ManBearPig Watch, flashback two

Forbes article, reliving the good old days of "Climate Emergency, End of the World!!!"

The Fiction Of Climate Science

Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed "the coming ice age."

Random House dutifully printed "THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age." This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short sled ride from Washington, D.C. Newsweek fell in line and did a cover issue warning us of global cooling on April 28, 1975. And The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1976, reported "many signs that Earth may be headed for another ice age."

OK, you say, that's media. But what did our rational scientists say?

In 1974, the National Science Board announced: "During the last 20 to 30 years, world temperature has fallen, irregularly at first but more sharply over the last decade. Judging from the record of the past interglacial ages, the present time of high temperatures should be drawing to an end…leading into the next ice age."

continued at http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/03/climate-science-gore-intelligent-technology-sutton.html

What's funny is that the article goes over scientific studies of the times and who was funding the research. Science still "lives and dies" by their patrons. Well, real lives of modern scientists aren't so much on the chopping block as much as their financial and/or scientific lives, especially in light of the so-called "Climate-gate" emails released last week.

Makes you wonder WWLD? (what would Leonardo (da Vinci) do?)

ManBearPig Watch

The Ice Age is Coming!!!!

In April 28, 1975 article in Newsweek magazine.[22] Titled "The Cooling World", it pointed to "ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change" and pointed to "a drop of half a degree [Fahrenheit] in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968."

The article claimed "The evidence in support of these predictions [of global cooling] has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it." The Newsweek article did not state the cause of cooling; it stated that "what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery" and cited the NAS conclusion that "not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions."

The article mentioned the alternative solutions of "melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting Arctic rivers" but conceded these were not feasible.

The Newsweek article concluded by criticizing government leaders: "But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies...The longer the planners (politicians) delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality."

The article emphasized sensational and largely unsourced consequences - "resulting famines could be catastrophic", "drought and desolation," "the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded", "droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons," "impossible for starving peoples to migrate," "the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age."

On October 23, 2006, Newsweek issued a correction, over 31 years after the original article, stating that it had been "so spectacularly wrong about the near-term future" (though editor Jerry Adler claimed that 'the story wasn't "wrong" in the journalistic sense of "inaccurate."')

Wow...just change a few words like "cooling" to "warming" and you'd have a remarkably accurate description of ManBearPig's latest inconvenient truth, complete with dire weather warnings, trashing of government leaders for not making radical changes, general impending gloom and doom.

Imagine what would have happened if those irresponsible government leaders back then had acted "responsibly" and melted the arctic cap?

ManBearPig Watch - the Boxer diversion

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Taking the private jet to Copenhagen

Any celebrity flying the green flag needs glittering eco-credentials. But how do they justify the fleet of customised planes, the luxury homes and the posse of servants?

Hypocrisy is the vice we find hardest to forgive, but it’s also the one we most enjoy discovering in others. And nothing piques our interest more than eco-hypocrisy as practised by the “green” celebrities who have been spouting green virtue but spewing out hundreds of tons of carbon from their private jets or multiple holiday homes around the globe.

(later in the article)

At the end of the film An Inconvenient Truth, the unbearably earnest former presidential candidate Al Gore asked his audience: “Are you ready to change the way you live?” His own huge Nashville mansion consumed over 20 times the electricity of an average American home. Indeed, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, it burnt twice as much power in the month of August 2006 than most American homes do in an entire year. Another inconvenient truth revealed that the former senator spent $500 a month just to heat the indoor swimming pool in his lavish domestic establishment. The 100ft houseboat he bought in 2008, on the other hand, was said to be powered by biodiesel.

Gore gave the usual response of the green celebrity caught not practising what they preach. He said he made up for his consumption of electricity and production of carbon dioxide by buying carbon offsets — some from his own offset company.

the best part?

The Copenhagen summit next week will generate vast quantities of hot air. It will see 16,500 people coming in from 192 countries. That amounts to 41,000 tons of carbon dioxide, roughly the same as the carbon emissions of Morocco in 2006. Also, the organisers will lay 900 kilometres of computer cable and 50,000 square miles of carpet.

A convention on Global Warming producing more carbon that an entire country?

Talk about your "inconvenient truths"

Euro Goracle Watch

Speaking of Orwellian!

Everyone in Britain should have an annual carbon ration and be penalised if they use too much fuel, the head of the Environment Agency will say.

Like with a bank account, a statement would be sent out each month to help people keep track of what they are using. If their "carbon account" hits zero, they would have to pay to get more credits.

Those who are frugal with their carbon usage will be able to sell their unused credits and make a profit.

Lord Smith will call for the scheme to be part of a "Green New Deal" to be introduced within 20 years when he addresses the agency's annual conference on Monday.

Newthinkers bellyfeel much goodest!

Euro Goracle Watch

Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre

The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion.

"Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where. This data will be then be sent to a collection agency that will send out the bill," the transport ministry said in a statement.

A GPS device to track citizen movements? On behalf of the environment?

The Ministry of Truth approves. Newthinkers bellyfeel much gooder!

Goracle Watch

I have been remiss in keeping the Goracle watch up to date....there have just been too many Non-Global Warming related headlines lately for me to keep track of.

Here's just an example:

For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The month was marked by an active weather pattern that reinforced unseasonably cold air behind a series of cold fronts. Temperatures were below normal in eight of the nation's nine climate regions, and of the nine, five were much below normal. Only the Southeast climate region had near normal temperatures for October.

State of the Climate | National Overview | October 2009

What? The third coolest October, on record, ever? Very very dire circumstances indeed. Clearly evidence that we are facing a catastrophe of epic and unprecedented impact and if we don't act now...what's that? Oh, you said coldest...well that changes things a little. Cancel the "catastrophe" headlines, this is just an unexplainable event in the geo-record not worth mentioning. Call me when we break a hot weather record.

Goracle, I hope you've been stashing away all that Global Warming money for a not all that hot, but rainy day.

Goracle Watch

NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA: Summer Temperature Below Average for U.S.

NOAA: Summer Temperature Below Average for U.S.

The average June-August 2009 summer temperature for the contiguous
United States was below average – the 34th coolest on record, according
to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. August was also below the long-term average. The analysis is based on records dating back to 1895. 

Goracle save us from the impending Global Cooling.  Please advise us what products we should buy and what investments we should make to avoid the impending Man Made Global Cooling that is upon us. 

Can you gin up some snazzy trend analysis slides and sad pictures of baby animals that will die if we don't act now!

Goracle Watch

Temperatures Close To Record Overnight Low Of 47 Degrees, Set In 1872

The record low for Aug. 31 is 47 degrees, set in 1872. Overnight Sunday into Monday, the nippy readings were close, and in some areas even lower.

Did you see the latest NYT headlines about the people of Chicago suffering record setting cold?

Neither did I.

Goracle Watch

Healthcare debates are making for a long hot summer, except it hasn't been all that hot after all:

The July 2009 temperature for the contiguous United States was below the long-term average, based on records going back to 1895, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

I'm still waiting for the screaming NYT headlines warning us of yet another summer temperature record broken and how it signals the demise of the human race if we don't act now since it changed a whole .8 degrees.

Because if the temperature had actually gone UP .8 degrees, you know that is how the headlines would have read.

Goracle Watch

I think the Cash for Clunkers (C4C) is an interesting preview of the Goracle's Cap and Trade scam.

Cap and Trade is supposed to be a financial incentive to be more efficient (pollution-wise) in manufacturing. If you can't be more efficient you buy yourself (trade) more carbon (pollution) credits from someone else who doesn't produce as much carbon (pollution) as you do.

In the C4C program, someone's current vehicle can't become more efficient, so why not trade that old inefficient clunker in for a vehicle that is more economical and efficient?

Sounds reasonable. However, instead of the purchaser paying the financial penalty for not being able to be more efficient on his own, everyone else does it for him via a "government voucher". The cash part of the C4C is taxpayer money.

Sound familiar? Just like the mortgage bailout already in progress, responsible taxpayers are paying for their neighbor's previous poor decisions. Last year the bad decision was too much house, this year it is too much car. But don't worry, everyone else will help pay for those bad decisions. No need for the irresponsible to take any financial hit for choosing poorly.

Anyways....If you look at the stats of the C4C, you might be surprised to find out that Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Silverado are now considered fuel efficient vehicles, as well as the Jeep Patriot. I guess they are efficient if the government is subsidizing the purchase, but last year owners of the same vehicles were demonized as owning environmentally unfriendly gas guzzling SUVs. Last year liberals were wagging their fingers at truck/SUV owners, this year it's a pat on the back. I guess as long as taxes pay for the gas-guzzlers, it is ok.

So what about the Cap and Trade part of the Cap and Trade? In this case your income was Capped by the government because those vouchers need to be funded by taxes. The government then Traded your money to someone driving an old gas guzzler to buy a shiny new marginally more efficient gas guzzler.

So was the environment saved by all the Capping and Trading? Not very much. But alot of money is changing hands and someone is definitely getting richer and definitely benefitting in the process, all under the ostensible banner of "Save the Planet".

The C4C program gets a double dose of ostensible banners to shame us into action, "Save the Planet" and "Economic Stimulus".

I wonder if there is an Eddie Bauer edition Hummer? (click on the link and search the page for Hummer) You might as well roll in style while guzzling gas in your tax payer funded eco-vehicle on the way to the next "Save the Planet" rally.

Goracle Watch

Even at headquarters of the of man-made Global Warming lunacy, things are not quite normal:

this summer has been conspicuously different in New York City. Not one 99-degree day in Central Park. Not a single day that the temperature even approached 90. For just the second time in 140 years of record keeping, the temperature failed to reach 90 in either June or July.

The daily average last month was at or below normal every day but two. The temperature broke 80 on 16 days in New York — one more day than in Fairbanks, Alaska. Depending on Friday’s high, this was the second or third coolest June and July recorded in New York. If August follows the same pattern — and the latest forecast through midmonth predicts that it will — this could be the coolest summer on record.

I especially like this factoid, reported so calmly:

In the end, this will have been the coolest June and July since either 1903 or 1881, when sweltering New Yorkers grumbled about a sudden early August heat wave.

If that factoid had been reversed and it had been the hottest June and July since 1881, can you imagine the screaming headlines of doom?

Goracle Watch

3,000 Low Temp Records Set This July!

Here are some stats and maps regarding the unusually cold July that is happening over a large portion of the U.S., especially the Northeast quadrant

Goracle Watch

The Goracle just might be familiar with the location of the latest non-Global Warming Record breaking temperature.

Coolest July 21 recorded in Nashville as cool wave continues in Tenn.

By Associated Press

7:59 AM CDT, July 21, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cool weather has broken a previous low temperature for July 21 in Nashville that was set when Rutherford B. Hayes was president.

When the temperature at the National Weather Service station dipped to 58 degrees at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, it wiped out the previous record low for the date of 60 degrees, which was set in 1877.

NWS forecaster Bobby Boyd noted it was the third consecutive morning when Nashville either tied or broke a daily low temperature record.

Temperatures were cool, but did not break records at several Tennessee cities.

Knoxville dropped to 59 degrees Tuesday morning, Chattanooga had 60 degrees, Tri-Cities recorded 58 degrees and Memphis was 69 degrees.

Goracle Watch

http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=32084

 

July mornings aren`t supposed to be 50 degrees, but once again today, we`re (North Dakota) seeing temperatures well below normal. With two inches of rain on my wheat crop in the last two weeks, we have plenty of moisture to carry us for awhile.

 

Goracle Watch

http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/458551

 

Record low high temperatures are forecast for southern Wisconsin on Friday as a very cool Canadian air mass covers the region.

 

It's Alive...maybe

Seems that even the dinosaurs of the MSM have finally figured out that they have been played by Mr Transparency

"Don't know much about geography..."

“One of the largest Muslim countries in the world”

NOAH POLLAK - 06.03.2009 - 12:32 PM
So said President Obama of the United States, with the quasi-professorial formulation that “if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”

America is a great country, home to many peoples and religions, and Obama made me wonder: where exactly does America stand on the list of Muslim countries?

Obama is right — we’re one of the largest, only outranked by Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, Egypt, Nigeria, Iran, Algeria, Morocco, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Ethiopia, Russia, Yemen, China, Syria, Malaysia, Tanzania, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, Somalia, Guinea, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Cote d’Ivoire, Congo, Libya, Jordan, Chad, Turkemenistan, Philippines, France, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Cameroon, Thailand, Mauritania, Germany, Oman, Albania, Malawi, Kenya, Eritrea, Serbia and Montenegro, Lebanon, Kuwait, the UAE, and…well, at some point here you get to the United States, which has (estimates vary) around 1-3 million Muslims.

I’m sure when he returns to these 57 states he’ll offer a theory of what “largest” means.

Nothing else to say, the article says it all.

But I am waiting for the MSM to pounce on this "Obama-ism" with the ferocity that they attacked every verbal slip-up Bush made.

I guess they've adopted the Vatican policy on mistakes....the BHO never makes one. (And excommunicate that guy programming the teleprompter)

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It's my Birthday, but the government got the "gift".

This is what it costs to have a vehicle in York County Va. The vehicle doesn't even have to do anything, just sit there. And this is just the fee for 1/2 of the year.

The county government's take on it is that we're getting a break b/c the state of Va pays 50% of the tax on cars on our behalf. But if you have a boat, trailer, motorcycle, we're going to screw you...er...tax you on the full value.

Realize that this is not a road use fee, a wear and tear on the asphalt fee, a cleaning up the roadside litter fee, but simply a "fee" for owning something. The nicer the thing, the more the government thinks you should pay.

Taxation for operations? No. Class warfare? Yes.

I feel like I need a cigarette...b/c I certainly got screwed.