If my daughters want to retrieve their notes they’ll need to travel north to find them. They’ll need to experience the arctic themselves, they’ll need to experience a place that is deeply important to their father, a place that may be profoundly changed when they get here.
Could happen. It has happened before.
You don’t believe in witchcraft?
Tell that to all the people struck by disease, car crashes and natural disasters. The existence of these events provides overwhelming proof that witches are ruining the lives of millions of Americans.
Only a purge of witches can make events like Sandy stop happening.
– Obama’s Secretary of Non Sequitur
“I hope there are no climate change deniers in the Department of Interior,” she said.
Only followers of the ManBearPig religion are permitted to work for the US government.
If there are any, she invited them to visit public lands managed by the agency — be it the melting permafrost in Alaska or shrinking snowpacks in the Sierra Mountains — as proof. “If you don’t believe in it, come out into the resources,” she said.
Americans are required to believe what Obama believes.
Interior will be following through on President Obama’s climate change plan, including achieving 20 gigawatts of renewable power on public lands by 2020, she said.
Secretary wants ‘no climate change deniers’ in her department
No actual science is permitted in the Obama administration. There is not one shred of evidence that killing raptors and bats will improve the climate.
Alaska has cooled more than two degrees since the turn of the century.
www.benthamscience.com/open/toascj/articles/V006/111TOASCJ.pdf
“The Arctic Has Melted”
“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.”
– President Eisenhower 1960
Michael Mann – 2013
No mention in the press of the record cold at the North Pole, the large increase in Arctic ice extent over last year, or the record Antarctic ice extent.
Instead they made up a fake story about the North Pole melting and spread it all over the Internet.
Viral Melting North Pole Photos Not Proof of Global Warming, Scientists Say
Recently, concerns were raised over the supposed melting North Pole after webcam photos captured an ice-covered image in late April and a less-frosty, lake-looking photo in late July, in an article originally published by The Atlantic.
After Ferrell followed up with the North Pole Environmental Conservatory, he received an email reply stating that ‘”Given the excitement over recent images, we are putting the following write up with the images on our web site.”
The write-up clarifies that “The formation of melt ponds has always been a key feature of the summer season on sea ice.”
Additionally, they wrote, “…Melt ponds form every year, and considering Web Camera 1, the melt pond coverage at this location (the cameras and buoys have drifted to about 85°N, 5°W) looks pretty typical for this time of year and this location.”
Viral Melting North Pole Photos Not Proof of Global Warming, Scientists Say
BTW – the correct headline would read
Viral Melting North Pole Photos Not Proof Evidence of Global Warming, Scientists Say
Even the headline was an attempt to spread misinformation.
The rowers are blazing south at 4km/hour into a stiff headwind.
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Are climate sceptics the real champions of the scientific method?
Since climate change came to prominence in 1988, the role of scientific knowledge – especially an idea of scientific consensus – has played a starring role in the ensuing academic enquiry/political debate/trench warfare (delete as preferred).
Beyond a depressingly binary characterisation of simply pro or anti-science, I’d argue sceptics cannot simply be written off as anti-science or conspiracy theorists (although I am sure one or two may fall into that category). Rather, they see themselves as upholding the standards of what they’d call “real science”.
One of the stupidest claims in climate science, originally pushed by the constantly stoned Carl Sagan, is that increasing CO2 will lead to a runaway greenhouse effect.
This is a spectacularly stupid concept. The only IR bands which are not saturated are ones which CO2 doesn’t affect.
The IPCC says :
a “runaway greenhouse effect”—analogous to Venus– appears to have virtually no chance of being induced by anthropogenic activities.
