Real Climate Science

The Dems are terrified at the prospect that they might not be able to choose the Republican candidate this time.

By Eugene Robinson, Monday, May 30, 4:47 PM
My advice to Sarah Palin, not that she would take it, is that she’d better be careful. If she keeps pretending to run for the presidential nomination, people might take her seriously.

The former half-term Alaska governor’s “One Nation” bus tour has made the Republican establishment nervous. If her aim is just to get back in the news, reinflate the Palin brand and boost her speaking fees, then party leaders have every reason to be pleased. In the unlikely event that she’s actually running, they have every reason to order another Scotch.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Is everything going to have to be bilingual now? How do you spell “relegation” in Welsh?

Anyone willing to fund this blatantly dishonest power grab – is simply not fit for office.

The climate was much worse at times in the past, and even if you naively believed the climate models – they tell you that the ungodly, murderous political proposals under consideration won’t make a noticeable difference to the climate.

Do your homework. If you are governor of New Jersey, you better get on the phone with your top scientists Freeman Dyson and Will Happer.

THE Gillard Government will need a new bureaucracy with three separate bodies to administer its carbon price, its climate change adviser Ross Garnaut said.

Under the proposals, emissions targets could be expanded and more industries hit by the carbon price once the carbon tax is replaced by an emissions trading scheme.

But Labor faces new warnings from key Independent Tony Windsor that he may not support the carbon tax unless he can be convinced Australia is not acting ahead of other countries. And the National Farmers Federation warned costs for grain farmers could soar by more than $36,000 a year under a carbon price of $36 per tonne.

A diverse range of other groups, including scientists and former Liberal leaders John Hewson and Malcolm Fraser, yesterday backed the carbon tax.

The Government will today receive two major reports that will help it finalise its carbon tax.

http://www.news.com.au/

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

 

WASHINGTON — “Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”

So says the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, the country’s preeminent institution chartered to provide scientific advice to lawmakers.

In its report, “America’s Climate Choices,” a panel of scientific and policy experts also concludes that the risks of inaction far outweigh the risks or disadvantages of action.

The most sensible and urgently needed action, the panel says, is to put a rising price on carbon emissions, by means of a tax or cap-and-trade system.

http://www.agweek.com/event/article/id/18486/

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He thinks he is being smart, not realizing that he is exactly who PT Barnum was talking about.

The verbage of alarmists has become completely incomprehensible.

The climate has changed – due to climate change.

A symptom of climate change is a changing climate.

Climate change is making the weather wetter/drier/more variable/more extreme.

The climate hasn’t changed for 12,000 years, but now climate change is making the climate change at an unprecedented rate.

Incidents of extremely rapid climate change in the past were due to CO2.

The climate never changed in the past.

http://www.nps.gov/glac/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

May 30 – Greenland still locked in ice. Not a “long and balmy summer”

I rearranged the order of the paragraphs to show how spectacularly daft that magazine has become. In the past, climatic shifts were due to unknown “natural variations” but now they are unequivocally due to burning oil.

If they don’t know what caused the earlier warming, how could they possibly know the same thing isn’t causing the present warming?

Of course, it is the burning of such oil that has led to this warming in the first place, thanks to increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases. Already, those increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases are warming the planet’s overall climate to the point that the meltdown of Greenland’s ice sheet is speeding up, which could raise global sea levels a meter by 2100 at present rates, among other impacts.

The Norse came to a new land around the end of the first millennium, borne on the backs of their Viking long ships and lured away from Iceland by the promise of Erik the Red’s Greenland. The land was indeed green when they landed—and stayed that way for several centuries until natural variations in the planet’s climate cooled the world’s largest island by 4 degrees Celsius. Years of such cool summers doomed the Greenland Norse, and their outpost froze to death by 1500.

“You have an interval when the summers are long and balmy and you build up the size of your farm,” says D’Andrea of the Norse interlude. “Then suddenly, year after year, you go into this cooling trend and the summers are getting shorter and colder and you can’t make as much hay. You can imagine how that particular lifestyle may not be able to make it.”

That warming indeed looks set to continue and will ultimately doom, at the very least, Greenlanders’ traditional way of life. But the changes in Greenland this time may prove to be global. “If we don’t keep the Greenland Ice Sheet intact, we will lose a lot of coastline,”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/