: CBS13 - Mount Shasta Glaciers Defy Global Warming, Grow
4. Hubbard Glacier is Growing: USGS - Hubbard Glacier, Alaska
5. Glacier growing in Karakoram Range: JAXA - Glaciers in the Eastern Karakoram Range

Dissent (h/t PopularTech) Quicklist

1. Global surface temperatures have increased only about 0.6°C in the last 100 years. (IPCC)
2. Global average sea level has risen only about 6 inches in the last 100 years. (Based on tidal guage data) (IPCC)
3. Global mean sea level rise is in the range of 1.0 to 2.0 mm/yr. (Based on tidal guage data) (IPCC)
4. No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected. (IPCC)
5. 20 feet of sea level rise would take 3048-6096 years. (Based on tidal guage data) (IPCC)
6. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere have risen by about 30% (280-370 ppmv) over the past 100 years. (IPCC)
7. Ice core records show Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels lag behind Temperature changes by hundreds of years. (Source)
8. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is only about 0.038% of the atmosphere. (NASA)
9. Carbon Dioxide accounts for about 4.2-8.4% of the greenhouse effect. (Source)
10. Humans can only claim responsibility for about 3.4% of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere annually. (Source)
11. Water Vapor + Clouds account for about 90-95% of the greenhouse effect. (Source) (NASA)
12. Global temperature has averaged only 57°F in the last 100 years. (NOAA)
13. The warmest year in the United States was 1934. (NASA)

Covering-up and Intimidation? (just from the left)

1. It’s not Global Warming! It’s Agitprop: Financial Times - Global warming: truth or propaganda?
2. Cover-up? Not!: The Washington Times - Climate Scientist sees cover-up
3. Intimidation of Global Warming disenters: American Policy Center - The Global Warming Inquisition and the Suppression of “Skeptic” Heresy
4. Intimidation of Global Warming disenters: Opinion Journal - Climate of Fear
5. Who is censoring whom?: Reuters - Climate change skeptics say it’s hard to get heard
6. Outright Threats: Canada Free Press - Death Threats for man-made-global-warming-doesn’t-exist scientist

Plenty of Dissent & opposition

1. A list of Skeptical Scientists
2. More Dissent: Financial Times - Models trump measurements
3. Scrutiny. It can be annoying: Chicago Sun-Times - Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
4. Less polution equals more sunlight: Nature - Clear skies end global dimming
5. Dissent: The Washington Times - Global-warming theory and the eugenics precedent
6. Global Warming Debunking: Kristen Byrnes - Ponder The Maunder
7. Global Warming Debunking: The Timaru Herald - Global warming debunked
8. Global Warming Dissent: U.S. Sentate - Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
9. Global Warming Dissent: The Wasington Post - The Tempest
10. Global Warming Dissent: Newsmax - Here we go again: It’s not global warming
11. Global Warming Dissent: Newsmax - The Myth of Greenhouse Gases
12. Dissenting Book - Global Warming and Other Eco Myths
13. Global Warming Dissent: AP (at Myway) - Forecaster Blasts Gore on Global Warming
14. Global Warming Dissent: NewsWeek(at MSNBC) - Why So Gloomy?
15. Global Warming Dissent: U.S. Senate - Renowned Scientist Defects From Belief in Global Warming
16. Global Warming Dissent: The Huntsville Times - Scientist: Warming not caused by humans
17. Global Warming Dissent: UPI - Danish scientist: Global warming is a myth
18. It’s not us! It’s the %#@! Ocean!: Daily Telegraph - Ocean currents to blame for warming: expert
19. Global Warming is Cyclical!: Science Daily - Earth’s Climate Is Seesawing, According To Climate Researchers

Now THIS is dissent! Financial Post series by Lawrence Solomon

1. Statistics needed — The Deniers Part I
2. Warming is real — and has benefits — The Deniers Part II
3. The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science — The Deniers Part III
4. Polar scientists on thin ice — The Deniers Part IV
5. The original denier: into the cold — The Deniers Part V
6. The sun moves climate change — The Deniers Part VI
7. Will the sun cool us? — The Deniers Part VII
8. The limits of predictability — The Deniers Part VIII
9. Look to Mars for the truth on global warming — The Deniers Part IX
10. Limited role for C02 — the Deniers Part X
11. End the chill — The Deniers Part XI
12. Clouded research — The Deniers Part XII
13. Allegre’s second thoughts — The Deniers XIII
14. The heat’s in the sun — The Deniers XIV
15. Unsettled Science — The Deniers XV
16. Bitten by the IPCC — The Deniers XVI
17. Little ice age is still within us — The Deniers XVII
18. Fighting climate ‘fluff’ — The Deniers XVIII
19. Science, not politics — The Deniers XIX
20. Gore’s guru disagreed — The Deniers XX
21. The ice-core man — The Deniers XXI
22. Some restraint in Rome — The Deniers XXII
23. Discounting logic — The Deniers XXIII
24. Dire forecasts aren’t new — The Deniers XXIV
25. They call this a consensus? - Part XXV
26. NASA chief Michael Griffin silenced - Part XXVI
27. Forget warming - beware the new ice age - Part XXVII
28. Open mind sees climate clearly

How come other planets are warming up? (It’s All Rove’s Fault!)

1. Mars is warming up too!: CNN - Study: Red Planet Heating Up
2. Mars is still warming up: National Geographic - Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
3. So is Pluto: MIT - Pluto is undergoing global warming, researchers find
4. And so is Triton: MIT - MIT researcher finds evidence of global warming on Neptune’s largest moon

Is it just me, or are we getting colder?

1. Ah ha! Still getting colder: Daily Telegraph - The deceit behind global warming
2. Arctic Ice: Capitalism Magazine - The Amazing Disappearing
3. Antarctica Temps: Capitalism Magazine - Antarctica Is Cooling?
4. 1st Snow in 26 Years: Bloomberg - Johannesburg Gets 4 Inches of Snow, First Since 1981 (Update1)
5. Snow in Argentina?: BBC - Buenos Aires sees rare snowfall
6. Darn Solar Activity!: CO2 Science - Did Increasing Solar Activity Drive 20th-Century Global Warming?
7. More questions? I thought the debate was over?: RPPI - National Academy of Sciences Raises More Climate Questions
8. Still more questions?: World Climate Report - Global Warming: Something New Under the Sun?
9. The sun is doing it!: Duke University - Sun’s Direct Role in Global Warming May Be Underestimated, Duke Physicists Report
10. The sun is still doing it!: AGU - Reconstruction of solar irradiance since 1610: Implications for climate change
11. The sun continues doing it!: AGU - Phenomenological solar contribution to the 1900-2000 global surface warming
12. The debate is over. GW lost!: Heartland Institute - Climate Realists Beat Alarmists in New York Debate
13. It’s getting colder!: NOAA - April Temperatures
14. We’re going to Freeze?: MSNBC - Remember Global Cooling?
15. Snow is melting in Africa: Reuters - Kilimanjaro’s shrinking snow not sign of warming
16. Snow still melting in Africa: American Scientist - The Shrinking Glaciers of Kilimanjaro: Can Global Warming Be Blamed?
17. Global Cooling: AP (at Myway) - Cold Snap Postpones Spring Festivities
18. Global Cooling: Anchorage Daily News - Frozen bay turns otters into easy prey

19. 1895 - Prospects of another Glacial Period (PDF) (The New York Times)

20. 1912 - Sees Glacia Era Coming; Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age (The New York Times)
21. 1971 - U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post)
22. 1974 - Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine)
23. 1975 - Climate Changes Called Ominous (PDF) (The New York Times)
24. 1975 - Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead (PDF) (The New York Times)
25. 1975 - The Cooling World (Newsweek)
26. 1976 - The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? (Book)
27. 1977 - The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age (Book)
28. Cold Yet? (The Washington Times)
29. Fire and Ice (Business and Media Institute)