In 1938, a railroad engineer predicted catastrophic global warming due to man-made CO2.
The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature
Immediately after he made his prediction, temperatures plummeted for several decades.
The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again – hoping for different results.
What is it with railroad engineers and predictions of catastrophic global warming?
http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/01/15/railroad-engineer-ipcc-chief-rajendra-pachauri-he-lives-in-golf-links-new-delhi-where-the-cheapest-houses-sell-for-millions-of-us-dollars/
As you’re well aware Steve, we are no longer the good ole U.S. of A.
The rat bastard progressives apparently don’t see their parallel’s from history past.
Our 2nd Amendment is no longer a right for you or me, and I found that out over the past two weeks!
“2013 Local News Articles Prove ‘Global to Local Environmental Fear Mongering’ is Having It’s Effect on Unstudied, Virgin, Vapid and Vacuous ‘News’ Reporters:”
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20130422/LIVING03/304220002/Your-brain-climate-change-Global-warming-can-serious-impact-your-mental-health
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20130422/NEWS01/304220037/Rising-sea-levels-put-South-Jersey-peril
These are the same Gannett idiots who published the names and addresses of the legal Southern NY gun owners. Why am I so surprised that they would publish these two asinine articles on Earth Day 2013?
A Sierra Club blogger, PhD student and part-time climatology professor says:
The problem is that as a climatology professor he should know that the Arctic has been ice free during some summers within the last 10,000 years.
Here is another paper.
Here is another.
Here is northern Greenland.
Yet an ice-free Arctic this year is: “An event unprecedented in human history”. Go figure. 😉
Perhaps he’s trying to be cute with the “human history” part as in recorded by human history.
This recent wave of global warming BS came of age in the 1970’s but was basically put on hold due to an incredible series of cold winters and cold outbreaks during the late 70’s and early 80’s. In fact severe Florida orange freezes in 1977, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1985, more than the whole rest of the time since 1900. As the orange groves were rapidly moving south, it seemed absurd to be touting catastrophic warming. But the alarmists did come scampering out of the closet during late 1980’s and 1990’s as the climate briefly warmed. Now it has stopped warming again and seems to be cooling. Another big bump in the road for the AGW crowd.
More in the 80s than the 70s.
Hansen’s boss got all the limelight and kudos over the Ozone hole scare in the 80s. After observing how it was done, Hansen decided to start off his own eco-catastrophe scare so that he could follow in his boss’s footsteps – even out-do him. Unfortunately, he never had the charisma to reach the same heights. I imagine he will die a bitter, bitter old man.
Once you start labeling “natural” CO2 benign and labeling human initiated combustion CO2 artificial you’re headed for trouble.