“Hold onto your wallets — and hope you can hold onto your homes, cars and jobs — as you ride the wild roller coaster of climate-change politics.
By PAUL DRIESSEN May 6, 2008
Climate-change politics is primarily about power: power to control — and curtail — the power we rely on to build, heat and cool our homes; produce raw materials, food and products; transport people and consumer goods; and sup- port modern living standards.
Its about simulations, scenarios and monsters conjured up by computer models that should never be used to determine government policy — especially on matters that profoundly affect livelihoods, living standards, lifespans, dreams and economic civil rights.
It’s about the selection, production, conservation, taxation and prevention of energy; about access to real energy versus mandates to use futuristic, mostly illusory and certainly insufficient alternative energy; and about who decides how much energy we will have, where it will come from, what it will cost and whether there will be enough to lift more families out of poverty.
So hold onto your wallets — and hope you can hold onto your homes, cars and jobs — as you ride this wild political roller coaster.”
WASHINGTON – There’s a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be ice-free this summer, which would be a first in recorded history, a leading ice scientist says.
The weather and ocean conditions in the next couple of weeks will determine how much of the sea ice will melt, and early signs are not good, said Mark Serreze. He’s a senior researcher at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo.
The chances for a total meltdown at the pole are higher than ever because the layer of ice coating the sea is thinner than ever, he said.”
“The NASA Worldview satellite image below shows Arctic sea ice in a poor condition on June 16, 2023, all the way up to the North Pole (on the bottom left of the image below). There is open water near the Franz Josef Archipelago, some 1000 km from the North Pole (on the right side of the image below).”
‘There were few seal in Spitzbergen waters this year, the catch being far under the average. This, however, did not surprise the captain. He pointed out that formerly the waters about Spitzbergen held an even summer temperature of about 3° Celsius; this year recorded temperatures up to 15°, and last winter the ocean did not freeze over even on the north coast of Spitzbergen.”
Vanity Fair wants to get rid of our reliable supply of energy, and are using unsupportable and scientifically baseless arguments about sea level to push their agenda.
Vanity Fair says there is no room left in the atmosphere for greenhouse gases, and that we have to get rid of fossil fuels or the east coast will drown.
