Reader Comment Of The Day

Blade points out that our genius friends blame warmth on Venus on 95% CO2, while ignoring proximity to the sun and atmospheric pressure – and they blame cold on Mars on proximity to the sun and atmospheric pressure, while ignoring 95% CO2.

Blade says:

( cross-posting from the other thread )

Great job Steve!

You roped in these two short-bus [gentlemen] Avery and Kyle, and hogtied them to contradictory arguments between Venus and Mars!

[GENTLEMEN] IN A NUTSHELL: ‘On Venus atmospheric pressure and closeness to the sun DOES NOT matter, on Mars it means EVERYTHING’ ;-)

Sagan single-handedly put the “pop” in Science and ruined a generation of otherwise normal human thinkers. The result is a bumper crop of [gentlemen] who are no more intelligent than the superstitious medieval alarmists ready to sacrifice the nearest virgin to stop a flood or plague or drought or comet or …

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Thousands Of IPCC Scientists Incapable Of Reading A Graph

Chapter 2    IPCC WGI Fifth Assessment Report

Substantial losses in Arctic sea ice have been observed
since satellite records began, particularly at the time of the mimimum extent, which occurs in September at the end of the annual melt season. By contrast, the increase in Antarctic sea ice has been smaller.

Let’s have a look at that claim – which they published this week. Southern Hemisphere sea ice is one million km² above normal, and Northern Hemisphere sea ice is one million km² below normal. For most people who have completed first grade, one minus one equals zero. But not for the world’s top climate scientists, who apparently also don’t know how to use a spell checker.

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Obama’s $2.6 Trillion Middle Class Tax Hike

Adding up CBO’s estimates for the different provisions in the bill, the president’s health care law will amount to at least $2.6 trillion over a true 10-year period (from FY2014–23)—not $900 billion.

SBC Analysis Of President Obama’s Health Law – Budget Background – Research – U.S. Senate Budget Committee

That works out to about a $20,000 tax hike for every middle class family.

The media thinks that they can protect Obama by lying about Obamacaredisaster indefinitely, but it should be obvious to even the Communist News Network that people will figure it out soon enough.

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Global Warming In Colorado

When we first moved to the Front Range of Colorado in the mid-1990s, I used to brag to my parents about how mild the winters are here. But since the winter of 2006-2007, we have had a rash of very long, cold winters – with the current year headed for being the snowiest on record. I just took the dogs out for a walk in a bitter cold wind, and remembered what lies in store over the next eight months.

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Hansen Forecast Peak Ice Loss In Antarctica

As Antarctic ice extent breaks its all-maximum time record, we must not forget that the world’s greatest climatologist predicted peak ice loss, right at the spot where they have had peak ice gain.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/downloads/Challenge_chapter2.pdf

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IPCC 1995/2001 : Declining Winter Snow Cover

Published: September 18, 1995

The picture of probable disruption, including adverse changes and some that are beneficial, emerges from draft sections of a new assessment of the climate problem by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and from interviews with scientists involved in the assessment. The panel, a United Nations group of 2,500 scientists from around the world, advises parties to a 1992 treaty that are negotiating reductions in heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.

*A “striking” retreat of mountain glaciers around the world, accompanied in the Northern Hemisphere by a shrinking snow cover in winter.

http://select.nytimes.com

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IPCC Third Assessment Report – Climate Change 2001

Since the IPCC made these brilliant predictions, the Northern Hemisphere has had five of the six snowiest winters on record

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Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

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The IPCC has nothing to do with science. They get everything wrong, and then the next time around claim that their abject model failures gave them more confidence in their models.

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The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf Every Two Weeks

Two weeks ago little Barry told us that unless he bombed Syria, they were going to come gas Iowa, or something. It was absolutely the most serious situation the world ever faced.

Then he completely forgot about it and moved on to something else, which he will forget about in two weeks and move on to something else.

Barry has some sort of deep mental disturbance which apparently makes him need to have everyone pay attention to him all the time. His entire presidency has consisted of one fake crisis after another.

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What Happens If You Actually Run The Climate Models?

I run the radiative transfer model used by NCAR from time to time. It shows that increasing CO2 and CH4 have very little impact on the Earth’s long wave radiative balance.

So why do alarmists keep claiming that these gases are important? That is easy – it is about funding, not science.

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It Must Be The CO2!

Phoenix warmed 10 degrees in the last 50 years, while the less urbanized surrounding areas have warmed much less. It must be the CO2.

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The effects of the UHI are most pronounced during the summer (June-July-August) months. In a simple comparison, average high and low temperatures from Maricopa, AZ and Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport were compared (Figures 2 and 3). Little difference exists between the high temperatures from 1961 through 2007; however, low temperatures have trended warmer at Sky Harbor as compared to Maricopa, indicative of the existence of a strengthening UHI.

National Weather Service – NWS Phoenix

Why would billions of cars, buildings, air conditioners, heaters, parking lots, asphalt roads, etc. cause surface temperatures to be affected?

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Karen Feeling Disorganized

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