I turned on the heat in the apartment tonight.
Not because I was particularly cold, but because I realized that I didn’t feel at home. A warm home is much more enjoyable, and makes you feel freer.
Thank you Baltimore Gas and Electric, for delivering a reliable supply of fossil fuel powered energy.
Mark Boslough says he is speaking about climate at AGU. He also says he doesn’t know much about climate.
AGU is the same organization which had confessed fraudster and thief Peter Gleick as their ethics officer.
At this point, anyone who attempts to claim that the greenhouse effect doesn’t exist, is assumed to be an alarmist plant trying to make skeptics look bad. You will be banned immediately.
I’ve put up with this crap for months, and my patience is gone.
Last year I did a post on several hundred thousand AK-47 mags which the US Army purchased. This seemed odd, because the US Army doesn’t use Russian rifles.
Today there was a news story that ISIS is well stocked for the next two years with US purchased armaments “stolen” from the Iraqi army.
If you put on a heavy coat, and go out for a run, the coat makes you warm faster.
If you come back from the run, and do not remove your coat, the coat makes you cool slower. The distinction between warming and cooling is meaningless with respect to the insulating properties of the coat. The coat makes you warmer than you would be without the coat. The direction of warming or cooling is controlled by the heat source, not by the fixed insulator.
The ugly anti-greenhouse gas argument which keeps popping its head up here is so stupid, it had to have been a plant from alarmists designed to make skeptics look stupid.
Anyone who attempts to bring that argument up again after this thread, will be spammed. It is making it impossible to have any serious scientific discussion.
Holdren has released a Climate Explorer tool, saying that sea level will rise one foot in the San Francisco Bay
The stable tide gauge in the San Francisco Bay shows that sea level is lower now than it was 70 years ago.
As always, the White House is trying to Gruber America with their endless stream of lies.
My position is to defend science, and defend quality of life – i.e. the environment, the political environment and the economic environment.
Most of the nonsense is on the alarmist side of the debate, but there is plenty on the skeptic side too.
The greenhouse effect is basic, fundamental science – like gravity.
The sun strikes the Earth’s surface, and warms it. This causes the Earth to radiate longwave radiation up through the atmosphere. Some of this radiation is captured by molecules of greenhouse gas, which causes the air to warm. Warm greenhouse gases in turn radiate more longwave radiation, half of which radiates downwards towards Earth and warms the Earth’s surface further.
This does not change the energy flux in the atmosphere. The energy flux moving upwards (via reflection, radiation, convection, evaporation, condensation, etc.) is always going to average out to be equal to the amount of incoming solar radiation. The greenhouse effect simply elevates temperatures above what they would be without greenhouse gases. It behaves like an insulator. It is not a heat source and does not violate the laws of thermodynamics. People who make that argument are completely clueless.
The vast majority of this warming is near the Earth’s surface, and is due to H2O molecules, rather than CO2. Forecasts of large amounts of CO2 warming, are not based on any legitimate science.
In 1936, nearly one day out of four was either over 100 degrees, or below 0 degrees F in South Dakota. This sort of weather is inconceivable now, as the climate has grown much less extreme over time.
My apartment is down to 50 degrees this morning. I am very comfortable wearing three layers now.
The White House press corps says President Obama keeps the Oval Office at 80 degrees.
We can’t drive our SUVs, and eat whatever we want, and keep our homes at 72 all the time, whether we live in the desert or the tundra, and keep consuming 25% of the world’s resources with just 4% of the world’s population, and expect the rest of the world to say you just go ahead. We’ll be fine. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.
– Barack Obama 2008
The world’s top climate scientists boldly proclaimed that global warming will bring milder winters and decreased heavy snowstorms
Now they claim they predicted the exact opposite
